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[Moonface]

I haven't watched this entire thing, but I did see a small clip of it which is what led me to discovering this exists. So there's this really, really bad bootleg version of Star Wars Episode III that has Chinese-to-English subtitles, and someone dubbed the entire thing:



If you don't want to deal with that whole video and just want a brief glimpse of some of the stuff from it, this is the clip I initially saw: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/co...a_pirated/

[Mr EliteL]

Oh, OH it is the entire movie, thought perhaps it would only be dialogue with action and non-dialogue moments cut out so yeah I went with watching the clip version. Ah, direct translation is always brilliant.

[ShiraNoMai]

Obi Wan saying "-sigh- I was old." idk why cracks me up so much

Saw this a week ago and forgot to share. It's wild how accents evolve and differentiate from each other, especially so when you learn that our "southern/country" accent comes from British accents

[Moonface]

I'm watching Food Wars right now and a moment in the episode reminded me of this super old video that @ShiraNoMai had somehow never seen or heard of before which surprised me.

[ShiraNoMai]

Yeah I'm surprised I hadn't either, that video goes pretty hard

[Moonface]

So apparently this blew up on social media recently when someone discovered that in Chile they placed ads within Star Wars because they didn't want to do ad breaks or something like that, and the video above is the result.

It's also what my entry in the Finish The Game Dialogue #5 contest is referring to for anyone who sees that.

[Maniakkid25]

Ah, from the days when Youtube had 240p, and you appreciated that. Seriously, though, this is an epic cover of a difficult song. I already know this song sucks to play on guitar, and I don't want to think about the string skipping sections on a goddamn violin. Hats off to the player, and goddamn does it sound incredible.

[Moonface]

@Maniakkid25: I don't really recall how the original version goes but I could still hear/see how impressive and tough that was just watching his hand that wasn't holding whatever the stick is called.
I wonder whether the guy made a career out of that or not since he never uploaded anything since that video was posted 16 years ago.


Speaking of videos posted a very long time ago, I forget how but I got reminded of this absolutely massive blunder that Channel 5 had in the UK where a particular ad was very poorly placed right after an ad for a Whitney Houston documentary:



I don't think any ad placement in history could be worse than this one is, and somehow the incident isn't mentioned on the Wikipedia pages for either Channel 5 or Wonga.

[Maniakkid25]

That is absolutely terrible juxtaposition, but I think it never made it to Wikipedia because it was a one-off. If that happened repeatedly, then we'd see an entry about it on Wikipedia.

The "stick" is called a bow. And also, you were watching the EASY part! No, seriously, the easy part is the frettings. The hard part is actually hitting the strings, because the song uses a technique called String Skipping, which is exactly what it sounds like: skipping over a string to hit another. But in this case, it goes so fast that, on guitars, you have to use a technique called "Hybrid Picking", where you are both picking and strumming with a finger at the same time. On a violin, though? You can't do shit about that; you're stuck with the bow, have fun! So, the parts like 0:27-0:31 and 0:35-0:45 are UNREASONABLY difficult, I can only imagine, and he makes them look easy!

[ShiraNoMai]

Eric Johnson is a legend, I love Cliffs of Dover. Fantastic violin rendition, holy shit.