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    18 hours ago

    There’s at two problems with that: VHS tapes and CEDs both degrade with each playback session, and CEDs even can get damaged or destroyed if you store them incorrectly (no wonder that format flopped and brought down RCA with it, lol…), and LDs have Laser Rot to deal with which is sadly becoming more common as some discs which were pressed in certain plants age.

    VHS/Beta tapes, CEDs, and LDs if there’s any media that wasn’t released outside of those formats should be archived in some way ASAP due to the fragile nature of all three formats.

    (and I say ‘fragile’ although LDs in theory should last indefinitely due to the lack of physical contact with that format vs. CEDs being read by a stylus and VHS and beta being read by a spinning head drum, but as I said, Laser Rot is an increasingly big problem with them)

    *CEDs are literally video on vinyl, something that someone at RCA had to have been tripping on something to come up with, and that it’s a miracle that it even worked at all, given the inherent limitations of vinyl as a format.




  • Give Pollock crap all you want, but the guy popularized one of the most fun painting techniques ever, regardless of how you feel about his stuff.

    Seriously, splatter painting is really fun to do even if there’s no real reason to it, and if anything, who says art has to have a reason behind it? Just straight-up having a play around throwing paint on something (in fact, there are entire places dedicated to that exact thing cropping up over the last few years) is as valid as drawing a scene out with an actual story behind it.