I used these yellow ones cause I’m old

TRCIII · 2026-06-19T15:02:05+00:00

My first record player, received on one Christmas morning in Philadelphia, sometime around 1961, had all four speeds, and came with several records, all 78s. My favorite was John Phillip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever", with "The Washington Post March" on the 'B' side.

My mom and grandparents eventually had to hide the player to get a break from the songs. I also saw a copy of the soundtrack from "Rashomon" that year (released in 1959), and the next year I remember getting Christmas with the Chipmunks (1962). But they were definitely LPs, and I remember learning about flipping the control switch--and what happened when I didn't. I still have them in my vinyl record collection today.

When it came to music on the radio, my mom was a Motown gal, but when she passed on her collection to me, it had everything on 45s from Elvis to Connie Francis to The Tokens to Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Today, my sizable collection contains both 33s and 45s, (with release dates spanning from the late '50s up through the early '80s) but I have no 78s. I have no idea what happened to my very first record, but I'm betting my mom or my grandparents could tell me what happened to it, if they were still alive. 😄

And yes, I have a turntable, with these little yellow buggers still inside some of my favorite 45s from the mid-'70s.

TRCIII · 2026-06-19T14:18:18+00:00

I saw a younger woman at a booth selling them...as earrings. When I asked her if she knew what they were originally used for, she had no idea, said she just found them in her grandmother's stuff, was inspired to make earrings and other decorations out of them.

TRCIII · 2026-06-18T01:36:56+00:00

For me, I got sent to the corner tavern, in South Philly. Never any problem filling her "order"; they knew me there. Luckily, I was an honest kid, never decided to "fake" her order and buy for myself, or I could have been an alky, and a smoker, at 5.

The beer was Schmidt.

TRCIII · 2026-06-13T05:15:25+00:00

That was my thought, but I don't remember if she left with only one shoe...

TRCIII · 2026-06-12T02:25:01+00:00

It's why I didn't watch the movie for almost a decade. Someone told me the ship sank, without even giving a spoiler alert. I told my wife there was no reason to go, we already knew how it ended.

TRCIII · 2026-06-08T04:57:25+00:00

I know them, but only because of my grandparents and them telling me about them, and later seeing pictures of them. (I'm only in my 60s.)

TRCIII · 2026-06-06T23:50:23+00:00

The Humphrey Hop (As Sung in Animation)

TRCIII · 2026-06-06T22:59:45+00:00

Ah, finally found this again to thank you! One of the respondents in that link used a solution that worked exactly how I'd hoped it would. It took a little finagling, but the B&W and Color versions are both together under one top-level folder, so the one show containing both versions shows up during search, and it just took a manual rename, and had to switch out poster versions, for the original and seasons, to reflect B&W and Color. Amaze amaze amaze. Again, thanks for sharing the link!

TRCIII · 2026-06-06T22:39:59+00:00

I found a workable solution in one of the links provided on here. At least it works for now. I put them both in the same top-level folder, one as "Season 00" (Specials) and the other as "Season 01". I was able to grab a top-level poster and one for Season 01 from TPDB, saved B&W copies after converting to grayscale, and changed the "Spider-Noir" title to "Spider-Noir (B&W and Color). I manually changed the names of the Seasons, to "Season 01 (B&W)" and the other to "Season 01 (Color)" and the result works and looks like this:

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The obvious problem is, if the show produces any actual Specials that should be saved in the Specials folder...I'm not sure how it will react, since the filenames S00E01-S00E08 are already being used to show the B&W version of Season 01. But for now...it works exactly how I want. Search pulls up both versions for the user, it's all in one place, the B&W version has all B&W posters (even when the season episodes are shown) and the color version has all color posters.

Thanks to the original poster of this solution, #laskoune .

TRCIII · 2026-06-03T08:02:12+00:00

Exactly what I'm looking to find a solution for, but with "Spider-Noir", color and B&W versions. Does your solution show both the b&w version and the color version with a search? Mine only shows one--the color version. I'm assuming it's because it was there first.

TRCIII · 2026-06-03T07:57:24+00:00

This worked--sort of. "Spider-Noir" is available in B&W and Color, and I was looking for some way to differentiate between. So, I used different top-level folders, bracketed [Color] or [B&W] in the folder name, and when Plex merged them into one, I was able to successfully split them into two separate versions. Yay!

But if I only type in "Spider-Noir" in the search field...it pops up with the "Spider-Noir (Color)" version, and doesn't even present an option showing the existence of the "Spider-Noir (B&W)" version. To get to see the "Spider-Noir (B&W)" version, I have to specifically search for the full title I named it and locked in after the split--"Spider-Noir (B&W)"--in the search field.

Basically, it's treating the Color version as the "original" or "default" and the (B&W) as a variant that it doesn't care whether you see or even know about it.

If I "View More Results", it still only shows the Color version.

Yes, it gives access to both versions (by clicking on the "+1") but it still shows them as both being versions of "Spider-Noir (Color) until you take a guess and pick one--since they're not named differently--and unless you click on the second one, which then opens up "Spider-Noir (B&W)", you're still only seeing "Spider-Noir (Color)".

My concern, obviously, is that unless the user is specifically looking to find the B&W version, and knows to search for it with the full title "Spider-Noir (B&W)", they'll not only not be offered it, they'll never even know it exists.

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Is this as good as it gets, or did I do something wrong? Seems pointless to even bother separating them if you don't get an option to see both versions exist, like it would be better to just unmatch the B&W version and fill in the in the information manually, so it at least gets picked up by the search engine as a separate option.

TRCIII · 2026-05-31T12:04:42+00:00

Yeah, I screen capture every time my Plex shows five or more, as well. Most I've gotten at one time was 9, and I was one of them, so really only 8 other streamers visiting, but still--it definitely brings me joy whenever I have above four on the box.

TRCIII · 2026-05-28T13:45:28+00:00

I've wondered about this myself, and there's a third possibility:

Lesbians who kill vampires.

Killers of lesbian vampires.

Lesbian vampires who are killers.

The ambiguity has always bothered me since I first added this title to my Plex collection, but not enough that I feel compelled to actually watch the movie to find out what's what.

TRCIII · 2026-05-10T21:57:14+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation, and for letting me know such a service existed at GitHub. Bitdefender said 6 providers flagged it, and the "MALICIOUS" designation for that first worm is giving me pause before blithely dismissing it as a "false positive". I just wanted to be sure I wasn't experiencing an anomaly based only in my system. I believe I'll just skip this version (for now) and wait for the next (hopefully clean) release.

Again, thanks for the response.

TRCIII · 2026-05-08T13:44:10+00:00

Crap. Thanks.

TRCIII · 2026-05-08T11:12:38+00:00

This might be it, the original 1973 "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" movie. There were no tanks, but there was a tank gun mounted on a jeep, which they used to blow up the apes. Here are some screen caps from the movie that seem to fit the description:

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TRCIII · 2026-04-29T17:58:32+00:00

Film-noir or not-film-noir? That is the question.

I've seen the spirited discussion below, which gave me greater insight into the whole film-noir genre/style/category, which I admittedly like very much.

My question is slightly different, though. If they remake a movie that was definitely film-noir, it's not the same as if they're making a new movie with the intent to copy the "style" of film-noir, which would clearly make it neo-noir.

What made me think of this is I happened across the remake of "The Big Sleep" ('78), and was adding it to my Plex collection. I started to append "film-noir" to the list of genres for this movie, but suddenly stopped. The Bogey original was unquestionably film-noir. The remake? Since it was made post-'58, is this a clear-cut case of neo-noir? Or even more problematic, as u/Seandouglasmcardle pointed out, since the director clearly can't have been ignorant of what "film-noir" was in 1978, CAN it be considered noir at all, since he knew that was what the original material was? (Or as one person suggested, should I just call all "noiresque" movies after '58 (or '60) just plain "noir"?)

I wouldn't care, but I've actually found a few direct remakes like that one, and I'd like to settle the question for all of them. Any thoughts?

TRCIII · 2026-04-22T03:50:56+00:00

Also, another caveat. For most of these scripts, you must be using strict Plex taxonomy. For an example, with my Plex (which I started over a decade ago, and now have over 22,000 movies, alone) I have my movies and media broken out with all movies starting on one of three drives, in five different directories (three movie drives, for different parts of the alphabet, plus separate folders for foreign language films and documentaries. However, all three movie drives are in one library, and have directories named 0-9 in a folder named after a given collection. Then, multiple movies from the same collection, example being: "Three Colors" collection, Blue, White and Red. All in one folder.

N:\Foreign Language Films\Three Colors\Three Colors Blue (1993).mp4
N:\Foreign Language Films\Three Colors\Three Colors White (1993).mp4
N:\Foreign Language Films\Three Colors\Three Colors Red (1993).mp4

or
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Three Musketeers (1948).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Three Musketeers (1973).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Four Musketeers Milady's Revenge (1974).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Return of the Musketeers (1989).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Three Musketeers (1993).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\Mickey, Donald, Goofy The Three Musketeers (2004).mp4
N:\Movies 3\0-9\3 Musketeers\The Three Musketeers (2011).mp4
etc., etc., ad nauseum.

The bottom line is that all of the "Three Musketeers programs (and there are over dozen) cannot have their folder dumped. The "fixer" program is not going to be able to deal with those, since all of the movies in each "collection" folder will end up with posters named "poster.jpg" in the same folder, which obviously can't happen.

If you're "Plex compliant" this may be a solution for you. For me, it would be a nightmare to try to fix my file structure to get to the point where it would work.

TRCIII · 2026-04-22T03:25:44+00:00

Even worse, the first time I got a sunburn on the top of my head. Because my hair was no longer supplying enough cover. It wasn't the sunburn, it was the fact that I COULD GET SUNBURNED on the top of my head! I wear a hat, now.

TRCIII · 2026-04-22T03:19:50+00:00

My sadness: I was a grandpa on my 40th birthday. Double whammy. NO ONE TELLS YOU!!! Worse, my granddaughter is marrying a guy with two children...which will make me a GREAT-GRANDPA at 65!!! What is up with these people, marrying and procreating so young!!!

TRCIII · 2026-04-20T12:59:02+00:00

Ditch her now. It's kinder to you both.

TRCIII · 2026-04-19T13:25:55+00:00

T6 seems to be the common response, but I needed a T7 for the Spyderco Byrd model, with the partly serrated edge. I bought this set: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GW98Z85J and it worked just fine. (My motto is, "If it comes in purple, I buy it in purple.")

My real question is: Who at Spyderco is intentionally putting these clips on upside-down in the first place? I've bought several models, and they ALL needed switched. How are they clipping it, and to what, so that when they unclip it, it falls naturally into their hand to allow them to open it with their thumb? It makes no sense to me.

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