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Back when I was a kid, I really loved VeggieTales. Honestly, I still do to this day. No, not every episode has aged well, but the ones that have still REALLY hold up to this day. 
This blog entry covers the VeggieTales tapes I own.
Where's God When I'm S-scared? - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick Studios reprint) God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!? - ✓ (1995? print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) Are You My Neighbor? - ✓ (1997 Lyrick Studios print and 1998 Lyrick print) Rack, Shack and Benny - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick print) Dave and the Giant Pickle - ✓ (1996 print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) The Toy that Saved Christmas - ✓ (1996 print in English and Spanish, at least two Lyrick prints) Very Silly Songs! - ✓ (1997 print and busted 1999 Lyrick print) Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space - ✓ (1999? Word reprint and 1999 Lyrick print) Josh and the Big Wall! - ✓ (1997 print, 1998 reprint and 2000 Lyrick reprint) Madame Blueberry - ✓ (two 1998 prints and 2000 Lyrick reprint) The End of Silliness? - ✗ Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed - ✓ (1999 print and 2000 Lyrick print) King George and the Ducky - ✓ (2000 Lyrick print) Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen - ✓ (2000 print and 2001 Lyrick print) Lyle the Kindly Viking - ✓ (2001 Lyrick print) The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown - ✓ (two HiT Entertainment prints and a 2002 Word Entertainment print) The Star of Christmas - ✓ (Warner Home Video print) The Wonderful World of Auto-tainment! - ✓ (Word print) The Ballad of Little Joe - ✗ An Easter Carol - ✓ (Warner print) A Snoodle's Tale - ✗ Sumo of the Opera - ✓ (Sony Wonder print, if memory serves) Duke and the Great Pie War - ✗ Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush - ✗ Lord of the Beans - ✗ Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler - ✗ Miscellaneous/Movie releases:
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie - ✓ (Artisan Entertainment and Canadian release) Jonah Sing-Along Songs and More! - ✓ (Word Entertainment print) STARS tapes - ✓/✗ (The Grapes of Wrath only) VeggieTown tapes - ✗ A Taste of VeggieTales - ✗ (promotional 20 minute tape featuring the Story of Flibber-o-Loo, the Hairbrush Song and various excerpts from other VeggieTales episodes) Any other miscellaneous promotional tapes - ✗ Edit log:
June 27th, 2020 - List started
February 19th, 2021 - Adding a couple of tapes, including one that @pinksnowbirdie sent me lol.

Back when I was a kid, I really loved VeggieTales. Honestly, I still do to this day. No, not every episode has aged well, but the ones that have still REALLY hold up to this day. 
This blog entry covers the VeggieTales tapes I own.
Where's God When I'm S-scared? - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick Studios reprint) God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!? - ✓ (1995? print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) Are You My Neighbor? - ✓ (1997 Lyrick Studios print and 1998 Lyrick print) Rack, Shack and Benny - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick print) Dave and the Giant Pickle - ✓ (1996 print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) The Toy that Saved Christmas - ✓ (1996 print in English and Spanish, at least two Lyrick prints) Very Silly Songs! - ✓ (1997 print and busted 1999 Lyrick print) Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space - ✓ (1999? Word reprint and 1999 Lyrick print) Josh and the Big Wall! - ✓ (1997 print, 1998 reprint and 2000 Lyrick reprint) Madame Blueberry - ✓ (two 1998 prints and 2000 Lyrick reprint) The End of Silliness? - ✗ Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed - ✓ (1999 print and 2000 Lyrick print) King George and the Ducky - ✓ (2000 Lyrick print) Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen - ✓ (2000 print and 2001 Lyrick print) Lyle the Kindly Viking - ✓ (2001 Lyrick print) The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown - ✓ (two HiT Entertainment prints and a 2002 Word Entertainment print) The Star of Christmas - ✓ (Warner Home Video print) The Wonderful World of Auto-tainment! - ✓ (Word print) The Ballad of Little Joe - ✗ An Easter Carol - ✓ (Warner print) A Snoodle's Tale - ✗ Sumo of the Opera - ✓ (Sony Wonder print, if memory serves) Duke and the Great Pie War - ✗ Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush - ✗ Lord of the Beans - ✗ Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler - ✗ Miscellaneous/Movie releases:
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie - ✓ (Artisan Entertainment and Canadian release) Jonah Sing-Along Songs and More! - ✓ (Word Entertainment print) STARS tapes - ✓/✗ (The Grapes of Wrath only) VeggieTown tapes - ✗ A Taste of VeggieTales - ✗ (promotional 20 minute tape featuring the Story of Flibber-o-Loo, the Hairbrush Song and various excerpts from other VeggieTales episodes) Any other miscellaneous promotional tapes - ✗ Edit log:
June 27th, 2020 - List started
February 19th, 2021 - Adding a couple of tapes, including one that @pinksnowbirdie sent me lol.

Back when I was a kid, I really loved VeggieTales. Honestly, I still do to this day. No, not every episode has aged well, but the ones that have still REALLY hold up to this day. 
This blog entry covers the VeggieTales tapes I own.
Where's God When I'm S-scared? - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick Studios reprint) God Wants Me to Forgive Them?!? - ✓ (1995? print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) Are You My Neighbor? - ✓ (1997 Lyrick Studios print and 1998 Lyrick print) Rack, Shack and Benny - ✓ (1995 print and 1998 Lyrick print) Dave and the Giant Pickle - ✓ (1996 print and 2001 Lyrick reprint) The Toy that Saved Christmas - ✓ (1996 print in English and Spanish, at least two Lyrick prints) Very Silly Songs! - ✓ (1997 print and busted 1999 Lyrick print) Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space - ✓ (1999? Word reprint and 1999 Lyrick print) Josh and the Big Wall! - ✓ (1997 print, 1998 reprint and 2000 Lyrick reprint) Madame Blueberry - ✓ (two 1998 prints and 2000 Lyrick reprint) The End of Silliness? - ✗ Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed - ✓ (1999 print and 2000 Lyrick print) King George and the Ducky - ✓ (2000 Lyrick print) Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen - ✓ (2000 print and 2001 Lyrick print) Lyle the Kindly Viking - ✓ (2001 Lyrick print) The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown - ✓ (two HiT Entertainment prints and a 2002 Word Entertainment print) The Star of Christmas - ✓ (Warner Home Video print) The Wonderful World of Auto-tainment! - ✓ (Word print) The Ballad of Little Joe - ✗ An Easter Carol - ✓ (Warner print) A Snoodle's Tale - ✗ Sumo of the Opera - ✓ (Sony Wonder print, if memory serves) Duke and the Great Pie War - ✗ Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush - ✗ Lord of the Beans - ✗ Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler - ✗ Miscellaneous/Movie releases:
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie - ✓ (Artisan Entertainment and Canadian release) Jonah Sing-Along Songs and More! - ✓ (Word Entertainment print) STARS tapes - ✓/✗ (The Grapes of Wrath only) VeggieTown tapes - ✗ A Taste of VeggieTales - ✗ (promotional 20 minute tape featuring the Story of Flibber-o-Loo, the Hairbrush Song and various excerpts from other VeggieTales episodes) Any other miscellaneous promotional tapes - ✗ Edit log:
June 27th, 2020 - List started
February 19th, 2021 - Adding a couple of tapes, including one that @pinksnowbirdie sent me lol.

Timeline of the outage: (times in UTC)
Starting at 02:03 on Saturday, requests started intermittently returning error 502, and many of the requests that were served successfully were significantly slower than normal At 05:59, most of the services on the server crashed. All subsequent requests were served by Cloudflare with error code 502 At about 11:00, I came online and attempted to diagnose the problem. Due to the previous failures I was unable to access the server, so all I was able to do was route traffic to an offline page At 16:35, with extra help, the server was forcibly restarted At 16:43 the server seemed to have come up successfully, so we enabled traffic and monitored the status By 16:53 it was clear that performance very poor and a significant fraction of the requests were resulting in error 502 (which means in this case that the server was already processing too many requests, so where were no workers available), so we disabled traffic again to investigate the situation further At 17:36, there was nothing clearly wrong so we tried enabling traffic again At 17:39 the performance was significantly regressing again so the site was turned offline again At 18:00 we ordered a new server At 18:35 the server was ready to be set up with all of the forum-related things, and for the data to be migrated to it At 21:28, the new server was fully set up and the forum was turned back online  
What were the symptoms?
IOWait accounted for the majority of CPU time, but IO utilisation was relatively normal In the syslog we were seeing a number of IO timeouts for the primary drive Prior to rebooting, the limited errors that we could see indicated that there had been disk corruption  
What was the root cause?
Although we aren't 100% sure, we think it's fairly likely that one of the two RAID 1 disks that form the primary disk had failed, and the poor performance was a consequence of trying to rebuild the array.
 
Why replace the server rather than the disk?
There were already plans to replace the server, this failure just accelerated them. We were also of the opinion that having the disk replaced and getting the array rebuilt would likely not end up being faster, especially as we did not have sufficient information to pinpoint the failure.

Guess this oughta exist.
Counting Paramount tapes only, no specific variant within that realm.
 
Regular Specials:
A Charlie Brown Christmas - ✓ (Shell print from 1992, 1995 print in cardboard sleeve, promotional 1995 print, 1996 clamshell case print and 1998 print)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1994 print and 2000 reprint of 1997 tape)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving - ✓ (1994 print)
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown - ✓ (sealed 1995 print)
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown - ✓ (2001 reprint of 1994? tape)
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1994 print, 1996 reprint of 1994 tape; from this point on the tape came in a clamshell)
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown - ✓ (two Shell copies and 1996 print)
It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown - ✓
It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown - ✓ (Travelodge tape, baby!)
 
Series of Releases:
Snoopy Double Feature: 
You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown and Snoopy's Reunion - ✓ (original Paramount Communications tape, 1994 print) He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown and It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1994 Canadian print!) You're in Love, Charlie Brown and It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown - ✗ What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown and It's Magic, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1998 print) There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown and Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown - ✗ Life's a Circus, Charlie Brown and Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown - ✗ Charlie Brown's All-Stars! and It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1996 print) You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown and It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown - ✗ Play It Again, Charlie Brown and She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown - ✓ (later Viacom print, but I digress) The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show:
Volume 1 - ✓ [You Can't Win, Charlie Brown and Linus' Security Blanket episodes] (original Paramount Communications tape, 1994 print) Volume 2 - ✓? [Snoopy's Cat Fight and Linus and Lucy episodes] (LaserDisc pressing) Volume 3 - ✓ [Snoopy: Man's Best Friend and The Lost Ballpark episodes] (2003 reprint of 1994 tape; missing slip cover) Volume 4 - ✓ [Snoopy: Team Manager and Lucy Loves Schroeder episodes] Volume 5 - ✗ [Snoopy the Psychiatrist and Lucy vs. the World episodes] Volume 6 - ✗ [Snoopy's Football Career and Chaos in the Classroom episodes] Volume 7 - ✗ [It's that Team Spirit, Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the Giant episodes] Volume 8 - ✗ [Snoopy's Brother Spike and Snoopy's Robot episodes] Volume 9 - ✗ [Peppermint Patty's School Days and Sally's Sweet Babboo episodes] Volumes 1 and 2 - ✗ [You Can't Win, Charlie Brown, Linus' Security Blanket, Snoopy's Cat Fight and Linus and Lucy episodes; rental exclusive] Volumes 3 and 4 - ✗ [Snoopy: Man's Best Friend, The Lost Ballpark, Snoopy: Team Manager and Lucy Loves Schroeder episodes; rental exclusive] This is America, Charlie Brown:
Volume 1: The Great Inventors - ✓ Volume 2: The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk - ✓ (Canadian copy) Volume 3: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad - ✗ Volume 4: The Mayflower Voyagers - ✗ Volume 5: The NASA Space Station - ✓ (2000 reprint) Volume 6: The Birth of the Constitution - ✗ Volume 7: The Smithsonian and the Presidency - ✗ Volume 8: The Music and Heroes of America - ✗  
Initial Paramount Releases:
It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown - ✓
It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown - ✓ (Two English and Spanish clamshell covers, Spanish cover includes English tape)
A Charlie Brown Valentine - ✗
Lucy Must be Traded, Charlie Brown - ✗
I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown - ✓
 
Movies:
A Boy Named Charlie Brown - ✗
Snoopy, Come Home - ✓ (Fox print and Paramount print)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown - ✓ (1999 reprint of 1994? tape)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!) - ✓ (however, I would like to get a later print; this is the 1985 Gulf and Western print)
 
Other Paramount Tapes:
A Charlie Brown Celebration - ✓
You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown - ✓
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - ✓
4 Peanuts Specials! - ✗ [Rental exclusive tape of What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown, Why, Charlie Brown, Why, It's a Nightmare, Charlie Brown and It's Magic, Charlie Brown]
 
One-off Specials and Musicals:
Snoopy the Musical - ✗
The Big Stuffed Dog - ✓
It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown - ✗
You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown - ✓ (Travelodge tape, baby!)
 
Edit log:
December 10th, 2017 - Added episodes for Volume 8 of The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
December 11th - Added another Snoopy Double Feature tape (Charlie Brown's All-Stars! and It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown)
December 11th R2 - Added yet another Snoopy Double Feature tape (You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown and It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown)
July 4th, 2018 - Got my hands on The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show Vol. 1, edited info for Happy New Year, Charlie Brown
December 2nd, 2018 - Added year for the first 2017 edit and added the 1995 print of A Charlie Brown Christmas and the This is America, Charlie Brown: The NASA Space Station tape
June 1st, 2019 - Editing capitalization of a few words
July 28th, 2019 - I got the Travelodge print of You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown a few weeks ago!
October 11th, 2019 - Added some brand new tapes to the mix.
April 9th, 2020 - Added some tapes and a LaserDisc I own
August 2nd, 2020 - More accurately updating the current roster of my tape selection, which includes five (!!!) total copes of A Charlie Brown Christmas
November 28th, 2020 - Just yoinked I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown; also added a couple of more tapes I know of that are out there
December 29th, 2020 - Added the Travelodge print of It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown, Snoopy Double Feature: Charlie Brown's All Stars!/It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown, the 1994 print of Happy New Year, Charlie Brown and It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown to the mix
February 19th, 2021 - Editing some minor things for consistency. Also adding Vol. 1 and 2 of This is America, Charlie Brown to the purchase list and Snoopy, Come Home to the purchase list.

I guess I gotta talk about the current state of Reptar, or rather, I'm kinda inclined to.
 
If you want TL;DR, me planning on what I wanted to spend my money on is why I didn't go for the R7.
 
Now that the TL;DR is out of the way, I amassed $220USD in total the night before my birthday, September 20th. I then started weighing my options. "Should I bust my load right here right now or should I have some money to spend then save for R7 around Christmas?"
I am getting money from a test soon enough, and I'm getting $300USD out of it. This would've easily put me in the green for getting an R7 1700, but something in my head was like "should I really spend all that money right now?" I then convinced myself that a temporary CPU would suffice for me.
 
"Why did you get yourself an Athlon and not an R3?"
Simple: I don't want to disappoint myself. I won't go much further than that but that's the explanation I decided on.
 
Without further ado, this is what I ordered:
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Athlon X4 950 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Patriot - Viper 4 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cooler Master - N200 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($49.12 @ Amazon) 
Total: $239.09
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-09-23 01:18 EDT-0400
 
I guess my future plans with my rig will be getting the aforementioned R7 1700, going for a new power supply and hopefully getting a new GPU and putting my 7850 to rest. There's really not much I need to say here.