ITT: Outdated stuff that writers still insist on using

This is what happens when "le tropes exist for a reason" faggots make their own stories.

Cameras still make the type of noise they made when pictures were taken on film.

did some editor for the Daily Planet actually write SZZZZASSSSK on the photo?

>zoom in on camera phone
>"vmmmmmmmmmmm"

This is kind of a dumb one but
>Guy looking at a porno magazine

Don't forget the huge hidden physical porn stash.

Doesn't necessarily mean it's bad either.
It's just a cliche.

The milk carton's probably still used because everyone gets it, even if it's not used anymore, and is simpler to draw and convey than everyone's phone going off and pulling them out to check the amber alert text.

Well, artificially now.
But the noise is so ingrained in culture that it gets replicated for ease of communication.

>it gets replicated for ease of communication
this is the tldr of the whole thread
Old ideas are used and perpetuated as visual shorthand.

Yeah nowadays they send your phone with annoying messages if the kid got lost in your area.

You’d think artist would use that since
1. It’s more realistic
2. You can have it be reasonable that a superhero finds and saves a kid

Just saying Amber Alert and then showing the name would convey the same information in a more timely fashion.
But it doesn't flow into a scene like a milk carton on a table or shelf.

It can work in a feasible time frame, certainly.
How long would a child be missing until you printed, filled, shipped and sold the milk carton? A week after the child is missing?
The child could be safely back home or dead before that thing hits the shelves.
An alert is much, much quicker.
Aaaand you can use them to lure a hero into a trap. They have attract local capes like flies. Just send a fake alert with a small location and watch every 2-bit vigilante trip over themselves getting there.

That is not to say a few of them couldn't use a bit of an update.
Like fucking flip phones. Those were around for such a short time frame, and modern phones do the same job.

What if it's on a TV in the background?

>You make this thread every couple months.
Wow, that's practically spamming.

>Last seen: Gotham City
wow, that's real descriptive

I agree with these.
Also, people shopping at malls.

Does Superman still use Phone Booths..

They were already making jokes about how anachronistic that was in the 1978 movie. These days, Clark just super speeds away and he's already in his Superman outfit, no need for a hiding place.

Possible. Even better if you have an established local news station.
Ooor, make it a radio alert. Radios running in the background work just fine.

That'd actually be a pretty neat trap

He could use a Starbucks restroom.
Walk in ordering a coffee for Superman, walk out in costume to take it off their hands.
He can do that at another one every time, too.

Did you read his "make them droll" script?
Of course he doesnt care.

that was a limited printing

People don't shop at malls?

JJJ does an Alex Jones style podcast, and Super Girl works for a news site. So that's on it's way out. I can't remember the last time Peter did any journalism, or whatever you'd call what he did.

They still exist, but they're dying. They just can't compete with online shopping, and big single stores like Wal-Mart. I liked malls, they were cool, but I probably won't miss them either.

Name a time in the past decade that this was used.

This is still a thing in Japan because of bullshit laws.

I'm almost 40 but people younger than me write stories of having to "climb the rope in gym". Nibba, that shit was gone decades before you or I ever hit high school.
The rope in gym class actually pisses me off because they try to act like it still exists.

The mall where I live is empty 4 days out of 7. It's packed on weekends, though.

i'm 33 and they did make us climb the rope in gym. But it was secured to both the ceiling and floor and had huge knots in it larger than my fists were at the time. Wasnt that hard that way.
We did that exactly once as part of some fitness check thing

>I can't remember the last time Peter did any journalism, or whatever you'd call what he did.
Freelance photojournalism. But even so, after Parker Industries closed down, didn't he start writing a science column for The Daily Bugle?

Hey Yea Forums, Gamera here. Since lost kids aren't put on milk cartons anymore and no pays attention to those notices in tax instructions and on vans how would you make people aware of lost children?

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That and dodgeball.

amber alerts on phones and tv

Putting missing kids on milk carton ended almost immediately after public backlash tho

TBF, it's cringy as fuck whenever they try to modernize this by using "internet blogs" in it's place.

It’s cringy as fuck when they try to modernize time tested plot devices when the new alternatives don’t work that way

Mails or messaging replacing letters when most people don’t write in long form anymore. Social media posts replacing diary entries

Honestly I'm fine with some outdated stuff like newspapers and shit sticking around. Not everything needs to 1:1 conform to the real world.

Retweets.

well yeah who would be at the mall on a weekday?

>malls are dying
That's why they keep expanding them and adding more and more luxury shops all the time
Maybe in Europe they're dying and being replaced by Arabian marketplaces but in Canada they aren't

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I graduated high school 2 years ago and we had climbing ropes and dodgeball. Climbing the rope wasn’t timed for a grade, but every guy loved them cause it’s fun af.

In the US in the 90s the main street shopping centers died, then malls got big.
Then in the mid 2000s online shopping became big, then the malls died.
Now main street shopping is big, and online shopping and malls are still dead.

>online shopping is dead

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All Star Superman did this just fine, actually.