Put in discord a few days ago, but finally bought a copy of a book I’ve wanted to grab for ~16 years
It’s in basically pristine condition
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Seems like a pretty lousy investment, I had to type 9 letters to get it.
Congrats! That Vette is amazing!
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Went to the mall yesterday to pick up the World’s Riolu plush from @Dizzle and while waiting for him I picked up a shirt that I will likely never wear outside of in person events lol
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I grabbed the digital copy of this game because it looks fantastic and havent really played anything super in depth since elden ring or armored core
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But what does that mean? What’s the difference between this and just printing out an image you find online?
That controller looks so damn good! I hope they make a purple one even though I just got a new controller a couple months ago. That’s awesome!
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Type 1 photos were printed from the original negative within 2 years of the photo being shot.
So while anyone can take a photo and print high quality, this in theory should be a better quality due to being film and it also has some history for being made from the negative itself and not a later reprint or scan, almost like a first print run of a card.
I guess it matters to some collectors, i think I have a couple type2 photos which are printed many years after they were shot but Im not certain theyre from the original negative. 
Either way, its nice to verify that it isnt a reprint using a scan, which is something that can make a big difference in things like poster and vinyl collecting.
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ya i actually have the negative for it was well 
afaik the type system is just something psa invented 
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Thats neat. Didnt know that psa is the one that made the “type” designation but I only took a second to google it before because I was interested in the why as well.
ya i assume so coz it seems pretty arbitrary (e.g., type 1 is <2 years from the original negative and type 2 is >2 years) but i also dont know anything about photography
i have mostly only seen type 1 and type 3 around
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Ah, makes more sense with film photography.
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I’ve been playing it for the last two weeks. It’s a lot of fun! If you have any questions that you want answered or tips on anything without the fear of spoilers, feel free to dm me
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Im doing alright just finished chapter one but holy cannoli did i underestimate the difficulty. Im basically sweeping through areas ive been through to make sure i didnt miss anything. Wandering wight and elder jinchi gave me a run for my money with that force push 
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I actually skipped Wandering Wight. Turns out if you ring all 3 bells in chapter one the spirit disappears. Looks like I have to collect his spirit in NG+
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In film photography, having a negative is like having the original photo from a 30+ megapixel camera, straight out of the camera. If the film is preserved or undeteriorated it wouldn’t matter whether it is 2 or 10 years old. The reason why an original print within the first few years matters is because it would essentially guarantee you have a print closest to the way it came out of camera, color accurate, before any degradation has any chance to begin. This is a slow process, and film is quite robust.
If you’ve seen parents/grandparents old 35mm cells taken from an old shoebox you might have seen that faded color.
(remember positives? Left side. They were all the rage back in the day like polaroids, but they aren’t as perfect as negatives when printed)
Though the sharpness is pretty goddamn good, it’s that the color fades, washes, and turns slowly. This can happen to unexposed film as well, which is why unexposed (unshot) film is stored usually in refrigerated climate controlled environments.
This in my opinion matters significantly less with black and white, because film holds up so well. Still important, but not nearly as much as when it involves color. I’ve never heard of this typing thing for graders before, but when you have the negative, you have the original photo. And unless it was neglected, you more or less have that same full resolution, which is massive when translated to our digital comparison. I can see why to those it matters to that the closer to its original print the better in terms of potential loss of color detail and richness. If it’s black and white and stored with even moderate care, I can tell you we could print a Babe Ruth photo in immaculate presentation. The real factors of clarity would be less preservation and more the quality of the original film stock. High quality film from even as far back as 1930s can be damn good.
It’s all really interesting. Most even high quality 35mm scanned images online are nowhere near full theoretical res, so often compressed. When you actually see a truly full res image online it makes one pause and say damn look at that! It also matters a lot that the print tech from the last 50 years is significantly better than that of say 1930s, so as long as the celluloid isn’t in bad shape, those prints will be so much clearer than contemporary ones from that time. Even color might be better. And none of this is even to mention large format film.
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Recently got a store display poster for Xenosaga Episode I for the PS2, which the seller said was displayed in a gamestop in late 2001-early 2002. Couldn’t verify that outside of the seller’s statement since the poster is so rare, but its def an authentic piece, so i really have no reason to doubt them 
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Thanks for the details and insights! I was aware of the generalities of it regarding film since Ive dabbled many years ago but I appreciate all the clarification.
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one of the most scariest duel monsters
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