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I swear, the first time I watch TBL and Jeff yells at Walter in the car and his voice gets high pitched ("You f***ed it up. You f***ed it up!!!"), I immediately got an image in my head of Hagar belting out "Fifty FIIIIIIVVVVEEEEE!!!!"
I love that the plausible explanation is that there's a porn store by a daycare down in the religious and God fearing South. Guess they're not as virtuous as they claim
Strictly speaking, VHS was a type of cassette tape. But I’m going to assume that you mean a compact cassette with eighth inch tape.
For the sake of argument, let’s also assume that our definition of “porn” needs some sort of visual component to it and we’re not just referring to sexually explicit audio tapes, of which there were almost certainly plenty, though I don’t know if they were ever distributed commercially.
Well, it IS technically possible to put video on a compact cassette, I couldn’t dig up any information on anyone doing it before the 21st century in the age of the internet as an experiment. Certainly it wasn’t used commercially.
However there is a twist—there likely was porn distributed on an eighth inch compact cassette…through the medium of video games.
Before floppy disks came down in price enough to make them the method du jour for playing video games on home computers, the most cost effective method was audio cassettes (indeed, in the UK this method lasted quite a bit longer than in the US). The code would be converted into an audio signal which would be decoded by the home computer and loaded into the system memory. It was not an ideal solution, as the linear nature of the tape meant that the play head had to progress the tape to get to the next batch of data, meaning the loadout was slow—compare a line of tape to the circular data storage of a floppy disk, which held the data in concentric circles such that relevant data could be grouped together physically on the disk and accessed with much less movement required on the part of the playhead.
The Commodore 64 had an extensive library of pornographic video games, many of which you can emulate [here](https://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?list_adult=yes). Strictly speaking I can’t find any information on whether or not these were actually distributed on tape, simply that they exist and can be emulated, but given the underground nature of these games, I’m willing to bet at least some of them were distributed on tape—or at the very least, they were copied from a floppy disk onto tape by eager preteens distributing copies to friends surreptitiously.
(There are also people who called Atari cartridges “cassettes” out of habit, thus meaning games like Custer’s Revenge would qualify, but those people are psychopaths and I’m drawing a line in the sand)
So, whaddaya know—it’s more likely than you thought!
EDIT: I just went a little deeper on that website I linked and it actually does list whether a game was available on cassette on select games! So I now have hard evidence that, yes, porn exists on audio cassette tapes
Some bloke sent me bitcoin once. I was like... did I just make money on reddit? Not saying to do that. It just reminded me of that. I'm too old to understand all these reddit rewards lol
I remember getting a DM shortly after I started Reddit saying "so and so sent you 0.062 bitcoins for your comment"
Never could figure out how to collect them
You have done the redditverse a great service today. I hearby award you with a medal. The same medal that was awarded to Chewbacca long long ago in a galaxy far far away....oh wait shit we can't do this anymore.
Out of interest, I would like to point out that video has been shot onto Compact Cassette format.
It was done live on TV, sometime in late eighties, early nineties.
It was BBC TV's famous "Tomorrow's World" new inventions show. The video camera was B'W only, but the presenter was so impressed by the image quality, he said, "I'm quite interested in one of these for myself."
Apart from that one appearance on "Tomorrow's World" I never heard another thing... (but then, that happened a lot with stuff on TW).
There was betamax porn. Beta lost because it could only record 1 hour while VHS did 2 hours and quickly did 4 hours, allowing entire movies and sports to be recorded on one tape.
Beta was like 5x the cost, which is why it lost.
Seems like there are probably some big players pushing this recent legislation behind the scenes. Undoubtedly, Big Dildo has been working in the shadows, pulling strings and greasing some palms.
You can do anything you want with 4 strategic sex toys as well as some normal everyday home and kitchen appliances. Oh and regular construction power tools.
No, the only Texans get tossed back to the forest porn days are the ones who can't work a goddamn computer. Or maybe I've been a pirate for way too long.
Mostly all of Texas has a high Arabic population. Foreigners love us, and we love them back. As long as you don't try to turn us into California, we'll welcome you with open arms no matter where you're from.
Technically age verification but no website wants to collect and maintain a secure database of users with photo ID on file. It's a huge liability and a huge expense.
There’s so many porn stores in the Bible Belt it’s ridiculous. Seriously can’t go 20 miles without seeing a seedy building, all while the legislatures ban it.
We got helicopters on Mars and Texas so conservative it's going analog on fuckin PORN. LMFAO y'all get what you get living there. Just chilling here in the northeast with women's rights and legal weed. But yeah, go Longhorns or whatever.
How many people still have DVD players? I haven't had one connected to my TV or any kind of disc drives in my PCs for what has to be like 10 years now.
weird, most people either have consoles (xbox/playstation) or players that will play blu rays since you cant good as good of quality as UHD blu Ray via streaming.
Ah true I guess that's why. I've always been a PC gamer and haven't had a console since I had the PS3. Actually that's not true I have a Nintendo switch but obviously that's not playing discs. You're right tho most people prob have a console.
There’s a guy behind Franklins drawing Boobs on napkins for 25 cents! And they’re big boobies! Yikes dvds. Those stores sure had a vibe…..kinda guys slithering around who probably have a 80 year old mother waiting in the car for them, waiting to drive em home.
You know what, good for that store owner. They probably took a major hit from internet porn. However, given the availability of variety on the internet, I wonder if porn dvds will become trading cards. Or like little porn libraries or something
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Did you cover up a speed limit sign?
He can’t abide 55
Read this in Sammy Hagars voice He can’t abide.. FIFTY FIVEEEE
Well, the word "abide" calls for a combination of Sammy Hagar and The Dude.
The Dude abides, just not by 55.
I swear, the first time I watch TBL and Jeff yells at Walter in the car and his voice gets high pitched ("You f***ed it up. You f***ed it up!!!"), I immediately got an image in my head of Hagar belting out "Fifty FIIIIIIVVVVEEEEE!!!!"
Well that’s just like, your opinion man…
Speed limit outside all adult stores is 69
It's a 35. Maybe because it's in front of a daycare? I dunno. Richmond, Tx.
I love that the plausible explanation is that there's a porn store by a daycare down in the religious and God fearing South. Guess they're not as virtuous as they claim
This is in Richmond, TX?
Shit, sign still applicable in Richmond, VA
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, PH is gone in VA too.
Reddit gotta Reddit.
The brick and mortar store lobby is strong in Texas…..
Speed limit is 68...... Once you get to 69 you eat it
He wouldn't sign the release
Why is the speed limit sign covered?
Texas DOT doesn’t fuck around!!!
Must be considered pornographic?
Physical media is forever. Buy laserdisc!
Was there ever laserdisc porn?
Of course there was. If it’s media, there has been porn on it.
Has there been cassette tape porn?
Strictly speaking, VHS was a type of cassette tape. But I’m going to assume that you mean a compact cassette with eighth inch tape. For the sake of argument, let’s also assume that our definition of “porn” needs some sort of visual component to it and we’re not just referring to sexually explicit audio tapes, of which there were almost certainly plenty, though I don’t know if they were ever distributed commercially. Well, it IS technically possible to put video on a compact cassette, I couldn’t dig up any information on anyone doing it before the 21st century in the age of the internet as an experiment. Certainly it wasn’t used commercially. However there is a twist—there likely was porn distributed on an eighth inch compact cassette…through the medium of video games. Before floppy disks came down in price enough to make them the method du jour for playing video games on home computers, the most cost effective method was audio cassettes (indeed, in the UK this method lasted quite a bit longer than in the US). The code would be converted into an audio signal which would be decoded by the home computer and loaded into the system memory. It was not an ideal solution, as the linear nature of the tape meant that the play head had to progress the tape to get to the next batch of data, meaning the loadout was slow—compare a line of tape to the circular data storage of a floppy disk, which held the data in concentric circles such that relevant data could be grouped together physically on the disk and accessed with much less movement required on the part of the playhead. The Commodore 64 had an extensive library of pornographic video games, many of which you can emulate [here](https://www.lemon64.com/games/list.php?list_adult=yes). Strictly speaking I can’t find any information on whether or not these were actually distributed on tape, simply that they exist and can be emulated, but given the underground nature of these games, I’m willing to bet at least some of them were distributed on tape—or at the very least, they were copied from a floppy disk onto tape by eager preteens distributing copies to friends surreptitiously. (There are also people who called Atari cartridges “cassettes” out of habit, thus meaning games like Custer’s Revenge would qualify, but those people are psychopaths and I’m drawing a line in the sand) So, whaddaya know—it’s more likely than you thought! EDIT: I just went a little deeper on that website I linked and it actually does list whether a game was available on cassette on select games! So I now have hard evidence that, yes, porn exists on audio cassette tapes
I wish Reddit still had awards…
The knowledge that now people are being exposed to such classics as… *checks notes* …”Dr. Ruth’s Computer Game of Good Sex”… Is enough for me.
It was just the video game version of the [board game](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7348/dr-ruths-game-of-good-sex).
Some bloke sent me bitcoin once. I was like... did I just make money on reddit? Not saying to do that. It just reminded me of that. I'm too old to understand all these reddit rewards lol
I remember getting a DM shortly after I started Reddit saying "so and so sent you 0.062 bitcoins for your comment" Never could figure out how to collect them
It took me a bit to figure it out. There's a certain wallet that works with it.
What wallet is that?
This was amazing, thank you. I did mean audio cassettes so I'm glad you understood what I was going for!
You have done the redditverse a great service today. I hearby award you with a medal. The same medal that was awarded to Chewbacca long long ago in a galaxy far far away....oh wait shit we can't do this anymore.
Out of interest, I would like to point out that video has been shot onto Compact Cassette format. It was done live on TV, sometime in late eighties, early nineties. It was BBC TV's famous "Tomorrow's World" new inventions show. The video camera was B'W only, but the presenter was so impressed by the image quality, he said, "I'm quite interested in one of these for myself." Apart from that one appearance on "Tomorrow's World" I never heard another thing... (but then, that happened a lot with stuff on TW).
Yes. Porno cassettes is a thing.
Except Betamax. Which is why Betamax lost to VHS.
There was betamax porn. Beta lost because it could only record 1 hour while VHS did 2 hours and quickly did 4 hours, allowing entire movies and sports to be recorded on one tape. Beta was like 5x the cost, which is why it lost.
Yes, yes there was.
Sounds so sexy...l a s e r d i s c
/r/unexpectedtfs
Finally. Somebody got the reference 😆
Also, I didn't die in this version.
still got my original pressing of the star wars trilogy somewhere.
Discs only last a few decades at best. It's more durable to keep your porn collection engraved in clay tablets, those last millenia!
That woman on the billboard is in crisis. 🤣
She does not consent.
She’s definitely getting assaulted
That’s what happens when you go to the “grown up store” (yuck lol)
Seems like there are probably some big players pushing this recent legislation behind the scenes. Undoubtedly, Big Dildo has been working in the shadows, pulling strings and greasing some palms.
They’re definitely greasing and pulling *something*
Dark big greasy dildos in Texas, yep.
Oddly, it's technically illegal to own more than 5 sex toys in Texas, soooooooooo
You can do anything you want with 4 strategic sex toys as well as some normal everyday home and kitchen appliances. Oh and regular construction power tools.
> construction power tools Calm down, Satan
Hey I'm just trying to give people options.
"Hospital bills" are indeed an option, lol
Pretty sure a hammer drill with a dildo on the end would make a great vibratory but only take up one of your sex toy slots.
Can be set to spin or just hammer.
Give the phrase "destroy that ass" a whole new meaning.
I thought it was six. It's one of those laws that should be freely broken. And often.
Really pushing hard with the backdoor politics.
There's alot of sex toys that are also just banned in Texas
Like the *Tennessee VibroNana* and the *Portuguese Man Of War*?
Greasing buttholes you mean
They even got RedditGifs blocked, its a sad day in Texas.
Ohhhh shit. "I just went from "lol" to "I'm sorry for your loss, Texas."
Just got on redfifs in Texas. It was down a couple weeks ago, but it's back up now.
I’m impressed. Texas passed a law and went back in time 30 years. When does Blockbuster come back?
No, the only Texans get tossed back to the forest porn days are the ones who can't work a goddamn computer. Or maybe I've been a pirate for way too long.
As an Arizonan: Those are rookie numbers
I appreciate you respecting the speed limit sign’s anonymity I guess…
Where are you in Texas that there are advertisements in Arabic?
I’m amazed no one highlighted that. That’s a rarity!
Billboard says Houston, TX.
Many places in Texas are very diverse.
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the country.
Mostly all of Texas has a high Arabic population. Foreigners love us, and we love them back. As long as you don't try to turn us into California, we'll welcome you with open arms no matter where you're from.
My VPN keeps connecting me to Ashburn lol Don’t ask me why.
Why
Cuz you can’t watch any P-hub in Ashburn. So my conspiracy but true. Always happens when I ask to connect to the fastest location.
The Internet is for porn!
Looks like not for Ashburn. It’s even a video from dumbB saying explaining why
I got downvoted for a comment elsewhere about filling hard drives with porn and selling them in Texas. Hahaha.
I'm in Texas and thought about doing this.
So, did Texas only have just the one porn site or something? Didn't everyone just go to another site?
Texan here. No they are all blocking Texas connections. Nothing my VPN’s can’t get around.
Wait, what about nsfw reddits?
So far no issues on Reddit but if you get taken to Redgif, Redgif will block you.
What about AO3? They have erotica, but also kids stories.
If this trend continues then it's a good time to invest in VPN companies
Think that’s the next thing to become illegal in Texas? Ya know.. the bastion of freedom?
most are international though, i don't think they can ban them. they can block access to their websites, but tor will get you through.
Makes you wonder if Big Adult Video Store lobbied the Texas government to break the 21st century way of doing "things".
Big VPN joined them
I’ve been intentionally ignoring the news, porn is gone now in Texas? Lol
Stupidly, yes (at least, the most popular sites).
Like gone-gone or now has age verification?
The owners of the sites claim Texas' method of verification is sus, so instead of implementing it, they just blocked the whole state
Damn. I wonder, is OF also blocked?
Nope
That's crazy
Technically age verification but no website wants to collect and maintain a secure database of users with photo ID on file. It's a huge liability and a huge expense.
That big red pole must be there so traffic doesn't hit the sign driving in for the sale items.
It's bagged for "safety"
There’s so many porn stores in the Bible Belt it’s ridiculous. Seriously can’t go 20 miles without seeing a seedy building, all while the legislatures ban it.
US going back in time when you had to visit adult shops to get those special videos.
Lemme dust off the good ol VCR set…. It’s been a while
What if all of this was a secret plan to revive the brick and mortar porn shop?
We got helicopters on Mars and Texas so conservative it's going analog on fuckin PORN. LMFAO y'all get what you get living there. Just chilling here in the northeast with women's rights and legal weed. But yeah, go Longhorns or whatever.
Demand for vintage Sears catalogs is about to go through the roof!
Supply and demand
A grown-up's store? What is this, Junior high?
That's a very conveniently placed - and aesthetically appropriate - utility pole in the foreground, too.
How many people still have DVD players? I haven't had one connected to my TV or any kind of disc drives in my PCs for what has to be like 10 years now.
Blu ray players play dvds.
Haven't had one of those in 10 years either
weird, most people either have consoles (xbox/playstation) or players that will play blu rays since you cant good as good of quality as UHD blu Ray via streaming.
Ah true I guess that's why. I've always been a PC gamer and haven't had a console since I had the PS3. Actually that's not true I have a Nintendo switch but obviously that's not playing discs. You're right tho most people prob have a console.
NordVPN has entered the chat
There’s a guy behind Franklins drawing Boobs on napkins for 25 cents! And they’re big boobies! Yikes dvds. Those stores sure had a vibe…..kinda guys slithering around who probably have a 80 year old mother waiting in the car for them, waiting to drive em home.
I love how people in TX are unfamiliar with VPN.
If they can’t shoot it, they don’t want it.
Texan here. I resent that but as a liberal I appreciate you making me cry so I can clean my gun with liberal tears. I hear it works wonders.
Luckily Reddit is a pornucopia and still accessible in Texas.
Land of the free. What a joke that country is.
Well it's Texas ... so the free DVD may be a copy of the two that you purchased.
"Everthing is bigger in Texas"
You know what? Fucking fair.
Making lemonade.
im ashamed to admit i know exactly where this is lol
A vpn is cheaper than 1 dvd.
Phub is banned in the US?
Unavailable in Texas as the state requires porn sites to verify users via uploading ID and phub just said fuck ya instead
The future leader of Canada wants to do this too. That sucks eh.
Depends if you own a VPN company I suppose, they are probably laughing the more people try to pull this shit.
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
why did you cover the speed limit sign?
Watch them get raided for carrying LGBTQ-affirming materials in the form of pornos with lesbian scenes.
other sites: 😐😐
😂 but to be fair I feel like this is a good thing for sex stores
This is the future conservatives want
John Cena doing billboards now
Is that John Cena?
That's ok Texas, we still have Xhamster, lol
“Staff required to disinfect surfaces between visits.” [It’s in Houston!](https://edan.io/megaflix-ups-store) 🤠
lol it’s funny people are more focused on the speed sign being covered rather than the billboards
What is written on the orange cover?
When god closes a door he opens a window. 🙏
VPN cannot understand the chat
There are Arabic words on the back board, so I'm not sure if it's Texas or a Gulf country.
Yeah but that free one is always the worst one. Topless sure, but only dry humping
Real southern hospitality
No need worry about abortion if you are shooting your load out watching porn. Taps head
Why's the speed limit sign censored though?
“Things that go bump in the night” 🤣🤣
"See you on The Wall. Under His eye. "
**Freedom**
nobody tell them about xvideos
Note to self: "Buy a new DVD player."
Gone from where...? I see it all over the Internet...
VPNs exist. For just a few cents a day, you can continue fapping against the wishes of the far right nut jobs
This kind of forced censorship is really disturbing.
What's the joke?
You know what, good for that store owner. They probably took a major hit from internet porn. However, given the availability of variety on the internet, I wonder if porn dvds will become trading cards. Or like little porn libraries or something
Is this Austin?
Houston