• @[email protected]
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    For obvious reasons this will never happen. That being said, I do the same with most content. When YouTube I use from 1.25 as an absolute minimum to 2.0 a lot of the time. Average being 1.5. For movies/series I tend to opt for 1.25-1.33.

    But this all fails when any music is involved - then I dial it down to 1.0.

  • I Cast Fist
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    Why waste time watching an entire movie when you can just read the spoilers and know what’s it about in less than 5 minutes?

  • @[email protected]
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    Look, I am the type who watches lectures at 1.25x or 1.5x speed or something. But movies? It’d ruin the pacing. If you can’t bring up the attention to watch a movie then maybe you just shouldn’t

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    Does this person not pay for their ticket? It costs 15$ for a ticket at our theater. Why would I want to waste that money by having it sped up? It’s hard enough finding movies that are worth watching in the first place.

    • @[email protected]
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      The theater here does a half price deal on Tuesdays, two of us can go for like $12.95, it’s a great deal.

      Might be worth checking in your area, I’ve seen a lot more mediocre movies after we started going on Tuesday.

  • @[email protected]
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    Why waste time like this? Wouldn’t it be better if cinemas would use vertical screens where a popular youtuber would describe the plot of the movie in like 30 seconds while talking at 2x speed?

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      Or they could put subway surfers on the bottom half of the screen.

    • @[email protected]
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      *an AI describes part of a scene in a movie, badly.

      And the title is something like “HE USES SUPERPOWERS TO SAVE HIS FRIEND #MOVIE #FILM #CINEMA #SHORTS”. Also, the name of the channel is any two word combination of: movie, cinema, star, summary, domain or reels. And each upload is either 15 to 25 minutes or a short and the channel uploads something every day.

  • @[email protected]
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    And also add a subway surfer with family guy funny Momentes for the ultimate goldfish experience

    • @[email protected]
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      And a live comment section. Or even synced commentary streams by YouTubers you can view on your phone via their Wi-Fi? You’re paying to see the movie anyway, so they won’t be limited by fair use.

  • @[email protected]
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    If you look at old silent movies, they were played at different speeds in different cinemas and projections. There wasn’t a standard way to play a movie, no “you NEED to play the movie at this specific speed or it will be ruined”. I’m not saying the same should apply to modern movies, but I find it interesting.

    • @[email protected]
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      That is not true. There was a standard, which is different from todays standard. Which is why it looks funny being played at todays standard, but mostly they get digitally fixed and they look completely natural now.

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      I imagine in a few decades we might have AI media. You could read a web novel with a fewer or a lot of pictures, or read it as a manhwa / webtoon, or as an anime, or as a virtual reality 3D experience that is semi-interactive. And you could give instructions to shorten or expand it, or even diverge in the plot a little, or change the characters. More like the holodeck with a VR headset.

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          Maybe more like someone reading you a book while you can ask questions or give feedback. And maybe instead of just watching pictures / illustrations, you could also describe your own imagination more detailed or give some rough sketches and create your own illustrations to the text. Like a modding feature for books and you can share the mods with other readers.

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    Theaters and opera, too. I’m sure the actors will be willing to get their shifts cut by 20-50 % if we help them negotiate the same pay per performance.

    • @[email protected]
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      Omfg most musical thester people can barely play anything with 16th notes past 120bpm this will not end well lol

  • @[email protected]
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    181 day ago

    I… what? I’m suddenly very happy for David Lynch, that he didn’t live long enough to see this catch on…

    • @[email protected]
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      It hasn’t…caught on? People have just stopped going to movies as much, and I don’t think 4 concurrent showings of the new Jurassic Park movie at speeds 1x thru 2x are saving them.

      • @[email protected]
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        Plenty of replies in this thread suggests it has indeed caught on. The part where people are watching movies at higher speeds that is, not cinemas showing them at that speed.

    • Quokka
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      YouTube added customisable speeds recently!

      I find 1.4 to be enjoyable, but 2x if I need to get through something dense.

      • @[email protected]
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        I usually watch anime on 2x, but I struggle with other media at that speed, probably cause I can read faster than listen to words in english lol. I do watch videos in my native language faster on the rare occasions I do watch any

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    Jokes aside, I think this would actually be an interesting thing that would get younger people back in cinemas. At least for the absurdity of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      for me to come back they would have to:

      • get cheaper
      • be less loud, like I feel like I could have hearing loss after going to the cinema
      • better screen quality
      • less annoying people
      • no ads, seriously. I’m paying to see the thing and still have to endure ads? And people complain about streaming services when cinemas have been doing this for ages
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      That community just has posts of people you individually disagree with or don’t like in it. Like vegans, or women. I’ll pass

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        There’s like one post criticizing a women that is generalizing bad behavior and associating it with all men

        and a maximum of 5% posts that are about vegans

        You’re implying they are sexist while defending a sexist post. Nice.

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          There’s 10 posts in that com, out of which

          • 1 is a woman making a TikTok about femicides
          • 1 is a neurodivergent person talking about tone markers in text
          • 1 is a vegan, in a vegan community, blurring images of meat

          All of which are fucking idiots, apparently

          … and then there’s the one that just doesn’t get a meme?

        • @[email protected]
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          That community [the community that you moderate along with a carnist community] just has post of people you individually disagree with or don’t like in it. Like vegans, or women. We should all pass

        • Nat (she/they)
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          I guess it’d be a good place to post screenshots of your stuff. I did read it, you’re not magically a genius for telling others to read slower.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yup. Unless of course this guy likes genocide defenders or Russian shills and he objects to calling them fucking idiots.