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We all get to listen to Bach’s over length speech again inshallah.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:08 |
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Japan with the covid model drone performance
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:09 |
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LMAO they made all those people get haircuts like Toad
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:12 |
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The drones are very cool
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:12 |
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I'm always shocked when something mainstream busts out "Imagine" Stateless atheistic anarchy for all
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:13 |
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I think it starts getting better after this. What I think is japans IOC speech is short, go do any sort of errand during Bach’s and then it all finishes really strong.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:15 |
Are they going to play this whole thing, you'd think now that they know it is long and boring they'd just do highlights. Edit: spoke too soon
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:18 |
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I guess they cut it way down, then? That was fine.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:20 |
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Yeah they edited it like crazy thankfully. Lame they cut Japans IOC speech….and did they cut the emperor’s “speech”?
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:28 |
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Ok yeah its all primo from here on out so grab your kid or whatever.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:31 |
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What is this
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:32 |
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That ruled.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:35 |
That was adorable. I had a smile the entire time. Also lol this guy.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:36 |
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That's the best thing I ever loving saw it should be a mandatory section of the opening ceremonies from now on
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:36 |
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I feel like they cut a whole Evangelion/Mech thing? I just want to say thanks again it was fun rewatching with new people and I had a good time time during a very stressful week. Cenen fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jul 24, 2021 |
# ? Jul 24, 2021 04:58 |
It was definitely a little subdued, but I guess it had to be. The ending bit was gold though, and picking Osaka to light the torch was a nice little gently caress you to conservatives, racists, and assholes. I was definitely expecting gundams or godzilla or something more bombastic but apparently they really had to cut a lot of stuff. Overall enjoyable. Now lets get through this without making a superspreader event, win some medals for our respective countries, and have some fun.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 05:09 |
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I liked it. I like the pageantry of the Olympics, and no amount of internet cynicism will ever ruin it. e: Pictogram guy was the highlight. Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Jul 24, 2021 |
# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:12 |
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Agreed I liked this ceremony. Anime and video games and godzilla would have been fun, but there's no way you can just ignore the impact of Covid on the Olympics and all the deaths worldwide. Starting with a social distancing piece seemed appropriate. But the second half levity was definitely needed too. Pictogram was like a warioware mini game, and I will be looking for more vids of that pianist. Overall I think it struck a nice balance. Also everyone knows Japan for their anime and such already, so maybe it was more interesting to do some of those pieces like in the second half.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:23 |
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I didn’t watch after the parade of nations did it get good
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 09:10 |
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I didn’t watch after the parade of nations did it get good The post parade half was definitely the better one.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 09:32 |
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I’ll figure out a way to eventually watch it that isn’t VPN to BBC player > airdrop to Apple TV > everything is in a resolution so low you can’t make out faces
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 09:46 |
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Just got done watching it - surprised Hakuho didn't pop up in it after all the noise made about him wanting to represent Japan somehow in the games before he retired, but perhaps those were all rumors. Or he'll make it into the closing ceremony. Hiromi Uehara is a beast on piano and I absolutely recommend snagging one of her albums - the live one she cut with Chick Corea was fantastic, but my personal favorite is probably Brain (2004) per the NYT, the piece she was going off on was this, which I hadn't heard previously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M0lIAIMOM I had no idea that the pictograms originally came from the `64 games, that was a cool thing to learn
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 10:51 |
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Apparently the pictogram thing was cut down in a few different ways -- first, there was video of the drones also making the pictograms and I'm not sure if that just wasn't shown on TV, or also was cut. But according to reports there were supposed to be a lot more dancers/actors to do the pictographs, but due to cuts it was the small group of people. Honestly, that made it a LOT better -- the scramble to shift into the different icons was fun, even if there was a botch or two. Here it is in all its glory, apologies if it's region locked https://twitter.com/gorinjp/status/1418617234092486660?s=20
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 13:56 |
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hexwren posted:Just got done watching it - surprised Hakuho didn't pop up in it after all the noise made about him wanting to represent Japan somehow in the games before he retired, but perhaps those were all rumors. Or he'll make it into the closing ceremony. Hakuho will show up at random events to throw salt everywhere, then yorikiri whoever takes the gold medal.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 19:27 |
harperdc posted:Apparently the pictogram thing was cut down in a few different ways -- first, there was video of the drones also making the pictograms and I'm not sure if that just wasn't shown on TV, or also was cut. It is indeed region locked for me.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 22:01 |
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harperdc posted:Apparently the pictogram thing was cut down in a few different ways -- first, there was video of the drones also making the pictograms and I'm not sure if that just wasn't shown on TV, or also was cut. For those in the US, NBC put it up on youtube. Absolutely worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9OyYA-bAM
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# ? Jul 25, 2021 02:48 |
By the way, the group who did the pictogram act is Dance & Mime Company Gabez: https://twitter.com/GABEZ_GABEZ/status/1418600552988962816
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# ? Jul 25, 2021 09:01 |
Teddybear posted:For those in the US, NBC put it up on youtube. Absolutely worth a watch. Okay, that was awesome.
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# ? Jul 25, 2021 14:48 |
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Doesn't the closing ceremony have some fun to it? Or is it just putting out the torch, speeches, and the announcement of who gets to host in 2032 or whatever the year is?
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 04:08 |
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Friend posted:Doesn't the closing ceremony have some fun to it? Or is it just putting out the torch, speeches, and the announcement of who gets to host in 2032 or whatever the year is? They do a segment previewing the next games, so presumably they'll have Macron enter as this guy, in the same vein as Abe dressed as Mario:
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 04:33 |
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Friend posted:Doesn't the closing ceremony have some fun to it? Or is it just putting out the torch, speeches, and the announcement of who gets to host in 2032 or whatever the year is? They already announced that 2032 is going to be in Brisbane, Queensland a few days back, which was expected, because they're the only place that bid for it. Usually they do some artistic stuff. I'm holding out hope that they have Hakuho do a dohyo-iri to open it up-- it seems like a huge bummer to have a Tokyo olympics without bringing in the greatest sumo wrestler of all time in some way.
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 04:39 |
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hexwren posted:Just got done watching it - surprised Hakuho didn't pop up in it after all the noise made about him wanting to represent Japan somehow in the games before he retired, but perhaps those were all rumors. Or he'll make it into the closing ceremony. my 9 year old hasn't stopped listening to Hiromi since the ceremony
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 05:27 |
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Friend posted:Doesn't the closing ceremony have some fun to it? Or is it just putting out the torch, speeches, and the announcement of who gets to host in 2032 or whatever the year is?
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 05:35 |
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Sometimes a mime comes out and fixes the cauldron if it broke.
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# ? Jul 26, 2021 13:11 |
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Me: drat, I wish there was a 4K broadcast of the opening ceremony to watch, as I'm sure that'd look super The Internet: Sorry no, but here's an 8K 22 channel ATMOS one instead weighing in at 140gb My computer wept at the concept of even trying to play it back.
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# ? Aug 3, 2021 18:03 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Me: drat, I wish there was a 4K broadcast of the opening ceremony to watch, as I'm sure that'd look super I would actually love to see that, having my pc melt is one of my hobbies after all (our national broadcaster only did 4K on satellite rather than going 8k as promised).
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# ? Aug 3, 2021 19:24 |
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That's a random thumbnail, I had to find a site that would allow the full 8K screenshot at 30MB. Full thing here - https://imgpile.com/i/NAR9Xj By looking at that screenshot, you get the exact same experience as I do watching the video. (e: oh wow that's a very thumbnaily thumbnail, I was expecting something a bit more in between 100px and 8000px)
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# ? Aug 3, 2021 21:38 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:
That’s actually very impressive compared to the super compressed Eurosport feed which macroblocked quite a bit on that dress.
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# ? Aug 4, 2021 19:49 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:28 |
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Bumping this to note that the closing ceremony is about to start, and I started a thread for it if you wanna talk about it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3975885
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