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.”

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    48·
    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
      56·
      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
        22·
        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.

    • paol@lemmy.ml
      11·
      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!

    • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      1.5x is fucking fast, but I watched most of a long YouTube video on 1.25x speed without noticing until I realized that the youtuber’s voice sounded a little bit off.

      • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah, I can watch 1.25x without difficulty, but the movements never look natural at that speed. But even just listening to an audiobook (and even with a slow speaking narrator), 1.5x is noticeably sped up. That doesn’t stop me from listening at that speed, but it’s not natural.

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, movement is one thing and bad enough, but you would certainly notice the dialogue being extremely weird.