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Just realized I didn't even include Se7en, so here it is:

I demand you add these two to the reaction list:

Here's some examples of Japanese laserdisc art that I like. Of the ones shown, I only own Se7en.

I'm constantly finding laserdisc art, often from Japan, that blows me away. It's like vinyl art for movies. I hate that box art is just this generic crap most of the time. Makes the package feel less valuable. Its sorta like how video games used for have manuals inside with cool, unique art and info but now you might buy a game that literally only has a dlc code in the box and nothing else. Just a shame.

I was happy enough to even find the Kenshin sets I did buy. They are pretty rare in general. I've seen the entire collection on eBay go listed at $600+, and the sets themselves are so uncommon, there are almost no pictures of them anywhere online. Not to mention the back of the boxes say they originally retailed for an absurd $220 PER box set. These things obviously did not sell well at that price but I was thrilled to get 6 of the 7 box sets for a mere $10. Yea that Kenshin full body poster has some lame, generic art. It's something I'd expect from a magazine foldout poster, not a $200+ box set. I did a cursory search for that series and found nothing. It may be listed under a slightly different name, though. For instance, Yu Yu Hakusho was actually Yuu Yuu Hakusho, which I only discovered after searching "Hakusho" and seeing most items had Yuu Yuu and not Yu Yu. Who knows, maybe they have it somewhere under some other name.

I'm not too informed about this but as I understand, all my Japanese laserdiscs would play fine on an American player. I heard PAL laserdiscs are the only other kind besides NTSC.

Tagged you cause seemed to like a previous, similar post I made.

For anyone wondering, I don't actually plan to watch any of these laserdiscs. I love the art and presentation found in a lot Japanese laserdisc, especially special editions and boxsets. These are more for decoration around my house. I was surprised to find all of these had their original inserts and most still had sleeves. The life-sized Kenshin poster was a shocker, to be sure. Not sure what to do with that. The Evangelion sets all had laserdisc jackets that folded open and had little comics inside and information about the series. Really neat to see, same with the Trigun newspaper that was placed into every jacket. If anyone has any questions or wants to see something I didn't show well/at all, feel free to ask. Also here's the giant stack of laserdiscs from my haul:

Around the time places started going into quarantine, I was checking out this Japanese proxy service you could use for auctions. There are several auction sites operated in Japan and, without someone to help you ship them (or even buy them in some cases) you can't even use these sites outside of Japan. Websites that help you get around this have been around for a long time, and there are plenty to choose from, but I was admittedly nervous about picking the right one. Can't say with certainty I got the best one, but the service I ended up using, Jauce, worked well enough for me. Jauce is an aggregate site that allows you to shop at multiple Japanese auction sites, as well as some online stores like Amazon Japan. Their premise is simple: you deposit money to bid/buy with, once an item is yours, it ships to the Jauce warehouse in Japan, you can allow multiple items to collect at the warehouse and/or pick a good shipping time from there. Easy enough. I wasn't on board with depositing my money at first but I figured out you could literally just deposit the exact amount needed and then use it to buy what you wanted. There aren't any hidden fees, but there are a couple of additional fees you may not see during your initial purchase. Since this is a Japanese business buying items from Japanese vendors, you have to cover the tax fees, as well. You also may have to pay for shipment to the warehouse if the vendor requires shipment to be paid, as well. Then there's the banking fee, which is a stupid fee Japan is beholden to and is annoying but largely negligible considering how small the amount is anyways. Shipping is the big one here, obviously. I went for a premium shipping cost that covered the insurance of my items, guaranteed I'd get my items with a week of shipment, and would more or less circumvent the Covid restrictions using a coupling of local Japanese shipping services and DHL. Your shipment is calculated first and foremost by weight, and I had some hefty packages, two in total. With all of that I paid about $400. As for the merchandise, the most I spent on a single auction was $26, and my grand total was a measly $96. Just under $500 for everything. Not exactly cheap, but not horrible considering the Covid situation and the premiums I paid for my package. I would say, without all the bells and whistles and just using their ordinary shipping service (when it's available again) I wouldn't expect most stuff to ever break $200 for total shipping fees. I just didn't want my stuff sitting on a boat for 3 months or whatever. The super cheap cost of the items I purchased was the allure, but evidently Japanese vendors have a "junk" section, which is where most of this came from and why I kept shopping around. I would regularly see the same items for sale for way more than what I paid for mine, and this is because I hunted down the vendors with junk sections, so a laserdisc set sold by one person was also for sale for about $5 by another. Really odd but upon seeing how amazing the condition was for practically everything I purchased, I was shocked that these items were labeled "junk" to begin with. Works for me, though. Anyways! Enough of all that crap, here's most of what I bought (lots of pictures included): Sailor Moon Pretty Guardian purse - $5 (retail appears to be around $50) Cowboy Bebop 1999(?) Poster/Advertising Laserdisc, VHS, and DVD release - $4.50 Maximum the Hormone 2013 Tour Shirt - $20 (Back) Trigun Complete Series Laserdisc Boxset - $26 More of the boxsets Individual Laserdiscs The rest of the laserdisc collection and the Satellite Times newspaper, which was included with each disc: Outlaw Star Laserdisc Complete Collection - $5 The rest of the collection: Evangelion Laserdisc Boxsets - $19 Boxset #1: Contents of Boxset #1: Boxset #2 Contents of Boxset #2: Boxset #3: Contents of Boxset #3: Rurouni Kenshin Boxsets - $10 Boxset #1: Contents of Boxset #1: Boxset #2: Contents of Boxset #2: Boxset #3: Contents of Boxset #3: Boxset #4: Contents of Boxset #4: Boxset #5: Contents of Boxset #5: Boxset #7 (I was unable to find #6): Contents of Boxset #7 @CAC @DBZ4ever @DragonSinger @Mix @Top Gun @Ginguy

Pretty much the exact opposite happened to me. We were paying for our groceries, including a 24 pack of eggs. Someone in a lane beside us fumbled a similar pack of eggs and it hit the ground. I asked if any eggs were intact and if so I'd take it. They gave it to me for free and replaced the other customers item for them. Of the 24 eggs in the dropped pack, maybe 6 were busted. So. Woo. Free eggs.

Now he is safe.

IMO, pineapple and pork on a pizza are fine but I'd rather remove the pineapple chunks after the pizza was done cooking. Not a great texture but the flavor is fine. Even so, not my goto pizza by a longshot. And for what it's worth, I like al pastor tacos with pineapple juice cooked into the meat but not the fruit itself in the taco. Vaguely similar concepts.

The phone itself may be enough of a footprint. Well you have a cell phone plan so theres likely a contract and digital info tied to that. May be more than enough for one of those services to have all of her info.

He possibly gleaned some info while she was getting her prescriptions filled. And if he has her name and general location, he could easily go online and try and outright buy her info. I've done this myself to contact an estranged relative. Was scary how easy it was to get his number with only his name and city/state.

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I'll never forget the Confederate katana I saw at a flea market in Alabama.

Hit me up if you do.

All good. Don't worry about it. Aye. We have a few around town. They're beautiful to behold.

lol I bet you liked having that liquor warehouse across the street.

In your own thread you made you said you walked out of the movie. And your main talking point in said thread was other people laughed and said it was bad. Sounds like you adopted that viewpoint, at least in your posts. And your only real arguments thus far have been "crappy movie; no story; random ending; no character development." That's all fair but I can't help but think you made that initial thread and your replies in here because so many people have praised the movie and you wanted to let people know you didn't like it. It's cool to not enjoy something, and it's fine if you can't quite articulate it, much like enjoying a certain meal and not knowing exactly why it was so good. Just, as far as the way you present things, it feels like you want to exaggerate and nothing else. We hear this kinda stuff all the time, though, so it's not on you. Tons of people like to throw out "best" or "worst" when talking about something cause it gets a reaction, regardless of if it's true or not.

I'm not here to defend the movie. Haven't seen it, myself. But you sound like clickbait when you talk about things like this.

You are the physical manifestation of hyperbole.

I just searched the title of this thread and removed one or two words and found it right away.

I have Spec Ops and Sleeping Dogs on other systems but thank you for the rest of the suggestions. I'll look into them!

I more or less missed out on the PS3, beyond a couple of earlier games. Went and bought myself one and I'm trying to build a library of the best games. So far I have the following, but will happily take suggestions: -Resistance: Fall of Man -Resistance 2 Resistance 3 Killzone Trilogy Jak and Daxter Collection Zone of Enders Collection Dragonball Z Budokai HD Collection Dante's Inferno Bayonetta LA Noire God of War 1 & 2 God of War 3 Stranglehold ICO/Shadow of Colossus The Lord of the Rings Conquest Demon Souls We have the Uncharted games, as well.