in amerikkka they spend billions of dollars on tv that is intended for the subtoddler attention spans of adults instead of just letting people make art“I always said this - even when Russia was the USSR. People asked, “Aren’t you glad you’re in America?” and I replied that I actually know many Russian filmmakers, and they have much more freedom than I do. All they have to do is be careful in criticizing the government. Other than that, they can do whatever they want,” [George] Lucas said.
I agree for the vast majority of the slop they put out but some wonderful stuff still manages to get made. Check out Scavengers Reign if you haven't seen it.
Netflix should stop having individualized shows and just become a continuous stream of incoherent AI-generated epic one-liner slop you can tune into 24/7
Then why pay Netflix when you can get this for free?!
I thought this was shut down after Kramer went full-transphobe. Glad they figured it out and it's back online.
Everything needs to be homogenized into a beige gruel so it can drip out of the treat faucet and only contain just enough "nutrition" after processing at the marketing plant to be classified as fit for human consumption.
Micro genres for leaving on in the background so you can trick yourself into thinking you aren't completely alone
but thats stealing jobs from hardworking youtube letsplayers and ttrpg shows
As a hearing impaired individual I'd appreciate it more if the the subtitles matched the dialogue than the characters announcing what they're doing.
For people without hearing issues, some of us use closed captions because soft voices or voices with certain pitches can be difficult to hear. Captions help people like me not miss stuff. But it's weird when you kinda naturally read along and it's not matching what bits you can hear.
I get translating between languages and having differences between captions and voices because the caption person translated the transcript separately. English to English there's no excuse other than they think deaf people won't notice.. which is kinda fucked.
If it's airing in the United States, the captions legally must match the spoken dialogue (and be displayed at a reasonable pace that matches the dialogue). If you find an instance where they don't, you can report it to the FCC.
Huh, I didn't know that.
I wonder if there's some kind of exemption for internet streaming services, and/or AI generated captions because the youtube captions are so bad i actually turn them off, and I've noticed on places like Netflix they aren't as accurate as cable or dish television(neither if which I use anymore).
That's really interesting. Thanks for the heads up!
When subtitles don't quite match the dialogue as spoken, it's generally for the sake of people who read slowly, right?
i think a lot of the time it's just a lack of effort or quality control on the streaming services part. streaming subs have gotten so bad it's one of the main reasons i prefer to just watch torrented stuff now. watching the simpsons on disney plus they will literally miss whole lines of dialogue a handful of times per episode. watching trek TOS on Netflix the subs are constantly slightly out of sync with the audio by halfway through an episode. it's maddening
There's guidelines for how many characters there can be in a line of subtitles and for how long/short they can be on the screen. There are of course no guidelines for how fast a character in a movie is allowed to talk.
Walter White sneaking around inside Jesse’s apartment while he sleeps. “I’m watching Jane choke on her vomit.”
I mean its streaming, if they miss something they can go back 10 seconds and actually look at the screen
or just put on something they've already seen before. it's not like a sitcom you've seen requires your constant attention
Also I used to put on law and order or like simpsons when playing diablo ii as a kid, and used to throw on x files when studying in college. Like 90s episodic tv was perfectly fine as background noise. I hope they rediscover that instead of making it worse.
In the old days shows like that went on the radio and would have ads for soap cause they were aimed at housewives doing cleaning.
Also if you want to make TV shows that can be watched without needing to look at the screen, consider the following:
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lol came here to point out they’re just reinventing soap operas (but dumber)
Yup! I thought this was a well-known fun fact but it's always going to be someone's first time hearing it.
I have to admit, a while ago I was starting a new Minecraft game and didn't have anything great to put on the other monitor so I started putting the Good Place in there and not paying much attention to it, because I assumed it was a slop show. Once I realized it actually was a decent show with an interesting premise I felt guilty so I stopped doing that, finished the show normally, and went back to putting Youtube on my second monitor like God intended.
Why is it that media is now expected to explicitly cater to the apathetic? If you care about it then perhaps actually pay attention to it.
They're not lowering the bar, they're maximizing profit. A show that you have on in the background is more profitable in terms of ad revenue, it means more screen time to show ads, and less objection if they choose to crank up how many ads are shown.
Strong parallels between this and the internal push at Spotify to commission their own low-payout "background" music that customers are algorithmically driven toward
That's been the case for like decades? What do you think television was? Or the radio?
is this why some people have watched the entirety of The Office like 12 times
My partner does this with Gray's Anatomy and Gilmore Girls
Reminds me one day a guy told me Ubisoft execs wanted their games to replace TV so they needed to be playable with just one hand so people can eat while playing
