I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
If a girl doesn’t like you, but you just keep pursuing her, everything will eventually work out and you’ll be happy together.
Next you’ll be telling me that “So, how often do you flick the bean?” is not a great pickup line.
What do you say I take you home and eat your pussy?
– Shark Attack 3
I want to lick you until you weep
Are you my cat? Sometimes he won’t stop!
Haha it’s from a movie.
Being told this time and time and time again has really fucked the male psyche over the years.
you don’t say…
The centre of that circle appears to be a tool shop. I don’t like what that might suggest…
it’s an address i lived at years ago. fun fact, there’s a public high school right near the middle
Okay, what’s going on with that particular spot in Tampa? I’m not doing a web search on this, thanks.
the 3 mile radius search returned a “too many hits to display” error, so i had to change it to 1 mile
it’s st. petersburg, and it’s not unique to that area. try your own neighborhood. it’s a govt. website https://www.nsopw.gov/
Ya know, it kinda makes sense that Hollywood is full of sex criminals when you look at romantic comedies and are always left wondering “And he’s not in jail why?”
There’s a Christmas movie called Holiday in Handcuffs where a woman abducts a dude to play her boyfriend so her family gets off of her back, and naturally they actually fall in love by the end but also HOLY SHIT HOW IS THAT A THING
Uhm, it kinda happened for me, I felt that this girl liked me but she said no the first time. I stuck around, as we were in the same group of friends, and after a while she changed her mind. We’ve been together for over a decade.
It was the boombox outside her window that got her, wasn’t it? /s
I’m betting it was the weekly delivery of flowers with ‘anonymous’ notes that left no doubt who was sending them if a moment’s thought was used.
Actually it was watching Tank Girl together 🤷♂️
Fucking love Tank Girl
There’s an entire genre of tiktok videos out there of women saying things like “So this guy I like asked me out, and I said no, and he was like okay bye and just walked away. What is with men not pursuing women anymore?”
Hmm what was that hashtag popular a few years ago? #nomeanskeepgoing?
“No means no” they said. Meanwhile in this very thread: “I’m actually in love with the guy that stalked me.”
If you want no to mean no, you have to say different things when you mean something other than no. If you want to play hard to get, A) don’t, you suck at it and B) maybe let him know that’s the game you’re playing so he’ll actually try hard to get you instead of just taking a flat rejection at face value; ie don’t just say “no” say “You’ll have to try harder than that” or something that indicates you are open to further attention. What saying “no” when you actually mean “try harder” accomplishes is you filter out the guys who take no for an answer leaving your dating pool only filled with the men who don’t really care that much about consent.
As for the “I turned him down becuase I wasn’t interested in him, then we actually talked and turned out I actually like the guy” story…I guess maybe try actually talking to guys? Even if you don’t cream your gusset at first sight?
Eh, well, people are varied, don’t make the mistake of grouping all behaviours together, if someone says no and then loses a chance, that’s their problem tbh.
Relations and relationships are difficult, so as always, tolerance and understanding are key… of course there’s context, “no means no” was used in the context of sexual intercourse, there’s not much room for interpretation there.
Kinda happened for me and I’m the girl in the situation! I had a guy who was creepily obsessed with me and would threaten to hurt himself all the time if he didn’t get his way. He even showed up at my house uninvited once and he always kept insisting we were dating. I kept telling him we were just friends at best, that’s it, but he’d freak out, insist we were lovers, and have a panic attack. Eventually he’d forget all about it and just pretend I never said anything.
I didn’t call the cops because I’m honestly afraid of the police more than him at this point. (The police in this town are as stupid as they are accusatory sadly)
It has a weirdly happy ending. Eventually I just lost all patience and gave him the number for a therapist. He actually went, he realized I was afraid of him.
My plan was to finally “Break up with him” for REAL this time after a therapist set him straight.
He broke down in tears realizing that he was never really my boyfriend, at first he called me heartless saying that it wasn’t fair that from his perspective I had punished him for seeking out therapy I told him to get.
After he calmed down we hung out for a bit, but… then we actually stared dating because it turned out that with his meds keeping him stable he’s actually a wonderful person that I get along well with and I actually DO love him. My family has even pretty much accepted him as part of the fold with my mother saying that it’s like she’s gained a son all of a sudden.
We just spent Halloween together and watched Fritz The Cat while high on shrooms and eating candy, being super lovey dovey with each other and talking about the 70’s…
Life is strange.
I doubt it happens like this for most people.
I watched Reality Bites recently and this was prominently displayed
I watched Reality Bites as a teenager, and I’m convinced it had a negative influence on my life.
The character Ethan Hawke played became my role model, and he’s just not a very good one, at all.Lmao damn rip
Can recommend ‘pop culture detective’ on that one
It worked for a friend of mine. They were friends, he kept trying to get her to date him and after a year of pestering she caved. They’re engaged now.
not making any claims about your friend’s situation, but i’ve seen this happen more than once also–pestering, caving, engagement-- and they ended very badly.
getting engaged or even married does not necessarily mean “happy together”
Yeah, fair enough for the general case. I do think their situation is a good one though.
You just got to wear them down enough, break their willpower. They can learn to love in time.
Unfortunately, this one goes both ways. Some women feel like they need to play hard to get, because otherwise they’re sluts, and also they want to know that a guy really likes her. It’s self defeating of course, on both sides.
When someone’s falling hundreds of feet and when they’re inches from the ground a super hero swoops in from the side to grab them.
Sure, they didn’t hit the ground but not only did you catching them slow down their vertical velocity just as fast as the ground would have, now you’ve accelerated them horizontally so fast that they’re now twice as dead as they would’ve been otherwise
I just fired a gun right next to your head, neither of us was wearing ear protection, and now we’re having a conversation at normal volume and we can understand each other just fine.
Bonus points for grenades going off indoors, and nobody having a concussion after.
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I think there’s a scene in The Other Guys where Will Ferrell and another guy temporarily get deafened by the loudness of gunshots. Might be thinking of a different movie but it was funny, like “Holy SHIT that was loud!” “Whaat?”
I fired an assault rifle in the army without hearing protection once just so try how loud it was. No need to try that one again. I knew it’s going to be loud but not that loud.
Depends on the gun. 9mm would be a normal conversation, 50. cal by the being shot close to your head with no hearing protection hurts
I’ll just add to this, 9mm, or any handgun really, is still very loud. The reason it doesn’t seem as loud is because when most people are shooting there are two main things happening.
- They’re behind the barrel, normally this doesn’t matter much, but the sound is at least a little directional, so being in front of it is going to make it sound much louder because you’re hearing the initial explosion, not an echo.
- Most people aren’t shooting it in their house, they’re at a gun range. The space in front of you at the range allows for the sound to travel and the pressure to spread through the room, slightly reducing the impact of the sound. Shoot one in a tiny room and it’s going to be much worse for you.
Again it’s still really loud, but the context of where the sound is being made does make a difference. Obviously larger rounds will be louder, but that doesn’t mean rounds like 9mm are safe for your ears at all.
9mm would be a normal conversation
Right after it being fired right next to your head? With no ear protection?
Permanent hearing loss aside, I’d probably have a few very harsh words for the idiot firing irresponsibly rather than a “normal conversation” 🙄
I’ve shot and been around the shooting of easily of 1 million rounds. 9mm isn’t loud, especially in comparison.
Yeah, good point, gun safety is very Important. Guns aren’t toys.
Congratulations on your hearing damage making things seem quiet? I’ve had somewhat fewer rounds, maybe 100k-200k, and 9mm is still deafeningly loud. I’m betting it’s because I wore hearing protection for most of it…
For god’s sakes, a simple internet search immediately shows the lack of evidence for 9mm being quiet.
Yeah, good point, gun safety is very Important. Guns aren’t toys.
You are correct, and that guy doesn’t know he’s deaf I guess. All pistols are loud enough to hurt your ears if your ears are normal. Even a .22LR pistol with a 6" target barrel is pretty loud to the naked ear.
I haven’t shot that much, but I’ve found pistols to be louder than smaller rifles - probably because the barrels are shorter and they’re a fair bit closer to your face.
I have the same experience, generally. It will definitely have a lot of room to wiggle around, depending on the particular gun’s characteristics, the bullet’s characteristics, and even the surrounding environment. If you read the wikipedia on it, you’ll even see a section complaining about how measured dB levels are nearly useless if the distance from the source isn’t measured. A lawn mower across the street isn’t such a big deal, but the one pushing it should have hearing protection.
I’ve shot a few thousand rounds. 9mm is very loud. Shoot it in a closed space just once without earpro and you will cause permanent damage to your hearing.
I don’t think a million round sample size would help you in judging this.
I’ve never heard any weapon fire 9mm and think “welp time to get my ears checked”
You realize it’s a function of distance and that function is logarithmic, right? A gunshot at one foot is a hundred times louder than it is at 20 feet. If you were exposed to a million gunshots of any caliber from a foot away, you would be profoundly deaf.
This is the most blantantly ignorant comment I’ve read on Lemmy. No one would assume that every single shot was shot close to my head.
That being said, yes, most living adults understand how sound works.
Think it just varies by rounds/gun and surroundings. I’ve had 9mm’s be quite quiet, but I had a Walther PK380 that would make my ears ring in a field without protection. It’s a smaller round than a 9mm… So never understood why.
Maybe it has something to do with the directional output. I’m not at all versed on the subject.
LOL they were probably shouting at the screen while typing.
I was in a play once where we were going to fire a blank onstage, in a fairly small black box theatre. There were two options, a .22 and a .45 caliber blank. The .22 made a sharp CRACK that really shocked you. The .45 made a VWOOM sound that filled up the entire room and left you with the feeling of a wave of violent energy having just passed through your entire body.
We went with the .22.
Hey, but it had a silencer on it, which is absolutely what it’s called, and makes the shots super quiet so they won’t be heard by people in the next room!
How night and day work above the Arctic Circle.
Movies and TV and stories talk about how there’s 6 months of daylight and 6 months of darkness. That does not fucking happen. This is still part of storytelling to this day (I’m looking at you, Sweet Tooth season 3).
Days get stupidly long in the summer, and there’s a while where the sun really doesn’t go down. in the Winter days get stupidly short, and there’s a while where it doesn’t really come up all that much. But it’s not 6 months of one and 6 months of the other.
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As a counterpoint to the excellent examples posted here, I will cite an example of the opposite that I appreciate: In the Big Lebowski when the Dude goes to retrieve his stolen car and he asks the cop if they have any leads. The cop’s reaction is both realistic and absolutely hilarious.
Space Flight.
I walked in on my roommate watching “Don’t Look Up” right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.
We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It’s not some crazy mystery. This isn’t Gravity where they add a window that doesn’t exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It’s not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.
A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That’s the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn’t necessary for good story telling.
Basically any time someone playing a chef or cook on TV picks up a knife I fly into a rage.
Stuff falling towards earth from a spaceship/satelite.
You’re already in orbit, things might wander away but it won’t be attracted in any specific direction.
This one doesn’t apply in Star Wars because nobody orbits anything in Star Wars. Antigravity is cheaper than accelerating into an orbital vector.
Isn’t the death star in orbit at one point?
Don’t forget the universally established upward direction so all ships are magically oriented exactly the same when they meet
There are lot of films where this doesn’t happen for sure 😃
Then why don’t the continents ever turn out from under them?
Because the movie is only 2 hours long and it takes several hours for that to happen.
The movie is 2 hours, but sometimes the events are much longer.
Yes, but during the parts of those events when we weren’t looking, they moved the ships over so they’d be in the same place relative to the ground.
Thanks for the insight, dragonfucker
Really depends on how low you are.
And if whatever sheared off the part of the spaceship/satellite changed it’s momentum. If I’m on a space station, and fling something directly towards the earth, from my perspective it will fall directly towards earth for quite some time (probably out of eyesight) before the orbital movements make it behave in odd (compared to on-the-surface) ways.
Well, flung not falling then? Until it enters the atmosphere and it’s forward speed gets breaked down I guess.
How much drag can you get in orbit lol?
drag in orbit? 0, microgravity that pulls on everything even in high orbit? yes.
What is this microgravity?
I mean the earth pulls with its gravity, and your vessel/satelite overcome that by being in orbit. Something coming lose will just stay in orbit too.
Uhm no. While you are in orbit you simply revolve around a parent object (a planet for example) but you still are subjected to its (and by proxy it to yours) gravitational pull. Eventually something that came lose will deorbit.
Keyword here is eventually. Sure it will, but what it definitely will not do is accelerate towards planet earth at what looks like 9.81m/s². AKA falling.
L shaped blankets.
Hah, that’s great. I’m going to be on the lookout now.
You can’t just leave a tvtropes link without a warning! Some never make it back.
About 9/10 court scenes a lawyer walks around the well and doesn’t get beaten with a baton, really annoys me.
I’ve heard this said, can you verify for me where the lawyer stands?
If his position is truly still behind his table, what if the witness/jurors are hard of hearing?
you just don’t enter the well without asking permission. it’s all behind the desk. it’s one of the most rampant tv law tropes that just isn’t realistic
They get a microphone. In the old timey days and some low funding courts the lawyers have to be very good and loud speakers.
Then the lawyer asks permission before going anywhere. But if a witness or juror is hard of hearing, they’ll have aids/accomodations provided.
So many.
Normal people get slammed into a wall by monster, explosion or whatever, stand up and walk away. Buddy, you don’t walk that off. People die or need months of recovery from less.
Don’t get me started on the speed force. You do some napkin math and see the Flash is taking on a 1000G running in circles close to mach 2 without blinking and then gets knocked unconscious with a single punch in the next scene. Flash is not the only one of course.
And the lone inventor developing a fully conscious AI in some mountain cabin on an old laptop. It was clear that would never work and reality now shown us AI companies looking into nuclear powered data centers to speed up things.
But also worth remembering that kid who made a nuclear reactor in his shed. Ai wasn’t around back then, but if it had been then, maybe, juuuust maybe….
It never actually worked. He never got further than spewing radiation.
Close enough for the girls I go out with
NGL, The Flash is only wtf until he realizes he’s next to godly in power. IMHO, supes’re best consumed when they’re post-humanist.
Somewhat related is iron man. The suit can’t protect him from g-forces. He would just be pulpy human goo in a can.
That said, I feel silly pointing out anything to do with super hero’s because they’re not intended to be realistic.
It’s more about good writing. It’s often said you’re allowed to have one cheat. You have to be consistent about it and the rest of the rules of the universe still apply. But often enough in fiction the writers start breaking any rule or law of physics when the plot requires it instead of fixing the plot to follow consistent world building. It’s lazy writing and bad for immersion. A lot of the tension in a story is from the characters overcoming limitations, not having limitations disappear whenever convenient.
All of this stuff makes me wonder how hard it would be to make a fully pedantic story.
I’ve seen books where the hero was on the verge of winning but gets randomly concussed by a piece of shrapnel. Disoriented, hospital.
Another where the hero had hearing loss issues from solo pistol badassing too much, sans ear protection. (Forgot the titles of these stories).
But what would it take to meet everything? Imagine Superman. Now he has to mind his acceleration to save people. He also has to mind distribution of force, since he can’t lift a plane without puncturing it. (Maybe he can make a little energy net under the plane somehow to distribute pressure?) And then he has to mind the Law of Conservation of Energy unless he splits apart matter somehow. And then this and that…
Will adherently realistic changes downrank most stories? I for one laugh my ass off when The Rock flexes his broken arm cast off in F&F.
Hacking.
There is no way that you keyboard danced for 12 seconds and completed a nmap scan, identified an unpatched target with a remote code execution bug, delivered the payload, pivoted to an account with the permissions you needed, and found the server running the internal application you are looking for.
Hack the planet!
telnet 127.0.0.1
I’m in!
Ah legacy systems.
All the young kids use ::1
You say that but it’s pathetic how little has been upgraded to add support for IPV6.
exactly. running an nmap scan alone involves minutes on end of just sitting there, waiting for nmap to do its thing, and hoping that the network administrator doesn’t notice your computer running the most obvious port scan of all time, barge into your borrowed cubicle, and say “what the hell are you doing”
It’s really simple, you just search the evil corporation’s hard drive for a file named
EVIDENCE.txtOnly Mr Robot
Hey now, War Games had pretty dang realistic hacking!
Realistic hacking scenes would be funny.
“Okay I’m in”
“Wait… how?”
“Oh I figured out the default passwords and naming conventions for new employees awhile ago.”
Funnily enough I got my college to change password policies because for a report for one of my classes I wrote about how stupid it was that all new users passwords were First intial + last initial + last four of social security number, with usernames being firstname + lastname + year. Since they had no max number of attempts on logins, and didn’t prompt you to change password on logging in, it took a few minutes to get into anyone’s account once you knew their name. (That school was very incompetent, and they are closed now)
OR
“Give me 20 minutes, I’m on hold with IT. They’ll reset the password and tell me it if I give them an employee ID, dob, and name. Which I see clearly on this guys facebook picture where he has his badge visibile.”
Or a hacking guy trying to brute force for days. Then the “no nonsense” guy goes out for 20 minutes, and comes back with it and refused to answer questions. Oh wait… that’s just XKCD.
There’s a scene in NCIS where somebody is losing a “hacker fight” so to turn it around a second person joins in and starts typing on the same keyboard.
Like there’s suspension of disbelief, and then there’s whatever psychological issue watchers of NCIS suffer from.
Hehe that scene was the one that made me think of this post.
NCIS should just dive into self parody at this point.
To be fair, that’s your personal thing, because you have knowledge about this topic. In movies and TV a crap ton of stuff is abbreviated to not bore the audience to death. Some shows portrait a certain domain more or less realistically but still take dramatic license with other things. After all, we watch this stuff to escape from reality.
We just watched “The Trap” last night. There was a major pop concert that ended in time for family dinner time during daylight. In the concert, they were depicted having time to make multiple trips to the merch tables and concessions, and in one of those trips, they talked like it was an intermission to change the stage set between songs.
Pouring gas over everything and lighting it by tossing a lit cigarette into the puddle. It does not work that way.
So you do it with an unlit cigarette? takes notes for doomed insurance fraud attempt
That one seems intentional. Teaching idiots the wrong way to arson.
You think somebody committed to burning their ex’s house or something down will douse the thing in gas, then give up when their lit cigarette does not ignite it?
How should I burn things properly? 🤔
Or tossing an entire Zippo lighter into a pool of gasoline. Do you have any idea how much a good Zippo costs?!
