{"id":59634,"date":"2023-12-01T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59634"},"modified":"2023-12-01T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:02:43","slug":"2000s-gaming-time-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59634","title":{"rendered":"2000s Gaming Time Crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Look at this time crystal on shopgoodwill.  <a href=\"https:\/\/shopgoodwill.com\/item\/185177936\">A pristine Antec SX1030 case (or chieftech dragon or one of the other clones), painted metallic green<\/a> with a window installed.  Every commercial or DIY gaming PC in the first few years of the 2000s was in one of these.   It even has a case badge from an unreliable (but I repeat myself) Chaintech nforce2 motherboard installed, and a visible QC stamp from 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AntecTimeCrystal-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s probably pristine because it exists permanently in 2001 and we&#8217;re just perceiving it in the present.  If you built a sleeper in it, when you were done installing the OS there would be a cracked copy of Halo already installed.  Wherever the buyer puts it, a half empty bottle of Bawls will phase into existence somewhere in a 6ft radius.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this time crystal on shopgoodwill. A pristine Antec SX1030 case (or chieftech dragon or one of the other clones), painted metallic green with a window installed. Every commercial or DIY gaming PC in the first few years of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-computers","category-entertainment","category-general","category-objects","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}