after clicking on the dark square that is displayed instead of the preview, you are prompted to open the video in a new tab as if you were opening another site.
Defo different for me. When I click it, no matter whether viewed in the post or from the community, it just opens the video like in the screenshot. It only opens in a new tab when I click on the tiny "v.redd.it" under the title, but I guess that's meant to happen (?)
The question is, why it works that way for me but not on your end. It might be because we're on different instances (I'm on lemmy.world) and there are sometimes differences between the various UI's, including functionality. It might be a browser/desktop/mobile issue. It could even be an anti-ad program on your device blocking the preview because it seems like a pop-up, or something in the settings that isn't quite right, or a programming mistake that prevents the video preview from showing up in certain apps. Hard to say without looking at the code =/
It might be a good idea to file a bug report and/or request the "missing" feature so a supporter can take a look at the issue. Provided it isn't on their to-do-list already, of course.
I'm using the browser version (Firefox on a laptop) and it works for me as well: It has a huge preview and I can watch the actual video without it redirecting me offsite.
Same with guest rooms. In my area, almost all "old" houses have a room that is kept neat and tidy but unused until guests come over - basically wasted space specifically reserved for other people not living under that roof. And the boomers here get confused about why newer houses (especially rental appartements) don't have that oh-so-important feature anymore.
Imagine an entire effing room and everything in it (furniture included) getting the "fine china" treatment and old people being offended that "the youth today" has the audacity to invite guests into the regular boring non-special living room.
Neckbeards, because I fit some of the stereotypes.
I'm interested in roleplaying and videogames, so people assume I'm one of those gatekeeping basement dwellers that mock "girl gamers" and play WoW and weird hentai games 23 hours a day. Honestly, I couldn't care less about what other players have in their pants or which games they like as long as everyone is having fun.
I own two swords, so people assume I'm one of those "leave the multibillion dollar company alone" fedora-wearing m'lady incels who pose with their katanas for sh*tty profile pics and think they look like ninjas or something. The thing is, me and two buddies did show fights for medieval faires for a couple of years, so the weapons aren't just decoration / dumb tokens to make myself feel cool. Granted, the "fights" were more or less scripted, but it still had to look convincing enough to entertain the masses.
It's especially annoying when actual neckbeards think I'm "one of them" and are then surprised that I don't share any of their cringey, prejudice-laden, condescending world views.
Noodles. Premade sauce in jars, that's a different story, but the noodles themselves ... I simply can't taste any difference, so why should I pay five times as much for the same amount of noodles?
Same with rice. I usually buy a huge bag of no-name rice from a nearby overseas market every couple of months, which is a lot cheaper than buying the same amount of rice in small bags, and doubly so if said rice is a brand name grain.
The only example I personally encountered "in the wild" was Disney's Tarzan, where Phil Collins insisted on singing the songs in different languages himself. It was a bit surreal to hear him sing in German, and frankly it is very noticable that it isn't his mother tongue.
Just in case you want to listen to an example: "Son of Man", sung by Collins, in ...
On the other hand, I do appreciate the effort. Letting someone else do it would have been easier for him, but instead he sat down and learned a ton of phonetical lines by heart, in four different languages - none of which he understands. For all seven or so voiced songs in the movie.
Bathroom products. In fact, they're currently located between the TP/paper towel section and the liquid soap dispensers & refill bags.
Granted, they DO look like white chocolate or something similar, but the product placement, package and the fact that it did not taste like food should have been rather obvious hints to maybe check the package again instead of driving all the way back to the store to yell at the employees. At least he had the decency to be embarrassed about it instead of starting the usual "you lost a customer, I'll never shop here again" shouting match, which is a big plus.
PS: he got a refund, but only because he was polite as soon as he realized his mistake. Normally, any sort of hygiene product is excluded from refunds, especially when it has bite marks.
I work in customer service. I wouldn't say that 90% of ALL people are stupid, but an astounding number of the people I have to deal with have ... unique ways of thinking, so to speak.
The most recent example was an olderly man who was absolutely furious because a box of candy he bought for his wife "tasted absolutely disgusting". We're talking about something similar to this but I won't link our actual product as I don't feel comfortable sharing that information.
Either way, those are friggin' bath bombs. It says so on the effing package. Just because they're labeled "vegan" doesn't mean that they're edible FFS!
Typing a community name with an exclamation mark in front of it generates different links for different instances in the Fediverse, so that the UI doesn't change for people on other instances. ;)
These are both the same magazine, on kbin. You are a Lemmy.world user, so clicking the first link will redirect you to the magazine on kbin, but open it in the Lemmy.World UI and you can vote, comment, post and everything else. Someone registered on Lemmy.ml can click that link and get the magazine with the Lemmy.ml UI instead. Users on blahaj.zone will get the blahaj.zone UI ... you get the idea.
Clicking on the second link however will always open the kbin UI no matter what your home instance is, and unless you're a kbin user already, you can't vote, comment or post.
"There you are, sweetheart, sorry I'm late. I was looking everywhere for you." (Howl's Moving Castle)
It's the very first thing Howl says to Sophie when they meet for the first time. The quote itself, without context, isn't exactly meaningful and rather sounds like some bullsh*t smalltalk to distract the guards ... but there is this scene very late in the story where Sophie goes back in time and witnesses a young Howl catching and swallowing Calcifer. Remember what she did?
She called out to them. "Howl! Calcifer! I'ts me, Sophie! I know how to help you now - find me in the future!"
Howl literally has been looking for her ever since that day.
It's one of these small but really cool details that you only retroactively realize after watching the movie several times.
Defo different for me. When I click it, no matter whether viewed in the post or from the community, it just opens the video like in the screenshot. It only opens in a new tab when I click on the tiny "v.redd.it" under the title, but I guess that's meant to happen (?)
The question is, why it works that way for me but not on your end. It might be because we're on different instances (I'm on lemmy.world) and there are sometimes differences between the various UI's, including functionality. It might be a browser/desktop/mobile issue. It could even be an anti-ad program on your device blocking the preview because it seems like a pop-up, or something in the settings that isn't quite right, or a programming mistake that prevents the video preview from showing up in certain apps. Hard to say without looking at the code =/
It might be a good idea to file a bug report and/or request the "missing" feature so a supporter can take a look at the issue. Provided it isn't on their to-do-list already, of course.