Tell me what to do again and I'll slap you.

Keep in mind as well that in rural areas, internet connection is usually spotty at best. My cousins rent DVDs from Netflix because they can't stream it worth a damn.

This is incredibly specific and I definitely did that.

One of the subtitle tracks on the Lone Wolf & Cub movies had the subtitles, then at the top of the screen would define certain terms they wished to keep the same and not translate. Some are kind of obvious like "ronin" but others are royal titles and Japanese cultural concepts that I'm glad they didn't just…

It's definitely a low self-esteem thing. He's matching his energy and his personality to that of the people in the room to blend in better.

It's a goofy experimental thing that doesn't compromise the original, but is a fun, fans-only proposition. Basically the ideal for a DVD extra.

Public domain transfers still mostly suck, even on DVD. I've gotten in the habit of grabbing a few different rips/transfers and sampling each one for a few seconds.

I made a point of not watching any YouTube video shot that way. I've noticed I'm a lot less angry this way.

Yep, just watched Road Warrior this past weekend and I made the mistake of putting the wrong side face-up, because I misunderstood what the little tiny label in the inside rim was saying.

Though, I used to think it was kind of fun to occasionally throw in a colorized version of a movie I'd seen a million times already, just for shits.

If I had a nickle for every time I had to explain how much of the picture you were losing…

How long did protected content last? I remember my dad getting my mom some Dave Matthews disc and bringing it home to discover - oh wait, you can't rip the fucking thing.

Yep, we accidentally bought a handful of them back in the day because we didn't know any better. I think a couple of my LOTR dvd's do that.

"Insists" is right, because I think most people just don't even notice.

The downside is when you'd realize that the two cuts were sold separately. I'm pretty sure Dawn of the Dead (2004) pulled that crap.

My favorite example of this is that in the Alien Quadrilogy, you get all the cuts, and a director intro to the movie, and in Jeunet's for Alien Resurrection, he (paraphrasing) says "I got my director's cut in theaters. The theatrical cut is my director's cut. The extended cut is purely for this box set and for the…

There were some cruel ones on there though - they sometimes crossed a line. Like the ones where they made them think that their actual friends or family are dead.

They were attacked in the very first scene, and all of their siege equipment and a bunch of their soldiers were lost. The show laid out in no uncertain terms that they were screwed if not for help from somewhere. Stannis hedged his bets by sending off for reinforcements and making his sacrifice.

Mountainstein? Mountainstein's Monster? Give him a big beer and it's Mountainstein's Monster Stein?

It's kind of sweet how he gets dragged along despite the risk and lack of reward - he clearly wants these women to be alright, even if he knows they don't totally need him.