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Originally Posted by davidlpf
Some of the 3D graphics used to symbolize them hacking.
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...especially when projected onto the computer user's face in detail.
One that's bugged me since I noticed it while I kept my hair very short (sometimes called "bald" but not really) was that shaven or short-buzzed white guys are always trouble. If they're not racists or Nazis, then they're the guys who whip Jesus, or bounty hunters, or hitmen, or former soldiers who've gone renegade... Even in commercials that are supposed to be funny, bumping into a bald or nearly bald (and young) white guy is a symbol for accidentally getting yourself in deep trouble, because he's obviously going to attack the main character for bumping into him, because that's what shaven/buzzed white guys do.
The worst one of the "boy meets girl" variations y'all were talking about before is the one in which the perfectly good boy who's
supposed to be the type that the girl wants, but clearly isn't since that's not the kind the girl really shows any interest in, ends up getting the girl anyway because she completely reverses herself in the end (for no reason and without real-world precedent). Like the thing about bald white guys, my irritation with this cliché could also be due to experience: I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me that what girls/women really want is a guy whose description happens to sound just like me, as if I couldn't see for myself how things really work in the world around me. I have a thing about being lied to (including on subjects where the truth they're trying to protect me from is actually OK in itself).