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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
If a motherfucker could properly mix audio I wouldn't need them.
If I wouldn't have to turn the volume ALL THE WAY UP followed by ALL THE WAY DOWN because your show/movie can't decide if we're whispering or blowing the planet up every ten seconds, I wouldn't need them.
They often claim you need a proper audio setup.
I have an expensive (be it old) surround sound setup. Marvel and many other modern movies suck absolute arse. Having to pause and fiddle with volume going from a barely audible conversation to deafening noise in a single scene.
Fuck that noise, audio seems optimized for smartphone speakers nowadays.
Boost your center channel and/or enable dialogue enhancer.
Won't help with Marvel movies (their mixing sucks ass) but most others.
On the bright side: I don't spoil the video myself because i read too fast
On the bad side: JESUS CHRIST I WANNA READ, MY BRAIN CAN'T BEAR YOUR SLOWNESS
*rarely the case but if i have subtitles that's the reason, either that or the speak has a strong Bri’ish🍵 or Freedom 🦅🦅🦅 accent
I read so fast that with long subtitles I have too much time to think about me being useless
Me when I was watching eng language films to learn the language. The hardest part was to let the subs go.
When and why did this become a thing? Half the people I know are like this
It always had been like this. Before subtitles became commonplace, we just straight up didn't hear half of the words and suffered in solitude.
This is torture if the subtitles don't match.
I have a soft spot for dubbed anime and always have, but in pretty much every case, the subtitles are not a transcript of the dub, they're a translation of the original Japanese.
As a result, the feeling you get trying to watch that is not unlike going up a set of stairs and miscounting, but for every sentence.
AI generated subtitles are utter garbage. Combine that with idiots who can’t be bothered to check their 60 second long video for mistakes and you basically end up with subtitles that have no reason of being there in the first place
I'm with you on that. Anime has to have dubtitles if I'm putting them on there. Thankfully you can find those pretty easily these days if you need to.
It's also torture if the subtitles don't (reasonably) match for non-dubbed content.
This bothers me more with captioning for English language movies in English. They abbreviate a lot to make it easier to quickly read what is being said. Sometimes that makes perfect sense and is very useful. A lot of the time, they're just cutting out details for no good reason.
I prefer just listening to it in Japanese, but even knowing just basic Japanese you start seeing inaccurate translations in the subtitles too (especially with cussing).
If you're gonna talk about me behind my back, I'm gonna steal your meme!
[Ominous music]
[Inhuman snarls]
Probably my favorite one that I've seen
[speaking in a foreign language]
I love it when the show puts the foreign language subtitles in the show, and the [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] covers up the original subtitles.
I love it when the subtitle says the name of the song playing. I've learned a few tunes that I enjoy this way!
[music stops]
[🎵Singing🎵]
Sometimes the music adjectives make me laugh
[Uplifting music]
But when the sub and the audio are two different languages that you understand it's like hearing two voices and you have to silence one of them.
I find that a lobotomy helps and then covering one eye and the ear on the same side (since the optical nerves cross) so you can follow both independently.
Peer review
anytime
any time, here.
Anytime can be used in the same places that you can use another adverb, especially whenever.
https://www.dictionary.com/articles/anytime-vs-any-time
I think anytime is correct.
People make this mistake everytime
60% of any time, it’s everytime.
You would probably benefit from a soundbar with center channel speaker.
I've got full 5.1 surround and subtitles are crucial.
Tenet. No matter how good your sound system, Nolan requires subtitles.
Not like they'll help the movie make sense anyway.
That helps a bit but doesn't fix studios not remixing audio properly from the theater mix to home audio where the majority of people have basic stereo. No excuse since every physical format and online service supports multiple audio streams.
Doesn't matter, if the actor got heavy accent or they're whispering, it help so much. It also doesn't disturb the neighbours.
Some of us just can't hear properly.
So I thought, but I'm still a remote jockey, constantly bouncing between gunshots, scene-setting music, and whispered dialogue.