How to get out your driveway when another car is blocking it

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They were all somewhat odd. I think they were European, like those Werther’s commercials seem to be.

I had an idea to do versions where the protagonist gets away with heinous malefactions simply by virtue of holding up a thing of Mentos afterwards. Like, he’s drunkenly pissing in a doorway and the door is suddenly opened by a muscleman who then gets pissed on all over his legs. “Grrr!” says the beurinated muscleman, but he then breaks into convivial laughter when the Mentos are displayed with a smile and shrug. They could have mined that general theme for quite a while.

And there’s this.

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I’m not an expert, just an observer.

When companies roll out a new product, they implement major functionality first then augment and polish later. Periscope rolled out portrait mode first because that’s the primary use case. AFAIK, Snapchat is only fully functional in portrait mode. You’ve never replied whether or not you can face swap in landscape mode and I’m guessing that’s because the answer doesn’t support your extreme thesis.

Even serious film makers are experimenting with vertical video. Perhaps you should email them to let them know their artistic choices are wrong.

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Nope. You’re still trying to use outliers to justify this, and still failing.

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Snapchat is an outlier? Whatever grandpa.

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I guess that for an accurate comparison of build quality, we really need to get a Jaguar to nose a Land Rover out of its way.

Any volunteers?

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I am surprised how robust the front of that thing is, considering the amount of plastic. I am also amused by how the perpetrator seems to immediately get stuck in a traffic jam once out :smiley:

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Yes, it is. Being an outlier has nothing to do with popularity. It is an outlier in that their programmers failed to property set the orientation byte for exported video. What you seem to be ignoring is - if you shoot landscape video in Snapchat, and send it to someone, they will see it in Snapchat in landscape mode. It’s only the export function that’s broken. For its primary functions, Snapchap supports landscape mode. Just like Periscope does.

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Oh Art…

Try this: shoot a Snapchat video in landscape then add some stickers. That will show you the actual orientation of the video is still portrait mode. Not sure why it seems so odd to you that an app for shooting self-portraits is constrained to portrait mode.

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Again, that’s an implementation bug. How do I know? Because if you shoot a landscape still image, the sticker interface works correctly. And regardless, if you shoot landscape video and send it to someone, they will also see it in landscape mode.

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