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Before Mr Robit, hacking was always portrayed as some action packed race against the clock with fast typing and a lot of meaningless, magic words.
This. Real hacking is actually quite boring, slow, and extremely time-consuming.
Also, I’ve never met a hacker that was nearly as hot as Remi Malik. Although I did get to meet him once while they were shooting a scene for Mr. robot outside of my friends apartment, and he was super Duper nice.
Also, I’ve never met a hacker that was nearly as hot as Remi Malik.
Ok, so I’ve definitely heard this before, so he’s really hot then?
I guess I see it, he has perhaps a model-like facial structure. But he’s always so off-putting when he speaks, I just can’t think of him as attractive.
Perhaps my perception is muddled by the characters he plays.
He’s actually quite charming in person, IRL. I understand having your view skewed a bit by the characters he plays.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen blacksmithing done correctly in a movie, show or game.
lmao is that Ubuntu?!
BAZINGA!
LAUGH TRACK
My first and only exposure to that god-awful show as a small snipped my GF at the time insisted I watch.
“I’m playing games. On an… emulator”
11 SECONDS OF WILD LAUGHTER
I almost never see accurate sword fights. If they last more than two or three swings, they’re likely wrong. And Achilles jumping at the beginning of Troy was just comical. Footwork is so vital to sword play that leaving the ground is insane. But realistic sword play would be boring as fuck. It would be over in half a second and you would barely see any movement.
It never occurred to me that cinematic/theatrical sword fights are to swordsmanship what gun-fu is to marksmanship lol
that really is a great way to sum it up.
Funny to think a John Woo film could make both marksmen and sword practitioners wince for different parts while cheering for the other
The ‘but I am not left handed’ duel in The Princess Bride is about as close as can be expected
And Achilles jumping at the beginning of Troy was just comical.
FUCKING THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN THINKING THAT FOR DECADES
That’s Bob Anderson’s masterpiece. Greatest film sword stuntman and choreographer ever, Darth Vader himself. Although I would say that the best film depictions of sword fighting have to be Alatriste for rapier fencing and Rob Roy (1995) for the broadsword. The Last Duel was also both entertaining and realistic.
TIL and thank you for pointing me to movies I’ve never seen.
Reminds me of the old days of the internet when people still talked about niche things they loved without judgment. If any gods exist may all of them richly bless you with exactly as many pleasant surprises as you desire.
I’m an electrician who installs (mostly) commercial electrical systems, including fire alarm systems.
In most cases, pulling a fire alarm pull station doesn’t set off the fire suppression sprinklers. The pull station just sets off the alarm and calls the Fire Department. Sprinklers aren’t automatically activated. The water in the sprinkler pipes is under constant pressure. Sprinkler heads are just nozzles with a little heat-activated stopper in them. When that stopper heats enough, it breaks and opens the nozzle, allowing water to flow (they can also be broken by fucking with them or hitting them with something). But there’s no mechanism that sets off other sprinkler heads when one goes off. Each head needs to be heat activated individually to go off. You see in movies and TV all the time someone pulling a pull station and that setting off sprinklers throughout the entire building, or someone lighting a fire in a small closet and that setting off sprinklers throughout the building. That simply isn’t how they work.
(note: there are some fire suppression systems which do have remote activation, but those are not standard. They’re usually used somewhere like a data center or a lab where there’s extremely expensive stuff that you want to be sure doesn’t get damaged. And those systems usually use a fire suppression foam or powder, rather than water.)
Also, the water in sprinkler pipes is NASTY. It’s been sitting in those pipes for years, sometimes decades. It gets black and sludgy pretty quickly. It stains/destroys anything it touches.
This reminds me of an episode of Taskmaster where a contestant plans to gain extra time by hitting the alarm in the lift (elevator) but instead of slamming to a halt there’s just a little voice message and the lift carries on as usual.
Hackers is a movie without lies and nothing can convince me otherwise.
Most accurate hacking sequences ever. Everyone knows that the most common file structures involve a 3D rendered cybercity.
Also, it’s amazing that the most commonly used passwords are still God, Sex, Secret, and Love. Why would people use anything other than just a single word for a password?
They just have a secret kink for becoming compromised by dictionary attacks, specifically.
Came to make sure this was here… But man the panic when you find out the pull station DOES cause a deluge… All those pretty people getting soaked in that rainbow colored water, the smell.
Deviant talked about a movie idea where setting off the sprinklers might actually be a better bet than fire call points when trying to escape a secure hospital in the US.
What was their reasoning? I’m assuming the scenario is a patient in a secured hospital who isn’t supposed to leave trying to escape?
Aliens connect their nanoprobes to your the main character’s PC and download the Internet so they can judge humanity.
Even if they had magic tech to do this, they’re still constrained by the MC’s shitty 10Mbit DSL. Somehow they can download everything humanity has ever done in 5 seconds, and all while pictures of it are showing up on the monitor for no good reason.
Not necessarily, if they have “magic tech”, they could be uploading a virus that rapidly spreads across the entire internet, making every machine broadcast its data through electromagnetic waves or something like that, picking up all those transmitions with said magic tech.
It would still take longer just to read the data off off all the storage, but theoretically not DSL
Hobby: Skydiving
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Free fall is at most 65 seconds on a normal jump. My personal record is jumping from 28,000 feet and I was in free fall for around 85 seconds. That’s it, there is no such thing as a 5 minute free fall, unless you are looking to break an altitude record.
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If you run up to a skydiver and pull their Pilot Chute (PC) out and throw it into the wind, nothing will happen. The gear is designed to work at free fall speeds. A 10mph wind will not pull the main out. If you pull on the PC bridle hard enough to actually pull the main out of its compartment… You will just have a main parachute in its deployment bag closed by rubber bands, or other method and it will just be laying on the ground. You will also get a well deserved punch in the mouth by more than one jumper. If you pull the reserve handle you will probably get murdered and there will be no witnesses, especially if the hanger was full of jumpers. They will just hide your body and you will have deserved your fate.
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BASE jumping and Skydiving are as related as Hockey and Figure Skating. Sure there is some overlap, but one cannot do the other without training. Also BASE is an acronym. Building, Antenna, Span, Earth. Bridges fall under Span BTW. No, I am not a BASE jumper, although I have jumped the Bridge in WV. So yeah, I guess I have my S.
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Yes, wing suites are cool. Wish I had more jumps on them.
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You cannot talk in free fall. The old movie trope of talking back and forth is simply not possible. How difficult is it to talk in a car with the windows open going down the road at 70mph? Now, remove the windshield and drive the car 120mph…
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The “parachute not opening” is not even in the top 10 concerns when jumping. The gear works and we jump with two chutes. There is a whole lot of bullshit that can happen before we get to deployment altitude. Not the least of which is just getting to the DZ in the morning. I always considered my drive to the DZ my most dangerous part of the day. Second most dangerous is being in the airplane. I’m actually relieved to exit the aircraft as at that point I have a better chance of making it to the ground safely than the pilot.
I’ve been skydiving once, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I’m in Arizona now, so there’s probably a couple places to do it.
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Retail workers spending the day doing shenanigans while barely doing any work, I’d kill for time to do some stupid time wasting shit.
Sorry I can’t join your impromptu wedding for two workers whose name I forgot.
LOL or for that matter fictional characters doing ANY job. It’s like they just screw around all day having wacky misadventures and somehow the company stays in business.
Right? I dunno how it was back in the old days but Clerks is maybe the worst representation of modern service workers I’ve ever seen. I’ve got a “hard labor” job and work about 1/4th as hard doing that than I ever did in service when I was younger
Superstore is the worst representation of retail work, I think they did about a week’s worth of work max during the entire series.
One of the better ones is a British show called Trolled, they at least show them doing some form of actual retail work, still shenanigans, but they never leave the store to do them besides one or 2 episodes, plus it’s a damn good comedy.
I work at a bank. Every bank heist scene makes me fucking cringe lmao. Why would only one person know the code to something??? Why are safety deposit boxes treated as some super special thing? Daredevil just pissed me off with this so much lol
Because it’s a movie trope. And if people did it the ‘right’ way people wouldn’t believe it.
Like, phones sound like ‘phones’ because we have the tech to make them sound crystal clear, but people don’t want that they want the phone sound.
Every bad connection in the year 3453 still sounds like analogue static. Every dodgy video connection from a FTL spaceship gets VHS tracking lines as it breaks down.
I would like to see ONE person depicted as playing video games (M&K or controller) and have their hand inputs look believable, not just randomly flailing at the device. I would die a happy man if the inputs corresponded to what’s displayed in the game.
I spent my life as a game dev.
This is the gamer equivalent of when you hear music and see someone playing an instrument in a show/movie, and nothing they are doing matches the music.
Good parallel. I don’t even need it to be perfect, I just don’t need to see a person holding a controller when it’s obvious they have never touched one in their life and they’re just randomly thrashing at it like a curious monkey
Honestly, movies and shows should stick to showing people playing racing games, because then you only need to instruct the actor to move the left stick around and hit the right trigger.
Perfectly believable gameplay with just two inputs.
But they almost always need to show them playing a shooter because then they get to talk about how hard they are killing everybody while doing their best impression of what their 13 year old nefew talks about on Fortnite or COD or whatever, but as a 30 year old actor. Lol
Call centers: that there is time between calls. That people have time off the phone to form friendships with coworkers.
Handyman: we have sex with clients.
IT: that we can just code anything we want regardless of standards, policies and best practices.
Isn’t that second one just porn?
Edit: actually, nevermind. I’ve seen this in weekly detective shows, but now they make the handymen gay so it’s different somehow.
About anything to do with computers. Anything.
Even worse the Hollywood Effect makes the stuff that I do that’s ACTUALLY impressive look like routine.
Fuckers will literally clap if I unjam their printer but manually recalculate a CRC header for a mission critical live database without a second of downtime and they’re like ‘Ok but isn’t that your job?’
BITCH LESS THAN 5 PEOPLE IN THE STATE CAN DO THIS
But you just typed in some numbers
BITCH I CANNOT EXPLAIN IN UNDER FOUR HOURS HOW TO FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT NUMBERS TO USE
import crc
import crc
Ok, so how do you calculate the correct value when the database keeps dumping new arbitrary length records at roughly 10 per second? And figure it out quick because once that record hits finalization in roughly four minutes, it’s going to puke out a record dump that contains every test done since the database was stood up a decade ago and there isn’t enough HD space in the cluster for even half of it.
Three minutes now, do you have that number? Two minutes fifty seconds…
The more complex the task, the less fucking impressed the proles are.
It angers me even more than normal that this is so fucking true
currently rescuing 7tb off a corrupted stripe. My boss does not seem to grasp what Big Deal this is. Ima bout to dig up recovery pricing to slap him with
That’s a smart way to do it, can’t argue with an accepted price
actually his response was “eh, if we didn’t have you we’d just tell the customers we lost the data”
I want to skin him and wear him as a hat.
Nods and waves arms widely - the computers.
Which ones? All of them.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen my job in a movie. The only place I could imagine industrial embroidery ever showing up on screen would be as the setting for a chase scene or something.
Now you’re making me want to write a story about a high stakes embroidery counterfeiting ring
I wanna see the flight scene in one of those shops now where someone gets embroidered during the fight.
I also work with industrial embroidery machines (not directly, we just have them at work) so I know the like 10 seconds under a needle wouldn’t be enough time to do anything really, but I’m imagining a room full of machines making military name strips, hero blocks a goons punch and shoves his hand under a needle while the goon yells in agony. Camera focuses on how horrified face as he lifts his hand to reveal “Maj. Payne” embroidered across his hand. The goon then faints.
Aside from Mr. Robot, almost every show that features software or computers completely butchers the details. My favorite offender? Mythic Quest. The main cast supposedly runs a massive MMORPG, yet their day-to-day activities have almost nothing to do with how game development or even basic software work actually functions.
It is like if ER was about hospital staff moving random boxes labeled “coils” back and forth while claiming to perform life-saving surgery. That is how far off it feels.
What really gets me is that Mr. Robot proved it is possible to do it right. If you treat the subject matter with respect, you can absolutely make something compelling and realistic. But since it is all just “nerd stuff” to most writers, and none of them are C++ goblins, we get tech scenes written by people who probably think JSON is a fitness drink.
I like how the QA department for Mythic Quest is always just two people. A game as supposedly huge as MQ would need way more (unless they mentioned outsourcing QA and I never caught it).
I’d give shows like Mythic Quest / Silicone Valley a pass, they are comedy shows so some creative liberty is expected
Mythic Quest is to game dev what It’s Always Sunny is to bartending
Ever see the famous NCIS episode where two of them share one keyboard to fend off a super hacker?
No, that one was actually pretty spot on. My uncle works at Nintendo and he told me it’s pretty similar there.
Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing
It is surprisingly difficult to get into a good dance position, especially for the standard (waltz, tango, foxtrot, quickstep, Viennese waltz) dances. Two actors walk up to each other and it’s apparent even before they touch that they have no idea WTF they are doing: they aren’t even standing up correctly.
Hobby 2: Chess
Smart guy walks over and absolutely beats the pants off of anyone else playing like 30 seconds after they get taught the rules or from glancing over the shoulder of someone else playing the game. It’s all “aha! Mate in 4!”.
No way dude. It is way, way not that easy. There’s “good at chess” and there’s “GOOD at chess”. Unless you are part of a very large club or are taking lessons from someone at or above the master level, you probably don’t know anybody in the second category. Dr. House is not going to blindfold beat anyone like that.
My favorite version of the chess one is from the Simpsons when the teachers at the school go on strike. Bart now has a ton of time on his hands and ends up playing chess against 3 people at the same time in the park. A bystander comments on how smart he must be right before all 3 opponents checkmate him. https://youtu.be/zLcAu1VuP0w
Hobby 1: Ballroom dancing
No I’m pretty sure Strictly Ballroom is a completely accurate portrayal of ballroom dancing.
Haven’t seen it, but it’s been recommended to me.
There’s a stand out episode of Burn Notice that always comes to mind as an example, but I don’t have it handy to share.
