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Found one from before the Pixel Blight Calamity:
All those pixels and I still can’t figure out how the cables are attached to the wall.
Superglue. Don't try this at home, kids!
I'm so used to articles on websites being nonsense, I didn't even think to check the text around the image: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/home-theater-setup-makes-exposed-wires-look-cool
Superglue on the wall? What a nightmare.
Pretty sure they used masking tape
Wouldnt let me upload two photos in one post
Isn't masking tape the one that looks kinda like sticky yellow/beige paper? I think you're right about tape being used, but it's one of the clear ones.
I also counted at least three of the plastic ones that get nailed to the wall. One near your first picture, (can't see it while I write this comment (really need to get a better client than Voyager) so I forget if it's visible in the pic or if you need to check the big pic), on the cable from the PS4 to the TV, just after the bend to a diagonal, it's one of the ones you clip the cable into after mounting. And two on the xbox psu cable, they are both the type that you nail over the wire and a curved bit of plastic holds the wire against the wall.
But those were the only ones I could see, plus even those ones don't explain how it keeps the hard angles instead of the cable settling into a rounded shape. Guessing they intended to use the plastic ones but quickly realized it wouldn't hold the shape they wanted without needing to put a ton of holes in the wall and switched to tape after that to solve both problems.
Edit: looking at it again, I don't think the first one I mentioned is one of those clips anymore, so just the two on the xbox psu cable (should be obvious once you see them).
Likely just double sided tape. That would gather dust where exposed, (not stuck to wires, bit) though. As I found out from doing the same thing with a super long lamp cable, in my bathroom, where we only had a heatlamp, and that sucked in summer. But also the power point was in an awkward place, so I dangled a lamp from the ceiling, but after taking it down, and being too lazy to remove the tape, now it's fly catching tape.
Sheer force of will.
Photo so old the mf actually thought the Xbox One Kinect was going to be of any use 🫣
Kinect on 360 was super cool and showed lots of promise. Then Xbone came out and the prospect of a newer better Kinect was so cool. Then they did absolutely fuck all with it. I bought a bundle that had it. I don't even think they ever had any games for it. It was a Cortana mic and nothing else.
Me and my roommate had a Kinect back in the day, just because how dumb it was. And it really was, but it also had a feature that you could use it as a remote of sorts. It didn't work properly, but if it did, it would've been actually kinda cool
Hey Cortana, volume up. VOLUME UP. Yeah, it was ass.
Using those pixels, in this economy?
Can I use this?
It's not mine, I have no claim to anything.
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