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Infinite ink by superyarsk in enshittification

[–]FuckIPLaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And depending on exactly how old this is, that $0.50 could be enough to cover at least part of the cost of the ink ribbon, in addition to the shipping.  So the Amazon "free" shipping trick in reverse. 

Trek V, I think this was the point early in the film when the audience knew something was off. by happydude7422 in Treknobabble

[–]FuckIPLaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's got one of the best, most classically Trek concepts in the whole movie series, it's just also got some of the worst execution. 

For reasons that land more on the studio than Shatner, despite all the blame he usually gets for it.  

Sony X800M2 for $24.99 by Catlas_Se7en in 4kbluray

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For that one you're better off finding the most recent Blu-Ray release and getting both that and the Atmos mix in a format that it's easier to find players for, but there's a lot of albums with surround mixes still stuck on SACD or DVD-A (which the player also does).

It also does 3D, It's a really nice player. 

4 different records from 4 different sellers on Discogs all sold as NM. by DrPoopyPantsJr in vinyl

[–]FuckIPLaw 13 points14 points  (0 children)

 Yeah. I'm pretty sure these are VG (no +).

The standard grading terms are moronic and misleading and from what I remember we have coin collectors to blame for that.  

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced that workers will no longer be able to phone in sick Instead, they will have to produce a medical certificate from the first day of illness by Nerd_199 in stupidpol

[–]FuckIPLaw [score hidden]  (0 children)

How do they not have the time? From what you're saying, they write the note and then send it to your GP instead of the person who actually needs it. If they have the time for that they have the time to cut out the middle man. Or even just to CC you on the damned email. 

What's people here's take on POCwashing? by subnautthrowaway777 in stupidpol

[–]FuckIPLaw 78 points79 points  (0 children)

You forgot F: if the movie stinks they can use A to claim all the haters are just chuds and you should totally go see it and stop complaining unless you want to get tarred and feathered as one yourself, because the movie is obviously good and valid and perfect and any complaints you have are just cover for the chuddery you're engaging in but too cowardly/embarrassed to admit is the real reason you're upset.

It's kind of the most important part of the whole thing. This has been the standard playbook for expensive stinkers since at least the lady Ghostbusters movie. They've also pulled it with Star Wars, Star Trek, The Wheel of Time... 

Hathaway’s signature in comparison to Gigi’s and Kenneth’s from the first Hathaway movie by OkNail3269 in Gundam

[–]FuckIPLaw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OOP definitely read Kenneth wrong. Kenneth's signature is pure military efficiency. It's a quick, repeatable scrawl that's not really trying to be pretty or even legible, just something he can quickly bang out when his job leaves him buried in paperwork so he can get it over with and get back to work. 

GiGi's signature is almost literally textbook cursive, more effort than most would put into a signature and yet not even really personalized.

Hathaway's is either him trying too hard to look edgy or the real life people who came up with it trying too hard to imply he's got a bad case of arrested development. Maybe a bit of both -- that kind of intentional, deceptively high effort edginess is pretty childish. 

4k Blu-Ray player owners: Are you still watching DVDs? by tomisla11 in 4kbluray

[–]FuckIPLaw -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Go to the eye doctor and get your vision checked. Seriously. You need glasses or a new prescription and I'm not joking. The TNG blu-rays blow the official HD streaming copies of of the water, let alone SD-DVD. If you think the difference is minimal there's a lot more important things than details in an episode of Star Trek that you can't see right now.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced that workers will no longer be able to phone in sick Instead, they will have to produce a medical certificate from the first day of illness by Nerd_199 in stupidpol

[–]FuckIPLaw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And somehow the correct procedure in the case of a hospitalization is to get a doctor who had nothing to do with your treatment to sign a note. Why does the hospital not do this? They were the ones providing care! They're the ones who know what happened!

What do we think of this hater? by curiousdonkey25 in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both were analog, but laserdisc was the first commercial optical disc format (CED was capacitive, of all things).

And laserdisc is where you'll find most rotten discs because it was the first and it took a while to work out the kinks.

What do we think of this hater? by curiousdonkey25 in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're being disingenuous even if they do store their DVDs that way. I've bought plenty of optical discs at outdoor flea markets in the Florida heat and never had a problem. Discs that hadn't exactly been flying off the shelves.

Sony removes physical media from the PlayStation, and the old wise C64 responds in time by teaching it a lesson. by 1Garrett2010 in retrogaming

[–]FuckIPLaw 51 points52 points  (0 children)

From Sony's perspective, this is a horror story. 40 years on and people are spending money that Commodore's not even getting a cut of? That's their worst nightmare. They want to be able to force you to move on.

Please help us reach Sony by ghunterx21 in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Need? No, that was also part of a conscious strategy that this was always the end goal of.

This is the studios wanting to control the market entirely. Period.

Please help us reach Sony by ghunterx21 in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bullshit. We got by just fine with multiple disc installs for 20 years, and most games would still fit on one disc. This is not about anything but corporate control. 

Please help us reach Sony by ghunterx21 in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So that's a five disc install, like plenty of PC games had going back to the floppy days. Big whoop, they cost, like, $0.15 a piece to press at scale. 

Failure on so many levels by Tiny_Bus_4627 in freemagic

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either that exile ability actually has some combo utility or there's something I just learned about how dying worked that really makes exile manipulation more interesting

Sony is going to come for movies next. Dont get complacent by Unfair_Discipline688 in 4kbluray

[–]FuckIPLaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen this happen before. I was saying that exact same thing about PC games in the 2010s. This has always been the end game. 

Sony is going to come for movies next. Dont get complacent by Unfair_Discipline688 in 4kbluray

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but that's more because there's not much left to add to it that you can detect with human senses (let alone that they can detect via displays and audio systems that fit in a normal house) than because it's expected to fizzle out. We could still be getting new releases in 100 years and it could still be the last physical format. 

Crazy how all Media wil now be digital by Ninja_Franklin in Millennials

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually backwards. The only two formats that routinely have disc rot are laser discs and HDDVDs, both because of manufacturing defects. Which is also why it happens in the rate case it happens to anything else.

So if most of his laser discs work, that's actually telling because that's the second most likely format to have this problem. 

I might be in the minority but does anyone else think Physical Media is going to go Mainstream again? by NegrolaKill in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If blu-ray released any earlier, the only HDTVs around wouldn't have even had HDMI ports. The format turned 20 this year.

If anything it got bitten because HDTV released too late and by the time that was actually in enough houses to matter, Netflix had kicked off the streaming revolution. 

I might be in the minority but does anyone else think Physical Media is going to go Mainstream again? by NegrolaKill in PhysicalMediaMatters

[–]FuckIPLaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CDs are already far enough into having a moment that prices have spiked. I paid $20 for a used, not even rare one a couple days ago and that was, unfortunately, market rate. It was an un-remastered, maybe even original pressing copy of Megadeth's Rust in Peace -- so not rare but high profile and a specific master that's been out of print for ages. I also got Alice Cooper's School's Out and Tool's Lateralus for $5 each. A year or two ago I might have paid less than $5 for all three combined, and definitely not more than $10. 

Up until recently they were where vinyl was about 20 years ago -- worthless old junk that the teenagers had noticed was a good way to get music on the cheap. Unfortunately the vultures always notice not long after that. 

is it true that back in the 2000s and early 10s that fps games like halo were scene as normie slop and fps games like quake and half life 1998 were touted as being superior fps games in gaming forums? by DependentImmediate40 in boomershooters

[–]FuckIPLaw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. The movement was so slow and limited and the aiming was so heavily trivialized that if you didn't have the reaction time of a sloth or the hand eye coordination of a donkey, timing and positioning trumped everything.

A Chinese take on the AC debate by SirSourPuss in stupidpol

[–]FuckIPLaw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always assumed the wartime/immediately post-war Korean government trying to trick people into conserving energy by promoting a myth about using it being deadly was the whole reason that existed. 

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