[ SECRET POST #4253 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4253 ⌋

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 41 secrets from Secret Submission Post #609.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO images bigger than 600x600 in either direction (banners, et cetera).
2. ONE POST PER USER under this thread.
3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

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Official clickables thread.

RULES FOR THIS:
1. NO huge images or columns of images that require scrolling, please.
2. ONE POST PER USER under in this thread.
3. If you're going to post, try to at least help the others.

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General comments:

(If the thread contains spoilery/triggery content please warn/post as 2nd comment so it collapses!
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Question about Closed Captioning

[(Anonymous)]

How hard is it to do? So many videos don't have them, which I find annoying. I'd say it was because I'm Hard of Hearing, but while that's true (and it did suck when my hearing aids broke for that reason), there are also times I just want to watch something when I don't have my headphones on me. (And I don't wear earbuds because of said hearing aids. So maybe this IS related a bit to my hearing, tbh?)

However, I heard that CC is actually a HUGE pain in the ass to do manually. Is this true? If so, I can understand.

Re: Question about Closed Captioning

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who did some transcription work, it is very time consuming.

Re: Question about Closed Captioning

[(Anonymous)]

I used to do fansubbing, and yes, it's very time-consuming to time all of the subtitles/captions.

Re: Question about Closed Captioning

[(Anonymous)]

For me, not really a pain, but.. tedious? The way I do it is first timing the line (marking where a person stops and starts speaking). Then I transcribe what is said. Exactly how I transcribe depends if I'm doing subtitles or closed captioning. CC tends to include sound effects and descriptions of sounds, while subtitling can either be exactly what a person says, or can cut out any "um"s or "er"s. Either way, usually each line has to be listened to several times in order to make sure the transcription is absolutely correct, since deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are counting on the accuracy. That's in addition to making sure each caption/subtitle stays on screen long enough for someone to actually read it without running into the next line or having a paragraph of text on screen.

It's part science, part art.

I thought about doing some CC for YouTube, but the content creators I like put out content so fast, I could never keep up even if I didn't have chronic health issues.

Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

Which old sites do you miss?

Re: Based on #8

[kaijinscendre]

The classic DBZ site. My sister and I used to spend soooo much time on it.

Television Without Pity. :( I used to hang out in their forums as school.

Fox used to have show forums that I spent A LOT of time on during my lunch breaks at school.

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

The AV Club (the real one)

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

There were too many to be specific, but I miss the concept of fan websites. I don't know why that stopped being a thing. That was so much easier than everything being so scattered, or being at the mercy of sites like LJ (and now tumblr) that don't really care about fandom.


(Some examples: Sugar Quill, FictionAlley, A Heroes site I forget the name of...)

Re: Based on #8

[nocowardsoul]

That one pairing generator hosted on some pirate RPG site. It had lots of characters.

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

The fan pages and rings on geocities.

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

dotmusic, popex, twop, most of geocities, the tower of pin, altavista, astalavista.box.sk, several other sites that still technically exist but are utter dumpster fires compared to what they used to be

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

The fan-run Phantom of the Opera site and especially its forum.

Re: Based on #8

[(Anonymous)]

Rotten.com

Re: Based on #8

[philstar22]

Portkey. Fiction Alley. Fandom forums in general.

Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[(Anonymous)]

What are some things you didn't realize weren't normal, either because your family always did it when you were growing up, it was a habit no one ever corrected you about, whatever the reasons, what were those things?

Re: Things you thought were normal until you learned otherwise

[kaijinscendre]

A lot of the poor people food we ate growing up. Like chip covered chicken.

Advice thread?

[(Anonymous)]

Need advice or help making a decision? Ask away!

How many people actually check comments the next day?

[(Anonymous)]

Turns out I missed a thread about Stardew Valley yesterday. I will, (like now) add comments the day after a post goes up, on the off chance people will see it, but not often. Sometimes I'll look in a day or two later if there was a particularly interesting thread, but not very often, and tbh I usually forget.

What movie prop do you want?

[(Anonymous)]

If you could afford any. This is a prop NOT a working object.

Inspired by #4 Misleading book covers

[(Anonymous)]

What are some of the worst examples of this you've seen?

Recs

[(Anonymous)]

Because I'm lazy and don't feel like shlogging through AO3, can someone rec me some Stephen/Cloak or Stephen/Tony, or even Stephen/Tony/Cloak fics pleeeease~?

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Games thread!