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Oh heavens above... Hey, UK person here. RGB SCART cables were always extremely common. You just bought them from a regular shop and plugged them into the TV. It wasn't a specialist hardcore ultra gamer thing, it was a bit of wire that made your Amiga/MD/SNES/PS1, etc. look great on the telly.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Sorry, but this feels deeply revisionist to me. I worked in Dixons at the end of the 80s/early 90s, when DVDs were but a dream, and throwing a free SCART cable in with a new device (whether VCR or console or whatever) was a standard deal sweetener.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We need a bigger community for older people who want to play racing games online and I'M NOT KIDDING. We need racing games that reward checking your mirrors and indicating before overtaking, and slowing down and preparing to stop in front of the line at junctions...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 8 days ago • 224 comments

And this, my friends, is how you organize a conference on railway aesthetics, with a train journey being part of the conference call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If there are muppets who "can't grasp the scale of Texas", they're going to be fucking amazed when someone tells them about the scale of the war in Ukraine...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

submitted 11 days ago • 3443 comments

Pula mea... What a finish! #csm #ehfcl #București

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fantastic match, but a nightmare for my blood pressure... #handball #csm #romania #bucuresti #ehfcl

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh. #romania #ihatewinter www.digi24.ro/meteo/ger-pe...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I need people to appreciate that the fact that one of the DOGE kiddies was asking for suggestions on an LLM to use for document format conversion, shows that they know less about programming than anyone who's ever booted Windows into safe mode to fix a problem

submitted 14 days ago • 137 comments

Breaking—Bird flu found in wet markets in New York City. Quick, let’s find the nearest XXX Institute of Virology and witch hunt them! www.nbcnewyork.com/news/health/...

submitted 15 days ago • 194 comments

I naively thought that the whole premise for America's long standing argument for being allowed to keep guns was to protect themselves from hypothetical situations like the one that's taking place right now.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Oh my. This thread provides an absolute goldmine of the terminally Righteously Aggrieved to block.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Today in 1811 the UK Parliament removed all power from King George because he was "insane"

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments