Why are you so bothered?
I think sick humour comes under the /links remit and there wasn't a long version. It's not as though I'd linked to a Musk spaceknob launch or something.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jan 2025, 16:58,
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brb just has this thing about shorts.
But a twenty second “proper” video is fine.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 3 Jan 2025, 17:56,
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Landscape is fine. 4:3 is fine. 1:1 is pushing it, but fine.
Videos in portrait must all be physically destroyed. Videos in portrait that loop forever were sent by THE ACTUAL DEVIL.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 3 Jan 2025, 20:46,
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Portrait videos are perfectly fine if the content suits that orientation.
I've installed several portrait video-based artworks in the contemporary art gallery that I work at that suited that orientation and will be installing another one next week.
As someone who seems to like seeing space rockets take off and land, I would have thought that portrait would be your preferred orientation for that...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 3 Jan 2025, 22:46,
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The screen dimensions of a mobile phone
don't happen to coincide with the best/most pleasing aspect ratios for viewing pictures and video. They have a similar aspect to a closed book. To get the most out of your book I suggest you nearly double its width by opening it.
Some early engineering review films of NASA rocket launches were filmed in widescreen with the rocket angled from far corner to corner, but AFAIK they were not meant to be viewed upright or on a rotating screen, they were designed to be played back on a standard projector in widescreen because NASA are not MONSTERS.
Also in a rocket launch, the rocket typically spends most of its time in a horizontal orientation. You could take a nice still of the rocket on its launchpad in portrait, but video of a launch in that format would be nigh unwatchable.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 4 Jan 2025, 22:34,
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I think what you meant to say was
EAT MY SHORTS!
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Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Fri 3 Jan 2025, 18:54,
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Taking this seriously (which is something I like to do for a laugh),
I am so, so upset by shorts because I hate short-form video made to be viewed the wrong way up on a mobile phone screen, looped forever by default in a way that humans find addictively enticing, with infinite pseudorandom selections based on your online history 'curated' to make you infinitely 'engaged' via rage, joy, depression, bias, bigotry, whatever.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 3 Jan 2025, 21:01,
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Sadly, that is the internet we have at the moment.
There are worse things, like Tik tok or some Telegram channels.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 3 Jan 2025, 22:17,
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