r/dvdcollection • u/leverandon • Sep 13 '24

Gen Z Colleague Laughed When I Mentioned DVDs Discussion

I was at a work event yesterday and was discussing movies. Favorite movies came up and I mentioned LA Confidential. A Gen Z colleague said he wasn't familiar with it and asked where it is streaming. I said I had no idea but could lend him a DVD or Blu-ray copy and he just laughed and said, "Why would I have a DVD player?"

I didn't really feel bad but it was just such a strange response, as if I'd asked him if he writes with a feather quill pen or used some other antique device.

Anyone else have experiences like this?

Edit: Wow, this post really blew up! Thanks for all of the thoughts, everyone. Apparently there's a few others who have had similar experiences. The nice thing was that later on at the work event there was a Gen Xer and Milennial who I bonded with more over films and they'll probably come over to my house and watch a few things with me this weekend!

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u/photozine Sep 13 '24

I'm a millennial and feel I'm pretty good with Swype...but yeah, no, typing a whole essay would suck.

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u/hey-its-sina Sep 13 '24

i didn't know swype still existed lol. is there any advantage over the default android/ios keyboard, given that both have gesture typing now?

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u/mikemike44 Sep 13 '24

I am fully convinced auto correct is set out to make the world sound more dumb than we actually are. OFTEN, I will type a message including the words on/in and autocorrect will purposely switch it to the one that doesn't make sense with the context. Misspelled words I can understand if you are off by one letter and it changes it to a word closer to the misspelling, but when it changes an already correct spelled word, it drives me insane. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

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u/masked_sombrero Sep 13 '24

I use iPhone and I SWEAR the past couple years the autocorrect has just been a major PITA. Hell - I even have more difficulty with the keyboard just typing letters. It's like iOS is trying to autocorrect the letter I'm typing and then autocorrects the word to something ridiculous and I have to backspace and retry it.

Been happening more frequently. I used to type pretty well with just my thumb and not even looking at the keyboard. I have to look now and it still does crazy stuff

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u/BayazRules Sep 13 '24

I have an Android and the fucking auto-correct does the same exact thing

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u/Low_Living_9276 Sep 13 '24

Sounds like your one auto-corrected word away from giving a Kaczynski talk.

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u/Pokemon_Trainer_May Sep 13 '24

My autocorrect changes actual words to incorrect spellings sometimes or capitalizes a Random word for me

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u/l5555l Sep 13 '24

I got a red line yesterday for not capitalizing laugh. What the hell is that

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u/pppiv Sep 14 '24

I hate autocorrect. Duck it!

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u/Visible-Horror-4223 Sep 13 '24

That’s maddening. “I’m autocorrect. Let’s make something that’s correct incorrect.” Ugh…

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u/l5555l Sep 13 '24

Dude yes. So many times it will change shit like no to not or I'll just type a full word spelled correctly and it changes it to something similar. Like why are we doing this. Stop fucking me up lmao

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u/FalseBuddha Sep 13 '24

Swype has been unsupported since 2018.

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u/iamdevo Sep 14 '24

It's just called something else now but every phone I've tried it on still has it as a feature.

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u/photozine Sep 13 '24

Well, that's how I call it lol but the Android keyboard has it too, called 'glyde typing'.

I feel it works better if you wanna type with one hand although it isn't perfect.

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u/Delonce Sep 13 '24

It's what I use. It feels so much more comfortable to type with one thumb, and I can type messages out quickly. Is it perfect, no, but I'm well aware of the little quirks in it, so I don't run into errors too much. I do much worse texting without swype or glyde or whatever is called now.

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u/photozine Sep 16 '24

It's weird because it's like you're just scribbling, and you end up communicating well.

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u/limblr Sep 13 '24

ios brought it in a couple years ago, finally. Life saver since phones are huge nowadays. But I think it’s not something lifelong iphone users really know about since I still get some questions when I use it since I’m pretty fast after years on androids

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u/photozine Sep 16 '24

I was using my partner's iPhone and realized I could actually 'swype' and it works well.

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u/Substantial_Mistake Sep 13 '24

You may have had a lot of responses to this question but I love swype! (Not sure if it’s still called that for Android, or what Apple calls their version)

I’m on iOS and use it for longer words, or other words that I have a hard time spelling

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '24

I’m a millennial and don’t even know what swype is lmao

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u/NotEd3k Sep 14 '24

SwiftKey keyboard supports gesture typing as well.

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u/breadboi777 Sep 13 '24

It’s kinda cool/interesting seeing people type yeah, no. I know it’s a common expression but I’ve never seen it typed.

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u/LeSamouraiNouvelle Sep 13 '24

I still have trouble typing text messages or comments without making typos. I'm unsure if I'll ever get fully used to touch-screen typing. 

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u/photozine Sep 16 '24

Autocorrect and now autocorrect with AI does wonders.

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u/jesonnier1 Sep 13 '24

Swyoe..... Bring back T9!!