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AKA Pseudonym posted:Not really a thing I just realized, but I always have to be reminded the REO Speedwagon is a car as well as a band. I didn't know the pronunciation either. Thinking back, I'm not sure I've actually heard anyone speak about the car company outside of the context of the band, so they probably had no reason to know better either.
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e: double post thanks to internet troubles
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Alton Brown is a white dude. Apparently the black chef I thought was named Alton Brown is actually named Ainsley Harriott. I don't really watch food shows so I've only heard the name Alton and seen the Ainsley memes (and thought it was Alton in the memes).
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May 8, 2023 23:43
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AKA Pseudonym posted:What is a thing I just learned is that the car is pronounced "ree-oh" instead of spelled out. Is this legit? I have never heard it this way in any form, only ever spelled out. But I am also just finding out that it was the name of a car first, so gently caress me, I don't know poo poo. 
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May 9, 2023 02:18
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I drive a jay ee ee peeeee!
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May 9, 2023 03:47
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Ommin posted:Is this legit? I have never heard it this way in any form, only ever spelled out. But I am also just finding out that it was the name of a car first, so gently caress me, I don't know poo poo. Did not know Oldsmobile was literally named after a guy named Olds. And he also did Daytona in the late 1800's. His name is REO and he races on the sand, just lost a rivet twisting through a dusty land
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May 9, 2023 04:30
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Ommin posted:Is this legit? I have never heard it this way in any form, only ever spelled out. But I am also just finding out that it was the name of a car first, so gently caress me, I don't know poo poo. Applies only to the car, not the band. According to Wikipedia anyway.
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May 9, 2023 05:08
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My dad was a car guy and an REO Speedwagon guy so I was given The Talk at a young age.
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May 9, 2023 06:15
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Applies only to the car, not the band. According to Wikipedia anyway. credburn posted:My dad was a car guy and an REO Speedwagon guy so I was given The Talk at a young age.
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May 9, 2023 07:16
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Koala's March is a cookie brand  I was in a checkout line and saw a box and must have looked like 
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Grumio posted:Koala's March is a cookie brand Better than having a fall down laughing fit which im not sure I could have prevented
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May 9, 2023 20:59
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Ommin posted:Is this legit? I have never heard it this way in any form, only ever spelled out. But I am also just finding out that it was the name of a car first, so gently caress me, I don't know poo poo. Yeah it's legit. The neighborhood in Lansing, MI where the factory was is still called REO Town (pronounced Ree-oh Town).
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May 9, 2023 23:24
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Grumio posted:Koala's March is a cookie brand I did the same thing last week when I saw the box on the shelf with the little koala mascot, same as their avatar.
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I have always been annoyed when in(now older) movies and TV, when they would fast forward a tape, it would have sped up audio. That never happens! I have used dozens of VCRs in my time, and none of them ever played the sped up audio when you fast forwarded. I get that sometimes it was done for comedic effect, but there are still plenty of examples where there is no joke about "fast talking people" or whatever. So why do producers/editors put that in there? Well, thanks to the latest Technology Connections video, I think I found out why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVVAQVdEOs If you don't want to watch a 40 minute video (but you should), here it is time stamped to the relevant spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVVAQVdEOs&t=2040s The professional quality Betacam tape decks that directors/producers/editors in TV (and maybe movies, if just for watching the Dailys) DO speed up the audio when fast-forwarding. So I guess the people working with this professional equipment just get used to that occurring, so maybe feel obligated to put that Foley in there? Edit: V V V Ahh, so it just might be a "professional-level decks did this in general" type of thing. I'm sure MAYBE there was some high-level consumer/pro-sumer one that did, but I've never encountered one. V V V DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 14:40 on May 10, 2023 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I have always been annoyed when in(now older) movies and TV, when they would fast forward a tape, it would have sped up audio. That never happens! I have used dozens of VCRs in my time, and none of them ever played the sped up audio when you fast forwarded. I get that sometimes it was done for comedic effect, but there are still plenty of examples where there is no joke about "fast talking people" or whatever. So why do producers/editors put that in there? not just for beta —- I worked with SVHS decks that also did this Edit: most machines to edit magnetic media, actually.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I have always been annoyed when in(now older) movies and TV, when they would fast forward a tape, it would have sped up audio. That never happens! I have used dozens of VCRs in my time, and none of them ever played the sped up audio when you fast forwarded. I get that sometimes it was done for comedic effect, but there are still plenty of examples where there is no joke about "fast talking people" or whatever. So why do producers/editors put that in there? I had a stereo that had a normal fast-forward button which was super fast, and a special fast forward button that wasn't quite as fast but would play the sped up audio for, I assume, the purpose of hearing the silent gap between tracks.
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on most tape decks ive ever had, you could hit play & then push in ffw kinda halfway to get sped up audio 
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May 10, 2023 17:10
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Carthag Tuek posted:on most tape decks ive ever had, you could hit play & then push in ffw kinda halfway to get sped up audio Lol, my dad used to yell at me to stop doing that so I wouldn't wreck the tapes. And oddly enough, many of my tapes had bad, warbly sound 
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You generally don't want to keep the read head down while going really fast because it can mess up the tape, especially with thinner cassette tape. If you're editing, you want to be able to cue the tape to just the right spot, and that means listening to it. I think in movies and TV is generally just to tell the audience that they're skipping ahead or rewinding instead of pausing or stopping the tape.
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Edith Prickley and Edna Boil are sisters.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I drive a jay ee ee peeeee! And now if you look up where the term jeep (probably) came from... DrBouvenstein posted:Well, thanks to the latest Technology Connections video, I think I found out why! I was dimly aware some decks did that, but had the same thought yesterday while watching. It's not strictly necessary to show that it's rewinding/fast-forwarding (if the video is moving rapidly too), but I wouldn't be surprised if people put it in because it didn't occur to them how many consumer devices don't do that. It's like the dial tone as soon as someone hangs up on you: I forget the exact details, but apparently it really does (or did) work that way in California or some part of it, so movie and TV editors put in what they knew, not realizing most of the country didn't experience identical hangups. Hmm. Did I learn that from TC too?
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These ubiquitous things were Tupperware
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Oh man, I remember those from childhood. When you had put all the cheese slices into the box and shook it, it made a hella noise.
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I thought they were the matrix from the transformers
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3D Megadoodoo posted:These ubiquitous things were Tupperware hitting a primal memory about gumming on those shapes Grognan has a new favorite as of 08:10 on May 13, 2023 |
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Grognan posted:hitting a primal memory about gumming on those shapes We have so much microplastics in our system because it's so fuken tasty!
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Harvey TWH posted:And now if you look up where the term jeep (probably) came from... Movies use unrealistic sounds effects all the time for all sorts of different things; animals, firearms, cars, tools, etc. Its not a case of the sounds editors being big dummies who can't tell a bald eagle from a red tailled hawk; there was just a decision made at some point that one sound effect was more satifying and communicated more clearly when paired with the footage. In this case, the sound editor or whoever thought (correctly imo) that sped up/reversed tape audio sounded better than a quiet click-whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr-clunk.
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Hardcordion posted:Movies use unrealistic sounds effects all the time for all sorts of different things; animals, firearms, cars, tools, etc. Its not a case of the sounds editors being big dummies who can't tell a bald eagle from a red tailled hawk; there was just a decision made at some point that one sound effect was more satifying and communicated more clearly when paired with the footage. In this case, the sound editor or whoever thought (correctly imo) that sped up/reversed tape audio sounded better than a quiet click-whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr-clunk. Remember when bullets always made gigantic "kapwiiing" sounds? And yeah, gun firing sounds especially are routinely faked, typically by making the gun sound bigger than it ought to. This is also one of those things where the sound designers have to play to the audience's expectations, though. The little "chirp" sound made by a silenced gun is of course laughably unrealistic, but it's also what a significant body of the audience understands to indicate "a silenced gun was just fired". So even if you know it's unrealistic and they know it's unrealistic, if what you're trying to communicate is "silenced gun firing", you gotta use that chirp. Or teach the audience "hey, in this movie, silenced guns sound like a staple gun firing".
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Remember when bullets always made gigantic "kapwiiing" sounds? And yeah, gun firing sounds especially are routinely faked, typically by making the gun sound bigger than it ought to. This is also one of those things where the sound designers have to play to the audience's expectations, though. The little "chirp" sound made by a silenced gun is of course laughably unrealistic, but it's also what a significant body of the audience understands to indicate "a silenced gun was just fired". So even if you know it's unrealistic and they know it's unrealistic, if what you're trying to communicate is "silenced gun firing", you gotta use that chirp. Or teach the audience "hey, in this movie, silenced guns sound like a staple gun firing". One of my favourite stereotypical uses of cinematic sound language is when characters enter a dingy alleyway in the bad part of town where they're certain to bump into some unsavoury characters and the sound design guys inevitably throw in a sound clip of a screeching cat to indicate that the situation is tense and danger is just around the corner. Once you start noticing it you'll hear it pretty much every single time any characters walk down a dingy alley, it's really ubiquitous. The other cliched use of a screeching cat is as a jump scare to defuse a really tense situation ...... the hero will be approaching the door where they think the killer might be hiding and the creepy music swells to a crescendo and then they throw open the door and SUDDENLY ..... a cat jumps out with a screech. Whoops no killer here, we got you all worked up for nothing!
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*Puffs away on tobacco pipe, sound of match being struck plays with each puff*
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Dip Viscous posted:*Puffs away on tobacco pipe, sound of match being struck plays with each puff* In front of a small fireplace that sounds like a bonfire full of sticks
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My favorite movie and TV gun sounds are how pistols are just constant noisemakers. Not just racking the slide or something, the constant stream of tactical clicky-clack noises they make whenever someone holds them up or aims them at anything.
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Every knife makes a shweeeen
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Night vision goggles make a tcheeeeeee
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Every rusty gate / locker door makes the exact same sound when opening
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Captain Splendid posted:Every rusty gate / locker door makes the exact same sound when opening It's really distracting to watch a movie and hear a stock sound effect like helicopter.wav
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The "ribbit" sound of frogs is only the cry of one very specific kind of frog that you find around Hollywood. Different species make all kinds of noises, which sound nothing like movie frogs
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