The very first time I watched a movie in DVD, it really felt I was missing something l, for not having to “rewind the tape”.
I think it’s the same feeling the first time I drove an electric car. We touch the button and there’s no sound, no ‘revving’, nothing. It felt weird.
I think you didn't push the accelerator hard enough then. Boy do I love hearing the whir of my Ioniq 6 passing on a 2 lane road or getting on the freeway.
Oh, I wasn’t talking exactly about the driving part, just when we turn it on. In an ice car, there’s the sound of the starter, the engine accelerates a little and then comes back to idle.
I'm with @NullPointerException@lemmy.ca. Sure, (most) EVs are ridiculously fast in straight lines, but there's something missing.
The first car I ever owned was a "ridiculously fast" muscle car that was sold to me as a favor to my parents. It's a long story, but suffice it to say 16-year old me had no fucking business owning and driving this monstrosity. This very heavily modified, heavily customized, barely street-legal Buick could do 0-60MPH in a "blistering" 5.8 seconds and the quarter-mile in 14 seconds with my shit drag skills. My Buick was especially great at turning large volumes of gasoline into noise and vaporized tires, all while being unable to corner. And despite those very lackluster numbers, it was an amazingly visceral and connected experience. Flat-foot shifting that car felt like a cataclysm. But if you were unsure that the world was ending, the 4-inch straight pipe exhaust underscored that the Fourth Horseman of the Decibels was coming for you. My car required full attention and all four limbs acting in coordination just to drive down the street.
Now I drive a 2025 Ford Lightning. Completely stock, 0-60 in 4 seconds flat, quarter-mile in 12.5-ish. One foot in use, one finger on the wheel. It's smooth and silent and actually fast in straight lines. Hole shots are consistent. More than that, stomping the throttle is "safe." The tail isn't going to snap out. The tires always link up, almost regardless of the pavement conditions. But there's no visceral experience. Modern cars are mostly soulless, and the Lightning is a glowing example, being borderline joyless to drive, even though I love that this thing is mostly silent. But there will never be anything "classic" or notably characteristic about this vehicle. I ease away from stoplights, drive the speed limit constantly, and only ever stomp on it to pass laggards and left-lane campers.
"The thrill is gone, baby...
My plan is when my ICE engine is on its way out, I’m putting an electric motor behind the transmission, with a controller to simulate engine inertia. I still get to run through gears, with the added benefit of a fully custom torque curve.
We had a racecar-shaped rewinder. That's another car you'll never get to hear run again.
Says you! I went to my Grandma's to pick up that exact rewinder. Pearly red with cute little flip-up headlights. Been using it to reset all the tapes I get on ebay.
You placed a pad on the surface and it would spin your media and buff out surface scratches.
It wasn’t marketed as rewinding them, but as rewinding time on them. It just used rewind because it was a solid gimmick and it related to how we knew to use VHS.
~~buff out surface scratches.~~ Scratch the shit out of them.
Fixed that for you.
My mother-in-law searched every store she could find heading up to Christmas in 2002 looking for one. My brother-in-law had put "DVD Rewinder" at the top of his list and she got him in a game of secret Santa.
The worst part was that she had a dvd player and knew what they were... It's been over 20 years and she still catches hell for how hard she searched.
I am not sure if it's 100% a joke or just a joke name for a disc resurfacing machine... 🤔
Cuz I'd totally have told people my disc resurfacing machine was a DVD rewinder.
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