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@Ivafakename They toasted these, and served it, and then it turns out they were SUPER friggin popular because they actually tasted pretty good. Dr Kellogg did market it hoping it would reduce dyspepsia and masturbation/sexual appetite, but uh, haha.

Then Will who was the business manager, went ahead and mass marketed it, adding sugar to make it more palatable, but then of course Dr Kellogg was pissed because "AAAAAH TEH SINNNNNNNNNINNNGGGGG".

Will didn't give two figs tho :3

@Ivafakename Sorta? But also not. basically, John Harvey Kellogg ran a sanitarium, he firmly believed spicy or sweet foods would "increase passions" or some such, but yeah the strict diet he imposed at his sanitarium was all bland foods. entirely.
His younger brother left some cooked wheat to sit out while they attended some pressing matters, so it went stale, but due to the strict budget they forced it through the rollers, wanting to obtain long sheets of dough. Instead, they got flakes.

to be fair I DO need a new case. like... maybe an actualy good one.

the fan moves. she wants to play with it. she keeps swatting at it and making it grind against my case. hhhh

thulhu no please stop playing with my computer fan D:

@Ivafakename I love how cornflakes were a total accident because kellogg was a massive fundie weirdo and made branflakes to try and stop people masturbating (like I said, he was hyper religious) but some of the corn went off and they used it anyway and it turned out it was delicious so his brother went "holy crap we can make money off this instead of feeding gross bland tripe to people" and sold it against the main dude's wishes and he threw a hissy fit?

Thulhu was yelling, so I picked her up, and she curled up on my lap. ;w; this kitty is so soft and lovely and cuddly

some sorta helicopter overhead ors omething making the deepest fuckin' bass rumble I've ever heard and aaa ai hate it

@tom "gee tom how come your mom lets you have TWO swords?"

@Linda linda oh my god no XD

it's bedding time

@iodrgain oh dear it is the time of unpleasantries

@mavica weh indeed ;w; it'll be okay tho! I'm like 99% sure it works just fine and most people who'd want to buy it are probably more than willing to crack it open and mod it so it works even better than it did at release. So many guides about how the +2 second issue has faulty video connectors that are wired the wrong way online

@mavica sadly also a no ;w;

@mavica now, that COULD be a number of things. It could simply be my tv is too new to pick up the signal, it could be the cable is trashed, ooorrr it could be the spectrum's video output through the TV socket is fragged. It'll most likely work fine with one of the other outputs but I have no way of testing that sadly

@mavica yeah I'm sorry. I totally spaced and forgot what the name for the cable was. ^^; I suppose in my defence it's been literally decades since I used this poor old thing but I'm hoping it'll go to a good home. I at least know it definitely WORKS, because it makes the key pipping noises when you plug it in and press keys while listening to the sound through a pair of headphones, just ... can't get a picture on it it seems.

...actually maybe I can one sec.

I'm PRETTY sure the spectrum DOES actually work but without having a tv I can test it on because I don't have a (assumedly) working cable I can't really tell. Supposedly the spectrum has a built in speaker but I think that's only the older versions, and the newer +2A etc send sound through the tv... So I can't even tell if the "clicks" of selecting menus or pressing keys is playing. :<