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7d ago
inI paused a show 14 minutes in because the subtitles didn't match the dub, and now I check every disc before I start
Skipping to the 3 minute mark seems like way too much work when you can just fix it once and forget it. Here's the thing, that menu trick only helps if the disc even labels stuff right, and half the time the track says "English" with no note about the dub at all. I got a copy of a kung fu movie last month where the sub track matched the dub for the first ten minutes and then drifted off into a totally different translation after the first fight scene, so checking one line early would have fooled me completely. What I do instead is watch the first scene with subs on and just listen for a spot where the mouth flaps and the words don't line up, usually a name or a number. Takes 30 seconds and catches the drift later on. Trusting the menu labels is how you end up 14 minutes in like the original poster.
7d ago
inAn old finisher in Baltimore taught me to read grain by feel, not by eye, and I still do it at the bench 20 years later
Fingertips pick up stuff eyes miss, especially on old growth.
10d ago
inHot take: writing prompts with rules attached kill the whole point, and I wasted 4 hours last Saturday finding that out
Man, I used to roll my eyes at stuff like that. I figured if a prompt takes 6 hours you're just bad at it or you're overthinking something that should take 5 minutes. Then I actually sat down and tried to write one good haiku and it took me almost two hours. Every word has to carry so much weight when you only get 17 syllables total. You cut one word and the whole thing falls apart, you add one and it sounds clunky. So now I get Dave. Six hours still sounds like a lot but I don't judge him for it anymore.