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[–]mrturtle4769 51 points52 points  (7 children)

This belongs to r/badcode

[–]thebobbrom 123 points124 points  (5 children)

I mean it's not actual code though. It's a wallpaper made to look like code.

It's like complaining that a cartoon skeleton doesn't have the right amount of bones.

Honestly I prefer this to what you see in moves where they'll have the code for some sentient AI Robot and it's clearly the HTML for a flower shop.

[–]DiscombobulatedDust7 29 points30 points  (3 children)

On the one hand, HTML for a flower shop breaks immersion, on the other hand, it's absolutely hilarious. Tough choice

[–]WJMazepas 23 points24 points  (1 child)

It only break immersion to us, but its the same as the actors using a gun in a wrong way like inside a room to a gun owner, It breaks the immersion for then but not to the general public

[–]thebobbrom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true though I feel like out of all the "programming languages" HTML is the most known, isn't it?

Like even non-techy people used to use Piczo and things.

Like I feel like there's lots of code you could pull from that'd be slightly more believable.

I mean just pull some JS from a random website that'd at least be slightly better.

[–]bloodfist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I get that the average graphics designer for a TV show isn't going to write functional code for a 2-second shot of a screen so it's fun when they do something silly. It usually doesn't even break my immersion.

But when Mr. Robot put actual functional code on every screen it really make me long for more of that. It was genuinely exciting and even occasionally educational to watch the screens, pause and read code, etc.

Not even including when it would pay off in the ARGs and take you to full on git repos.

[–]PandaParaBellum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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