Thread 713024696

Why don't you play vidya on your CRT anymore? It's asking for a walk

>>713024696 (OP)
I have 3 CRTs and need to get rid of two of then.

>>713024696 (OP)
Because I don't own a CRT anymore.

it is not tv time

I don't care about playing on original hardware anymore which is primarily what they're meant for. Emulation and flat screen all the way.

>>713024696 (OP)
I have a big one and a smaller one and I play vidya on them all the time.

>>713024696 (OP)
GUYS WE'RE IN HERE

>>713024696 (OP)
If playing vidya on CRTs was truly such a revolutionary experience then people wouldn't have throw them away so fuckin fast
It took less than half a decade to go from "Majority of brand new televisions sold in the US are CRTs" to "even high-end CRTs are literal trash often found on the side of the road"

>>713024696 (OP)
might be a little too stealthy, i almost wrote this one off myself.

>used to work for an IT company as a freelancer
>had to upgrade TVs for places like dentists offices
>had to "throw out" old 42 inch 1080 tvs (hisense garbage but w/e)
>have 6 wall mounted tvs, 3 more under my bed
>haven't looked at a tv in 5 years because broadcast media is trash
I have a 4k monitor if I want crt I'll just emulate it without the bonus radiation

def too stealthy

This is the thread.
For how long?

>>713025170
>>713025084
>>713025308
the more obvious you are the quicker we're gonna get nuked

The idea of janny becoming schizo and being suspicious of every single thread is funny to me

>>713025415
Doesn't really matter, even if we somehow survive for the first 10-15 minutes, we become the fastest thread, then the janny gets wise again.

>>713024696 (OP)
No TV time without a trusty old CRT. Just like in my childhood. Wish I hadn't given him away, he was a welcome guest in my empire, but this was the right choice. I'll miss him.

>>713024696 (OP)
CRTs were shit. They were only good because LCD technology at the time was really bad. But you had plasma tvs and eventually OLEDs, which are better in every way.

>>713025170
I liked it.

J can't keep losing.

>>713024696 (OP)
>>713025170
I wonder if there's a venn diagram overlap of CRT autists and Tennafags who can explain to me how scanlines and color balancing actually works

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>>713024696 (OP)
Not enough CRT-worthy kino to be with me in the dark, my man.

>>713024696 (OP)
I've been busy, but I actually might continue my SMT1 playthrough later.

>>713026201
might be best to not poke them at the current moment. no need to drop a bomb on the nuclear meltdown

CRT shader on Retroarch it's all i need

>>713025713
Yeah? They're great for it.

>>713026291

qrd? did deltarune get banned to vg or something

>>713025170
I became that schizo that I had half a mind >>713015629 was the thread.

>oh boy a CRT thread I wonder wh-
>stealth deltatroon thread
god damn furfags

>>713024696 (OP)
but i do. also im not too impressed with deltarune episode one so far, its a slog compared to undertale

>>713026598
Blame the jannies, you can still talk about CRTs if you want anyway

>>713026598
blame the jannies for deleting our threads, not us for wanting to talk on a videogame on the talk about videogames board.

>>713026598
you know you can just make a crt thread if you want a crt thread right

>>713026181
If you mean scanlines in emulators (and not on real TVs), I have no idea how to set them up because I think they pretty much always look meh. It lacks the SOVL of a real CRT.

Ok, so, crtrunners, how would Berdly's B-actions look on a CRT screen?

>>713024696 (OP)
>Why don't you play vidya on your CRT anymore?
im too lazy

>>713026181
beam draws horizontally across screen top to bottom, lights up stuff on screen with different intensities
that's sort of it
not really a tennafag

>>713026731
>If you mean scanlines in emulators (and not on real TVs), I have no idea how to set them up because I think they pretty much always look meh.
as far as I'm aware part of the problem is that there's a million billion different filters too

>>713025713
The best emulation setup there is

>>713027045
Yeah, that's true. I'm sure there are lots of autistic guides for it, but I never bothered. If there was a solution that's simple and looks tasteful, I'd check it out.

>>713025241
> emulate
The concept of emulating a CRT on an lcd is as absurd as emulating a ps5 on a ps1.

>>713027308
It's just lines and blur
Once your pixel ratio is 8x higher than the source material that's easy to fake.

>>713027217
If you're looking for a good shader setup just tinker with CRT Royale and variants to your liking. I brought my CRT out of retirement a few years ago and can't see myself going back but before that shaders served me pretty well for a bit. That said it's been a few years after all so there might be something better than Royale now. In the end, despite it all it's not about conforming to some standard but about finding the image output that looks best to you.

>>713027415
right looks better, is it fake?

>>713027168
This, I got one hooked up with SNES, NES and GB/GBA emulators. Playing Mario 3 on All-Stars SNES then switching to the GBA port to play the e-reader levels is the ultimate Mario 3 experience.

>>713025713
Uh yeah dumbass the WII doesn't even have proper widescreen or hdmi

>>713027168
Until the NAND flash memory croaks.

>>713027612
Yep, fake, CRT filter, probably through lossless scaling, any 4k display should be able to emulate phosphorus CRT beyond any human-discernable level, the only real downside is blacks vs whites but this can be eliminated with AMOLEDs and quantum dots.

>>713024696 (OP)
I fell for the "I NEED A FLAT SCREEN!!!!" meme back in the day and my parents gave the CRT to some poorfags

>>713024696 (OP)
I use a CRT monitor all the time since it's my main monitor. I haven't played games on my TV in at least a week though. I might replay Deltarune on it when I get a better controller.

>>713027458
I'll check it, out of curiosity really because I actually like the way pixel games look on modern screens.

>another crt thread
>deltatrooners try making it their own thread because they feel entitled to have a running general on /v/

>>713026181
They work by making everything look like shit. The reason they were used was because better display tech hadn't been invented yet, similar to how getting a signal to the tv changed from antennas you attached by tightening screws over metal antenna connectors to cable/RF modulator connectors, to composite RCA, to s-video, to component, to hdmi. Each stage becoming less and less shitty.

I’ve been trying to buy a PVM with a budget of 300€ but they simply aren’t available.

>>713026598
go to /vr/ if you want to jerk off a computer screen

>>713025241
But the radiation is where the soul comes from.

>>713027887
Take the VGA pill

>>713024696 (OP)
Because CRTs are outdated, heavy as hell, and break too easily.

>>713027839
>the only real downside is blacks vs whites but this can be eliminated with AMOLEDs and quantum dots.
not that anon but that sounds like a color balance thing and I'm curious what it is about different displays that results in messed up colors

>>713024696 (OP)
My small CRT is been dead for years now, i havent bothered to play capacitor search between lazyness and not really having the proper space to set it up anyway

>>713025713
Its not HD, its pretty much made for CRT

>>713028017
>Heavy as hell
Protein deficiency. Also it's not like you're moving it very often anyway

>>713025713
The Wii is an absolute pain in the ass. 480p CRTs are usually garbage but going LCD/OLED isn’t ideal either due to the low resolution and large amount of 480i only titles.

>>713028026
It's not really about color balancing it's just a difference in how the technology works, CRTS have a non-translucent sheet with a cutout for each "pixel", this allows for perfect blacks. Any LCD screen you look at will look different when it's off vs when it's on and just a black screen because of the backlight. Since AMOLEDs cast their own light they aren't subject to the same backlighting problem and when they are black they are pure black with no light coming out of it. All other types of displays will get that dogshit blackwashing because of backlight, the traditional cost-effective solution to this is HDR but this works by controlling the backlight LEDs in clusters, thus, it still does not solve the problem because you cannot have perfect black scanlines which ruins the entire CRT effect.
And AMOLED is too expensive to make entire monitor or TV-sized displays at a mass-consumer level.

>>713027867
>try making it their own thread
They made this thread.

>>713027415
And strobing. Considering 500 Hz OLEDs are coming out there’s finally a decent alternative to CRTs, albeit expensive and requiring more fiddling than just a plug and play CRT TV.

>>713024696 (OP)
I do. What now?

>>713027867
lol it's the opposite, this started as a stealth thread but they ended up going in a more obvious one.
so this is a real crt thread now.

>>713027867
>Jannies impotently seething because people want to talk about the game people actually care about that came out two weeks ago, and not straight up pedophile baiting with the Donkey Kong shilling
You hate to see it folks.
That being said, I'm pretty happy I still have my old CRT around. The extra color contrast looks great on some games.
Kinda wish it was less annoying to hook up to a modern GPU.
Maybe I'll get a dedicated secondary GPU with VGA/DVI hookups rather than using a dumpy HDMI to S-Video adapter I got online.

Is it a CRT thread or a Deltarune thread? I'm prepared either way.

>>713028367
Yeah that's a bit of a non-issue now, even my laptop has a 480hz screen, and these games are so pathetically easy to run running them at a theoretical 480 FPS isn't even inconceivable, the real problem is good CRT Phosphorous shaders are relatively computationally expensive.

>>713027897
Why don't you go to /vg/ if you want to discuss deltatroon?

>>713028494
That all depends. Who's asking?

>>713028663
>/vg/
>Discussing videogames
>ever

>>713028014
I have a 445 Pro which I am replacing because it can’t do 15 kHz. I moved my 480p consoles+OSSC to my LG OLED. The fact that I needed to go analog->digital linedoubler->analog VGA for a CRT was just mindboggling and I would’ve been better off with a consumer trinitron most the time.

>>713028663
>vg
>discuss
Only a vg circlejerk participants or the clinically clueless would say this.

>>713028494
I don't mind either but I can't do both at once. I kneel. Honestly kinda sad I didn't tell the local vet I'd have been willing to take their VGA monitor in time.

>>713024696 (OP)
Shame this game is just letterbox

>>713026602
Nobody is, chapter 2 and forward is way better.

>>713024696 (OP)
stop trying to making me feel bad about an inanimate object

>>713027308
I'm not the biggest fan of CRT filters while emulating, but they have improved over the years at least. And sometimes it's way easier to emulate a game over trying to run it on actual hardware.

>>713028382
Jannies are faggots but I feel like having multiple, constant Deltarune threads up for the past 2 weeks is why they have such a stick up their ass about it. The DK shit happened today so it makes sense as to why everyone is talking about it.

>>713029063
God forbid people enjoy a game for more than 2 weeks.

>>713029063
He doesn't allow a single one.
But constant AI slop generals and [Cultural Phenomenon] threads are absolutely fine.

I still don't understand why /v/ is the only place that bans generals. Every single other board is full of them, why only here is it a problem?

>>713024696 (OP)
i do anon, i just played my chrono trigger cart for the first time like a month ago even though i've had it for like five years
>>713025713
actually one of the best ways of configuring a crt is with 240 test suite with a hacked wii, it's very easy to do

>>713029260
Those are paid for unlike LGBTrune generals.

>>713029260
>He doesn't allow a single one.
So it's one in specific being a dick then? What a fag. And I agree, I really wish the AI shit was banned on sight along with Twitter threads.

>>713029063
There are literally only multiple threads because they keep trying to ban the game people actually give a shit about because it's getting in the way of Nintendo shit shilling.
And again, I know the implication is that they're "generals" but they're not and nobody even wants that.
They're leaving an obnoxious faggot from /vg/ in there in the hopes that it annoys people enough to stop talking about the game.

>>713029063
A competent janny would let one thread always stay up. It's just worse when it fragments into stealth threads and unrelated threads.

>>713029063
make a fucking general you turbo troons, nobody cares about your shitty game

crt filters are good enough for me
too lazy to buy, carry around and find room for a crt

>>713029504
Nah.

>>713026602
It gets better as it goes on. Chapter 1 is the worst part of the game. It gets a lot better in chapter 2.

>>713024696 (OP)
I do, I have one set up on my emulation PC and it can run pretty much everything out there that was designed for CRT output (and some which were not as well), including a lot of arcade stuff.

>>713029342
Because there's a a dedicated board made explicitly for video game generals and nothing else.

>>713028026
The original gif is so much better

>>713027168
wut game dat

>>713029342
Because you end up with shit like the Nagatoro threads on /a/. Nobody wants that.

>>713029063
>>713029260
What I find hilarious is that one thread hit bump limit BECAUSE THEY USED AN AISLOP IMAGE
HOW IS THIS SITE THIS COMPROMISED

>>713024696 (OP)
But I do. I literally turned it on today.

>>713029415
Not sure, it could be more than one, I just call them the janny.
AI shit is garbage, but I think it cheated l generates so much traffic without any discussion that it's just perfect for lazy jannies.

>>713029748
Unironically one of the head moderators is a participant in the AI general.
And he's Indian

>>713024696 (OP)
My PS2 and Gamecube need to be internally cleaned (and modded) and I don't trust myself to disassemble it without something going wrong, so I can't use my CRT right now.

>>713029642
Is this a TV or a VGA monitor, and what do you use to connect it to your computer?

>>713029710
Magical Pop'n. Pretty decent platformer by the team that would go on to make the original Harvest Moon, prepare for some pretty finicky grappling hook controls here and there but I had a good time with it. Easy to complete in an afternoon

>>713028494
I think every game looks better on a crt.

>>713029984
Eh, it depends.
I don't really like playing Terraria on my CRT or HDR monitor because unironically there's WAY too much contrast and it almost immediately becomes impossible to see jack shit once it's night time.

>>713028878
But anon, he's lonely.

>>713028878
Help Computah

>>713029873
You mod a PS2 with just a memory card.

I mostly just watch TV on it.

>>713030068
>it almost immediately becomes impossible to see jack shit once it's night time.
Isn't that how its supposed to be? It's done that on all my LCD displays too.

Recently set up my own little office in our spare room and dusted off my old childhood consoles. Coworker gave me this old CRT and for now it works. I've decided 32" is too big, the screen is a little dim, and apparently this model just kind of sucks picture-wise. But like I said, it works for now. I need to get some controllers and adapters for my SNES and N64 next.

>>713030359
On The Constant seed, yeah it's ACTUALLY pitch black out on the surface at night, or when you're totally underground, but there's supposed to be just barely enough light to see.
If I turn HDR off on my monitor I can actually see fine.

>>713029943
It's a TV with a SCART input using pic related as the in-between converter going from VGA to SCART. You need a particular graphics card for it to work, but luckily a lot of Radeon cards as well as AMD APUs are good for it. I have an R9 380 in this PC, which is way overkill for most things.

>>713025158
That's because CRTs are great for video games but not so much TV shows or movies. The same way "arcade-perfect" was a marketing tactic for a lot of games back then, "home cinema" was a common marketing buzzword for TV equipment. And how do you watch movies in a cinema? On a huge-ass projection surface with extremely poor contrast and color reproduction. People wanted big TVs, everything else be damned. Who plays games? Kids. Who watches movies? Their parents. Who makes decisions on what to buy and what to throw away? Also their parents. I have a small 15" CRT and image from my PS2 and Dreamcast looks gorgeous on it. I have one connected through RGB and the other through S-Video. CRT blurriness naturally smooths out rough pixel edges to a certain extent, hides the lack of detail on textures and makes FMVs looks very close to in-engine footage. Motion clarity is also great, as is input delay. Oh, and I don't have to worry about progressive modes. I can run all of my games interlaced because this is the type of display designed to display interlaced footage.

>>713030675
Awesome, thanks for the tip! Right now I do the Poor Man's PVM setup with a 480p VGA monitor and a scanline filter, but it's nice to know what I need to do to be able to output it to a TV as well.

I can probably nab something from the recycling room at the office, that's where I got my current VGA monitor

>>713030090
he's a big boy. 48 inches

>>713030598
>>713030359
Like if I had to approximate, this is roughly how Terraria looks on my monitor/CRT with HDR on.

>>713024696 (OP)
>@Janny @Moot @FBI
this thread, right here

>>713031142
Only, you know you can still see (technically) everything

>>713030392
I think 20 inches+S Video or RGB is the sweet spot. PVMs will definitely look better, but it's up to you if the difference is enough to offset the cost. For most people the answer will be no.

That said, you've done the most important first step which is getting any set at all. This will stave off the temptation to do anything stupid with your money while you wait for your ideal set to come around.

>>713031142
Good lord.

im still using mine

Is it easy to get a CRT? I used to have one as a kid and I kind of miss it now.

>>713031798
It's a bit more annoying nowadays since thrift stores don't carry them anymore, but it's not too hard. You can look on places like Facebook Marketplace and often times there's people giving them away for free so long as you pick them up. Hell I found this thing on the side of the road. Just have to keep your eyes peeled.

>>713031798
You can find em on craigslist from time to time.
It kinda depends on what country you're in

>>713025241
It's not the same if you cann't hear a high pitched ringing while the TV is on.

>>713024696 (OP)
>Go into CRT thread
>It's a faggot general

>>713031798
If you're okay with just any CRT, you can try your nearest Goodwill.

>>713031798
My experience trying to get one for free/a decent price was dire. Where I live all the listing's were along the lines of
>RETRO GAMING TV, 50-100 DOLLERYDOOS
I eventually bit the bullet and got one for 50, shit sucked.

>>713032215
Janny you can quit crying, people are talking about CRTs

>>713032215
Welcome home then toxotranny

+1 for CRT thread
-1 for Deltatroon general

>>713032386
>Graffiti Kingdom
God I wish that game wasn't so expensive. I really need to get around to modding my PS2.

>>713032386
I want to get one of these stupid sony handycams, but just like CRTs, people overprice them for no reason.

>>713031798
Random TVs and monitors are available super cheap where I live, but again that's just random shit. If you keep trying you can probably get something decent, but something that is "known good" like Trinitron tubes or whatever the fuck are more rare and also priced higher.

>>713030892
No problem. If you can get a TV with SCART then it's pretty straight-forward since SCART and VGA are nearly the same, only the sync signal is different and that converter handles it. If you get something with component, S-Video or composite inputs only then you're going to need a different (and probably more expensive) converter.

Also FYI the software I'm running is called Batocera (a Linux distro), some people made a script you can run and it basically sets everything up automatically for CRT TV use. I'm sure you can probably get everything to work on any OS but it's likely going to be much more of a pain in the ass so I haven't really tried.

>>713028382
This. Heaven forbid, people want to discuss a video game instead of the endless and shitposting bait threads.

>>713029443
Its absolutely the doing of the pajeet mod.

>>713024696 (OP)
because current day tvs are superior in literally every way

>>713031142
I think your tube might need some adjusting. Not only is it too dark, but the colors are washed out.

>>713031007
And you give him no attention? I don't know how you could ignore a tube that big.

>>713033654
It's an approximation, not an actual picture.
On the actual thing you can still see everything and the colors aren't as washed out.

>>713033829
Is your monitor calibrated to 93k or 65k?

>>713034092
Great question.
I have no idea what that means.
Again it's a rough approximation, not technically accurate to what it looks like.

>>713024696 (OP)
>big heavy blurry unreliable ugly box tv that makes horrible ringing noises
>why arent you using it
I can play games in 4k at 240 fps why the fuck would i go back

>>713034363
Its the color temperature. 92k is a lot more blue while 65k is a lot more red and green. 65k usually appears darker and is commonly used in TVs, 92k appears brighter and is usually used for computer monitors (though TVs in Japan were also commonly calibrated to it). If you know how to get into your monitor's OSD menu, it should tell you which one its set to.

>>713034803
>play anything made before HDMI
>input lag no matter what kind of converter you have
gee I fucking wonder

>>713031250
Yeah I remember the 19" I got one Christmas being the sweet spot - had that through my teens until I shipped off for college. From what I'm reading up on, JVC and Sony have the guys I'm looking for in that size range, as long as they have component and s-video in the back.

I wont be looking to do output modding or anything extreme so I think I'll be satisfied with minimal fussing around. Seeing FB marketplace with trinitrons for like 250 nearby and that's not a problem to go for down the road.

I think the one snag I'm facing is that I'm not sure if I wanna limit myself to 4 consoles (which fit neatly with my space and storage options atm) out or go for all 5 between my PS2, Gamecube, 64, SNES, and Genesis and make some room for that to work.

Either way, Rogue Leader is so much harder than I remember. I think I've become retarded in my old age.

>>713036658
>He thinks his TV hijacks his inputs inbetween the usb device and the software
I hate pseuds so much.
It's the same retarded conversation where people just act like nobody every played an FPS game for more than 5 minutes and nobody in 2007 could have a monitor that did over 20 fps

>>713028382
>hurr durr
The biggest corporate leaks of all time got exiled to /vg/ after far fewer threads, and you're here crying that you're not allowed to shit up literally half the catalog for weeks on end with tumblrtale?

>>713036931
>TV takes a moment to convert RCA signal to usable digital info
>TV displays information 2+ frames after the TV the game was designed for
>press button based on information that is 2+ frames behind
>???
>somehow don't lose reaction time
Are you retarded?

>>713024696 (OP)
Every day I just have other things that keep me from it, anon.
I'm learning woodworking, I'm going to the gym, I run 10ks a few nights a week.

I just ended up with no time and I think that all I want to do is sit and play my old Wii or Xbox but whenever I do I just feel a sense of dread like I'm wasting my life playing with a dead, old thing made for a generation of kids who are already out in the world doing something meaningful, why aren't I?

I just want to enjoy games but I can't anymore

>>713037105
>and you're here crying that you're not allowed to shit up lite
People only want one thread asshole, the problem is the jannies keep banning the thread because the marketers want people to pretend they're interested in the switch 2 and the pedo bait

>>713037548
define meaningful

>>713037548
All the time browsing /v/ could be gayming

>>713027781
>WII doesn't even have proper widescreen
Gamecube had fucking widescreen

I think one of it's speakers is busted, might need to a new CRT or at least an external sound system.

>>713024696 (OP)
I grew up with CRTs and they were shit. I vastly prefer IPS and OLED these days. That said I am looking to get a small CRT like in your image out of nostalgia, but they are all insanely overpriced. Like $50 at the lowest price and it doesn't even come with any cables or remotes.

>>713037930
he means with square pixels. widescreen on wii uses non square pixels and looks like shit on modern displays.

>>713037975
Isn't speaker repair one of the most trivial things to do for CRT maintenance?

>>713024696 (OP)
Tenna is insecure about being outdated despite a thousand hipster zoomers looking to buy him for $1000 from ebay. What a retard

>>713037817
you don't understand, his hobbies are holding him hostage, it's not him choosing other stuff, he's actually still really into vidya even though he dreads the thought of gaymen
i don't understand why normalfags aren't honest with themselves when they don't care about old hobbies anymore

>>713031142
Athmospheric kino

>>713038040
Why do you have nostalgia for shit? There's stuff I'm nostalgic for that honestly isn't too great but nothing I actually hold to be shit, especially to the point of spending money on it to relive said shit.

>>713037704
YEah sure, you only want one thread, that's why you made dozens simultaneously for weeks. >>>/vg/deltarune

>>713037548
Then why are you wasting time on /v/? Even playing vidya at least makes you more cultured. /v/ is nothing but pointless time wasting.

>>713038040
Its pretty normal for a used TV to not come with a remote. The previous owner probably lost the original remote decades ago. Just use some cheapo universal remote. I use a DTV remote I got for $1 for mine.

>>713038328
I did say I haven't spent any money on it yet actually.

But people can be nostalgic for shit things since the literal definition of "nostalgia" does not preclude bad. Look at all those retro game collectors buying shit like gameboys for $100 when they were objectively shit with garbage screens.

>>713038350
based... BASED...!
*gets on my knees*
AI is... here!!!
*fist pumps*
oh my god... oh my GOD... it's finally, FINALLY here...!
*weeps*
yes lord... i KNEEL!

>>713024696 (OP)
>literally sitting on front of my CRT next to my computer
Ya blind or sumpin?

>>713038110
He doesn't know what an email is. His view of the world is limited to Kris's living room and what broadcast channels he picks up. All he knows is that he's been outdated for decades and has been ignored for years now.

>try to repair crt
>die
Apple wishes they had this technology

>>713037205
Yeah because people act in a state of flow, not frame per frame.
That's just fighting game retard cope

>>713038871
>receive information on a delay
>doesn't matter bro, I'm constantly receiving information bro

>>713024696 (OP)
I play all my PS1 and PS2 games on a CRT. I was actually thinking of getting a CRT for my PC as well, but I haven't found anything decent in my area yet.

>>713025713
That's how I played mine back then, yeah.

>>713038962
Correct the kind of retard to get blown up with a rocket from around a corner and get confused as to how I could still know you're there despite not seeing you.

>>713039020
My man.

>>713038686
Also here's an example. $120 is insanely expensive for a CRT, and this is just an unpopular samsung model. Actual classics like Sony and Panasonic will go up to $200.

>>713039085
So once you're in a flow state you use no visual input from the game at all? You solely play games you have completely memorized? You play every game constantly adjusting for how soon you ACTUALLY want to push the buttons? Nigger, if you have control over it, reducing input lag feels better, I don't care how much "flow" you have.

>>713039252
>You play every game constantly adjusting for how soon you ACTUALLY want to push the buttons?
No retard. That's what you do.

>>713038817
>my crt experienced 9/11
:(

>>713039349
>I DON'T USE THE BUTTONS, I DON'T USE THE VISUALS, I JUST FEEEEEEEEL IT MAAAAAAAAN
You have twisted your argument beyond the point of parody. Less lag is better than more lag, you will never refute this.

>>713038062
Don't know, is it?

>>713033761
some would call it depression. I call it being empty inside

>>713039495
I don't know, I do know I gotta fix the speakers in my monitor that has them, the left one refuses to make sound periodically. I'm 90% sure someone who I loaned it to dropped it.

>>713033761
I should turn it on and play an emulated version of final fantasy 2 on my nes mini

>>713024696 (OP)
I got rid of my CRT only five years ago. I had it for almost 30 years, or since I was born.

Unfortunately, "those in power" wanted everyone to throw out our American-made TV sets so we could buy worse ones from China. They knew exactly what they were doing by moving broadcast TV to widescreen. NOTHING works on them anymore besides other vintage electronics.

>>713039690
Depression IS that hollow feeling. You may be mistaking it for clinical sorrow.

>>713039693
Never loan your cool stuff. I'm still mad at the person who fucked up my NDS.

>>713025158
i moved out of my parents house into a smaller place and had no room for a colossal TV that couldn't be reasonably be mounted on a wall

>>713025036
I emulate on a CRT.
It's 1000 times better.

>>713024848
Send me one if it isn't busted.

>>713040076
Oh it wasn't my "cool" stuff, it's just annoying in the event of like, LAN parties.
It's just a spare monitor that I'm using presently since I don't feel like setting up speakers.

>>713038860
A lot of electronics will kill you if you're stupid while trying to work on them.

>>713039085
Now try that with the rail gun or super shotgun. Sometimes reaction time really does matter.

>>713041323
>Okay but if yo
I blow you up from around the corner.

>>713039881
Wait really? So you can't watch TV on CRTs anymore?

>>713041545
I camp the rockets and keep you from getting them. What now, huh?

>>713041797
Not natively. You have to use a converter to change the ATSC signal to the old NTSC standard. And even when you do, it just pushes all the TV tuner functionality onto the converter box, making the tube nothing more than a glorified monitor. So you either have to have two remotes (one for the tv and one for the box) or you need a universal remote with multiple modes so you can program it to both.