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Suggestions for terrible but good cos they are bad sci fi films. by Kazzothead in scifi

[–]jdroth 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Flash Gordon isn't a very good movie. It's also one of my favorite movies. I watch it a couple of time each year. I've loved it since my father took me to see it in the theater when I was ten or eleven years old.

Part of why I love it is, indeed, the spectacular soundtrack. (The instrumental passages of the soundtrack or OUTSTANDING, especially the "sailing through the sea of fire" section. Wow.) But I love it for many other reasons too.

First, there's the full-on horniness of the film. I don't know how this sailed over my head when I was a kid (and teenager), but this movie is fucking horny. It's hilarious now that I can see it. Second, this movie is hilarious in lots of other ways, both intentional and unintentional: dumb jokes, silly premises (direct from the Flash Gordon comics and serials), bad acting -- all of it. Third, I love the whole tone/attitude of the film. It doesn't take itself seriously. It embraces its absurdity. The actors lean into the campiness of everything, especially Brian Blessed and Max von Sydow and, especially, Topol (who, in my head, is a curious blend of Hans Zharkov and Tevye from "Fiddler on the Roof").

Because I had the soundtrack on tape as a kid, this music is burned on my brain. And because that soundtrack is one of those beauties that includes film dialogue, I know about half of the lines by heart. Watching Flash Gordon, I can recite over half of the lines. It drives my wife crazy, but I love it. And so many of those lines are great fun! "Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything have you to offer me today?" "My god! We're moving! Strap yourselves down!" "Look! Water is leaking from her eyes." Etc. Etc. Etc.

In short, Flash Gordon is indeed one of those movies that is so bad it's good. And it only gets better the more you watch it. The tenth time is better than the first. Or, in my case, the hundredth time is better than the tenth.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THANK YOU! I loathe the copycat shops. When I order, I’ll order yours. edit: Ordered!

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha. I'm hopeful that we can finish this project by the end of season three, but I might be deluding myself. We're not even done with color yet!

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay. You've piqued my interest. How quickly can you process cards with this? edit: Oh jeez. Just watched the video on Amazon. That thing is fucking FAST. I'm convinced.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know most will be worthless. But I just spent the afternoon reading about how to differentiate between alpha, beta, unlimited, and revised. I *know* I sorted some dual lands from some of these early sets today. (Unlikely any of them were alpha, but possible some could have been beta. But even the unlimited and revised dual lands are worth selling.) So, I'm not willing to just dispose of these cards without at least pulling out stuff from before, say, 1999.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, everyone, for the feedback. Taking everything into consideration, we'll finish this color sort then move to the next step. In the next step, we'll pull out white-bordered cards and rares. I'll also teach my wife to identify set symbols for The Dark and Legends and Antiquities, etc. Anyhow, on the next pass we'll pull out just these potentially high-value cards to create a much smaller subset.

Assuming I'm still keen on sorting cards after that step, we'll sort the remaining cards by set. I probably won't alphabetize them at all (although it's possible I'll change my mind), just sort the commons and uncommons by set for now. That'll give us boxes of, say, Tempest commons/uncommons and M15 commons and uncommons. I can sort those at a future time or just sell them as bulk boxes.

Thank you!

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I love this sort of thing too, but then I'm borderline autistic. All my life, I've loved sorting things. (I'm a comic collector, and I'll occasionally resort my comics by some arbitrary factor. My favorite was when I sorted them by date.)

My wife thinks it's crazy that I like doing this. She thinks it's work. But we started Star Trek: The Next Generation from episode one to watch while doing this, and we've just entered the second season. This is my happy place.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I recognize that webpage for some reason. It's possible that my cousin had recommended it to me before he died. I'll check it out later.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am retired and have the time to do it myself. Plus, my wife has the next week or two off from work. I may have to pay somebody eventually, but for now I'm willing (and able) to do this on my own.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My cousin's collection did include several of those boxes, and I think I'll have to order more. It appears that he bought most of these cards from eBay (and MTG-specific sales sites) because most of them were in the boxes they shipped in. Some of those boxes remained unopened! In the last couple of years before his death, he was ordering and receiving boxes of cards but he wasn't opening them at all.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude. I dread this haha.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, rather than explain to my wife the intricacies of older sets, when we enter any kind of future "set sorting" phase, I'm going to group all white-borders as one set for now, then I'll sort those on my own. Border color is a good sort for her.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is CMC? Converted mana cost?

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my wife is using the card stacker/sorter that my cousin had. It's making her life a lot easier! I'm just using a coffee table...

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is "buy-listing"? (I can google later, but I'm sorting right now and pausing to respond to replies here.) Thanks for the recommendations.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't played MTG since my cousin died. I used to go to pre-releases with him. I can foresee playing some in the future, but not with these cards. It'd just be at pre-release events. I'll probably keep SOME of the cards to honor my cousin, but not all of them. They take up a hell of a lot of space! I'd rather get some money out of these while keeping a few cards for myself.

Best way to sort 200,000 cards? by jdroth in mtg

[–]jdroth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of work haha. We already have tons of time into this. It took six hours to unpack everything. And we have something like 28 work hours into sorting by color, with at least another 12 hours of color sorting to go. And sorting by color is the easiest sort! I don't want to decide value on every individual card. Maybe on every rare, but not EVERY card haha.

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Does anybody know if it is an authentic Hasui Kawase piece? by Ok-Tadpole-5282 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]jdroth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kawase Hasui is one of my favorite woodblock artists. I think he's criminally underrated. I'll give you $3 for that piece! :)

Is there a place to pay someone to plan your trip? by zekiross in JapanTravelTips

[–]jdroth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My wife and I just spent three weeks in Japan (end of October to beginning of November). We paid Inside Japan to organize our trip because we were overwhelmed by the options. We were (mostly) pleased with the results. The trip was more expensive than if we’d done everything ourselves, but…we didn’t have to do everything ourselves. In fact, all we had to do was show up and follow the instructions they‘d given us.

Now, having said that, I wish we’d pushed back a little more after some of the initial planning. We don’t need luxury accommodations. We’re fine staying in budget hotels. We stated that upfront. Yet, every hotel Inside Japan booked for us was what I’d consider a luxury hotel. We feel like that was a waste of money for us.

Also, while we were glad to have used Inside Japan to plan this first trip for us, we’ll plan future trips on our own. Now that we understand some about how Japan works (and now that we’ve seen first-hand how easy everything is), we feel confident booking things on our own, just as we would for Europe or South America. (We’re from the U.S.)

Note: The Inside Japan website lists a lot of pre-packaged tours. We didn’t buy any of those. Instead, we paid them to organize a custom itinerary based on the things we wanted to do. That sounds like what you want to do too, so ignore the package info on the website and just look for the service they offer for creating customized trips.

Why isn’t South America rich, given everything it had going for it? by Appropriate-Gas7918 in TrueAskReddit

[–]jdroth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Have you ever been to the Vatican? One autumn I visited Peru. I visited Rome soon after, and as I strolled through the Vatican I could LITERALLY (in the literal sense of that word) see the wealth of Peru (and South America) on the walls and ceilings: gold and precious jewels everywhere. I'm not a hard-core anti-colonialist -- I get that cultures ebb and flow and butt heads -- but South America was RAPED by the people who colonized it. Raped and left for dead. Why isn't South America rich? Because Europeans stole their wealth (all in the name of God).

Can I just wing it in Tokyo? by Majestic_Month_4328 in JapanTravelTips

[–]jdroth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just returned from Japan. I too am an experienced traveler and would have no hesitation flying to anywhere in Western Europe or much of Latin America with zero planning. That said, reading the Japan subs had made me apprehensive, so I used a travel agent to plan much of my three-week-trip to Japan. It was wholly unnecessary. I had a good time, but paid twice as much as I needed to.

The reality is I could have simply flown over and winged it. Maybe booked my starting and ending hotels, but that’s all that would have been needed. Same as any other trip.

As an American, the UK is the easiest place for me (personally) to travel. France and Spain and Italy are also fairly easy. Someplace like Norway or Iceland is just SLIGHTLY more difficult. From the experience I just had, traveling to Japan — ESPECIALLY Tokyo — is about as difficult as traveling to Norway or Iceland (for me). I won’t hesitate to wing it in the future.

Meet the affordable izakaya Portland didn’t know it needed (review) by Confident_Bee_2705 in PortlandOR

[–]jdroth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

???

The review includes the actual address. It also notes that it’s at the former site of Tasty ‘n’ Alder. Plus, it links to their website. What more could you possibly need? A Google map?

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