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I wonder if I would've kept having discs if I had a house in a single place rather than moving internationally between small apartments for my adult life. I went Kindle and haven't bought a paper book in years either.
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I put all my dvds and blu rays in cd binders about five years ago. I put the inserts in a tupperware storage thing. Sometimes people call me a monster when I tell them that.
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Feb 6, 2021 07:34
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Dunno about Netflix, but Hulu is all potato broadcast copies now. Hulu is just straight up poo poo. Half the time I can't get anything to stream in HD.
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Feb 6, 2021 08:26
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I think the last movie I bought was a copy of Hero I got on ebay before it was released in the states.
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Feb 6, 2021 08:52
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Grand Fromage posted:Dumb but genuine question, how do you still watch things on discs? I cannot remember the last time I even saw an optical drive or a disc. When I was buying parts for my new desktop, there wasn't a single case that even had a slot where you could install a drive. Do you use an external? Are DVD players still a thing? Console or when I do need to run a disk on my pc, external dvd drive.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:39
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The ending is a little janky but overall it's so much better than a sequence I never thought could be improved on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO7bShcL9Uc&ab_channel=nmatos
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Feb 6, 2021 15:40
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I've got a dumb little portable DVD player that I use because I love commentary tracks and that still feels like the easiest way to get those, I dunno how many streaming services are including them. The screen on it is godawful though. I own too many DVDs to give up on them completely. My PC has a DVD drive but I don't actually know how to open it.
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Feb 6, 2021 15:49
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Grand Fromage posted:Dumb but genuine question, how do you still watch things on discs? I cannot remember the last time I even saw an optical drive or a disc. When I was buying parts for my new desktop, there wasn't a single case that even had a slot where you could install a drive. Do you use an external? Are DVD players still a thing? I use my PS4 - basically anyone who has a modern console has a disc-reading system.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:00
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I've accumulated a fairly big collection of shows and movies on disc over the years, but I do use a few streaming services for the convenience. (And for the serendipity - I've recently started in on SG-1 because I noticed it was on Netflix. I caught the show here and there when it was on first run, and I had always liked it, but it still wouldn't have occurred to me to start this journey by tracking down DVDs, even though it may end that way now.) And it always sucks when a show you're watching vanishes from a streaming service. But those shows do have a crazy tendency to shoot way up in popularity on the pirate torrents as soon as they pull their disappearing act. (Just sayin'.)
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Feb 6, 2021 17:07
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I’m 32 and recently had a 26 year old rag on me for buying blu-rays. I really had no idea until recently how old buying discs makes me seem.
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Feb 6, 2021 17:14
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HD DAD posted:I’m 32 and recently had a 26 year old rag on me for buying blu-rays. I really had no idea until recently how old buying discs makes me seem. galenanorth fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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Feb 6, 2021 17:27
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Astroman posted:The ending is a little janky but overall it's so much better than a sequence I never thought could be improved on: LMAO why do they have these old fashioned metal gates on the docking bay instead of just a sensible forcefield??
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HopperUK posted:I've got a dumb little portable DVD player that I use because I love commentary tracks and that still feels like the easiest way to get those, I dunno how many streaming services are including them. The screen on it is godawful though. I own too many DVDs to give up on them completely. There should be a little button next to the disc tray to open/close it on your PC, I have never seen one without that feature unless you were joking and I am dumb
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Feb 6, 2021 19:06
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Tighclops posted:There should be a little button next to the disc tray to open/close it on your PC, I have never seen one without that feature unless you were joking and I am dumb I think there probably is but without checking I don't actually know where. Though I know I can open it from within Windows. I just think it's amusing that it's there at all.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:30
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I put all my dvds and blu rays in cd binders about five years ago. I put the inserts in a tupperware storage thing. Sometimes people call me a monster when I tell them that. You monster. Hell I only a year or two cleared out my VHS collection so what do I know
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Just be careful of binders for long term storage, especially for DVDs since they lack the hardcoat that blu-rays have. Prolonged contact with the sleeve liners has been known to etch the surface and render them unplayable.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:18
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Khanstant posted:LMAO why do they have these old fashioned metal gates on the docking bay instead of just a sensible forcefield?? I read somewhere that Spacedock has a hard seal exit because they could pressurize the interior dock with an atmosphere, and a big hard metal door is less likely to fail and disappear suddenly than a forcefield is.
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Feb 6, 2021 22:56
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Khanstant posted:LMAO why do they have these old fashioned metal gates on the docking bay instead of just a sensible forcefield?? Presumably so that the scriptwriters could add some tension when the Enterprise didn't slow down as it approached the closed doors. A force field wouldn't have had the same visual effect.
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Feb 6, 2021 23:13
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nine-gear crow posted:I read somewhere that Spacedock has a hard seal exit because they could pressurize the interior dock with an atmosphere, and a big hard metal door is less likely to fail and disappear suddenly than a forcefield is. Depending on how often they have to open up the doors, it might be way more energy efficient too. It doesn't require any power usage when the door is shut.
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Um...I think you'll find there were no large forcefields available in the TOS era, nothing like that can be seen in any historical records. Pfft, next you'll say Kirk's era had some sort of instantaneous transport drive. 
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Feb 6, 2021 23:45
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Astroman posted:Um...I think you'll find there were no large forcefields available in the TOS era, nothing like that can be seen in any historical records. The Enterprise-A flew from Earth to the literal center of the galaxy at regular warp in about a day and a half...
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Feb 7, 2021 02:49
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Bilirubin posted:You monster. I bought two VHS tapes last year, but in my defense they were both for movies that haven’t had DVD or Blu releases. I saved my dad’s Beta copy of Raiders of the Lost Ark from the trash just out of nostalgia. I’ve got nothing to play it on, but it’s sitting on the shelf with my other Indy stuff.
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Feb 7, 2021 03:10
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I put all my dvds and blu rays in cd binders about five years ago. I put the inserts in a tupperware storage thing. Sometimes people call me a monster when I tell them that. I also put all my discs into CD binders. I find it handy because if I'm going to someone's place and they want to watch a movie, I can quickly grab like 400 movies to choose from so we don't have to scour Netflix for hours. I have a blu-ray player connected to my TV, one in my desktop PC, and my desktop PC is also hooked up to my TV so I can run movies directly from there too.
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Feb 7, 2021 03:42
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Smythe posted:you have to watch every episode of star trek. it's the law a scofflaw I am, then FlamingLiberal posted:I don't think Hulu ever had the HD versions Prime has HD as well, we are watching it currently.
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Feb 7, 2021 04:29
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i havent had any means to play optical media in like a hundred yrs.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I bought two VHS tapes last year, but in my defense they were both for movies that haven’t had DVD or Blu releases. A guy I used to work with swore by having a VCR for young children. By his logic, VCRs and especially tapes are practically free from Goodwill and gives your child something mechanical to play with. Plus a VCR and CRT are more durable than a tablet and cheaper to replace.
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Smythe posted:i havent had any means to play optical media in like a hundred yrs. my desktop has a floppy drive
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Pick posted:my desktop has a floppy drive How fast is its dialup modem?
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at this point it's there sentimentally since it's the last piece of my Original computer i got in middle school. it isn't hooked up it's just hanging out.
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Feb 7, 2021 09:33
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Astroman posted:The ending is a little janky but overall it's so much better than a sequence I never thought could be improved on: Oh com eon, TOS had much smoother tracking shots than that. They;re exaggerating for effect, and the effect is bad and they shouldn't do that.
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Feb 7, 2021 10:38
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Pick posted:at this point it's there sentimentally since it's the last piece of my Original computer i got in middle school. it isn't hooked up it's just hanging out. Is there still an AOL disk in there containing a crappy story written in Wordperfect?
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's very interesting that most of the Captains started in theater between Shatner, Stewart, Brooks Beltran was and is a Shakespearean actor too (he teaches workshops to this day) which blew my mind bc I never liked his character My fav story about him with Ray Walston (Boothby): memory alpha ray walston posted:During his appearance on the Star Trek: Voyager episode "In the Flesh", Walston often had trouble with remembering his lines during long one-shot dialogue scenes. However, while the cameraman was changing the film during shooting of the scene in the briefing room, Walston recited a line from Hamlet.
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Feb 7, 2021 16:59
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Pick posted:at this point it's there sentimentally since it's the last piece of my Original computer i got in middle school. it isn't hooked up it's just hanging out. Not even gonna judge I teared up a little when I scrapped my tower with the floppy drive So much shareware was shared there
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My parents were perpetually late to anything technology related, so I didn’t have a CD burner or thumb drive until like 2004. This means I still have a stack of floppy discs filled with early image macros from SA and other boards from the early 2000s. I haven’t had a floppy drive in 17 years.
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Feb 7, 2021 17:51
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Only a Paper Moon was some seriously good television, drat. Dukat is only getting crazier. Least Odo is the same, he is still a traitor that gets away with things and sucks.
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Feb 7, 2021 20:27
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V-Men posted:Is there still an AOL disk in there containing a crappy story written in Wordperfect? 
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Feb 7, 2021 20:40
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THE Daikatana demo!
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Marx Headroom posted:Beltran was and is a Shakespearean actor too (he teaches workshops to this day) which blew my mind bc I never liked his character "And as they finished the scene, Rick Berman walked in and said, 'What is this crap? Where's the tits and wrestling?!'"
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