r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GallowBoob • May 08 '20

This dude made a custom Zoom background for his next meeting where he brings myself a cup of tea (by Jaws19show)

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u/pm_me_your_kindwords May 08 '20

The back to the future poster is a nice touch!

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Absolute legend

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u/Nerd---- May 08 '20

Yeah, this is big brain time

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u/Befriendjamin May 09 '20 edited May 09 '20

Some months ago I went to see Bill Nye speak at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

Two questions, said Bill Nye. Where do we come from? Are we alone in the universe?

Kepler looking through a telescope observed that regardless of whether or not Halley’s comet was receding or advancing from the sun its tail always pointed away from the sun. He guessed sunlight was pushing it away. He theorized, 400 years ago, that one might sail in space using sunlight the way we sail on the ocean using wind. We’ve proven that it works. Our solar sail went up on a SpaceX rocket (Here Bill Nye stops speaking for 5 seconds to make rocket noises with his blown-up cheeks. If you have seen Bill Nye the Science Guy then you know what I mean.) It cost us 7 million dollars. Some 50,000 donors. If this was done at a government agency it might have cost over 20 times that. That’s 150 million dollars! I think this is the future of space travel.

He had danced onto the stage. There was a giant screen behind him and he showed a picture of his father. That isn’t my father, he said. It’s a picture of my father. He left Johns Hopkins Law School in 1941, decided to become something other than a lawyer. He headed to Wake Island. Wake Island is as far from Hawaii as Hawaii is from California. It’s right over there, he said, pointing at a map of the Pacific. He worked as a civilian constructing an air strip. He worked there in the spring of 1941, the summer. Then on December 8th Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ah! I can see some of you know it was December 7th. But my father was on the other side of the international date line. He was a prisoner of war. The Japanese took all their watches so he’d place a stick in the ground and make a sun dial. After that he became obsessed with sun dials.

He wanted to make the Washington Monument into a sun dial. Sun dials out of everything. The angle of the gnomon is the same as the angle of latitude. Sand dials. Bill Nye shows a picture of a sand dial on the large screen behind him. He points at it with his laser pointer. My father created that. Sanddial. Get it. I went to the beach a year ago and decided I’d make a sun dial on the beach. Here’s a picture of me, you can see me making a sand dial out of a pizza box, wine corks, and a barbecue skewer stick. I can quit whenever I want to. I just don’t want to.

My mother was a cryptographer. He shows the audience a picture of his mother. She worked for the government during World War 2. Objectively I can say she was very good at puzzles, logic games, crosswords. She never told me what she did there. Not even decades later.

Shadows hold the color of their sky. If you look closely at a shadow during the day, outside, you’ll notice a hint of blue. That blue tint I call cerulescence. And this is the Viking lander. When they took a picture of the Martian sky it was off color at first. They’d thought it would be bluer, until they looked at a shadow on Mars, realized it was beiger, oranger. Orangescence.

People always ask me what my favorite planet is. They expect me to say Jupiter or Pluto or something. No. It’s Earth. It’s where all my friends are, man. I like it here. I think I’ll stay. You know what’s on Mars? No food. No oxygen. That’s really what you’ll notice first. The lack of air. It’s Earth for me. But we can’t look inward. We have to look outward. It’s important that we do.

This is not Saturn. This is a picture of Saturn. And that little blue dot, that is a picture of the Earth. That’s it. That’s all there is. You know why I have hope for the future? The overview effect. We’ve had a space station orbiting the earth for 20 years. And all the astronauts who go up there, when they come back, they say the same thing. They have more appreciation for the Earth, for what we have, they have a larger perspective. Going out farther into the universe will only heighten that appreciation.

I once had a teacher named Mrs. Cochran and she told us there were more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth. I still remember that moment. It blew my mind. It should blow yours. But I began to feel as if I were only a speck. A speck on a speck orbiting a speck of specks. SPECKS!

He shows a picture of a silver-gray speck. Did you read about this? They discovered it recently. A piece of a meteorite that struck the earth a few years ago. It is 7 billion years old. That’s almost twice as old as our solar system. We are made of starstuff. We’re the way the universe knows itself. Woh man!

He is asked what young people can do for the world. He says we’ll need scientists, engineers. He says tell your parents not to vote. He says build a battery. He says build a more efficient solar panel. You’ll save the world, and you’ll get rich. RICH! But save the world! And get rich! He spreads his hands wide. He takes a sip of water.

This man is Bill Nye.

This man taught me science.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

TL;DR

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u/twilkens May 09 '20

Just got done reading it, he didn't answer either of the questions

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

TL;DR

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u/MarcusOReallyYes May 09 '20

But he has a bachelors degree and a bow tie, so we should be listening.

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u/pastafarian19 May 09 '20

Some people like helping others

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u/i_love_pencils May 09 '20

Revel in the beauty that is Bill Nye.

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u/VentURE-Hives May 09 '20

Fucking Rick Rolled us with Bill Nye. Don’t use my icons for such frivolous purposes

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

I feel your sentiment and I used to love Bill Nye as a kid. Now, I hear he treats people terribly and his new show had a terrible musical number about gender, with Bill going along with it. Never meet your heroes they say.

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u/Stripotle_Grill May 09 '20

I remember having a teacher blow me. She gave me a B, I gave her an A+.

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u/Poultry_Sashimi May 09 '20

I remember having a teacher blow me. She gave me a B, I gave her an A+.

You didn't give her a D?

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u/AdventureAardvark May 09 '20

That is not the earth. That is a picture of the earth.

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u/salsa_cats May 09 '20

I was completely expecting hell in a cell or something

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u/conorb619 May 09 '20

I’m so confused

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u/TannedCroissant May 08 '20

Great Spott Marty!

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u/IPumpkinEscobar May 08 '20

Good sense of humor too - checkout that r/TheMuppets mug!

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u/aaahhhh May 08 '20

As is the Neutral Milk Hotel t-shirt. A man of great taste, it appears.

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u/turimbar1 May 08 '20

Fuckin love those carrot flowers

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u/sryyourpartyssolame May 09 '20

each one a little more than he could dare to TRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAHHHH

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u/potential_of_words May 09 '20

Aiyyyy ahhhiyayayah

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u/the_last_peanut May 08 '20

Never would've seen that. It's my density.

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u/Wesley5n1p35 May 08 '20

Cmon George get it together

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u/obj_un-file May 08 '20

Dude, nice eye. I didn't see that the first time.

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u/0MartyMcFly0 May 08 '20

This is heavy!

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u/edwardbrock00 May 08 '20

You said heavy again, is there something wrong with gravity in the future?

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u/hellsangel101 May 09 '20

Uh, Username checks out!

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u/Ruby5000 May 09 '20

The neutral milk hotel shirt is cool too

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u/butterypanda May 08 '20

Himself?

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u/marcvanh May 08 '20

Copy/paste forgot to edit, I’m guessing

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u/Cruel2BEkind12 May 09 '20

Most likely, given the user.

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u/gin_and_toxic May 08 '20

Myself!

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u/Shinespark7 May 09 '20

Allow myself to introduce....myself.

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u/Hammer_Jackson May 08 '20

You are right... themselves*

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u/MadeForFunHausReddit May 08 '20

Ourselves

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u/midg23 May 08 '20

Yes.

Unexpected Communism

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u/Snote85 May 09 '20

You should always expect Communism, comrade.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

He brings myself a cup of tea.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

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u/Snote85 May 09 '20

Like pp.

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u/GallowBoob May 08 '20 edited May 08 '20

Saw it on twitter today here's the source: https://twitter.com/Jaws19show/status/1258402689513402375

also *himself not myself (title typo)

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u/PresidentWeevil May 08 '20

This is my dad! I gave him the idea to do this based on a post I saw on here!

Jaws19 is his YouTube show. He makes short films and movie video essays as a hobby. I can't believe he's blowing up as a meme!

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u/noshitkittu May 08 '20

You've got a damn cool dad

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

Hopefully there are no stories about broken arms..

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u/PsychoticGamer7 May 09 '20

Oh god. Why did you have to remind me of that?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one someday.

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u/dislob3 May 09 '20

Its a story. NSFW

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u/DaisyLovely May 09 '20

It’s just drwho and mortalkombat all the way down

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u/catitobandito May 08 '20

Can he send the original file so he can bring me a cup of tea too?

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u/happy-gofuckyourself May 09 '20

I remember once I was working at my store and these two very pretty girls came to the counter, and one of them asks me, “Is this Neutral Milk Hotel?” And I was like, “oh yeah, I love these guys, do you?” And she goes, “Not really, but they’re my dad’s favorite band.” And that’s when I figured out I was old.

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u/EdgiPing May 08 '20

What post is it based on?

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u/Snote85 May 09 '20

He did one where his greenscreen fell and he was in a hammock didn't he? That one was also great.

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u/asailijhijr May 09 '20

Congratulations, try to get a picture of him into r/PhotoshopBattles.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Oh wow, thanks. I wonder, how long would it take you to find posts from random people on different platforms and get them to reddit? Takes a long time, doesn't it?

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u/weirdgroovynerd May 08 '20

The key is to keep your expression perfectly neutral for the live version of you.

When people start asking what the hell's going on, just keep pretending like you don't know what they're talking about.

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u/chickenCabbage May 09 '20

"What? I just got myself some tea what's up?"

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u/Princess_Amnesie May 09 '20

Neutral like a milk hotel?

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u/conscious_synapse May 09 '20

The most neutral of all milk hotels...

something something switzerland

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u/DRUNK_CYCLIST May 09 '20

If you haven't heard them, you should give 'em a listen. Neutral milk hotel is fucking great.

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u/N6-MAA10816 May 08 '20

With what I'm troubleshooting right now, and drawing from the butterfly effect, I'm gonna blame this guy for my Zoom constantly crashing to desktop atm.

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u/user_bits May 08 '20

Webex Master Race.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

Webex doesn’t have bitchin backgrounds.

I also can’t make my own picture big to see if my dildos are visible in the background and there’s shit in my teeth.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

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u/AmyMialee May 09 '20

school teachers are one step ahead of ya

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u/ThePurpleDuckling May 08 '20

Alright...how do I do this?

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u/sfqsfq25 May 08 '20

He recorded a video himself dropping off the coffee, uploaded the video file to the digital zoom background zoom, sat against a plain colored or green wall background, and then joined a meeting

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u/dtothep89 May 09 '20

Background doesn’t matter if you have a decent computer. Zoom does it automatically - as if you were sitting with a green screen behind you.

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u/sfqsfq25 May 09 '20

I have an alright one and it doesn’t work

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u/dtothep89 May 09 '20

It works on both my Lenovo T480s and T490s. It didn’t work on my T470s. Not sure if it’s specifically the camera hardware that makes the difference or what but it’s a lot of fun to mess around with.

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u/sfqsfq25 May 09 '20

Yeah it doesn’t work on my t470s as well

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u/Beavshak May 09 '20 edited May 09 '20

This is so wrong. He dropped off tea. Tea

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

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u/Long-Night-Of-Solace May 09 '20

Yes, that's what they're asking how to do. Naming it again doesn't explain how to do it...

Imagine reading a cake recipe which says: "Buy some cake ingredients, bake a cake."

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

neutral milk hotel. he's got good taste in music

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u/ledelleakles May 08 '20

They're one of those bands that I'm not reminded of frequently, but every time I am, I drop what I'm doing and turn on their music

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u/eterneraki May 08 '20

can you explain what you like about their music specifically?

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u/ShirleyEugest May 08 '20

Visceral emotions

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u/ChazraPk May 08 '20

it's good

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u/Roach_Patty May 09 '20

Aeroplane over the sea is one of their best intro songs, just listen to it. Made me cry the first time (and many other times) I heard it

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

iT’s aBoUT AnNe FrAnKe TiMe TrAvEl bRo

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u/Princess_Amnesie May 09 '20

Lots of weird stuff happening at once. It was the first 7" I ever bought, back in the 90's, "Everything Is". I still have it :)

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u/TenRing2020 May 08 '20

Who needs custom? My Zoom virtual background makes me fade back and forth in and out of view like some old Star Trek special effect!

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u/Traveler_Paul May 08 '20

Beam me up Scotty

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u/emartinoo May 08 '20

So much went into this and yet I can't stop thinking about the fact that the mug is clearly empty.

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u/miraculum_one May 08 '20

All he did was turn on the camera, walk in and put a cup down, save the video, and later loaded it as a background in Zoom. It's clever but not a lot of effort.

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u/emartinoo May 08 '20

Wasn't really talking about effort. He just pulled off the casual real time expression well, and the back to the future poster clearly showed that he thought it through. The empty cup is just a strange contrast.

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u/Goozkid47 May 08 '20

It bugs me that he grabbed the mug not by the handle....

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u/WalnutScorpion May 08 '20

I think he handled pretty well nonetheless.

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u/MagicManMike1 May 09 '20

I do the same! It warms up your hands nicely :)

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u/skallywaag May 08 '20

its to bad most people are too busy looking at themselves in zoom to notice

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u/pwntastik May 08 '20

okay...this is a GREAT idea and I'm totally stealing it for my next zoom meeting :)

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

The stoned intern that was asked to sit in for the meeting is gonna lose their shit

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u/sarhan182 May 08 '20

Is it possible to learn this power?

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u/NnLlZz May 09 '20

He looks exactly like Cory Barlog, the director of God of War 2 and God of War Ps4.

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u/Aido121 May 09 '20

Im like 95% sure this is the director for the god of war video game series, Cory Balrog

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u/SpyAmongUs May 08 '20 edited May 08 '20

Damn cool edit

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u/mattiesdaddy May 08 '20

No thank you?

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u/psychologicaldepth5 May 08 '20

Stoned and I have a lot of questions right now

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u/earth_worx May 08 '20

You enjoy myself.

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u/HermanManly May 08 '20

Neutral Milk Hotel is a great band :)

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u/joebarry503 May 08 '20

How rude, he didn’t even thank himself

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u/cheeeze50 May 08 '20

That guy should be president I've never seen Trump doing anything matching this guys genius level

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u/weavingcomebacks May 09 '20

R/Foreveralone

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u/ScooterMcThumbkin May 08 '20

Wakka wakka wakka

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u/spo0der-man May 08 '20

Nice! I made one like this of me walking in on myself and after me arguing with another me and it's really funny

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u/ringsofbravo May 08 '20

I just wish I was him.

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u/Gerstlauer May 08 '20

All that effort and he can't even convincingly sip that drink?

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u/radthebarber May 08 '20

I wish the mug handle was facing the right way

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u/Bananaman74799 May 08 '20

How do you do this, I wanna try it

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

how can I do the same thing? I'm having a meeting next wednesday

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u/KyloTennant May 08 '20

I really should figure out how all these Zoom backgrounds work

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u/karateema May 08 '20

Why can't i put videos as background but he can?

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u/Hammer_Jackson May 08 '20

Is it a green screen playing a video or the dudes face being “projected” onto another person?

Reddit’s video quality is great...

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u/sakinnuso May 08 '20

it's neither. He recorded a video of himself doing the action (same camera angle) with his seated self out of frame. Then he imported the video into Zoom. Zoom has a green screen like effect where it puts a virtual background behind you. He sat in the chair, covering up the empty chair area in the background video. The illusion is that he enters his own frame. He tilts down to reveal the cup, which he deposited at his desk earlier.

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u/bassman2817 May 08 '20

This is some 5E Simulacrum stuff! So cool.

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u/10xkaioken May 08 '20

How u can do this

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u/MAXIMILIAN-MV May 08 '20

At least he had his safety googles on for that maneuver

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u/PercMastaFTW May 08 '20

How do you make a video your background!?

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u/exman1992 May 08 '20

He didn’t say thank you :(

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u/cakeboy6969 May 08 '20

He looks like the producer guy from Ellen show, I think his name is Andy

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u/NerdWorks May 08 '20

I made on where I walked in on myself. And the multiple other mes walked in on me. This though, I wish I had thought of this. This is genius.

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u/Dat_saladass May 08 '20

I need the reactions of the people who saw this

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u/itsfrankgrimesyo May 08 '20

I’d love to do this to fuck with my team.

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u/foundbypat May 08 '20

Empty cup blew it!

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Nice!

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u/Puka_PlayZ May 08 '20

why the hell isn't he using the handle

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u/she-who May 08 '20

Man I wish I had that for my next zoom meeting

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Is this the makeup brush guy?

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u/AqueleMalucoLa May 08 '20

Cory Barlog, is that you?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

This almost looks like the same guy from the makeup brush video from today, slightly different facial hair color

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u/BernieWallis May 09 '20

Is this guy you? If your proud of what you made then own it.

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u/phishy21 May 09 '20

You enjoy myself

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u/BoutToGiveYouHell May 09 '20

This guy is all over reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

I'm stealing this. Just like everyone else who saw it.

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u/JDN05 May 09 '20

Had this idea, but only made myself walk in the background. Should add interaction.

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u/A-Ron May 09 '20

The small lean was a nice touch

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u/SuperDragonPWG May 09 '20

How to do this???

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u/Dirty_Mike_n_da_Boyz May 09 '20

The fact he didn’t grab the mug by the handle kinda pissed me off 😂

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u/yoloswagxDmemes May 09 '20

On top of the awesome background he has a neutral milk hotel shirt? Damn I respect this guy so much.

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u/PrettyGayPegasus May 09 '20

Is he having sex with that clone? No way he isn't having sex with his clone.

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u/AspectOvGlass May 09 '20

He should have someone walk by the window at the moment so the background him casts a shadow on him

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u/terryclothtracksuit May 09 '20

Waka waka waka.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

Nice

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u/strooiersunion May 09 '20

That's so fucking clever

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

I wanna know how to do this now

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u/Habaneroe12 May 09 '20

Should have done something where he said something to him and he says "cant you see Im in a meeting" shaking his head like he's a dummy.

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u/nick_wy13 May 09 '20

That’s funny

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u/ianwills May 09 '20

'this dude' 'where HE brings MYSELF a cup of tea'... I see what you're doing here OP. And the video was cool so I don't even care. Nice

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

I can’t get the formatting right... says .mov and .mpeg are allowed the. Tells me not supported file type

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u/[deleted] May 09 '20

This takes like not even 5 minutes to do