Notices by Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)

@WarnerCrocker they are planning special sing along viewings (I wonder if those will have captions?)

But sure. You aren’t on your couch at home. Don’t talk back to the screen or actively discuss things with your friend or date either.

We live in a society!

@WarnerCrocker Sometimes the storytelling may intentionally hang on the lack of clarity or ambiguity, as if it were something like Coppola’s The Conversation, but otherwise, maybe don’t make the audience work too much.

I have friends who leave a film thinking actions supported and inferred by dialog didn’t happen because they didn’t see it on screen. I haven’t point out that logically that indeed did happen in the story, as the characters clearly and truthfully referenced it.

@WarnerCrocker I have a confession to make- I have watched more Hollywood films via Apple TV+ that their original content. Perhaps it doesn’t do a thing with outside films, although one might hope it would. Some clarifying techniques depend on certain habits of sound design anyway.

Of course even with surround channels I think most directors could make dialog clear if they wanted to, wherever their film is watched.

@WarnerCrocker my bet even with tweaking out dialog with modern techniques like neural engines and such, that there are still some films that would give it a hard time.

Have you tried it with any Christopher Nolan films, which have quite a bad reputation for bearable dialog?

@WarnerCrocker better start practicing early on your melodica version of Careless Whispers

@jwz some third party apps might provide tools and a UI

@WarnerCrocker of course it hurts us all.

The sad part, even if they do notice results not matching their expectations, they will not learn that the shot in their foot was their own.

@WarnerCrocker @davidtoddmccarty

Buying it and observing it are two different things.

People have argued for a higher level of discourse all along, not stooping to the juvenile name calling, and the first thing the opposition seems to notice is ‘weird’.

If people were sensible, much of the last 8 years would have never happened.

@davidtoddmccarty @WarnerCrocker

Of course some earlier nudging starting such behavior were hordes searching for those keywords to mob up and harass, so the nicknames kept shifting. Temporary reprieve from active harassment.

Corollary: those trying to filter all mention of him from their timeline cannot, because the nicknames still get through. The nicknames fool no one but they might throw a bot off the trail.

Watch Young Frankenstein for Halloween. Do it for Teri Garr.

RiP Teri

@WarnerCrocker wondering when and where KFC uses onions though.

@WarnerCrocker is there a full feed of the Arnie Palmer somewhere?

Folks with C-band dishes used to collect these.

@WarnerCrocker Your own garden. Or a walk through the neighborhood?

@WarnerCrocker @ai6yr

In the late ‘oughts, Apple Store used to sell Tom Tom Go. From the way the clerk got excited and curious, one got a strong suspicion there was inside talk of steering Apple Maps more in the direction of Turn by Turn directions.

I still prefer a visual overview, a planned known path. I don’t need the granularity in familiar areas, and will only ‘follow the voice’ or watch vibration, in totally unknown areas, often to quite odd adventures.

@WarnerCrocker @ai6yr

Some weasle either too greedy to judge or care about customer desires, or wanting to datamine them to death.

‘To serve man’. IT’S A COOK BOOK!

@ai6yr @WarnerCrocker

I had been toying with Garmin GPS since the late 90s. I recall renting a GPS with a rental car out of town around 2009; it was nearly unusable. I’m not certain how robust Maps was on the iPhone yet I had an open 3G or 3GS at the time, that was the first iPhone with aGPS, I may have fallen back on that.

@WarnerCrocker I’m sort of glad professional theatrical costumers are still a bit of a trade secret.

@WarnerCrocker Just had to remind myself of the context and details of the Clint Eastwood Vs. Empty Chair debate. I think Clint lost, no?

@WarnerCrocker @apnewsbot

Most of paper towels, tissue, etc, are made in the states; but their corporate manufacturers may still take the opportunity to price gouge.

@WarnerCrocker we saw it happen; oil and hostage crisis used to bury Carters chances.