Pretty expensive way to get free labor

Shit parents, shit grandmother. Hopefully they’re not past of your life anymore.

Your parents suck.

Stay off TikTok.

The question of jurisdiction was more complicated than where the crime had been committed.

So… The US did it.

If older movies are sounding fine, then something still isn’t set to request the stereo stream/audio file (not just play back in stereo: actually pull the stereo file). I’d investigate further… Whenever I change this for family members, it works 100% of the time.

That’s because your streaming device isn’t set by default to request the stereo stream. It’s picking up the surround stream and then doing a shitty job of folding it down to stereo. I bet old movies shot in stereo and mono probably have easier-to-hear dialogue on your particular home setup. Right?

I have no idea why manufacturers won’t change this default setting, but go in to the audio settings of your Apple TV or whatever and change your sound preference from “auto” to “stereo.”

Part of our deliverables is to make several different versions of every mix, including generally at very least one 5.1 surround mix and one stereo. I assure you that the stereo version that we make at the dub stage sounds a thousand times better than whatever garbage your TV is inventing by flattening the 5.1 (or possibly even Atmos) stream into stereo.

Most media has an “M&E” version, Music & Effects.

In the course of sound editing, everything possible is split apart:

Spoken dialogue gets its own set of tracks.

“Good” noises caught on-set (usable footsteps, paper shuffling, etc) are called Production Effects (PFX), and those get their own tracks. The dialogue editor has to dig those out of the dialogue tracks and separate them into their own tracks. The dialogue editor also cleans out any “bad” noises.

Foley, like footsteps or horse hooves, get its own set of tracks.

Voiceover (ADR) gets its own tracks.

“Futz” meaning stuff that’s coming through a speakerphone or something, gets its own tracks. That’s all created in post production from either ADR sessions, or wild takes on-set.

“Hard effects” like explosions or other things that the post production team create, or otherwise pull in from outside of what was shot on-set get their own tracks.

Background sounds get their own tracks.

Music obviously gets its own tracks.

The M&E mix for international re-recording is generally the following:

PFX Foley Hard FX Backgrounds Music

That way whatever team is overdubbing the foreign language tracks can work with material that doesn’t interfere with what they’re trying to do.

Part of the “uncanny valley” effect that you’re getting is that international overdubs have to be done in a sound booth, and then reverb/delay has to be added to make the dialogue sound like it’s actually being spoken in the environment you see onscreen. Faking that experience through reverb and sound design is actually a really, REALLY difficult thing to pull off convincingly. There’s just no substitute for all the tiny cues our ears perceive from the nuances of what’s actually recorded on-set.

That’s why it so often sounds fake. Because it is. And like Mr. Plinkett says, your ears might not have been able to tell that something was wrong, but your brain could.

Yeah, way better to stay on Facebook and Nextdoor and deal with actual literal fascists.

Frequently, parking lots here in Southern California are covered by solar panels now. Generates electricity, and provides shade. Several high schools in my area have done this in their parking lots.

Yeah, the US is the only thing keeping Israel in business. They’re useful to keep an eye on Iran, because we don’t like Iran, because…?

Saudis need our weapons, and Qatar likes the money we spend to keep our increasing number of bases there. But these are purely transactional relationships that we can have with anyone.

I think Kuwait are still fans of the US.

Other than that, everyone hates us because we protect Israel, and they hate Israel. Why don’t we just join the club, and pick up an entire region of strategic allies instead of “Israel at all costs”?

I think she ended up not even going to that school

I received these about once a week when I was a Spectrum customer. Since I dumped them when ATT fiber became available, I now receive them three times a week.

Speaking as USian, this sounds amazing.

Can’t disagree with you there. I went with “Obama” instead of “Clinton” because Obama’s staffers and appointees will be around longer than Clinton’s.

Clinton definitely cemented this playbook as doctrine, but Obama followed it to the letter.

It’s all he and his team know how to do. They still think his low poll numbers are a “messaging problem” and not a, you know, DO SOMETHING problem.

Not gonna happen in the next 15 years, at best. Obama’s apparatus has to be out of the picture for that to have a chance at happening.

Meanwhile, we also have to eliminate vultures like Gottheimer, Coons, and Warner who would stand in the way of anything approaching medicare for all, because it would not be helpful to their shareholders.

It’s all academic, though. Dems have only the tiniest hope of regaining the house, probably with a majority as slim as what the GOP currently enjoys. 2024 Senate is nearly a lost cause, with Joe Manchin dropping out of WV, and it being a shitty electoral calendar for Senate Democrats to begin with.

In re the Presidential race: coin flip at best between Biden and Trump, and neither of them are fans of giving people healthcare without corporations making obscene profits.

We gotta have a war. Either China or Middle East, doesn’t matter. /s

It was great when Ohlmeyer went on Colbert Report and got mocked for saying NBC was going to lose money on the Winter Olympics. Colbert did a fund drive to help, and presented him with a giant check for like $5.08

It’s also great that he’s been dead since 2017. Conan was right when he called him one of the silverback gorillas running TV.

When AIPAC stops buying the US government.