Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread

[The_Donster]

It is your inability to admit that you are wrong that sets you apart. Your way isn’t the only way Steedeel. So say what you will about PenguinInfinity, but he walks the walk when it comes to being pro physical.

[Vilya]

I am going to add that during my most recent visit to the hospital that many of my care providers were about half my age and many even less than that. They were all very knowledgeable, attentive, focused, dedicated, and compassionate professionals. All facts for which I am very grateful.

I trusted my healthcare to this younger generation of doctors, nurses, and technicians and I am here to tell you, while admittedly anecdotal, that their attention spans were excellent and that I am, quite objectively , still here to vex those in need of a good vexing.

[Vilya]

People with strong convictions adhere to them. Hypocrites rationalize, create diversions, and make excuses.

[The_Donster]

Walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by PenguinInfinity

His response to that is to call me a liar. He justifies his own digital purchases by reasoning that no one could ever actually avoid buying digital media.

I didn’t call you a liar at all, now who is playing the victim? I said we/I don’t know if you do avoid digital entertainment at all costs. In other words, you may or may not be telling the truth. I do t know anything about you. You could be sitting watching a digital download as we speak. Can I take your word for it? No, not really. I don’t know anything about your character except you suddenly developed a sardonic sense of humour in the last 12 months. (Probably brought on by Donster and Vilya).

Those afore mentioned guys shouldn’t really be thanking your post either because they obviously haven’t read the context of the post you are referring to.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by PenguinInfinity

At it's best the internet provides access to a huge number of resources to people all across the world. I wholeheartedly support that.

At it's worst the internet allows companies to institute absolute control over their properties and allows companies and governments to obtain private information. I absolutely do not support that.

Many great things have been done with the internet and many terrible things have been with the internet. That makes it pretty much just like every tool. I don't hate the internet any more than I hate cars, cameras, axes, ovens, pens, or envelopes. They are all just tools that can be used for good or bad things.

Personally I feel that the internet has done far more good than harm.

I don’t. I think it has contributed to increased mental health issues in young people. Numbers are on the rise and I would consider social media and constant access to smartphones to be a huge part of that.

[Wendell R. Breland]

IMHO, if members stick to digital vs physical then everyone's mental health should improve.

Now off to view fall color on the Cherohala Skyway and Smoky Mountains tomorrow.

[twobelowpar]

How does this thing have nearly 1,000 pages??

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

IMHO, if members stick to digital vs physical then everyone's mental health should improve.

Now off to view fall color on the Cherohala Skyway and Smoky Mountains tomorrow.

Off topic mate.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by twobelowpar

How does this thing have nearly 1,000 pages??

Same as any other ‘thing’ gets 1,000 pages. Posts and replies. If it bothers you, don’t post. That simple.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by twobelowpar

How does this thing have nearly 1,000 pages??

This thread is almost 5 years-old; does that help solve the mystery for you?

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I didn’t call you a liar at all, now who is playing the victim? I said we/I don’t know if you do avoid digital entertainment at all costs. In other words, you may or may not be telling the truth. I do t know anything about you. You could be sitting watching a digital download as we speak. Can I take your word for it? No, not really. I don’t know anything about your character except you suddenly developed a sardonic sense of humour in the last 12 months. (Probably brought on by Donster and Vilya).

Those afore mentioned guys shouldn’t really be thanking your post either because they obviously haven’t read the context of the post you are referring to.

I and The Donster are not responsible for anyone's behavior but our own. Penguin is not an impressionable child corrupted by our evil influences.

You have no valid reason to question Penguin's truthfulness. Doing so is tantamount to calling him a liar. Your truthfulness could just as easily be questioned; you would be incensed if it was!

I would not be surprised one bit if you actually do buy digital movies. You certainly buy other digital content and you do post often in the digital forums, so it would be very easy to infer that you buy many types of digital content. Afterall, we don't really know you, do we? You could be streaming from your digital library every night for all we know. How do you like having your truthfulness questioned?

The only reason for your challenging his veracity is because you dislike his criticism of your well documented hypocrisy. You can't refute any of the criticism, so you instead create a diversion by fabricating an aspersion against his character. It is what a child would do.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I don’t. I think it has contributed to increased mental health issues in young people. Numbers are on the rise and I would consider social media and constant access to smartphones to be a huge part of that.

You think a lot of things, and given your post history, most of it is absolute bunk.

You vilify social media, smartphones, and young people incessantly; now you are vilifying the internet, too. This says far more about your mental health than it does anyone else's. You, by yourself, could keep an entire psych ward employed for years.

Solutions to serious problems, such as mental illness, are not realized with lazy scapegoating.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

IMHO, if members stick to digital vs physical then everyone's mental health should improve.

Now off to view fall color on the Cherohala Skyway and Smoky Mountains tomorrow.

Happiness is a warm disc.

And a scenic autumn drive thru the Appalachians.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I and The Donster are not responsible for anyone's behavior but our own. Penguin is not an impressionable child corrupted by our evil influences.

You have no valid reason to question Penguin's truthfulness. Doing so is tantamount to calling him a liar. Your truthfulness could just as easily be questioned; you would be incensed if it was!

I would not be surprised one bit if you actually do buy digital movies. You certainly buy other digital content and you do post often in the digital forums, so it would be very easy to infer that you buy many types of digital content. Afterall, we don't really know you, do we? You could be streaming from your digital library every night for all we know. How do you like having your truthfulness questioned?

The only reason for your challenging his veracity is because you dislike his criticism of your well documented hypocrisy. You can't refute any of the criticism, so you instead create a diversion by fabricating an aspersion against his character. It is what a child would do.

When was the last time I posted in the digital forum?

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

When was the last time I posted in the digital forum?

Look in your post history, does that help?

You were haunting this digital thread as recently as September and another one in August:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...3&postcount=92

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...2&postcount=89

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=97

If you have any other questions that you can't answer for yourself, do let me know.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

I don’t. I think it has contributed to increased mental health issues in young people. Numbers are on the rise and I would consider social media and constant access to smartphones to be a huge part of that.

Many people feel that video games are responsible for mental illness, too. Maybe we as a society would be better off without them? How do you like that idea? We could help sane people up and solve your hypocrisy problem at the same time; a win-win.

[PenguinInfinity]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Many people feel that video games are responsible for mental illness, too. Maybe we as a society would be better off without them? How do you like that idea? We could help sane people up and solve your hypocrisy problem at the same time; a win-win.

He also talks a lot about VR while also talking about how dangerous it is. So maybe that's what is causing Steedeel's mental problems.

Originally Posted by Steedeel

It’s dangerous to keep swapping discs in VR and also potentially harmful to the headset as you have to keep removing it.

Or perhaps it's only dangerous to remove the VR headset? Steedeel can only retain his sanity (what's left of it anyway) if he keeps the headset on at all times.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Look in your post history, does that help?

You were haunting this digital thread as recently as September and another one in August:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...3&postcount=92

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...2&postcount=89

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...8&postcount=97

If you have any other questions that you can't answer for yourself, do let me know.

That’s often is it?

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

That’s often is it?

That's just a recent sample. You asked when was the last time that you posted in the digital forums, not how often, and that it is the question that I answered. I have better things to do than to reread all of your asinine posts and link to each of them.

It's not even the point of my post besides. You are trying to make it the point in another attempt to deflect from your essentially calling another member a liar without good cause and to divert attention away from your own hypocrisy. If people were even suggesting that you were not telling the truth you would throw a conniption fit and you would cry inconsolably to the high heavens about the terrible injustice that you had suffered. Your damn head nearly exploded when you were humorously labeled "Falstradamus." You can dish it out, but you are the biggest crybaby if you get any served to you. Which is still more hypocrisy on your part.

Given your history of posting shyte, if anyone's veracity and sanity should be questioned, and often, it is yours.