Comment by kleiba
1 year ago
True, but plots are only half the story. I'd be very grateful if they could give me some sample scenes (ideally automatically, so I don't have to go through the trouble of starting them every single time). I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
It's weird to me how the first two replies to this comment completely missed the sarcasm.
Do we need to start using the "/s" tag here like became necessary on reddit? I don't like the thought, but maybe it's a different issue in this case-- more of a non-native-English or on-the-spectrum thing than an inexperienced teenager thing? I hope so.
Being English-as-in-UK I often run into situations where my dry/sarcastic humour completely fails to be clear to USians.
Then again from the UK POV the leftpondians barely count as native English speakers anyway ;)
Yet you'll find sources that claim spoken American English is closer to historical British English, because of some aspects like rhoticity. [1]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
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Hmm. As a born Britisher I used to have this attitude until I read 'Mother Tongue' by Bill Bryson. He's an American who moved to the UK and has a good handle on the differences between American and British english.
(So I guess "Rightpondia" would be Airstrip One?)
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So strange. As a non-brit, every comment I read uses John Oliver or Diane Morgan as an internal monologue and is incredibly witty and sarcastic.
To be fair, I'm probably less informed for doing so.
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Any time one is tempted to post a sarcastic comment, it's good to re-read Poe's law[0] first. It does in fact always apply when posting on the internet.
[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I’m afraid that the risk of failing to understand my sarcasm is one my readers will have to take, unaided by sarctags and helpful expositions
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/s is would be more of an tone indicator for those who struggle to understand word communication portrayed by text.
In this case understanding the context of being sarcasm. It's annoying as you now have messages ending in /hj /lh.
Discord especially where the audience is young; but as we now cater to a world audience of those with disabilities and those without where do you tow the line?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_indicator
> It's weird to me how [...]
Counterpoint, it's weird to me to be surprised to encounter a problem when you knowingly avoid preventing that problem.
> I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
You can read review of journalists you usually agree with, ask for advice from your friends, check if you liked other movies from the same filmmaker, check if the movie has been displayed in your favorite movie theater or in the movie theater you dislike (but okay, won't work for netflix movies).
> I mean, how do people even decide whether a movie might be for them without having first inspected a good portion of it?
You’re describing watching the movie. Which is what most people do. If the movie is terrible then you just stop watching it, or if you finish it you can then decide if you liked it or not.
That's where piracy shines. You can scrub freely. You can watch 2 seasons in an afternoon just skimming.
You can award the content exactly as much time as it deserves according to you.