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[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Back in 2005 a co-worker bough a cam version of the new Fantastic Four movie from someone outside a Checkers. When he played it it turned out to be the 1994 Corman edition. I told him it’s a better movie but he was pissed. He never found that guy again.

[–] Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

Looks like you weren't the only person to believe the 1994 version to be the better one

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tis the new age of sailing the seas, yaaarrrr!

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This time, pirating OTT services because exclusives will make customers lose interest.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

Not to mention generally shitty business practices and eve more arbitrary regional locking than you might think. I was living in a non-English speaking country back when I was willing to pay for Netflix and I tried watching an anime only to find I couldn't get the English dub. I contacted support and their answer was "You don't live in an English-speaking region so it doesn't make sense for you to have access to it 🤷🏻‍♂️". I stopped paying on the spot.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 5 months ago

Hmm, I just realized I paid more per envelope than per blank DVD.

Well, I was just thinking that I'd rather give them out for free, or the price of DVD + Case. So I thought I could save on cases by putting them in envelopes, but then I realized I paid 10¢ per SL DVD of which I have like 50 left and 23¢ per C5 envelope.
Kinda wild.

Although they are fairly low quality.

[–] KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Should’ve sold some copies of the Christmas Star Wars episode

[–] Proteus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Holy mother of God, how can I unsee it

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

He's even got the sunglasses