[HN Gopher] Time to Run and Pee during a movie so you don't miss...
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Time to Run and Pee during a movie so you don't miss the best
scenes
Author : WayToDoor
Score : 55 points
Date : 2022-10-25 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| lupire wrote:
| Aka Intermission.
|
| Or Interpission.
| pvaldes wrote:
| Required Pission impissible category for the more accelerated
| and hardest films.
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Interpission is good, but scientists are still trying to
| achieve the holy grail of interpusion.
| shepherdjerred wrote:
| We're only 10 years away
| dmitriid wrote:
| In Turkey cinemas used to have intermissions for every movie.
| Even in early 2000s. I don't know if it's still the case.
| Jackpillar wrote:
| Random but this app was founded by ex-NFL quarterback Carson
| Palmer's brother Jordan.
|
| Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie which
| should be immediate jail time across the board.
| avree wrote:
| Covered in their marketing copy: "Built in Timer so you can
| enjoy using the RunPee app during a movie without disturbing
| those around you."
| fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
| >Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie
| which should be immediate jail time across the board
|
| Not true! The app has cues that you can read ahead of time. Eg:
|
| > Bob says "I didn't know you were French!"
|
| When you hear Bob say that, there's your chance to go.
|
| The app will give roughly 3 cues per movie, about 15 to 30 mins
| apart, so you have multiple chances.
|
| Also, apparently you can set it to go off with a timer,
| although I haven't used that feature. On iPhones you can allow
| specific apps notify even when you're on Do Not Disturb, which
| would probably be useful in this case.
| ryukafalz wrote:
| > Also still requires you to check your phone during a movie
|
| Unless you use a smartwatch.
| carrotcarrot wrote:
| That's just a tiny phone on your wrist. If anything it's
| worse because you have it out during the entire movie.
| dylan604 wrote:
| mine has a theater mode specifically for this. yours
| doesn't? sounds like you "chose poorly" to quite the movie.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| A live sports version of this app, predicated on the likelihood
| of a big play coming up, would be fun.
| jdminhbg wrote:
| It would be fun to think about predictive upcoming down/ad
| time. For example, one of the worst offenders in live sports
| is the ad break-kickoff-ad break sequence in an NFL game. If
| you could predict based on how many ad breaks have already
| happened whether such a thing was about to take place, you
| could get buzzed right after a touchdown: "hey, you're about
| to get 6 minutes where nothing happens but a touchback, you
| can take a bathroom break plus refill your drink."
| nikanj wrote:
| Or check it beforehand, and remember when you can go pee?
| makeset wrote:
| Start the timer on the beginning cue and it will vibrate at pee
| times.
| nonameiguess wrote:
| Jordan Palmer is also an ex-NFL quarterback. He never started,
| wasn't that good, didn't last long, and only had 18 career
| passing attempts, certainly no Carson, but he was still a pro.
| Firmwarrior wrote:
| It's pretty funny that he probably looks bad in context, but
| if he showed up to a non-NFL match he'd be hilariously better
| than everyone there
|
| I think about that a lot when I'm trudging through the muck
| on forums, especially TeamBlind. There are kids in their 20s
| getting burned out at Amazon who'd be able to singlehandedly
| revolutionize the engineering processes at most normal
| companies in the world.
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| Thor: Love and Thunder - Feel free to run and pee whenever you
| want.
| mikestew wrote:
| My wife rented it for the plane on a solo trip. She got back,
| but the Apple TV progress bar in "Watch Now" indicated she'd
| only watched about 30 minutes of it. "Sucked bad", she said,
| "but maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it." We paid for it, I
| like Portman, I like Hemsworth, I liked the previous
| installments. I decided to watch the trailer to see if I wanted
| to watch the whole thing.
|
| I _just_ barely made it to the end of the trailer. I can only
| imagine the steaming pile that was the whole movie.
| all2 wrote:
| This makes me sad. Thor: Ragnorak was hysterical and probably
| my favorite Marvel movie so far. Maybe the old adage about
| the third movie being better than the second will hold true.
| tedunangst wrote:
| L&T is the fourth Thor movie. Definitely the worst
| according to Lucas logic.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Really? I thought TPM was the strongest of the prequels;
| AotC was by far the worst.
| all2 wrote:
| The original StarWars trilogy flipped this, too. In my
| mind _Empire Strikes Back_ was literally the best of the
| originals.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| I think there is broad agreement that _Empire_ is the
| best of the originals. The other two trillogies seem to
| have a much wider variety of opinions.
| xupybd wrote:
| I agree it was over the top and expect international audiences
| to hate it. It is saturated with Kiwi humor, thanks to Taika.
| As a Kiwi I got the jokes but found there was too much of it
| for a Marvel movie.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| My wife liked it better than Ragnarok. Nobody else in the
| family rated it better than "mediocre"
| Firmwarrior wrote:
| Man, I'm shocked people didn't like it
|
| It was one of my favorite Marvel movies. I was on the edge of
| my seat and/or laughing uproariously the whole time
|
| I'd say it proves I just don't have any taste, but you'd
| think that applies to anyone intentionally watching comic
| book movies..
| aidenn0 wrote:
| I think that Waititi dialed the silliness up just a bit too
| much for most people. For everyone else, it's probably
| great.
| carabiner wrote:
| Thanks.
| racl101 wrote:
| lol.
|
| Especially the parts with Thor.
| gw99 wrote:
| This is by far the funniest and most accurate thing I've seen
| here. The whole film was absolute garbage.
| [deleted]
| racl101 wrote:
| I forwent popcorn and soda for Avengers Endgame cause I didn't
| wanna get up to go to the bathroom. Just took tiny sips of water
| when my mouth got dry.
|
| Worked like a charm.
| metadat wrote:
| Unless your body is already quite dehydrated, this strategy
| will be hit-or-miss on it's own.
|
| Improvenent is possibe by combining the above with relieving
| yourself immediately before the performance begins.
|
| If you relieve immediately beforehand and can't hold it for 90
| minutes, there is likely a medical issue (e.g. old man,
| pregnant, etc).
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| > If you relieve immediately beforehand and can't hold it for
| 90 minutes, there is likely a medical issue (e.g. old man, or
| pregnant).
|
| Avengers Endgame is 3 hours and 1 minute long.
|
| Some of that is credits, and maybe you should be able to hold
| it for 3 hours anyway, but some people do have medical
| problems. They should still be allowed to enjoy movies.
| robertlagrant wrote:
| > but some people do have medical problems. They should
| still be allowed to enjoy movies.
|
| I never understand statements like this. You're replying to
| someone who already mentioned the former statement, and
| didn't say anything about the latter.
| theonething wrote:
| lack of reading comprehension or comprehension in
| general.
| metadat wrote:
| I wonder why the theaters won't incorporate a 5 minute
| intermission break for movies longer than 2h:20m (140
| minutes, on the higher end for typical films).
| Yizahi wrote:
| When I watched Return of the King in a theater they had
| 10 or 15 min break in the middle, it was the first and
| last time I've seen such arrangement. It would be nice if
| Hollywood finally accepted such format and just went with
| 3-4 hour long movies with a break. Not for all movies of
| course, but at least for the more complex ones. I mean
| not making 2:30 long movie and then just pad it with
| irrelevant, often static scenes for some "Complete Movie
| Of the Year Directors Super Duper Cut Edition" clocking
| at 3:00, but having zero new content as compared to
| theater cut. That's just a dumb trend imho. But instead
| actually plan the story for 3 or 4 hours, with a proper
| increase of storytelling, characters and so on. Just for
| some top AAA movies.
| Firmwarrior wrote:
| My video game clan takes hourly bathroom/stretch breaks,
| since we're all in our 30s and 40s. It's pretty great
| toast0 wrote:
| Intermissions feel dated. But when I saw Ben-Hur at the
| fathom event, boy did I need it!
| mprovost wrote:
| "The length of a film should be directly related to the
| endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock
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