u/jharel

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Two days ago (the day after the bumrush) the limit was 2 per order, and now it's up to 3.

Edit 6/29: Amazon jacked up price, Newegg still at same price and B&H also sell at same price but it's a pre-order with July 9th date

Note: Right now AMD just couldn't truck these out fast enough. When AMD had to change tooling just to make this chip, you can bet they're not just going to make a small batch. Even local small shops like this one will get stocked: https://www.centralcomputer.com/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-10th-anniversary-edition-8-cores-16-threads-3-4ghz-clock-4-5ghz-max-boost-socket-am4-zen-3-boxed.html

Took hundreds of screencaps while I was doing BD subtitles, here are some of them.

For people who own the HDL box set, I've re-timed all the subs from the net segment-by-segment to match the blu-ray dialogs (the different ways each distribution cuts commercials throws off timing, blu-ray version does those transitions differently, like using fade instead of abruptly cut). You just need to back up your discs on to a big enough drive, load the subs and you're good to go. The original translator was someone by the name of Wayne Ryu, I've avoided using any subs from Viki or other paid services to avoid problems.

(You could TRY to use subs while playing discs from computer BD drive directly if you have decryption coupled with a player but I've no luck myself in doing so... The program would freeze or crash)

From project notes:

>All subtitle files are synchronized with the original Blu-ray discs on a per-disc basis. Programs such as MakeMKV should produce one .MKV file around 33GB to 40GB per 2-episode disc. Playing the file is the equivalent to selecting "view all" option in the Blu-ray menu. Opening credits are only displayed once per disc, with the second episode of the disc playing immediately after the end of the first. All chapter markers should have been preserved by your blu-ray ripping program.

Project page:

https://xlpixel.github.io/hdl-bluray-sub/ right click "save link as" for each file to download

The photobook was a lot better than I thought, half an inch thick with lots of pictures. Three 5"x6" photos for included cardboard picture frame, four 4"x6" photos (all cardboard, no photoprint paper), 8 photocards, a poster (I don't know if it's in all packages) and two CDs. The best tracks to me are 4, 5, and 6, the rest are okay.

The Bunjang listing just said "Blackyak photocard sealed" so I bought it with no idea what the card looks like. Let's find out...

Resisted buying for years because there's not that many pages, but at least the previous owner of this one took really good care of it

What's inside that mirror-finish scratch magnet of a box

https://www.madeedam.com/us/goods/goods_view.php?goodsNo=1000000013

Someone already posted unboxing video in the past so I'll just post some photos. The photobook is mostly what I was getting the set for, and it was paged through in the previous video.

Honestly I don't care about the CDs. All I was thinking was "that's not a bad price for 8 photocards and a 100-page booklet" 😂 but that was before shipping and that terrible U.S. tariff so anyone from there would have to think twice

A spoiler-free opinion, in as vague of terms as humanly possible:

I think it places very roughly where Bel Ami and Producers are. Two strong points of the show:

• Leading actors
• Lavish production

Thanks to its strong points, Perfect Crown, on a scale of 1 to 10, is Somewhere-Between-5-and-10.

Bel Ami had better comedic moments, particularly in the early episodes where IU's character was being a thirsty fangirl. Producers had better writing.

Perfect Crown didn't have strong writing. There's only so much actors can do around that. There was a plot point or two that I didn't really love, but it's mostly just the overall writing.

I feel that YATB/SHR/Persona are one tier up, while HDL/MM/WLGYT are in another league completely. DH I've put off for years, I don't know when or if I'll watch it.

>80% of those organizations reported workforce reductions tied to their AI initiatives. Some cut headcount by as much as 20%. And the companies that cut the most showed nearly identical financial returns to the companies that cut the least. In several cases, the ones that cut less performed better.

No correlation between AI-driven layoffs and improved ROI. At all.

https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-job-cuts-not-improving-returns

To answer the rhetorical question (unless it's going to be literally listed somewhere), we can look at two specific things. Actually practically just one, but the first minor observation is still somewhat worth noting.

1. "Rich enough to have a Hermes habit": Among the numerous bags on her shopping trips is the unmistakable and characteristically bright-orange Hermes shopping bag. As you may already know, you can't just walk into a store and buy a new Hermes; That's not how it works. You first have to buy a whole load of other Hermes merchandise (Jewry, furniture, clothing, etc etc) in order for the SA to be willing to sell you a new Hermes bag, assuming that's what Hee-joo just casually picked up one afternoon. Even if it isn't, it just a part of her habit of buying Hermes stuff on her way of getting her next Hermes bag.
2. "Rich enough to have her one-of-a-kind-designed Bugatti": You may have noticed that, yes, it's a brand spanking new Bugatti Tourbillon. However, what you may have not noticed that it's not just ANY Bugatti Tourbillon (one of 250-some units, none more would be made)... This is a custom-designed-and-engineered Tourbillon that's completely different than any other Tourbillon in the entire world. Given that she owns a Tourbillon is already remarkable enough given that every single one of them would be spoken for even before they roll off of the assembly line (you basically have to be in their "owners club" which in turn means YOU MUST ALREADY OWN MULTIPLE BUGATTIS and thus couldn't even buy a new one or even find out how to buy one even if you have all the money in the world if you don't) ...and this is the winner: For an exclusive model you'd have to pay Bugatti hundreds of millions of dollars for them to design and build this one-of-a-kind model. This model is likely named after YOU... Notice in the above screenshot, the Tourbillon "Seong Hee-joo Red Dragon Lady" (or however it's named) doesn't have the same side profile as a regular Tourbillon but a completely different side air intake that takes away all the curvature in the design and instead replaced it with straight lines. In practice, this could strengthen the B-pillar portion of the automobile enabling a TARGA VERSION of this already one-of-a-kind machine. Not only that, the original analog instrument cluster has been replaced with a custom digital multi-segment display on the sides. This isn't something that could be jury-rigged on a car like this, but a completely re-engineered front cockpit. Well, maybe more than just a hundred million dollars went into this. Only then do you get your _own_ hypercar, literally.

tldr; Rich on the level of "I don't know what to do with all my money" or "rich as middle-eastern oil sultans," RICH.

[Note: Back to reality, there are some reasons for doing this on the show. All the computer graphics and special effects that went into changing the car so much (including getting rid of the "Bugatti" light on the tail lights) is likely for licensing- They most probably didn't get Bugatti's blessings on using that car on the show so they altered the car's design itself to avoid getting sued. On regular cars on other shows they just black-tape over car brands but this show has to do a lot more work when it comes to Bugatti. Well, the side effect of that would be Hee-joo brandishing a one-of-a-kind 100-million-dollar-plus car]