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Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

1. I enjoyed the Widow Schroeder
Mysteries
2. Where can I throw money for a technology moonshot to conquer death?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2016 02:30

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# ¿ May 15, 2025 11:26

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Let me test drive heaven for 5 hours and I'll believe whatever you want me to.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2016 03:21

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

The most interesting unfilled thread in Callister is in the message they send: CALL CYBER POLICE

# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 07:59

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I'm mad that theNetflix option didn't include a Bu-bong as rendered by a lovely soundcard.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 01:28

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

They put a lot of thought into the psychology of those first few clicks. They give you an express yes/no where a no gives you a "but thou must" then follow it up with a decision (taking the job or not) where saying no is the right answer even if it appears to be another explicit wrong choice which introduces the loop and characters awareness of the loop early. I hope they're keeping data on people's choices but I wouldn't be surprised if they have like a 90% plus rate on people accepting the job on the first run through.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 15:30

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

What if computers, but not lovely ones?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 22:12

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

JOIN PISSING CONTEST __________________________ GO MAKE A SANDWICH

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 05:15

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Some one please make a Bandersnatch replica choice generator so that I can use it to call out clearly bad decisions in visual media to the end of time pls.

LEAVE AND CALL THE POLICE IDIOT________________SPLIT UP

Edit: lol someone from Reddit got there first.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Dec 31, 2018

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 20:19

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I feel like SV was the last dark take on the premise possible.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 07:19

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Saucy_Rodent posted:

I loved the ending, where they all made a compromise. Danny and his wife remain a 90% monogamous loving couple, everybody got some version of what they wanted. It doesn’t need to be dark to make its point.

Oh I enjoyed it too, but it was a heartwarming story of a boy and a balloon in a knife shop. There were so many ways the story could have gotten incredibly hosed up.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2019 16:52

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

One Loch Henry thing I noticed that made me :thunk:

1990s: There's been a horrible murderer hiding in plain sight in this picturesque town. Let's go elsewhere.
2020s: There's been a horrible murderer hiding in plain sight in this picturesque town. I can't wait to visit.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2023 23:04

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Shame we're losing spoiler tags. Going episode to episode it was fun to go back through the last few pages like you'd been read-in to a top secret discussion.

In retrospect, Beyond the Sea should have done the share, but have NASA waiting with a driver, a change of clothes and an understanding that the dude would never ever meet Cliff's family.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2023 15:31

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Attack Princess posted:

They did this exact episode with Fifteen Million Merits, and I feel that one still holds up. This new one doesn't have dark humor to lean on. It's simply grimdark. And it's too obvious how it'll play out once it introduces the self-deprivation streaming.

Maybe I'll change my opinion if there's a last second twist. I am paused near the end. I needed a break and distraction to psych myself up for what I'm pretty sure will be gore porn. I've been dreading the moment the dude fucks with his teeth or cuts off pieces of himself.

Edit. It was worse than I imagined. Strong contender for most depressive Black Mirror episode.

It's a rough one right out of the gate, woof.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2025 15:42

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

What if gaslighting, but too much?

# ¿ Apr 11, 2025 15:20

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I feel like Eulogy was wish fulfillment for a very specific (and I'd imagine common) type of person with a shoebox full of attic photos of the one who got away. Being really into someone who either isn't into you or is into you until they aren't can stick with you forever, especially if it happens in your twenties when Everything Matters. Finding out they were still into you too in a way that doesn't void your subsequent life and can't subsequently gently caress up is a big treasure trove of Old Person brain catnip.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2025 15:48

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

The San Junipero servers are preserved by a very functional future U.S. Government as a National Park and added free counseling services for people who are considering ending their extended existence. I'm afraid everything is far too perfect and good and non-dystopian to support an episode. :colbert:

# ¿ Apr 13, 2025 02:58

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Did anyone else download the Easter Egg Thronglet game? It's pretty fun, I'll probably just play it on my work laptop. Can confirm they don't like fire.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2025 06:35

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

My dream project for a mindfuck film would only work on a streaming service. It would be Christmas in the City, a Lifetime style, cozy red and green sweater romcom with an unlikely romance between a rich guy named Bruce and a public defender. I don't give a poo poo about the actual plot, farm it out. 98% of people get a standard rom com third act, but 2% get the gimmick. For those lucky few, the color temperature changes, the film gets grainy and the love interest gets got. The camera pans back and the city is Gotham and whoops it's a secret Batman film.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2025 02:35

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

frumpykvetchbot posted:

Does the Bernie's hat version exist? It'd be on brand and quite impressive if Netflix added an episode-specific Mandela Effect hack to their streaming tech to perform in-client buffer substitution triggered by first-time linear playthrough.

Bernie's is real, and strong , and my friend.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2025 14:59

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

UnbearablyBlight posted:

So how does the work argument play out in this version? Are the coworkers the ones arguing that it’s Barnies like a barn?

Yes, the main character argues that that's not even how you spell Barney's and he replies that Barnie can spell his name however he wants.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2025 23:26

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Oh, my girlfriend did care about me, as this new information indicates I left her alone and broken-hearted.

:unsmith:

# ¿ Apr 17, 2025 01:44

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I think a wizard did it that way to force the exposition and world building that you wouldn't get if they just fragged pubbies from cover.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2025 04:09

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

It does seem like the logical commercial application of the Hotel Reverie tech wouldn't be releasing movies with new actors but rather wish-fulfillment self-insertion.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2025 12:22

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A COOKIE ONTO MY FOREHEAD. ITS HOTEL REVERIE AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, DR. ALEX PALMER. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM A CUP ON A SCORPION OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY BANGED DOROTHY CHAMBERS. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNING. THEN I LIFT”

# ¿ Apr 23, 2025 12:46

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# ¿ May 15, 2025 11:26

Chef Boyardeez Nuts: Sep 9, 2011; The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

I have such a soft spot for Black Museum, even if it's three c stories in a trenchcoat.

# ¿ May 2, 2025 00:09

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