InfiniteDoors

I just love how Iron Man was plastered all over the posters, shoved into the trailers, all of the marketing flat out showing Tony and Peter teaming up against Vulture, zipping through New York. Obviously retailers followed suit, seeing how this is the official artwork they have to use.

And then Tony isn't in much of the movie, and the Iron Man suit even less.

Ah well.

15 minutes ago, swish said:

OC

 

 

FS

 

7 minutes ago, GroundDigger said:

I'm sorry but wtf is that FS

Yeah, this yellow does not pop. Looks more like old piss, and the stickerbook approach sucks.

The OC sucks too. Whole thing will probably be another skip.

27 minutes ago, extantsrevenge said:

Filmarnea with WEA Steelbook (4 Editions + 2 Steelbook only configurations)

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I think I like FAC's the best. Like at the very least the yellow pops like crazy

35 minutes ago, GroundDigger said:

And don't forget Into & Across the Spiderverse

Actually this made me curious, so I checked the global list. Manta has only ever done 1 animated movie, Lego Batman.

I actually did forget lol. Yeah we'll get those too.

I wonder if the Raimi trilogy will also clog up the pipeline.

And as for the Amazing Spider-Man movies, we better start saving up now! They will definitely happen!

After having a solid month of Easter challenges, and then almost another month of.... nothing, you really look back and appreciate what you had. I am 100% missing weekly interaction with you guys, whether it's forced (I say that lovingly) or not.

Bring on Challenge 39 Nils!

Seems odd to ask for a grand if it wasn't authenticated first. It's just an old hunk of plastic otherwise, no wonder everyone questioned it. That being said, it would've been a total steal if sold

They're Upper Deckers now, if the show kept going they'd be Command Deckers. I'm pretty sure McMahon has said before that he doesn't want the show to continue forever, and after getting promoted it makes enough sense to end it. At least they weren't unceremoniously canceled like Prodigy, thankfully Netflix saved it.

This isn't the Christian Bale movie about an insane smiling psychopath I was expecting from Manta Lab...

I'm surprised no one's posted about the new Disco episodes yet. Unless everyone forgot when the season started lol

I liked the first two episodes for the most part, I'm more engaged with this season long plot than I was with the Burn or the DMA, because there's no huge galaxy-wide threat... yet.

Putting a steel inside isn't really necessary, and even if it was, CE would then be restricted mainly to current/overdone titles. This is how we only get MCU stuff or another 2049 release, with the rare offbeat choice.

That being said, Creator Era is already too Disney-heavy. Doing Pirates alone means five separate releases, when they could've combined at least the first three, like with the OT (which was technically 3, but at least able to be packaged together).

1 hour ago, extantsrevenge said:

2nd Place is shared among @Pinkulo2 @BreakBeatDJ @InfiniteDoors with 124 Points each.

I'm just kidding, because I won in a different category 😏

I'm just kidding, wow! It's been quite a month, playing game after game after game, it was a ton of fun! I actually hope next Easter is something similar, or at least not as soul crushing as last time... shiver

Thank you to everyone who organized the games, congratulations to all the winners, double congratulations to all the other players, and a special GO TO HELL! to Psycho Bunny, that furry little SOB.

See you all next time!

Also this is pretty sweet

How about next year we just have a big barbecue? We can even invite Psycho Bunny...

The very next round would've given me my very first bingo...

I can't skip around with anything, Trek or not. I'll end up just watching linearly from that point on.

1 hour ago, hansreinhardt said:

Yeah I wouldn't be able to sell everyone else in the house on spending more for something they'll just ignore in favor of Netflix, Hulu, etc

22 minutes ago, hansreinhardt said:

I’ve never actually watched it chronologically like that, definitely going to give it a try. 

How do you normally watch then, just skip around to whatever episode you want? Watch all of Voyager for example, but then go to TNG?

2 minutes ago, hansreinhardt said:

If you change your mind down the road on Plex, it’s surprisingly easy to setup if you can leave a computer on 24/7. My old Mac Pro is running mine. It’s a 2010 model so it’s power hungry as hell. 

Maybe if I got a cheap-ish PC just to run the server. I have a laptop but the battery is garbage and overheats like crazy, CPU is weak, overall it just sucks. Is the increase to your electricity bill noticeable?

Just now, hansreinhardt said:

I’ve never actually watched it chronologically like that, definitely going to give it a try. 

Are you talking about the timeline? I meant release order, but since I mentioned going from Enterprise to TOS I could see how one would think I meant chronological. I'll never understand people who do that btw, for any franchise. The time travel episodes alone would be a huge pain in the ass to navigate, then there's flashbacks, movies/episodes taking place at the same time, and so on. It also loses narrative cohesion, thematic significance, etc.

6 minutes ago, hansreinhardt said:

What format are you ripping to? Are you going to use something like Plex? I’m tempted to do the same with my Trek collection. Especially for the Epic Pak releases, those are such a pain.

I thought about Plex, but setting up a server, leaving my computer on 24/7, researching NAS, it all sounds like a headache, and I would still need to rip everything anyway, so maybe in the future I'll reconsider. The only reason I even thought about getting Plex was so I could watch Trek at work again, but that's not exactly worth it. If anything I could just take my SSD with me, plug it in. Same goes for trips and any other time away from home.

Maybe I could save myself a few gigs and not even bother with These Are the Voyages lol. Speaking of, chronological viewing would mean I'd have to stop in the middle of The Pegasus to watch this entire episode, since the framing device is Riker in the holodeck.

I used to watch everything from TOS to Enterprise on a loop back when it was on US Netflix. Finished Terra Prime? Go right back to The Man Trap, rinse and repeat. But ever since it was all pulled, I haven't gone back to watch it. Not only because I no longer had easy access, and CBS All-Access/Paramount Plus sucks balls, but after the millionth viewing it might've been time to take a multi-year break (absence makes the heart grow fonder!).

However, P+ is no longer "The Home of Star Trek". They keep licensing everything out (the movies are currently on Max instead of P+), and then there's the whole Prodigy debacle. This stupidity isn't exclusive to them though, the other streamers do it as well. Even today, Max dropped about 30 DC titles from its catalog, some of it even going to Disney Plus (surprisingly not an April Fool's joke, granted it's via Hulu). Let's not even get into the tomfoolery Zaslav is up to with trying to get the biggest tax breaks possible.

So what is a guy to do, besides subscribe to everything? Well, there's a few ways to go about it. Buy the shows online on something like Prime or Vudu, but you don't actually own it and access can be revoked at any time. You could sail the seven seas 🏴‍☠️ ...

Or you could buy physical copes like a fine, upstanding citizen! Then you can do whatever you want, because those are 10000% yours. And since I love the convenience of streaming, but don't want to be shackled to their whims, I'm now in the process of ripping my disks and storing it on a large SSD.

Just barely started with TOS, getting the remastered versions with my precious subtitles, then I'll move onto the movies, TNG, DS9, and so on. So far it takes about an hour to rip 4 episodes, all about 40-ish minutes each. It's going to take some time for sure, but I'll get there. Then I could start digitizing the rest of my disks that I've picked up since I began collecting steelbooks. There's also the little matter of 4K being a bit of a problem to rip with certain drives, but I don't have to worry about that right now. It's going to be a long road...

11 minutes ago, Psycho Bunny said:

everyone. I got some news for you

 

 

THE EVENT IS OVER

YOU ALL WASTED 1 MONTH

NO ONE HAS WON BUT ME

I'M THE RULER NOW

 

 

Good game Psycho Bunny. Well deserved.

I'll see you next time

1 minute ago, hal56 said:

Bingo

2 hours ago, hal56 said:

Back looks awesome.

Get rid of the front.

Stylistically, the front looks like an uninspired Titanic rehash with the same weird looking faces.

It seems the artist has a fixed notion on how a face looks and isnt quite able to adapt this to the actual character to be drawn.  Hope that makes sense but that is the best way to describe it why it looks weird to me.

I'd actually say the faces look better here compared to Titanic's. I still don't really like the Hollywood poster thing where it's just a bunch of floating heads, but it's still decent enough.

I agree with everyone that the back is just badass!

I have a string of gifs ready to go if I lose once again. That, and I know where Nils lives...

1 minute ago, extantsrevenge said:

OMG

 

If I'm not completely wrong you actually have the only Bingo today 😲.

 

And I thought about increasing the Number of Bingos in this Game to 8 because it is easter, but nobody could claim them, because nobody has any Bingo 😂.

 

Maybe we shoud do it anyway so we can continue to play tomorrow, which would be the big final of our event 🤔. What do you guys think?

Sure, give us another round. But only if I get 10 bingos in one go!

On 3/28/2024 at 10:35 PM, InfiniteDoors said:

Bungo!

That's when you have three potential bingos but are missing a number each

57 minutes ago, Chief_lookout said:

I need one more number in three different directions!

That's a bungo!