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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:19:33 JST Eugen Rochko

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   You know what I absolutely despise? When you find a legal way to watch a movie, say on a streaming service you're already paying for, but for whatever reason the audio track and subtitles are only in German. Just this default assumption that if you're in Germany that's the only language you'll ever want.

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     Boris Barbour (borisbarbour@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:24:58 JST Boris Barbour

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     @Gargron

     Exactly this.

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     SMillerNL (smillernl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:28:06 JST SMillerNL

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     @Gargron Amazon Prime, isn't it? Their subtitle choices are the absolute worst. Sometimes it's not even in a language I speak.

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     Саша Морс, here we go again... (alexmorse@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:29:19 JST Саша Морс, here we go again...

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     @Gargron pretty sure there's not a single streaming service that is actually good at delivering quality experiences to users

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     Natxo M.C. (n_m_c@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:30:54 JST Natxo M.C.

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     @Gargron And it's just text! Offer all the languages that you have and let me choose my favourites in the settings!

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     Aleš Časar (casar@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:33:54 JST Aleš Časar

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     @Gargron It's even worse. You don't need to be in Germany (or Austria or Switzerland) to have this problem.

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     Resting Facebitch (monsoonrains@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:34:33 JST Resting Facebitch

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     @Gargron Oh Christ this drives me insane.

     I don't want to listen to an awful dubbed version when I can understand the original language.

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     Mario (korpil@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:39:02 JST Mario

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     @Gargron oh hey! It’s not just Mexico! Depending in the streamer, we usually get both audio options but only Spanish subtitles.

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     DJGummikuh (djgummikuh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:39:19 JST DJGummikuh

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     @Gargron this is basically just a symptom of how utterly fucked up IP and copyright are nowadays. It empowers IP-owners to charge ridiculous rates per language they license out, and since per design there can only ever be one rightholder to a given series or movie, Streaming services can either pay or walk away.

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     Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻 (lontrachen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:45:41 JST Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻

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     @Gargron I feel like this is a German thing, back when I lived in Brazil I never had any problem watching things in English, even on normal TV

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     tilo ? (codemusings@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:46:54 JST tilo ?

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     @Gargron this so much. I‘m watching Fargo right now and it’s so awful with the German dubbing.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:06:55 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • Nomdeb WILL RESIST

     @nomdeb
     It actually is.
     In particular, if you know little and watch soaps.

     @Gargron

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     Nomdeb WILL RESIST (nomdeb@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:06:56 JST Nomdeb WILL RESIST

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     @Gargron and that would also be a great way for people to learn new languages (give or take, I know subtitles can be really off sometimes. :))

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     vladcampos (vladcampos@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:11:30 JST vladcampos

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     @Gargron The same happens in Portugal and it drives me crazy. Why do these companies do this?

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     wolkenbruch (imwald@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 04:49:53 JST wolkenbruch

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     @Gargron international, multilingual considerations are only secondary to American tech companies. They annoy me almost daily. I like watching Italian shows and/or movies and would like to watch them with Swedish subtitles so that my wife can follow.

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     Even (evenxbreak@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 05:59:07 JST Even

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     @Gargron Yes, this is so annoying! I like to watch movies in the original language, if I know it. I mean German dubs are not that bad, but some jokes get lost in translation. So if I want to watch something in English I do not want to start a 7 day trial period for "special streaming++ whatever" when I am already paying for the basic streaming service, thank you very much!

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     pseudorandom (pseudorandom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 05:59:29 JST pseudorandom

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     @Gargron it's not only in Germany. In the US basically everything is English only. Had family over for christmas that doesn't speak the language fluent enough to understand. Too many movies, regardless of release-year do not even have subtitles other than English (or sometimes Spanish). Even movies that were not originally shot in English and just dubbed.

     Hate the (geoblocking for artificial scarcening in a globalized digital market) game, not the player.

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     jameswatson13 (jameswatson13@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 06:08:03 JST jameswatson13

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     @Gargron That girl has a lot to tell you. The Princess will share many shocking truths; nothing will be the same again!

     - https://inconservative.news/patriot 🔥

     👆👑🦅🇺🇲🙏

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     RosOne (rosone@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:11:40 JST RosOne

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     @Gargron Prime Video and iTunes movie trailers for some reason 🤷♂️

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     Pete (philpetree@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 07:22:12 JST Pete

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     @Gargron That's why you use an American VPN.

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     Dan Tran (dan_tran_van@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 08:30:15 JST Dan Tran

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     @Gargron You should consider a VPN if this keeps happening 😂