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The telly weighs 55kg, I weigh 77kg, to test whether my new CRT stand can handle this telly I'm gonna set this so-called square (actually a triangle, scam) here, sit on the shelf and see how much deflection I get. Here's how much deflection we get with no additional strips and only two sides on (no back). This is already acceptable considering that I'm not as wide as the telly and I'm sitting in the middle rather than spreading the load the whole width of the shelf; the telly's 22kg lighter also, so there would be pretty much no sag at all. Nonetheless I'm still gonna add some 2cm thick strips below this shelf for extra stability when the cats jump on top of it. Doing a test fit before I sand and finish, brought the stand outta the workshop upstairs to the telly 'cause I thought since the stand is lighter, it'd make more sense than taking the telly downstairs. Aye the stand's lighter all right but damn is it awkward to move around 🦊 Nice TV stand, by the way do you happen to work in the coin-op industry Telly's in, no noticeable deflection on the telly shelf so we're good! Now I guess I'll take the telly out again and sand this down and Polycrylic it Q: Why do the sides of the stand extend up along the sides of the telly, why not just stop when the telly's supported? A: So I can have a shelf atop the telly to fill up with Various Junk I don't wanna take it downstairs again FFS this thing has barely existed five minutes and I already resent the idea of moving it I bought a new HVLP sprayer in like February when it was on sale and I had a lucky coupon, I said to the guy "Boy I can't wait til I can try this thing out in like May," bloody robins wait to hatch until I'm just about ready to spray some lacquer 🐣 Whatcha got there Dan? Also this lad's back again Bit of a special day today innit, hatchy robins, visiting fawn, it's all go in my yard today "Remembering when it's faun or fawn" is right up there with "How to spell parallel (or rather how to stop spelling it)" on my list of Language Things That Dan Has Made His Peace With Never Quite Grasping Folk are liking how good home depot plywood can look after rubbing with this wax, and I agree. That's what my wood normally looks like after three coats of poly, three hours apart. I'm liking this wax. I bloody well should be, considering it costs FORTY FIVE DOLLARS A CAN (to be fair to it though, I used maybe a twentieth of the can for the whole TV stand, so this'll last me bloody years) Here's the wax, for those asking. Made in Kent so imported here, so back home it's probably cheap as chips lol *big Dad Wiring sigh* Right, one component input on the telly, 3 HDMI's on the amp, one HDMI to component switcher, wanna split the sound off through the amp of course... Resi 2 time! But where's the PlayStation? And what's that lurking under there next to the amp? It's the Game Dad! This whole thing was secretly a #gameDad project! Now I got video, I got sound, and if y'all will kindly recommend a decent Linux-compatible Bluetooth controller from your own personal firsthand experience, Project Big Dad will be complete :D Me, playing Raiden 2 quite happily until the MAME devs put more effort into emulating the copy protection, more perfectly emulating its ability to know it's a bootleg and crash, killing the game for years: 🦝 This is a retro-gaming elitism thing isn't it Me, two decades later, trying to connect a controller: 🦝 This is a retro-gaming elitism thing isn't it I work in coin-ops, I want my controls to break because a rat chewed through a wire or someone puked on it, I don't want it to break because the software got too complicated and tripped over its own arse Like how is this hard it's 2024 for heck's sake, I thought we had joysticks pretty much sorted out in the 70's Look at this crap, I only had access to the wiring through holes the size of cassette tapes Still easier than RetroArch You see what I had to squeeze my hands into here, STILL EASIER THAN RETROARCH The phases of owning a #gameDad are curiosity, delight, finally getting over your awe and actually playing some games, fiddling, frustration, satisfaction, finally getting over the fiddling and actually playing some games, fiddling some more, |
Alright here we gooooo