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I miss the rains down in Africa.

Such a beautiful idea; after a long, parched stretch of time where you aren't sure if your water supply will last you long enough to survive, the sky opens up and the rains finally fall. Your saved!

What the heck does blessing the rains do? Extra damage against the undead?

I used to play an MMO called Shards of Dalaya that was a modified EverQuest. Anyway, Felwithe, the High Elf town, was named Athica in it and there was a server event where there was a raid there. One of the comments in chat was "I bless the raids down in Athica." Always thought that was clever.

I always heard: "I got some reins down in Africa."

Edit: lol, I still hear it.

Revved up like a douche...

I mean, that's just objectively what he says.

I’d like to say this to singers…

No, maybe you wrote this in your lyrics sheet and planned to say it. But…what you actually said in the song was…

I remember being in a hotel once, and scrolling through channels and saw a concert channel playing a Bruce Springsteen show. And he's sitting at the piano doing a little monologue about the song, and he doesn't say douche, but refers to a cover (the Manfred Mann version) and it using "feminine products" instead of deuce, which is what he wrote.

I don't know what Manfred said, but even the Boss thinks he said douche.

So Bruce Springsteen wrote the original version of "Blinded By the Light". But Manfred Mann's version was the one that was a huge hit. And Mann's version does say "wrapped up like a douche" (versus Springsteen saying "revved up like a duce").

I saw an interview with Springsteen where he speculated that was the biggest writing mistake he'd made. If only he'd said "wrapped up like a douche", maybe his version would have sold better.

Find anime with good english subtitles.
Find anime in better qualy.
New sub sucks.

I usually download raws with fansubs to circumvent this.

Where?

subsplease dot org

they essentially strip the official subtitles of any fuckery or mistranslations rather than reworking from the ground up, so its more like a hybrid of official and fan subtitles. HorribleSubs did this for many years before them, so a lot of their work is out there too.

Basically the original Cave Story fan translation versus the official one done for Cave Story+.

Saw this with the DnD5e translation. The fan work was leagues better than the official thing

subs suck. Dubs rule

Voice actors in dubs are usually worse than the original VAs

Unless you speak the language they original VAs are speaking: How would you even know if they're doing it good?

I actually kinda like that, because when the VAs are being cringy and shitty, I can't tell. All I get is the emotion of the delivery.

And in the past, very passionate or emotional performances were really cringy in English, so I would prefer listening to the original VAs for the delivery of emotion and tone, and read the subs for the meaning.

Exactly. I don't care whether I understand it or not (I do understand some words and phrases as you learn slowly by hearing the same word(s) over and over again), the tone and the emotions the original VAs have are rare to be seen in the dubs.

I'm reaching a point where I'm exclusively watching dubbed. It's gotten better in the past decade now that anime companies have a bigger budget to hire better trained voice actors.

Frieren and Delicious in Dungeon English VAs are amazingly spot on.

Depends on anime and country. English dubs just sound off in nearly everything to my non-native ears. Brazilian dubs, on the other hand, often hit a good spot, but that could be nostalgia and/or bias. Portuguese dubs, on the other hand... Dear lord, just no.

That used to be the norm, but many newer anime (and older popular ones) have great dub VA talent.

The original VAs dont speak my language. Why even have sound if I'm not going to understand what they say.

Dirty deeds done with sheep's

Excuse me while I kiss this guy. 🎶

Wow I have fully embodied the meme after reading this

Now that just reminds me of a blast from the past.

Holy shit it still exists! I remember looking on this website around 2001/2. Fuck that really makes me feel old.

I always heard the lyrics to Cake’s I want a girl as “ I want a girl with the right eye locations”. Seems reasonable enough, nobody wants to date Sloth from the Goonies. And then one day a girl I was talking to told me it was “the right allocations” like measurements, and I’m not sure if I’ve ever felt dumber.

Short Skirt / Long Jacket

Great song whose music video includes some beautiful shots of early 2000s Sacramento (where they're from), including local news anchorwoman Dierdre Fitzpatrick when she was an in-the-field reporter!

I always sing it "I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooong mustache"

i mean, they're kinda the same thing, tbh.

I heard it as 'aisle locations' which seemed to kinda fit the corporate success stuff.

Thats cause they are an interpretation of your own subconscious rather then the pop verse of the writer.

In some cases yes, but in some the misheard lyrics are actual better

I heard "carved my name into his legacy" instead of "leather seats" in Before He Cheats.

Liked the idea that the truck was this bozos legacy. Considering the line prior is "I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up four wheel drive" - I thought she keyed her name into the side and that sounded awesome.

Yeah! That was so metal! It also made me think she keyed her name into the side of the truck, which would be much more visible.

"I've met a man with too many faces" sounds like three times cooler than "I'm not a man of too many faces".

I'm here / to remind you / of the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me.

(I used to think the line was about her ex refusing to return to her a teddy bear that he apparently gave her as a gift. Which rather fits with the song's theme and just seems dickish and spiteful on the ex's part.)

i misheard lady gaga’s bad romance the first few times. “want you in my rear window, baby, you're sick;” came across to me as “while in morrowind, your baby is sick.” thought it was a commentary of some sorts lmao.

It's the ash storms, babies drop like flies in that kind of weather. Probably why you don't see any kids in Vvardenfell is because they get stored away somewhere keep them safe from ash, blight, and disease carrying imperials

How old do you think Dunmer are before they get the face wrinkles? Maybe they hide their infants because they all look like charcoal raisins?

They do look the way they do because the Tribunal are assholes who got them all cursed. So I like it, they've made peace with their faces but never the shame of having super ugly babies so they all get hidden away

I really, truly used to think Billy Jean is not my daughter, she's just a chair.

Don’t go chasing waterfalls, stick to the rivers and “straits” your used to

Which makes so much more sense. Why would you say "lakes". You already said river, which is a moving body of water. Why are we changing it from a moving body of water to a non-moving one? Isn't it supposed to be a metaphor for not being able to chase a water fall because it's impossible. But you can follow a strait or river, which is just another progression of life. Lakes have no progress. And yes I consider a passage way for water progression.

Chasing lakes is like super easy mode mb?

🎵 Hold me close now, Tony Danza 🎵

Count the Emmys on your wall!

Lay me down and tell me who's the boss!

I'm sure that Angela will never know!

Going to ruin one for you guys.

One Republic's Too Late to Apologize.

I used to think they said "it's too late for Papa Johns." I have told my friends and family and they can't hear the original lyrics anymore. Every time I hear that song that is what I hear.

There's a bathroom on the right 🎶

I saw a local (Aussie) punk band once and thought they were singing about “titties and cheesecake”, turns out it was “tinnies on tuesday“. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed. They were perhaps more disappointed when I told them in the beer garden after the show. I still wish for titties and cheesecake.

In that one Macklemore song. For a long while I thought he was singing “So we put our hands up like the silly can holders” instead of “like the ceiling can’t hold us”

My daughter is a Swifty, so I hear a lot of her music. I still can't hear anything other than "Starbucks lovers".

Wait, wtf does that song actually say? I thought it was Starbucks Lovers

It's actually "got a long list of ex-lovers”.

Also in googling this I also discovered she does not scream "HE LOOKS SO PRETTY LIKE A DEVIL" either.

"Blitzkrieg Bop" always sounded to me like "let's get fucked" for some reason

So that's the real lyrics. Never looked them up but it definitely sounded like "let's get fucked" to me too

Instead of "I showed my faith to the man in charge" its "I showed my feet to the man in charge", I like my version way better.

I wish i could turn back time, to the good dope days, something something, but now we’re stressed out

"I just want to set the world on fire"

I thought Austin was a song about two lesbians cuz I thought this was the lyrics: "Did your boobs stop working, did your truck break down?"

I was so disappointed when I learned the actual ones hahaha

Turn the page: “On a long and lonely roadway,

East of my heart”

I thought it sounded more poetic that east of Omaha.

Baby, you got somethin' on your nose 💩
Sniffin' that cake🍑, did you feel the hole?

"She needs him, that's why she'll be back again" is much better than "she feeds him"

Superchunk has a song called hyper enough and I think the first verse ends with "lofter gusts" but it sounds like he's saying "laughter guns" to me and many others. So much so the band made an EP with the title. Features a college radio show doing a deep dive on the subject.

We mishear what we want the lyrics to be deep inside...... Can't hate yourself right 😅

It just takes some time.

Elephant!

A little bit of after rhyme

Elephant! Elephant!

It will be alright.

Elephant. Elephant. Even if it lasts all night.

Alright!

Nobody can take that feeling away from me!

All the tacos you could have picked, strumming softly to sheet music 🎶

Mastodon - Show yourself

"Start a line.

Stars align.

Stars can fall and get you into trouble."

==== Is actually===

"Stars align

Stars align

Stars will fall and get you into trouble"

Should I give up?

Or should I just keep chasin' penguins?

Chase the penguins. Cease the day. That's what I say, because I'm the coked up personality.

"The only man who could ever breach me..."

Was the son of a breacher man.

Clearly it ran in the family.

When I first heard Foghat's "Slow Ride" I thought they were saying "Snow White / take it easy!" Which made a lot of sense to college me --- this Snow White vixen is really getting down to business...

HUEVOS CON ACEITE

HUEVOS, CON ACEITE

HUEVOS CON ACEITE

Y LIMOOOOOOONNNN

Help me bowl of rice Polarize

I've always heard "I wanna be sedated" as "I gotta pee so bad"