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4mo ago

Classic eggs Benedict
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SSTF @lemmy.world 4mo ago
This came from an independent restaurant. I did find the sauce to be thick, which was a positive though I don't know exactly how they prepared it.

4mo ago

Physicists used a ferret to clean particle accelerator tubes.

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5mo ago

Crocsarella

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SSTF @lemmy.world 5mo ago

I use Crocs like they are final form flipflops. Any time I'd be comfortable wearing flipflops, I just wear crocs instead. People hate on them mostly because of internet groupthink conditioning (see also: pineapple on pizza and the word 'moist').

5mo ago

YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

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SSTF @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Anger does drive up engagement, but the point of engagement farming is supposed to be so that you keep coming back to the content (YT videos, articles, whatever) and therefore it gets more exposure so that the attached ads get more exposure.

The ads themselves designed to make you angry at them doesn't seem to make sense, at least as a default practice. There's really only hyperspecific niche scenarios where the ad itself making you angry at the ad is beneficial to the people paying for it.

5mo ago

YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

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SSTF @lemmy.world 5mo ago

That's the craziest part isn't it? All of this data collection so they can build profiles of us, and then they just don't apply any of it to ads.

I don't like watching ads, but it would at least be slightly more tolerable if I got ads for things I actually wanted. On my TV I watch YT unfortunately not adblocked, and never once have I seen an ad for anything that appeal to me.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Atlantis was, if I recall correctly, intended for a while to be the successor. The plan was for the SG-1 show to end with the Atlantis mission beginning, and then the Atlantis show to be the next stage of the Stargate franchise. What ended up happening was the Atlantis mission kicking off but then also TV people in charge wanted to keep the SG-1 show going so you had the shows airing at the same time. That is partially why SG-1 mildly turned into a zombie version of itself. Certainly not as bad as other shows, but I could still feel it.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Then they can clarify it for themselves. Talking about actors working in voice acting industry, in TV production, means adults more often than children doing the work. Not always, but adults are more common than children. It is a reasonable assumption, and if it is wrong, again- the poster can clarify it on their own.

Hey, I’m coming in and matching your energy.

I was being civil and didn't insult anyone's opinion or "lol" at what they were saying until you showed up doing just that. We can look at the thread and see exactly where I started having bad energy and it was after you came in acting like an ass. So in actual fact, I'm matching your energy as it is exceedingly rare for me to insult other users, in fact it might be a first for me here, but you managed to be special.

crazy assumption to make

Fuck off. Seriously. You're just coming in and making an opposite assumption based on the exact same vague statement and acting smug about it.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

That’s why young boys are usually voiced by women

Not a word in there about children doing the voices. If they wanted to clarify a supposed ambiguity, they could have done it themselves.

You coming in and very confidently declaring exactly what they meant despite nobody talking about children doing children's voices, and giving your "correction" it in a condescending way:

What the heck are you talking about?

That’s a wild way to misunderstand them lol.

That makes you the asshole. Be gone.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Normally when I see that, it is a signal to me that the show as intended ended but it was so popular/lucrative that moneypeople demanded it keep going, so the writers have to take an already concluded story and and un-conclude it. I'm sure shows in this situation have worked, but I'm struggling to think of one.

I suppose certain animes, especially shonen essentially do this, but they are designed from the outset to be nearly endless if successful. I'm thinking about shows like Stranger Things which clearly had one intended season, and then four seasons of whipping together something to put on screen.

Like I disclaimed at the top, it is contextual to the type of show, but I get a Spidey-sense when a show essentially restarts. Even Stargate SG-1 did it near the end, and it was overall a pretty weak few seasons.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

women’s voices tend to change less dramatically than men’s as they age.

Point to the child actor being discussed in this sentence.

6mo ago

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

That shark is so cute.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

It runs in parallel with a show getting too many characters to handle. It accelerates the Flanderization of characters who don't have a lot to do. Stranger Things had that problem as well, with a far too bloated main cast by the end.

6mo ago

What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Oh no.

6mo ago

What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Once time I found a set of human toes.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

That's why I specifically mentioned Bart. Bart sounds absolutely terrible now.

I'm well aware adult women are often cast to play boy children. That has less to do with longevity compared to casting men as it does their ability to better mimic the higher pitch of children. Over a significant time period though, the voice talent ages no matter the gender.

6mo ago

What's a joke or reference in a piece of media that you saw but didn't understand until years or even decades later?

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

In the original Fallout I was quite proud of myself for picking up on the fact that Dogmeat was a Road Warrior reference.

It took me years to realize that the leather jacket and (to a lesser extent) sawed off shotgun were also riffing directly on Road Warrior.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

I always liked on 'Married With Children' the executive forced child character that was wedged in was gone the next season and the only acknowledgement he ever existed was his photo on a milk jug.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Clipshows were a necessary evil on broadcast shows, especially scifi ones that cost a lot of money. Sometimes the show would have to do a clipshow or a noticeably cheap bottle episode to save up for an expensive episode. Also, in the pre-streaming era, people couldn't just watch all the episodes in order on demand so an occasional episode summarizing what was going on was actually useful.

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

That's not really what I'm talking about. I'm talking about actors that have already been cast who then play the same role for decades as if nothing about their voice has changed.

Have you heard Bart Simpson's voice recently?

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SSTF @lemmy.world 6mo ago

I think with long running superhero comics it is more like, if a specific run has jumped the shark and gotten too stupid.

What is simultaneously good and bad about long running comics is that the continuity is so convoluted that the writers can reset it after an especially bad run, or they can go do stand alone stories; and readers can just ignore entire chunks of continuity they don't like.