#i want blu-ray version

[stretchbrock]

RAINBOW HARVEST and KRISTIN DATTILO as MEGAN GORDON and NIKKI CHANDLER in MIRROR, MIRROR (1990) dir. Marina Sargenti 

#mirror mirror #mirror mirror 1990 #mirrormirroredit #90sedit #80sedit #rainbow harvest #horroredit #filmedit #kristin dattilo #sorry about the quality there isnt a blu ray version available :( #see this movie is so gayy but i dont want to tag it with sapphic stuff bc they arent necessarily canon :[ #fyeahmovies #my gifs

[rmorde]

What's happening with MAPPA ?

Their scheduling is simply terrible and its killing animators on the inside. Many big name animators are posting online how little of a time they are being given to work on the episode. I have seen one artist post how they only have 5 days (!) to draw a sequence. The Choso vs Yuji episode only finished post-production BARELY A DAY before it aired. It's insane.

Shibuya Arc is action-heavy and the expectations for the animation is high. Artists HAVE to deliver high quality work on the project because their reputation is on the line.

Some of the artists have been posting how hellish it is to work on MAPPA. The director of the last episode felt so bad about how "terrible" it is and apologized. Some have barely enough time to submit their sketches, in-between art, key frames, corrections, etc.

Now, for us, the episode is great. However, "sakuga" fans are more discerning and would see how its faltering in some parts. They can tell how the staff is struggling and are being forced to produce "subpar" results because of the 7 day production schedule.

*Sakuga = High quality Animation = 24 frames (drawings) per second

The staff takes great pride in their work. So, having to deliver subpar "sakuga" to audiences is horrible for their mentality and confidence. They do not want that to be their legacy - which is a big deal for them.

Think these episodes look great already? Had the animators have more time, they would have looked even better!

The fact that the staff can still make episodes look so good by sheer will and god-like drawing skills despite their schedule should be given a lot of respect and admiration.

Now, why haven't the staff been given more time?

It's because MAPPA is greedy. Not only is the studio producing JJK. They have other big projects going on alongside it: AOT, Vinland Saga, CSM. All of them had to look good. The staff have barely any time to breathe as they are treated like machines to deliver high quality animation season after season.

While CSM is being produced, the staff are already working on JJK 0 and then JJK S2 Hidden Inventory. It resulted with CSM's last few episodes being janky. JJK 0 was great and Hidden Inventory, obviously, was really polished (at the cost of Hell's Paradise being average imo tho).

Then we have Shibuya Arc. In all honesty, I wished they have delayed this a bit later. Maybe turned it into a winter season anime because again Shibuya Arc is:

Very very hyped. It HAS to look good and polished.

Lots of Action. Action is like the crowning jewel of any shonen anime and JJK has the reputation of being the best at delivering it. They CANNOT mess this up. *Cue PTSD to the insane complaints of the Toji vs Gojo Round 2 + Yuji vs Locust Curse episodes*

The solution should have been: Delay the anime so the animators can breathe and deliver their best which would make Shibuya Arc as polished, if not better, than Hidden Inventory.

Sadly, with MAPPA's insanity, it is impossible:

The staff are juggling so many high-tier projects. They have no room to "take their time" so to speak. They have to "GO! GO! GO!"

The "airtime" has already been reserved. Any delays would cost them losing a slot of airtime which meant the series MAY NOT completely be televised (which I think was the fate of ZOM100). Lost airtime means lost profit and MAPPA can't have that.

Fan anticipation. I wish I could lie about it but I just know some entitled assholes would harass the studio and the staff about animating Shibuya Arc ASAP. Fans can really put a lot of hype and pressure for JJK at the same time.

Now here are just my own opinion. But other factors may be:

4. MAPPA wants to capitalize Halloween. Just look at all the merch and collab events! All profits from those would go to the studio and not Gege. Gege's profit are JUST from the manga. Anime-related merch/products would be for the benefit of its manufacturers, studio, and shops only.

5. Timing things with the manga. Prime example: Gojo. (I am not too sure about this tho).

One reason I am excluding is the staff not working on the project because they may be busy with something else. JJK is a huge! New animators would love to have that as part of their portfolio. Big names in the industry would have wanted to work on it too because of the challenge it poses and their love for the manga series or animation in general as well.

TL;DR: It's all MAPPA's fault and not the staff. The studio wanted everything out of greediness while the animators just want to bring out their very best at their own pace.

#i'm so sorry that this became really long #but this is the gist of it i think #i may have missed or mixed up a few things #i'll clarify further when i have more time #but yeah... MAPPA is just too greedy and the animators suffer for it #hence why i am now hesitating about getting the blu-rays #blu-rays would have the most polished version of the animators' work and i wanna see them #but i would be lining the pockets of the higher-ups of the studio at the same time #i'm torn because i want to show appreciation of the staff but at the cost of inadvertently supporting MAPPA's terrible business practices #it is also the main reason why i have burning hatred for assholes who complain about 'wrong angles' or 'art style ugly' or 'staff used AI' #the animators are practically killing themselves to entertain us #the least we could do is appreciate them and find a way to alleviate their stress with kind words #instead of putting salt on their wounds with ignorant and entitled complaints #again sorry if this became really long #thanks for the ask

[sortanonymous]

I know expecting Congress to get anything right these days is like expecting to see a triple rainbow in the Arctic, but if we could just get sticky, scratchy, awful cardboard sleeves for physical media discs illegalized, that would just be lovely!

#cd #cd collection #cd collector #physical storage media #physical media #dvd #blu ray #sorry to spoil that collection post i was just teasing but my beatles red and blue remix albums just came in #and both blue album discs got so messed up by damaged sleeves that it feels like a miracle that the flac files seemed to be ripped properly #it seems they basically changed nothing besides the back text and booklet from the packaging of the 2010 cd versions #not good since at least the white album and 1 remix cd's had digipak slots just how it should be #(don't know about the other remix cd's since i only have white album and the version of 1 with the dvd but still) #i have a few sleeve cd's like this but none nearly as bad this #and don't even get me started on dvd's and blu rays like this! #i can't even count how many dvd's and blu ray's i've either bought or wanted to buy separate replacement cases for #(although admittedly a good chunk of them aren't sleeves but just bad cases or disc holders) #please better apple (or sony or paul and ringo or giles or whoever handles these cd's) never do sleeves again #the beatles #bad packaging

[good-omens-scrapbook]

Well, that’s done it - Good Omens S2 was watchable on @amazonprime without ads during the first part of the month, but today it’s riddled with ads.

S1 is even more laden with ads. And while I give Amazon a tiny bit of credit for at least putting commercials in places that they fit (instead of just in the middle of a sentence, like YouTube does), this does NOT motivate me to pay the extra fee to go ad-free - I’m irritated instead. Jeff Bezos has enough of my money to last him a while.

I turned it off and watched another service rather than deal with that.

#good omens #good omens on prime #amazon prime #I really want the blu-ray version

[spock-smokes-weed]

so one statement from the WGA strike that really stuck out to me, is how they said that projects as recent as five years ago can't be found on any streaming service because these platforms would rather just pull something than pay the writers residuals

and I've bumped into this problem several times of not being able to find movie and shows on streaming platforms. But recently I've gotten really into that Shining sequel that came out a bit ago. I wanted to watch it because I'm an Ewan simp, but once I started looking for it I couldn't find it anywhere.

Doctor Sleep came out in 2019, and it was on both Netflix and HBO Max as of LAST YEAR, but now you can only watch it if you rent it. The Shining is still on HBO Max, but the direct sequel that's not even half a decade old isn't accessible.

#wga strike #doctor sleep #i want to watch the directors cut cus i really did like the movie #but you can't even rent that version #only buy it #so i think i'll just buy the blu ray because what the fuck

[dogzcats]

when you try and buy something and they only made it for dvd..... a specific kind of torture

#I just want that 1080p #I know y'all got that HD version JUST PUT IT ON BLU RAY

[atomicsuperrobot]

Looking at that article and like... apparently they wanted them to look mostly the same, but also more "adult/cool" in seasons 3 and 4?? Which. Idk man, they look basically the exact same to me. I guess that explains Oniyama's reaction to Joker at the beginning of season 3, tho; since I don't know the original air dates, I had just assumed it was a bit of a fourth wall break referencing a gap between seasons- which it still could well be; vaguely recall references to the year 2015 in season 2, and that article is dated 2016, so it might've been several months like I assumed. But it'd also fit with an in-universe timeskip, if such a thing was meant to be implied. Since they look, sound, and act exactly the same, tho, it flew right over my head...

(The lead character designer once drew Queen's and Joker's adult forms as an illustration for a magazine; they looked exactly the same there, too, to the point where it looks like their teen selves were cosplaying their adult selves. I wonder if she is simply not very good at aging up characters, particularly ones with deliberately "cute" designs... Consequently, this makes a slightly humorous (if very much unintentional) callback to the unused concept of Joker as an ageless immortal.)

Another interesting thing to note is that apparently, Hosshi laying eggs that predict the future via small objects, is unique to the anime- or at least has its origins there. Dunno if it was one of the ideas that got adopted later on, or not.

Akai not knowing what videogames are doesn't surprise me at all, but I feel that he'd very much enjoy them after a basic rundown. (Also, how would he intend to make konpeito of all things, spicy...?)

I hadn't noticed that Akai's riddles rhymed! That's a fun concept that absolutely doesn't translate at all, sadly... It's something I might wanna take into account in the future when writing fics, bc that'd be fun to play with (tho I'm kind of bad at rhyming poetry, so idk if I'd be able to pull it off...).

#Kaitou Joker #Mun Post #this honestly changes my perspective on things a little bit; albeit not by much #bc I feel that the changes made were largely unsuccessful in some aspects... also the animation often does not match #the style used in the references for those seasons; tho it's possible that they fixed it #and the versions that were on crunchyroll used the original versions that had a lot of offmodel wonk in them #I know for a fact that some episodes had reanimated scenes from the second airing onwards; but idk which version CR used #and that is where most rips come from; have yet to find any decent blu-ray raws; even tho I really want to #anyways the extra tidbits tend to be kind of fun lol #little surprised that joker wasn't also designated a potentially useless lump of a spouse; I suppose he has SOME talents...

[marshmallowgoop]

You know, I'd really like to be more into collecting manga, but I find collecting anime so much... well, easier probably isn't the right word, but I do prefer it, for a few reasons.

Space. Discs can be condensed. You can turn something ridiculous like this...

...into maybe a couple dozen actual cases on the shelf. I particularly like using 6-DVD cases; that's as many discs as you can comfortably fit into a standard 14mm DVD case, so you can shrink things down considerably and still display some of the original jacket art.

And, sure, grouping multiple discs together can be confusing (I keep a literal document to sort out where everything is) and mismatched (the Japanese Blu-rays of DetCo films that I'm pairing with the FUNimation English-language DVDs come to mind), but it's a space-saving method that can be done.

Books, on the other hand, can't exactly be made smaller once you have them. It's... pretty impossible.

2. Digital copies. So, sure, physical books can't exactly be made smaller, but you can get digital copies, right? This is true, but... I'm a sucker for physical media. The nice thing about DVDs and Blu-rays is that if you buy a physical copy, there might be a digital copy attached, and you can also make your own. But I don't know of any manga that comes with a digital copy if you buy the physical thing, and manga is also much harder to digitize yourself.

3. Languages. I like comparing the original text to its English translation, even if I hardly understand Japanese. With anime, if it's been released with an English dub, a DVD or Blu-ray will just about always have the original Japanese audio included as well. So, I can easily switch between the two, all in one convenient package.

But with manga, you can't exactly just change one option and suddenly have another language. I've bought some manga three times so that I can have a Japanese version, an English version, and a digital version, whereas with a DVD or Blu-ray, that could all be a single purchase.

But all this said... books might fall apart, but at least they don't break like DVDs and Blu-rays do and probably have a longer shelf life overall. So, there is that....

#ramblings #shut up goop #detco dvd saga #ish #yes this post is brought to you by the fact that my blu-ray copy of detco movie 10 was all glitchy 😞 #it's probably just the drive but since i only have one external blu-ray drive and it *mostly* was fine #i just gave up and decided to handbrake the glitchy mkv file anyway #but once i handbraked it it seemed fine??? super not technologically adept lol but glad i have an okay digital version after all? #still want another english countdown to heaven though... the disc i have doesn't play on my only region 1 external dvd player #(and my blu-ray player is set to region 2 so won't play it) #it plays elsewhere but it's still a bummer it doesn't work on my go-to region 1 player #and also it's an old library copy and... pretty ugly as a result.... #so collecting anime certainly has its troubles too! #but glgghghgh i don't know how to collect manga #i really regret not starting my detco collection by getting the english manga #because that's one of the best ways to show english-language interest #but... the struggles with manga collecting.... #gosh i'm such a terrible collector though lol my collection is such a mess

[thedoodlefox]

My friends make fun of me for buying 3 and possibly 4 versions of the same movie on blu ray but I show them the special features for free AND I can keep a copy at their apartment so I hope those heathens appreciate me and my obsession for media preservation and behind the scenes stuff

#I stg all of my hobbies are like the most expensive ones #Like dinosaur toy collecting and comic books and blu ray collecting #my special interests out here trying to bleed me dry #anyway I got the pacific rim 4K UHD disks and then I found the steel book for a reasonable price #but then I also wanted the deleted scenes which were only on an older version of the 3 disk collection which i found for pretty cheap #BUT there’s like half an hour MORE behind the scenes stuff on the Asian market so I’m searching for a nice copy of the JP blu ray for cheap #I just think this stuff is fascinating #That’s why I’m going into vis dev lol maybe one day I’ll get to be on a special feature

[itsrainingfeathers]

I want every show and movie on DVD/Blu-Ray. I want to buy them and put them neatly on a shelf of in little boxes. I want to actually own physical copies of my favorite movies and series, so that I don't need have accounts and subscribtions to 7 different streaming services to rewatch them. And if they're deleted from streaming services, I can still watch them.

#and yes i know you can buy digital versions of movues and shows. i don't want those. doesn't feel like i own them. it's not the same. #yes i was looking for moon knight on blu ray what about it #also bring back disc slots or whatever they're called on laptops #please #unnecessary rambling hours

[glooomtownbrats]

ok i promise i'm speed running yakuza 3 like..... i am desperately wanting to reach yakuza 5 so

#like the other day i was talking with my friend about the old days of watching shows and anime on youtube at like 180p #and i would take it #i wouldn't complain #i remember doing that for skins because it's how i kept up with it #anyways #nowadays streaming services and piracy has spoiled me with only blu-ray/HQ versions of anything #and yakuza 3 feels like the good old days #like the quality is not bad but... you know... #so yakuza kiwami definitely spoiled me with those graphics and new remodeling of the characters #so that's why i want to speedrun #it took me a while to get used to it #and now i actually love the story about kiryu and his kids and stuff #let alone remodeling characters but the entire playability of the game its better in the other games #and yakuza 3 and 4 got no love :( #and i'm so wet for like a dragon ishin btw #op

[transhuman-priestess]

I had fun with these last time so i figured I’d do another one.

#polls #tumblr polls

[kil9]

i wanna watch t1001101 but i also wanna draw.... i know if i watch t1001101 ill be wishing i was drawing gkjsdh

#99.txt #i want to watch the jpn version but idk ?? if anyones ripped the blu ray yet #because it was streamed so everyone just shared the livestream/ screen record version #but like... plz give me quality plz give me the high definition #when it came out on blu ray idk if anyone bothered -_- #i also wanna see if the editing is different than the stream #if anyones reading this and u have a link....... u will be my bestie

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Spamley

Debut: Ralph Breaks the Internet

Hey, remember the Ralph Breaks the Internet craze of 2018? What a time to be alive! Disney's film about What If The eBay Was A Place was an instant hit, due to the fact that everyone knows the Internet, and everyone wants to see a movie about it! You couldn't stop hearing about it! No wonder it won the Academy Award for best animated film! I think it beat out some movie about spiders, or something...?

Kids today might not remember, because 2018 was so long ago. They're too obsessed with their new age sexymen, like Raymond and the big balls Dwarf. But this movie wouldnt've been the cultural phenomenon it was without one character taking the world by storm: a certain J.P. Spamley!

The Internet fell in love with Spamley at first sight, flooding social media with memes and fan art about the loveable green prick. He rose to the highest ranks of the Tumblr Sex Man for a good while! You couldn't scroll for a few minutes without seeing his catchphrase, "Now's your chance to get rich playing video games!"

What kind of a megacorporation would Gisnep be if it didn't capitalize on Spamley's popularity? So they held a special Spamley Sweepstakes event on November 2019, allowing fans to donate money in honor of Spankley himself! All proceeds would go to Bob Iger and Baby Yoda, and if that's not wholesome, I don't know what is. Those who entered even had a chance of winning WILD prizes, like:

That's it that was the only prize

See him in theatres! This is what Disney told us all to do, and we listened! Little did we know they were doing this to hide a dark secret! If you buy the Blu-ray version of the movie, you can actually manipulate the Scene Select to watch the movie out of order and make some... strange things happen. You can look up a walkthrough online, but the gist of it is making Vanelope kill all the Disney Princesses. Especially Merida. And when you do, you unlock a weird alternate ending...

Spamley NEO is the secret true main antagonist of the film, and he wants to take over Oh My Disney to spread spam and advertisements! No! Not Oh My Disney! Please, for the love of God, NOT OH MY DISNEY!! You have to kill him. You have to destroy your Blu-ray copy of Ralph Breaks the Internet now. I hope you're proud of yourself.

#spamley #ralph breaks the internet #wreck it ralph #oh my disney #mod f boy #unreality #april fools

[simplydnp]

WAD: Cover Art

dan is still working on selling the distribution rights for We're All Doomed! so i decided to make some DVD/Blu-ray disc jacket art!

this is my attempt at a traditional jacket design! none of the images used are mine, but i did create the concept and design:

as i was making the first one for myself, i was struck by the fact that 'well, it's for me, so it doesn't have to look like a stereotypical jacket cover' which led me to be more artsy in my approach for the next one:

i was really enjoying the creativity and space to explore, so i went looking for more inspiration for a third design. this led me to dan's favourite Muse album: Origin of Symmetry, which i paid homage to:

after the first Muse album, i looked at their catalogue to see if there was more inspiration there. i was just thankful dan's favourite was easy stylistically to mimic, unlike say, 2009's The Resistance...

thank you @danielhowell for the inspiration!

nerdy stuff & reference pics below the cut!

General notes

i don't know how to use photoshop! i entirely brute-forced my way through the whole project, and the only tutorial i looked up was for the gradient text in the 4th cover

this wasn't even the original project i was working on! you'll eventually get to see that though

and this one also inspired art for the disc itself so stay tuned 👀

i will do anything for authenticity so these are Full of intentional details

matching fonts is a nightmare

the traditional cover

took the longest, as it was the first.

the barcode numbers are the date of the first video he uploaded on dinof, and the last tour show date (in m/d/y)

i changed 'iceland' to 'poland' on the front cover, as he never actually went to iceland, and poland wasn't ever on the list even though he did go there

the orange may look a little off-center in the front, but these designs need to include space for a spine between the front and back cover, i promise it's right 😂

the black and white cover

inspired by the 'i want to believe' aliens poster

the cover art comes from his metal band merch shirt design

i had to manually shrink the text, line by line, and ensure it all lined up on the back!

i even made the logos on the back greyscale

the Muse: Origin of Symmetry cover

a shockingly perfect style for a WAD cover. i'm so glad i used the cubes, even if they couldn't be orange.

there's some versions of the art online where the sky is even more orange and it baffles me how i haven't seen any parallels like this before

the Muse: The Resistance cover

this cover was never supposed to see the light of day! i meant it when i said i was grateful i didn't have to try to adapt this complex design... and yet, i tried anyway.

i did all the grid lines by hand, including the jagged/broken edge parts, shading each section, and then drawing every star.

the hardest part was getting the gradient on the back text to cooperate. photoshop's gradient settings are surprisingly limited

gotta shout out @amazingphil for being the reason i knew what this cover looked like--it's the only muse album i knew the art of before embarking on this quest!

obligatory sob story:

i've been extremely and suddenly ill for 6 months. it is difficult to function moment to moment, but especially in doing little things just for me. this is the first and only art project i've been able to feel inspired to not only work on, but to finish, and despite the pain and long hours, i enjoyed every minute of it. thank you, dan, for creating this space for me to explore, and thank you, everyone here, for being wonderful support during this time 💞

#it's finally here!! i hope you all love them as much as i do #dnp #c.text #dan and phil #daniel howell #phan art #hey phil look at this #we're all doomed #wad #c.art #word

[autolenaphilia]

Blu-ray DRM is really devilish. I use a program called makemkv to rip them, because there is no other way to play them on my laptop, and there are no legit linux options for blu-ray playback, you have to crack the drm to play them. The easiest solution is makemkv to rip the movies into files, it works out of the box.

But if the level of drm (aacs) on a particular blu-ray is higher than what Makemkv can handle, the disk will update the firmware on your drive to revoke access to makemkv, so it can't access any blu-rays.

"One famous “feature” of AACS is a so-called host revocation. It was designed to ensure that only “approved” software can use your drive. Every Blu-ray disc contains a file that has a list of host keys known to be used by "unauthorized" software. This list has a version number. The moment you insert the disc into your drive, the drive checks if the list is newer than the one it knows about, and if it is, the drive re-flashes itself (updates firmware)."

And that happened to me. It was a blu-ray of the 1972 Hammer horror movie Fear in the Night that did it. The one program that works with my blu-ray player now couldn't access any discs, including ones it had ripped before. And there are absolutely zero linux programs that are authorized to playback blu-ray discs.

I had to flash my drive's firmware to allow something called libredrive, which allows direct access to files and bypasses the aacs drm firmware.

And that was quite the journey. I had makemkv installed as a flatpak via my distro's software manager. and I needed to use the command line. Flatpaks are a great packaging format. but they are primarily for gui apps. So i had to build makemkv from source. And then I had to figure out the commandline for the firmware flashing tool included with makemkv, which was hard because the instructions linked flat out lie. There is no "flash" command for sdftools, there is only "rawflash", you have to read the thread carefully to find that out. This page helped. I had to download new patched libredrive firmware.

And finally i figured out the command I needed ""sdftool -d [drive name] rawflash main,enc -i [new firmware file name].bin. And now I can use my blu-ray drive again. It's now libredrive.

So much work to finally be able to use the drive I paid for, and the blu-ray discs I also paid for. I'm not running some major piracy operation, I just want to be able to watch movies I legally own on my laptop. And drm stopped me, and I had to break it.

This is why DRM is so bad, and anyone who uses it deserves all the piracy they are trying to stop with it. It's scummy to take someone's money and then interfere with their ability to use the copy of the products they own and paid for. It's such atrocious treatment of the customer that anyone who does it deserves to have their stuff pirated.

#my posts #drm #blu-rays #makemkv #linux