YouTube’s been doing this thing lately where their ad algorithm tries to time automatically inserted ad breaks to fall on black frames in the video, on the theory that a pure black frame is likely to form part of a transition between scenes, and the ad is thus less likely to cut a line of dialogue in half or whatever.
Unfortunately, the algorithm cannot distinguish between black frames that form part of scene transitions and black frames inserted for other dramatic purposes, with the result that I’ve watched videos whose ad breaks are perfectly timed to match, among other things:
Entering a dark room
The trigger of a gun being pulled
The beat between the setup and the punchline of a visual pun
A PoV shot in which the viewpoint character blinks
The protagonist getting punched in the face
If their goal was to make the timing of automatically inserted ad breaks feel less random, well, they succeeded!
The protagonist getting punched in the face then blacking out and having a dream about raid: shadow legends is pretty funny, actually
Dude got hit so hard he saw God, and God wants him to save 15% on car insurance.
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#advertising #juxtaposition #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #violence mention
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #playing with the medium #poetry #vaccines #conspiracy theories #covid19 #illness mention #limericks
Wtf is this supposed to mean is “sounding Argentinian” some kind of new insult like wut???
frankly i would be terribly offended
wait if I’m understanding right, does that mean that an Argentinian stereotype is “hating Argentine nationalism”?
Because if so uhhhh… Shit. Fuck. I have to go now for completely unrelated reasons.
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(context I knew about when I first read this: both sigmaleph and ericvilas are Argentinian) #(later: I saw some stuff complaining about Falklands War apologists and I think that might have been the bullfuckery referred to in the OP) #anon hate cw?
I’m reading reviews of off-brand maxtrax style recovery boards and this review kills me. Imagine being that UPS driver, delivering a package to some guy at the end of this muddy clay road and of course you fucking get stuck and you think “well, my day just went to shit” but then the guy you just made the delivery to busts the package open and pulls out a set of recovery boards and gets you unstuck in one shot, can you even imagine
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai
Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward
(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)
Wait but also, until then, if anyone under the age of majority is challenged
Zuko fights it for them.
Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???
But, those few who still challenge those who should be kids learn quickly to regret it.
Okay but this implies that Zuko knows whenever someone challenges a kid to an Agni Kai and is there before the battle takes place.
Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*
Firelord Zuko: *running down the palace hallways while still struggling to put in his pants, being chased by his team of bodyguards* I’M GOING TO HING WA ISLAND TO KICK SOMEBODY’S ASS SEE YOU IN A WEEK BITCHES
Random spirit: Why’d you do that to him? Isn’t it kind of a stretch for a mortal to be blessed like that?
Agni himself: I felt like it
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#Avatar: The Last Airbender #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #headcanons #violence cw? #abuse cw?
people are always talking about social media filter bubbles, but tbh I would love that. it would be great to only see social media from people I completely agree with. how do I get that
> Activity > Your posts
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
the rodents of unusual size in princess bride should have just been like. a capybara. i’m not suggesting wesley should have fought a capybara, i’m saying they should have been terrified of the prospect of encountering one and then they see it off in the distance in the dark and they’re like “OH NO” and it’s just sitting there like (^-__-^) and buttercup is like “it’s cute. maybe it’s harmless?” and wesley is like “NO. the myths” and ominous music plays under a slow zoom on the capybara’s face while they carefully edge their way around it and it’s just sitting there like (^-__-^) the whole time. then they breathe a sigh of relief and immediately fall into quicksand. thank you. other than reintroducing the chapter on hats, this is the only change i would make and comprises the entirety of my princess bride script doctor
this – and this is crucial – is still immediately preceded by the line “i don’t think they exist”
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#capybaras #Princess Bride #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #fanfic
Brinens and Things 