Holy shit, watching clips of The big bang theory with the laugh track edited out is so weird. Seriously, it's fucking bizarre - the jokes, even the ones you don't find funny but vaguely recognize are there, they just vanish, but for the bizarre pauses between sentences.
It's just a line of bland, boring dialog, followed by a long, pregnant pause, and then more bland dialog, and another pause. Literally the only half-decent pair of lines has been "Is there a drink that makes Raj less obnoxious?" "Drinks don't work that way", which stands on it's own as a joke, barely, and even then only because this guy is just being an unbelievably obnoxious shitbag - which only comes across from the words he's using, the tone and emotion of it is literally identical to the way he behaves the rest of the time, just bland, stale lines that fall flat like lead blocks, wrapped in a vaguely racist Indian stereotype. The only reason it's not more offensive is because he's only marginally more of a shitbag than literally everyone else on the show.
It's spinning me out, seriously. It's genuinely weird to observe how much the removal of one small element changes the entire show completely.
There's a Games-Workshop store in Lexington. 20 miles closer to me than Cincinnati. Still not much better if I'm blowing $20 of gas either way to pick up $100 worth of merchandise.
So does The Big Bang Theory, but they're heavily cued, kept warmed up by comics in between takes - and trust me, if you get a good hot open from another comic, you can just about walk on stage and hold up a pinkie finger, and half the audience will crack up.
Afterward, they chuck in canned laughter for the final show, mixed in with the recorded real laughter which has been mastered to where they like it - the whole thing is a process called "Sweetening", it's used for things like live-audience sitcoms, so that both the dialog and the laughter are clear and audible, and for award shows, where the audience generally isn't mic'ed, because of both the ambient crowd noise and conversation, but some of their reactions are picked up by stage mics, so they spice it up a little.
It can sound a lot like a laugh track for a sitcom - the way they master the audio coming off the audience mics sounds a lot like laugh track audio when it's done, since funnily enough, that's how they make laugh tracks, too - but it's technically not a laugh-track show, since they have warm bodies there to hoot at things.
Wow, you know, I thought Big Bang Theory was funny. But now I realize how boring it is and how terrible some of the characters are. *goes off to write a script for a youtube video*
I'm chatting with a dyslexic friend on Facebook, and a couple times I've come close to commenting on her spelling, and my brain yells "NO! NO! NO!"
EDIT: I only come close to commenting because I forget she's dyslexic, not because I consider doing it anyways. Just want to make sure I don't come across as a total asshole.
I'm dyslexic and would not mind it if you pointed out anywhere I have misspelled a word. Being dyslexic and having English as a fifth language makes it easy to make mistakes, so any help in minimizing them is appreciated
I'm dyslexic and would not mind it if you pointed out anywhere I have misspelled a word. Being dyslexic and having English as a fifth language makes it easy to make mistakes, so any help in minimizing them is appreciated
English is your fifth language? I am curious about the other four (or more).
I'm dyslexic and would not mind it if you pointed out anywhere I have misspelled a word. Being dyslexic and having English as a fifth language makes it easy to make mistakes, so any help in minimizing them is appreciated
She probably misspells 5-10% of words, so I would feel like an ass. Especially because it was a casual Facebook chat, where capitalization and spelling aren't really priorities.
Writing a reflective essay for Senior Seminar about my experiences at my school so far and remembering how last year my Entrepreneurship prof. told me my idea for an Amazon-like service with same-day delivery was a stupid, a few months before Amazon launched a same-day delivery service.
Tonight I started my second "for serious" Risk Legacy Campaign. As much as that game is infinitely flawed in certain ways... I really think some game designers need to capitalize on what's good about that game. There is so much profit to be "reaped" from the very nature of a "disposable" serious campaign game. Everyone in my game is a 2nd game + person. And we are all so incredibly serious about it. The genre of "campaign" board games is really not saturated yet... and it has so much potential...
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It's just a line of bland, boring dialog, followed by a long, pregnant pause, and then more bland dialog, and another pause. Literally the only half-decent pair of lines has been "Is there a drink that makes Raj less obnoxious?" "Drinks don't work that way", which stands on it's own as a joke, barely, and even then only because this guy is just being an unbelievably obnoxious shitbag - which only comes across from the words he's using, the tone and emotion of it is literally identical to the way he behaves the rest of the time, just bland, stale lines that fall flat like lead blocks, wrapped in a vaguely racist Indian stereotype. The only reason it's not more offensive is because he's only marginally more of a shitbag than literally everyone else on the show.
It's spinning me out, seriously. It's genuinely weird to observe how much the removal of one small element changes the entire show completely.
Afterward, they chuck in canned laughter for the final show, mixed in with the recorded real laughter which has been mastered to where they like it - the whole thing is a process called "Sweetening", it's used for things like live-audience sitcoms, so that both the dialog and the laughter are clear and audible, and for award shows, where the audience generally isn't mic'ed, because of both the ambient crowd noise and conversation, but some of their reactions are picked up by stage mics, so they spice it up a little.
It can sound a lot like a laugh track for a sitcom - the way they master the audio coming off the audience mics sounds a lot like laugh track audio when it's done, since funnily enough, that's how they make laugh tracks, too - but it's technically not a laugh-track show, since they have warm bodies there to hoot at things.
You can see them for a little bit in this clip -
EDIT: I only come close to commenting because I forget she's dyslexic, not because I consider doing it anyways. Just want to make sure I don't come across as a total asshole.
Also, I need to buy sandals.