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Mike O

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20-Jun-2006
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15-Jan-2026
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#899822
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Discussions search engine ???
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The search function on this site was rarely much use, but it seems to have disappeared altogether. Even after several updates, the whole setup is really wonky. The search function is virtually nonexistent, the ability to comb through your own and others’ posts like you can on most other forums is sketch, and there’s no way to delete posts. I’ve come to the conclusion that the forum software was older, and it’s not doable to keep the old stuff and overhaul it to modernize the forum. It’s annoying, but hey, first world problems.

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#891755
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Worst Blu-ray transfers thread
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Supermartyoh said:

Danfun128 said:

I’m curious why they don’t just make HD scans of the shorts.

I believe the studio digital masters are 1080p, but they decided to port them over as SD on the BD set, most likely to save on disc space for the other features on the BD bonus disc (being only 25gbs IIRC, with some HD features thrown in but not very many).

WB does this a lot for bonus features not essential to the main feature on BDs. An example of this is the 1939 Hunchback Of Notre Dame, in which the main film is 1080p but the some of the vintage shorts (despite being sourced from a recent master or HD scan) are only 480i/p.

Is that also what’s on the separate BD of the Fleischer shorts?

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#891753
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Hot Women That Just Don't Do It For You (This thread is worthless without pics)
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vote_for_palpatine said:

I guess you like Anime?

I once worked with a girl who was, almost literally, a living anime girl. Really thin with huge eyes, huge breasts, and a huge ass. She didn’t look real, but holy crap was she hot.

Suuuuuuure you did 😉.

You might think it’s impossible for a really thin girl to have huge breasts and a huge ass. You’d be thinking wrong.

Science defying 😄.

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#886224
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Chromecast workaround?
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Possessed said:

But seriously, how bout instead of using your phone you get a Roku? The original first Roku sells at Wal-Mart for around 40 bucks. It only goes as high as 720p but it still looks quite good and is pretty easy on the WiFi. If you must have 1080p there’s the Roku 2 or 3 but they cost a bit more.

Well, I have my BD player for the main streaming apps: Vudu, Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. I basically got the stick to use the others like the premium channel streaming apps. As I found out, there was a reason that they were so cheap. Either way, Cinemax don’t have a Roku app, and creating one is obviously not something which HBO has much interest in. FUNimation apparently do have a Roku channel though. Either way, I’m trying my best not to spend money, especially since I’m currently looking into getting something off of my DVR, a quest I have been on for many years now and will cost money one way or another. On that subject, is there any way around iTunes DRM infestation to put some of their content onto a DVD to watch?

Danfun128 said:

NVidia Shield. Don’t forget to root it and install real android.

What does this mean??

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#885645
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Chromecast workaround?
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TV’s Frink said:

Mike O said:

Possessed said:

Better yet, get pizza.

My Pizza Hut closed and won’t deliver to me. Motherfuckers.

Said the guy who complained we weren’t taking his thread about Chromecast seriously.

I hope that none of my comments were taken too seriously. While I would definitely like an answer on the issue, this is about as first world a problem as you get, so any criticisms of people making jokes were meant to be lighthearted.

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#884566
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Chromecast workaround?
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OK, fun first world problems. Not particularly important, probably not even worth the bandwidth, but what the hell. I don’t have a laptop, just an iPhone. The PC is in another room. I’d like to watch certain thing, primarily Cinemax content like Banshee, and their app seems steadfast in their reticence to not support Chromecast. There’s also Amazon, but that’s a lost cause. Don’t have an Apple TV, or an iPhone HDMI cable. Oh, and FUNimation too, but apparently God doesn’t want me to watch Dragon Ball Z subtitled in its correct aspect ratio. Any way to work around it and get it (and possibly AIV or others) up on Chromecast? My BD player does AIV, Netflix, Hulu, and Vudu, but it’s temporarily been shipped off to get fixed. Incidentally, not having a real remote is a colossal pain in the ass. I suppose that without jailbreaking the phone, there isn’t any way around this? Figured I’d ask.

PS Will the updated software ever extend to the ability to delete posts and have a better search function?

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#882040
Topic
Computer help
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I have the Command and Conquer: The First Decade DVD. I tremendously enjoy playing Yuri’s Revenge, it’s one of the best things for taking the edge off of my sad life and distracting me from its cold, existential horror. But that particular subset of the game only doesn’t work correctly. It won’t run at all regularly, and when I clicked “Run as administrator,” it used to work, (32 bit, which is a nightmare and won’t open again if it’s minimized, but that’s a separate issue…), but now come up with a black screen. It’s on the screen; I can click or touch it and hear it move to the next menu. But it doesn’t show. Anyone have any idea?

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#880787
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Suggestions for the New Forum
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Well, apart from wanting my name to be hanshotfirst1138 like it is everywhere else (never quite sure how I got my name here, to be honest), and to be able to track a person by clicking on their posts and have search function that works. But based on the available evidence, I’m wondering if it’s impossible to accommodate while keeping old posts because of software upgrades.

I’ll be damned, click on my name takes me to my posts! It’s working! Now can I delete an old post?