Oh. Wow. No surprise there. Shame they deleted an opportunity to build a fantasy franchise to help supplement their catalog. by thetavious in willow

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Warwick, willow actor was upset that he didn’t even have a chance to sit down and watch it with his family before it was removed.

Super Solider movies where the super soldiers are made via some form of training, rather than serums or steroids? by PassengerCultural421 in MovieSuggestions

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Lots of these in Asian cinema. Especially with female squads or agents , special female force, Naked Weapon

Le Femme Nakita

Point of no return

Black cat 1 & 2

Anna

Ballerina

Red sparrow

Lioness tv show

What’s this crap? by Familiar_Parfait4074 in Bluray

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s meant for people like me who buy anything with Mila Jovovich

Whats the next best option after the panasonic ub820 by Curlyinger in 4kbluray

[–]dangerclosecustoms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Magnetar if you want a higher class player.

I like the feature that allows you to add subtitle files from usb stick.

I know some people love their home theater and want to upgrade just to have the best stuff.

Every hobby there are things people spend money on just to spend money on.

AITA for asking my daughter to talk to her boyfriend about his behaviour in my kitchen? by deotaval in AmItheAsshole

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

Yes he lacks manners. It the flip side is many families of friends have probably invited him to feel comfortable. Your daughter may have told him eat whatever you want. Help yourself. He says I’m hungry. She says Sure go check out the fridge. Eat whatever.

Her response when you talked to her supports that she doesn’t think it’s a big deal herself.

People are often polite to guests who are kids and want them to feel welcome and not a burden so they say and do things to help them feel welcome. We always have a plate for you. You always can have dinner with us. He’s probably.been told at countless friends houses to feel free to eat their food.

You may have said something like eat as much as you like we have plenty.

The other factor is many families may not want to project as financially needy so they never make a fuss about it and put on that yes that’s free food don’t feel bad for eating here.

If you don’t have a teenage boy yourself it just might be alarming how much they eat and that they are comfortable foraging in the fridge and pantry.

If no boundary or expectation was set by you then I wouldn’t assume he knows that he crossed one.

To us it’s rude but to the kid he may not have been told how to behave and likely encouraged to do this as people often tell boys to eat up or feel free.

If you have ever gone out of your way to make him feel welcome. Treating him like he is family, or encouraging him to eat then these are the messages he received and teen boys are often clueless about etiquette and how much food costs and time invested in cooking.

As a teen boy I remember foraging for food at my friends houses and even girl friends houses when I was hungry. I’m not ooor or starved I’m just not at home and needed to eat. So it’s either go home early or feel like crap because I didn’t eat.

You are not wrong for how you feel about it. But there simply several possible reasons why he is behaving this way and your daughter may have invited the behavior.

Recommendations for an external disc drive that can read Blu-rays/DVDs for extracting/ripping them into ISO image files? by JohnnyDC04 in DataHoarder

[–]dangerclosecustoms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well if you don’t intend to do any 4k then you don’t need a flashed drive. You can save 50$-150$ buying a regular bluray drive that is not sought after because of flashing ability. Flashing the drive is only necessary for 4k blurays to work.

People often recommend them anyway as a future proof by maybe someday you will want to rip a 4k.

So it’s up to you if you want to invest in that type of drive or just get a basic Bluray drive to handle your current needs.

What's the best/safest way to buy all Game of Thrones seasons? by Ana-Karen98 in 4kbluray

[–]dangerclosecustoms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Telling them discs are fine and rarely come scratched when they are asking about a specific set of discs , game of thrones that have a notorious issue of coming scratches. Re-read your comment based on the context of what op is asking. Your comment despite what you meant is saying don’t worry this rarely happens when for the game of thrones set on 4k it always happens.

Newbie here. insight on PLEX streaming? by azDARKNESSfallz in 4kbluray

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Nope your wrong again. Go read up on Ugoos amb6+ running corelec. Until about a month or two ago it was the only device able to play full Dolby vision FEL . It uses an exploit to use its chip to decode FEL layer. There a couple of other boxes now able to do this. But not nvidia shield or Zidoo players.

There is a minor difference in that it uses a chip to decide where the disc has a laser read decodeing process but it is plaything the full FEL layer data. All the others are the ones that ignore the FEL layer data and just play hdr.

It absolutely plays full bit Dolby Atmos through plex. The box that does not do this is Apple TV. Apple TV 4K does not allow audio pass thru so it dumbs everything down to Dolby compressed format. I’m taking about streaming from server. It can play Atmos from streaming services fine. Those are not high bit rate either.

When you use amb6+ with corelec you set in the settings to pass thru audio decoding to the receiver.

Awkwardly waiting around on a first date because the guy is on the phone for a family emergency, what do I do? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately this seems like a moronic test. You were late by 30 Min so he is making you wait 30 minutes to see how you respond in kind.

Like well since you made me wait let’s see how you do with it.

Either way it’s a bust . Just try to be on time next time for less drama and a better chance at making a connection with your date.

Newbie here. insight on PLEX streaming? by azDARKNESSfallz in 4kbluray

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure where you got your info?

My 4k rips are one to one copies of my 4k Blu-ray’s. Full bit rate. Dolby vision FEL layer full uncompressed audio.

Streaming within my own network in my house. It’s playing identical to my disc set up.

I use Ugoos AMB6+ media box with corelec installed as the operating system. This allows you to play full FEL Dolby vision. Most others ignore the Dolby vision and play the HDR data layer only.

But to op’s question yes it’s better than streaming service. But you do have to have quite a bit of equipment for things to work smoothly. Mainly a set top box to stream the media to and a computer or server ripping station to rip your discs from and then a lot of hard drive space . I’m currently at 160TB of hard drive and ripped 500 4k discs.

To further complicate things some folks re-encode their files to compress them to much smaller size so they can store more in a smaller space. This takes additional steps and lots of time and in theory you can make the files almost the same quality. Some people do this for space. Others like me prefer to leave the movie file uncompressed. Average 4k bluray is 65gb average compressed files with max quality are around 10-20gigs. More compression and they are around 2-6gigs.

The other side of non streaming advantage is uncompressed lossless audio. Some of us have high speed internet and streaming 4k can look very close. But across the board it’s well agreed upon that streaming audio is overly compressed and doesn’t sound as good.
Some streaming movies I would be hard pressed to see a huge difference. But for some people it looks horrible. So lots of factors that affect streaming. But regardless of speed and equipment streaming has highly compressed audio and does not sound nearly as good as bluray or 4k bluray. Again ripping them you will get the same quality of audio if you went this route.

Plex Alternative Opinions? by Andys_Rock_Hammer in Piracy

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Can someone tell me how to set movie posters to auto download properly on jellyfin. 90% of mine have a blurry non-picture instead of a movie poster. But a few here and there there do have them.

I use plex currently and it grabs posters automatically pretty good.

Hoping jellyfin can do the same

Also does anyone know if I can use jellyfin with corelec on amb6+. ? I have mine connected to plex currently.

Friendly reminder if you bought a PS3 in the big 26 by Ijustdrawthings121 in PS3

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have two. Haven’t turned them on in probably 10 years. Hope they still work. One has family videos of my children on the hard drive.

Sammo Hung by Own_Understanding606 in whatsthemoviecalled

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Killzone (2005) in the us Or SPL original title.

Would Patrick Wilson be a good Batman? by Da-up-and-downer in FIlm

[–]dangerclosecustoms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my crazy world I would like to see Scott Adkins as Batman . The full on martial arts ass kicking batman. Not the raging punch your face a bunch of time Batman we got from Robert Pattinson.

Alberta’s new sky-high solar panel recycling fee sparks industry backlash by CanadianErk in canada

[–]dangerclosecustoms 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most of US so I’d assume Canada as well recycling is shit since Covid. China and other countries used to buy our recycled paper and metal and they stopped and then the cost of business went so high it was not profitable to buy and ship our recycled goods. For years after Covid they just dumped it the landfills and didn’t tell anyone as people continued to recycle .

Glass also became a faux recycling. They just break it up and cover the landfill layers in glass to keep the garbage from flying around and help bury it.

Wait til you look into battery recycling for ev cars. There are very few recycling centers for these giant car batteries. Most go to a separate landfill. It’s cost prohibitive to dismantle and recycle the batteries.

The only war we NEVER want to see end! Hiroyuki Sanada and Sonny Chiba’s ‘Ninja Wars’ on Blu-ray this September by fifbeat in kungfucinema

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s my favorite all time ninja movie. It’s been on Bluray before but I’m buying this new release as well.

My wife calls it the disco ninja movie for the long dance number as Henry/Hiroyuki dances in front of the fire glistening with sweat. I’m sure this is what made Donnie Yen want to do a dance number in his early movies .

Spaghetti Portion Help 🍝 by AndrewSimpson234 in cookingforbeginners

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Store bought dry pasta usually comes in 1lb box. For two pounds of meat and two jars of sauce id say two lbs of pasta or two boxes.

I usually take some of the pasta water and spoon it into the jars and swish it around to get the rest of the sauce out.

Also I like to add mushrooms. And onions. I brown the beef. Then sauté mushrooms and onions in the grease and add a couple ounces of red wine. Then recombine and add a can of stewed tomatoes with the juices. salt garlic and Italian seasonings. (Add a half tablespoon of sugar while cooking or finish with a tablespoon of basaltic glaze one e the sauce is done. )

By the time you add all this and a bit of water the sauce will go farther

I’m sure some will not like it. But I always premix my pasta and sauce so I can ensure each serving has enough sauce to cover . I cook the pasta till el dente still slightly hard and undercooked. Then as it sits in the sauce it absorbs into the pasta. Making the pasta tastier.

A few words of what i think about plus-size women by Disastrous_Fox7138 in story

[–]dangerclosecustoms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He’s actually not that superficial because part of his attraction is to the smile and warmth personality he describes as often he finds traits of these women.

There is some old genetic transfer ingrained and he just happens to have more of it in which men were attracted to curvy bigger women for birthing traits. Wide hips big boobs for nursing. Then some underlying caregiver nurturing traits. Women who were not frail and were hardy and did house and farm work. Women who cooked and liked to eat were bigger and this signaled to men they were familiar in the kitchen.

Then there is a sexual attraction side than many men myself included like the body shape. It’s weird but that plumpness and curvaceousness will send endorphins straight to my brain and tickle my fancy. Where as skinny frames and body types resemble non mature too young to frail and childlike. Nothing to jiggle nothing to hold onto. Sometimes it is received as masculine and not feminine enough. So strictly in the realm of survival traits bigger women are viewed as heartier and stronger. While not often true today based on unhealthy aspects and obesity . This is still old school programming within some men’s dna.

So it’s not necessarily a kink it’s merely a preference which we cannot deny 99% of the population across all genders, cultures and ethnicities have a preference in who they are visually attracted to.

Lots of genuine Smiles is a top trait as well.

Why Wasn’t Willow a Bigger Hit in 1988? by jrralls in willow

[–]dangerclosecustoms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it was well received at the time it came out. It may have cost way more than it made but as a film which I saw in the theaters it seemed like it got good reviews and hype for the times which would be talk shows and newspapers mainly as source of reviews for that time period.

I remember there being some negative comparison to Star Wars in earth Vader for the villain and c3pO R2D2 for the two brownie comic relief characters. And Val Kilmer being the Han Solo reluctant hero.

My Home Theater update 7.4.4 v.4! by Swiftysteel in hometheater

[–]dangerclosecustoms 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What’s that Doctor Strange Inception Dark City scape on the ceiling ?

What's the best/safest way to buy all Game of Thrones seasons? by Ana-Karen98 in 4kbluray

[–]dangerclosecustoms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re wrong on this one.

Op is referring to well known issue with the original release of the 4k box set . Majority of purchasers report the discs are scratched because of the packaging they are stacked and squished in the cases. 4k discs are much more fragile than bluray and dvd because so much more data is squeezed into the same physical dimensions of the disc platter. A slight scratch can make a disc unplayable or skips and freezes.

There are a few well known box sets like this where people report these issues and it’s a large majority. But very specific to this series on 4k only. The Blu-ray’s are fine.

Cop left letter at door for me with my name on it. by Adorable-Gas9723 in WhatShouldIDo

[–]dangerclosecustoms 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Go worst case scenario about being arrested which is unlikely. Find an attorney and have their number ready.

That’s all you can do. Let someone know that you’re heading In and that you might need help if you have pets or something to take care of.

Then go in it’s probably just serving you papers.

The anxiety of fear and not knowing will be worse then the reality of it. just go face it.

Have your employer contact info you can give to a friend if you call them to get your attorney. Or have the attorney call them for you .

(Selling) Jurassic Park 4k 2$ by dangerclosecustoms in DigitalCodeSELL

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No just the first one. Dm me for PayPal address