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khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.
Charlie Brooker is a strange man.

:nws:PIG

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Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
what if phones, but too much

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
It's really ineffective.

Digiwizzard
Dec 23, 2003


Pork Pro
It’s Christmas, but everybody’s dead because nobody just reads anymore, you know? Nobody lifts their heads up for a second from those infernal pocket jailers we call phones to even cross the street before being merrily struck by a car. And everyone’s on Twitter, and that’s just terrible, and you’ve murdered everyone, and now it’s Christmas half the time, and murder the other half, and phones all of the time, and it’s all television’s fault.

David Copperfield
Mar 14, 2004


im david copperfield

khwarezm posted:

Charlie Brooker is a strange man.

:nws:PIG

if he had just hosed the poop balls pig he wouldn't need the porn

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009
I enjoyed it. There should be more.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
the white bear one was awesome

most of the rest were interesting concepts and decent effects but that one was really good

i liked the million billion credits one and did not like the youtube comedian bear cartoon politician one

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



The Christmas one is creepy

Machai
Feb 21, 2013

wtf is this? why are they showing porn to that pig?

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
I liked the one where they have recording devices in their eyes.

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

XMNN posted:

the white bear one was awesome


white bear mad over-rated imho

christmas episode was the only very good one

JakeP
Apr 27, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

Gaunab posted:

I liked the one where they have recording devices in their eyes.

ya that was the best episode about cucking

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Gaunab posted:

I liked the one where they have recording devices in their eyes.

It's basically a sci-fi episode of "Peep Show"

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

JakeP posted:

white bear mad over-rated imho

christmas episode was the only very good one
i only watched it once, but the reveal was really good

I watched some of the christmas episode and it was pretty good but i gave up halfway through because 4od is a broken pile of useless poo poo

Faux Mulder
Aug 1, 2014

just gonna do whatever I want to do, all the time

it's all great except The Waldo Moment which is a bit poo poo.

Digiwizzard posted:

It’s Christmas, but everybody’s dead because nobody just reads anymore, you know? Nobody lifts their heads up for a second from those infernal pocket jailers we call phones to even cross the street before being merrily struck by a car. And everyone’s on Twitter, and that’s just terrible, and you’ve murdered everyone, and now it’s Christmas half the time, and murder the other half, and phones all of the time, and it’s all television’s fault.

ironically this reads exactly like a Charlie Brooker newspaper column. gratz if intentional

Gaunab posted:

I liked the one where they have recording devices in their eyes.

Yeah that's one of my favourites because of course that's what would loving happen

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost
white bear was good

am i the only one who likes the chat bot one

it's like what if you could perfect chat bot code and put it into a robot that looked like a real person. would it be the same as having the person back. the episode makes it clear it's like an alpha/beta program, so it isn't perfect so she picks up on the little things that the real person would do different, but what if it's perfected and it becomes really hard or even impossible to tell that it's just a chat bot. does that mean we are all just chat bots.

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Cool show

Love the talent one

Maldoror
Oct 5, 2003

by R. Guyovich
Nap Ghost
i read they're makin a feature film out of the implanted video camera / smart phone / everything you do is recorded one with robert downy jr or something.

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Maldoror posted:

i read they're makin a feature film out of the implanted video camera / smart phone / everything you do is recorded one with robert downy jr or something.

They're turning it into an action movie about conspiracies or something

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

Machai posted:

wtf is this? why are they showing porn to that pig?

Watch the episode, its on Netflix :getin:

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
It tries to stretch a 20 minute story out into an hour and is really boring

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer
Some of them were okay.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
The Twilight Zone being preachy and hamfisted was OK because it was genuinely subversive and was espousing things like compassion and goodwill.

Black Mirror is just a bitter old man shaking his fist at kids these days with their Facebooks and the Xbox Lives and their selfies and then inventing outlandish scenarios in an attempt to convince the world that his discomfort isn't just him losing touch with the world as his mortality closes in on him. It's Old Man Yells At Cloud: The Series

babies havin rabies
Feb 24, 2006

episode 2 of season 1 was legitimately terrifying

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
"Back in my day, beating the game was the Achievement."

-Charlie Brooker, moments before rolling up his sleeves and writing a script about how gamerscores and talent shows are the downfall of society because nobody really talks to each other anymore, you know?

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

Sleeveless posted:

The Twilight Zone being preachy and hamfisted was OK because it was genuinely subversive and was espousing things like compassion and goodwill.

Black Mirror is just a bitter old man shaking his fist at kids these days with their Facebooks and the Xbox Lives and their selfies and then inventing outlandish scenarios in an attempt to convince the world that his discomfort isn't just him losing touch with the world as his mortality closes in on him. It's Old Man Yells At Cloud: The Series

You seem upset.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

khwarezm posted:

You seem upset.

actually it seems more like you asked his opinion and he told you

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

gnarlyhotep posted:

actually it seems more like you asked his opinion and he told you

Nah he mad

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

khwarezm posted:

Nah he mad

I don't know if he's mad, but he's definitely right

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
Imagine an alternate universe where Black Mirror premiered in 1959 instead of The Twilight Zone. The first episode is about terrorists using mimeographs to ruin the life of a politician because it's so frightening that information is so unrestriced now. Episode 2 is about a dystopia where pinball scores are used as currency and Ed Sullivan is a menacing despot who uses his musical acts to control the populace because all kids these days want to do is watch TV and loiter at the pool hall. Episode 3 is about handheld 16mm film cameras ruining everyone's lives because when you can record everything then nothing is truly important.

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Sleeveless posted:

Imagine an alternate universe where Black Mirror premiered in 1959 instead of The Twilight Zone. The first episode is about terrorists using mimeographs to ruin the life of a politician because it's so frightening that information is so unrestriced now. Episode 2 is about a dystopia where pinball scores are used as currency and Ed Sullivan is a menacing despot who uses his musical acts to control the populace because all kids these days want to do is watch TV and loiter at the pool hall. Episode 3 is about handheld 16mm film cameras ruining everyone's lives because when you can record everything then nothing is truly important.

That second one would be hilarious

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.
Railing against the show because you think its anti-technology or something is really dumb because most of the episodes are about how technology simply amplifies distasteful characteristics that humans posses anyway. Random people get their lives ruined for posting dumb stuff on twitter really quickly, autistic manchildren are made into zoo exhibits for people around the world. Its hard to imagine that these specific examples would be possible without a lot of modern advances but its still the same sort of behavior that made people put criminals in stocks and pelt oranges at them, that what episodes like White Bear are about.

Sorry if you feel uncomfortable about this, tell me, how many hours do you spend playing videogames a week?

the Bunt
Sep 24, 2007

YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT
Great first two episodes and then a really steady decline. I havent seen the christmas one though yet is that one good?

the Bunt
Sep 24, 2007

YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT
Also White Bear was easily the second worst one, after that really horrendously lovely cartoon bear one

Crewmine
Apr 26, 2012
It's really up or down, but even that stupid bear one was still watchable and enjoyable

Best one was probably the dead husband robot if I remember right

BottledBodhisvata
Jul 26, 2013

by Lowtax
I like Charlie Brooker's Screen/News/Whatever-Wipe show. What is Black Mirror I have not heard of Black Mirror please tell me everything

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
Black Mirror rules and also Twilight Zone rules

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

BottledBodhisvata posted:

I like Charlie Brooker's Screen/News/Whatever-Wipe show. What is Black Mirror I have not heard of Black Mirror please tell me everything

British PM fucks a pig and its broadcast nationwide.

toggle
Nov 7, 2005

babies havin rabies posted:

episode 2 of season 1 was legitimately terrifying

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gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

BottledBodhisvata posted:

I like Charlie Brooker's Screen/News/Whatever-Wipe show. What is Black Mirror I have not heard of Black Mirror please tell me everything

It's a show that wants to be the modern X-Files or Twilight Zone but is actually long, drawn-out, poorly written sci-fi that drags on for seemigly ever before anything remotely interesting happens

Imagine if Robert Heinlein and Stephen King wrote sci-fi about things they barely understood and were preachy about it

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