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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (11 children)

CGI. When people say "there was too much CGI" they just mean "there was bad CGI" because the good stuff is imperceptible.

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    [–] 63 points 1 year ago

    Any maintenance

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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: β€œWhat do you think a washing machine is?!”

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with β€œI 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.”

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Having recently moved into a house with these issues: doorknobs. You never, ever think about the ones that just work well, but every iffy one is irritating every time you use it.

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    [–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The location of light switches relative to the light.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bass in music. If the bass play right, you don't hear it, but if they miss or play wrong there is immediately something missing

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sound quality.

    I worked in life theater for almost a decade as a sound board op and audio engineer for a few local theaters.

    People would always comment to the lighting board op how good the lights were.

    But maybe one person in a whole run of a show would compliment the sound.

    Boy oh boy, if a cable died mid show... The whole intermission and afterwards I'd have to hear "I do sound at my church and," or some variation of "I'm just a hobbyist but,".

    You think I wouldn't pull that cable and replace it if I could???

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My work apparently. Other people got promoted for solving problems quickly. I didn't have problems. At least, I did, but I solved them without help or advertising them enough probably.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Garbage trucks / taking the garbage to the right place.

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    Can confirm. The IT guys never deserve their money.

    If theyre doing it right, why do we need them? Everything works.

    If they do it even slightly wrong, why are we paying them? They clearly can't do anything right.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    User interfaces

    And stairs

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    [–] [B] 20 points 1 year ago

    Dusting. If you don't dust thoroughly enough things will look alright but people will feel vaguely unwell. Indoor air quality in general is something I notice constantly post-2019

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Railway safety. On airplanes there will sometimes be people who clap when the plane lands safely. In modern cars we have a number of safety features that are pretty hard to ignore. But with trains everyone is (rightfully) focused on punctuality. Only in the rare event of a crash or similar so most people even begin to think about the safety aspect.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Housework. Anyhing from putting away coats to doing the dishes, etc

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Taking a shower.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    A goalkeeper in soccer or similar. It's a thankless job, you save 10 shots, nobody notices. But you miss one and you'll be called a bum by your own fans. As opposed to a forward striker, who might miss 10 shots, nobody notices. But you make one and you'll be a hero being paraded on shoulders.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    Sidewalk construction.

    Commercial carpet installation.

    Toilet paper.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Murder. Just sayin.

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    Corporate IT

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Bureaucracy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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    Your hair. Either it's bland old same old sane old. Or its odd looking.

    For most people anyways.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Door handle design that makes it intuitive whether it requires pushing or pulling to open.

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