people still say "stay tuned" even if there's no more tuning going on
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what if the tuning was the friends you're making along the way and they just mean "keep on keeping on" like the potheads in the 70s used to tell eachother before dying of various violent crimes
@lain i remember modding a game so the save icon changed to a microsd card
it still feels weird compared to a floppy disk icon
it still feels weird compared to a floppy disk icon
@cell "the sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel"
@lain only dereing nowadays, sad!
@lain says YOU. I still get my internet the old fashioned way, through AM radio.
@lain we still film stuff on phones
@yakmacker @lain only works before noon though
@lain what
when i read this line originally i imagined it to be black and white static
but this works too
when i read this line originally i imagined it to be black and white static
but this works too
@cell yeah, it obviously was meant to invoke static when it was written, but i wonder if anyone later thought it meant a blue sky. By now, the line must be puzzling for young readers.
@lain not the first time an idiom outlived its literal practice
@lain They also say "hang up the phone", but no one uses a phone with a bell or hook and cradle anymore
@lain stay attuned to the raid