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thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

quote:

“Google actually bought the elementary school where I went growing up,” the questioner said. “It’s a private charter school for, like, kids of Google employees.”

“Oh that’s awesome,” Miller said. “Finally, some white kids get an opportunity.”

hahahahaha tj miller owns. is there not a video of this panel the article is about?

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

SaltLick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLzgFkouSmc

Tech culture meets outdated instruments

You're way late on this and he has the talent to back up his ridiculous personality.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

thathonkey posted:

hahahahaha tj miller owns. is there not a video of this panel the article is about?

unfortunately not


This is a pretty great video of TJ Miller poking fun at his audience:
http://techcrunch.com/video/the-makers-of-hbos-silicon-valley-in-conversation-with-michael-arrington/518221623/

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
yeah I've seen that one already it's great as well.

anyway i just went to the recode.net front page for the first time ever to find this



is this uber's founder or something?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I guess the incestous nature of SV has downsides for certain companies:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/exclusive-google-and-uber-are-going-to-war-over-taxis

President Kucinich
Feb 21, 2003

Bitterly Clinging to my AK47 and Das Kapital

Improbable Lobster posted:

Burn down the SV, drag the VCs into the street and hang them from the intestines of the techies

We know how to deal with VCs thanks to the Vietnam war.

Napalm their plastic, piss soaked, ball pit having wigwams.

Razorwired
Dec 7, 2008

It's about to start!

opus111 posted:

You're way late on this and he has the talent to back up his ridiculous personality.

But does it make up for the fact that his talent is in an irrelevant instrument nobody gives a poo poo about?

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

The Crunchies got TJ Miller to host and he kind of went the Ricky Gervais route with even fewer warm and friendly jokes.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/05/watch-the-8th-annual-crunchies-awards-show-live/ (go to 1:30 in)

The most important thing that I took away from this was that there is a company called Shyp and it is revolutionizing the shipping industry.
http://www.shyp.com/

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
its shyt

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

WhyteRyce posted:

The Crunchies got TJ Miller to host and he kind of went the Ricky Gervais route with even fewer warm and friendly jokes.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/05/watch-the-8th-annual-crunchies-awards-show-live/ (go to 1:30 in)

TJ Miller trolling the audience owns

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

etalian posted:

TJ Miller trolling the audience owns

He calls the woman a bitch, which she at least feigns being insulted by, and then goes into a cheerleader speech when asked about Shyp. I disagree with TJ you can insult these people all you want as long as you give them a chance to talk about what they are doing.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006



opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Razorwired posted:

But does it make up for the fact that his talent is in an irrelevant instrument nobody gives a poo poo about?

Swing and a miss brah. Go back to streaming Katy perry or whatever the gently caress.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

SaltLick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLzgFkouSmc

Tech culture meets outdated instruments
I honestly thought this was a joke or parody the entire time. A mockumentary like best in show or spinal tap. Like seriously watch from about 1:56 to 2:15 and tell me it doesn't look like a skit.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

:ironicat:

Mr. Merdle
Oct 17, 2007

THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

WhyteRyce posted:

The Crunchies got TJ Miller to host and he kind of went the Ricky Gervais route with even fewer warm and friendly jokes.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/05/watch-the-8th-annual-crunchies-awards-show-live/ (go to 1:30 in)

The most important thing that I took away from this was that there is a company called Shyp and it is revolutionizing the shipping industry.
http://www.shyp.com/

Apparently TC took the video down? I can't access it anymore. But holy poo poo the google employee school sounds terrifying.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Dude on the right is inventing uber, but for seat fillers.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

FrozenVent posted:

Dude on the right is inventing uber, but for seat fillers.

not enough people crossing their arms in the pic.

Kobayashi
Aug 13, 2004

by Nyc_Tattoo

I see someone wearing sunglasses inside at night, a club/league tshirt, dadcore, a sweater vest, a tech tshirt, and an unbuttoned collared shirt over a tshirt. This all seems like appropriate attire for adults, at an awards show.

E: "Awards show"

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Kobayashi posted:

I see someone wearing sunglasses inside at night, a club/league tshirt, dadcore, a sweater vest, a tech tshirt, and an unbuttoned collared shirt over a tshirt. This all seems like appropriate attire for adults, at an awards show.

E: "Awards show"

TJ was right about hollywood having the same sort of self-congratulatory award ceremonies, main difference is the hollywood award ceremonies have people in the crowd you would actually want to gently caress.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

dude in the red is me :smug:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

dress to impress SV style:

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
god zuckerberg is just the ugliest, awkardest billionaire to ever walk the earth. money just can't fix him or clean up his oily face can it? who is the guy in crocs tho

the worst thing is
Oct 3, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
What a bunch of goobers

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

thathonkey posted:

god zuckerberg is just the ugliest, awkardest billionaire to ever walk the earth. money just can't fix him or clean up his oily face can it? who is the guy in crocs tho

Co-founder of Google Sergey Brin

basically a billionaire but shows up to meet Keira Knightly wearing crocs.

Kobayashi
Aug 13, 2004

by Nyc_Tattoo
^ That too.

thathonkey posted:

god zuckerberg is just the ugliest, awkardest billionaire to ever walk the earth. money just can't fix him or clean up his oily face can it? who is the guy in crocs tho

That's the crazy billionaire who thought Google Glass was on fleek.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
oh wow i guess i havent seen many pictures of sergey. for some reason i figured he might not dress like a complete slob :doh: wearing shorts with a long sleeve shirt is almost worse than the crocs somehow

so yeah, those guys pretty much run the biggest, most popular websites in the world. i feel bad and you should too.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgODYQiqbI

Reminder

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug
Also being on stage with a comedian who honestly doesn't give a poo poo about you

It gets more and more mean before he literally goes "This was a mistake" - skip to about 10m in

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

Lil Peeler posted:

Apparently TC took the video down? I can't access it anymore. But holy poo poo the google employee school sounds terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6jsjTVeJYk&t=5603s

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties

etalian posted:

dress to impress SV style:


I bet Zuckerberg is hover-handing.

WhyteRyce
Dec 30, 2001

I still can't figure out what Crocs Dude is doing in the photo. Why is he standing like that? Does he think he's gargantuan and that he has to squad a bit to get into the photo?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


pro-click.

Still no clue what a gorilla attacking CRT monitors has to do with silicon valley


also nerds outraged over TJ Miller's performance:
http://pando.com/2015/02/08/tj-millers-crunchies-disaster-shouldnt-have-surprised-techcrunch-or-anyone-else/

Tech Crunch employee apologizes for hiring TJ miller to host the event:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/07/a-word-on-the-crunchies/

etalian fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Feb 10, 2015

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
never ceases to amaze me how loving oblivious these folks are

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

thathonkey posted:

never ceases to amaze me how loving oblivious these folks are

The west coast has a more non-confrontational hugs "how dare you say that" type culture.

It's sort of local culture that doesn't approve of acidic juvenalian or tell it like it is humor.

Tech culture is also hilarious since it thrives in a fuhrer bunker like information bubble.


It's similar reaction when nerds got outraged over Joel Mchale's mockery of the Spike video game awards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-rA5LzFc9I

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
TJ miller is awesome for being so trolling and scornful towards SV nerds, I'm goad we have someone like that who can put their egos in place and loudly profane "I don't give a gently caress" about elon musk.

Oh my god, I just watched the last twenty minutes of that show, that was the most awesome discrediting of an audience I've ever seen ahahaha amazing zingers by TJ miller.

Al-Saqr fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Feb 10, 2015

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I comedy act so fun it was banned in San Francisco.


John Oliver also roasted them last year in glorious fashion:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/john-oliver-on-the-crunchies-why-do-you-need-an-award-1520621690

etalian fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Feb 10, 2015

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag

Al-Saqr posted:

Oh my god, I just watched the last twenty minutes of that show, that was the most awesome discrediting of an audience I've ever seen ahahaha amazing zingers by TJ miller.

HOLY gently caress, I'd watched a snippet of this before but never anything from the end and it's monster brutal.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
"You're run by money, while Hollywood is run by fake confidence. you guys aren't falsely confident enough to even laugh at that"

Hoooolyyy shiiiiiit I'm dying TJ miller is amazing.

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Mr. Merdle
Oct 17, 2007

THE GREAT MANBABY SUCCESSOR

Jesus christ he is just fantastic. "'Trust us, you'd love it' that feels like the slogan for Silicon Valley..."..."Everyone's pretentious..." god this gets better and better. Such a great owning.

Mr. Merdle fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Feb 10, 2015

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