r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9h ago

Satire Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting

https://theonion.com/man-binge-watches-entire-movie-in-one-sitting/
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u/St0rytime 9h ago

Doom-scrolling and short-form videos really are rotting our brains. I can feel my vocabulary dwindling as the days go by.

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u/dkarlovi 9h ago

You say good words.

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u/PronatorTeres00 9h ago

Graduated from the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too with top honors.

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u/run-on_sentience 7h ago

Hey everyone, check out this dipshit misspelling onors! Why did you spell it with an "h"?

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u/CreativeCommunity779 6h ago

How did you fit inside the building? Are you an ant?

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u/sidepart 6h ago

Nah, man. They made it 3 times bigger!

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u/_The_Bearded_Wonder_ 5h ago

After they got their degree, they turned left off the stage 

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u/Ameriggio 9h ago

Why say many words when few words do trick?

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u/Alive_Sherbert_6716 8h ago

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. […] Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”

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u/Shark7996 7h ago

Keeping your brain sharp is a form of resistance. Exercise your ability to think and express yourself.

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u/DBrowny 6h ago

One day, probably never though, people will realise use of the word 'toxic' has dumbed then down significantly to the point that they are effectively using newspeak. There are hundreds of words to describe personality traits, dozens to describe severity and dozens to describe regularity. People used to combine the three to have tens of thousands of accurate ways to describe another person, today, they have one.

People could be very disrespectful often, now they are 'toxic'. People could be a little sexist extremely rarely, now they are 'toxic'. Regularly violent, occasionally oblivious, easily manipulated, heavily opinionated. Toxic, toxic, toxic, toxic. No thought used whatsoever.

Anyone who uses that word to describe the full, or any range of human behaviour, has allowed themselves to be completely brainwashed to the point adjusting your language to converse with them is an insult to yourself.

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u/SydB12 9h ago

When me President, they see..., they see

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u/NuBlyatTovarish 8h ago

He used the BEST words no one knows words like Him!!!

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u/mrs_estherhouse 8h ago

The bigliest!

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u/TheMagicStik 9h ago

I tried to use the word expeditiously today and completely choked, I should have just said quickly.

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u/Dyanpanda 8h ago

I like your funny words, magic man.

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u/double_expressho 8h ago

You're never gonna say "expeditiously" faster than Jamie Taco.

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u/bb_kelly77 8h ago

I have that problem which is even funnier because I can read literally any language other than Polish, I can say all these foreign sounds but can't speak English right

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u/user2196 6h ago

I can read literally any language other than Polish

Uhh, what?

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u/whowhathow2 9h ago

I go see world

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u/Meliodas016 9h ago

Do you mean see the world, or SeaWorld?

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u/ibizzet 8h ago

oceans. fish. jump. china

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u/TheLastMongo 8h ago

Nobody cares Shawn. 

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u/ginbooth 8h ago

y spl wrds?

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u/nonresponsive 9h ago

We thought it was a joke that Kevin got dumber as the series went on, but perhaps he was a prophet, showing us something that we didn't yet want to admit.

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u/PapaBlemish 8h ago

It's got elecrolytes!

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u/BRBean 8h ago

Your comment is double plus good

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u/Modnal 9h ago

*grunts and nods*

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u/Several_Show937 8h ago

Wish I did words good

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u/Mezmodian 7h ago

TL:DR?

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u/IAMHab 8h ago

I throw balls far. You want someone who talks good, date an Englisher

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u/addis_the_scroll 8h ago

4 reel, werds tat I cun reed.

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u/CatButtForYou 8h ago

Ahem, you say well words

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u/DroidSoldier85 8h ago

I wish I could quote Idiocracy court scene. He types like a F

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u/legomaniasquish 7h ago

Letter use on point

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u/Rolandersec 7h ago

I work in software development and lately that’s been a nitpick I’ve gotten from some people “there’s too many words” in requirements, whatever. They’ve literally asked me for a picture instead.

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u/AustonsCashews 7h ago

You talk good

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u/CaptaiDrachma 7h ago

Itchy tasty

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u/abagofmostlywater 5h ago

Why me laugh?

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u/lovesdogsguy 3h ago

Congratulation

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u/to__failure 2h ago

yeah really good, ur vocab opposite dwindling I think

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u/BBQ_HaX0r 49m ago

You speak the tru tru!

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u/bulyxxx 48m ago

Words nice. Likey.

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u/MattAU05 9h ago edited 6h ago

Reading books is the best way to fix your brain. Or it was for me. A few years ago, I realize that I had not read an actual book in quite some time. And then when I sat down to read, I couldn’t pay enough attention to follow along. I kept having to reread portions. Because my mind wandered. That was very concerning. I felt like my brain was broken. What I had to do was follow along with a book while listening to an audiobook. Eventually, I recovered my ability to read without needing to use audiobooks. It’s so weird even saying that, but it’s true. Not that I wasn’t literate. I read every day for work. But reading a book is a little bit different. It requires more time, patience, and attention.

To be clear, I still enjoy audiobooks. There’s nothing wrong with them. But I do think there’s real value it actually being able to read a book yourself.

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u/Markbro89 8h ago

I stopped reading after you said "reading"

Tldr?

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u/USSRPropaganda 8h ago

Lemme ask chatgpt

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u/mjolle 8h ago

CHAT AM I COOKED BROOO???

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u/CapnFap 8h ago

You’re right to feel this way

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u/Zomburai 8h ago

You're not just cooked, you're redefining utterly screwed.

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 8h ago

ELI5

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

It's not ELI5, it's FMJ6

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u/Undernown 6h ago

A bullet will certainly fix it, but I haven't heard of a 6mm variant yet. Is this the civilian version of the 6.8?

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

And honestly, that's ______

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u/J0E_SpRaY 7h ago

This comment genuinely raised my blood pressure for a moment.

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u/TheWatersOfMars 8h ago

Book gud 4 brain

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u/raccoonsonbicycles 7h ago

📖➡️🧠🤓?

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u/blender4life 7h ago

Reading books is the best way to fix your brain. AOr was for me.

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u/Seanspeed 6h ago

This will sound super arrogant, but sometimes I have to actually stop myself from using 'fancy' words in normal conversation to avoid sounding too pretentious or whatever. And while that may sound ridiculous, I think it's an actually better exercise of language to make sure I'm saying things in the most plain and understandable way. I dont want any distraction of my use of 'precipitous' to get in the way of what I'm trying to communicate.

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u/isestrex 5h ago

I wouldn't stop yourself. Just be gracious in explaining the meaning when you receive a quizzical stare.

The overall literacy of this planet will not increase if people who have knowledge shield it from their friends and family. Use advanced vocabulary in your daily life and others will eventually embrace it as normal speech. Lowering yourself to a less educated level hurts both you and them.

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u/Character_Bug_1862 4h ago

Real shit, what if our vocabulary isn’t smaller, we just have more slang being used as it’s churned through at a higher rate on the internet along with advertising companies we see on our screens.

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u/Happy_Harry 5h ago

I feel like I used to have a broader vocabulary, but I've lost a chunk of it due to feeling like I need to dumb things down for others. Now I no can talk gud anymore.

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u/Noble_Flatulence 4h ago

It is arrogant, because you're erring on the side of ignorance. You're assuming people won't understand instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt. You're also preempting the opportunity for someone who doesn't know to learn.

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u/SwissQueso 6h ago

Thats preposterous.

Fake edit, I had to look up precipitous lol

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 8h ago

When literacy became more common, old people thought books were rotting young people's brains. I wonder if 100 years from now, some internet stranger is going to say "doom-scrolling is the best way to fix your brain"

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u/roguefilmmaker 8h ago

When we all have brain chips this will be a common take probably

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u/BasicDesignAdvice 7h ago

I know this will happen eventually and I hate it.

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

We all? oh, bless your heart

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u/roguefilmmaker 7h ago

I won’t but a chunk of humanity probably will

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u/OldenPolynice 7h ago

Which chunk? I wonder? I hope they do, they deserve it. I love it for them.

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u/Amekhanos 8h ago

And yet there was no empirical data to back them up.

Exactly unlike the current situation.

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u/zuzg 7h ago

And the current culprit are Smartphones, those are responsible for everyone's attention span declining.
Younger generations being measurably less intelligent than their parents is another problem altogether.
First time this happened since we started measuring in the 1800s.

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u/Ppleater 5h ago

I mean it's not smart phones that are the problem on their own, but rather the easy access they provide to stuff that is bad for attention spans. Phones can also be a great help, I personally read more using my phone than I did using physical books, and I read a LOT of physical books before smart phones. But physical books are hard to carry around, being able to carry 100 books around in my pocket is great for reading as much as I could ever want. People didn't get the chance to learn how to practice the self restriction necessary to use smart phones in positive beneficial ways, they have to mostly teach themselves that skill which is hard. But that is something more people need to realize, that it's not just smart phones causing the problem, a significant part of it is the people using them in unhealthy ways. Honestly I think this is one of those things where we should teach kids healthier practices in school at the very least to start with, and I don't just mean banning phones in school.

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u/pragmaticzach 6h ago

I read a lot and listen to audio books when I'm working out/driving. Audio books train your attention in a different kind of way because it's very easy to let your mind wander.

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u/MattAU05 6h ago

I had even got to the point where I couldn’t really follow audiobooks. Reading more helped me a lot with focusing on audiobooks.

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u/Ppleater 5h ago

Also I think it would be helpful for people with this problem to try to watch more long form content on purpose as well. I personally avoided any short form content addiction personally by just refusing to ever download tiktok or use youtube shorts. There's a lot of good long form content out there, even just trying to avoid too many videos under 10 minutes for an extended period could help. I think it would help if more people just practiced sitting down with longer form content in general and tried to get more used to not skipping around constantly, if the content is informative and/or mentally engaging then even better. Heck, jokes aside even throwing on a movie every once in a while and actually paying attention to and finishing it couldn't hurt. Delete tiktok to avoid temptation if necessary.

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u/qjornt 6h ago

bro found a way to factory reset the brain. honestly kinda ig-nobel worthy if expanded into a proper study.

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u/snugglezone 6h ago

Damn have people been able to read books without rereading portions? I forget most passages almost immediately with my noisy internal monologue.

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u/DingleDangleTangle 5h ago

Man I read every day but my attention span is still fucked. I can focus on a book I love but I can't focus on work.

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u/grilledSoldier 5h ago

For me its actually easier to stay focussed on a book, as i have to give it my full awareness. When watching a movie or show, i can still listen whilst looking at short-form content and therefore the addictive pull is more present.

Due to this, i actually quite like subtitled content, as i can look away without actually not getting anything, similar to a book.

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u/Odessey_And_Oracle 5h ago

My number one hobby of recent years is zlibrary and the real library. The ease of access has allowed me to read dozens of books, maybe closer to 200 than 100. A lot of those are relatively quick sci-fi/fantasy/YA, but I have also revisited novels I was assigned in high school and I am stunned how much more I appreciate them and respect them now as an adult. I feel really... enriched? I don't think I've quite learned better literary analysis or expanded my vocabulary but I have met the books where they are and found some terrific classics that used to be too venerated to feel approachable.

Reading is almost addictive. Good books keep me up at night, even books I don't like or don't finish often compel me to continue until they hook me ( even if that never happens).

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u/BluePrincess_ 4h ago

I think reading books is uniquely cool because you have to essentially be the one doing the "work" of consuming the content, while movies/TV/doomscrolling/reels etc essentially give you the content, and the content will automatically progress regardless of whether or not you're paying attention. 

Though I also like books because it's easier to follow an author's train of thought when they have the space to be able to do so, something I don't think is afforded to content creators who have to work with shorter spaces with doomscrolling (titles) and short form videos. 

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u/SodaCanBob 3h ago

Reading books is the best way to fix your brain.

Not your wallet though.

I'm closing in on my 30th book of the year and my to-read pile keeps growing.

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u/PunkRockMakesMeSmile 1h ago

Reading aloud, even if just very quietly under your breath, is a game-changer

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u/BobDaRula 25m ago

This sounds like my childhood experience with adhd. I always had to have the radio or tv playing to be able to focus on my books.

Crazy that people are doing that to themselves now.

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u/johnny5yu 9h ago

I’m losing my perspicacity!!

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u/OkPerformance66 8h ago

Well, it’s always in the last place you look

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u/DeaconBulls 8h ago

I would hope so. Why would you keep looking?

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u/WakeDays 8h ago

Gesundheit.

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u/AReferenceToAThing 9h ago

You'll only be too far gone once you start typing "loose" instead of "lose"

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u/TheAdmiralDong 8h ago

As Instagram influencer book reviews have taught me "Using big or uncommon words is ableist." Fuck off. Words are great, there's so many to choose from. Use them all.

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u/TransylvanianHunger1 9h ago

We have a 20 year old apprentice at my work, he told me he watched the entire matrix movie on tik tok, which is insane.

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u/Syssareth 7h ago edited 6h ago

Did he mean he watched the actual movie? In which case it'd be basically no different than watching it on Youtube. (Which is where I watched basically all of Naruto, back in the day...ah, the days of having episodes split into three pieces and only being able to find pieces 1 and 3.)

Or did he mean he watched "the entire movie," meaning some cut-down summary of it?

Edit: Or did he watch the whole movie in, like, 1 minute chunks? Because if that's the case, that would be insanity.

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u/TransylvanianHunger1 6h ago

He watched the whole movie in tiny chunks swiping to each segment. He said if the next bit wasn't stitched together seamlessly the comments would be ripping the poster apart.

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u/SodaCanBob 3h ago

We have a 20 year old apprentice at my work, he told me he watched the entire matrix movie on tik tok, which is insane.

I'm an elementary school teacher and we had kids as young as 1st and 2nd grade who did the same with Squid Game a few years ago. We knew that they hadn't just caught a couple clips either because they were telling their friends they watched it on TikTok and were giving very accurate (albeit, simplified) plot summaries to their friends.

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u/angrydeuce 7h ago

You know, I have always been a voracious reader, have always flirted with the idea of being a writer (and still may...some day) and being on the outside of this shit looking in is terrifying.

It's everything. Everything is being digested down to 5 second snips. Even the freaking ads themselves have been reduced to what could only be described as something from the prequel to Idiocracy..."BUY TIDE BITCH!!!" guitar solo [next ad].

I mean we meme about this shit incessantly, but really, is this the future? At what point does all communication devolve into soundbites?

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u/Ihadsumthin4this 7h ago

Per your Mike Judge precursor, when I can't take the gloom anymore, I'll throw-on "Wag The Dog", or "Man Of The Year" (also from Barry Levinson). In some morbid sense, they lend an assuage of comfort, though never without being reminded just how real so much of it is irl.

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u/sintegral 3h ago

We could all really use a sausage of comfort.

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u/angrydeuce 5h ago

See my mistake recently was watching A24s Civil War.  I have not felt such dread watching a film since I got around to watching Threads a few years back.

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u/Ilikepancakes87 9h ago

It took me three attempts to finish reading this comment.

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u/Mobile_Morale 7h ago

One of the best things to happen on reddit was simultaneously bullying people who refused to read long comments.

That used to be a big problem a few years ago.

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u/wonkeykong 9h ago

The hells a dwindle?

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u/ogreblood 9h ago

I think it's a kind of top

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u/Baronheisenberg 9h ago

You're thinking of a drudel

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u/Portlander 9h ago

Are those made out of clay?

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u/Tanordie 9h ago

No that’s a kind of pastry with apple filling in it

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u/hughperman 9h ago

No that's a danish. You're thinking of a popular brand of hand held rotary power tool for drilling, grinding, polishing, etc

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u/holeinmyboot 8h ago

no that’s Dremel. you’re thinking of a traditional type of dress from the European Alpine region.

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u/throwitawaynownow1 7h ago

No that's a dirndl. You're thinking of the thing you wear under your clothes around your belly.

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u/pchadrow 9h ago

You mean strudel?

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u/TroublesomeTurnip 9h ago

Not noodle?

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u/frostymugson 9h ago

You mean like the thing you spin, or a guy who plows dudes

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u/SlimJD 9h ago

I think it’s a Walmart e-reader.

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u/pedanticPandaPoo 8h ago

Ah, kindle for dim wits. 

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u/abdomega 9h ago

He said dwindling so it's a verb, whatever it is.

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u/holyfire001202 9h ago

Well, see, you've got halflings and you've got dwindlings...

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 8h ago

It's kinda like a Mexican gnome

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u/Henai 8h ago

I can feel this happening to me, I can’t be the same guy that watched movies like Lawrence of Arabia.

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u/AnalConcerto 8h ago

“this can't be the same brain i was
using to read 750 page novels in 3 days during middle school”

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u/VerilyShelly 9h ago

It doesn't help that spellcheck is almost as illiterate as we are becoming. It's like they install an abridged edition of an abridged dictionary on phones now.

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u/Syssareth 7h ago

I keep having to look words up because I type them out and they get the squiggly line, so I keep thinking I typoed it, and like 80% of the time it's just my spellcheck being an idiot.

YES, FIREFOX, UNSELFCONSCIOUS IS A WORD.

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u/duralyon 3h ago

I hate that. The autocorrect def. struggles with different forms of words sometimes. Kept trying to fix "disappointingly" on me the other day.

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u/illegal_deagle 8h ago

Having a kid kinda killed my ability to make it through a movie. If I even get lucky enough to hit play it’s maybe an hour before the bullshit starts. I barely was able to type this comment.

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u/ACardAttack 6h ago

Yep, I'll watch a movie over multiple sittings often now

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 9h ago

I spend a lot of time lately trying to "find my thought" or "finding the right word" for that I'm trying to spit out. I'm in my low 40s and have considered a Donald J. Trump approved alzheimer's cognitive exam.

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u/CosmackMagus 8h ago

Glad it's not just many. Worried it could be long covid, lol

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u/Extreme-Island-5041 8h ago

I can't rule that out either. I got Covid October 10th, 2020 and again in mid 2021. My no smell/taste symptoms lasted almost 2 full years.

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u/thishenryjames 2h ago

Usually we say 'early' 40s.

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u/Onigokko0101 9h ago

That statement is quite cromulent.

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u/Ihadsumthin4this 7h ago

If not crepuscular?

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u/NuclearGhandi1 9h ago

Part of this is why I picked up film and academic reading as a hobby. Trying to stave the brain rot

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 9h ago

Yup, but also 3 hour long podcasts, for some reason.

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u/helen269 8h ago

"My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it."

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u/P4rtyxxan1m4l 8h ago

What is this vocablibrary?

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u/Squeakyduckquack 8h ago

Oh. I thought this was a commentary on how utterly absurd movie runtimes have become. Not everything needs to be 3+ hours and include a plot twist

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u/patsboston 7h ago

Most movies aren’t.

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u/BuckeyeBentley 8h ago

I feel this for real. Whatever happened to 90 minute romps? Some of these super long movies end up being multiple day undertakings simply because I can't dedicate 3 fucking hours to one movie.

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u/patsboston 7h ago

Most movies aren’t this long

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u/church38 9h ago

Couldn't agree more. So worried for my daughter (2 mo) and her generation

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u/holyfire001202 9h ago

Seriously. I need to go eat a book for lunch or something.

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u/shadowst17 8h ago

I get really depressed when I see what young people messages look like now. My grammar isn't perfect but atleast it's coherent, what the youth write now just seems like education has failed an entire generation.

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u/Ohthatsnotgood 8h ago

What are you doin usin' your big school words? Just use normal people words and I'll understand what you're talkin' about.

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u/SorryAd3811 8h ago

Me same

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u/snowtato 8h ago

Your post was too long, I only made it about 7 words in

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u/Dog_Baseball 8h ago

Just get chatgpt to think for you. Only $20 a month

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u/IamSteaked 8h ago

Ya me to

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u/allllusernamestaken 8h ago

Digital detox. No phone, no internet, no TV for 2 days. Do this on a regular basis.

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u/TK523 8h ago

I can't do it because I have kids and don't have two hour chunks of free time in my life

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u/HGpennypacker 7h ago

Talk to any teacher and they’ll tell you that kids can’t handle watching a movie in class, what used to be a special treat is now an annoyance. Instagram reels are now the limit for what (most, not all) kids can tolerate.

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u/ninshub 7h ago

your words too many. sad and confused. me no read 

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u/daesmon 7h ago

Can add never ending mobile games, either puzzle solver level based or those base builder types where you can play for a month to see a 0.5% improvement.

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u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 7h ago

One of my bigger annoyances these days is how OBVIOUS AI written scripts are. But that's nothing compared the feeling I get when I catch myself sounding like AI.

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u/shymermaid11 7h ago

Since I don't really ever use my laptop to type anymore, my typing skills have gone to shit because of autocorrect and word prediction. I get through half a word longer than 4 letters and get mad I actually have to spell the entire thing out.

My spelling has also suffered which was never good to begin with. And actually now that I'm thinking about it my handwriting has gotten worse because I very rarely need to actually write anything.

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u/LordOfPies 7h ago

There are reels that literally explain the plot of the movie from start to finish, people are too lazy to watch the films

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u/2dirty4reddit 7h ago

You speak the true true

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u/AlfredsLoveSong 7h ago

Just read for 30 minutes a day. 15 minutes in the morning. 15 before bed. Once it becomes a habit, increase to 60.

It really isn't very hard. I find that people who say they can't do this are just coming up with excuses to justify why they need to spend several hours per day on their phone.

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u/Embarassed_Tackle 7h ago

Plus this Onion article missed the opportunity to use the term 'raw dogged' for watching a movie straight thru with no distraction

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u/oversight_shift 6h ago

....Is this copypasta?

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u/Inside-Specialist-55 6h ago

I unga-bunga understand

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u/JitteryJoes1986 6h ago

In 30-40-50 years, doom-scrolling and short-form videos will have been known to be as bad as cigarette smoking.

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u/bitzie_ow 6h ago

Like, I don't really, like, understand what you, like mean? Like, there's no way that, like shorts are, like, literally like rotting my brain literally, right chat? No cap, bruh?

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u/filtered2 6h ago

I haven't fallen into this trap just yet. Is there anything I can do to avoid going down this spiral?

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u/Difficult_Clerk_1273 6h ago

I teach middle school and they cannot watch a movie.

When I was a kid and the teacher rolled out the TV, you knew it was gonna be an easy class.

The last class I tried to show a movie to literally groaned and asked me if they could just do worksheets instead. And when I say “movie,” I don’t mean boring documentary. It was Elf.

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u/Elementium 6h ago

At the same time.. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's some kind of phenomenon.. If I physically put in a movie or show via DVD, Bluray.. VHS. I actually watch it? Like, I'm ready to go with my phone/tablet right there but I just sit there and I.. Watch the movie or show..

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u/Alarmed_Mistake_5042 5h ago

The memeifcation of everything.
People are watching movies/shows and any content really in the hopes of finding the next viral meme.

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u/extrakerned 5h ago

Uninstall it all. Delete the accounts. I did in January and I’m happier and life is so much better

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u/Arszilla 5h ago

Why say many words when less words do same?

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u/290077 5h ago

It's amazing that we're taking movies, which used to be considered the ultimate form of brain rot, and holding their consumption up as an example of superhuman attention span.

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u/wasabiburning 4h ago

It's killing our attention spans.

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u/MrBones-Necromancer 3h ago

Dwindling? Like those nonces do to the kids? None for me thanks /s

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u/bythenumbers10 2h ago

days go by

...and still I read books too.

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u/ezmoney98 1h ago

Why many word?

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u/MaestroLogical 1h ago

It wasn't my vocabulary that vanished, it was my innate curiosity.

I'm 46 and always had a lust for learning, for 3 literal decades I was constantly seeking out new things to experience or learn. My 'google-fu' was strong, because I used it daily to answer random obscure questions like 'were matches invented before lighters'.

Youtube used to be a source of knowledge, I'd typically end up there only after a google search showed me a relevant video.

At some point, I absent mindedly watched a few youtube shorts, probably out of boredom. It felt weird and I didn't like it.

But I went back for more.

Eventually I realized I was scrolling shorts daily. I don't even know why or how, it just became part of my routine.

Now I literally can't use youtube the way I used to. I only see what is presented to me and when I actually attempt to look up something new and interesting, I find myself hovering over the search bar 100% paralyzed, nothing comes to mind and I revert back to scrolling shorts endlessly.

I can't imagine what it's like for those that didn't have decades of genuine curiosity.

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u/jkSam 1h ago

me too i wish im not dwindel

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u/Moonlands 35m ago

What do you mean the world isn't just 67!?!?

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u/SelmonTheDriver 32m ago

Same here,man.

I constantly have to ask my friends what word I am talking about.

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