r/whatisit • u/Stepside79 • 1d ago

Solved! This CD situation on a dashboard

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I pulled up to this parked Toyota Prius in a Canadian parking lot. Initially in thought they were using this as a sun reflector but it wasn’t sunny or particularly hot. It was still like this when I came back to my car about 25 mins later.

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u/Sethyzir 1d ago

Im 24, it means to light the cd (cideo disk) on fire and pray your 140p copy of Spider Man 2 gets onto it by some form of archaic process

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u/northSideways 1d ago

Close! If the computer was made before ~2004 you can't pray, you have to make a blood sacrifice to an Eldrich being.

God was looking the other way when they were making the IDE standard

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u/w00tberrypie 1d ago

What type of blood sacrifice though? I used chickens and all I kept getting was copies of Chevy Chase's 1988 film Funny Farm.

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u/NonchalantRubbish 1d ago

If you go back that far, you need a floppy disc and about 8,000 of them to have the full movie.

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u/northSideways 1d ago

it usually happens automatically when you reach into the case and hit a random metal edge so sharp it makes the execs at Gillette blush