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not to be all pretentious about it but i think one underappreciated thing about crt tvs was the way pure noise looks. like when it wasn't tuned to anything and everything on the screen is noise. it simply looks completely different from noise on any lcd and i can't convey it

‪i think a lot of this is because of the varying intensity of the beam and the fact every single frame is completely different, with no transition (instant response time); your persistence of vision is all that provides continuity, and that also breaks down with pure noise‬

‪remembers she literally has a crt tv in the other room she can stare at hmmm‬

the effect would be stronger on a black-and-white tv, the shadow mask creates a screen-door effect

holy shit if i stare at it with my glasses off (blurring away the shadow-mask screen-door) i start to see really clear patterns in the noise. and… those patterns aren't actually in the noise. they're defects of my own vision, things i can't normally clearly make out. holy shit

holy shit the intensifying dizzying patterns it's actually terrifying how much the eyes can make out that Isn't There

‪or actually maybe it is there in the signal but you have to stare at it long enough to begin to see it it's genuinely trippy‬

(totally sane person voice) yea so it turns out if you stare at an analog tv that's not tuned to anything and you defocus your eyes you will immediately start being terrified by the rapid swirling and dancing and flashing and the insides of your eyes that you can see in the noise

‪can't emphasise enough how sober and if anything unusually “sane” i am rn. i think this would be tremendous fun to repeat under the right intoxicants or while sleep deprived or something‬

‪yelling from the car i totally have yooo hop in we're gonna go listen to white noise and stare into the analog tv snow for an hour‬

@hikari portal into the cosmic microwave background!