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mknod  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A relic from a gentler time

Remember when screensavers were needed additions? Now they are just pretty pictures in front of a lock screen!

edit: "needed" in that there was a chance of burnout, but I think thats since been dismissed.





kleinbl00  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My father had ultimate contempt for screen savers. Also video games, also graphics, but I digress. He argued that the amount of static graphics necessary was well beyond what anyone would ever encounter.

Funny thing: when plasmas hit the scene they'd burn in within 2 hours. It was miserable. The cheaper the plasma, the faster the burn-in. Rental companies would have to blast white at them for a week for every two day rental.

mknod  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait i dont understand is that pacman game burned in like that or is that some camera exposure non-sense?

If it's the former WOW. We owned some stand up arcades that my dad some how got (they all were half broken, I think my dad got them doing some person's driveway or something) and They never achieved that amount of burn in, that's some decades level white out there.

I also have a heavy disdain for screensavers, I mostly feel like monitors can be turned off when not in use.

But then again I own a plasma tv too ....

user-inactivated  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They can be totally cool tho, bruh:

edit: why the fuck is it in vertical.

Why the fuck isn't there an easy way to post videos quickly.

Anyways it's a screensaver that has arcade games running in an emulator. You can press a button and start playing them. IT'S COOL, I promise, it looks like a CRTV and stuff, I wish I could just FUCKING SHOW YOU.

kleinbl00  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I consider myself shown. That is cool.

user-inactivated  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's someone else's video of it:

kleinbl00  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is the newest Pac Man machine in Rachel NV.

It's nice to find someone else who was absolutely GOBSMACKED by the amount of burn-in evidenced in this shot. Pretty sure that's a 1/60 second exposure at f/2.8.