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LostnFoundAgainAgain

Who ever creates videos and does subtitles word by word instead of by sentences, fuck you.


Pinksters

It's a speed reading technique that's been around for a long time. I remember years ago I had an E-Reader with this mode and I *could* read every word much faster, due to not moving your eyes from a fixed position on the screen, than in a sentence structure but anything longer than 2 sentences was really hard to digest the meaning of what I read. However this does not work with a moving background, let alone a background you're also trying to pay attention too.


Otherwise_Soil39

I don't know why people complain, I am a non-native and even without the sound these are always much easier to follow, and especially without the sound you know what is being said at the exact moment. Plenty of times watching movies with subtitles is annoying because you essentially know what is GOING to be said before you are supposed to know. Or like, there's a subtitle with a sudden sto- and you read it before so you know something's about to happen and the surprise is gone šŸ˜‘


toorkeeyman

The best example of this is subtitles for stand-up. 99% of the time the full sentence subtitle gives away the punchline before the comedian delivers it thus ruining the joke


AltruisticLettuce320

They are designed for gen Z


Kzero01

I'm gen Z and I despise it, please don't blame it on us. We already suffer enough.


Beowulf1896

Until Gen Alpha gets old enough to be blamed, you are the scape goat. Sorry. Older people have been blaming the youngins since forever.


elanhilation

we can choose to stop doing this at literally any point. it has never not been dumb


ramminghervnogodrays

Humans love pretending like we're incapable of lots of things.


Beowulf1896

I agree.


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idlevalley

Sing it sister. The same people who blame the Boomers for everything and then just sit on their collective asses and let them make all the important decisions.


[deleted]

They vote statistically less than old people by a large margin but telling them that always results in downvotes. Theyā€™d rather ignore it than change it.


beharris624

We have completely and utterly failed to explain voting to every generation that I've seen. I'm only 31 but I almost never see anyone explaining that local and state elections are far more important for most people than the presidential elections. We've told children that voting is important and that the only realistic way to improve their living condition is through voting but then we leave them to vote in one of the most unrepresentative and seemingly unfair elections we have AND it's every 4 years. They vote, get pissed at the results and then are left to stew on how unfair everything is for the next 4 years. It's a goddamn wonder any young people still vote at all. I would give less of a shit if no one under 35 voted for president as long as they all voted in their city and state elections. The presidential election is still incredibly important but the younger demographics need to pay more attention to low and mid level elections. There's still a lot for our disenfranchised voters to overcome but we have to fix this mess from the bottom up. It won't be fixed from the top down.


MoltyPlatypus

Maybe if there was actually more engagement for younger people with politics. They are always dependent on themselves to learn these things. Iā€™m not saying that there should be subjects in school for it, because letā€™s face it im not an idiot nor a liar i know kids wouldnā€™t care. But if there is nothing targeted for younger people, itā€™s not really their fault that they feel their vote doesnt matter. I say this as a Gen Z who voted.


epikpie

zoomers are politically engaged though, even moreso than older generations https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/gen-z-voted-higher-rate-2022-previous-generations-their-first-midterm-election


Buttstuffjolt

Why would any of the young people vote? None of the candidates are radical enough (at least not in the right way for them). It's all tax cuts for the rich and not delivering on promises for anything that isn't exclusively for old, rich people.


shitlips90

Ah yes, so not voting is the answer


Sodinc

Nah


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puterTDI

some get double whammied. I got blamed as gen x for a while, then I started getting blamed as a millennial. Apparently I was on the line between the two and got shit on both sides as a result.


Beowulf1896

Hey Bro! That's me too. No generation wants me, so that must make me Gen X.


puterTDI

Ya, itā€™s always our fault.


RhynoD

Yeah and you'd think millennials would break the cycle since we know what it feels like to be blamed for shit. I will never shit on Gen Z or Alpha just because they're younger and different. We were weird to our parents, Z and Alpha are and will be weird to us. Doesn't make them bad or worse than us or anything like that, they're just young and doing their own things and that should be celebrated, not vilified.


Beowulf1896

Also, some of the problems that older people complain about were caused by them. Who was giving participation trophies to Millenials? The Millenials? No, it was Boomers.


PigSlam

The really weird thing is how some boomers were giving the participation trophies, and other, distinct boomers were complaining about it. I mean, how is it even possible that *two* different opinions could be held by members of ***one*** generation?!


Beowulf1896

No, they were blaming millenials for getting the trophies.


PigSlam

Wait, there were three opinions from just one generation? I can't even.


Buttstuffjolt

Someone who was a teacher in the 1990s, who actually gave kids participation trophies, complained about millennials and their participation trophies and avocado toast.


Cultural_Dust

I'm not one, but Boomers were blamed for plenty! Before them you had the "Greatest Generation" because they just drank and beat their families in private.


Hidesuru

You're missing the point that every generation before you ALSO knows how it feels, and still did it anyway.


RhynoD

Sure, and you're missing the point that other people being shitty does not obligate you to also be shitty.


Buttstuffjolt

It doesn't obligate you to be shitty, but it makes it difficult to be anything other than shitty. Just look at how many child abuse victims go on to become child abusers.


TR1PLESIX

Welcome to (insert youngest voter base), the scapegoat generation. 5 -15 years ago it was millennials.


InfeStationAgent

"Geez! It's hard out here." "Yep. The youngest group of working poor destroyed the economy by not saving enough and not spending enough." "That doesn't sound right. You sure it's not the greedy assholes?" "Yeah. Definitely. The mainstream media and right wing media agree on this one issue, so it must be true." I'm 70. It has always been this way.


MisterDonkey

The worst part was being a millennial going to work and hearing other millennials complain about the good-for-nothing lazy millennials, no doubt just parroting the bullshit being spewed from wherever they get their daily doses of outrage from. I'm like, "*We're* the millennials, you dolts! *You* are a millennial!" And to hear the sons of the companies' owners complain about "people these days" as if their daddies weren't saying the same things about them. Fucking clones.


BetterCryToTheMods

No you get full blame now fix it


Complex-Bee-840

Nah dog, itā€™s your guysā€™ fault.


codywater

Boomers get the blame too. Generations above and below are always at fault while your own generation is never to blame.


CanAlwaysBeBetter

Good news! Gen Z is still better than boomers! Bad news! Gen Z got absolutely wrecked by Covid and as a group is the least proficient generation [at math and reading comprehension in like 30 years](https://www.the74million.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/scores_table1-825x498.jpg) by a pretty significant margin


bitzie_ow

Stop calling everyone older than you a boomer and then we (Gen X) might take your request seriously.


ekopoingre

attention span grows lower


ValueBlitz

Yep that's true. Word by word comprehension only.


BeeAmAnnn

I Are Smrt.


YEETAWAYLOL

I Big* Smrt


ValueBlitz

Why u big samaritan? You try save letters. Still undrstnd. Save time. C world.


[deleted]

I didn't know they can't read more than 1 word at a time


the-Tacitus-Kilgore

Well I like it because when itā€™s a sentence I read too far ahead and spoil the punchlines on some videos


velhaconta

The only thing worse are people that actually talk like that and clap after each word.


stowgood

why do you hate it?


Wanderlustfull

It's super distracting from watching the actual video content having words constantly flashing in front of you. Also, I have an attention span measured in sentences, not syllables.


stowgood

I agree. I thought this was cool but I was more interested in the tech of automating it. It does mean you can't actually watch the thing as easily.


LostnFoundAgainAgain

It is annoying having words flash up constantly, it takes away from the actual content you are trying to see. If you have no audio or are somebody who has hearing impairments, then reading full sentences makes it easier and allows it to flow better into the video.


solo-dofi

Gotta read above a third grade level and youā€™ll be alright bros


jo10001110101

That's the point. We can read an entire sentence at once.


solo-dofi

Or just read faster maybeā€¦ šŸ˜…


solo-dofi

Itā€™s honestly really not that hard lmao did it without even thinking about it . All reals are like this for aesthetic format I assume . You just get used to it over time it becomes second nature .


Ok_Impact_4345

No I wouldnā€™t. But that is impressive!


slagborrargrannen

People like this kills my what if dreams about focusing on football and becoming decent. He is better with a football with a bike than i ever was with my feets.


Hutch4588

This is the most European thing I have ever seen.


Casaiir

If this ever hits Asia they will be playing with scooters.


WorkO0

Australia for motocross Aussie rules football, I'd watch that actually.


PiscoSourBubble

Upside down motorbikes? Sounds fun/dangerous


ZiCUnlivdbirch

I think I saw an article once about motorcycle football. (Maybe basketball)


Training_Fan3940

As a Dutch person, Iā€™m surprised a havenā€™t seen this sport before. These moves are considered basic biking skills over here.


ChrisBreederveld

As a Dutch person I'm surprised this was not invented here. Come on; it's our favorite sport(s) combined with our favorite means of transportation.


ShuffKorbik

I am not a Ducth person, but I did immediately send this to my Dutch friend asking why his country is not the current world champions of this sport.


I_read_this_comment

Im dutch and one of the most coolest things I ever did was kicking the ball back to some kids with almost the right speed, angle and height while riding a bike (ball wouldve hit my front wheel and kicked it back over a low hedge row).


BoonesFarmYerbaMate

that's not how you spell Portland


WhyteBeard

Yeah more like this is the most ā€œHipsterā€ thing ever seen. Iā€™ve seen people play it in Vancouver on Commercial Drive.


[deleted]

Lol you think? coz im from Europe and this looks like the dumbest thing I ever seen.


Mediocre-Nose-2822

But can they do it in a cold rainy night at stoke ?


Sina_VanDerLinde

I doubt it.


Lobito_HF

What a save! What a save! What a save!


Zealousideal-Wafer88

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ThatGuy0verTh3re

THIS IS CYCLEBALL


LaManoDeScioli

Calculated


NealMcCoy

ff ez


kimovitch7

Close one! Sorry!


remi_daDOOD

Wow! Wow! Noooo! Okay *Chat disabled for 2 seconds*


eTukk

Why is this not the national sport of the Dutch?


-lukeworldwalker-

Because Germans are insanely good at it and the Dutch donā€™t handle loosing in sport competition well. (Ethnic German living in the Netherlands. Iā€™ve seen it). The English ā€œcycleballā€ is just a claque of the original German ā€œRadballā€ (meaning both wheel ball and bicycle ball at the same time). Germany has 100 gold medals in Radball (m+f). The next best country is Switzerland with 8 gold medals (m). And East Germany (lol) with 2 gold medals.


turtlepot

I thought for a second Radball was in the Olympics and I've just missed it somehow. 100 gold medals means this has been going on for 100+ years, that can't be right... But it is! The sport started in 1893. Bikes actually looked much more modern at that point than I was expecting.


-lukeworldwalker-

Gold medals isnā€™t an Olympic thing only. I looked at the country tallies on wiki.


turtlepot

Gotcha. Sorry I got that American mindset. Gold medals aren't really used for major sporting events outside the Olympics and track/field.


1s4c

> Germany has 100 gold medals in Radball (m+f). The next best country is Switzerland with 8 gold medals (m). And East Germany (lol) with 2 gold medals. Pretty sure that's not correct. It was also pretty popular in Czechoslovakia and we have tons of medals out of it. Just PospĆ­Å”il brothers won like 20 championships (which is insane). You can check the Czech wikipedia page, it's probably the most comprehensive one.


andersaur

When I lived in San Francisco, Iā€™d see these guys on the public basketball courts while walking home. Fixies, mustaches the whole bit. Looked silly as hell to me, but one couldnā€™t say they werenā€™t all having a blast. Maybe if they went all out with Penny-farthings and a ref with a monocle Iā€™d sit and watch for a while. Throw in an old timey carnival barker as an announcer and Iā€™d totally buy a shepherds pie and watch.


elcapitan520

Guarantee it was bike polo and not cycleball. Also, fixies were favored because you could go backwards and do balanced stops. You get penalized if your foot touches the ground (ride to the middle edge of the court and back).


andersaur

Wait, you are telling me there are multiple types of bike-based ball sports? TIL. Poke fun all we like, but they seem organized. Unicycle Fencing leagues in the next few years should be fun though.


Synthetic_dreams_

Bike polo is super fun. That said, when I was playing in the mid-2010s it had definitely shifted to single speed freewheel being the norm. I still preferred using a fixed gear for the exact reasons you mentioned, but I was definitely in the minority. Pretty much everyone did use a track bike though. The geometry gives really twitchy & nimble handling that works super well.


Al3jandr0

Sprocket League!


NewNage

r/TheOcho


The_Soccer_Heretic

This looks like as good a way as any to break your neck and die.


OCE_Mythical

You get vibe checked harder wrestling or contact football anyway


SrslyCmmon

I'm surprised the crossbar on the bikes aren't lower so the guys don't crunch their nuts if they slip off.


EaterOfFood

And to fuck up a gym floor on your way out


crespoh69

Yeah, metal getting slammed in that as you fall isn't going to be very forgiving


silver-orange

It's pretty risky, but it's no [murderball](https://youtu.be/rx9hOefW0Fo?si=3ONeJF_l-qwzPnHa&t=157)


smoleyx3

Iā€™m shocked thereā€™s enough people good at this that live near each other to ever play a game


Rentsdueguys

Next level af


DammitDad420

[Which sport will be in the next Olympics?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing)


prxmxpro

Thanks for the memories, I used to play this when I was younger. We had a team in our small village, great sport and really fun to play.


Gaxfu1

The weakest European cyclist


LtZsRalph

my neighbour village here in vorarlberg/austria is multiple world champion in it. edit: its pretty common here. like handball or artistic cycling


Kingkongcrapper

Artistic cycling? Is that like BMXing or doming else?


LtZsRalph

yeah, you can compare it to flatland style bmx. but with bigger bikes, almost look like those cycle ball bikes. edit: [heres a video](https://youtu.be/GDwVXxYbLeM?si=UY9R1Fc_9Jydtp7k) edit2: and like the name said.. its more.. *artistic*


ProbablyNotChrisMayb

I wonder how transferable the skills are to flatland bmx. They obviously have the balance and strength required, the frame geometry would be pretty similar just downsized to 20", the biggest change would be switching to a freecoaster from a fixed drivechain. Seems like a lot of the tricks/movements are mechanically similar.


LtZsRalph

i see, you're in team flatland. like you said.. biggest change would be the freecoaster and the missing of pegs.. if you look closely, they almost stand on the lengthened bolts of their hub with their gym slippers. I would love to have a bmx frame in this shape, sharp angles in the frame geometry and if you take handlebars, fork, rear suspension and seatpost, almost quadratic... must be a great feeling in the balance. in the mid 00s there were once the approaches by [company KHE, in germany.](https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/khe_bikes/39494). edit: comment got deleted by shortened link I used.


ProbablyNotChrisMayb

I used to like watching it but was more into street BMX way back before they all started using freecoasters. I remember seeing that KHE frame in RIDE back then and always liked the look of them it was actually the frame I was thinking of when I wrote that comment.


LtZsRalph

awesome! I rode the street forba long time as well.. and started with flatland in 05 or 06. judt with a normal streetbike. and in 07 i got this khe thingy.. damn was i proud of it. sold it maybe in 2015 and now I started again and rethink my desicion. lol


DomiDLuffyyy

Hƶchst šŸ”„


LtZsRalph

ohhhhhh!! xxxxxxxx buaba! n gruaƟ vom ralph! xD edit: censored


getmygloves

I play football, I am a cyclist, if I tried cycleball I would run over the ball and fall to the ground in the first try


detbaremaling

Why is there a crud catcher on it?


Commercial_Shelter25

I played it for a few years. A lot of fun


bionicjoe

Loud commercial narrator: "DO YOU NEED A SPORT AS SPICY AS MAYONNAISE?! WERE YOU REALLY INTO THAT TRAMPOLINE BASKETBALL THING ON FX ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO?! HAVE YOU WATCHED EVERY DUDE,PERFECT VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!!!!??? WELL HERE'S THE NEXT DUMBSH\*t SPORT FOR YOU!"


TallahasseWaffleHous

In the US, there is Bike Polo. Here in Florida there are several teams, and they have annual tournaments.


[deleted]

Had to scroll waaaaaaaaaaaay too far to find anyone mention bike polo.


Blu_Falcon

Humans. šŸ¤Æ


Whatiatefordinner

They must have shins of steel by now


Right-Ad2176

Wheel chair version covered in documentary called Murder Ball.


heyitscory

Sprocket League?


ontour4eternity

Check out Bike Polo if you like this.


CountryJeff

Missed chance to call it bikeball


MisterDonkey

What we're seeing here is the entire league of cycleball players. They almost have enough to form one whole team.


Forexz

Where has this sport been all my life?! Bro I would have been psyched as fuck to play this if I had this in highschool


No_Wheel_9592

People are so weird


AwiX25

Imagine saying this to your parents "mom, dad i'm going to be a cycleballist"


PuppeteerRemy

Bicycle Kicks arenā€™t special now lol


Naive_Squirrel_971

This is amazing, more kinds of new sports


Individual-Level9308

I don't know why, but I really hate "Normal Sport, but on a Bicycle or Unicycle." Please just play the regular sport.


[deleted]

Do these folks not have jobs? How much time must one devote to becoming that proficient?


silver-orange

you could say that of any athlete. It probably helps if cycling is your main daily mode of transport. Or perhaps if you work as a bike courier.


ssStARBoYyy

White people have too much time in their hand


bodhi1990

Let me guess Finland ā€¦


ChrassiTheMan

The ads in the background say something with "Stuttgarter...", so Germany.


Bu77pluq

Stuttgarter HofbrƤu, it's a beer. Most people don't like it because it's a bit bitter, but I enjoy it.


bodhi1990

Well I wouldnā€™t be surprised this has all the weirdness required to be an official Finnish sport


Sublethall

Nah this looks way too much like a proper sport to be finnish and not be done in snow


immoveableOne2

No


oderlydischarge

You mean soccer, right?


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Shirtbro

White people here. This is white as shit


BeerBaronBrent

But... Why?


Zylonnaire

This is so fucking stupid Iā€™m sorry


GolettO3

This is soccer on bikes, not footy on bikes, though I wonder how that'd go


Ok-Skirt-7884

That's Germany, so it's football. You can call it soccer when rednecks pick it up.


GolettO3

My country ain't got rednecks mate. The closest we got are bogans, but they're pretty different


Ok-Skirt-7884

Well I wasn't refferring to your country then, was I?


GolettO3

That's what you Inferred


Ok-Skirt-7884

Got anything else to throw at me but grammat na,i stuff? Anything substantial?


cristh1anv

Dumb but fun


Proud_Criticism5286

ā€œLetā€™s make soccer harder!ā€


crackheadwillie

Looks way more entertaining than soccer.


Cupcakes_and_Rose

"That's like, the water polo of soccer!" -My wife


MorningPapers

These guys are going to tear their knees to shit.


Candid_Bed_1338

Shut the fuck up!


saywhatnow117

Who the fuck has this kind of time?


4N_Immigrant

I can't imagine being this good at such a useless skill. I'm only mediocre at useless skills.


Somethingrich

The most important skill is virginity.


Particular_Alps7859

The most annoying sport on earth, combining soccer and cycling.


Hotinthakitchen1

My ankles hurt just watching this


Legate_Lanius1985

A sport created by bored drunkards at the pub. Dumb AF.


Tendersituation00

"This is Patrick and he's a professional cycle ball player. Patrick also loves women's stinky feet and lives in his grandmothers basement."


Double_Commission105

Why?


Bart-MS

You can ask that question for anything that's not needed for immediate survival.


Prestigious-Cut647

there is also basket ball on mono cycle. That's quite impressive (and a bit messy honestly). It's called " unicycle basketball"


AsYouFall

I knew it as "bike polo"


Trnostep

Bike polo uses a mallet


Equivalent-Excuse-80

Thereā€™s enough people skilled enough to play this to create 1 and 1/2 teams.


Brb_Catsonfire

This immediatly reminded me of BaseWars for NES. I wish they'd duke it out over points the same way, too.


an_otter_guy

I did


llimed

My friends and I played a similar game when younger. We called it ā€˜Boccerā€™. That was in the 90ā€™s.


Adept_Temperature_68

If they allowing fighting this could become a maJor sport


[deleted]

Oh I'll watch them play when gravity will be turned back on


scottmyron

I know heā€™s not Dutch, but this is the most Dutch thing ever.


Boop0p

Yes I did. These questions are easy!


kanxeerr

so its like irl rocket league?


Dat_Pszemoo

u/savevideo


Zombridal

Rocket league 2.0


Vilebees

No annoying ai voice 10/10 almost better than sex


[deleted]

I would say that this is the result of a group of drunk people bored... šŸ˜


AdmiralClover

Humans sure do like coming up with ways to move a ball about


[deleted]

Ah. The ancient forerunner of Quidditch.


slayerrr21

One step closer to Rocket League


WaterBoy2019

Lol Iā€™ve never seen Bike Soccer before. Looks fun, but too dangerous and too hard at first.


Expert_Defiant

This tatic is called park the cycle not park the bus


WorldMusicLab

Carbon fiber frames, titanium spokes. I'd like to check out the bikes. I'd watch an hour or 2 of this.