No, I simply mean you don’t need to get all huffy over it when someone says something offensive.
And where did I do this? I asked for, and am still waiting for, clarification. Nothing more.
Just to clarify: offensive language is a bit of a nebulous label. Do you mean vulgar, profane, shocking, explicit? None of those things normally bother me. Bigotry would.
It is so fuckin’ annoying that every time you try to gently suggest that using bigoted language should be avoided, some nimrod comes along and tells you to not get all huffy. I haven’t begun to get huffy; but I can if you wish. And when I do insult you I won’t be using random insults based on bigoted stereotypes. I’ll use language specific to the person I want to insult. Insult all you want. Spit venom and bile everywhere. I don’t care about the emotion. It’s the bigotry I dislike. But I’m starting to gather that your emaciated brain can’t distinguish the difference.
wan’t this about DVD’s?
Sure, it’s about DVDs.
Here’s my 2¢:
My big Friday night involved renting a movie at the suggestion of the luvverly girl I’ve just shacked up with. (Okay, she’s my roomie. I’ve got to positively spin a friday night video rental somehow, don’t I?)
Here’s the problem–I’ve just moved, and I’ve not yet bothered to get a stand-alone DVD player, since my last roomies had an adequate one for the livingroom. My big ol’ TV’s in the livingroom, and my DVD player is my PC, for the time being. My plan has been to wait 'til after “Boxing Day” to pick up the DVD player I want. (VCD/SVCD/MP3 compatibility a must.)
Faced with the need to rent a movie now, though, I was seriously leaning towards making a quick detour to pick up a DVD player for the livingroom, rather than making do with the limited selection of VHS releases available at the local Videodrome. Roomie talked me out of it, though, arguing that the time to make the purchase and hook it up eat up all the movie-watching time. She was right, of course. Got a movie on tape and it was still after midnight by the time it was over.
On to the point, such as it is:
We rented 'Til Human Voices Wake Us which was pretty good. The only problem: Although this was in the “New Releases” section, it was still so beat-to-shit from repeated viewings that lines kept rolling up the damned thing. Not only that, but, in the last coupla years of renting DVDs, I’d all but forgotten about the twenty-five minutes of previews you gotta fast forward through – on a shitty linear medium.
I haven’t rented a single problematic DVD – every time I’ve been disappointed, it’s been with the content, which is how it should be.
Beyond that, with DVD/CD based media, I take comfort in the knowledge that I can repair surface scratches with little difficulty. I haven’t had to do this with any of my DVDs, but I’ve had a couple of loaned-out VCDs come back scratched and, after a little polish, recovered (and copied) the movies with no data loss. You bet your ass I’m working on transferring my VHS collection to VCD. When VHS tapes wear out, there’s not a damned thing you can do about it.
VHS had its run. It was a crappy format to start with, compared to Beta. Now, I can’t help thinking that Silvie’s advice from Till Human Voices Wake Us suits the anthropomorphised spirit of videotape perfectly:
Amen. Let it go.
Ah, I remembered, we’ve had one bad DVD. It was a Netflix copy of Dr. Strangelove that was beat to hell and wouldn’t play past halfway through the movie. I’ve had way more problems with VHS. At least when the DVD is bad, it doesn’t throw tape all over your machine, requiring probling with various instruments to get the tape back in the case.
You know, if you’re interested in a player that will handle the most kinds of video possible, there are now many DVD players than can handle Divx. They’ve been out since early this year, but they had been cost-prohibitive. Now they have models for under $100.
Good idea, but if you have a lot of tapes, you’d probably be better off buying a DVD burner. While a VCD video stream is technically compliant with DVD, the audio is not. When your VCDs start to get worn out and you want to back them up to DVD, you’ll have to use ISObuster to extract the DAT files from the VCDs, then demux each MPEG to a video and audio stream, then open the MP2 in an audio program, resample the audio to 48 KHz, save as WAV, then convert the WAV to AC3, then, finally throw your video file and new AC3 file in an authoring program and make the DVD.
That mind-numbing process is pretty much all I’ve been doing for the last four days.
If you’re going straight from VHS to DVD, you have more options. You can cap the audio at 48 KHz, going straight from your original WAV to AC3 and not have to worry about extra conversion and resampling steps. You can also encode the video in 1/2-DV resolution, 352x480 (called CVD [China Video Disc] when burned on a CD instead of a DVD). You may be able to suck a bit of extra quality out of your tape with that resolution. Any higher than that is just a waste for VHS, though. Oh, and the other good thing is that you can up the video (and audio, for that matter) bitrate. While VCD is stuck at a video bitrate of 1150 Kbps, DVD-compliant MPEG-1 can go up to 1856 Kbps.
DVD Versus VHS: The Surprising Truth
DVD picture quality is better
DVD sound quality is better
DVD preserves better than VHS tapes
DVD has lots of “special features”
http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.8.24.112921.289.html
*Originally posted by Homebrew *
It is so fuckin’ annoying that every time you try to gently suggest that using bigoted language should be avoided,
Gently? You suggested the OP is either an idiot or has unresolved mental issues.
some nimrod comes along and tells you to not get all huffy.
It was more of a suggestion, really.
** I haven’t begun to get huffy; but I can if you wish.**
No, thank you though.
** Insult all you want. Spit venom and bile everywhere.**
I never actually insulted anyone, I was just saying that in the pit, you really should expect for there to be harsh insults, and offensive language.
** I don’t care about the emotion. It’s the bigotry I dislike. But I’m starting to gather that your emaciated brain can’t distinguish the difference. **
I’m just curious, am I the bigot or is it the OP?
I’ve not said nor implied that you are a bigot, only stupid, Ryle Dup. Your latest post supports that conclusion. The language “sucks ethnic minority cock” is what I’m objecting to. By adding the modifier, the OP is suggesting that sucking “ethnic minority” cock is worse that “non-ethnic minority” cock - whatever the hell that is. That’s why I, and presumably Waverly, asked for clarification. I’m interested in knowing why the OP considers sucking ethnic cock such a bad thing that he uses it in a derogatory manner. To me at least, it suggests he might be a bigot. Also using “pussy” as a negative adjective in the title suggests some other issues. On top of that I’ve never understood why such a pleasurable thing as “sucking cock” - both receiving and giving, IMHO - is used as an insult in the first place.
Well, just playing devil’s advocate here, if you ONLY sucked ethnic minority cock, it might limit your cock supply, which I would see as a bad thing…
*Originally posted by Homebrew *
I’ve not said nor implied that you are a bigot, only stupid,Ryle Dup.
Ah, okay, I appreciate the clarification.
Your latest post supports that conclusion. The language “sucks ethnic minority cock” is what I’m objecting to. By adding the modifier, the OP is suggesting that sucking “ethnic minority” cock is worse that “non-ethnic minority” cock - whatever the hell that is.
No, the OP is not suggesting that ethnic minority cock is worse than non-ethnic minority cock. I believe he is suggesting that [whatever] sucks a certain flavor of cock. As in, this food tastes like shit, or, this food tastes like green colored shit.
** That’s why I, and presumably Waverly, asked for clarification.**
Oh yes, you certainly did, you also insinuated the OP is mentally ill at the same time. If you really just wanted clarification you wouldn’t have insulted him.
I’m interested in knowing why the OP considers sucking ethnic cock such a bad thing that he uses it in a derogatory manner.
Maybe he considers all forms of cock sucking to be derogatory and chose to express himself colorfully?
** To me at least, it suggests he might be a bigot.**
Your posts suggest to me you might be offended by a leaf falling off a tree.
** Also using “pussy” as a negative adjective in the title suggests some other issues.**
I don’t think it does. I daresay that being so offended by the word pussy suggest some issues.
** On top of that I’ve never understood why such a pleasurable thing as “sucking cock” - both receiving and giving, IMHO - is used as an insult in the first place. **
It’s quite easy to understand really. To a lot of straight men, ingesting phallic organs is very disgusting, therefore, suggesting that someone who does not want to do it, does, in fact, do it, is an insult. It’s like calling someone a shiteater, sure, there may be people who enjoy eating shit, but the person who the insult was directed to most likely does not.
I realize he was calling an inanimate object a cocksucker, but it may just be because cocksucker is a generic insult.
Sorry…I think you’re nuts. I own about 75 DVDs, and have rented about 150, with nary a problem. I’ve had one disc that stopped playing 3/4 of the way through (rented), and it was easy to see why: Someone had scored the disc all around the outer edge. Dipshits. Other than that disc, I’ve never had anything not play. I own a $79 JVC DVD player that plays everthing, including DVD-RW discs. Take care of your discs, and if you rent one that had scratches all over it, demand a new one. Eventually, the places will get the hint and replace DVDs that are scratched to hell.
Jman
I’ve been quite happy with my $29.99 DVD player (that also does photo, music, and video CDs), and all I watch is rentals. I had a 'better’one before that got damaged in a move and I don’t see any difference in the performance between the two, except the old one had a prettier menu.
I’ll have to call bullshit on this. The “ethnic minority” label serves no purpose as an intensifier if the OP doesn’t consider it different and worse in some meaningful way than non-ethnic cock.
That’s rich that you’d complain of that when you first post was essentially “It’s the Pit, man, you’re supposed to be vile.” Furthermore, while I suggested he has “issues”, it’s a far stretch to take that to mean “mental illness”. Issues, in this case, refers to socialization problems, possible bigotry and gender bias. Not really mental illness; but things he might want to evaluate and work on.
Once again, so perhaps it will sink into your thick skull, I was simply trying to address the use of bigoted language. What is the loss if people quit using bigoted language? What is the gain? To say that I’m easily offended simply because I bring the issue up is asinine. It seems to me that those who object to me raising the issue just want to preserve their use of offensive and bigoted language.
The word itself is not the problem. It’s the derogatory use of the word to which I object. For clarification again, because you seem so dense, stating an objection to something is not the same as saying that I find it offensive in the extreme. Can I not object to something that I know offends others even if it doesn’t offend me? Can I not stand up for my friends?
As you may be aware, we discussed the use of cocksucker quite extensively here in the Pit. In summary, many of us do not consider it a “generic insult”.
I’ll be vain here and quote myself from that thread:
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Netflix. They get shipped by USMail in a paper sleeve and they work just fine. Hmmm.
That is because Netflix licks minority pussy. ;j pussy.