You know that shows only come on at scheduled times, and having a set of various tapes was the same as having an online subscription that’s being discussed in this thread. And yes, we taped shows for the kids to watch and add to their library. There’s a million things I can’t explain why a couple of kids aged 3 and 6 would do. Watching Barney over and over is just one of them.
Even at a young age they have their own freewill. I forced nothing, merely provided them the tools, which was my point. You don’t have to have a subscription to a streaming service to keep a child entertained.
It’s funny how we managed to survive without streaming services. I distinctly remember teaching my kids how to rewind a vcr tape. They watched the same Barney episode about 400 times per day. Guess kids nowadays can’t handle that.
I finally got to see it in the theater and it is a mind blowing experience. The visuals and the sound. I had only ever seen it on a tube tv, and eventually got to see an HD version which blew me away, and then when I saw it in the theater, it was not only the visuals, but the sound. The sound… I can only imagine what it was to see this in the theater when it was originally shown.
It’s pretty frustrating that the news lately just goes out of their way to make things look bleak. Like that CNN story about Saturn’s rings “disappearing”. They mentioned that “future astronomers might not get the chance to view Saturn’s rings.” and went on about how they were disappearing. At the very end of the article was the estimate of the timeline, and it was 100 million years. Give me a fucking break. These fucking news outlets with their clickbait bullshit titles just irritates me. I get you were just posting what was there. My frustration is just at the news outlets themselves.
A little disappointed in BBC with the clickbait title there… All is not lost as the headline implies, per the article:
While fuller communication is not yet established, Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth. The next reset is due on 15 October, which Nasa says “should enable communication to resume”.
Frustrating that they make it sound like this is a big deal.
It did. Lots of planning, and effort. The trunk is 6x6 blocks in size and each level I went out 10 blocks each direction. It took real life days of wandering around just to find the area I wanted to build in. I brought the basics I needed to get the truck and some area to start putting up a furnace with hoppers to make all the glass. Blew through a couple of shovels and found some lava to keep the furnace going. That’s the kind of goofy stuff I enjoy doing though.
It’s a realm my friend and I currently work on. When I feel like it I just sign on and go sit in my treehouse. I just had a bunny rabbit by the front door, and managed to tag him with a name, so maybe he will stick around for a while. Here is a link to the pics.
Nice job. I like the look of that. I too like sometimes just getting on a game and sitting down in a spot and watching things just happen. I built a large treehouse in a desert area just to watch things crawl around at night.