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u/Crimson__Phoenix 15d ago
Bro knows the classics. Put some respect on his playlist 😭
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u/iadtyjwu 15d ago
Respect is more Soul/R&B though. It is a classic, but not classical. Did you know Aretha covered that song? My main man Otis wrote and performed it first.
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u/ThrowingShaed 6d ago
my pupper once paused near jazz playing on a radio. i never did get much of a chance to investigate if she liked it or was curious about the noise location
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u/Embarkbark 15d ago
My childhood dog adored when I played piano. If he ever heard me playing he’d get up and come to the living room to sit down beside the piano. They get something out of music the same way humans do
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u/Slow_Sherbert_5181 15d ago
Mine too - but he also had opinions! If I was playing well, he’d stay there for as long as I wanted to play. If I was struggling with a piece, he’d wait quietly until I stopped playing and then sigh REALLY loudly and leave.
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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue 14d ago
"You play music so bad you disappointed your dog" is my new favorite insult
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u/Aethrin1 14d ago
There's an old video of a guy playing guitar, with his Golden Retriever smiling and slightly moving his head. When he stops playing, his pup stops smiling and looks disappointed.
The follow up video is my favorite though. After the first one got decent views, he made another, where he does the same thing, but sings along. The minute he starts to sing, his dog gets up and walks away.
Still cracks me up more than a decade later.
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u/eyeofthefountain 14d ago
But why no links??
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u/Aethrin1 14d ago
https://youtu.be/KBluUZ4NnZg?si=Ayki_9uQNdalGUg7
There's the former.
https://youtu.be/4bxINssIf5Y?si=buoFfwHoI9apjl9j
There's the latter.
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u/blackbirdbluebird17 12d ago
My dog likes experimental noise music… and also Rodgers and Hammerstein show tunes. No in between. He is so weird and I love him.
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u/redgreenorangeyellow 14d ago
My cat literally does this too. She runs in when I'm practicing and usually stays quiet but she yells at me or leaves if I hit a wrong note or start struggling
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u/immerkomisch 15d ago
Mine too. I was terrible at piano, unlike my brother, but I would play some chords and things and my dog would come and sit in her chair by the piano whenever I or anyone else would play.
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u/OldDogsNoTricks 13d ago
My mom is a classical pianist and taught piano out of our home while I was growing up. Our dog was OBSESSED with the piano. He insisted on sitting in on every lesson and would start contentedly sighing when the kids/my mom were playing particularly well. The kids absolutely loved him— he was their little piano lesson mascot. When he got old and was starting to deteriorate health-wise, my mom would pick him up and set him under the piano and play his favorite pieces. I think he lived longer because of it.
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u/FuzzyComedian638 14d ago
My cat does this, too. He's always in the room when I practice. I used to have a cat the would sit on the piano when I'd practice. He also liked to sit in my lap when I'd play, but it was kinda hard to get much practicing in when he'd do that. But it was too sweet for me to kick him off.
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u/Lalamedic 14d ago
For me it was my cat. She went deaf at age 16 and needed help up on the piano bench but still sat next to me when I practiced. Her favourite piece was Für Elise by* *Beethoven. Even when she was 23y/o, no matter where she was in the house, if I played that piece on the piano, she would magically appear, requesting uppies onto the bench. I don’t know how she knew what I was playing, but she did. She was less of a fan of Bach.
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u/Early_Grace 15d ago
My dog does the same thing for horror movies. He is a Jack Russell so it may be natural for the sounds of things screaming to their deaths to calm him.
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u/LuxuryBeast 15d ago
What a cute dog!
Mine is nearly the same, only with extreme metal. Whenever I put that on he just lays down and start to chillax. Tried to play country music for him, and he just looked at me confused going "wtf, dad.".
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u/the_scarlett_ning 15d ago
I’d give you that same look. It pisses me off when I go into a grocery store and they’re playing country. If you’re not a cowboy store, don’t freaking play country music where humans have to hear it!
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u/SpiralFett 15d ago
I love the implication that humans don't listen to country music... it is sorta written by aliens with a limited subject list.
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u/LuxuryBeast 15d ago
Mostly about life going down the drain, the wife leaving and a truck or something.
Yeah, I don't know much about country. 😅
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u/Efficient-Cherry3635 15d ago
My dad used to joke growing up that country music is inspirational if you listen to it backwards. Man gets sober, wife comes home, truck fixes itself, and he has no complaints about work yet.
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u/Warbr0s9395 15d ago edited 15d ago
A comedian made a “song” about country and it’s actually really good.
Ill see if I can find it but only give it a couple minutes
Here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpComedy/s/1fYDsp5kAo
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u/aerdvarkk 15d ago
What if the grocery store is in cowboy country OR the Cowboy Store also sells groceries?
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u/the_scarlett_ning 15d ago
If they’re selling groceries next to their ten gallon hats and boots, then I will allow it. But only then!
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u/hamsolo19 15d ago
I don't have a dog, but I have a four year old who has heard a bunch of my metal music and sometimes when we get in the car he'll ask, "Dad, can we listen to the heavy heavy?" See, because just "heavy" is more rock music, your AC/DCs and Aerosmiths, etc. The heavy heavy is like Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Psycroptic, etc.
He also really likes Royal Republic out of Sweden.
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u/ccnomad 14d ago edited 14d ago
I bet he’d love Angine de Poitrine! Hit him with Yor Zarad, then Sherpa, then wind down just a touch and get a little jazz in edgewise with Ababa Hotel, then Fabienk for the cherry on top. Viel Spaß 🌭
Edit: More faves in case you’re hooked:
Mata Zyklek 🏍️
L’Aberek 🔺
Sahardnieh 🐟
Tohogd 🌭4
u/Donny_Dont_18 15d ago
Mine don't like the heavy stuff, but they dig the prog journey I've been on for a while now. I love when I really interesting shift happens and they start dream kicking asking with the music
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u/Agreeable-Possum 15d ago
My dog is kind of like that with audiobooks because I always have them going.
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u/Eskyzoo 15d ago
Mine goes crazy whenever he hears opera music. When he's too distracted for recall I have to put on my crazy opera voice and he's back in a flash 😂
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u/teeweewas 15d ago
Dogs are our children. They only exist because of our interference they deserve nothing but the best. This is the best.
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u/enad58 15d ago
This is not true. Dogs self- domesticated.
The Evolution of Dogs, Accidental Best Friends | Ohio Wesleyan University
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u/aerdvarkk 15d ago
Side Note: Dogs are not domesticated wolves:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/dogs_are_not_domesicated_wolves/
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u/MilkiestMaestro 15d ago
Tell me how something self-domesticates without the existence of man. The word domestication requires our presence
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u/enad58 15d ago
It requires our presence but does not require our intention. Felis catus most likely self-domesticated as well.
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u/Aedronn 14d ago
Current genetic studies point to the cat being domesticated in ancient Egypt starting around 3000 years ago. For over a thousand years millions of cats were raised to be used as sacrificial offerings. The cat remains found in the 9500 years old human grave in Cyprus was DNA tested and turned out to be a European Wild cat. It was genetically unrelated to domesticated cats.
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/cat-domestication-originated-in-ancient-egypt/
In addition the claim wolves self-domesticated is an unproven hypothesis. Just because there's a compelling logic behind the hypothesis doesn't necessarily mean it is right. The reasoning behind the self-domestication of the cat seemed pretty plausible, right? And now genetic evidence appears to rule it out.
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u/MilkiestMaestro 15d ago
I don't think the parent comment said anything about intention
They do exist in their current form because of us, regardless of whether they did the work themselves
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u/aerdvarkk 15d ago
Dogs are the universes way to show humans where the bar is for true happiness and contentment.
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u/Unique_2417 15d ago
Billy has better taste in music that most people.
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u/David_Richardson 15d ago
Oh look, another post that can’t offer praise without being disparaging towards another group of people. Reddit is so fun now.
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u/Lbboos 15d ago
Oh, look another post disparaging someone because someone has an opinion
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u/DingleDangleTangle 14d ago
Oh look another comment disparaging a comment because they disparaged a comment for disparaging a group
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u/EngineeringDapper905 15d ago
Classical music doesn’t equal taste
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u/DocWho420 15d ago
Well it kind of does because most classical pieces are really old for a reason, because they are objectively good. Doesn't mean you can't dislike it but the vast majority of people who enjoy music would probably say it's good
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u/buerglermeister 15d ago
Huh? They’re really old because they were written in a time where there was not a lot of variety in music.
However, they have lasted this long, because they are objectively relevant/good, or however you want to put it
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u/OldDogTrainer 15d ago
Uh… classical pieces are really old because they were made a long time ago not because they are good. 😆 To be clear, I like classical music and I’m not disagreeing with your overall point. However, good is subjective personal preference.
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u/Hazee302 15d ago
I think he’s trying to say they are really old but still known. Music that lasts through time, especially stuff as old as classical music, is probably top tier. That’s what I gathered from the context anyways.
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u/i_m_a_bean 15d ago
Some pieces last because they speak to the soul, others last because they have historical significance. Beethoven's Op. 91, for example, was basically a gimmicky bit of musical propaganda, but it's still classical because yay Beethoven boo Napoleon.
Classical music has a ton of incredible pieces, but it doesn't automatically equal good music.
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u/ContextLengthMatters 15d ago
They are still known for historical context when it comes to how music progresses, not for objective quality.
Take a genre that is much younger for instance, Jazz. The older pieces aren't all objectively better than what people can do today, they are simply the pioneers.
I don't think there a single historical artist in jazz who can't be recreated by some prodigy in grade school today. People who believe older == better don't really have good taste IMO. They just don't know what to really like and so they choose what has stood the test of time to be safe.
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u/raknor88 15d ago
classical pieces are really old because they were made a long time ago not because they are good.
They've survived the test of time because they are good. Think of modern music and how many artists there are. There were that many, if not more, artists back then too. If the classics were bad they would've been forgotten and/or dropped as the decades or centuries passed.
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u/chic_luke 14d ago
I think the point is, that stuff is battle-tested. Very likely, a lot of similar music was made in the same time frame, but most of it will have ranged between forgettable and great, but not quite cutting it to stay relevant and last the test of time. Even being very, very good doesn't cut it for something to become a classic. Only true excellence in every art domain manages to make it that far.
I will agree, though, on the fact that I find it dangerous to hold on to the past excessively disregarding contemporary culture. Consuming contemporary culture doesn't give you the advantage of giving you filtered stuff, the cream of the crop of what's coming out now. It's simply way too early to have that kind of hindsight. But that also helps you develop your taste: if there is no way to know, then you'll have to judge for yourself and calibrate your taste over time.
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u/MK4eva420 15d ago
I hope theres no fee for the dog to sit in on the ensemble.
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u/725Cali 15d ago
‘Four Seasons’ in an animal rescue centre; classical music reduces environmental stress in kennelled dogs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938415001092
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u/glycophosphate 15d ago
At the kennel where my dog goes when I am out of town they play classical music every day except Sunday. On Sundays they get opera.
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u/Both-Revenue-4557 15d ago
This made me teary-eyed 🥺 definitely a 18th century musician reincarnated
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u/Lundann683 15d ago
My thoughts exactly!!! Thought they’d try life as a dog and brought their love of music with them.
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u/raizen157 15d ago
That dog would be my new best friend lol I grew up listening and coming to love classical music because of my great grandma. We would sit in chairs and listen to Beethoven, Mozart, chopin and others really fond memories I hold dear.
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u/OriginalChapter4 15d ago
Please let him listen to Valse Di Fantastica, it’s from ff15 but such a wonderful piece of music
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u/ElowynElif 15d ago
What a cultured dog! Our little mutt gets all excited by the Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right to Party”.
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u/VegetableCommand9427 14d ago
Whenever I’d play my cello, my cat would come and sit nearby and watch/listen. My childhood cat used to do the same thing too.
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u/Von_Quixote 14d ago
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕦𝕤.
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u/Von_Quixote 14d ago
“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,” -English playwright William Congreve
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u/flyinggazelletg 15d ago
Aww, reminds me of my old gal, who’d lay by the piano any time my mom played
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u/shangosgift 14d ago
I had a neurotic Collie who only calmed down when I would play a Pavarotti cd.
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u/ByTheMoon22 14d ago
This is probably the people's most favorite show they've done. He's the perfect audience.
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u/AHorseNamedPhil 15d ago
This is adorable.
It reminds me of the dog that loves singing along to Pavarotti.
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u/Solastor 15d ago
I play Irish Bouzouki and my dog absolutely loves it. It's so sweet. She will curl up where ever I'm playing.
We were on a road trip recently and after pulling over for lunch I sat on the back bumper of the van and played for a bit and my wife pointed out that the dog had come up behind me and fallen asleep while watching. Truly heart warming.
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u/Turnandburn 14d ago
I would be so worried if Billy liked my performance it would be worse than any stage fright
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u/Legitimate_Car4137 15d ago
Is that a shepherd mix? They all seem to have cool quirks like this. Mine gets up to join me on the phone if it rings, or if I'm on a video call she has to say hi to the person I'm talking to.
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u/Educational_Eye3765 15d ago
My dogs also appreciate classic music - anytime I pick up my trumpet they all feel compelled to join in.
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u/Inner-Shame6220 15d ago
You on the top, you’re dragging on tempo. The doggo is super cute though. To all the future haters, I don’t care. She’s totally dragging and it happens too often in first chair. Take responsibility, use a metronome, and realize that you need to be on the front edge of the beat lest the dirge become a dirge. Pick it up. Knees to chest, mf’r.
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u/Darkenshrine 15d ago
Does anyone know the breed?
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u/AngryPandalawl 15d ago
What kinda breed is your dog? Looks and acts a lot like mine. I haven't done the DNA test to know for sure.
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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 15d ago
Billy's tail has destroyed 3 Stratovarii at the time of this recording...
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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 15d ago
My dogs appreciate classical music. My street NOW knows classical music. I dog sit..for 2 different houses (6 other dogs) plus my own pack of 6. New Years and 4th of July...I turn Classical music on in each house (except 1812 Overture) and the dogs are calm as can be. Ok..some CBD is needed for the GSD's..a thunderjacket for the Plott/whippet. But once the fireworks are over..we sit on our street and enjoy the sounds.
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u/athanathios 15d ago
What a beautiful honey OMG, my dog really started listening to my playing a couple years ago, I mean I was playing dream theater and she was there listening the whole time
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u/sluttyman69 14d ago
But they missed the chance to have music from dueling rooms, a different classical song in a different room and make them choose
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u/SoggyInvestigator898 14d ago
We always leave the radio on for our old puppy while we are at work, and I swear she loves it but I have no proof but a feeling.
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u/ThingCalledLight 15d ago
It’s adorable and great. That dog rules.
The effing captions though. Good lord.
Oh, did his ear twitch from the music? Because I saw his ear twitch and the heard the music but I didn’t know his ear twitched from the music. Thank jeebus you told me.
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u/OldDogTrainer 15d ago
You might be on the wrong sub.
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u/ThingCalledLight 15d ago
I have to enjoy inane captions to enjoy this sub? Or I’m not allowed to express any instance that didn’t make me smile on this sub?
If it’s the former, then I guess you’re right.
If it’s the latter, you have many more comments than mine to reply to on this sub.
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u/OldDogTrainer 15d ago
No, but if the things posted here do not make you smile or, in the case if your first comment, cause you to go on a rant about how much it doesn’t make you smile then it might not be the right content for you.
I can reply to anyone I like, thank you very much.
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u/ThingCalledLight 15d ago
I disagree, but your opinion is noted.
It made me smile and it annoyed me.
To paraphrase a newly discovered hero of mine: I can comment on this sub any way I’d like (within the rules), thank you very much.
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u/Comfortable-Fly7479 15d ago
What is the name of this piece?
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u/idkidd 15d ago
Text comes up during the video identifying it.
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u/Domerhead 15d ago
Omg that's a younger version of my Tali! Such sweet eyes.
She loves listening to me play music, from Classical to Metal!
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u/LordGazelle 14d ago
So, many animals love classical music and we listen rock, techno and hardcore. Yeahhh we go crazy!
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u/MammothMode 14d ago
Darling. Seems like it relaxes him. I sing in French to my dog and he immediately relaxes, then sleeps.
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u/Extension_Many4418 10d ago
Music soothes the savage breast. And doggers and all animals, apparently.
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u/FruitSaladYumyYumy 15d ago
The upclose shot suggests the camera is in the floor, but then you see the room shot and there's no camera. Weird
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