Yasss Jamaica๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ
repeat after me:
crying is a HEALTHY release of emotion AND a great way to complete the stress cycle
it also grants you a tiger
i just got stoned and took a hot bath with epsom salts. literally seasoned myself with herbs and got in the soup
Iย used to be able to understand 99% of the dialogue in Hollywood films. But over the past 10 years or so, I've noticed that percentage has dropped significantly โ and it's not due to hearing loss on my end. It's gotten to the point where Iย find myself occasionally not being able to parse entire lines of dialogue whenย I see a movie in a theater, and when I watch things at home, I've defaulted to turning the subtitles on to make sure I don't miss anything crucial to the plot.
Knowing I'm not alone in having these experiences, I reached out to several professional sound editors, designers, and mixers, many of whom have wonย Oscars for their work on some of Hollywood's biggest films, to get to the bottom of what's going on. One person refused to talk to me, saying it would be "professional suicide"ย to address this topic on the record. Another agreed to talk, but only under the condition that they remain anonymous. But several others spoke openly about the topic, and itย quickly became apparent that this is a familiar subject among the folks in the sound community, since they're the ones who often bear the brunt of complaints about dialogue intelligibility.ย
TLDR:
its hard to hear words in movies because
1. directors like Christopher Nolan record fuzzy dialogue to make it more "realistic"
2. actors mumble or whisper to act their characters, and making it louder can't usually make the words clear in the finished movie
3. microphones have to be placed away from visual setpieces so they can't be seen in the finished movie, making it harder to put them where they can record the best audio
4. sound designers not being respected and time crunches with production mean they're often told to "fix it in post" (while editing the film) instead of being allowed to record good audio
5. people add extra sounds because they can add them easier now
6. working on a movie for so long means you can get so used to hearing the fuzzy words correctly that you don't realize other people can't understand it
7. sometimes movies are released too loud, and so movie theaters turn down the volume for all movies, making normal-volume movies too quiet
8. movie theater employees are more inexperienced and play the movie as it is originally, instead of making sure it sounds good like they did when they used projectors
9. some streaming platforms compress the audio too much, making it low quality and too hard to understand
10. tvs also sometimes change how the audio sounds
11. not all films have their sound changed by the people making it to sound good on a home tv
the article ends by talking about ways to fix all this, mostly by educating people about why sound design is important
MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO
some context
1. my TA, Ralph, shot his girlfriend’s abusive ex in the foot
2. abusive ex was also a sex offender
3. he shot him when ex came buy to pick some stuff up from girlfriend and tried to take some of Ralph’s items as well
4. ex is stable and alive in a hospital
5. i didn’t do assignment 8 so i am very happy
some more Facts About Ralph
he is whiter then snow. this man is pure 100% american redneck in everything but the politics. this is intimidating if you dont know him because he owns like 3 different guns but also has animated discussions about “how his sister should be able to get married” when you bring up lgbt rights. his sister isnt even gay or trans or anything, he just thinks that LGBT rights also means that the lady should propose when she wants to. hes a little confused but he got the spirit. upon finding out that i am queer he said, word for word “THATS FUCKING RADICAL HOMIE”
in the first week of school he snorted a line of pepper in the cafeteria and threw up.
the only other crime hes committed before was accidently dropping a weight from his balcony and cracking the sidewalk. which is technically destruction of public property but the judge basically laughed at him and have him 10 hours of community service
this man once walked me home when i stayed late at the lab and talked to me animatedly about breeding brine shrimp for different lab purposes. absolutely captivated by this discussion. i trust him with my life
oh mg god this post somehow got better
We love Ralph in this chemistry department
people who are like “i’m hot and mean” and that’s their personality. i love that for you but please stay away from me
THIS is the vibe iโm looking for bestie!!!!!!!!!
White Feminism
I wish more white people - and white women especially - would get over their white fragility and truly understand how words and actions like these do more harm than good to women of color. They need to stop making everything about themselves and catering to other whites women like women of color don’t exist.
progressivism is such a myth, like. political beliefs & values do not naturally become more egalitarian over time. there were people writing and organising hundreds of years ago whose views we would consider radical now and evidently there are people now whose views and values are extremely reactionary. we’re not inherently better or worse than those who came before us
brb the whole discord in an uproar at the UNCONSCIONABLE results of Mister Global 2022
seriously though, MR. SPAIN?!
Mr Spain vs the runner up Mr Vietnam. Like. How the fuck?
Looking very respectfully at Mr. Vietnam
I mean personally I was in favor of Mr. Peru and Mr. Nigeria but I can fully agree Spain can get out of there.
Tbh mr spain looks like a piece of art compared to britain and cubaโs costumes
