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🕑 Added 2021-11-02 03:32:24 +0000 UTCNatural assumptions
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"Way to rub it in, Elliot."
"What?"
"What?"
Of dictionaries and camera angles
I decided I wanted Susan to grab a physical dictionary from the bookcase that is now canonically on that side of the room. This is a bit of a personal reflection of myself. In spite of generally preferring digital books, I prefer my reference material to be physical. In real life, I recently ordered a big hardcover dictionary because of this.
One reason for this preference is simply so I can quickly flip back and forth between pages, and this is especially true for something like a dictionary.
In any case, that is why Susan is returning to the sofa with a book instead of checking her phone, and why she is standing in panel two.
Normally, I would have changed the angle in order to best show Susan's face. What I am doing for this part of this storyline, however, is not changing the angle of the view. I am cropping the view, effectively zooming in and out, but not changing the angle of it.
The reason for this, as one might have guessed, is because this is supposed to be Susan and Elliot's review show. Were I to change the angle, I think it would feel like the in-universe camera was off.
Basically, I'm trying to present this as close as possible to how one of their shows would be presented without going so far as keeping everything in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Comments
KC
@Thisgun ^
allanfranta
I'm optimistic about the language changes: light become lite, night become nite, I could write a sonnet, but I won't. Maybe a limerick, my attention span might handle that. or not
Prof Sai
OMG poor Dan! How is autosave not universal at this point? Some programs had it in the 1980's! I once had an add-on that just automatically typed Command-S every half hour. Not perfect, but it worked.
Some Ed
I also read a dictionary, thanks to a study hall I had no use for in high school. I didn't try leaving a bookmark, as there were at least seven sets of people who could've interfered with any bookmark between my perusals, and it wasn't even guaranteed I'd get the same dictionary every study hall session. I just kept track of where I was by recording the page number and word that I was on in the margin of one of my other notebooks. Overall, I found reading a dictionary cover to cover to actually decrease my ability to communicate with others. Someone said that thing was nice. Did they really mean *nice*, or did they mean definition 2, because that one's very much *not* like the others. That's only the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. The English language is *such* a festering minefield. It only seems to get worse over time, too. :/
Thisguy
Using such things as props is also acceptable.
Matt R
If the 4th wall is broken over who "true fans" of EGS are...
allanfranta
Someone kept moving my bookmark, so not that lucky. I don't think we had a bible in engineering.
A Red Mage Named Blue
Susan avoiding the "What definition of nerd is Diane using?" problem
jubs
Lucky bastard... All I had for watch duty was the bible.
JohnInCA
I assume, for the sake of comedy, that's a random book, and they're just hiding a phone with the definition inside it.
allanfranta
When I was active duty Navy, I read the dictionary on watch. The whole thing. Websters, if I remember right, red cover.
Thisguy
To be honest, feels better...thematically? or More theatrical? to grab a book to look up a meaning than to look it up on your phone. Looks better visually for a video, and stands out more, so people are likely to pay attention and remember.
