No info about film in thread: mildy infuriating.
U haven’t seen that movie?
A quiet placeU have seen this one?
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Failed to Load Media makes my favorite videos
Is that Jim from The Office!?
I mean if you have a better way to make viewers understand what people with hearing impairments go through every day, then I’m all ears.
Phrasing.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
I am conflicted here. On the one hand, I agree that subtitles would have been nice. On the other hand, I think folks with hearing disabilities get shut out of other content so much that I don’t think this somewhat solitary case makes it good mildly infuriating material. It’s most likely just an oversight. Much less likely a clever scheme to highlight ableism.
The worst is when you’re watching something with subtitles (in your own language because it’s hard to hear sometimes), then someone on screen speaks a different language with the subtitles hardcoded into the video.
Great, right?
Well no, because Amazon’s (or Netflix etc, they all do it) subtitles have a big “[Speaks German]” up the entire time, blocking the hard coded subs entirely so you cannot see what they say without temporarily disabling subs. Like bitch, I KNOW THEY ARE SPEAKING GERMAN, MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY SO I KNOW WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
It’s so fucking stupid and infuriating. How have they not addressed this shit?
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The FCC regulates closed captions on over the air broadcast television.
They’re not going to regulate the Internet streaming services.
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“cannot obscure important information”
The FCC is American though. Anything in a “foreign language” is clearly not important information to them.
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Yes but think about how diverse it is
