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Yes, sir?
Are you teaching in Elementary? High School? Or College?
Minus the ponytail.
And with a better run. I have seen you in that Freddy Kreuger outfit of yours, chasing after people.
What a terrible thing to say about a friend. ;)
We must be in the same line of work then. ;)
Seagal isn t that close a friend of his.
I teach the 16 to 18 high schooler crowd, @MI6HQ. It's a fascinating job. 😉
Not since he fled to Russia. 😄
Then he blows everything up and gives an uplifting 10 minute speech about it.
:))
The best kind of ecoheroism is the kind that thinks it wise to blow up oil reserves so we can't burn them.
^ Directed by Steven Seagal, starring Johnny C and Sir Michael Cane. 😄
There's nothing cooler on the planet than a teacher blowing up stuff.
An ecological disaster film whose lead hero's name is 'Forrest.' That screenwriter came in clutch with his IQ of 550.
My DVD of the 1977 BBC Louis Jourdan COUNT DRACULA no longer plays and freezes up at the menu. It's OOP and very expensive to replace.
I've got a rare Liquid Tension Experiment concert DVD I'd hate to lose.
Seagal: "So the ozone layer is dying? Quick, let's get it to a safe place!"
Like Steven Seagal's career?
Like Steven Seagal's enemies.
A couple of ideas, @ToTheRight:
- In my experience, sometimes, when a DVD player fails to read a disc, you can still make a backup of it on a computer. For backing up my DVDs, I use an old, free software named DVD Shrink (intended for compressing a DVD to fit into a DVD-5, but that can be disabled). I'm sure there are more recent alternatives, though.
- Furthermore, perhaps only the sectors of the disc that contain the menu data (menu images, background music) are damaged or dirty. If so, maybe you can still recover the movie itself, using a DVD backup computer program and choosing to backup only the movie data.
- Also, cleaning the disc might help. I used to a buy a cleaning product for that, but I understand water on a cloth is enough. Cleaning from center to edge, not in circles.
- I'm in process of backing up my entire DVD collection before it starts failing on me (in fact, my SE DVD of AVTAK gave me a hard time on my last watch; luckily I had already made a backup). If you have the time and means to back up your DVDs, you should consider doing it.
Thanks. Those are good ideas.
I got out of the game quite awhile ago just because I moved onto other things and didn't want to spend the money on random booster packs and stuff (sold my entire collection for $800, not terrible, but certainly not the original investment. Half of that $800 was for the value of a single card). But I really enjoyed it so I've been semi-keeping up with what they've been doing.
Recently I thought it would be kind of fun to get a couple of decks and play with a friend, generally live out the nostalgia of enjoying the game in my past. I was very sad to learn that there is a product they will sell you now, which is a booster pack of 15 cards that have some aesthetic benefits.
$100. For 15 cards.
Of course, it's possible to just not buy this pack (there are no unique cards, just "cooler" looking cards), but it still bothers me that this product effectively creates first and second class Magic players.
And then today there is news of their 30th anniversary, and of course, new products to go along with it. The one I was reading about was this:
A box of four booster packs. 15 cards each = 60 cards. These cards all have unique backs, making them non-play legal, strictly collectors items. These cards are also all reprints of older cards from Magic's illustrious past.
$1,000. A thousand dollars, guys, for 60 cards.
Again, it's of course possible to play Magic without even looking at these insulting products. But this company needs a f***ing reality check. It's a great game and I'm sure a lot of work goes into designing the cards and the rules, but they're pieces of cardboard. $1,000 for 60 cards you can't even play with? A thousand dollars?
F*** this company. I'm glad I haven't bought a single thing from them in probably a decade.
EDIT: I'd love to get a good printer and create a "bootleg Magic league" where you come in, give me a decklist you've written up with cards that are tournament legal, and I just print them for you for free and we play.
You can find it on YouTube I think.
There's also a Facebook group on this BBC TV production. I'm a member though I've still to see the production itself. The best intentions and all that! :)
It is on YouTube! Haha! Didn't think of that. :D
I may get an all region Blu-ray player and just order a copy online from the UK at some point. It is a solid adaptation.