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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 12, 2018 9:29:33 GMT -5
Generally, the price on new releases in the stores are low so they can have big sales figures the first week. The only bad experience I had was the last Thor movie. It looked a bit wonky at the beginning.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 12, 2018 9:51:57 GMT -5
Avengers Infinity War is on sale on 8-14-18. I want to get a non bootleg copy that you might get on eBay, any suggestions on where to buy it ? Maybe a brick and mortar store? Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price. Disabled ?
Sensitivity training much ?
We have members here that are indeed disabled, so a little tact and respect on their behalf would be appreciated Papa.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 12, 2018 13:41:34 GMT -5
I think you want to buy DVDs from sellers on ebay with a lot of positives, or read some feedback and see what others have said about what they received. There are now actual official DVD-R on-demand things being put out like in the Warner Archives series, but not for major movies like the Avengers Infinity War. I have my few sellers I trust for DVD... Speedy Hen, Blowitouttahere, and Deep Discount. And there's also Amazon. Haven't (knowingly) had a bogus item yet though as I say there have been some official obscure items on DVD-R but they have professionally printed label and case insert. The recent Porky Pig b&w set if you pre-ordered was from a run of regular DVDs, but anything ordered after releases you get DVD-Rs, because things are very tight in tat business. I have also knowingly ordered amateur items for some silent films and vintage tv not otherwise available, it has to me modestly priced though, and even got to replace one with the properly issued release when it came out. I also order from Europe as I have a Region 2 player.
I'll probably want whatever Avengers DVD has the most extras... I am crazy about extras! Marvels usually have lots of them and the Pacific Rim DVD was loaded with Del Toro stuff; I loved it! Too bad he and Ron Perlman didn't get to do a second one instead of the people who did.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 12, 2018 18:53:52 GMT -5
Sophie confused by Pooh Bear
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 12, 2018 19:26:18 GMT -5
Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price. Disabled ?
Sensitivity training much ?
We have members here that are indeed disabled, so a little tact and respect on their behalf would be appreciated Papa.
What do you mean? Was my comment insensitive? Didn't mean for it to come off that way. If I want to inquire whether someone is disabled or not what should I say? Give me the bedside manner approach.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 12, 2018 19:29:30 GMT -5
Not disabled yet, thank God. I probably will try Best Buy or Target. My dilemma is that I bought Thor Ragnarok on eBay and it looked like it was a bootleg. I want the original official version. I was just asking for input from the minds on this forum. Ahhh I see then. I thought you just didn't want to utilize commercial retailers for some reason. Was trying to figure out why.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 12, 2018 20:15:08 GMT -5
Avengers Infinity War is on sale on 8-14-18. I want to get a non bootleg copy that you might get on eBay, any suggestions on where to buy it ? Maybe a brick and mortar store? Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price. Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price.
Maybe it's just me, but asking "Are you disabled ? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target ? Wal-Mart ?"
strikes me as coming across as
"You can go to any of the big name electronics department stores and get a copy, unless you're disabled"
I'm disabled and I know of at least a couple of other posters here that are as well.
Words have meaning, and CCF was created as a community of respect.
Does that make sense ?
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 12, 2018 20:47:08 GMT -5
Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price. Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price.
Maybe it's just me, but asking "Are you disabled ? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target ? Wal-Mart ?"
strikes me as coming across as
"You can go to any of the big name electronics department stores and get a copy, unless you're disabled"
I'm disabled and I know of at least a couple of other posters here that are as well.
Words have meaning, and CCF was created as a community of respect.
Does that make sense ?
You still didn't answer my question as to how I should inquire if someone us disabled instead of simply asking "are you disabled?" I wasn't being mean with what I said. I was trying to acquire more information to help someone with their question. Words have meaning, and can hurt, but honestly I think in this particular case I feel you're being a little over sensitive here. Obviously you get to decide how you want to feel, but my inquiry had no malice to it. So just know that. My grandmother was disabled, and I was her caretaker for many years. If someone asked over the phone if she was disabled in order to gain more information about finding a solution to a particular situation that she herself brought up, I don't think she'd get her feelings hurt. As long as it wasn't in a condescending tone. Of course, everyone is different. But yes, if you have a better approach please share.
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Post by Søren on Aug 13, 2018 7:37:45 GMT -5
Are you in America? Are you disabled? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target? Wal Mart? Regular Blu Ray is probably gonna be around $20. You can just digital download it now for the same price.
Maybe it's just me, but asking "Are you disabled ? Can't you just go to Best Buy or Target ? Wal-Mart ?"
strikes me as coming across as
"You can go to any of the big name electronics department stores and get a copy, unless you're disabled"
I'm disabled and I know of at least a couple of other posters here that are as well.
Words have meaning, and CCF was created as a community of respect.
Does that make sense ?
You still didn't answer my question as to how I should inquire if someone us disabled instead of simply asking "are you disabled?"I wasn't being mean with what I said. I was trying to acquire more information to help someone with their question. Words have meaning, and can hurt, but honestly I think in this particular case I feel you're being a little over sensitive here. Obviously you get to decide how you want to feel, but my inquiry had no malice to it. So just know that. My grandmother was disabled, and I was her caretaker for many years. If someone asked over the phone if she was disabled in order to gain more information about finding a solution to a particular situation that she herself brought up, I don't think she'd get her feelings hurt. As long as it wasn't in a condescending tone. Of course, everyone is different. But yes, if you have a better approach please share. Not claiming to speak for any else here but myself, if my disability is relevant to the question I am asking or the answer I am giving I would say, think most would. Im kinda very bold about it sometimes lol So there is no need to ask I don't think. But I did not find the question insensitive at all (not that it was ask to me) others might be different
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 13, 2018 7:37:55 GMT -5
I'm not one for political correctness when it comes to my handicap (I graduated from the Crippled Childrens' School, after all) and I understand Papa S didn't mean it the way it read on the page, but that "Are you disabled?" came across a lot like "Are you retarded?" (i.e.: scornful and condescending). I don't know what being disabled has to do with acquiring DVDs in the first place. If I want one and I don't want to order it online, I just drive my wheelchair out the door, hop a bus to the nearest Best Buy or whatever, and get me one. No muss, no fuss.
Cei-U! I summon the #53 to the Tacoma Mall!
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 13, 2018 10:46:38 GMT -5
I don't know if this will clear anything up or add fuel to the fire but he wrote that response towards my post and I felt I to be an insult. But I decided to not to answer him in an aggressive manner. From Papas previous posts in this forum I could see that he's having a hard time in his life and decided that a gentle answer turns away wrath. I too interpreted it as " are you a retard".
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Post by Confessor on Aug 13, 2018 11:14:30 GMT -5
I don't know if this will clear anything up or add fuel to the fire but he wrote that response towards my post and I felt I to be an insult. But I decided to not to answer him in an aggressive manner. From Papas previous posts in this forum I could see that he's having a hard time in his life and decided that a gentle answer turns away wrath. I too interpreted it as " are you a retard". For what it's worth, the the moderating team initially took it to be an insult as well. Upon reflection, we're prepared to give PapaShogun the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't intended in the snarky-sounding way it might have appeared on the computer screen. That said, it would've been much better and more tactful to have asked "is there any reason you'd rather not go to Walmart or Amazon", rather than throwing out brusque lines like "are you disabled?" In future BigPapaJoe, can you try to improve your tactfulness, when asking questions that might be of a sensitive nature to some posters? I don't think you were deliberately trying to insult anyone, but you have inadvertently come close to it nonetheless. So please, be more mindful of your words in future. Many thanks.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 13, 2018 11:29:30 GMT -5
I don't know if this will clear anything up or add fuel to the fire but he wrote that response towards my post and I felt I to be an insult. But I decided to not to answer him in an aggressive manner. From Papas previous posts in this forum I could see that he's having a hard time in his life and decided that a gentle answer turns away wrath. I too interpreted it as " are you a retard". For what it's worth, the the moderating team initially took it to be an insult as well. Upon reflection, we're prepared to give PapaShogun the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't intended in the snarky-sounding way it might have appeared on the computer screen. That said, it would've been much better and more tactful to have asked "is there any reason you'd rather not go to Walmart or Amazon", rather than throwing out brusque lines like "are you disabled?" In future BigPapaJoe, can you try to improve your tactfulness, when asking questions that might be of a sensitive nature to some posters? I don't think you were deliberately trying to insult anyone, but you have inadvertently come close to it nonetheless. So please, be more mindful of your words in future. Many thanks. No thanks necessary. I can attempt to be more cognizant of the sensitivity level regarding some topics. Can't make any promises on how people will perceive what I say though. That is something I can't control. Just know for future reference nothing I ever say to another poster here is laced with malicious intent.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 13, 2018 11:34:07 GMT -5
I'm not one for political correctness when it comes to my handicap (I graduated from the Crippled Childrens' School, after all) and I understand Papa S didn't mean it the way it read on the page, but that "Are you disabled?" came across a lot like "Are you retarded?" (i.e.: scornful and condescending). I don't know what being disabled has to do with acquiring DVDs in the first place. If I want one and I don't want to order it online, I just drive my wheelchair out the door, hop a bus to the nearest Best Buy or whatever, and get me one. No muss, no fuss. Cei-U! I summon the #53 to the Tacoma Mall! It really depends on the disability. My grandmother for instance was wheelchair bound, but wouldn't have been able to leave her house still because of her medical condition.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2018 12:36:37 GMT -5
Adding "disabled" to the statement wasn't needed at all.
You've could've added "old" and it would've been just as out of place.
Either are not needed.
You saying, "Hey, you've got retail giants all around you there in America, right ? That's your safest, easiest option."
Doesn't that sound better without even injection the disability term into the dialogue.
How was it relevant ?
I'm not the only one who read into it as being snarky, even though I trust that you didn't mean it that way.
I wasn't being snarky either when I said, words have meaning.
None of us is perfect and I'm trying to pick on you, just point something out that it sounds like you weren't aware of.
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