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It's tough. When you watch a TV show and you see they show computer stuff completely inaccurately, it makes you think what else is not accurate? That's why I d

It's tough. When you watch a TV show and you see they show computer stuff completely inaccurately, it makes you think what else is not accurate? That's why I don't watch any shows that have anything to do with "hacking", computers etc, because it feels cringe and makes me think if anything else is fake, then why should I bother ingesting it.

mattl 4y ago
Stranger Things also manages to get cereal incorrect. I think they’re trying to make a show set in era they lived in as kids but not one with any attention to detail.
- partomniscient 4y ago
  The Duffer Brothers (writers) were born in 1984, so I don't think they'd remember much at all, they were alive but were a lot younger than the main kids in the show.
  - j2bax 4y ago
    I was born in ‘83 and I think they’ve done a great job building a fantasized version of what the 80’s was or could have been. They’ve recreated a lot of tropes from movies they probably grew up watching.
    - mattl 4y ago
      The show has so many anachronisms I find it impossible to watch.
ladyattis 4y ago
Generally, I can't watch most shows or films set in the 80s because they get so many things wrong or add in things from a later date. The things that almost every show or movie set in that time get wrong is how bad the economy was for anyone that wasn't in finance or adjacent industries. If you were a factory worker in Indiana in the 80s then you likely have been laid off half the time and worked odd jobs (Same with folks anywhere else in the midwest and great plains). Stranger Things implies this with Winona Ryder's character in parts of season 1 and 2 but mostly they seem to hide the grueling poverty of the 80s under the happy face side of things (I guess the mundane horrors of capitalism is too much for some writers).
dahart 4y ago
> it makes you think what else is not accurate? The answer is: all of it! 100% of Stranger Things is inaccurate, because it’s fiction. ;) This is true for all subjects, not just computer hacking. This includes non-fiction documentaries too… there’s nothing you can watch anywhere that is “accurate”, except maybe live video feeds. There are always incorrect details. Accuracy, of course, is not the primary goal of TV show producers. They like to slip in these somewhat period accurate-ish tidbits for the enjoyment of those of us looking closely at the tangential details, but the Amiga in the show has no bearing on the story, it’s just a prop. I’m sure if you looked as closely at all the other props, you’d notice many that are inaccurate for the time & location: lamps, furniture, clothes, cars, houses, etc. It’s not possible to shoot a large production and get every single detail (and it would be unaffordably expensive to even get very close.) To me, going to the trouble of recreating the Amiga screen seems like a lot of effort to put into a prop. So here’s a question for you: would you rather they used fictional computer brands and fictional screen shots? Would that make it more watchable for you? Can you watch computer sci-fi when it’s not trying to include period props, like Tron, for example? I do have my own line for where inaccuracies will pull me out of a show and prevent me from suspending disbelief, but generally as a computer nerd who lived through the 80s, I like a lot of the ‘hacking’ pop culture, even when it’s extremely cringe (looking at you, “Hackers”).

mattl 4y ago

Stranger Things also manages to get cereal incorrect. I think they’re trying to make a show set in era they lived in as kids but not one with any attention to detail.

partomniscient 4y ago
The Duffer Brothers (writers) were born in 1984, so I don't think they'd remember much at all, they were alive but were a lot younger than the main kids in the show.
- j2bax 4y ago
  I was born in ‘83 and I think they’ve done a great job building a fantasized version of what the 80’s was or could have been. They’ve recreated a lot of tropes from movies they probably grew up watching.
  - mattl 4y ago
    The show has so many anachronisms I find it impossible to watch.

ladyattis 4y ago

Generally, I can't watch most shows or films set in the 80s because they get so many things wrong or add in things from a later date. The things that almost every show or movie set in that time get wrong is how bad the economy was for anyone that wasn't in finance or adjacent industries. If you were a factory worker in Indiana in the 80s then you likely have been laid off half the time and worked odd jobs (Same with folks anywhere else in the midwest and great plains). Stranger Things implies this with Winona Ryder's character in parts of season 1 and 2 but mostly they seem to hide the grueling poverty of the 80s under the happy face side of things (I guess the mundane horrors of capitalism is too much for some writers).

dahart 4y ago

> it makes you think what else is not accurate? The answer is: all of it! 100% of Stranger Things is inaccurate, because it’s fiction. ;) This is true for all subjects, not just computer hacking. This includes non-fiction documentaries too… there’s nothing you can watch anywhere that is “accurate”, except maybe live video feeds. There are always incorrect details. Accuracy, of course, is not the primary goal of TV show producers. They like to slip in these somewhat period accurate-ish tidbits for the enjoyment of those of us looking closely at the tangential details, but the Amiga in the show has no bearing on the story, it’s just a prop. I’m sure if you looked as closely at all the other props, you’d notice many that are inaccurate for the time & location: lamps, furniture, clothes, cars, houses, etc. It’s not possible to shoot a large production and get every single detail (and it would be unaffordably expensive to even get very close.) To me, going to the trouble of recreating the Amiga screen seems like a lot of effort to put into a prop. So here’s a question for you: would you rather they used fictional computer brands and fictional screen shots? Would that make it more watchable for you? Can you watch computer sci-fi when it’s not trying to include period props, like Tron, for example? I do have my own line for where inaccuracies will pull me out of a show and prevent me from suspending disbelief, but generally as a computer nerd who lived through the 80s, I like a lot of the ‘hacking’ pop culture, even when it’s extremely cringe (looking at you, “Hackers”).