video editing 200%
it is truly an art form
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.
Y2K is another example of this. It could have been bad. But programmers worked for years fixing the date problem in software. Nothing came of it because of all the hard work.
Bass players until a wrong note is awkwardly placed into the music.
CGI. When people say “there was too much CGI” they just mean “there was bad CGI” because the good stuff is imperceptible.
That’s a good one. I like this guy’s series on the topic
I was also going to post the Down The Movie Rabbit Hole series! It’s a very interesting series and well worth watching to understand the “no CGI” claims too.
And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.
Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.
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
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.
Anything in IT.
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?
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.
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: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
You guys should definitely do a field trip to a wastewater treatment plant, if you ever get the chance.
Your kids would probably have a blast.I’ve been to so many, but I don’t know how hard it is for the general public to visit one.
Since 9/11 they’re generally locked off from the public in the US. I attended some mass casualty and terrorism training and we talked with someone who ran their city water and sewer. He had a neat plan to radiate the city water system he helped them defend against.
Smaller towns are still a little more open to tours. It’s worth asking.
I had portraits taken above a clarifying pond for… reasons. The folks at the plant were very accommodating. I sent them a 4x6 print and a thank you card; I assume it will stay on their break room fridge until someone comes along with a weirder request.
Wiping ones butt or using bidet after taking a crap.
A clean bathroom. Or not…
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
Proofreading.
Any maintenance
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.
