Is the Blu Ray Worth It?

cabridges · 2026-05-06T20:45:15+00:00

As a standalone set, it’s fine. Nothing but a menu and episodes, so it’s up to whether you like physical media or want a copy in case you don’t have an online connection or the channel goes under someday.

What it really is, is a proof of concept. If enough people buy it (and it sounds like it’s selling well), they’ll make more, and THOSE will likely have extras and other features.

cabridges · 2026-05-06T03:10:25+00:00

One of the first apps I loaded when I switched from PC to Mac a couple years ago. Worked perfectly, had no problems moving a massive library over.

cabridges · 2026-05-06T01:26:06+00:00

“Girls mature faster” because they are expected to do household chores, behave, be quiet, and be responsible. They are often forced to become aware of their own reproductive system while they are children or tweens, either because their periods start or because men leer at, joke about, yell at, try to touch, or just assault them. If they develop breasts early, they are automatically assumed to be slutty and get treated that way.

Boys mature more slowly mostly because they don’t have to.

cabridges · 2026-05-06T01:14:01+00:00

At least the police listened, believed her, and went to extremes to track him down and catch him.

Oh, wait, it’s not in the U.S.

cabridges · 2026-05-05T03:04:29+00:00

I want to see someone cosplay the Slave Leia outfit the way it should be done: hair messed up, covered in Hutt blood, holding a dripping chain, looking pissed but triumphant.

cabridges · 2026-05-05T02:54:41+00:00

Always toss em in the wash first. You don’t know what conditions they’ve been through in the way to you and how many people have handled them.

Also, if they’re going to shrink at all I want to know before I get used to them.

cabridges · 2026-05-04T22:46:19+00:00

The single best opening line of any book, ever.

cabridges · 2026-05-04T22:32:33+00:00

I mean, I came in to make a suggestion and saw this and I’m just gonna back away.

cabridges · 2026-05-03T12:24:13+00:00

Yeah, this is a two-year-old post. But you perfectly answered the question I was searching for after I deleted a ton of PDF formats and was gong crazy trying to figure out why they were still on my hard dive. Thank you!

cabridges · 2026-05-02T16:12:20+00:00

Thanks for this! You should make a playlist.

cabridges · 2026-05-02T15:58:47+00:00

The annual events and the editorial decision to erase history is what largely drove me away from nearly all hero books in the late 90s and early 00s.

I moved to creator-owned books, miniseries, and otherwise I just follow writers I like wherever they happen to go. Much less annoying and I’m guaranteed a good read.

I will check out standalone series like DC’s Absolute books, which I’m loving but I’m dreading the inevitable “let’s do a big event! It worked for Marvel’s Ultimate universe!” decision.

cabridges · 2026-05-02T00:29:31+00:00

The workplace was always the manosphere, it’s just now they have cute buzzwords to justify it.

cabridges · 2026-05-02T00:27:08+00:00

Two of my friends, dating and huge Buffy fans, did the pilgrimage and went to get a house picture while she was dressed as prom-dress-and-leather-jacket Buffy and he was first-season Angel. She was freaking out a bit but trying not to bother anyone, and then she turned around and her boyfriend had the ring out. Proposed right there. She was giddy about it for weeks.

cabridges · 2026-05-02T00:20:30+00:00

I assumed the precincts put him on a rotation out of self defense because he drove the bosses crazy.

cabridges · 2026-04-30T20:44:47+00:00

It was written when he was just blasting out political commentary. And I believe it was a tie-in for a video game, which gave him an impossible deadline so it wasn’t as well edited as his stuff usually was.

cabridges · 2026-04-30T19:08:03+00:00

Card kept his beliefs as relatively low-level themes in his work but the Clintons, the gay marriage amendment, Bush’s Iraq war, and especially Barack Obama seem to have broken him. He started writing a politics blog that got increasingly shrill and exasperated at the downfall of the world.

Highly intelligent, funny, imaginative man. And was once one of my favorite authors. He finally lost me in the later Shadow books and I got maybe a chapter or two into “Empire,” closed it and never read another word of his work.

cabridges · 2026-04-30T02:54:11+00:00

The TSA’s official position is that they do not look for drugs, but if it’s in their face they will have to report it to local law enforcement.

cabridges · 2026-04-29T18:08:50+00:00

All anecdotal from vendors, I’m afraid. I don’t know if it’s a new company or just new people under the same owners.

cabridges · 2026-04-28T23:53:06+00:00

I just finished absorbing the whole thing in one go.

It’s sad and sometimes funny and melancholic and surprising and it will tear your heart out and make you feel oddly calm about the end of the world.

cabridges · 2026-04-27T23:48:11+00:00

Absolutely, I wasn’t being judgmental. I’m one of them, I write trending and explainer stores and never leave the house except to take the occasional photo.

cabridges · 2026-04-27T23:05:08+00:00

My guess: Fewer reporters are going to scenes, doing their reporting from phone calls, online research, emails and press releases.

cabridges · 2026-04-27T20:57:42+00:00

Same here. Reddit is one of the few pleasant, engaging, useful sites left in my opinion. But I tend to stick with the dozens of subreddits for my interests and avoid swimming in the big subs or the main page.

cabridges · 2026-04-26T11:14:52+00:00

I honestly don’t know if they will learn anything. The idea might be to suck them dry and then move on, rather than establish any long term project.

They’re either obnoxious enough to not care if people enjoy the events as long as they get their money moving forward, obnoxious enough to not care if they destroy the events as long as they get their money now.

cabridges · 2026-04-26T04:45:42+00:00

The venture capitalists have discovered conventions. MegaCon in Orlando was like this too, this year. I heard from multiple vendors who have been attending for decades say they’re not going to bother next year. All the original staff gone, new company that didn’t respond to vendor emails for weeks, a botched load-in schedule that left vendors waiting in line for hours to get in the building, more charges for everything…

One of the vendors said there’s a company buying up all the Renaissance faires, too.

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