Bass players until a wrong note is awkwardly placed into the music.
Pretty much all safety regulations
Every safety rule is written in blood but due to no one getting hurt (because of said rules) people begin to think the rules aren’t necessary.
It’s the same concept with preventative measures like vaccines. Vaccines worked to the point we had an entire generation grow up in a world without the most common forms of debilitating diseases and as a result we now have anti-vaxxers everywhere.
It’s even prevalent in things like the hole in the ozone layer. When it was first discovered EVERYONE was panicking about it. But then we fixed it to the point some people think it was never really a problem at all.
This needs more upvotes.
Anything in IT.
So fucking true
Wiping ones butt or using bidet after taking a crap.
Urban planning. Being able to walk or take transit to all your errands gets taken for granted until you move to a suburban asphalt desert.
Background music in any environment.
Network Administration.
If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?
If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?
infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.
It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.
Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
Now I’m thinking about where my poo goes as I sit on the toilet reading Lemmy
You guys should definitely do a field trip to a wastewater treatment plant, if you ever get the chance.
Your kids would probably have a blast.I’ve been to so many, but I don’t know how hard it is for the general public to visit one.
Since 9/11 they’re generally locked off from the public in the US. I attended some mass casualty and terrorism training and we talked with someone who ran their city water and sewer. He had a neat plan to radiate the city water system he helped them defend against.
Smaller towns are still a little more open to tours. It’s worth asking.
I had portraits taken above a clarifying pond for… reasons. The folks at the plant were very accommodating. I sent them a 4x6 print and a thank you card; I assume it will stay on their break room fridge until someone comes along with a weirder request.
That’s sad. I understand the threat for the water supply side ofc; but what would a terrorist achieve by meddling with wastewater treatment?
I live in Europe and had the opportunity to visit the water tretament facilities and wastewater treatment plant in my small town on school field trip, and have seen lots more, and much larger ones while studying to become an environmental engineer lateron.
I’d say the school visits had some impact there.
Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.
Here is a recent ticket my team just got. I was honestly suprised how pissy it got.
Hopefully this is the easiest request you’ve had of the day. This is a request from my C-suite. Since we’ve looked at the network and everything ‘looks good.’ But they have asked us to take another look given the continued complaints from the vendor (see attached email) I’m escalating to the NE team so the “experts” can validate that there isn’t any code or anything that would be causing this cart to have faulty connections.
I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with “I was directly told to do this by someone who has the authority and the attitude to fire my entire department on a whim. I don’t think this will help, but I’m doing this specifically as CYA so I can get back to what I actually need to be doing instead.”
I don’t even hear the condescension when I read it. I just hear someone that’s incredibly annoyed at having to go through the motions for the bosses boss.
The “experts” part felt condescending to me. In a very “I know better than you, but you have the title so I have to defer to you” way.
Localization. It’s not as easy as simply translating from one language to another!
Done right, you get something of foreign origin that feels like it was done in your backyard.
Done…less than stellar, you get “All your base are belong to us, someone set us up the bomb.”
Pic related
IT.
came here to say this and it irks me that doing nothing has the same effect as doing something exceptionally well.
Thought you were talking about the movie, and I agreed.
then realised it was the scary IT you were talking about.
agree even more
Life.
CGI. When people say “there was too much CGI” they just mean “there was bad CGI” because the good stuff is imperceptible.
And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.
Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.
One time I worked on something where a character threw a spear. For some reason they didn’t have a spear on set and asked the actor to just pretend. Then our instructions from the director were to make the actor twirl the spear before he threw it. Just because it looks super cool to twirl stuff, I guess.
Not only did the actor not pretend to twirl it, the shot was about 30 frames long (one second is 24 frames). So we had like 15 frames to make him twirl this giant spear, which the actor didn’t do. It was either make it look like dog shit or make a full, hero digital double and completely re-do the shot as 100% CGI, which there wasn’t time or budget for.
Yeah, it looked like dog shit. The whole project did.
Absolutely. On the Team Deakins podcast they (Roger and his wife James) said they try to be involved in post as much as possible, because when animators and DPs don’t communicate, the digital elements are lit differently and end up looking cartoonish.
The reasons why CGI is bad doesn’t matter. If the CGI is bad it is bad.
I’d argue it matters quite a bit. It shows producers, and by extension a studio, that can’t manage production effectively, and that almost always extends to the rest of the movie. “Bad” CG is rarely the only issue with those movies, it’s just what you remember most since movies in general require the suspension of disbelief and that pulls you right out of it.
That the CGI is bad is what matters the most. Why it is bad changes nothing for the viewer.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for this. It’s true. The takeaway should be “producers shouldn’t rush their VFX and listen to time and budget projections” instead of thinking they can get something for nothing.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for this
The downvotes are probably because they’re just stating something obvious. No shit, bad looking CGI looks bad, that doesn’t mean the actual CGI itself is necessarily bad. Small things like wrong lighting can make otherwise great CGI look terrible. The reasons DO matter, even if the average person may not really care and just has the takeaway of “bad CGI”.
Posting that type of response is not actually providing anything to the discussion, it’s a useless comment that provides no value. Not all comments and opinions are valid or constructive. The voting system is not really for agree/disagree, but whether a post adds to the discussion.
Like plastic surgery
That’s a good one. I like this guy’s series on the topic
I was also going to post the Down The Movie Rabbit Hole series! It’s a very interesting series and well worth watching to understand the “no CGI” claims too.
UX/UI. To be specific input forms. Had to get past a captcha for an appointment. I have no idea how the site handled captchas but couldn’t get past it. No indications if it had to be capitalized, with or without spaces etc… Just gave up after trying for a while.
I realize captchas are to prevent bot behavior but I wish there could be some sort of threshold on the backend where if you fail enough times it should recognize that a bot would’ve moved on by now and only an actual human being would be dumb enough to have persisted that long.
A clean bathroom. Or not…
The location of light switches relative to the light.
Ah yes one of the rants from the design of everyday things
Current house I‘m living in is just mayhem when it’s about the switches
Any maintenance
