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spooky
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 10:39 |
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Die Hard isn't really a Christmas movie, it's primarily an action movie pitting a tough cop against a group of terrorists. The fact that it takes place during Christmas doesn't make it a Christmas movie. That's like saying that Star Wars Holiday Special is a Life Day movie or that Gremlins is a Christmas movie. Or that Independence Day is an Independence Day movie. Or that Freaky Friday is a Friday movie. Or that Friday is a movie about Friday. It's ridiculous. Anyway, first laserdisc I watched? Picture dis: In 2001 I was just a lowley Gwailo walking along the cherry blossom-lined main avenue leading to Tokyo Gakugei Daigaku (In Japanese: "Tooookyouuu Gaykoogay Yunibassaaateee") where I was an exchange student or "exchangee sutudentooooh", if you will. I approached the library (in traditional Japanese: "Riburaree") with a copy of Macross The movie : Perfect Edition (1984) [ https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/11650/BEAL-448/Macross-The-movie-:-Perfect-Edition] in a battered box under my arm. I had recently acquired it from an Animate bargain bin in Ikebukuro for 1000 yen. I entered the library and made my way past the hordes of hard studying Tomokos and Takashis to reach the third floor where a bank of four industrial laserdisc players and monitors lay unoccupied. I donned headphones and sat through 20 minutes of the first CAV disc. This is great I thought but I couldn't understand a damn thing anyone was saying. I retired to my dorm room and contemplated my Japanese experience. For the next 9 months I tried to learn the local language but failed due to some kind of brain damage. I returned to my home turf of Australia in 2002 and proceeded to the local Cash Converters to purchase a used laserdisc player ("laysa disc playa" in Australian) to supplement my VCR ("video" in Australian). The store person assured me the laysa disc playa I purchased would play "Enteeesccee" "yeah, nah it has entee-escee, yeah". he stated with confidence. I got home and put in the first disc of Macross. Nothing. I returned to the cashies and demanded my dollarydoos back, because this playa, I assured them was PAL only and PAL was no pal o mine. It never has been. f**k PAL. Today in 2024 Macross The movie: Perfect Edition sits proudly on my shelfy, and I have an NTSC player to play it. Sometimes, I play it.
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 21:48 |
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That post was what I would describe as problematic. The word, btw, according to Webster, was first used in 1609. It has seen a recent rise in popularity because it’s no longer politically correct to call people unfixable batshit crazy whack jobs. So…you benefit from it specifically. I wouldn’t complain. Instead of saying you’re an anti-human incel who hates his parents, stalks LDDB users off this site, and has had innumerable banned accounts I just said “problematic”. I was being very nice.
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spooky
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 02:15 |
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signofzeta wrote: stalks LDDB users off this site whu? who?
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 02:46 |
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spooky wrote: signofzeta wrote: stalks LDDB users off this site whu? who? I don’t know what’s funnier. The idea that you’re essentially agreeing to everything I said but one or that you forgot that you were s**t posting on my YouTube videos.
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spooky
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Post subject: Re: What was the first laserdisc you watched? Posted: 18 Apr 2024, 12:12 |
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sabatini wrote: A 5 part chemistry lesson in 9th grade science class, circa 2000. Cool. btw I just landed a box full of mid to late '90s lectures on polynomials etc from a US university on 3M broadcast tapes. I couldn't help watching a few.
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