A different fic....
Dec. 17th, 2025 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly"He took the Walkman out of his pocket and flipped through the songs in the cassette."
Oh, sweetie. That's... that's just not how cassette tapes work. Not even overseas. You fast forward or rewind - literally winding the tape again - and hope that your timing is amazing. I mean, with practice I guess you can get pretty good, but still.
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Oh, sweetie. That's... that's just not how cassette tapes work. Not even overseas. You fast forward or rewind - literally winding the tape again - and hope that your timing is amazing. I mean, with practice I guess you can get pretty good, but still.
An SMBC comic about Tolkein. Seems to be a theme for today.
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Gunmen kill at least 11 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
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Date: 2025-12-15 01:07 pm (UTC)It produces remarkably good sound, considering the "amp" is a Bakelite chamber of a few cubic inches of air.
I notice the wind-up crank is just under the disk, which means it has to not rotate while it's winding down, or it would scrape against the moving disk. Somebody decided that putting it in that specific place was worth the extra hardware to make that happen. It's amazing what people did with analogue hardware....