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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 21:52:33 JST CJ Bellwether

   Valve putting out their 20 year anniversary doc for Half Life 2 on youtube.

   critical failure, they didnt hire someone to do captions. like how many people watch with captions nowadays - especially documentaries where the words said are important and are often being spoken by non-actors.

   makes the whole thing seem cheap.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 21:56:03 JST CJ Bellwether

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     not just cheap but like, just makes it all seem painfully old and out of date.

     a tiny critical failure for a brand.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 22:27:30 JST CJ Bellwether

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     and to be clear, i dont mean this is just accessibility.

     anything on youtube where the captions are filling in from automatic captioning in that way where its all to the left.. we the audience have learnt thats a value signal for a lot of different things about what we're watching.

     if the text is centered pretyped (and correct), it projects like the thing you're watching actually matters. Someones put effort into it.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 22:42:54 JST CJ Bellwether

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     also its O'Dwyer and (im guessing the NoClip team) who are famously great with captions.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 19:13:13 JST CJ Bellwether

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     O'Dwyer being a legend actually took time to reach out with an update and apology on this. The documentary was being worked on and rendering right up to the last minute so they didnt have time to do captions that would be correctly timed but they're being added soon.

     now i feel sheepish.