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03-01-2021 , 09:46 PM
Mark! That can be done. We have an old VCR. Just need the AC adapter.
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03-01-2021 , 09:50 PM
The story with Blockbuster and Netflix is that Netflix execs had a meeting with Blockbuster and laid out a business plan that Blockbuster would be the brick & motor side while Netflix would be their online business.

Blockbuster literally laughed them out of the room.

And we all know how that one played out.
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03-01-2021 , 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by LKJ
Oh strange, I thought I read a story about an Alaskan Blockbuster having been the last one and it having closed.

It looks like I have two B&M Radio Shacks within 30 miles of me, and the map on their site indicates that they're still littered around the country, so I have to think that Blockbuster is drawing really slim on that bet.
had to chuckle when i went to the Blockbuster website and saw the link in the upper right corner. http://www.blockbuster.com/
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03-01-2021 , 10:02 PM
The AC adapter needs be 9 volt DC, 500ma, with an unusually large male plug.

Going on a household search.

Edit: Just for fun, I'll check Mrs. RG's drawers first. Heh.
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03-01-2021 , 10:08 PM
RoundGuy what happened to SquareGuy?
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03-01-2021 , 10:28 PM
Muffin, that is not the topic.

Do you have access to a 9 volt DC, 500ma AC adapter, with an unusually large male plug?
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03-01-2021 , 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00
had to chuckle when i went to the Blockbuster website and saw the link in the upper right corner. http://www.blockbuster.com/
Ha, that's pretty good.

Blockbuster at one point tried to catch up to Netflix on the mail-ordered DVDs side, and actually were offering a much better deal if you lived close to a Blockbuster (and this was when they were still everywhere). The three-at-a-time was the same price as Netflix, but you could bring your mail DVDs to the Blockbuster store and exchange them for B&M rentals, and at the same time their scan of your exchange would also trigger the next mailing; you'd get both rather than one or the other. You basically couldn't run out of rentals at any point, and of course they had the selection of literally everything through their website.

I was all about it, but Netflix had already locked down the market.
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03-01-2021 , 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
Muffin, that is not the topic.
How do you think that topics originate?
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03-01-2021 , 10:32 PM
Yeah, I was a member of the blockbuster mail thing. It was great.
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03-01-2021 , 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin
RoundGuy what happened to SquareGuy?
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
Muffin, that is not the topic.
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Originally Posted by LKJ
How do you think that topics originate?
By the poster. They can be continued, or ignored.
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03-01-2021 , 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
Muffin, that is not the topic.

Do you have access to a 9 volt DC, 500ma AC adapter, with an unusually large male plug?
Yes.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...apter&_sacat=0
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03-01-2021 , 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
By the poster. They can be continued, or ignored.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your ability to simply ignore posts that you don't want to react responsively to?
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03-01-2021 , 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark_K
Yes.
Fantastic. Plan B if the house search is unfruitful.
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03-01-2021 , 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by LKJ
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your ability to simply ignore posts that you don't want to react responsively to?
An example would be needed. The answer would be whether one responds, or ignores, the example. Whether that response, or non-response, is responsible would be up to to the viewer.
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03-01-2021 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
An example would be needed. The answer would be whether one responds, or ignores, the example. Whether that response, or non-response, is responsible would be up to to the viewer.
Go back to the thread where you asked for help watching a Chiefs game and you got 5+ great solutions that you ignored.
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03-01-2021 , 11:11 PM
Does this guy not know how search engines work?

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=atari+ac+adapter
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03-01-2021 , 11:32 PM
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03-02-2021 , 12:01 AM
Oh man RG you need to make this work. I want to see you playing FOOTBALL on your TV. I think if this doesn’t happen you guys should ban RG. If he gets it going out of containment.

Come on RG I believe in you.
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03-02-2021 , 12:32 AM
Love 'Nit. Ban or uncontained based on getting a 40 year old game system to work.

No pressure.
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03-02-2021 , 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by RoundGuy
Love 'Nit. Ban or uncontained based on getting a 40 year old game system to work.

No pressure.

Man you can do it!

You threw down the gauntlet, make it happen.
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03-02-2021 , 01:11 AM
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03-02-2021 , 01:13 AM
Pretty sure you threw down the gauntlet, but someone might take the challenge. It won't happen tomorrow, or even next week. But it will happen.
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03-02-2021 , 01:20 AM
Quite sure we got past that level, 27. But that was 40 years ago. You're killing us here.
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03-02-2021 , 01:30 AM
No dumbass, that was you failing. As usual.
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03-02-2021 , 01:39 AM
Found 2 non-conforming AC adapters, but have a gold mine in the storage room tomorrow. Also have Mrs. RG's office, but need permission to search that. Should have a solution (or plan B) tomorrow night.
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