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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

When there is a computer problem and they call some guy who presses like two keys and fixes it. Or when they type really fast and click a lot of things and then it fixes it.

Because of Hollywood way too many people believe that’s how you actually fix a computer or technology, and then when your boss sees you not clicking or typing that fast, your boss thinks you’re an idiot and don’t know what you’re doing. Thank you, Hollywood for brainwashing people.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Often we do press 2 keys and fix it. That's what they see when tech support drops by so they thinks it's magic and all fixes work like that.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup. That’s when I get the “what do we pay you for if it was that easy to fix?” … it was that easy to fix because I know what I’m doing!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

what do we pay you for if it was that easy to fix

The years of studying and ten years of experience required to know that those two keys would solve the problem.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/

For reference, £10 in 1908 would be worth roughly $1000 today and there were 20s in a pound, so 10s would be worth about $50 today.