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What's a factually inaccurate thing that pops up in media or fic that makes you giggle or shake your head at the silliness? No srs bsns - "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY" type stuff only :)

Let's go with fic where people catch things on fire that are soaked in wine or beer. Unless you're making a joke about how X's culture's beer is 10 times stronger than our puny Earth Beer, that's just adorably off base.

I love this cause I read a fic a few days ago when a character in a impulsive fit of drunken rage decided to make Molotov cocktails out of the last of his beer supply to chuck at another characters house. He failed miserably and ended up just littering the porch with broken bottles and dirty rags until the neighbour called the cops and character B had drag him inside to get him to stop.
It was like the best scene ever.

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I remember there being an episode of a cooking show (can't remember which one) once where they had to do flambes, and one of the contestants tried to do it with wine, and ended up with a very disappointing flambe with very little flame.

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I don't see this as often anymore, but I would always giggle when somebody had their characters drive from, say Disney World (in Florida) to Disneyland (in California) and the whole drive would take around five hours with pit stops along the way.

I am guessing those writers were European :). That's worse than I've seen, but I remember being very amused by someone who had their characters drive from NYC to Buffalo in an hour.

Fuck. This.

As a kid I would drive from southern Ontario to Florida (Miami) every few years to go on a cruise around the Caribbean. It's more or less straight down, but it'll take about 36h of driving unless you want to die of exhaustion or succumb to some sort of bladder infection along the way.
For my cousin's wedding we drove down to greet the family in Idaho (I think it was?) first, and then across the states to LA and yeah... That's no five hours at all.

As a Canadian, I fully understand, and this is cracking me up. That said, I'm willing to bet plenty of North Americans (mostly young ones, I hope) write hilarious roadtrip fic where Londoners spend a week driving to Edinburgh or whatever. That would also be delightfully hilarious to me. Like, what route are you TAKING!??

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I love how every time people played video games on TV shows all the way into the 90s at the very least, they'd use sound effects from really old games so it was like "bleep bleep boop boop" even though by the early 90s we had games with pretty realistic sound effects and nice instrument sampling for the music (and in the case of the TG16 for instance, actual voice acting and recorded musical tracks).

I remember one instance where two kids were holding Playstation controllers sitting on the couch in front of a TV, and the music playing was from the Gameboy (original b/w system) version of Tetris, and the sound effects implied that the two of them were just pausing and unpausing the game repeatedly. I could not stop laughing.

I forgive you for getting Korobeiniki stuck in my head because that's hilarious!

This completely!! I remember being in half-shock when in an episode of NCIS (which I know, I should have expected it) literally featured people playing Dragon Age: Inquisition (they were fighting one of the dragons and Cassandra was in the party) and 'Geek' MeGee made a whole comment about the game, and /everything/ he said was /completely/ inaccurate!
The game must have just come out when the episode was filmed if I'm remembering right, so it was really strange that they featured it without any accuracy.

(I'm pretty sure in that LARPer(? Live action role play?) episode of SPN where they had a gaming tent where they were playing DA:2 which I just assume is inaccurate too)

This happens to me a lot but the one that gives me the most ridiculous outrage is when a character make a wild leap of logic out of nowhere.

I don't have a specific examples, but something like when a detective surveys a house and notices something like, 'the victim's sneakers look brand new... that means they couldn't be by the beach that day because they weren't a jogger!!! THE BODY MUST HAVE BEEN MOVED!!!!' -cue dramatic music and shocked faces-

Is this sort of like how every time I miss the charging port on my phone I think that, according to Sherlock, I'm an alcoholic?

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I love that silly sword 'shwing' sound when people draw/put away their swords. Granted, it happens with some swords but usually not. And the sound is always the same and it's everywhere. Constantly. I adore it.

It always makes me think of the singing sword scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit!

This instantly reminded me of the hair "shwoosh" Xena uses in all hair flip scenes! ...and this video, of course! <3

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOJiotivjw

The gaming secret reminded me of how badly media portrays hacking. I think most famously this scene from NCIS:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE

Where basically they're being hacked and Abby and McGee both use the same keyboard and Gibbs just ends up unplugging the monitor and everything's A-OK!

For a show that always bragged about having real experts involved, NCIS always managed to bring the WTF.

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Oh no, now I can't stop thinking about all the lube fail I've seen in fic... *shudders*

I guess a mild one was an actual published work where one character said another was built like a moose - except this was like, 15th century Europe? So there was no way the person making that comparison had ever seen a moose!

Hm, that may gave been a language goof a good editor should have caught. Just change it to elk and it'd be alright.

Where in Europe?

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Holograms, like in Tony Stark's workshop or R2D2's projection of Leia, and visible lasers like in heist movies where they do acrobatic dance routines around security laser shows in front of bank vaults. Light does not work that way, you need a canvas to project the light on to see an image.
What baffles me isn't really the fact that holograms appear in science fiction, it's that they appear so often. Why did this bullshit become the visual shorthand for technological advancement? It wouldn't even be very useful if it was used like in Tony's workshop! It'd be much harder to see technical details in a blueprint if it's hovering in the air with clutter in the background and light pollution than if it was on a screen or paper.

And in the same way, phones and tablets made of glass, like in Player One or Parks and Rec. They're so impractical. How are you going to read text on that thing without a neutral background? And more importantly: there's no privacy because everyone else can see what's on your screen from the back. Why would this technology catch on for everyday life??

People who are unconscious for extended periods of time without peeing. And hospital gowns that flatter the actor.

Haha, I'm guilty of this (not of six month comas, but like a couple of days or something). But I just rely on weird ass rules of fictional universes, especially if they're magical in nature.

I'm starting to develop an ear for the red-tail hawk screech, the stock large cat snarl (much abused by Gargoyles), and I think there's a canned crow call that I keep hearing around.

Also, how characters can engage in witty repartee while city driving or other forms of life or death multitasking.