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If you broaden it a little from job/hobby to living in the real setting of a movie, you’ll notice characters going places that make no sense at all. Like if it’s Seattle they might start a boating scene on Lake Union and ends up at Mercer Island, swinging by Alki beach on the way.
As a kid watching Miami Vice, except for a few external shots I was like “Umm… that’s not miami…”
And the few shots that were kind of just had Sonny and Rico walk-talking past buildings that were like eight blocks apart from each other in the same conversation
The amount of cultural energy Americans have put into the old west cowboy era is amazing when you realize it only lasted 25 or 30 years, between the Civil War and the 1890s. All the classic westerns are set in that brief window of time. I think many people have the impression that whole generations lived and died during that era.
the traitor south lasted shorter than the reign of the Playstation 2 and they build statues and run social clubs about it still
Good point. To be fair they’re also celebrating a culture that was in place for quite a while before the actual war, which the war was trying to preserve.
Yes and no
There had been a cultural mentality among the elite that ‘slavery was the backbone of their way of life and a moral gift to those enslaved’, but that didn’t extend to the non-elites till after wartime propaganda convinced the poor white men to adopt the same mentality. Up till that poing there was a staggering lack of racism between poor people of any race, and part of what motivated ‘the south’ was breaking that ‘poor vs rich’ mentality
So while the culture of the elites had always been racist, it wasn’t the case for the common man till the war was well underway.
I’ve seen Americans start explaining how the geography in Spaghetti Westerns doesn’t make sense, so we in Europe have to go “oh, but you see, the film doesn’t take place in real America, it takes place in America of myth and legend.”
Part of the Tom Cruise movie Knight and Day was filmed in Boston. There’s a car chase scene through the underground highway tunnels at one point. Anybody that’s driven here for more than a few days would recognize that there’s no way the chase could play out the way it did. The tunnels don’t interconnect the way the movie shows it.
Haven’t seen Knight and Day. Are they the same tunnels that were used in THX-1138?
No. THX-1138 would have been filmed decades before these tunnels existed. I think that was filmed in San Francisco subway tunnels that were still under construction in the early 70’s.
These are the Boston tunnels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
there’s a scene in “Silo” where a character needs to repair a massive steam-powered turbine that is off-balance, scraping at the housing, and heading towards collapse. all fine and we’ll, it’s sci-fi, so whatever, they can make magic quick fixes to move the plot along.
what really bugged me, for some reason, is how characters started touching the internal components immediately after it powers down - I have to wait for significantly smaller motors to cool off before handling them, especially if they’re rotating poorly with a bad bearing, and burning from friction.
Silo is absolute pants on head as far as realism. Here’s just ONE example: the light bulbs in the bunker(s). To show what an immense challenge it would be to keep light-bulbs in the bunker, let’s make some assumptions:
Suppose the silo houses 10,000 people and has around 150 floors. If each person uses about 1.5 rooms on average, and each room has two light bulbs, that’s already 30,000 bulbs just for personal and work spaces. Add another 7,500 bulbs for common areas like hallways and stairwells, assuming 50 bulbs per floor. Throw in another 2,500 for things like emergency lighting and equipment. That brings the total to roughly 40,000 bulbs.
Now, consider that the average bulb lasts around 2,000 hours. If lights run about 16 hours a day, a bulb would last approximately 125 days. With 40,000 bulbs in use, about 320 of them would burn out every single day. That means someone needs to replace 320 bulbs a day, every day, just to keep the place lit. That alone is a full-time job for a crew of maintenance workers.
Storage becomes another massive problem. If they want to keep a 10-year supply of light bulbs, they would need 320 bulbs a day times 365 days times 10 years, which adds up to about 1.17 million bulbs. That is a staggering amount of fragile, breakable glass to store in an underground bunker.
And what about manufacturing? Are they making glass, vacuum-sealing bulbs, mining tungsten, and wiring filaments all inside the silo? Are there glassblowing workshops next to the hydroponics farm? Are they running vacuum pumps on diesel just to get replacement bulbs?
This is just one mundane aspect of life in the silo, and it already falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. Unless there’s a whole floor dedicated to crafting light bulbs by hand like some sort of monastery of electricians, it simply doesn’t add up.
The other side of this is, ‘it’s a movie suspend some disbelief.’
The idea that every single aspect of a show or movie needs to line up and be ‘realistic’ is silly, and frankly needs to just die.
It’s pretend.
I said too it loud while watching it: “that shit’s over 100°C… and they’re going right in?”
If there is a god to bless people, then people like you deserve it the most.
You act that way because you work in a career that can dismember you if you are careless, so you’ve trained yourself in ways that almost no actor could ever capture, and certainly no screenwriter would ever consider
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Silo also has several falls that should absolutely kill people. One that’s like dozens of feet into the pile that they throw all sorts of sharp metal objects on? Dead.
Free falling off a bridge with just a rope tied around your waist that stops you? At the very least your back is fully broken, but that fall looked long enough that you should just be dead. Full Gwen Stacy.
Click click clickety-click… I’m in! Click click click… okay, I’ve hacked the corporate security system and unlocked all the doors, click click… here’s the floor plan.
Can you disable the cameras?
Hang on… click click… okay you’re good.
The floor plan thing, in particular. Every time I change jobs, I search the company intranet for a layout so I can find my way around. The amount of hours I’ve wasted, to no avail…
And somehow those plans always open up in some 3D render that shows everything like the HVAC pathways.
Imagine the character saying, hang on I gotta spend the next 3 hours trying to convert this into a modern format, post all my research to reddit begging for help, ultimately give up, manually replot everything and in 19 months finally get a reddit reply that says “solved it”
On the rare occasion a company sends an email with a floor layout, a save the shit so fast.
It’s never just on the network somewhere but clearly someone has it. There are layouts on the wall for fire code.
Is your job/hobby bank robbing?
LOL I’m thinking of shows where they infiltrate evil headquarters. The nerdy computer whiz Asian girl with the green side ponytail goes click-click-click, and then before you could find a song on your own computer she’s like oh look, here’s the incriminating evidence that proves they’ve been dumping toxic waste into the river for 30 years!
I don’t know about OP, but I remember reading and watching a lot of videos about blue hat hacker, whose sole job is to break things then report to secops so they fix it. They test everything including social hacks and physical ingress testing (getting in and out of a place they aren’t supposed to be in). One described their job as professional trespasser. The crazy shit they did was simple and could get them walking right into data centers without anyone noticing.
To be fair there are a few Unify router setups in even big corporate settings that use the default passwords, and if you can get into the control panel, you pretty much could disable basically anything in a few keystrokes
I have changed annoying PA music in public venues from my phone, for example
But yeah, movies almost never get IT or secops correct
Of you don’t mind explaining, how? I can only code for maths purposes, but this sounds cool
So out of the box a lot of equipment has a set of standard default passwords, you can usually get them from the company’s own manuals or websites
A lot of people also never bother setting up their own passwords, so a lot of these devices are insecure.
If you are walking around a place, and see they offer free wifi, you can connect and the landing page usually gives you an idea of the manufacturer of their equipment. You look up the manuals and it will tell you the default IP address and login passwords for the management console. Try them. If they work, congrats you are a hacker and technically a criminal (so don’t do this at all ever even in minecraft)
If the site is REALLY STUPID none of these have changed, and from any web browser you can do anything you want to the network. You’ll need to learn how those kinds of devices work because the UIs aren’t designed for ease but you can still navigate them from a phone.
Unify is the most common midgrade equipment used by small to medium sites, and even as part of larger networks for campus style mesh networks but it’s unlikely a team with the skill to set that up would leave default passwords on
ubnt / ubnt is unify.
Deal with network equipment a few times and that stuff will start to stick.
Finding defaults is easy, search for vendor name followed by “default username password”
You don’t need a huge wrench when working with the p-trap under the sink and water wont start spraying everywhere either as drains aren’t pressurized.
Sprinklers react to heat, not smoke.
Not all spriklers go off at the same time in most systems. Only the sprikler heads affected by heat.
The water coming out of sprinklers initially isn’t clear but dark, rusty sludge. Sometimes even black as ink.
And it reeks
Don’t drink the sprinkler water. Got it.
This is so informative.
I work in IT so basically everything
So two people typing in one keyboard doesn’t make the hack faster?
I loved that entire scene for all the wrong reasons
I believe that was what they were going for.
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.
There’s more to sideshow than sword swallowing, there’s more to fire performance than fire breathing
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
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.
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.
I have not unlocked a single chasity belt, it doesnt even come up as a service they might need.
Gaming is apparently hitting all the buttons on the controller all the time
Especially gaming in porn…
Fighting games aren’t far off.
Also you can just pick up a controller cold and start playing without any load times.
All video games sound like Super Mario Bros or Call of Duty. Alternatively (if video is shown), all video games are violent zombie shooters with terrible animation.
Only children use handhelds and they are all GameBoy.
And handheld gaming is a full-body experience.
I feel called out lol
The smash bros tactic
I miss when Reddit ads were stupid things like a picture of a seagull or a fun game
Not really a hobby but I do hunt, so I find myself rolling my eyes when I hear 18 or more shots out of a pistol, 9 or more shots out of a shotgun and 31 ot more shots out of a semi-auto rifle with a pistol grips. The other eye roll is the unnecessary cocking and re-cocking of the shotgun without ever firing a round. If everything in the show Archer is true, then I may be on the spectrum lol. Except there’s no fucking way I could dual focus counting rounds while shooting any gun even itmf its at the range and noone is shooting at me. Movie/tv tho im counting every one.
I hate hearing over 18 shots out of a glock 19. With the 19 round extended magazine in it.
