[Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment?
[Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment?
Can be anything, from characters not using objects they have on them, to physics not being realistic, or a very big plot hole.
As an example, one of my friends told me that his pet peeve is that in a lot of sci-fi movies, when spaceships run out of fuel, they stop moving, while inertia and lack of atmosphere should keep them in motion.
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People randomly being able to increase their bandwidth. It's less so now (and happens less) but jfc seeing plot points in the oughts where something like an adsl connection was instantly beefed to 'moar bandwidth' on the fly with no one dealing with any of the infrastructure that physically rate limited (especially at the exchange) makes me graaar
Back in the day we used to hack cable modems to uncap the speed. Most of the time, and even more so now, the limits are artificial and a quick call can upgrade your service.
A quick call and usually a larger sum of money.
Yeah, that part too
I know. That's why I specifically mentioned ADSL, which unlike cable has limitations end users can't override due to how it's implementated at the exchange
ADSL is provisioned similarly. You can just re-provision and up the speed beyond your current service level.
Yup but the speed is rate limited on the telco end by literal codes implemented at the exchange. The issue is have is with end users shown blithely 'flipping a switch' to increase their ADSL speed on the fly. I literally used to program the AXIS codes for bigpond, you can't override that shit from the user end
Movie users are simply built different and have the switch patched in all the way from their house to the exchange.