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Succession Non-Crisis [Chat]: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus
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It bugs the shit out of me but writing is literally like
something I do for money
so it's like anything, if you're an accountant and you see people fuckin suck at accounting you're like "oh my god you fucking hacks get your shit together"
I think Fire Emblem: Awakening does some… interesting things with the trope. I like the results, but I know I'm probably wrong on this:
[Actual spoilers]
One of those fallout games tried to bypass this by just having people ask you for help. I remember just leaving the town and going out into the wasteland then mucking about. Why on earth should I fix your nearly impossible problem with the promise of some small reward and a near guarantee of death and hardship? No thanks.
and then I never continued playing the game because gosh i'm not the fish biting that hook.
It's usually just one person or a small sect that says it though. Maybe they tell everyone that to get 8 free zebra hoofs for dinner.
The rest of world charges you money for all the mundane crap you'd think they'd give a real chosen one a ferry ride to the final boss for free?
Every time I see "hacking" on television or movies I laugh uncontrollably and it ruins the movie and show for me.
Every single military movie except for like, 2, get everything fucking wrong.
Or 5:
1. A Few Good Men
2. Hacksaw Ridge
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Generation Kill
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16
yeah the hacking thing is a good comparison
literally anyone who works with computers in any capacity professionally finds Hollywood hacking either cutely amusing or infuriating as hell, at the very least it well get their head shaking like "No, no that's not how shit works at all"
and that's kinda how I feel about bad writing in entertainment media, especially video games, comic books, RPGs, and television as those are literally things I've done professionally so I'm kinda critical about them
mr robot got ur back
http://www.hackertyper.com
I knew what comic this was before I clicked it.
I was not disappointed.
omg amazing
Just... jesus fucking christ...
Someone read that PA comic and decided to put it in a TV show.
20 finger hack style.
YEEEEEESSSSSSS
We are not an altruistic species.
They range from either something that gets forgotten exists at times when normal people would use them for normal shit to magic devices that do super magic
In bad TV and film writing, cellphones will be forgotten to exist (or will be conveniently somehow out of range or battery) when characters need to:
- call people
- text people
- take or send pictures
- look up basic ass information on Google
However, cellphones turn into magic when:
- A character needs to be located through GPS
- A phone conversation needs to be listened in on
- It needs to go off to put a character in danger with the sound of its ringtone
- A character needs to hack into another device, like a computer
they're treated as plot devices by hack writers who, more importantly than learning how they work properly, don't want to be arsed with learning how to use them effectively in the plot
Screen of stuff > highlight line > new screen of stuff > highlight line
"hacking" being mostly "tricking people into giving you their shit"
Which is pretty accurate.
The sidekick
Nothing changes about the story, the chosen one still saves everyone, you just play the whole game figuring things out for them, supporting them and solving side issues to enable their victory
Bitching about it the whole way of course
golly that's a deeply cynical worldview ya got there
do you happen to main Reaper by any chance
But was it aware of its own badness and played to it?
Oh, sweet summer child.
wasn't that the plot of Oblivion :rotate:
that's basically what real life hacking is tho
like when your aunt gladys told you she got "hacked" and her credit card was stolen what actually happened is she got phished
someone sent her an email regarding her "recent eBay transaction" and asked her to send in her credit card info to confirm the purchase wasn't her and she complied, she didn't want someone ripping off her credit card after all!
Idk never played it
As much as I love the movie Real Genius, the scenes where the guy who lives in the wall is "programming" are hilarious.
He's typing random shit while the monitor shows a screensaver.
Just...
I cannot wait until people who are soon to be in their 20s start watching "classic" movies from before cell phone times.
just the sheer absurdity of a world without instant connection.
I thought that particular show was just a bunch of old guys trying to figure out what the internet was like these days.
Or was that Scorpio?
dude straight up think of the central conflict from any episode of Friends or Seinfeld
like the main plot that was driving the episode
would it have been near-instantly solved by all characters involved having smartphones?
the answer is yes a shocking number of times