pwnicholson

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Fans Saved Star Wars - Laserdisc Bootlegs (Part I)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely people who care about those differences. There are even a few actually changes in footage, making some 1.1

  Go look at some of the sites that cover all the changes

  When articles like this talk about people who are worried about preserving the original they mean original. There are a bazillion copies of the VHS version out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Fans Saved Star Wars - Laserdisc Bootlegs (Part I)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By “the original” you mean the non-special edition.

  But interesting to note that the true theatrical versions were never released on VHS. By the time it was released on home video, small changes had already started to be made. Pretty common for a lot of movies.

  For example, the opening crawl was changed for A New Hope after 1981 to refer to it as “Episode IV”. The original theatrical version didn’t say that. There were also changes to accommodate the poor technology that would be used to play them back in homes, like brightening certain scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a chance that Musk has bought himself enough influence to turn conservatives on climate change. I don’t know if I expect it, exactly, but there’s a chance at a scenario where there is at least some progress there.

  Granted Musk will mostly use it to enrich himself, but if he at least stops then from repealing green subsidies and the like, that’s movement in the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NeverEnding Story 40th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. I’m sorry your parents never took you to art museums

  It’ll probably more like plaster. 4k isn’t always better. There are some low-budget effects things that aren’t improved.

  I bet even comparing your old VHS that awoke your youth compared to the 2k Blu-ray, the new copy would be a lot less ‘interesting’ to look at.

  I just hope the 4k is transferred well but also doesn’t let us see every seam in the costume and flake in the makeup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NeverEnding Story 40th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nudity? You mean the statues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Destin at Smarter Every Day and Steven Mould seem like solid guys, and content similar to Tom Scott if you haven’t seen them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was always a grifter. When I was in college in the late 90s he had a financial responsibility program for college students to help them learn how to get out from college debt they were in the process of racking up. It was something like $40-50 a session for a 6-8 week course. That would be roughly $75-90 today.

  I watched way too many of my friends give away money to that guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mike Flanagan Says Netflix Was "Actively Hostile" Towards the Idea of Releasing Physical Media: "It Became Clear Very Fast That Their Only Priority Was Subs"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting because they’ve published things on home media in Europe fairly quickly and consistently. You just have to import them. At least most of the shows I’ve been interested in (Marvel Defenders, etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite PG rated horror movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The MPAA rating system didn’t start widespread use until the early 1970s, and even then (as you’d expect since since it is the MPA"A") only in the USA. Other rating systems in other countries followed later (for the most part).

  So any movie prior to that would have been unrated when it came out. Especially if it was a non-USA production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite PG rated horror movie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does “Jaws” count? It wouldn’t be PG these days but I’d say it counts as horror.

  “The Birds” was technically unrated when it came out. I’ve seen it rated as PG-13 now, but not sure what that’s based on since it is from way before PG-13.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone has to sell them new in order to get them thrift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBA unveils special full color courts for in season tournament⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just thinking I hate it… Maybe I’m just old, but those aren’t Spurs colors for any color scheme they’ve ever had, and I’ve never seen that logo at mid court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the people you’re thinking about as a problem haven’t read the Bible either. They’d think the stuff Jesus said was commie, bleeding-heart, socialist stuff (because it is)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

  Or my favorite variation: You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t wipe your friends on the underside of the car seat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your biggest nostalgia ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sitting on the floor and building whatever I wanted with the, maybe 800, Lego bricks I had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d still be appalled and try to stop him given their strong moral code. And given that they’d be at full strength they’d probably find a way to stop him and reverse things faster than they did in OTL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of an Avenger or even sidekick who I would put in the bottom 50% of the earth’s population. Even the dumbest are probably in the top 10-15%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been done before (though not intentionally at first), at the Salton Sea.

  And the results weren’t that bad (granted possibly a smaller scale than some are imagining when they forecast doom).

  ppic.org/…/the-troubled-history-and-uncertain-fut…

  But the problem is any deserts are deserts for a reason: lack of rainfall and/or natural inflow from rainwater upstream. The result is that you have to keep pumping in tons of water and/or rely on agricultural runoff which is nutrient-depleted and usually full of chemicals.

  Read the rest of the linked article for what’s going on with that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we are worried about microplastics, why isnt there more outrage over "microfiber" ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastic fibers would be covered under microplastic concerns, and organic fibers (cotton, wool, etc) are easily broken down and don’t stick around in your system.

  Plastics don’t ever go away. They hang around, and we’re discovering they hang around in our bodies too. Organic fiber stuff can be easily broken down or passed through your body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for me in the USA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think the Spurs are doing too much with Wemby?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting a new, young star that’s at risk of being a media/paparazzi target out of Las Vegas seems like a pretty good idea to me. That’s the potential connection between Brittany and the summer league