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Linux@programming.dev•Is Ubuntu Treating Its Users as If They Can’t Be Trusted?English
4·2 months agoBy sheer coincidence, I just made an install image yesterday and will be switching soon
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage.English
10·2 months agoThere’s some debate on this! Most movie dialogue is designed to convey the impression of conversation, but this is naturally unrealistic. People stutter and start over and get distracted in normal conversation much like you described, which can become very burdensome on the screen. Like when your boss won’t get to the point in the standup. Overly precise dialogue is equally burdensome and often fails to maintain attention (see: the Time 1776 AI videos). A lot of the discussion around how best to balance those natural pauses and disruptions around the otherwise “eloquent” speech in movies to best convey a characterization.
I’m sure others out there can point to legitimate sources, but I’m not super read up on it
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movies@piefed.social•First Poster for "Masters of the Universe"English
22·2 months agoIf it doesn’t feature 4NonBlondes and What’s Going On, then I’m not interested
I might go back and read those again. If I remember right, they get dark as hell for kids books


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