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Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by cynicalkane »

AndrewOMartin wrote: post #133

> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > The venomous monster is drawing upon me > And I can’t escape him. > How near is his bite, > With teeth sharp and white! > Oh gods above! > Why can’t you hear my mortal cry? > Destroy the beast or I will die! > Or surely, I will die! The opening lines to The Magic Flute (which continues in a similarly expository tone fo…

Those lines are from a song, and a significant part of the audience at the time wouldn't be listening in their native language; it's not really a fair comparison.

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Post by whoisstan »

cdot2 wrote: post #143
SunlitCat wrote: post #2

Oof. What's next? Announcing what they see? What items are around them and how they could interact with them (or not)? Like "Protagonist: I walked north and I entered a mysterious room, full of different bottles. They don't look like I could use them, but maybe I should take one with me?"

We're converging on audiobooks

Podcasts, brrrrr

Audio works on the subway, on the bike, while riding a bike, cleaning the house and the big one, driving a car. To get into a situation where you can both watch and listen is much rarer.

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Post by replygirl »

stavros wrote: post #159
blooalien wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

| And the intermission! They should call it "popcorn time" /me sings "Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby ... and get ourselves a snack!" Anyone else remember the dancing cartoon popcorn and coca-cola cup?

What, this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvt3E5a-AA

https://youtu.be/OAca0JsIQe4

Re: Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that

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Post by tomrod »

mst wrote: post #144
slfnflctd wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird to me how the first two replies to this comment completely missed the sarcasm. Do we need to start using the "/s" tag here like became necessary on reddit? I don't like the thought, but maybe it's a different issue in this case-- more of a non-native-English or on-the-spectrum thing than an inexperienced teenager thing? I hope so.

Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians. Then again from the UK POV the leftpondians barely count as native English speakers anyway ;)

So strange. As a non-brit, every comment I read uses John Oliver or Diane Morgan as an internal monologue and is incredibly witty and sarcastic.

To be fair, I'm probably less informed for doing so.

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Post by binary132 »

yodon wrote: post #161
slfnflctd wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird to me how the first two replies to this comment completely missed the sarcasm. Do we need to start using the "/s" tag here like became necessary on reddit? I don't like the thought, but maybe it's a different issue in this case-- more of a non-native-English or on-the-spectrum thing than an inexperienced teenager thing? I hope so.

Any time one is tempted to post a sarcastic comment, it's good to re-read Poe's law[0] first. It does in fact always apply when posting on the internet. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I’m afraid that the risk of failing to understand my sarcasm is one my readers will have to take, unaided by sarctags and helpful expositions

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Post by tomrod »

timthorn wrote: post #71
zeristor wrote: post #31

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I do constantly have to tap out with the stress in many programs, takes me ages to pick up and finish programs. Many people need tension to drive a narrative forwards, but for me it often gets too much. I remember 80 Days Around the world where peril of missing a connection gave it tension; ever since documentaries seem to have used this more and more. The BBC Horizon episode on Voyager passing Jupiter was so inspira…

The irony of your comment is that Horizon famously went through a phase of making programmes that were all about doom a while ago. Asteroids hitting the Earth, Global warming, food supply collapse, tsunamis, volcanos, etc - and all with portentious narration.

In a world where things happened...

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Post by doublerabbit »

slfnflctd wrote: post #107
kleiba wrote: post #12

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True, but plots are only half the story. I'd be very grateful if they could give me some sample scenes (ideally automatically, so I don't have to go through the trouble of starting them every single time). I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?

It's weird to me how the first two replies to this comment completely missed the sarcasm. Do we need to start using the "/s" tag here like became necessary on reddit? I don't like the thought, but maybe it's a different issue in this case-- more of a non-native-English or on-the-spectrum thing than an inexperienced teenager thing? I hope so.

/s is would be more of an tone indicator for those who struggle to understand word communication portrayed by text.

In this case understanding the context of being sarcasm. It's annoying as you now have messages ending in /hj /lh.

Discord especially where the audience is young; but as we now cater to a world audience of those with disabilities and those without where do you tow the line?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator

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Post by ghaff »

GuB-42 wrote: post #127
vouaobrasil wrote: post #22

Streaming with a subscription is fundamentally a bad thing for cinema, especially when combined with the streamer also producing content. That's because it shifts the optimized variable from quality of individual movie/show to maximum time spent on platform. But the latter can accept the lowering of the quality of individual movies, so you get a regression towards average instead of a striving for excellence. Never p…

> maximum time spent on platform Not even that, they optimize for acquiring and keeping subscribers. They gain nothing from you watching movies, it is just costing them bandwidth, at least on their ad-free plan, which was the only option until recently. It is completely different from YouTube and TikTok, or even oldschool TV, which get most of their revenue from ads. They need a few good ones to attract new subscribe…

>If you want to encourage quality production, just subscribe for the month they are doing something good, ad-free of course, then unsubscribe.

Most people are probably lazier and less organized than you give them credit for. If subscribe/unsubscribe cycles were really that prevalent I think you'd see a lot more incentives to sign up for, say, annual subscriptions.

A lot of people basically use TV as background and, especially if they don't have live TV, that means a lot of streaming content.

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Post by relaxing »

AndrewOMartin wrote: post #133

> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > The venomous monster is drawing upon me > And I can’t escape him. > How near is his bite, > With teeth sharp and white! > Oh gods above! > Why can’t you hear my mortal cry? > Destroy the beast or I will die! > Or surely, I will die! The opening lines to The Magic Flute (which continues in a similarly expository tone fo…

Man. I like that you’re bringing opera into the conversation, but I don’t think comparing two different mediums that way is useful.

Die Zauberflote is easy to understand because it’s a fairly light work, and you’re meant to be staring at the lavish staging and costumes. The performers narrate the action because that’s the convention for the genre - it’s a sung story. They break into more conventional dialogue for the recitative sections (a tradition that went out of style with Verdi.)

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Post by relaxing »

cynicalkane wrote: post #171
AndrewOMartin wrote: post #133

> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > The venomous monster is drawing upon me > And I can’t escape him. > How near is his bite, > With teeth sharp and white! > Oh gods above! > Why can’t you hear my mortal cry? > Destroy the beast or I will die! > Or surely, I will die! The opening lines to The Magic Flute (which continues in a similarly expository tone fo…

Those lines are from a song, and a significant part of the audience at the time wouldn't be listening in their native language; it's not really a fair comparison.

? It was written in German for the German-speaking audience in Vienna.
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