{"id":86216,"date":"2017-08-03T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=86216"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T01:55:05","slug":"ghost-in-the-shell-ultrahd-bluray-contest-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/ghost-in-the-shell-ultrahd-bluray-contest-results\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ghost in the Shell’ UHD Contest Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picking a winner for last week’s ‘Ghost in the Shell’ contest was especially difficult. We received one brilliant entry after another after another after another. Our readers clearly had a ball with this one.
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I could have easily gone with 50 or more honorable mentions. To keep these results to a manageable size, I had to weed out a number of very good submissions. I recommend reading through all the Comments to the original post<\/a> for more hilarity.<\/p>\n

We challenged you to provide funny or clever captions for the following image:<\/p>\n

\"And<\/a><\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions<\/h2>\n
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  1. T.J. Kats:<\/strong> “I already did a movie where I unlocked more than 10% of my brain so maybe in this one I can unlock more than 10% of my arm.”<\/li>\n
  2. Csm101:<\/strong> I got an idea for a movie title: ‘Under the Skin’.<\/li>\n
  3. Joseph V:<\/strong> They warned me this could happen while baking cookies. #ovenmitts<\/li>\n
  4. Jared M:<\/strong> “What? You said I had to be unarmed for the next mission. Oh you meant\u2026crap.”<\/li>\n
  5. Deaditelord:<\/strong> Major, that’s never going to heal if you don’t stop picking.<\/li>\n
  6. Colin:<\/strong> Seriously? The left hand was DLC and not available on release day? Ughhh\u2026<\/li>\n
  7. William M:<\/strong> “Interesting, if they repair my arm, how do I know it’s the same? And if I don’t know my arm is the same, how then, do I know that the rest of me is the same before the accident? My ghost tells me I am Motoko, but my mind tells me I can’t possibly know, therefore I can’t be certain of anything anymore. My life is but a cell in an ocean of uncertain life, floating in the depths of the abyss where the glimmers of light I see can’t be judged to enlighten my past, or that of someone else’s being mixed with mine through the interconnectedness of all li\u2026 Fuck! I thought you said I wouldn’t feel anything!”<\/li>\n
  8. Tom H:<\/strong> Don’t worry if it’s not strong enough to pull the hatch off a tank. What are the odds that I’ll have to do that?<\/li>\n
  9. Joshua B:<\/strong> The major began to get a sneaky suspicion that she wasn’t actually getting the tattoo she had requested\u2026.<\/li>\n
  10. Ronald O:<\/strong> It’s true..beauty really is just skin deep.<\/li>\n
  11. Andrew T:<\/strong> In the future, people take Thumb Wars WAYYY too seriously.<\/li>\n
  12. Terry:<\/strong> Seriously\u2026a fucking flesh eating computer virus?<\/li>\n
  13. Jerry D:<\/strong> What until they get a load of my Kung Fu grip.<\/li>\n
  14. Todd:<\/strong> I may not be Asian, but my arm was made by a Chinese toddler for a penny. Think Different.<\/li>\n
  15. Patrick T:<\/strong> New Achievement Unlocked: “Suffer For Your Craft”.<\/li>\n
  16. Jason:<\/strong> Is this the only way to get access to the vending machine in the lounge?<\/li>\n
  17. Plisken99:<\/strong> “See boys, I told you I was built in a lab by nerds, for nerds.”<\/li>\n
  18. JazzC:<\/strong> Oh My God they weren’t kidding when they said that Kentucky Fried Chicken was Finger Licking Good<\/li>\n
  19. Leon:<\/strong> So I guess that’s not what they meant when they said: “Give him a hand.”<\/li>\n
  20. Robert M:<\/strong> Major pondered silently “Why can they grow me an arm, but not nipples?”<\/li>\n
  21. Craig P:<\/strong> Six finger, six finger, man alive ! How did I ever get along with five !<\/li>\n
  22. Jordan M:<\/strong> Hey, do I get a free oil change with this tune up??<\/li>\n
  23. Elizabeth:<\/strong> Scoring the latest Republican “healthcare” bill, the CBO has determined that by 2026 health insurance will cost a literal arm and a leg.<\/li>\n
  24. George:<\/strong> These new Apple watches are a pain to put on<\/li>\n
  25. Salvador C:<\/strong> “It may not seem like it, but in comparison, I have more real parts than Nicki Minaj.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Winner!<\/h2>\n

    This entry from moremovies85 was among the earliest to be submitted to the contest, and I pegged it as a finalist right away. Although numerous terrific responses from others put up a strong challenge, I kept coming back to this as the one that made me laugh the hardest:<\/p>\n

    Am I turning Japanese? I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Congratulations to moremovies85 for winning ‘Ghost in the Shell<\/a>‘ (2017) on 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray, and thanks to everyone else for participating in our contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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