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Only slightly offtopic. Uploaded GIFs that loop once and stop are turned into loop forever images. Can we find a workaround? #Mastodon

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man...I kept on watching it for some 51 seconds 🀣
I may have started watching this yesterday. 🚫

@davidaugust I only recently found out that my husband of 12 years didn't realize that I constantly quote this episode (or, if we're being honest, the Orbital song based on this episode).

I guess I don't sound like Michael Dorn.

Orbital - Time Becomes

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@rdp @davidaugust One of my all time favorites! I listen to it over and over :-)
@davidaugust "Where time becomes a loop...."

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You mean we could have seen this meme a dozen times before?

A dozen, a hundred? It's impossible to tell.

@davidaugust There is the theory of the MΓΆbius: a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.
Time becomes a loop.
Time becomes a loop.
Time becomes a loop.
Time becomes a loop.

Damn it, where’d I put that Orbital CD?

@davidaugust Great. But it's not a GIF. It's a looped MP4 video file. GIFs won't last that long, just 5-6 seconds, and their picture quality is usually crappy. I remember back in time there were flashy websites with tons of GIFs, and that was fun. ;)

@davidaugust Doctor Who did it in 1980, but it was long enough that this Tumblr post had to break it into ten five-second GIFs!

https://cleowho.tumblr.com/post/159798788231/chronic-hysteresis-meglos-season-18-1980

Flight Through Eternity

β€œChronic Hysteresis!?” Meglos - season 18 - 1980

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@davidaugust Image description: An animated gif with Geordi and Riker. Geordi, pointing at a screen with a diagram: β€œWe think we are in a gif. It’s like a 17-second time loop. But each time it loops we all get reset and none of us remembers anything.”
Riker: β€œYou mean we could have seen this gif a dozen times already?”
Geordi: β€œA dozen, a hundred, there’s no way to tell.”
@davidaugust @OutofPrintArchive Every Brit : β€œA white hole?”

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Is that perhaps a Red Dwarf reference?
I’ve only seen bits and pieces of it, although I’ve always wanted to watch it in full.

Come to think of it, I want to rewatch Blake’s 7 as well as I remember being traumatised by the finale as a child. πŸ˜…

@OutofPrintArchive @davidaugust Exactly so, from an episode using basically the plot in that GIF. The technobabble being encountering the opposite of a Black Hole.
@davidaugust you win the internet. Day two and it’s still awesome.
@davidaugust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0 (β€œTime Loop" sketch from Red Dwarf)
So What is it? | Red Dwarf | BBC Studios

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@davidaugust "The Mobius, where time becomes a loop!"
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Cause and Effect is a terrific episode! Not a bad GIF either.
@davidaugust how long is this video? I've been watching it for hours.
@davidaugust Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant.

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But its not a .GIF, its an .mp4!

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so its is sort-a like whats happening in the #USA right now.

#conservatives took over in 1980-1992, huge #economic mess.

#liberals cleaned it up in the 1992-2000

conservatives took over in 2000-2008, huge eco mess.

liberals cleaned it up 2008-2016

conservatives took over in 2016-2020, messed it up again

liberals cleaned up some of it 2020-2024

now conservatives are messing it up again by destroying the actual systems that we use, #healthCare, #education #environment.

@davidaugust now do one with Dr. Pulaski and Data based on the scene where Pulaski mispronounces Data's name, and Data corrects her, except now it's jif vs gif πŸ˜…
@FiXato that;s a funny premise. I don't have the footage of that...but that's a good idea if and when I find it.