Marcus Sonestedt
Selena the Retro-PrincessYes I'm a woman who believes in crystals and that their vibrations affect our lives!
The System Crystal in the original Nintendo runs at 21.47727 MHz and is integral to the operation of the Picture Processing Unit!
Jen, Enbymilf@SuperSelena64 this actually made me choke on my drink from laughing so hard.
AmiW Streetart ❄️@SuperSelena64 I Love You 😆😍😅
Thomas Beagle@SuperSelena64 I had to read two Wikipedia pages and a forum thread before I could click the Favorite icon. :)
@thomasbeagle a well-researched favourite!
Sean Murthy@SuperSelena64 @thomasbeagle I hope the Favorite icon is a thumping deep red heart. It should be for that effort.
Simon Zerafa
Huriken@SuperSelena64 Oh, that's what all this crystal hype is about? Then I'm on board :D
Marty@SuperSelena64 When your finger is hovering over the "block" button for the first half of the post. 😅
Ericka Simone@SuperSelena64 let me go get my selenite real fast. lol. 💜
Sir_Osis_of_LiverHad me in the first half, NGL. Well done. 🙂
Ratboy (reformed dino pirate)@SuperSelena64 how do you feel about the Super Game Boy running at a faster speed than the Game Boy?
@jaykass I was used to it when I was a kid and didn't notice the difference, but as an adult I use my Super Gameboy 2 instead to ensure I get the proper clock speed.
Bike Enby@SuperSelena64 Stop making rocks think! This is cruel to rocks
Not a Spring Onion"Without the vibrating crystal, how would the sand know how fast to think?" 
hi Selena. Numerous investigations have shown that the only benefit of crystals is the placebo effect. Interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_healing
hazelnot 
@lenweed @SuperSelena64 Here we have the reply guy in his natural habitat. Replying to random women on the internet based on misunderstanding their posts is usual for the reply guy. This species is known to do this for up to 46 times a day, and preventing them from replying seems to cause distress.
Ian Tindale
Damian Yerrick@lenweed @SuperSelena64 One measurable benefit of crystals is that your electronic circuit runs at a stable frequency. Interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oscillator
Keith Kaisershot@SuperSelena64 *Dendy has entered the chat*
Григорий КлюшниковThe silicon die itself is also called a "crystal" in my language.
Book@SuperSelena64 frens, do you think it's hot when someone knowledgeable is able to make a joke and be nerdy all at once?
No?
Just me then...
engineer27@SuperSelena64 It all depends on how you slice it.
avatastic 
@SuperSelena64 Is this some sort of NTSC frequency I'm too PAL to recognise?
Bill
██████████████████████████████@suqdiq @SuperSelena64 Oh I have no idea. Some pre-meme meme image that I think I was sent via ICQ, to give you an idea how old it is.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@SuperSelena64
and those radios
and those radios
Rachael Ava 💁🏻♀️@SuperSelena64 You had me in the first half, not gonna lie! 
Solomon Schuler@SuperSelena64 you had me on the first part. 🤣😂
FirefighterGeek 
@SuperSelena64 Glad to read that second sentence. I was fully loading into rant mode...
recursive 🏳️🌈@SuperSelena64 ha, naturally it's related to the NTSC colorburst frequency (6x)
Farce Majeure@recursive @SuperSelena64 came here to note exactly this :)
Matteꙮ Italia@recursive @SuperSelena64 I'm still angry about the PC "roughly 18.2 ms" timer interrupt (PC clock = NTSC / 3 * 4; one tick every 2^18 clocks)
simonbp@SuperSelena64 I knew a gamma ray astronomer who built scintillation detectors to fly in space and detect supernovae, who described his work as "watching crystals vibrate with cosmic energy"
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur
Momo@SuperSelena64
My respect, well played! (tips hat)
My respect, well played! (tips hat)
Papá Robot@SuperSelena64 word , the 1.79 MHz in Atari 800 changed my life
Alexander Knochel@SuperSelena64 I can relate. I once manipulated the vibrational energy of a crystal using resonances to communicate with someone from beyond this realm (*)
(*) from Canada
Wolf480pl@SuperSelena64 I think people are most affected by crystals vibrating at frequencies between 20Hz and 20kHz, especially the ones driven to do so by the piezoelectric effect.
They can make pretty annoying sounds.
Gustav Wengel@SuperSelena64 Had me in the first half not gonna lie
Budley@SuperSelena64 I liked this 6x
Merle, Queen of Crime, Prince of Birds@SuperSelena64
This got me so worked up I'm going to have to do some crystal therapy (put a little sugar in my tea)
This got me so worked up I'm going to have to do some crystal therapy (put a little sugar in my tea)
fluffy 💜@SuperSelena64 @lmorchard I love how digital clock circuits run at a crystal-regulated 32.768 kHz and tick forward by checking overflow on a 15-bit one-shot adder
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops@SuperSelena64 I got some grey hairs and a story about crystals
Working on a Gottlieb pinball from the very early 80's. Damn thing wouldn't boot up. So y'know usual stuff, logic probe out and check reset, find a pulse on clock, oh a few seconds after I probe the clock line it's starting.
Also if I TOUCH the clock crystal, it starts, and plays fine. Huh. Also this is old enough to have tilt and game over relays, a holdover from the electromechanical era, the tilt relay starts up energized and if you wiggle it back and forth a bit then the game starts.
Bit of fiddling and it turns out the clock line isn't pulsing when you turn the game on, but if you pay it any attention at all - touch anything, probe anything - then it starts.
So, schematics out, let's see how this can go wrong - and here's where I get a grey hair, yaknow the couple of wee caps that you're supposed to put in with the crystal, to provide enough noise to kick it off and start it going? Yeah they weren't in there, Gottlieb didn't bother
SO HOW COME IT EVER STARTED AT ALL, is the new question
Turns out the first instruction is to turn the coils off, and gottlieb were banking on that making enough of a racket to start the clock crystal going ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
@ifixcoinops That's actually fascinating! Thank you!
@SuperSelena64 I also thought it was fascinating, once I'd gotten over it being a pain in the arse :P
(oh hey nice collection BTW, Twinkle Star Sprites is an absolute gem)
Yes this is still rather brilliant today 🙂🤷♂️
Karl@SuperSelena64 just vibes
@SuperSelena64 ugh mastodon converted that into a messy mp4 but here is the original: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/File:Nes_ntsc_perscanline.gif
Raven Luni@SuperSelena64 I'm more partial to the 14MHz one clocking the ULA in a ZX Spectrum myself
Rapha Mack@SuperSelena64
I was about to block you for the first sentence. And I follow you for the second.
Thanks for this lesson about context!
@exponentialverteilt
Von Xylofon
Rev. GothAlice@SuperSelena64 Dang, I'm all about those caesium clock references. Is shunning quartz too elitist?
Joshua Laase
Ⓐvebury Rosetta 
🍉🏴🚩@SuperSelena64 there's also the crystal oscillator which is tuned to the resonant frequency of every building's foundation in the rare chance that one of my enemies walks into them
alys@SuperSelena64 given the use of quartz crystals for timekeeping, arguably crystals rule our lives.
Bruno Philipe@SuperSelena64 I also believe that essential oils are irreplaceable in their capabilities, for instance: WD-40.