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MakeMKV if it’s a bluray, command line or Handbrake if it’s a DVD. Been ripping my collection to a NAS for Kodi to stream for years now.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Smurfs is shockingly consistent about this, when they have the Smurf Babies they actually create a female one similar to Smurfette specifically so they have a female one to grow up with. When a Smurf reaches old age and dies, the other Smurfs bury him. At that point, spores stored within his body germinate and the hyphae of his and other dead Smurfs combine. Eventually, a new mushroom grows, with an infant Smurf inside the stem. Upon maturity, the baby Smurf is released from the mushroom. This Mushroom will become the home for the new Smurf. To facilitate the develop of the motile, sentient Smurf from the parent mushroom, the mushroom releases a spores capable of triggering protogny in nearby Smurfs. A complex life cycle, to be sure, but nature is a complex system.
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Sash! posted:When a Smurf reaches old age and dies, the other Smurfs bury him. At that point, spores stored within his body germinate and the hyphae of his and other dead Smurfs combine. Eventually, a new mushroom grows, with an infant Smurf inside the stem. Upon maturity, the baby Smurf is released from the mushroom. This Mushroom will become the home for the new Smurf. To facilitate the develop of the motile, sentient Smurf from the parent mushroom, the mushroom releases a spores capable of triggering protogny in nearby Smurfs. So they’re in the same phylum as the piggies from the Ender’s Game sequels?
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Sep 28, 2022 19:10
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Riven posted:So they’re in the same phylum as the piggies from the Ender’s Game sequels? It would appear so
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I can't remember what software it was off the top of my head, but I have something that lets me rip DVDs and Blu-rays (and doesn't seem to get tripped up by protection measures), so I buy physical and immediately make a backup to go on HDD; one day I'll turn it into a NAS so I can access them anywhere as well. Speaking of pirated media and Venture Bros, I'm curious about something : I rip all the episodes from the blu-rays and the episode "Everybody Comes to Hank's" is noticeably bigger than any other episode (I'm guessing that either the audio track is bigger because of the voice-over, or there is something funny happening with the black and white segments), is it the same from pirate uploads ?
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What was that about bums not liking dicks coming?X_Toad posted:I use AnyDVD for that, although it's not free (yes, I bought a licence). MakeMkv also works and that's free, at least for now, but I don't know if they ever intend to get out of beta... I doubt the audio track is any bigger. The black and white segments is a good hunch though. For a constant quality, the bitrate is be lower or higher depending on how many pixels are changing from frame to frame; more movement means less compression and higher bitrate. For all of the black and white scenes there are vertical bars moving randomly back and forth and on top of that there's like a 5 Hz non-uniform flicker across the entire image, e.g. a lot more movement than the full color scenes.
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X_Toad posted:I use AnyDVD for that, although it's not free (yes, I bought a licence). MakeMkv also works and that's free, at least for now, but I don't know if they ever intend to get out of beta... I haven't downloaded this so I can't look more closely as to why, but yes: 
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Sash! posted:When a Smurf reaches old age and dies, the other Smurfs bury him. At that point, spores stored within his body germinate and the hyphae of his and other dead Smurfs combine. Eventually, a new mushroom grows, with an infant Smurf inside the stem. Upon maturity, the baby Smurf is released from the mushroom. This Mushroom will become the home for the new Smurf. To facilitate the develop of the motile, sentient Smurf from the parent mushroom, the mushroom releases a spores capable of triggering protogny in nearby Smurfs. unbeknownst to neither, smurfs and gargamels have a symbiotic relationship, where during the gargamel's life cycle he would always one day come up with the plan to create a female smurf, allowing the species to reproduce.
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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:unbeknownst to neither, smurfs and gargamels have a symbiotic relationship, where during the gargamel's life cycle he would always one day come up with the plan to create a female smurf, allowing the species to reproduce. The circle of life!
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smurf spores got me acting crazy. "I'll get you, I'll get all of you if it's the last thing I ever do! hehehehe!" - a doomed man trapped in a biochemical hell from which he can never escape.
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The real debate is which reason for Gargamel wanting to capture Smurfs is the better one, him wanting to turn them into gold makes more sense but him wanting to eat them is surprisingly depraved for such a kid friendly franchise
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Smurf blood is psilocybin.
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uber_stoat posted:smurf spores got me acting crazy. "I'll get you, I'll get all of you if it's the last thing I ever do! hehehehe!" - a doomed man trapped in a biochemical hell from which he can never escape. The idea that smurfs release spores that alter someone's brain so that they become nothing but an antagonist for the smurfs is terrifying. You haven't seen your buddy in a while and you go looking for him and he's living in a run down shack, wearing rags, and he's completely consumed with capturing these little blue creatures.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Smurf blood is psilocybin. Finally we learn why Gargamel wanted to harvest them.
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Cojawfee posted:The idea that smurfs release spores that alter someone's brain so that they become nothing but an antagonist for the smurfs is terrifying. You haven't seen your buddy in a while and you go looking for him and he's living in a run down shack, wearing rags, and he's completely consumed with capturing these little blue creatures. This is magnificent.
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I hate to derail Smurf spores conversation with another detail, as I am thoroughly impressed with how dark it has gotten. I was just wondering if there is a Harley Quinn thread, since this thread is the one that turned me onto the show in the first place.
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drrockso20 posted:The real debate is which reason for Gargamel wanting to capture Smurfs is the better one, him wanting to turn them into gold makes more sense but him wanting to eat them is surprisingly depraved for such a kid friendly franchise They're actually the same reason, if you eat a smurf you poo poo out gold
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Cojawfee posted:The idea that smurfs release spores that alter someone's brain so that they become nothing but an antagonist for the smurfs is terrifying. You haven't seen your buddy in a while and you go looking for him and he's living in a run down shack, wearing rags, and he's completely consumed with capturing these little blue creatures. And now you too are driven mad by the desire to eat Smurfs. Consumption of Smurfs is a key method for spreading Smurf spores to new locations for colonies. I don't believe I need to go into detail as to how this works. Because you know I'm talking about poop.
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You imagine yourself stirring a pot of swirling colors filled with alchemical reagents that you'll use to finally capture the smurfs. Why does stirring the pot make your legs feel tired? As the colors swirl with their hypnotic patterns your eyes begin to droop, and the next time that you close them you are somewhere else. You are scolding your cat for having foiled yet another of your smurf-capturing schemes. Your mouth begins to feel dry, you drink from the oddly-shaped bottles in the cabinets of your stone shack but nothing drives away your thirst. When did you start living in this stone shake in the first place? Each night you imagine laying in a bed of straw, but your legs feel so restless. You don't know how long it's been since you started walking, but the hallucinogenic effects of the parasitic smurf spores ended days ago. You see a sign in the distance, but your vision is blurry. Yosemite? You don't know why but a sense of relief washes over you as you hear a deep but strange growling noise from a distance. Did that bear just say "pic-a-nic baskets"? It doesn't matter. You crave only the sweet release of death as your body is compelled to walk toward a pair of bears wearing ties.
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Sataere posted:I hate to derail Smurf spores conversation with another detail, as I am thoroughly impressed with how dark it has gotten. I was just wondering if there is a Harley Quinn thread, since this thread is the one that turned me onto the show in the first place. There was a lot of chat in the general DC thread here, and in the cartoons thread over in BSS.
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And I'm not even sure where it comes in that the last Smurf movie- sequel to the obligatory Manhattan one, where it is established briefly that Smurfette is still artificially created- they run into a lost tribe of all-female Smurfs. I'm not sure if they have a single artificially created male.
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You tell me that Smurfs grow from spores and I'm going to just assume that Smurfs is made for fightin' and winnin'.
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QuarkJets posted:They're actually the same reason, if you eat a smurf you poo poo out gold Roger Smith's dark backstory revealed.
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Course now that's reminding me of this old thing; https://twitter.com/TheSWATKats/status/1357105589097144320?s=20&t=aiXI01wpg_2jgkAYyG-Gnw
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Sash! posted:And now you too are driven mad by the desire to eat Smurfs. strong Delta Green energy ITT
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I just want to hear Dr O chime in and point out that real world Smurfs exist, are pretty mundane and the dude behind the cartoon was some sort of magic weirdo. I miss all the Triad  .
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SeanBeansShako posted:I just want to hear Dr O chime in and point out that real world Smurfs exist, are pretty mundane and the dude behind the cartoon was some sort of magic weirdo. "Gargamel...yes, he was my roommate when we were both at community college.. He did us all a favor by dropping out."
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I kind of want to recommend my friend's book about the seven children of an evil sorcerer, who come to his deathbed to argue about who should inherit his little gold men who represent total alchemical power, and whether they even want or should have his evil omnipotence. Unfortunately, I think the context provided by this discussion kind of negates the part of the experience where you realize partway through the book "wait, the backstory of this is all about a man and his cat chasing a bunch of little blue men so he can turn them into gold... I'm reading a gripping fantasy drama about the loving Gargamels".
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Rand Brittain posted:I kind of want to recommend my friend's book about the seven children of an evil sorcerer, who come to his deathbed to argue about who should inherit his little gold men who represent total alchemical power, and whether they even want or should have his evil omnipotence. That sounds amazing
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Rand Brittain posted:I kind of want to recommend my friend's book about the seven children of an evil sorcerer, who come to his deathbed to argue about who should inherit his little gold men who represent total alchemical power, and whether they even want or should have his evil omnipotence. I find the concept very interesting, but the description reminds me of a trailer that shows you all the interesting parts of the movie and inevitably falls flat. I can't put my finger quite on it. If it ever makes its way to Audible, I'll give it a whirl. Unfortunately I don't have the time anymore to sit down and just enjoy a book.
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Me whenever my significant other is sick or slightly under the weather:
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"What did I do?" "What did youuuu doooo."
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Man, I want them to actually release a heavily amended Flight (And Fight) Of The Monarch and also do an audio reading of the whole thing with both characters.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Man, I want them to actually release a heavily amended Flight (And Fight) Of The Monarch and also do an audio reading of the whole thing with both characters. I would buy Venture Bros audio dramas. Maybe even some pieces from in universe, like Colonel Gentleman's memoirs.
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He's gonna kill you! He may make meeeee kill youuuuuuu
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Rifling through his pockets for change, The Monarch accidentally launches a sodium-pentothal-tipped dart deep into his own thigh. Upon hearing a girlish symphony of shrill wails a waitress comes to his aid.
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pixaal posted:I would buy Venture Bros audio dramas. Maybe even some pieces from in universe, like Colonel Gentleman's memoirs. I like this idea better than comics. I usually can't get into cartoons or shows that get turned into comics because the characters' voices always feel off to me. Having the VOs would help sell it more than the art for me I think.
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Gnome de plume posted:comics with audio narration Only if they direct you when to turn the page and then Billy and Pete argue after each page turn because it isn't going quickly enough, but Billy wants to appreciate the art and doesn't get why Pete is in such a hurry.
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