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== Oil-soaked Stan'te paše i Ustaše == | == Oil-soaked Stan'te paše i Ustaše == | ||
At some point in its life, this copy of Stan'te paše i Ustaše was soaked in a kind of oil or fat, we're not really sure. The J- | At some point in its life, this copy of Stan'te paše i Ustaše was soaked in a kind of oil or fat, we're not really sure. The J-Card has been destroyed beyond repair, and while the soaked paper leaves no residue on the fingers, it has a very obvious slickness when touched. The smell has been reported by its owner as "straight from 'Split, Croatia'", further elaborated as "the typical smell of an old book, mixed with motor oil, fermented in the sun for the length of a civil war, with a dash of forty-year-old expired Christmas." Crust has been reported on the card. | ||
The actual substance coating the card is unknown, but may possibly be a kind of motor oil. How the tape met its fate is also unknown. | The actual substance coating the card is unknown, but may possibly be a kind of motor oil. How the tape met its fate is also unknown. | ||
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== The 2025 Koridor 2 Disaster == | == The 2025 Koridor 2. Disaster == | ||
On January 8th 2025 reddit user Nikolai14888 submitted a post to the r/CassetteCulture subreddit | On January 8th 2025 reddit user Nikolai14888 submitted a post to the r/CassetteCulture subreddit titled "Is this fixable". The post contained images and only a single line of text reading "My tape was eaten by mu cassette player". The post included photos of the album [[Koridor 2]] clearly mangled with around a meter of tape strung out of the casing. The loose tape was clearly shredded and chewed by the player, and a smaller length of destroyed tape is clearly seen separated from the pile. He then put the cassette and loose tape back in its case for an unknown reason. | ||
One reddit user commented "I hope you can read music, because you won't be listening to any off that section of tape ever again." which was met with four downvotes. | |||
Let this be a lesson to never play your tapes in an inferior player. Maybe try it with a Beatles album next time. | Let this be a lesson to never play your tapes in an inferior player. Maybe try it with a Beatles album next time. | ||
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Fast forward to 2021. Your name is BalkanMapper and you're dying to find this cassette. At long last a copy comes up for sale and uhh... looks like Zoran (or maybe Zoran's kids at this point) have dug up the tape to sell. | Fast forward to 2021. Your name is BalkanMapper and you're dying to find this cassette. At long last a copy comes up for sale and uhh... looks like Zoran (or maybe Zoran's kids at this point) have dug up the tape to sell. | ||
Now we can't verify the authenticity of this story, given that it's entirely fictional and I made it up on the spot. But this tape clearly suffers from some kind of beverage stain to the | Now we can't verify the authenticity of this story, given that it's entirely fictional and I made it up on the spot. But this tape clearly suffers from some kind of beverage stain to the J-Card. When the tape was received, the card had to be "gently" pried open to reveal the back, causing part of the image to be ripped. The tape itself is unharmed, except for some odd red discoloration to Side B (labeled as Side 2), which could be anything. | ||
One day | One day this tape will have degraded into nothing. The magnetic pulses left on the tape will play a faint tune of barely audible music. Its words and meaning will be lost to time. But that coffee stain will still be there. | ||
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