By the way, when did this bullshit become acceptable?
and:
I know, it’s supposed to do… what, exactly? Fuck with my eyesight?
This works perfectly:
Rule #1 of photography: no damn unfocused blurriness, unless for effect — and then it must be the focal point of the pic.
Blurring the borders just makes my head ache after a while, and I loathe this affectation with a passion.
I’d always assumed it was an attempt to defeat YouTube copyright filters, but here’s what I’m seeing on the Intertubes:
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-media-suddenly-blurring-the-side-of-photos-and-videos
It’s bad TV production philosophy.
“Never let any part of the screen go unfilled.”
This. It started with showing video recorded vertically by idiots on horizontally oriented television shows, and then idiot millennial thought it was how you fit anything to anything else.
That’s what I was going to say, that it’s related to “vertical video syndrome”, which is a pox upon the internets.
That Quora article gives the answer. I found it interesting that it mentioned intolerance of letterboxing, which is something that I don’t share and don’t comprehend, frankly.
Several people I know, however, have told me they WILL NOT WATCH a film that is letterboxed. Some part of their (little pea) brains cannot ignore the frame and it completely spoils the show for them. It’s interesting that these tend to be the same people that WILL NOT WATCH a film with subtitles. Those people tend, in my experience, to be unbright. Some of them are my in-laws.
Why a fuzzy border would be more palatable than a blank one is god’s own mystery to me, but apparently makes sense to such people.
Having said all that, I admit that I WILL NOT WATCH a dubbed movie. It’s intolerable to have sounds and mouths not synchronized properly. I, literally, cannot watch. So, perhaps some empathy is in order. Nah, that’s ridiculous.
That house looks like it was 200′ long and a giant put it’s hands on both sides and pushed them together, scrunching it down to about 80′. Suckerasses.
And another thing:
800.765.4321
Telephone numbers with periods in them. Jeez Louise.
And ‘cis’, as in “I cis-identify as a cranky old fart with no particular patience for nincompoops.” What nincompoops decided to preceed the complete word ‘identity’ with some nonsense made-up series of letters with no basis in reality!
And California. I realize California started as a pretty good idea, but lately, mentioning ‘California’ is the equivalent of a verbal ‘eye-roll’. [shrugs while shaking head Instead of saying ‘California’]
Don’t ask me; I’m still trying to deal with the change from “pled” to “pleaded”. WTF authorized that?