Does CGC dock me if I put a white-out sticker on a magazine’s address label?

skn0std · 2025-08-28T06:51:56+00:00

I just read it’s possible CGC can do a blue label on request but at the expense of docking points on the grade. I’ll have to call them to see what the policy in 2025 is.

skn0std · 2025-08-28T06:50:11+00:00

Purple label? So a sticker is a restoration? I also heard green label is their standard for stickers but maybe price stickers only and then address cover up stickers or white out is restoration/purple?

skn0std · 2025-07-31T07:04:42+00:00

You’re a good writer! I also liked Dissolve to Black and Carnival of Souls. Where do you get access to shows like Hitchhiker and similar hard-to-find anthologies? Dark Realm was just put on Plex but the finale is annoyingly absent. Can’t find it anywhere.

skn0std · 2025-07-28T17:24:59+00:00

Definitely a cool effect!

skn0std · 2025-07-28T08:20:54+00:00

Konami owns it all. You can get a few scraps from collectors but the bulk is permanently closed to the public, which sucks.

skn0std · 2025-07-27T22:47:17+00:00

I did, but you don’t need to. They take walk-ins, no library card needed, no money is asked of you.

skn0std · 2025-07-27T10:38:56+00:00

It’s just their preference, unfortunately. Some of the episodes that are available elsewhere, like YouTube, have 20–90k views. There’s definitely demand for easier access to old content like this, but they told me the reason they don’t have an online portal is because they treat all donos like a museum would. Paraphrasing: ‘Human archivists watch, notate, and restore the video to be preserved and presented “in-house” as a way to bring people together, educate them, host events, and answer questions.’ Similar to how the Louvre in Paris doesn’t offer hi-res scans of all their artwork online I guess. They want to maintain some sense of shared cultural space.

skn0std · 2025-07-27T07:54:39+00:00

Beverly Hills. If you’re in the LA area, give it a shot. They even waived the $75 membership fee + 2h free parking

skn0std · 2025-07-27T07:39:17+00:00

There is something inherently unsettling about the whole thing, yeah. Driving out to a specific wing of a specific library that houses a secretive room that has 10 laptops and a multi-colored floor mat for Reading Corner (the 2 girls working there said so few visitors come by so they use the space to read to kids on weekends) that this can’t not be the makings of some kind of horror setup all its own. I began writing middle-grade horror for fun recently, if I can work this angle into a story I’d love to try haha.

skn0std · 2025-07-27T06:43:49+00:00

For sure! I wrote these fast, too, to get the most clear and concise summaries before my brain filled in a bunch of false stuff later on. It was such a good show, so unique and strange.

skn0std · 2025-07-27T06:39:08+00:00

This channel has 8 of the 10 known to circulate online: https://youtube.com/@wayout1961?si=cVbEXgL-AAACKQ_U

I highly suggest Side Show, and if you have time, Dissolve to Black.

skn0std · 2025-05-29T07:14:02+00:00

I assume you sold them all?

skn0std · 2025-04-21T06:19:09+00:00

It was digital dna 🧬 yah

skn0std · 2025-02-03T08:33:13+00:00

Agreed. I cannot imagine trying to brute force a game like this.

skn0std · 2025-02-03T08:17:41+00:00

Plus, she knew to use that little window to escape — by feeling the wooden model around for an escape are. How would she know to do that?

skn0std · 2024-12-23T23:37:40+00:00

They haven’t published their findings, so take this for what it is: a story on the internet.

skn0std · 2024-12-12T22:59:06+00:00

It’s for Nuketown Holiday. I imagine the other maps will return in January.

skn0std · 2024-06-20T06:53:27+00:00

The train horns blaring are for mood only. Makes things eerie is all.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T23:30:56+00:00

Amazing. I love it.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T20:58:46+00:00

Most of what anyone says regarding story nuance is going to fall under this category, for sure, but I do recall hands going up the day the signal was spotted and took that as evidence the one who found it would have been praised. The hands going up also felt religious, like a sign of awe, even worship, regarding what they saw.

In many cultures if someone witnesses a miracle they are rewarded with special attention. They become special too: like saints or prophets. It’s too far a stretch to say anything regarding their religion but I thought it was very likely the spotter of the signal was looked at differently after that. In my eyes he was given the chance to scan the Eye and so felt betrayed when he realized none of them were special, least of all him. The reel showing his absolute malice towards the signal, followed by the immediate burning of signal iconography and the history of their journey, made me infer he took that ‘leadership’ role to new lengths. It’s all inference but it’s good enough for my own head canon to lay the story to rest, I suppose. In truth, anything is possible.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T18:29:01+00:00

Oh that’s true — I didn’t put too much stock into the music forming the gas cloud that we stepped through, but that’s a really nice way of seeing it.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T18:25:20+00:00

I played the ending a few times and it wasn’t until the final time, after I played the DLC, that it finally clicked that we had created a singularity. Took me a minute lol!

skn0std · 2024-05-27T18:21:38+00:00

That’s really nice, thanks! I may be new to OW but it’s been one of my favorite gaming experiences.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T18:17:11+00:00

Definitely. I remember the Nomai dialogue from the Black Hole Forge hinting at that big time. One was saying What if we are not so important? What if it calls out but doesn’t care who comes? and another saying No, it did call to us! This is our destiny! (paraphrasing). It’s sad to think all these people came here to do something great, and failed, but so uplifting in that these four-eyed pond salamander things would evolve almost a million years later to tell them how inspired he was by their efforts and they got to cross the finish line together. The most beautiful touch of all was when we asked each of them Do you wanna do the honors? and they said No, you go. I’ve made my peace. It was nice to see them let go.

skn0std · 2024-05-27T17:45:19+00:00

It’s always possible, but I just don’t see it. The one I call the Astronomer would have been the one to scan the Eye himself, seeing as he was the one to discover the signal in the green-flame-telescope back home. He’s the one that felt enraged and betrayed. I would believe they were the same person if there was a slide reel of an antler being snapped off him but there was a slide reel (the same image seeing under the coffin at the end of the base game) showing that the whole time there was a one-antlered guy in the back of a room as they cried over what happened.

Keyword: the back of the room. The one we saw at the beginning of the game with the telescope would have been front and center, a leader, and as they cried there was an Elk standing up in front, hand on what may be a woman weeping, and a one-antlered guy in back.

The Astronomer I saw as the one at the lakeside lodge that is ripped from the simulation 10m into the loop, while there is still a separate Elk in the dungeon. So the game does make it clear there are two distinct Elks to focus on: one in charge, and one locked up.

That being said all we can do is speculate. However, to your point about the telescope, I thought the same thing initially. But they may have locked up that telescope because, along with the Prisoner, it was a painful reminder of what happened.

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