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Selling some 4K and Blu-Ray slipcovers. Unless otherwise marked, a 4K UHD slipcover is $5 each and a Blu-Ray slipcover is $3 each. I'm happy to take pictures of the items for you, just ask.
Shipping is $5; free if total is over $50. Please note that these are SLIPCOVERS ONLY, no movies are included.
Disney 4K UHD Slipcovers ($5, unless marked)

• Aladdin [2019] 4K
• Avengers, The: Endgame 4K
• Dumbo [2019] 4K
• Jungle Cruise 4K
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K

Studio 4K UHD Slipcovers ($5, unless marked)

• 65 4K - $7
• Ambulance 4K
• American Assassin 4K
• Angel Has Fallen 4K
• Aquaman 4K
• Bad Guys 4K, The
• Batman [2022] 4K, The
• Batman: The Killing Joke 4K - $9
• Battlestar Galactica [1978] 4K
• Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 4K
• Blade 4K - $7
• Brightburn 4K - $9
• Bumblebee 4K
• Candyman (2021) 4K
• Christmas Story 4K, A - $7
• Cold Pursuit 4K
• Color Out of Space 4K - $7
• Commuter 4K, The
• Contractor 4K, The
• Days of Thunder 4K - $9
• Dirty Dancing 4K
• Don't Breathe 2 4K - $7
• Doom 4K
• Downton Abbey: A New Era 4K
• Dune 4K
• Edge of Tomorrow 4K
• Elvis 4K
• Enter the Dragon 4K - $7
• Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K
• Everything Everywhere All At Once 4K (White Walmart Exclusive)
• Evil Dead Rise 4K
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 4K
• First Man 4k
• First Purge, The 4K
• Free Guy 4K - $7
• Ghost in the Shell [2017] 4K - $7
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife 4K - $7
• Great Wall 4K, The
• Green Knight [A24] 4K, The - $7
• Green Mile 4K, The - $7
• Grinch [2018] 4K, The
• Hellboy [2019] 4K
• Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard 4K, The
• Howard the Duck 4K
• Hunt for Red October 4K, The
• Hustlers 4K - $9
• It's a Wonderful Life 4K
• Jaws 2 4K
• Jigsaw 4K
• John Wick Chapter 4 4K
• Jurassic World 4K
• Jurassic World: Dominion 4K
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K
• Kid Who Would Be King 4K, The - $7
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 4K
• King's Man [2021] 4K, The
• Knock at the Cabin 4K - $7
• Lost Boys 4K, The
• Monster Hunter 4K - $7
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 4K - $7
• Mortal Kombat 4K
• Mule 4K, The
• National Lampoon's Vacation 4K
• News of the World 4K
• Nightmare Alley 4K
• Nobody 4K
• Nope 4K
• Old 4K
• SOLD Pan's Labyrinth 4K - $10
• Patriot Games 4K
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles 4K - $7
• Poltergeist 4K
• Power Rangers 4K
• Protégé 4K, The - $7
• Quiet Place 4K, A - $7
• Quiet Place part II 4K, A - $7
• Rambo: Last Blood 4K
• Rampage 4K
• Rebel Without a Cause 4K
• Requiem for a Dream 4K - $7
• Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 4K
• Robin Hood [2018] 4K
• Shadow 4K - $10
• Shazam! 4K
• Sisu 4K
• Skyscraper 4K
• Smokin' Aces 4K
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 4K
• Space Jam [1996] 4K
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4K - $7
• Spider-Man: Far from Home 4K - $7
• Spiral 4K
• Stuber 4K - $7
• Suicide Squad [2021] 4K - $7
• Sum of All Fears 4K, The
• Super 8 4K - $7
• Tenet 4K - $7
• Terminator: Dark Fate 4K - $7
• Top Gun Maverick 4K
• Training Day 4K - $7
• Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 4K, The
• Voyagers 4K
• Wonder Woman 1984 4K
• X-Men: Dark Phoenix 4K - $7
• Zombieland: Double Tap 4K - $9

Boutique Blu-Ray Slipcovers

• Child's Play (Scream Factory Collector's Edition) - $8
• Drug War (Well Go) - $5
• Firestarter (Scream Factory Collector's Edition) - $8
• New World (Well Go) - $5
• Stranger, The (Scream Factory / IFC) - $5

DisneyMarvel Blu-Ray Slipcovers ($3, unless marked)

• 101 Dalmatians
• Avengers: Age of Ultron 3D
• Bambi
• Beauty and the Beast [2017]
• Brave
• Brave 3D (lenticular) - $4
• Bug's Life, A -- fair condition
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D [Nick Fury cover] - $5
• Celebrating Mickey
• Cinderella [1950]
• Disneynature: Monkey Kingdom
• Finding Dory
• Finding Nemo
• Finding Nemo 3D (lenticular) - $4
• Frozen
• Gnomeo & Juliet
• Good Dinosaur, The
• Incredible Hulk, The
• Inside Out
• Iron Man
• Iron Man 2
• Iron Man 3 3D
• Jungle Book [2016], The
• Lady and the Tramp
• Lion King [1994], The
• Lion King 1 1/2, The
• Lion King 2, The: Simba's Pride
• Little Mermaid 3D, The
• Lone Ranger, The
• Maleficent
• Mars Needs Moms
• Mary Poppins Returns
• Moana
• Moana 3D (lenticular) - $5
• Monsters, Inc.
• Monsters University [BD+DVD]
• Monsters University (Collector's Edition, BD+DVD+DC]
• Muppets, The
• Olaf's Frozen Adventure
• Oz: The Great and Powerful
• Pirate Fairy
• POTC: At World's End
• POTC: On Stranger Tides
• Pixar Short Films Collection Vol 3
• Ratatouille
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937]
• Star Wars: A New Hope
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Thor
• Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
• Zootopia
• Zootopia 3D (lenticular) - $5

Blu-Ray Slipcovers ($3, unless marked)

• 007 Live and Let Die
• 47 Ronin
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (lenticular)
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
• Angry Birds: The Movie (w/ eyebrows)
• Annihilation
• Appaloosa
• Arthur Christmas
• Assassin's Creed
• Avatar 3D
• Bag Man, The
• Baggage Claim
• Barbie
• Blood Father
• Card Counter, The
• Chicago (Diamond Edition)
• Copshop
• Courier, The
• Criminal Activities
• Crimson Peak
• Croods, The
• Cry Macho
• DCU: Batman & Superman Battle of the Supersons
• DCU: Throne of Atlantis
• Deep Blue Sea 2
• Dictator, The
• Divergent Series, The: Allegiant (lenticular)
• Dying of the Light
• Entourage: The Movie
• Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Fall
• Fantastic 4 (2015)
• Fantastic 4 / Fantastic 4 Silver Surfer
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Fast and the Furious, The (Roman Numeral I)
• Fast & Furious (Roman Numeral IV)
• Fear the Walking Dead Season 1
• Fear the Walking Dead Season 1 (lenticular) - $5
• Ferdinand
• Forrest Gump
• Ghostbusters
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Girl in the Spider's Web, The
• Green Knight, The
• Halloween Kills
• Halo: Legends
• Halo: The Fall of Reach
• Hangover Part II, The
• Happy Feet Two
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 3D (lenticular)
• Hitman's Bodyguard, The
• Home (Target Exclusive)
• Hotel Transylvania
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Hunger Games, The
• Hunger Games, The: Catching Fire
• Hunger Games, The: Mockingjay Pt 1
• Hunger Games, The: Mockingjay Pt 2
• I, Tonya - $5
• Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special
• In the Heart of the Sea
• It (Target Exclusive lenticular) - $5
• Jexi
• Jigsaw
• Jumanji: The Next Level
• Jupiter Ascending
• Kin
• Knock at the Cabin
• Knowing
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• La La Land (Target Exclusive) - $5
• Last Airbender, The
• Last Night in Soho - $5
• Legend of Tarzan, The
• Lego Movie, The
• Maggie
• Mamma Mia (Original)
• Man Who Killed Hitler and the Big Foot, The
• March of the Penguins (Gold AA)
• Max Steel [fair condition]
• Meatballs (VHS)
• Men in Black 3
• Million Ways to Die in the West, A
• Monster Trucks
• Mountain Between Us, The
• My All-American
• Night Hunter
• Norm of the North
• Ocean's 8
• Oklahoma
• Pan
• Paradise Hills
• Parasite
• Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
• Peanuts Movie, The
• Pearl
• Phantom Thread
• Polar Express, The (Target Exclusive lenticular) - $5
• Puss in Boots
• Ready Player One (Target Exclusive lenticular) - $5
• Reminiscence
• Rhythm Section, The
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Rock the Kasbah
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (50th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
• San Andreas (Best Buy Exclusive lenticular)
• Shallows, The
• Shape of Water, The
• Shaun the Sheep
• Sisters
• Smallfoot
• Snitch
• Sonic 2
• Source Code
• Spider-Man 3
• Spies in Disguise
• Split
• Stand, The
• Star Trek: Into Darkness (Best Buy Exclusive)
• Storks
• Submerged - $5
• Tag
• Tower Heist
• Tracers
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• Transformers: The Last Knight
• Twilight Saga, The: Eclipse
• Underwater
• Unfinished Business
• Violent Night
• Walking with Dinosaurs (original)
• Walking with Dinosaurs
• Warcraft
• Warning Shot
• Witch, The - $5
• Woman in Black 2, The: Angel of Death
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Yesterday
• Your Name - $5
• Zipper

I love, LOVE this bag and I'm sad to let her go but she has never seen the light of day. Hopefully, someone will get to give her the attention that she needs!

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• Price Purchased: $407 (2650 CNY + 280 CNY shipping)
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• Condition: Brand new. Never worn. I took off the packaging for pictures but will put it back on.
• Included: Dust bag and all paperwork. Crossbody and shoulder strap.
• Seller: Reykay, Angel Factory
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• Review: This is a beautiful piece. I have handled the authentic one in store many times and love this one so much. I honestly won't feel bad if it doesn't sell. The leather is soft and smells divine. The charms are well done. No scratches or any wear since it hasn't left my closet.
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DRS IS THE WAY…to infinity and beyond, but even if you don’t believe enough to walk the one way, help support us there.
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I’ll be back to post DD of more convincing spiritual substance, but I need to rest and if this journey has taught us anything it’s how to run a race that’s a marathon and sprint.
I’m holding past any sale. I ate all the crayons the world offered so we could become an ape army of crowneaters!
This is the planet of the apes, and I will hold this torch through endless storms of red and fields of green. What is dead may never die, but rises
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This post is very long. This first section, before the first triple-line-break, is the summary. Details follow that.
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SUMMARY
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So, I was very much looking forward to Legendary Tales for a while now after hearing so many great things.
I bought it on sale a couple days ago and played the first hour or so, completing the tutorial and entering the main hub. Then I uninstalled and refunded it.
This is not a 'hate post' and I hope that this post will not only help people understand some of the issues of this game, and what this game is NOT, but also help people understand what this game is and why you might love it. I talked about my criticisms with others who love the game to help me approach this and hopefully deliver some useful thoughts. It's worth noting that I got lots of agreement about my criticisms from the people I talked to - who still love the game.
In short,
People love this game for the combat development in the context of a 40+ hour adventure. All the depth to the skill trees, which of course in my hour I didn't touch. The creativity of building the mechanics of a character RPG style - except you get to physically battle in VR. The reward of unlocking that cool skill you've been excited to try out, or finding a legendary that's a blast to use. Even in my short time with the game I could feel the beginnings of this with the parry system. I did have fun fighting skeletons with a simple sword and no skills, and felt the challenge as I had to aim my sword deflections well and time my counterstrikes. There is an effective mechanic preventing waggle-fest and I can begin to imagine all the room to develop your combat mechanics in a way that is, fun and rewarding, and uniquely VR.
Sounds great right? To some it truly is.
But to me, not so much. Why? Because everything else is lacking to a degree I did not expect.
I've been playing a lot of The Light Brigade lately. And although these two games are totally different, it's a useful game to bring up because The Light Brigade excels in all the ways that Legendary Tales significantly falls short.
Atmosphere - music and sound, lighting and colours, art design, character and enemy models
Interfacing - Onboarding and intuitive learning, UI design and fluidity, control mapping, options, grabbing/interacting with objects, general polish
Storytelling - Plot, lore, world building, characters, character and enemy expressiveness, writing
For many people who play games, combat is at the forefront of their interests. For me, it always takes a backseat priority - if its present at all - to the above three aspects. The combat in Bloodborne is great, but it is because it excels in those 3 aspects that it's one of my favourite games. I also love lengthy games like Pentiment, Disco Elysium, Planescape Torment, and Pathologic 2, which have minimal or no combat and lots of reading!
Legendary Tales is simply mediocre in those three bolded aspects and for me that's a hard pass. If these aspects were serviceable to me - done well enough to facilitate the combat - I might have kept going. But I don't use the world 'mediocre' lightly. This is the appropriate word to me, and because of that, I did not want to spend 40+ hours in this world.
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For those interested, or for the developers, I will continue with a breakdown of these aspects I am criticizing, trying to go through everything I felt about them in the first hour or so of playing.
Main menu was my favourite part. I liked the scene + music together. Nice. I was looking forward to playing and this had me feeling fuzzy and ready to enjoy the game. Unfortunately, it was not to be.
The very first issue I noticed was that the game felt washed out. Even in that main menu I liked, I was feeling like it was a bit washed out. So I tried adjusting brightness down... then the darker areas felt better, but the light areas felt off. The more I played and tried to adjust to find the right equilibrium, the more I realized the lighting and contrast is just not good and adjusting brightness can't save that.
The second issue I noticed was the menu cursor to select things. It felt like an early VR game that hadn't quite figured out VR menus yet. It's useable but not fluid and pleasing.
The third issue I noticed was the unintuitive controls. I thought that this was the kind of game, kind of like a Souls game, where you aren't taught everything but learn things as you go in an organic manner. Maybe some of that exists in this game, but mostly it's simply bad control design and a bad tutorial. It's the difference between having barriers that have purpose, purposeful friction, and feel good when discovered vs barriers that feel pointless and just build frustration without purpose. The controls feel like a mess and while it's apparent that people can get used to them as they play more, it's not in a justified sense.
Along with this are interfacing issues. For example, grabbing items feels very awkward. The motions are clunky, for example the way a weapon will slowly glide into place in your hands. There's so many interfacing issues. The interface to see weapon/item stats on weapons that are laying about is clunky, the interface to switch weapons is clunky, the magic interface is clunky, dialogue boxes feel clunky,... all of these things feel clunky both in terms of feel and also aesthetic.
A very straightforward and obvious example is dialogue. Character dialogue is presented in a large bland text on a page. To progress through the dialogue, there's no obvious place to click or button to push. In fact, you have to click a particular area of the page, which feels totally arbitrary and unintuitive. Sure, once you learn, you can do it fine, but it's just bad interface design.
To go back to The Light Brigade, think about the difference in both feel and aesthetic to opening a chest or breaking a pot. Grabbing a gun and how it arrives to your hand. The attractive dialogue boxes. Watching a reward pop out of a chest, picking a tarot card. Putting objects into your waist pouch or taking them out. These interactions are all comfortable, beautiful, fluid, and intuitive.
The next thing on my mind was sound.
As I played the tutorial, the soundscape was barren. There was a wind loop, which didn't loop correctly leaving a solid second of space between the end and beginning. Sounds didn't feel like they were placed quite right in 3D space. Point-based sounds (like the crackling of a campfire, that comes from a specific point in space) had too small of a zone (the sound should be heard from further away). In general the soundscape was very barebones. And when I encountered the first character, not only did the character look totally goofy and out of place, but they made no sounds when 'speaking', not even grunts or gibberish sound.
To skip ahead for a moment, I also felt the music did not match the environments enough. The music was quite pretty - that's not the problem. It just didn't feel like the environments were quite synergized with the music.
Again for both music and sound, think of the gun sounds, the ability sounds, the sound of the enemies as they spot you, the sound of the environment, the footsteps and dash, the grunts of characters when the speak, the music... not only does it all sound great, but it all feels like expressions of the unique world of The Light Brigade. This is excellent sound and music design, that truly bring the world to life.
Although a minor complaint, I also noticed lots of grammar and spelling errors. Although I understand the team is in South Korea, and I appreciate the challenges of translation, just like with everything else I was just expecting... more polish. I thought it would feel like a full package, at indie scale. But it feels very much like a partial package.
And that segues into the writing...
There are games with simple and/or unmemorable story, where the story is still servicing and facilitating the gameplay.
And then there is just plain bad writing.
This is very much the latter.
Maybe a bit of this goes back to translation but I am doubtful that it fares much better in original Korean in essence.
The writing is goofy, juvenile, poorly structured, and generic.
I was also seriously turned off by a couple lines in particular, that I'm sure affect me more than most but I will mention anyways. One was something like "valuable gem missing. And a hot girl". Like... There's nothing inherent about calling a woman (or a man) hot that I don't like. Yes gamers, you are allowed to find women attractive, relax. But it's the way its written,... I'm not going to turn this into an essay about male gaze but the way its written simply services a particular male audience that casually objectifies women.
Even worse was the final line I read, a quest line. Paraphrasing, but the primary descriptive words are all exact: "Go kill 10 kill peasants in a refugee camp". I don't think I need to elaborate, people who are on a similar page to me will understand why this was just an incredibly gross line.
I know the above two dialogue criticisms will not be shared by everyone and not affect everyone the same way. I am expressing them as part of what I felt, my personal criticisms and experience, just like the rest of what I'm sharing.
Again to compare to The Light Brigade... every line feels thoughtful and builds character and develops the lore. Whether its the forlorn lines of NPC members of The Light Brigade, or the scenes that appear between runs, and other bits and pieces you get. The Light Brigade develops so much world with few words, it's quite impressive and again a beacon that Urban Wolf Games can learn from.
The final issue I'll discuss was something that struck me earlier on. That is, player character model and lack of customization.
First of all - again an issue that the majority here probably won't be affected by - I could not pick my character model until after completing the tutorial. Specifically, I was forced to do calibration as a male character model, and then had to play the tutorial as this character. Minor complaint but again just another polish issue.
Both male and female models are just... boring designs, and the female model is again very juvenile, obviously serving a primarily male audience, whether intentionally or not.
But more importantly, there's no character customization. Not even the tiniest bit. Even the ability to change just skin colour and hair only would go a long way. Especially in a lengthy adventure like this, I need to be able to identify with my character. Especially with multiplayer it seems essential to me, but even if it were single player, and as someone who plays primarily in single player, character customization is hugely impactful to me.
This does not really have a contrast in The Light Brigade - there's no character customization in The Light Brigade either, although the kind of game it is, it's not as relevant. That said, I do think it would be a nice touch if there WAS some minor character customization in The Light Brigade, and especially if you could play as a woman instead of man if you so choose. Although maybe lore-wise it is intended that all members are male except for 'Mother'. This hasn't been established with any good reason though. So on this point I would lightly criticize The Light Brigade as well.
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ENDING THOUGHTS
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Ultimately, Legendary Tales is quite simply a very indie game that probably had a very small team and limited funds. I don't know for sure, but probably there *wasn't* a dedicated writer, a dedicated UI and interface designer, etc.
However, these things are still failings of the game and its design. The greatest indie games to me are ones that successfully recognize their scope limitations and develop something complete within that scope. Whether it's the roguelike world of The Light Brigade, or the very short and stylish Tiger Blade, or Jeff Minter's trippy games like Akka Arrh and Polybius, or the retro Silent Hill aesthetic of Organ Quarter, or the suspenseful hotel of Propagation Paradise Hotel... all these games are made by small teams but successfully navigate their limited funds to deliver a full package within an appropriately limited scope.
On the one hand, I really value and support BJ's push for indie games to be respected and for that respect to reflect in the price consumers are prepared to pay. But after being totally on board with the price of Legendary Tales based on what I read from BJ and reviewers and many regular players too, I have to disagree with this game's pricing. This game is not polished enough, and is not a full package. That the game sucked out so much funds is an error of scope.
Maybe I will be in the minority, and Legendary Tales has been a success so it seems that I am, and so good on them for knowing the value of their game to the demographic they targeted I guess. And regardless, even if the pricing and attempted scope of the game are an error on the dev's part, I'm glad for the dev to earn back as much as they can, or even turn a profit hopefully.
But to me, reflecting back to the question the devs put forward: "Do you want to see deep combat development like this in VR for a 40+ hour adventure from indie devs?" The answer is no, I don't. I do consider the scope of this game an error on the part of the developers. It sounds like they did not even turn a profit enough to allow them to expand their team (but maybe I'm misunderstanding). I hope that they do continue with VR development, but instead focus on a much smaller scope game. Deliver a polished, complete package within a smaller scope, implementing a much tighter budget that will allow for potential turning of profit with an appropriately lighter sale price (maybe targeting a $30 game?).
If that is successful, do it again, and again, until they can expand and eventually work toward their dream adventure RPG, hiring actual writers and UI designers and sound designers etc. For me personally, this is simply not the kind of game you can half-bake. It should be attempted again when, and only when, they feel they have budget to do this in a truly full and polished manner.
I had the pleasure of meeting BJ briefly at PAX East. He struck me as friendly, kind, totally genuine, and incredibly passionate as a game developer and a VR game developer in particular.
I do wish this team good luck and despite my own harsh criticism I am glad so many ARE enjoying this game, and also feel the price point is justified. I want devs to earn money, including Urban Wolf Games. And I hope that they will continue to develop and bring more VR to the world.
I hope that my criticism is constructive and useful toward these same goals.

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Today is something of a long episode, but I hope you'll indulge me on MB's birthday because I really hope that you'll like the segment about the team of traders that I've sponsored to enter the Trading Cup 2024 competition, and the review of Alternergy's STAR Investor Day presentation.
Hope you like it!

▌In today's MB:

• PSE suspends PNX, C, and INFRA
• Zobels sell remaining MWC holdings
• TC24: Introducing MB's Trading Cup 2024 team!
  • The Trading Cup competition
  • Meet Matthew, Jenny, and Sef
  • Good luck team!
• Alternergy's first public Q&A
  • Its growth strategy
  • Outlook of renewables market
  • Why it loves wind
  • When dividends?

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▌Main stories covered:

• [UPDATE] PNX, C, and INFRA suspended for failure to submit Annual Reports... The PSE issued suspensions to three companies [link] prior to the open of trade on Friday morning for failure to submit FY23 Annual Reports. The three companies suspended are Phoenix Petroleum [PNX 4.17 ▼0.2%; 0% avgVol], Chelsea Logistics [C 1.30 ▲4.0%; 0% avgVol], and Philippine Infradev [INFRA 0.53 ▲1.9%; 0% avgVol]. AgriNurture [ANI 0.62 ▲8.8%; 305% avgVol] narrowly avoided suspension by submitting its Annual Report 38 minutes before the PSE’s suspension deadline. The ANI FY23 Annual Report disclosure erroneously reports a net income improvement of 1560% to ₱146 million, instead of a ₱146 million net loss, perhaps this oversight comes from a behind-the-scenes race to submit before the deadline.
  
  • MB: I’m married to an accountant who did the auditing grind for years, so I know that it’s not easy to put these reports together; they’re complex and knock-ons from problems in any of the subsidiaries can cause problems that ripple up the chain and back down. That being said, producing these annual reports is something of a bare-minimum condition of public corporate life. Every management group rides its accounting department and its auditing team into the dirt to get its quarterly and annual reports out on time. I don’t have any inside knowledge into why PNX, C, and INFRA are in this position, but I listen to the silence from these management groups. Good teams communicate with their minority shareholders in times of uncertainty, and a trading suspension is a time of great uncertainty for retail investors.
• [NEWS] **Ayala Corp sells remains of its MWC holdings to Enrique Razon for ₱14.5-B... Ayala Corp [AC 620.00 ▲1.3%; 131% avgVol] [link] disclosed that its subsidiaries, Michigan Holdings and Philwater Holdings, would sell their combined holdings in Manila Water Company [MWC 26.60 ▼1.5%; 123% avgVol] to Trident Water Company Holdings (TWC), which is owned by MWC’s current owner, Enrique Razon. The combined value of the two sales to TWC is ₱14.5 billion. The block of shares coming to TWC through Michigan Holdings was already processed and paid-for (~₱12.9 billion), and the remaining ₱1.6 billion worth of shares from Philwater Holdings will be purchased in installments over the next five years. AC confirmed that it will have no post-transaction common share interest in MWC, and that its voting stake will be “nil”.
  
  • MB: In a weird way, the transfer of ownership and control of MWC from the Zobel Family to the Razon Family is one of the only lasting “achievements” of the Duterte administration. I put “achievements” in quotation marks because it’s not clear how the President’s overreach into the public markets benefitted anyone other than the obvious (MWC’s current owner). As longtime readers of MB will know I have a deep respect for Mr. Razon’s business acumen and operational quality, but I don’t know that MWC customers have necessarily felt any change as a result of this transfer, and I don’t know that minority shareholders have felt any change either. So maybe it was just Mr. Razon in the right place at the right time while Duterte rode the media waves of threatening the Zobels with death and dismemberment? Yeah, it was a weird time.
• [TC24] Introducing MB’s Trading Cup 2024 team!...Merkado Barkada** is sponsoring a team of three traders to compete in Trading Cup 2024 hosted by Investa, where hundreds of traders will be competing for up to ₱640k in total prizes based on their trading performance with ₱300k in virtual currency across the PSE, US markets, and crypto markets. This is a long competition (it runs from April 22 through July 26), so we will follow the members of Team MB throughout the contest to check in on what’s working, what’s not working, and what it’s like on the front-lines of the country’s largest trading tournament. Let’s meet the team!
  
  • “Hi I’m Matthew. I’m a project manager in network engineering in the telecommjnications industry and an agency leader in one of the top global brands in insurance. I have been trading since 2016. Though I like momentum trading, I found more success in position trading because it is less volatile since I can only check my open positions during my free time.” Matthew is 37 and lives in Paranaque. Trading experience: PSE (8 years), US (1 year), CRYPTO (1 year).*
  • “Hi I'm Jennelyn. I'm a Civil Engineer by profession in a government organization. I started trading back in 2020 for a year. I was reckless back then, but I've learned a lot, I'd say. I stopped trading in 2021 to focus on my career and I shifted my trading journey to learning first. Now with the Trading Cup I've found another motivation to push through. I tried day trading, and it was really frustrating and draining, so this time I'm doing swing trading through price action and volume.
  • “My name is Sef. I'm currently in college studying Management. I've been mostly self-taught but over the years I took a lot of learnings from other people. I've tried a lot of strategies but most of the time I'm a swing trader. So, I try to look for strong catalysts and take positions within times of consolidations. My implementation of it during the competition hasn't been perfect, partly due to finals week. But I trust in the process. I've been trading in the PSE for 5 years now. I only started trading the US markets and Crypto, recently. I think my current performance in the competition is reflective of my experience within the three markets. [PSE: +17.4%, CRYPTO: +4.2%, US: -11.5%]. We still have a few months to go and it's still anyone's game. A lot of the top leaderboard right now is primarily driven by 1 or 2 positions that no one saw coming, I think you can guess which stocks I'm referring to.
    • MB: Welcome to the team, Matthew, Jenny, and Sef! My goal in founding Team MB is to give readers a little insight into the thought processes behind the winning and losing trades of each team member. We have a diverse group across age, background, experience, and trading style, so I think we’ll get some interesting perspectives on the markets as the weeks go by before the July 26 finale. The team members will get to keep 100% of any prizes that they win, along with a monthly stipend from Merkado Barkada for all the coffee/snacks needed to keep focus on all three markets simultaneously. Good luck, team!
• [NEWS] Alternergy conducts first public Q&A since IPO... Alternergy [ALTER 0.70 ▲1.4%; 159% avgVol] presented its Q1 results on Wednesday as part of the PSE’s STAR Investor Day event, and MB was there to document its first public Q&A with institutional and retail investors since its IPO over a year ago. For me, the most interesting component of any STAR presentation is the Q&A, because it’s where we get the chance to hear the management team talk outside of the the cold forensics of the financial statements to address the hope, fear, optimism, and pessisim of the average investor.
  
  • On enhancing shareholder value: The ALTER team said that it’s focus is on controlling what it can control, and that as a developer, it does everything that it can to complete projects “within the timeline and committed budget”, increase its pipeline, and build good relationships with stakeholders.
  • On its growth strategy: ALTER said that its “DNA is a developer”, and therefore its “preference is brownfield development” as opposed to acquisitions. (MB note: “Brownfield” means development on land that has been previously used for some other purpose. “Greenfield” would be development on untouched land.) The management team said that it is open to being “opportunistic” with acquisitions, but that its overall focus is on “looking for projects from the ground and building them toward completion.”
  • On outlook of renewables market: “The power industry is really at the point where there is a sustained pressure towards a price increase.” The ALTER team said that there’s a shortage of power supply, and what existing supply there is will come under pressure as power plants age or weather phenomena disrupt operations. ALTER said that it’s strategy is to simply grow its portfolio into this market gap, especially over the next two years.
  • On wind vs solar: The ALTER team was asked whether it was intentional to be “more exposed to wind rather than solar”, and ALTER responded by saying that while both wind and solar are scalable, they “like wind” because it generates more electricity per installed capacity. As the ALTER team put it: “For instance, if we build a 50 MW solar, you’ll only need a 25 MW wind project to match the amount of energy that we will be generating.” ALTER said that wind is also less intensive in terms of land use to generate the same amount of energy, and that its analysis shows that wind projects generate more cash flow than solar projects.
  • On starting to distribute dividends: *One question asked when ALTER would start paying dividends, and the ALTER team responded (after a laugh) that it’s “all about resource allocation”. ALTER said that at this stage, it’s a growth company, and that it would like to use its resources to build a “sizeable portfolio over the medium term” with the goal of “increasing shareholder value.” ALTER said that once it has achieved that goal, “dividend payments would not be far behind.
    • MB:Kudos to any management team that takes questions from the public. It’s not easy to be this communicative and transparent, but as a long-term investor, this kind of insight into the management team’s thinking and analysis of their own data and the market as a whole is important. If your trading style is technical, ALTER’s analysis of wind versus solar isn’t going to matter to you at all, but if your thesis is based on bets in the power generation sector, that response might trigger some research that could be helpful. Overall I’d say that the ALTER team did very well. It was clear that they were nervous, but over time I’m sure the team will become more comfortable with answering the questions and interacting with the investing community in such a person-to-person way. Well done, ALTER!

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I bought the game to try new indie stuff. I bought it with a few dlc items, cost me around 800. Downloaded it, Launched it, new game, cutscene, game looked unique but the story seemed to be one of the most pretentious, general/basic, cringe avengers save the world type of story. the mechanics were clunky. slide was useless. wall run was non functional, especially the parry, now i have played and finished all endings of sekiro, so i am a parrying god. in this game parrying is broken, if you parry on time you will still get damage, i always had to parry before it was the right time and it was always off putting. the upgrades/abilities were mostly useless. i played on max difficulty 2 time for achievements and those abilities were useless. also for 800 rupees the game was awfully short, just 2 hours. there were obviously good parts too which is why i am only SLIGHTLY disappointed. there were less cutscenes and more gameplay, it was very fun hacking and slashing and shooting especially with the special ammo the guns had. also in 2 hours, every 20 minutes the game gave you something new. the bosses were also fun and there were 3 bosses and all fun to fight with. don't buy it for the story. its worth it but in like a 95% sale or something.

I just bought the spyder MR 100, I need to buy a Refillable co2 air tank for it and I want to spend $40.
I found this for sale but I think it is compress air not Co2, I'm new to the hobby and don't know to much about this kinda thing. Can i use it with my gun?
If anyone knows of a good Co2 tank that's refillable for $40 please link it.

I just bought the spyder MR 100, I need to buy a Refillable co2 air tank for it and I want to spend $40.
I found this for sale but I think it is compress air not Co2, I'm new to the hobby and don't know to much about this kinda thing. Can i use it with my gun?
If anyone knows of a good Co2 tank that's refillable for $40 please link it.

• long history of sell/trade on indiemakeupandmore & IndieExchange
  
• Paypal G&S, $4 (unless over 1lb)
  
• prefer messages to chat invites
  
• open to offers
  
• PHOTOS
  

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Non-Indies
• Alaïa Alaïa Blanche, 50ml (almond, heliotrope, vanilla) $40
• Anna Sui Sky, 2ml (pear, bergamot, pink pepper, Lily-of-the-Valley, lotus, rose, popcorn, vanilla, musk) $2
• Ariana Grande God Is A Woman, brand new, 2ml (pear, ambrette, orris, Turkish rose, Madagascar vanilla, sandalwood) $3
• Dior Homme Intense edp '11, 2ml (lavender, iris, ambrette, pear, virginia cedar, vetiver) $7
• Etat Libre d'Orange Putain des Palaces, 0.7ml (rose absolute, violet, leather, lily of the valley, tangerine, ginger, rice powder, amber, animal notes) $3
• Hermes Le Jardin de Monsier Li, 0.7ml (jasmine, kumquat, bergamot) $2
• Juliette Has A Gun Ode to Dullness, 1ml (badiane, freesia, cashmere tlower, eandalwood, musks, tonka bean) $3
• Kilian Angels Share, 1.5ml (cognac, cinnamon, tonka bean, oak, vanilla, praline, sandalwood) $3 PENDING
• Marc Jacobs Perfect edt, 1.2ml (pink pepper, polygonum, narcissus, cedar) $2
• Mugler Come Together, 0.7ml (green petitgrain and white musk) $2
• Narciso Rodriguez For Her edt, 1ml (African orange flower, osmanthus, bergamot, musk, amber, vetiver, vanille, patchouli) $3
• Narciso Rodriguez Rouge edp, 1ml (iris, Bulgarian rose, musk, tuberose, orange blossom, tonka bean, vanilla, white cedar extract, cedar, sandalwood, vetiver) $3
• Parfums De Nicolai Cologne Cedrat, 0.7ml (cedrat (citron), bergamot, black pepper, patchouli) $3
• Parfums De Nicolai L'eau Mixte, 0.7ml (blackcurrant-buds, peppermint, lemon, cinnamon, rose, jasmine, vetiver, oakmoss, cocktail of muscs) $3
• Phlur Not Your Baby, 2ml (cardamom, bergamot, mimosa, violet, vanilla, tonka bean, sandalwood) $3
• Prada Infusion d'Amande, 1.5ml (bitter almond, heliotrope, tonka beans, musk, essence of anise) $3
• Prada Infusion de Mimosa, 1.5ml (anise, mandarin, mimosa, rose) $3 PENDING
• Prada Infusion de Rose, 1.5ml (Turkish rose, Bulgarian rose, neroli, mandarin) $3 PENDING
• Replica Beach Walk, 1.2ml (lemon, bergamot, pink pepper, coconut milk, ylang-ylang, heliotrope, musk, benzoin, cedar) $2 PENDING
• Sarah Baker Atlante hand sanitizer, 50ml (yuzu, seaweed, orris, lily of the valley, pink pepper, wet rock, cedar, ambergris, seashell, driftwood) $5
• Sarah Baker Jungle Jezebel hand sanitizer, 50ml (orange, banana, grape, peach, bubble gum, rose, tuberose, ylang-ylang, amber, sandalwood, civet, vetiver, vanilla, tonka bean) $5
• Strangers A La Folie, 0.7ml (amber, vanilla, heliotrope, black tea, macarons, gaiacwood, tonka bean, orange blossom, patchouli, tobacco, canelé, rose, lavender, hazelnut, affogato, crème brûlée) $3
• Universal Flowering Death of a Ladies Man, 7.5ml (mastic, basil, violet, sweet galbanum) $28
• Universal Flowering Heliotrope Milkbath, 7.5ml (candied apricots, heliotropin, almond milk, civet, ambrette musk) $28
• Universal Flowering Rhapsody in Mauve, 2ml (rose jam, clove, cypriol, amber, patchouli) $8
• Versace Eros, 1ml (Italian lemon and mandarin, mint oil, candied apple, Geranium flower, Clary sage essence, ambermax, Cedarwood Atlas and Virginia, vetiver orpur essence, patchouli coeur orpour essence, sandalwood, vanilla) $2
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Indies
• Poesie Always With Me, 1.15ml (citrus fruits bobbing merrily in wooden tubs filled with spring water, eucalyptus branches, hot steam) $3
• Stereoplasm Caesura, 0.5ml (fresh mango, grapefruit tea, cannabis, snake melon and myrrh) $2
• Stereoplasm Disco Stardust, brand new, 0.5ml (pineapple, tangerine, rum, sugar, glossy fruit, simulated plastic & car smell) $2
• Stereoplasm Early Reflections,1.8ml rollerball (pink grapefruit, melted shea butter, warm skin, yuzu rind, ripe guava, crushed pineapple) $4
• Stereoplasm Fairy Frost, 1.8ml rollerball (camphorous-fairy musk, skin musk, bubble bath, bubble gum) $4
• Stereoplasm Lovebird, brand new, 0.5ml (frosted fuchsia, winter jasmine, blue princess holly, xo cognac, purple lotus) $2
• Stereoplasm Perdotmint, brand new, 1.8ml rollerball (pear, spearmint, green tea, jade-amber accord) $4
• Stereoplasm Powder, brand new, 1ml (strong powder, fougere, oakmoss, silk, white oak)

All steelbooks are sealed. Open to trade anything depicted but not everything is for sale. Prices listed in second picture bottom left of each. If the bottom lists a “T”, I’m only looking to trade.
Prices include shipping within the contiguous US via USPS. Thanks for looking!
List:
The Marvels Oppenheimer Dune (GitD) Wonka (Walmart) Young Guns (Best Buy) Cabin in the Woods The Mist Batman Beyond The Fugitive The Blob Backdraft Iron Man 2 Mondo Iron Man 3 Mondo V for Vendetta Mondo (4K) Evil Dead 2 (4K) Talk to Me

Hi guys, i was looking for upgrading my hop up chamber and came across this one https://www.airsoft.ro/spare-parts-upgrade-parts/electric-replicas-(aeg-aep)/hop-up-group/retro-arms-cnc-hop-up-chamber-ar-15-uni/hop-up-group/retro-arms-cnc-hop-up-chamber-ar-15-uni)
Any thoughts? From what i read there are some issues that i could face, where the hop up chamber doesnt fit well in every gun. That's why i wanted to ask you guys if there are known issues with the Specna Arms M4 Edge platform or if some of you actually installed one.