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If I showed you the list of every show I watch each year that I’ve kept for the last few your head may explode. In 2019 it was close to 200
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FreudianSlippers posted:I usually use GIFcam. It's fairly straightforward. You're basically selecting a part of your screen for it to record and GIFify. Which usually means resizing the video to fit under the gif area and then hit REC until you've got what you want. Then before you save it and convert the captured frames into a gif you can go through and delete anything you don't want 
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Assuming that there are at least as many exclusions on that list as inclusions, it must be a lie. You drastically underestimate, or perhaps overestimate, how some people value their time.
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Jun 17, 2021 17:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You drastically underestimate, or perhaps overestimate, how some people value their time. Watching the entirety of just Curb Your Enthusiam - nonstop, no pauses - would take around 50 hours. 80 hours for It's Always Sunny. 90 for Seinfeld. 100 hours for The Office. 120 for Friends. That's well over four hundred hours, to watch just five shows. And these folks are claiming to have watched roughly 8-10 times that for the list.
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Jun 17, 2021 17:47
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That's not that weird, particularly for TV critics. If you watch a couple hours of tv a day, that's already over 700 hours/1400 episodes a year, let alone if your entire job is to watch and write about TV. Not to mention most of these shows have been released over the course of decades.
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Jun 17, 2021 18:02
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Obviously anecdotal, but the people I know who watch absurd amounts of TV don't actually watch TV, they listen to it while they're doing other things (chores, crafts, light reading, games and puzzles, etc.), so I try to factor that in, both in terms of how much time that makes available and what works well when consumed that way.
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DrVenkman posted:This list is garbage. I briefly forgot the TV show Girls existed, so I thought this tweet was just being jaw droppingly sexist at first. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jun 17, 2021 |
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Jun 17, 2021 19:00
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Sir Kodiak posted:Obviously anecdotal, but the people I know who watch absurd amounts of TV don't actually watch TV, they listen to it while they're doing other things (chores, crafts, light reading, games and puzzles, etc.), so I try to factor that in, both in terms of how much time that makes available and what works well when consumed that way. Yeah I often think, goddamn where do these people find the time but then you read a thread about anything you’ve watched and find that most of the people who “watched” it absolutely have no idea what happened because they in fact did not
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Jun 17, 2021 19:51
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Watching some of Better Call Saul and The Haunting of Hill House convinced me that modern prestige TV is made to put on in the background while you look at your phone.
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Jun 17, 2021 19:53
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That's well over four hundred hours, to watch just five shows. Put it this way. 400 hours equals somewhere around 250 films. I know people who watch 3-4 times that amount a year, and they're not getting paid for it. I have no doubt some fans dedicate the same amount of free time to TV sitcoms, even if good taste says they probably shouldn't.
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Jun 17, 2021 19:56
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Read any TV-IV thread to see just how little the average person pays attention to whatever they're watching
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Jun 17, 2021 19:57
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banned from Starbucks posted:Read any TV-IV thread to see just how little the average person pays attention to whatever they're watching I have accepted that TV/IV is just never going to be a good forum. I can only take so many “ugh this plot hole” complaints that are based 100% on a person not paying attention to a show they hate, but post about 12 times a day.
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Jun 17, 2021 20:16
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Samuel Clemens posted:Put it this way. 400 hours equals somewhere around 250 films. I know people who watch 3-4 times that amount a year, and they're not getting paid for it. I have no doubt some fans dedicate the same amount of free time to TV sitcoms, even if good taste says they probably shouldn't. A lot of people have been working from home for the least year and change, which in a lot of cases means the capacity for background TV is way up. Not that proud of it, but I've watched the entire runs of reality TV shows that wouldn't have been worth a second look in years past.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Watching the entirety of just Curb Your Enthusiam - nonstop, no pauses - would take around 50 hours. 80 hours for It's Always Sunny. 90 for Seinfeld. 100 hours for The Office. 120 for Friends. It's really not a big deal if you've just been watching them as they air instead of all at once. Skwirl posted:I briefly forgot the TV show Girls existed, so I thought this tweet was just being jaw droppingly sexist at first. I use to love that show until Lena Dunham bragged about diddling her sister and then it turned out that the character she plays on the show isn't some scathing critique of self important millennials but just what she's really like. At least we got Adam Driver out of it. Geekboy posted:I have accepted that TV/IV is just never going to be a good forum. I can only take so many “ugh this plot hole” complaints that are based 100% on a person not paying attention to a show they hate, but post about 12 times a day. Hey remember how the Breaking Bad thread got so out of hand in response to any of the women on that show that they four letter c-word had to be banned from use? That's why my browsing/posting in TVIV was very short lived.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Watching some of Better Call Saul […] convinced me that modern prestige TV is made to put on in the background while you look at your phone. wha???
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Jun 17, 2021 20:24
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Magic Hate Ball posted:That's not that weird, particularly for TV critics. well yeah, TV critics are extremely weird
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Jun 17, 2021 20:25
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A lot of people are really bad at taking in media.
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Jun 17, 2021 20:25
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I am which is why I don’t do media criticism lmao. I just talk about how much I like something
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Jun 17, 2021 20:26
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:A lot of people have been working from home for the least year and change, which in a lot of cases means the capacity for background TV is way up. I've gotten into Real Housewives, it owns
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Jun 17, 2021 20:31
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:A lot of people have been working from home for the least year and change, which in a lot of cases means the capacity for background TV is way up. I watched several seasons of Ultraman last year. Not in the background. I gave it my full attention.
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Jun 17, 2021 20:35
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Speaking of watching things. If you happen to have and hour and fifty minutes and you're thinking "There's so much to watch. What should I watch?". Why not watch June Movie of the Month, The Sugarland Express?
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CPL593H posted:Speaking of watching things. If you happen to have and hour and fifty minutes and you're thinking "There's so much to watch. What should I watch?". Why not watch June Movie of the Month, The Sugarland Express? 
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Jun 17, 2021 20:50
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But I could watch like five and a half Big Bang Theory episodes in that time!!
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Jun 17, 2021 20:55
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A lot of you guys are forgetting you can watch stuff at 1.5x or even 2x speed. So 400 hours becomes 200 etc. Easy peasy.
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Jun 17, 2021 21:00
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Yeah, I loved Ctzn Kne!
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Hoop Dreams posted:A lot of you guys are forgetting you can watch stuff at 1.5x or even 2x speed. So 400 hours becomes 200 etc. Easy peasy. Watch them on your smartphone at double speed and you can even do it on the move. So efficient!
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Jun 17, 2021 21:01
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If you REALLY wanna supercharge it, well...
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You're all monsters. Except MacheteZombie. MacheteZombie knows what's up.
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Even the longest running shows can be experienced in full by spending and hour or two on their tvtropes page so I don't see what the big deal is.
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Stuck some power into this old thing, just to see if it was still on there.
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Geekboy posted:I have accepted that TV/IV is just never going to be a good forum. I can only take so many “ugh this plot hole” complaints that are based 100% on a person not paying attention to a show they hate, but post about 12 times a day. Yeah the only good threads are the rewatch threads where people actually put effort into their posts. Basically any Jerusalem OPd thread.
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josh04 posted:Stuck some power into this old thing, just to see if it was still on there. I appreciate the fact that you put Citizen Kane on your iPod purely so you could make this joke. That is why you put Citizen Kane on your iPod, right?
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Jun 17, 2021 21:57
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Psycho Goreman changed my life
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Samuel Clemens posted:That is why you put Citizen Kane on your iPod, right?
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Schwarzwald posted:Even the longest running shows can be experienced in full by spending and hour or two on their tvtropes page so I don't see what the big deal is. Why would you do this to yourself?
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TV Tropes has its uses, but it's not that. They're probably the most comprehensive sub-genre hub online. Want to find every cyberpunk thing? Every on-screen blob creature? Every homage to 1950s b-movies? You're not gonna find 'em on Wikipedia.
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CelticPredator posted:Psycho Goreman changed my life It’s a real trip to watch, that’s for sure. A rock solid conceit, technical proficiency, wonderful visuals, and a script that misses its own point so hard that it’s all jettisoned into a trash fire. The concept of a child, who is acting out in imitation of her petulant wretch of a father, unearthing a fantastical embodiment of petty egotism and self-serving cruelty, which enables her to go on a power trip, then finding that he is being pursued by a fantastical embodiment of her sanctimonious, controlling mother, is a really strong core idea that’s taken to the next level by combining it with a loving tribute to super sentai and the effects work to do it justice. But in the actual script, we never see the mother really doing anything all that toxic. The father is a despicable lout that’s treated as if he’s charming and relatable, the daughter that imitates him is characterized as if she is cool and mature for doing so, both of them are vindicated in the end, and fittingly, PG goes back to slaughtering Earth without quarrel. There’s a strong script in there. The scene where PG realizes that his supposed minions hate him and are living better, healthier lives without him could serve as a point where he might undergo character growth and try to resolve his dispute with the archangel in a new way. Or, alternatively, witnessing PG and archangel’s endless cycle of strife, itself a mirror of their parents’ domestic problems, could cause the children to cut ties with PG in a manner that resolves their character dilemma as children in a toxic household. That the movie so obviously misses its own point and allows its characters to relish their own abusive behavior not only compromises the picture’s considerable strengths, but is born out in its lazy, puerile, cruel sense of humor. It’s honestly astounding how this went over the filmmakers’ heads.
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