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Re:Microsoft Coffee by honkdaddy on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:15PM (#26672767)
Yeah - I feel as if the task of building a fake news desk, hiring two (very convincing) actors to pose as anchors, filming it, and chopping it up in Premiere to give it the VHS look is way more effort than someone would put into a prank like this.
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Re:Microsoft Coffee by weaksauce on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:35PM (#26673689)
> the VHS look

the rolling part of the tape is a little too much imo and a lot of programs have filters that add the grainy nature so it's not impossible. that and seeing as you can hire random celebs for 100 bucks nowadays to shout out at your friend it's not unimaginable that they faked this. it's probably true but also... who knows

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Re:Microsoft Coffee by WalterBright on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:00PM (#26675328)
You'd also have to duplicate 90's hairstyles and clothing, which isn't that easy.
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Re:Microsoft Coffee by WalterBright on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:45PM (#26686290)
I note that the thing "period" movies usually get wrong is the hairstyle, as the actors are reluctant to adopt the historical hairstyles. Even Star Trek TOS is plagued by 1960s hairstyles.
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