Auction the cube at Desert Bus! I'll pay £1000 for it, well not really, I already know what it is, it's a hologram projector cartridge from the LRR episode Redundancy, and we haven't even invented the technology yet.
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B'aw, how many people (including me) did you just ninja with that post? But yeah.TheEnglishman said:
"Is it an iPhone? Or at least like an Android?" "No!" "Then no one cares"
"We wanted to release something... make some buzz... get some capital... embezzle it"
At least that Touch Me guy was honest.
Yeah we have a "Cex exchange" in my town too- but most of the people I know call it "Kecks" in fear of use of the oddly amusing name when pronounced properly.
Even moreso when used in sentences such as;
"Did you know there's a Cex store in town? ... Yeah its got everything in there and it's really cheap- though its a shame it's all preowned"
Anyways- another great LRR episode
Even moreso when used in sentences such as;
"Did you know there's a Cex store in town? ... Yeah its got everything in there and it's really cheap- though its a shame it's all preowned"
Anyways- another great LRR episode
heh, complete with weirdo looking at the shiny products. Is it possible to go into a CEX shop and not find a weirdo looking at stuff? Other than at closing time I mean. I don't know if its the name or what but at the Stoke-on-Trent branch there is always at least one strange looking/act/smelling person there.Distorted Stu said:
At first I thought this was about the store here in the UK. Then I learned. And yes, there is a store here in the UK called CEX.
The name is quite silly though, great episode this week!
The name is quite silly though, great episode this week!
Heh. The names were good. Especially as you changed them every time you introduced the presenters...
But, yeah. I could see the CEX joke coming from the title alone.
It is a good question though... You'd think someone would have noticed that.
The television was a good one, though it reminded me of Sharp's television range that adds yellow to the standard RGB.
To be fair, Sharps idea has a reason, in that RGB alone can't reproduce the entire colour range humans can see...
But there's still some grounds for the joke in that televisions (and computer monitors) are meant to display a specific colour range...
(for NTSC it's usually considered 50% gamut, or about 50% of what the human eye can actually see)
And most modern monitors and can already display 80% gamut.
That's all well and good, but all the tv signals, dvd's, blurays, etc. are all encoded on the idea that the display can't show those colours...
So if you have a display that can show a wider range of colours than that, you usually end up with one of two things happening:
1. The display is calibrated to the correct colour range for the signal it's displaying - In which case, all the extra colour capability goes to waste and is never seen.
2. The display is calibrated to show it's maximum colour range - Which shows a lot of extra colour, but means what's being shown is often far removed from what it was intended to look like.
... Wow. I'm hopeless aren't I?
Explaining all that in the context of a joke? Like, who reading that would actually care? XD
But, yeah. I could see the CEX joke coming from the title alone.
It is a good question though... You'd think someone would have noticed that.
The television was a good one, though it reminded me of Sharp's television range that adds yellow to the standard RGB.
To be fair, Sharps idea has a reason, in that RGB alone can't reproduce the entire colour range humans can see...
But there's still some grounds for the joke in that televisions (and computer monitors) are meant to display a specific colour range...
(for NTSC it's usually considered 50% gamut, or about 50% of what the human eye can actually see)
And most modern monitors and can already display 80% gamut.
That's all well and good, but all the tv signals, dvd's, blurays, etc. are all encoded on the idea that the display can't show those colours...
So if you have a display that can show a wider range of colours than that, you usually end up with one of two things happening:
1. The display is calibrated to the correct colour range for the signal it's displaying - In which case, all the extra colour capability goes to waste and is never seen.
2. The display is calibrated to show it's maximum colour range - Which shows a lot of extra colour, but means what's being shown is often far removed from what it was intended to look like.
... Wow. I'm hopeless aren't I?
Explaining all that in the context of a joke? Like, who reading that would actually care? XD
And yet we have Computer Exchange here in England, whose logo is conveniently displayed outside every shop in startling white against a shocking red background: CEXCrystalShadow said:
Demonstrated above by Distorted Stu.
OT: Amusing episode, and I definitely want the CUB3. NAO!
So far I think my favorite qoutes from that episode were:
"Is it an iPhone? Or at least like an Android?" "No!" "Then no one cares"
"We wanted to release something... make some buzz... get some capital... embezzle it"
And like everyone else I want that damn cube! D:
"Is it an iPhone? Or at least like an Android?" "No!" "Then no one cares"
"We wanted to release something... make some buzz... get some capital... embezzle it"
And like everyone else I want that damn cube! D:
Haha That cube part was hilarious. We WILL pay obscene amounts of money for any shit that anyone can trick us into buying.
