damships

1 hour ago, 702Steels said:

This is 702Steels, 702 for Las Vegas. I found some old photos of how my collection has changed over the years. Mostly in terms of which ones I chose to face forward, it's definitely evolved 😝 I went from Harry Potter and older, rare steelbooks to Game of Thrones and Marvel and one clicks. This is just one part of my collection, I have many more shelves I have to take photos of 😊              

    

Welcome to the MP Family! I'm in Las Vegas also!!! Good to have another local here. Beautiful collection! 

9 hours ago, Basil said:

well i just packed up 3 largest packing boxes you ever did see and put all my steelbooks into, getting ready to start moving.

all new steelbooks going to my dads hes gonna love me  

 

and  bareish looking bookcases now its starting to hit home now, its slowly beginning to get ready to move in next few months.

 

 

 

 

Each box takes 3 steels high 

3 rows wide about 30 or so long

 

Think its alot and each one needs moving by 2 people fooking heavy

 

Basil 😆

Be a good chap and mail those over to me. 

1 hour ago, Sidewinder said:

New teaser released:

 

I'm not sure, but this does not scream $1 Billion dollar budget to me. Game of Thrones was about $10 million per episode, roughly $100 million per season, and it looked SIGNIFICANTLY better than this. Maybe it's just me, but the integration of effects and practical variables just look off to me. As much of a LOTR fanatic I may be, I'm not too excited about this anymore. 

4 hours ago, Veum said:

 

Boy it looks like we have quite a lot of sickies amongst us, I hope you start feeling better soon!

 

I’m still trying to get an MRI appointment, I need them to call me back to schedule, yeesh!!

Imaging appointments are always a hassle! So obnoxious to get done. It was nightmare scheduling a CT scan for me last year. I hope they schedule you soon. And thank you for the kind wishes sir! 

2 hours ago, GuyIncognit0 said:

 

Glad to hear they got through it okay!

 

My daughter woke up feeling ill this morning and she just tested positive 😬. We've decided to call this the "birthday virus" since I tested positive the night before my birthday in May and now my daughter is positive on my wife's birthday...ugh. I wouldn't be shocked if I wind up with it for the second time in two months as I hear this variant is known for getting around immunity. We'll see I guess.

 

Anyway, hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

 

 

Ugh, my condolences brother! That sucks. Keep staying optimistic! It definitely helped a lot when I'd watch movies or just have conversations with the wife. I hope she recovers safely and quickly! 

1 minute ago, Basil said:

@damships can beat you covid offering (get well soon btw 👍)

my parents both got it together this week just getting over it now

dad 83 mum 75 luckily they have lots of vaccine injections so thank god it was a heavy cold only dread to think what they would have been like had they NOT had the vaccine, doesn't bear thinking about.

 

 

basil 👍

Thanks man! I'm glad your parents are getting over it! It's not fun to have. I have all my vaccine/boosters and it still hit me hard. No fever today though so I'm thankful for that though! I hope they recover fast Basil! 

16 minutes ago, Squeegie McGee said:

Feel better soon @damships!

 

Thank you so much!!! I'm slowly getting there. It's definitely been a process. 

1 minute ago, GuyIncognit0 said:

Sorry to hear about the COVID 😷. Hope you get well soon!

 

I don’t think we know about future GBs yet. I know PayPal may be undergoing some changes in the future that could impact payments but until we hear from the boss, your guess is as good as mine

Thanks man! I appreciate you!

Oh, wow! That's surprising coming from PayPal. Hopefully it's nothing too drastic! Any word when PayPal is changing it up?

7 minutes ago, Gary K said:

Get well soon!

Thank you, sir! It hasn't been fun that's for sure! 

5 hours ago, Basil said:

BLUFANS DARK KNIGHT ONE CLICK MUST BE PAID FOR VERY SHORTLY IN MP STORE OR WILL LOSE YOU COPY!!!!!!!

pay in the mp store on link below if you are on the GB list you must pay this way now as set up by john there are 

NO INVOICES COMING THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://mediapsychos.com/store/

 

currently 52 members have less than 

 

45 hours or less to pay from now.

ones that don't pay will be banned according with MP'S

non paying rules.

 

*****THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER WARNING*****

Basil 👍

Is this just for The Dark Knight? Or are all future GB's going to be conducted this way? 

I, unfortunately, have had COVID for the last 2 days. Feeling a bit better today though. But probably not going to feel good again when my wife finds out LOTR is invoicing soon. 

On 6/24/2022 at 6:52 AM, Veum said:

 

🥤☕ Top of the day to ya, going to be ☀️Very warm 🥵 my friends…good day there Veum here❣️🙏🤠

 

DAY

89°Hi

RealFeel® 96°

Hot

RealFeel Shade™ 87°

Very Warm

6/24

Mostly sunny and very warm; possible danger of dehydration and heat stroke while doing strenuous activities

@Veum If you think that’s warm, check out my weather for the day. 😂

This is my nerdy office! Still in progress. Have to hang the premium lightsabers up on the wall and get more shelves. I’ll take pics of the other wall with my Nolan autographs later. Also waiting for my new desk! Still in progress, but I’m happy for now. Better than boxes lol. 🤪

13 hours ago, Basil said:

 

I have all to look forward to in next few months but mine will all be custom light, in it's own steelbook room separate from rest of house

think I call it the steelbook vault 🥳

 

Best bit she will not be able to get near them and wreck the order etc

 

Basil 

Wowwww!!!! Looks incredible!!! 

23 hours ago, Basil said:

 

who is this stranger  

Lmaooo. Has it been that long?! Sorry guys! After the house I ended up getting a new job as well!

A genuine surprise today! Thanks so much MP! And thanks for the swag! Will open this once I have a protector! 
 

Anyone get their Dune yet? Prestige is coming at the end of the month?

I’m excited for Black Adam. I’m just sad we probably won’t see him go head-to-head with Cavill’s Superman. That would be amazing. 😭

Also, through learning about guns and shooting over the last few years, the more and more I found out about how silly some gun control measures are. (Not all, but most). 

When I bought my shotgun, it came with a plastic little tube where the shells are loaded into. The tube keeps you from loading the full amount of shells the shot gun is built to take. My shotgun allows me to load 5+1 (5 shells, with one in the chamber). The tube is due to California law. In California, they limit the shotgun rounds to 3+1 (I believe). If I wanted to conduct a mass shooting, all I’d have to do is take the plastic tube out. TA-DAAA, I can load 5+1.

Magazine limits don’t help. Firstly, you can easily purchase 30 round magazines locally or online. It’s not difficult at all due to mass manufacturing and accessibility. Secondly, if I had no access to higher capacity magazines, all I’d need to do is pre-load several 10 round magazines. Shooters are already doing this with 30 round magazines. It’s ridiculously easy and fast to load a magazine into an AR15. Button release. Slap new one in. Pull handle. Done. 5-7 seconds. 
 

It just gets kind of corny and weird with some of the gun control measures.  

Best gun control reform would be age limits, increasing time between purchase and receiving the firearm, and mandated safety training. Bump Stocks were also really good to ban and I agreed with that. Still torn on the psychological testing portion though. 
 

@GuyIncognit0 @Basil

4 hours ago, GuyIncognit0 said:

 

I was about to respond to this but then my daughter decided to dump glue and acrylic paint onto the carpet...

 

 

Anyway, knowing your profession, I'm really interested in your perspective. I know that psychologists are in low number/high demand as it is, is that your primary reason for being torn? Or is it more along the lines of whether it would actually result in any change (people find workarounds, etc)?

 

I think of Colorado and the initial medical requirement to obtain marijuana whenever this comes up. All of a sudden damn near everyone had a note saying they were in need of it and dispensaries outnumbered Starbucks locations. Obviously guns and marijuana are not equals, I just wanted to use that to illustrate my thoughts. 

 

Btw, totally fine if you're not comfortable expanding on it. I just love civil discussion 👍

 

 

I’m comfortable expanding on it! No worries.

I’m torn for two reasons primarily:

1) As much as the public wants to believe that mental health professionals can stop mass shooters, there is only so much we can do. I remember reading an article where a psychiatrist described hospitalizing a patient with homicidal ideations. They were in there for one week. They stabilized and calmed down, but the only thing that it really takes to get out of the hospital is “Oh, I’m not thinking or feeling that anymore”. She (the psychiatrist) could protest to keep him longer (a few days) if she had a clinical assumption about his well-being, but a patient could easily fight that off with an appeal. So, when it comes to screening, it can be difficult. People, unfortunately, are good liars. And as much as we are trained, people can easily lie through an evaluation. Then we are left with liability. All of a sudden, I can be held liable if I okay someone for a firearm and maybe later on they commit murder or a mass shooting. Liability, resources, and low reliability and validity of screening measures would be one of my concerns. Also, what diagnoses are okay to have a firearm? Who gets to decide that? Can someone with Generalized Anxiety Disorder have a gun and a person with Major Depression can’t? Can the OCD client have one? Is it all mental health diagnoses? Wouldn’t that be discrimination? This would be a nightmare to try to circumnavigate. 
 

2) Corruption. If the government were to ever be corrupt all they’d need to say is “Oh, Mr. X has anxiety. He shouldn’t get a weapon.” It could potentially strip people’s rights who really don’t have any significant mental health issues. This is not so much a concern here, but it happens. I brought up Hong Kong for example. I doubt China wants to allow citizens the right to bear arms. Things would be happening a lot differently. 
 

It’s a complicated issue overall.
 

And yes, people will always find work around. Look at drugs. They’re illegal, but people get them 24/7. Same with guns. They’re flooded in cities and it’s not difficult buying one if you didn’t want to do it legally. Laws won’t stop someone from getting one if they wanted one. We’ve already passed the point of mass-scale manufacturing and they’re everywhere. 

14 hours ago, Basil said:

@damships thank you for your long and detailed reply, i get there is no one specific answer and prob many ways around it all like black market etc.

like the idea of 21 plus i may go with 25 just to be safe and this would be only on assault rifles also i would agree with correct training and more background checks and the 30 days before took home, personally think maybe should just be used at gun clubs and kept there in locked cabinets, because the question in my mind becomes "where would you need to use an assault rifle?"

should not need to use that down the woods or wilderness really unless got a pack of bears coming at you.

 

its more about common sense and tbh really its about time a serious conversation did happen with all the school shootings.

im not against anyone have a gun whether hand held or a general rifle, shotgun or such like. more about ones that rambo carries and really have one purpose to run everything down.

at a gun club can have all the fun you want and its still kept in check thats all.

remove the danger of youngsters or drunks or drug users.

at least if did that going forward starting to head in the right direction for the better than current ignore it situation as money is involved 

 

i know everyone wont be pleased what ever is done as its deemed invading your rights but what im saying is not about that, its about whats appropriate for all and i really feel for you with your wife being a teacher a very noble profession, i can imagine every time you here of another school shooting how your heart must race till you realise its nowhere near her, you have my deepest respect for you and your wife 👍

 

 

basil 🙏

Thank you for the kind words Basil! I agree with mostly everything you’re saying. I totally get it! I’m hoping everyone can find a way around this.

As for assault rifles, I think a lot of the general public is misinformed about them. Lots of people think AR stands for “assault rifle” and it doesn’t (it stands for ArmaLite Rifle). AR15 is a “style” of rifle or platform. It isn’t a select type of rifle that one can just ban outright. There are so many variants on the AR platform that banning it is a legislative nightmare.

They’re semi-automatic (each shot taken means one pull of the trigger, they aren’t automatic where you can hold the trigger and just spray shots). Automatic AR15s are illegal here. Outside of AR15s, there are SEVERAL other semi-automatic rifles one can utilize with the same functionality (Reugers, Scars, etc). It’s just that the AR15 is just “popular”. If it were somehow banned, people would turn to the plethora of other semi-automatic rifles that could do the same amount of damage. But we can’t ban ALL semi-automatic rifles. Some are the ones used for hunting, etc. 

As for why would someone need an AR15? For me, it’s mainly just home defense and recreational shooting. It’s fun shooting long distance targets, changing scopes on it, and it’s highly accurate for home defense. But if it were banned, just know there’s tons of other weapons people could turn to unfortunately.

I do hope we figure something out soon. 🙏 Because my heart breaks every time this happens. This senseless violence needs to stop. 

43 minutes ago, Basil said:

good morning well its 3.33am here in the uk and i can't sleep.

yesterday i was at work and heard the interview on the radio of the poor teacher that had to go thru the shooting at the school and as he talked i cried my eyes out and i guess its has really stuck with me and the complete lack of action from the police and that all those lives where lost due to that inaction.

i completely feel for him and think what the hell is the point of the police giving them guns only to stand outside for the best part of an hour it really is beggars belief.

i sorry if this upsets any of you but i really need to get this off my chest and think why does america need assault weapons sold to anyone?

how many times does the same thing have to happen again and again, before you put those weapons in gun clubs or sold to the over 25's or such like.

and if anyone doubts my sincerity please watch interview that i heard only the teacher bit and tell me its not time some change happened over there, rather than these school mass shootings.

that teacher and kids should never have to thru that ever, peace to the children❤️

 

 

poor poor man

basil 🙏

This is a tough one, Basil. I used to be completely pro-gun control prior to COVID. But things have changed so much and now I’m more of a centrist with it. I totally see both sides. I’m currently a gun owner (since COVID started, I’ve purchased a pistol, shotgun, and an AR15). I am a responsible gun owner and use them strictly for home defense and recreational shooting. 

I am definitely not opposed to some form of gun reform though. Perhaps having only people that are 21 years or older purchase guns would be a good one. Another form of gun reform I’d like to see is maybe passing some form of safety training before being allowed to take the gun home. I’m torn on psychological testing. 
 

I’m so torn with this issue (which is why I consider myself a centrist with it). Im definitely no gun-nut, but see arguments from both sides.
 

On one side, the US has WAY too many guns. Gun control isn’t possible and it’s stupid to try with SOME approaches. If someone wants to end their life and conduct a mass shooting, they can easily find a gun illegally (online sales, on the street). Gun control measures aren’t going to stop them. Moreover, I do think some people at schools need to be armed. My wife is a teacher, and at this point, I want her armed, but I understand people’s hesitancy with it. My friend is a gun enthusiast, but does NOT want teacher’s armed because he has children, which I completely understand. At this point, in my opinion, It’s a deterrent we unfortunately need (because there already millions of guns flooding the country). A mass shooter will less likely make an attempt if they knew some staff were armed. Also, when I see countries like Russia and China…I’m grateful for being armed. China would not be able to do what they’re doing in Hong Kong and Beijing if the citizens were armed. It would be a completely different scenario.

On the other hand, some gun control can definitely help. Increasing the age could have stopped this individual. Forcing training and testing would have further stopped him or delayed it to where someone could intervene. I’m also in support of delaying the time between background check and gun being taken home. Maybe they should have someone wait 30 days before being able to take a gun home. 
 

I don’t see a clear answer. I’m so sick of this happening. It breaks my heart. But I honestly think there are just way too many guns in this country to where gun control is impossible. If someone wants to do it, they’re gonna do it because they can easily get a gun illegally. I’ve had TONS of clients in the past who illegally gotten weapons.
 

If you ban an “AR15”, there is no clear definition of what that is from a legislative perspective. Someone can easily change parts of an AR15 (barrel, stock, magazine, receiver) and all of a sudden it’s “legal”. Someone can also “make” an AR15 on their own, which technically isn’t “illegal”. It’s almost like the drug “spice”. It’s illegal, but people have thrown different chemicals into it to where some versions of “spice” aren’t illegal. 
 

It’s all a mess. But, unfortunately, at this point the answer is just arming people and teaching them how to defend themselves. Otherwise, this will keep happening and people will find and get guns regardless of the law. There was a recent attempted mass shooting in Virginia. He was stopped and killed by an armed citizen. I can see that happening elsewhere. 

Hope everyone is doing well! Was anyone else upset with Boston on Sunday? 😂

Hope everyone is doing well! I’m patiently waiting for Dune. Saw some in-hand videos yesterday and the DL looks awesome 🤤