🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 months agoAnon reflects on e-sportssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1640
arrow-up1640imageAnon reflects on e-sportssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 6 months agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·6 months agoI had a flat CRT. It was even heavier than a regular one.
minus-squareSoggytoast@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 months agoThey’re under a pretty high vacuum inside, so the flat glass has to be thicker to be strong enough
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoYeah I suspect there’s some lensing going on in there too which adds more weight.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months 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)