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analogue video standards are beautiful because basically every stage in the normal TV decoding circuitry became its own input/output standard over the years:

RF
-> Composite (plus audio L+R)
-> Y/Luma + Chroma (together: S-Video)
-> Y + Cb + Cr (together: Component)
-> R + G + B

has anyone noticed that every single Takahashi Youko song made for the Evangelion franchise is an absolute banger

heeeeeelp meeeeee i just found out there are bakemonogatari and nisemonogatari Weiß-Schwarz cards but i think they might be out of production, at the very least the English language ones, and i do not need another pricy rare collectible to regret (but i am Powerless here you see)

what do you mean scandinavia has boring food. we have prinsesstårta. and kladdkaka. and kebabpizza with free pizzasallad

we need to bring doujin culture to the west

“never sing the full size when you've only heard the tv size” — ancient anime convention karaoke room proverb

i read the news far too often, and sometimes this means i'm the first person to add something to wikipedia, particularly if something with international relevance is reported in swedish media first

for no particularly good reason, i am currently reading about Apple's QuickDraw, the graphics library used by the original Macintosh from 1984. i'm amazed to learn that it uses compression not just to save memory, but to save CPU cycles for processing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw

an electric toothbrush is much like an acoustic toothbrush, except that instead of a sound hole, it contains a small piezo pickup and a 2.5mm output jack for amplification or recording

just spent a while struggling to wake up because i had dreamed that i had (literally) gotten away with murder, and somehow was aware this was a dream and so i probably hadn't actually killed someone, but i was worried maybe i actually still had, so i wouldn't let myself escape