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submitted 1 year ago by germanatlas to c/196

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A tumblr post of a Twitter screenshot saying "accidentally watched 30 minutes of a breaking bad episode at 1.5x speed didn’t even realize it was like damn these dudes are hauling ass today" and a second reply saying "same but opposite energy" with another Twitter screenshot saying "Better Call Saul is so good that I accidentally paused a scene where Bob Odenkirk was sitting in a chair and I thought it was just a character study of him in silence. I watched a paused screen for 2 minutes and thought it was such great choice."

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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Watching at 1.5x for 30 minutes without realizing... How high was this person? It's either that, or brain damage; there's really no other explanation.

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 64 points 1 year ago

Go to uni.

Never appear in Person.

Watch all online lectures in 1.5 - 1.75x.

Gradually forget how fast humans are supposed to talk.

[-] BitsOfBeard@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I went to the final lecture of the semester and I wondered why the lecturer sounded sick and sluggish. I'd been watching every lecture on 1.75x and my brain had accepted it as reality.

[-] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 20 points 1 year ago

Well, obviously, you have to smoke meth to get the full experience when you're watching Breaking Bad

[-] Paol@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On YouTube, I change the speed constantly, and, sometimes, I think I'm watch at x1 when I'm actually watching at x1.5 or even x2.

I can usually differentiate x1 from other speeds, but when there's a slow talker and no music, it's actually quite easy not to be able to tell unless I think hard about it, or realistically just check, especially since I'm very used to it, having done that for around two years.

However, watching a show for ~~30~~ 20 minutes without realizing it is unrealistic, especially since there are a lot of sound effects and it's ~~30~~ 20 minutes!