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Post by The Captain on Apr 27, 2019 18:55:59 GMT -5
On a related note I keep seeing articles to "get rid" of my DVD's. After all you can "stream almost anything". Um...NO. For example Star Trek Discovery. To watch this I would have to pay $6/month or $72/year. Granted there are other stuff on CBS All Access but most of those shows I can watch elsewhere. To get one season of ST: Discovery is $22. I just saved $50 to watch the show I wanted to see. The problem is the impermanence of what is available via streaming. I watched some Masters of the Universe on Netflix. Is it still on there or not? Who knows? I'll check soon. But at least a DVD collection isn't going anywhere unless you sell it/throw it out. I agree with both you and @md62. Granted, I don't buy nearly as many DVD's/Blu-Rays as I used to, but the ones I do buy, it's because they are things I KNOW I am going to re-watch. Things like MCU movies, Game of Thrones, and Supernatural; these are things I've been with since the beginning and I enjoy the heck out of them. Sure, these things are on streaming services, but to have access to them, it requires me to both have a subscription and for the service to continue to have them available, neither of which are a given going forward. As well, these things are so cheap nowadays, it is more a question of space than money. Now, I get the flipside argument. If they are on DVD, then I can't watch them "on the go", but I don't do that with the streaming services I have now. I have ZERO interest in trying to watch a movie or TV show on my phone, both because I have crappy eyes and it bugs me to do anything on my phone for more than a few minutes but also because that is a horrible viewing experience. Try watching "Infinity War' or an episode of GoT on a three-inch screen and tell me it's just as enjoyable than seeing it on a 55" TV.
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Post by Duragizer on Apr 28, 2019 21:42:49 GMT -5
On a related note I keep seeing articles to "get rid" of my DVD's. After all you can "stream almost anything". Um...NO. For example Star Trek Discovery. To watch this I would have to pay $6/month or $72/year. Granted there are other stuff on CBS All Access but most of those shows I can watch elsewhere. To get one season of ST: Discovery is $22. I just saved $50 to watch the show I wanted to see. The problem is the impermanence of what is available via streaming. I watched some Masters of the Universe on Netflix. Is it still on there or not? Who knows? I'll check soon. But at least a DVD collection isn't going anywhere unless you sell it/throw it out. I'll bet the corporations just love that mentality, though. Get enough people subscribing to that nonsense, and a couple decades from now, "buying" a movie/show will actually be leasing it. Then they'll have even more control over their IPs.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 18:19:53 GMT -5
Certain scenes in 1982's Evil Dead are still scary nearly forty years later!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 12:27:02 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 30, 2019 13:19:37 GMT -5
I invoke Betteridge's law on headlines.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 30, 2019 17:59:38 GMT -5
I invoke Betteridge's law on headlines. An essential law that more people need to be aware of in order to navigate the s**tstorm of fake news & outrage news headlines that scream for our attention every day on social media.
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Post by Phil Maurice on May 4, 2019 17:27:21 GMT -5
Hot Take: Grammatically, "BINGO" was the name of the farmer. It was probably shortened from Bingopoulos or Bingoros when he came through Ellis Island. History fails to record the name of his dog.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2019 9:34:41 GMT -5
Because of my upcoming vacation in London and all that; and my Summers being busy with the Club that I run; I'm seriously thinking of limiting my time here and not visit that often. I'm not enjoying it anymore and constantly feeling corrected upon and stepped on occasionally. And, I'm not going to change my avatar again. Why not give it till Labor Day? Rethinking about it ... I'll send you a PM later this week, stay tuned.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 7, 2019 11:22:35 GMT -5
Why not give it till Labor Day? Rethinking about it ... I'll send you a PM later this week, stay tuned. How was your trip to England, mecha?
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2019 11:36:44 GMT -5
Rethinking about it ... I'll send you a PM later this week, stay tuned. How was your trip to England, mecha? Visited Churchill War Room on the 1st of May and after that spent three days centering the London Eye and saw Avengers Endgame last Friday. Left Sunday and got home last night. Stayed at New York City Overnight and went on top of Empire State Building (my girlfriend never been on top of it) and came back home late Monday Night. On the three days visiting London Eye ... went on that ride everyday and it was fun and thinking of going back next year. Because of the trip cancellation to Scotland ... we had to go back home and did not prepare for that. They upgraded our travel back home on First Class and we were forced to stay overnight in New York City and that on their nickel. I was disappointed not seeing Scotland and would gotten home later. We spent a good 4 hours inside Churchill War Room and we had the place pretty much to ourselves. April 30th to May 6th, a nice one week trip, six days in London and a day in New York City.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 17, 2019 13:39:20 GMT -5
Will Shakespeare was one fine, fine writer.
As a non-native English speaker, I am continuously amazed to find out how much his prose influenced the language, providing what feels like half of its colloquial expressions.
I am awed.
There! I said it.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 17, 2019 13:45:05 GMT -5
Will Shakespeare was one fine, fine writer. As a non-native English speaker, I am continuously amazed to find out how much his prose influenced the language, providing what feels like half of its colloquial expressions. I am awed. There! I said it. You'll get no argument from me. Chaucer and Milton have their adherents, but for me, no other writer comes close to Shakespeare's ability to write for everyone without writing down to anyone.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 17, 2019 15:16:31 GMT -5
Will Shakespeare was one fine, fine writer. As a non-native English speaker, I am continuously amazed to find out how much his prose influenced the language, providing what feels like half of its colloquial expressions. I am awed. There! I said it. Well, he was more than one author. They've credited Christopher Marlowe on some of the recent reissues so I guess it's official now. Odds bodkins! Whom would fardel's bear?
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Post by Prince Hal on May 17, 2019 20:32:25 GMT -5
Will Shakespeare was one fine, fine writer. As a non-native English speaker, I am continuously amazed to find out how much his prose influenced the language, providing what feels like half of its colloquial expressions. I am awed. There! I said it. Well, he was more than one author. They've credited Christopher Marlowe on some of the recent reissues so I guess it's official now. Odds bodkins! Whom would fardel's bear? Pour me some of what you’ve been drinking.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 17, 2019 22:29:42 GMT -5
Well, he was more than one author. They've credited Christopher Marlowe on some of the recent reissues so I guess it's official now. Odds bodkins! Whom would fardel's bear? Pour me some of what you’ve been drinking. It's a real thing. Time magazine a decent enough source? time.com/4542621/oxford-christopher-marlowe-william-shakespeare/October 24, 2016 Oxford University Press’ new edition of William Shakespeare’s work will have the 16th-century playwright Christopher Marlowe co-credit three of Shakespeare’s plays. The decision comes after a team of 23 academics used software to analyze texts as they questioned whether Britain’s most-famous bard had collaborated with other writers. Three Henry VI plays as well as up to 17 plays are now believed to contain writing by other people, doubling the figure in the previous Oxford Shakespeare anthology, the Guardian reports.
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