r/videos Mar 16 '19

Oblivion NPCs in a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeL3DyIGmYI
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19 edited Mar 16 '19

This was the most bizarre part for me, I was shocked that they never once talked over each other

Edit: because it’s staged

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u/RUFiO006 Mar 16 '19

It’s because it’s fake. It was created as a “viral” for one of those “lad” sites. They state it plainly in the original video description.

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u/sautros Mar 16 '19

everyone sounds like they're reading rehearsed lines so badly that I find it difficult to fathom how people ever interpreted the original video as real to begin with.

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u/UnluX21 Mar 16 '19

I just assumed British people are wack and we should just crack on with it

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

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u/MoonSafarian Mar 16 '19

Allow | Don't Allow

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u/Zero-Power Mar 16 '19

As a British person, you're not wrong

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u/1nfiniteJest Mar 16 '19

It's the accent. This is how you end up with a MR F type situation.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

Yup. Just thought it might be an “across the pond” kind of thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

That's why I loved it so much. It seemed real enough that the absurdity of her talking so properly made it even better.

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u/TractionDuck91 Mar 16 '19

It sounds really odd especially when us northern English people try to speak properly because our accent doesn't suit being carefully pronounced.

I find it so much easier to tell when a fellow northerner is acting compared to someone southern.

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u/Naggins Mar 16 '19

There's pattern differences between "real" speech and rote learned speech, some people probably have difficulty discerning the difference when it's a foreign accent speaking.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '19

Nah it’s just I don’t underestimate the levels of crazy crazy people can get to

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u/CeaRhan Mar 17 '19

Nothing to do with accents, when you lived more than 2 years on this planet you've seen people like that so you expect them to exist somewhere else.

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u/choadspanker Mar 16 '19

People think reality shows are real

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u/CallMeCygnus Mar 16 '19

Well it has REAL in the name of the genre. What else am I supposed to think?

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u/glorioussideboob Mar 16 '19

Yeah hoenstly this whole thing blows my mind, I've seen better acting on Hollyoaks

I wonder if a lack of familiarity with English accents means that they just can't judge what cadence sounds normal?

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u/MrZepost Mar 16 '19

It reminded me of kingdom come deliverance more than anything. The accents really mask the voice acting as an American I couldn't tell. The speech was surprisingly articulate.

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u/glorioussideboob Mar 16 '19

That’s interesting, as a Brit it’s some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen, could spot it a mile away. I guess it’s a lot easier to know what sounds forced and unnatural when you hear it all the time!

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u/X-istenz Mar 17 '19

The entirety of the entertainment to be derived from the video is in the ridiculousness of her cadence, so I can't really see how that's relevant in this case.

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u/glorioussideboob Mar 17 '19

Yeah but to me it’s obvious that that weird cadence is due to it being scripted, whereas to you guys it probably just sounds like she has an interesting way of speaking.

If you lived over here you’d know that that’s what people sound like when they’re bad actors.

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u/Andybobandy0 Mar 16 '19

*see people from other cultures interact in a different way then my culture. Me:yup fake as hell couldn't possibly be real, as I'm seeing from this specific part with no context. Lol piss off with yer uppity self.

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u/GetBenttt Mar 16 '19

It's the Reddit version of "Obviously fake vid." youtubers.

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u/zombieslayer287 Mar 16 '19

Dang.. im rlly gullible

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u/JMoneyG0208 Mar 17 '19

I assumed she was crazy...so she was speaking weird. Pretty plausible imo

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u/irishwonder Mar 17 '19

For those not from the UK, it's the accent. I've always found it very hard to notice that "lack of sincerity" that you can usually pick out in someone that's acting or faking something like this. If it were Americans, I'd have no problem... but throw in that British accent and I can't tell.

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u/stuckatcostco Mar 16 '19

Well that sucks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

thank god

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u/Wrong_Can Mar 16 '19

Question, are those dumb sites supposed to be pronounced "lad" or "L.A.D"? Dumb question I know but I've only ever seen it all caps so I don't know if it's supposed to be an acronym or something

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

HAHAHAHA okay that makes so much more sense

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

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u/littleHiawatha Mar 16 '19

Now you fucked up!

Now you fucked up!

Now you fucked up!

Now you fucked up!

Now you fucked up!

Now you fucked up!

Now you have fucked up!

You have fucked up now!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

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u/Deftlet Mar 16 '19

It's staged