Mini guns?

You're buying the wrong pistols then. You can throw a Glock in mid then run 800 rounds through it without cleaning, without jamming. And reloading a pistol is much easier than reloading a revolver. They also don't kick nearly as much as a revolver, making them far more accurate.

That was true until about the late 90's. There are quite a few modern pistols that are equally reliable, and require little maintenance. I've fired thousands of rounds through my Glock 21 and although I clean it after every time, I certainly don't have to. And I've never had a malfunction of any kind. Not one. Some guys I know clean theirs two or three times a year.

Now there are some rather unreliable brands out there still, so I imagine that's why the cliche still exists.

Well yeah, three tiddies are 50% more likely to keep me around than two.

And isn't CPR deliberately depicted wrongly in movies and shows because the proper IRL CPR procedure risks breaking a person's ribs?

My mistake yes cyclops from the MCU

Ironically it's canon in even Alien (1979) and even a truck driver / pilot knows it. "Oh you got in contact with an alien organism? Sorry can't let you on the ship."

For some reason the cowboy style of the Prometheus. The sad thing is they could have written around these bad tropes but chose not to.

I mean, he doesn't actually bang her. But those scenes always grossed me out. I don't want to see adults even almost fucking high school kids in my kids-on-bikes sci-fi show. Maybe the Duffer brothers would say they were lampshading an older sexist trope by gender-flipping it, but that doesn't make it less repulsive.

Big Bang Theory is witty and funny. It’s my favorite show now. Am I old now?

It is a fun pulp adventure action movie, but if you expect realism you gotta stop there. As far as I know it was all inspired by old serial shows and pulp stories from magazines. Ya gotta just let certain stories be fun. Though as a geek it is fun to rag on their issues I know, have done that lots.

But yes seemed silly he hung on the uboat that long, I wondered about it growing up since was a regular watched movie, that was a long freaking trip to be hanging regardless of food service and comfort.

Oh, you break ribs when done right.

I don't know. Damn it Jim! I'm a piano player, not a Doctor!

The ending broke me with how ridiculous it was. I should see bone Temple i suppose

I find it kind of cool that they portrayed blanks correctly, or at least more accurately than usual. The public has a misconception that shooting blanks is like shooting a cap gun.

Oh yeah, that is so totally true. HIPPA doesn't apply to strangers in the hallway.

The TV show 24 killed me with how he was able to do much in an hour when it could easily have taken 30-1.5 hr just in travel time around cities like LA.

For anyone who doesn't know the show premise was each episode was 1 hr in a 24hr period where the main guy has to stop some kind of terrorist or otherwise crazy attack with dozens of sub plots and things he has to do per hour too. But somehow he travels across major cities in minutes.

What kills me. The smart person, call them a leader in molecular biology. That can suddenly fly a space ship. Operate everything in said space ship. Write a computer program, in excel, to translate an alien species. Like come on dawg. I get it. You’re smart and make a fun movie. But the whole 1 person that is a fucking the expert in literally everything that happens is just getting old.

I can relate to this. A movie asks for suspension of disbelief, and I am happy to grant that. But then it has to present a coherent world for which I suspended my disbelief. If it doesn't then I wasted my suspended disbelief and that's annoying.

Season 1 is goat level of good. Goes off the rails from there. The whole 11 going wild thing and then the Russian thing were just not needed.

Not to mention the 76 years or whatever it took them to film it all. Those kids in the last season all looked like mid 20 year olds with a shit corpo job. Not high school age kids.

TBBT is bottom of the barrel humour. It's meh at best. IMHO.

What I enjoy is watching poorly directed/acted shows or movies and stopping right after a cut. Pay attention, if they’re not the best actors, you can see them starting their lines or getting the gears going. This is especially apparent when there’s no sound. It’s ruined syndicated shows for me.

If you think the Hulk is bad, don't even try to work out Ant-Man. Even if you use the "it's magic" argument (which IIRC Ant-Man's powers are not described that way), it still contradicts its own logic constantly.

Mission Impossible, the first remake with Tom Cruise. The final scene ruined the whole thing for me. He's hanging on the outside of a helicopter flying through a train tunnel chasing a train - which apparently wasn't improbable enough because he then blows up the helicopter and the explosion sends him flying safely onto the train.

I'm sorry, but that helicopter was made of metal and glass. Anything that blew it up is going to turn him into a fine mist. In another, cheesier action movie, fine! But the movie took itself so seriously otherwise that I just couldn't anymore.

I have not seen that one, but people taking a bad situation an making it much worse for the dumbest reasons possible actually sounds painfully realistic.

I don't know the official MCU explanation for the Hulk, but in the comics the lore goes to absolutely insane places and him gaining mass is incredibly tame in the grand scheme of things.

I don't know why people forget even the first moon missions had a quarentine trailer/chamber used by the astronauts for this exact reason.

They were pretty sure they weren't gonna find microbial life on the moon but they sure as hell weren't gonna take the risk in case there actually was.

Haha I remember watching independence day for the first time and thinking "oh damn they're gonna infect the aliens with a disease" and then Jeff goes "computer virus" before tapping away with his laptop.

tbf though I consider that movie the king of blockbusters for the absolute massive list of wacky tacky bs that occurs pretty much the entire runtime of the film lol.

Yeah, but you still remember what it sounds like when the phones ring and the sound the clock makes.

Speaking of medical dramas:

I was amazed how Stargate Atlantis got one medical procedure right over so many medical dramas I've seen.

Patient is in defib, so they get the defibrillator. Doesn't work, patient's heart stops. They take away the defibrillator and start doing chest compressions.

I was just... Woaw. This series plays so fast and loose with science. Didn't expect that.

28 Weeks Later is such an incredibly stupid, and also unnecessary, sequel.

The sequel turned the infected into regular zombies. The 28 Days Later, nobody was a zombie. They could actually die from getting shot, needed to eat to survive, and by the end they all starved to death.

None of the characters were monumentally stupid either. So many incredibly fucking stupid characters in 28 Weeks Later. I watched it once when I was a teenager and I remember essentially asking "Why would he do that!?" every 5 or 10 minutes.

Miniscule compared to the work of the Christians

I don't nitpick over really minor things, like the wrong snakes and such. I can understand unrealistic silly if it makes sense for the movie.

What I can't stand are plots or situations that can only exist because the writers don't know what the fuck they're writing about, or lack any imagination in making plot reasons happen.

Battlefield Los Angeles is one of those movies I just can't fucking stand because of this.

I shoot an average of 4000 rounds a month. I would bet a whole lot of money that I'm far more familiar with "pistols" in all types than you are.

Revolvers are pistols.

Their recoil is often less than a semi auto. It depends on so many factors that saying they have more or less recoil is a nonsense claim; it depends on your ammo and the mass of the gun, primarily.

Accuracy is the same. Sights matter. Build quality matters. Length of your barrel matters. It all matters.

You can throw a Ruger GP100 in the mud and I'd trust it any day over a Glock covered in mud. It's foolish to claim otherwise.

Glocks are great handguns. But they have malfunctions just the same, especially when you have mags with worn out springs like a lot of daily carry guns do because people pack the mags full and then leave them that way for years on end.

I'm not saying revolvers are better, I'm saying they have pros and cons and it's personal preference. Many people who obviously know more than you do think they're the best guns to carry when you need them most. I won't say I agree or disagree, just that I acknowledge the points, and I'm sharing them here because firearm knowledge is generally abysmal, even in countries where they're readily available.

Sure, if you can find enough razor cartridges. Armpits are too concave to use a straight razor on I would think.

Granted it is possible she did IPL or electrolysis before the downfall of society, so that is a potentially reasonable explanation

It's wacky tacky alright. 😅

That's pretty close, but no cigar. You never remove the defib. Then you do 2 minutes more of compressions and then you re-analyze again. Wash rinse and repeat until you are relieved or someone with the authority to decide tells you to stop.

Now, if one of the characters is a medical doctor or the idiot script writer in this case, they were quasi military right, then those people can make a decision to stop CPR. But it would have been a more accurate scene if they just shown them starting CPR, doing a cut scene to everyone being exhausted and done. Or checking the body and seeing an obvious sign of death like lividity and not even starting. So still pretty poor writing.

The worst part is that it's so easy to get this stuff right. It's just simple things. not rocket surgery.

Normalise removing your interest and presence from bullshit situations 👏🏻

Don't you believe in fairies?

Physics wasn't my best science, but wouldn't the recoil have to be equivalent? So if the bad guy gets thrown back 3 feet, the protagonist would also get thrown back about that amount?

Honestly it depends on the revolver. Different revolvers do hold different amounts of ammo. I have seen heavier revolvers like .357 or .44 that hold anywhere from 5 to 6 shots. I have also seen light caliber revolvers like a .38 or .32 that holds 8 to even 12 shots. Of course, a 12 shot revolver is typically only a very light weight like the .32, and they tend to be very small guns. Thay being said, most movies don't show that. They show a guy with a huge ass gun that probably only hold 5 to 6 shots at best. Then again, very few shows or movies ever show guns accurately. The sound from shooting even a light caliber gun can deafening in an open space. The sound of a .357 is so loud its unbelievable.

Yeah, exactly. Newton's third law. If the person who was hit goes flying, an equivalent force had to be acting on the shooter. If that shooter is shooting a handgun, imagine just how much force is acting on their wrist.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to do a test dive right at the start.

A 12 inch gun on a sub is crazy. That's not just a gun from a battleship, that's one of the main guns from the battleship. That's a ridiculous amount of overkill for a merchant ship. If you wanted to ambush armoured enemy ships that's another matter. If you could successfully do that, it might not even matter if the gun only lasted a few shots. A sub is cheap compared to anything requiring a 12 inch gun. I'm surprised they got far enough with the program to actually test fire them.

You sure do what?

The most egregious example of this that I can think of is in the final shootout of Commando, where Schwarzenegger's character fires hundreds of rounds without ever reloading once

Since the gun could only be loaded while the sub was surfaced, it had to sink its target in one shot, which was unlikely to be the case against warships, even something small and unarmored like a destroyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M1_(1917)

Good luck managing to hit a destroyer with a fixed gun.

I would imagine that if you did manage a hit though, it would be devastating. I don't think there were many ships that could shrug off hits from a 12 inch gun. Even if it didn't sink, it would probably be badly damaged, which might give the sub the opportunity to surface somewhere safe, reload, and shoot again.

What about a free and available parking spot in front of every location they're driving to?

I feel like your calling out Project Hail Mary. Is this what you are referring to?

I work in IT, don't get me started on things that don't make sense. I was genuinely shocked when I watched Mr. Robot and thought omg they actually tried!