SkepticElliptic

@SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby boomers are sitting pretty – as millennials foot the bill for high inflation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well my boomer parents own their homes that they bought in the 90s and have public pensions with inflation increases. They can sell their home at today’s prices and buy a smaller one and leave the deal with a bunch of cash in hand and still have a paid for house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW | Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@objc@mastodon.social)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can make money doing it, you just have to have extremely loose morals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that they’re trying to avoid looking like a soap opera. To me that means audio as well as visual. They mix soap operas in the lower range at a higher volume for older audiences, cutting out the higher vocal range. It makes it sound like they’re in a closet or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed that the movie and t.v. industry will not tolerate a static shot. They must always be moving the camera around for no apparent reason. Sometimes they just use a jumpcut every half second or so.

  I’m not sure if they think it holds the audiences attention better, but I find it extremely distracting and annoying. Maybe I’ve gotten used to static shots from watching real people do real things on YouTube or whatever. It’s like trying to watch a scene on a ship in a storm with these scenes sometimes.