Fire Emblem Three Houses, the game literally has an NPC named “Gatekeeper” who won a yearly Fire Emblem popularity poll with the highest vote count ever.
TERFs
Gatekeep so hard they require DNA tests
Any “hardcore full loot pvp MMORPG”
Gatekeeping enthusiasts
What makes you think you may speak for us?
Star Wars. God help you if you actually like The Acolyte or the sequels, they’ll flay you alive while they harass everyone involved in the making of.
Do you even care about movies if you don’t watch them in the original language?
To be honest I’m that guy. But I don’t judge anymore and German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries. But it’s a tough decision for me to watch a new movie in German just so I can share it with someone else and I will comment on it once!
German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries.
Sadly, this does not apply to the show Dark. Fantastic show. Terrible dubbing.
Did the German actors dub themselves? I can imagine this must be hard.
I wasn’t sure, so I just looked it up. It wasn’t the original actors who did the dubbing. It was some voice actors. I’m guessing very novice voice actors…
Weird. Netflix invests so much money into these shows and then gets stingy on the voice actors for the country of origin…
I don’t have a lot of comparisons to dubs in other languages, but most german dubs I know are average at best. The biggest problem is that they often pick voice actors who just don’t suit the character or the original actor. The stilted reading/talking is another issue, which is also often present in original German productions.
I would be bothered if a movie written in pig-latin was dub to English… who doesn’t understand pig?
What beautiful language.
German dubs are actually top notch
I find this ironic when compared to native language German porn, which frequently has audio that is distractingly out of sync to the point that it almost seems like it’s many minutes off. It’s not even just one studio either, it happens to a lot of them for some reason. I’m starting to wonder if there’s an industry joke that I’m not aware of which explains it, but I haven’t noticed the same issue with porn produced in other languages.
Warum liegt denn hier Stroh?
German dubs are actually top notch compared to other countries
This is true for movie productions. They are dubbed well, even to a point where jokes and plays on words are translated as well. On the other hand, cartoons are not. They lack of something that makes them unwatchable when dubbed - I think it’s because some of the play on words and jokes are missing, also the dubbed voices differ extremely from the original. Such thing can make a character appear and be percieved very different, compared to the original. If cartoonn are availiable in original language (English), I’ll prefer that.
Yesterday I watched an interesting video about this topic: Why Germany dubbs movies, but other countries don’t
Warum Deutschland Filme synchronisiert und andere Länder nicht The video comes with insights from a voice actor, who dubbs the voice of Leonardo di Caprio.I used to roll my eyes at people who watch movies in o-tone. I just thought they are kind of pretentious. But fuck me they were right.
what the fuck is o-tone?
“original” tone. Also often “OV”, “original version”. A subtitled original version could be referred to as “OMU” in German, “Original mit Untertiteln”=“original with subtitles”.
i think the key problem, at least for me, is that your hear the orinigal voices of the actors with the background sound of the real location.
this is completely changed when you have a german dub. it feels completely stale, lame and artificial. and you have only like 20 people that dub everything.
Having a limited number of voice actors drives me crazy. I recognize voices especially well–far better than I do faces. So when I hear the same voice over and over again, I recognize it and it draws me out of any sort of immersive experience. This is especially a problem in American cartoons.
On the flip side, the ukulele community is so open and friendly, helped me stick with a hobby I sucked at to begin with, and now I’ve released actual music!
“If someone tries to steal your ukelele, let them take it!”
The guys running /Politics and /WorldNews will ban people if they don’t endorse israel committing Genocide.
Also r/Israel (for obvious reasons). It’s sad, especially considering that so many people would benefit if the Jews and Muslims were living together in harmony. Which we don’t see due to the apartheid regime that is Israel.
Sheepdog trials. Though mostly it’s about making things go through the gates.
I don’t even know why they have trials, and the jury isn’t even selected from their peers. Every one of those dogs looks guilty to me.
By time required before you can truly be in and accepted as one (not just a tourist)
- Rural folk
- Expedition sports
- Biker gangs
- Private pilots
- Some festivals
Reddit.
Unless it’s completely changed since the APIpocalypse, I’m going to say wrong criticism, right target. It’s a big place, only some parts of which gatekeep much.
Yeah, Reddit seems like it does the exact OPPOSITE of gatekeeping. It’s progressively lowering the barrier to entry to attract new people.
Before I signed up, it was very much “The narwhal bacons at midnight”, with people needing to understand the inside jokes and references, Reddiquette, and other “soft skill” kind of stuff to get upvotes.
I left with the API situation, but even by then, it was nearly mainstream. “Normal people” would tell people about things they saw on Reddit. Of course, nobody would share their username with anyone else. (Nor should they! Lol)
Even since then, I’m occasionally seeing Reddit screenshots from people whose phones I imagined never opened much else aside from messaging apps, image/video-based social media, and their camera app, lol
Railway and train modellers, of all scales. To their credit, a fair fee people are becoming more open, but especially modelling clubs are often run by old white men with questionable politics and problematic behaviours. They will sneer at anything that’s not steam, or at people who run modern instead of vintage trains, or who don’t get a train model exactly right the way the original ran that one time in the mid 50s from Bumfuck, Idaho to the middle of nowhere. They have little patience for newbies who might not have internalised all the lingo, or who might need something explained in simple English. If you build something that is not an exact replica of a real world location, they’ll say you’re not doing model railway, but merely toy trains. And then these same people go and wonder why they can’t attract new people to the hobby.
All of this applies to many niche communities. In Germany, especially the older forums that are around since the internet became widly popular show such behavior. Take HiFi- forums for example: If your plugs are not made with gold, you are doing it wrong. Also, if you want to spend money for a hobby, don’t bother to start if you are not willing to spend at least an unreasonable ridiculous ammount of Euros.
These enthusiast also complain about a lack of new members. It’s the nobody wants to work anymore sentiment, but with niche hobby communities.
Replace “trains” with “amateur radio” and the entire paragraph fits perfectly.
Sad, imagine if ham ran the radio decentralized parallel internet. Progress occurs one silent key at a time
Vegan groups. You will toe the party line comrade! And yes, shellfish are intelligent animals with a rich social and emotional life.
“But they don’t have the nerve types and brain structures to feel pain as we do…”
“HERETIC!”
If they have no ego, why are they shellfish?
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Farmers. I’m local and from an established farming family, but because I didn’t end up in a branch that’s still active I might as well be dog shit, and not just on farming-related matters.
Well, maybe dog shit is a slight exaggeration, but damn they will give you the cold shoulder.
didn’t end up in a branch that’s still active
Could you elaborate, please? I know Jack about farming and this sounds fascinating
So, my ancestors, as far back as great-great grandparents, came here and took some land from the Natives (hey, just admitting it is part of reconciliation). Over time, they had an ever-increasing number of descendants, but the amount of land stayed the same. Some inherited, some presumably didn’t, and many wanted to do things other than farming with their life and sold their land. My grandparents never farmed, except just to help friends and family, and the last of their land was sold a few years back. (Conversely, I have a great uncle who owns fuck-you amounts of land)
Thanks!
