🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 12 days agoAnon reflects on e-sportssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1649arrow-down132
arrow-up1617arrow-down1imageAnon reflects on e-sportssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 12 days agomessage-square149fedilink
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 days agoI had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.
minus-squareSoggytoast@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 days agoThey’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoYeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 days agoyeah my parents had a trinitron, that thing weighed a whole cattle herd. The magnetic field started failing in the later years so one corner was forever distorted. It was an issue playing Halo because I couldn’t read the motion tracker (lower left)
I had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.
They’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough
Yeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.
yeah my parents had a trinitron, that thing weighed a whole cattle herd. The magnetic field started failing in the later years so one corner was forever distorted. It was an issue playing Halo because I couldn’t read the motion tracker (lower left)