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It's the same editing style that MTV did 20 years ago
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I hate that style of editing but the alternative would almost always be a video that's 70% dead air and "Uhhh... ummmmm..." because the number of people willing to have a piece of paper in front of them with an outline of their talking points and just do another take when they mess up is vanishingly small.
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Jun 17, 2018 05:34
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Theres no rules for editing. It’s all about the pacing.
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Jun 17, 2018 05:56
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As well as the Benjamin's
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Jun 17, 2018 05:59
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credburn posted:Can I ask why -- and, if I can also, what your age is?
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Jun 17, 2018 09:25
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Iron Crowned posted:I got this one last week: This is gonna sound all "Can I speak to the manager?", but I took my mom shopping yesterday, and in the clearance aisle, there were several boxes of bath rugs that were individually and clearly labeled with clearance price stickers on on each and every box. The mats were originally $13, but were marked down to $4, and every single box was all clearly marked at $4 (I even read the fine print to see that yes, these were $4 bath mats and not something else). My mom needed bath rugs, so we got two of one color and two of another color for her. Checkout time, and two of one color rings up at $8 instead of $4 (the other colored ones rang up at the correct $4). We tell the cashier that every box said $4 clearance price, and the cashier proceeds to ramble on that there was a mistake in pricing them and she can't give them to us at $4 and it's obvious the price difference is because one color is older stock and the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligned with Mars and blah blah blah and whatever. I told the cashier I didn't want the $8 ones then and just bought the two at $4 without a fuss, but inside I was disappointed and a little mad. You know what? Sometimes the customer is right. Your store had an item marked at a specific price, and fuckup or not, old stock or new, I should get it at that price because that's what the loving sticker said. You can fix the price on the boxes after I bought it if some are indeed priced wrong, But that's pretty much lying to my face when I know for a fact it is what it said it is. Note: I would never try this over anything expensive or over $100 because it's obviously a fuckup, but these were bath mats with a $8 price difference for both, for gently caress's sake.
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Jun 17, 2018 12:23
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legally the price on an item on the shelf is an invitation to treat and is in no way binding on the shop or staff.
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Jun 17, 2018 13:34
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Tiggum posted:This applies even more to Windows updates. If you're going to interrupt me with this oh-so-important update that needas to reboot my computer, at least tell me what the gently caress it is.  I think this has something to do with why Chrome Remote Desktop also suddenly stopped working/got extremely flaky.(Adding insult to injury, the permissions were set correctly...in one of the several sharing permissions dialogs. I had to dig down and click some non-intuitively-named button to get to the real permissions setting that actually did anything (and they were indeed set such that they blocked my access).)
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Jun 17, 2018 14:15
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Tiggum posted:I'm in favour of updates because I'd rather my games work properly, but I want to know what they actually did. It just makes it feel much more worthwhile if I get a screen saying "Fixed bug that sometimes caused crashes during startup on certain graphics settings" or whatever. Even if it doesn't apply to me I can appreciate that that was a problem for some people and it's good that it's fixed. Yeah I'd at least be less annoyed if I knew what they were changing. It just seemed absurd at the time that an update that didn't involve releasing a new map set or something required 7 gigabytes. Yeah you can look online and find it out later, but in the moment all you're presented with is "update 1.3.3.2 needs to be downloaded to access online services" or whatever. The worst thing with windows updates is when they sneak it in the first time you shut down. Like I'll need to go to work in the next minute so I shut down my laptop and go to put it in my bag so I can go, only to see "configuring windows updates, do not shut down your computer". One time I tried to just shut it and stick it in my bag and hope it would finish on the way in to work and it ended up overheating, so when I see that now it's like "well, I guess I'm going to be late for work today".
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Jun 17, 2018 14:24
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I hate that style of editing but the alternative would almost always be a video that's 70% dead air and "Uhhh... ummmmm..." because the number of people willing to have a piece of paper in front of them with an outline of their talking points and just do another take when they mess up is vanishingly small. We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
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Jun 17, 2018 20:16
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Peeve: when my poo poo rear end stupid loving goddamn gently caress of a phone decides to die when I really don't have the money to buy a new one.
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Jun 17, 2018 21:57
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Couriers. Everything about them. I got a message today saying that the parcel I ordered was "on its way", with no indication of what that meant. So I phoned the company and asked and they told me that it definitely wouldn't arrive before 10am tomorrow. So I went out. And of course I arrived home to a bit of paper saying they tried to deliver it and I wasn't here. And when I phoned them back, the best they could do was a vague promise to ask the driver to do his best to get back here by 12:30 tomorrow. And he might be here as early as 6:30 in the morning. So I'm supposed to get up early and sit around my house half the day waiting. How the gently caress does a business survive when they are this bad at what they do?
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Jun 18, 2018 07:56
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Friday: Company I rent from: Oh heyyyy yeaaahh, there are going to come some carptenters into your flat sometime between 9-18, mon/tue/wed. I can't be more specific than that. Ah, a triple whammy of Company giving a heads up at the last possible time they can. People needing access to my flat for various random reasons and repairs, instead of fixing these kinds of things all at once. (This time it's to check if the windows are loose, I cannot imagine they are. ) And incredibly vague times for when they'll be here. It's not as bad as the student dorm I used to live in, where it would happen every couple of weeks like clockwork, but it's still incredibly tedious. e: actually, a quadrouple-whammy. Because they also sent the email as CC instead of BCC. Thanks for giving my personal email away to a fuckload of randoms. Really appreciate it. SubNat has a new favorite as of 13:20 on Jun 18, 2018 |
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Jun 18, 2018 13:16
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The phrase "no worries." I don't know why, but it's really terrible. Every time someone says it, I want to respond with, "Eh, quite a few worries, actually" in my best Larry David voice. Also when someone calls me "boss". You Are A Elf posted:This is gonna sound all "Can I speak to the manager?" There's nothing inherently wrong with asking to speak to a manager. I mean, the whole point is that a manager may have discretion that regular floor staff might not have and it's not worth wasting their time. The problem arises when a customer has an attitude about it.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:47
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mojo1701a posted:Also when someone calls me "boss". The one that gets me the most is "my dude/guy". Also "buddy", "pal" and "brosef". Just bro is acceptable, but gently caress brosef.
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Jun 18, 2018 14:59
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mojo1701a posted:The phrase "no worries." I don't know why, but it's really terrible. Especially when it's their response to someone thanking them.
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ghost emoji posted:People who try to start conversations with you on public transportation when you have your headphones in. Same. The worst case I've had was seeing a woman out of my eye corner walk right past 5 or 6 people who were looking at her to grab me by the arm to ask something....even though I was looking out of the window and listening to music.
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Jun 18, 2018 19:32
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Technology making choices for you without your knowledge. My phone will stop notifying me about new emails in the middle of the night, my twitter will stop updating my feed if i haven't looked at it often enough, etc. Just always be active, stop making me push a button once every hour or whatever so you know I still want to be notified about this stuff. Every day I'll look at my phone in the morning and see no new emails and think "oh, good", but then when I get to my computer there are like 10 new emails with poo poo to do. If my phone hadn't been such an rear end I could have seen those and gotten up and addressed them a lot faster.
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Jun 18, 2018 19:38
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mojo1701a posted:There's nothing inherently wrong with asking to speak to a manager. I mean, the whole point is that a manager may have discretion that regular floor staff might not have and it's not worth wasting their time. The problem arises when a customer has an attitude about it. 99% of the time they do. If an employee gets something that they lack the authority to fix then the employee is the one going for a manager before the customer even asks. That sort of thing is like the customer says "hey can you do this or fix this problem?" and the employee is all "well I can't but my boss can let me find them." "I want to speak to a manager" the majority of the time happens when a customer is asking for something unreasonable or is going to complain until they're given something free to make them go away. Yeah if you have a valid reason asking to talk to a manager is fine but mostly it's people being dicks.
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Jun 18, 2018 19:50
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mojo1701a posted:The phrase "no worries." I don't know why, but it's really terrible. Every time someone says it, I want to respond with, "Eh, quite a few worries, actually" in my best Larry David voice. I say no worries all the time. No worries though.
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Jun 18, 2018 19:53
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ToxicSlurpee posted:99% of the time they do. If an employee gets something that they lack the authority to fix then the employee is the one going for a manager before the customer even asks. That sort of thing is like the customer says "hey can you do this or fix this problem?" and the employee is all "well I can't but my boss can let me find them." Yeah, I mean, I'm probably an outlier because I can survive without my temporary retail job, but in the bathmat example above, I would have just scanned the $4 a couple more times. Hell, there have been a few times when people bring up the 8 packs of flowers with 3 or so missing, and as long as they're buying something else, I'll just put them in the bag and do this:  (because we're just going to throw it away anyway).
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When music videos have credits before them like saying who directed it. You made a music video, get over yourself.
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Ego-bot posted:When music videos have credits before them like saying who directed it. You made a music video, get over yourself. What's wrong with artists getting credit for their work?
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Tiggum posted:What's wrong with artists getting credit for their work? Also some people are well respected as music video directors, e.g. Hype Williams
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Jun 19, 2018 05:11
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And some great directors got their start in music videos.
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Jun 19, 2018 05:20
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Lack of feedback on computers. I double-click a file and nothing happens. Is it just taking a whole to load or did I click too slowly or something? No way to tell!
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Jun 19, 2018 06:40
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Tiggum posted:Lack of feedback on computers. I double-click a file and nothing happens. Is it just taking a whole to load or did I click too slowly or something? No way to tell! Yes, I think a pet peeve could be "the way computers do things"
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Jun 19, 2018 07:10
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Today a middle-aged white lady painstakingly explained a bunch of poo poo to me, all of which I already know. I did not enjoy the experience.
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Jun 19, 2018 08:12
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American culture's obsession with being productive 24/7. This is what set me off --"Apartment Therapy posted:Try Multitasking And if I'm about to go to bed, I'm not going to do lunges as I walk from room to room, gently caress OFF.
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Rabbit Hill posted:American culture's obsession with being productive 24/7. This is what set me off -- This is an extension of the whole workaholic "I work 80+ hours a week" BS. Like if you're always busy you're somehow more important than everybody else. As far as multitasking goes, it's another bullshit fad that should have died out years ago. So instead of doing one thing efficiently you do several things at once inefficiently. And that's better how?
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Rabbit Hill posted:American culture's obsession with being productive 24/7. This is what set me off -- We were just talking about this at work. Someone was like, “America is said to be the hardest working country cause we work so much” or similar and we all laughed. No, we work stupidly hours and are underpaid for it; many people work off the clock, working 50+ hours a week is a norm in my company. Thank god my state (city?) mandates overtime pay and my city’s minimum wage is pretty high (lol it’s not a livable wage but at least it isn’t the country’s minimum wage which is $7.25). I got Chipotle the other day and it was $15. It sucks to think like, “hey [item] costs [x] amount of hours that I worked.”
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How the gently caress do you spend $15 at Chipotle. That has to be 3 pounds of food.
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I'm assuming thin privilege isn't something that poster has.
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Jun 20, 2018 05:00
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Mu Zeta posted:How the gently caress do you spend $15 at Chipotle. That has to be 3 pounds of food. Burrito with guac plus a drink gets you pretty close.
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Jun 20, 2018 05:10
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Thin Privilege posted:working 50+ hours a week is a norm in my company Every place I've worked has been mandatory 84 hour work weeks. I can only maintain this for a few months at a time, so I have to alternate between spending more time at work than I do at home and being unemployed. And of course these places are all confused as poo poo about why they just can't seem to get employees to stay.
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Jun 20, 2018 07:04
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Every place I've worked has been mandatory 84 hour work weeks. I can only maintain this for a few months at a time, so I have to alternate between spending more time at work than I do at home and being unemployed. Good lord what industry are you in? I work production and I have 52 hour weeks with the people on the floor working 48 mandatory. I cant imagine all but doubling that.
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various factory production jobs
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The US sounds like a loving hellscape
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Jun 20, 2018 07:34
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:various factory production jobs Man I feel for you. I work in a glass factory, so we cant just shut machines down since the ribbon is always flowing and we still only mandate 48, with a few exceptions like manpower shortages, but it's rare.
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Andrast posted:The US sounds like a loving hellscape It is. Basically everything about working in America is terrible.
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