• DisasterTransport@startrek.websiteEnglish
      14·
      21 days ago

      Yeah season 21 is crazy, they took a hard sci fi turn about 10 seasons ago and now everyone is split up. They made a whole cinematic universe and its very confusing. Jim was a CIA agent for a while and now he’s a post apocalyptic survivor. IMO they’re making the character do too much, bir I guess that’s what happens when you run out of ideas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • turdburglar@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        i was really there for dwight’s arc as unexpected the heir to the massive hairbo gummy bear empire. his big move for the recipe from high fructose corn syrup tp beet sugar was brilliant.

        i’ve just started the creed season - no spoilers!

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    622·
    21 days ago

    I mean if you have a better way to make viewers understand what people with hearing impairments go through every day, then I’m all ears.

  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
    3410·
    21 days ago

    I am conflicted here. On the one hand, I agree that subtitles would have been nice. On the other hand, I think folks with hearing disabilities get shut out of other content so much that I don’t think this somewhat solitary case makes it good mildly infuriating material. It’s most likely just an oversight. Much less likely a clever scheme to highlight ableism.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
      81·
      21 days ago

      I mean, by US law (back when analog TV was standard) all TV broadcasts had to include closed captions on scanline 23(?) for people with hearing disabilities. it was part of the vertical blanking interval so it didn’t interfere with the regularly visible broadcast. It is good to include subtitles for all dialogue, spoken in the local dialect, in a foreign dialect, and even the various sign languages. That’s isn’t to say that yes, I fully agree that differently abled people should be able to take part in the dialog and should have accommodations where needed.

      Semi related, did you know American sign language is closer to French sign language than it is to British sign language?

  • tigermountain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    20 days ago

    What pisses me off about subtitles is when they start displaying lyrics to songs playing in the background.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    20 days ago

    That’s either “sign language doesn’t work with our speech-to-text algorithm and we’ll be throat fucked if we hire an actual person to do a job” or some massively pretentious statement about accessibility in media.

      • PinkyPeaky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        20 days ago

        I don’t think they are against it. I think this is just a rather dark humour way to say this is my everyday normatively

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
          33·
          20 days ago

          I get your point bit if anyone is trying to draw attention to the plights of deaf people, this is not the way how to do it

          If I want to see this movie, I’ll get very annoyed, turn it off within 5 minutes and I’ll chrcl something else. Where is the attention now?

          • Snoopy@piefed.socialEnglish
            101·
            20 days ago

            Then how ? You just discovered it. There are plenty movies with subtitles but at least you get the experience of our daily life in 2 minutes and there is a post about it on Lemmy.

            That’s not the best experience but it worked.

            Most of time, we won’t understand when you talk. Few people will do the effort to write on a paper. And there is a lack of subtitles, interpreters. We are forced to go through various stressful situations.

            So, i love that it show you the other side. I love that you get this experience once in your life because most of time, people don’t care. They aren’t deaf and ignore it, since it don’t concern them. They have no idea how many movies, podcasts, dramas, meetings, appointements, parties, course…are inaccessible to us. They just call, talk and live on.

            Yeah it is a shame, but i hope you will be a little more aware and join us. :)

  • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    21 days ago

    🫵🤏🤞🤞🤘☝️👍🤌👍🤞🤌🫱🫲🫷👉👐🫶🙌🫶🤛

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    20 days ago

    Then there are the shows too cheap to make real subtitles and instead use auto generated ones that can’t handle accents or names.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    21 days ago

    I am a bit lost here.

    I just watched A Quiet Place on Amazon and it had subtitles…

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    21 days ago

    For a decade tech has fucked sub’s accessibility. The landscape is a complete mess, simultaneously stuck with tech that is too old and also suffering from awful implementation of new tech (LLMs suck at closed captioning but everyone insist it is the only way to do it now). Yet context reading to know who needs subs when is still so archaic and depends completely on user input. But then, the content is always innadecuate, specially when it’s for the hearing impaired.

    • webhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of llm subs on streaming platforms and I’m like bro wtf the stuff you download is better than this. How can you be the one making the thing and not put accurate fucking subtitles on it. It’s pathetic. I mean are have the llm do the heavy lifting but you’ve still gotta proof it ffs.

  • finley@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    lol, another thing I don’t have to be mad about, because I’m not paying for it