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Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

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Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

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post #66

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I'm tired of people online like you calling us lazy for building a humane society. Nice strawman argument, and ageism.

Did I call you lazy? If you felt that I said your lot is lazy, that was a misunderstanding. A miscommunication. For the record, I'll state it explicitly: I do not think people of Sweden (and the Scandinavians in general) are lazy. There. I said it. I have been as explicit as I possibly could, even though there's no reason for me to explain myself to a random rude person on the internet. In my native language there's…

On a technicality, if you start calling people 12, bored and possibly even lazy you shouldn't be asking to 'end the discussion' as if you suddenly have been granted the moral high ground.

GPs comment has plenty wrong with it but yours (multiple) does too.

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

#83
post #24

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I've heard about this before. And I'm puzzled. Are the Scandinavians so bored that they find the dashcam of a train amusing? When people are given good social security, food, healthcare, education and everything else, do they start to find life boring? Update: I don't mean any offense to Scandinavians or anybody else. Update 2: I'm not American, so please don't use the comment section to crap on Americans with the as…

You may want to test it yourself; * Along the coast: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/svalbard-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sommerskuta-minutt-for-minutt * Train: https://tv.nrk.no/program/PRHO63004009 * Hiking: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/monsen-minutt-for-minutt and https://tv.nrk.no/serie/besseggen-minutt-for-minutt * Driving: https://tv.nrk.no/serie/so…

A sidenote: NRK has made many of these series available as torrents [1]; for example, you can find various resolutions or the same train route filmed at each season. It attracted some attention at the time: https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-tv-launches-bittorrent-tr...

[1] https://nrkbeta.no/bittorrent/

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

#85

Is there a way to get rid of the right sidebar with the flying smileys, hearts and other reactions? Seems to defeat the purpose.

Yes, it's a bit hidden. Hover over the video to reveal the settings icon (cogwheel). From there you can disable the chat sidebar.

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

#86
post #72

Is there a tech angle to this submission? I'm not complaining or asking for one, but sampling the stream I wondered if there might be one that I failed to see: most of the time a random wildlife webcam would show a scene too boring even for slow TV, but if you have hundreds of them, some will likely have something interesting going on. Continuously getting eyeballs on hundreds of streams to select one for the show wo…

This submission, at least for me, pulls the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" lever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

#87
post #85

Is there a way to get rid of the right sidebar with the flying smileys, hearts and other reactions? Seems to defeat the purpose.

Yes, it's a bit hidden. Hover over the video to reveal the settings icon (cogwheel). From there you can disable the chat sidebar.

Thank you!

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

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post #6

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So the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log ), then was popularised in Norway and perfected in Sweden. Might we expect the slow eastward migration to continue and for Finland to come up with the next masterpiece? The Finns are already somewhat notorious for going long stretches of time without speaking, after all. (Big hugs to all nations involved of course)

Check out finnish outdoor survival on youtube

Link please?

Re: Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration [video]

#89
post #72

Is there a tech angle to this submission? I'm not complaining or asking for one, but sampling the stream I wondered if there might be one that I failed to see: most of the time a random wildlife webcam would show a scene too boring even for slow TV, but if you have hundreds of them, some will likely have something interesting going on. Continuously getting eyeballs on hundreds of streams to select one for the show wo…

I think having the view always be on something "interesting" would spoil what I personally find enjoyable about this stream. I've had this open in a little PIP window all day while I work. I enjoy the nature sounds and sometimes see a reindeer trot past or a bird, which is cool. And when a moose comes up it's all the more exciting, because it's a unique occurrence. Then you go to the chat and see other viewers excite…

I completely agree! It's like the difference between fishing in a stocked pond versus wading a trout stream, between taking a whole afternoon to cook a meal from scratch versus getting fast food, or between watching a classic play and watching a Michael Bay movie... Yes, technology gives us the ability to remove all downtime and have only action all the time. But I don't think I'd want to.
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