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GobiasIndustries posted:*roar* "Bitcoin is really volatile today" *roar* A guy I worked with a while back set his default beep to the Oooh-wah-ah-ah-ah bit from "Down With The Sickness". The first 2 or 3 times were sort of funny.
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Harminoff posted:I think that's more contractiual than anything as he was cast as a lead, but yeah hopefully he returns soon. So Josh Brener gets paid and credit but just hangs out on the roof of the studio during filming. Seems familiar somehow.
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Apr 11, 2018 14:17
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So far this season has had way less infuriating stuff than 4 did. I was thinking about dropping it but I’m gonna stick with it.
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Apr 15, 2018 21:03
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It’s also really nice that they don’t have to find ways to shoehorn Erlich into the story anymore. Last season he really felt like a vestigial limb.
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I do wish they had run with the less villainous Gavin from last season a while longer. It was a nice foil to Richards dickery but they did their snap back to the status quo too soon.
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Look, these showrunners are terrified of breaking the status quo. They're letting Pied Piper have just the tiniest bit of progress and got rid of a major cast member, so I'm not gonna complain if they're gonna cling to crazy rear end in a top hat Gavin as a safety blanket.
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Apr 15, 2018 23:50
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What this show needs is a Peter Thiel like villain.
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Apr 16, 2018 00:29
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I lost it at the medicinal MDMA bit
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Apr 16, 2018 03:28
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Jared put so much venom in "rat gently caress" I absolutely lost it. He is my favorite part of the show.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:47
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This was a good episode. Was the “bear is sticky with honey” part based on an irl incident? It kinda felt like it was lampooning something but I don’t know what.
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Colonel Whitey posted:This was a good episode. Was the “bear is sticky with honey” part based on an irl incident? It kinda felt like it was lampooning something but I don’t know what. It’s lampooning religion and finding meaning where there isn’t. They take Gavin’s words like God, misunderstand them, fight over what the words mean, and come up with these ridiculous ideas. It also kind of ripped on Palo Alto being a spawning pool of cults of personality, I think.
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Apr 16, 2018 04:03
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For some reason I'm reminded of the LaVayan Satanist ritual Gilfoyle had everyone attend (for a reason I forget), where they ate Chick-Fil-A chicken despite its Christian ownership. "Hail Satan, it is done. Well, thanks for coming, everyone. Brother Jason was kind enough to furnish this week's food. It's Chick-fil-A. I know, they're on the Christian right, but darned if that chicken isn't good. I think the Dark Lord would understand."
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Apr 16, 2018 04:32
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Colonel Whitey posted:This was a good episode. Was the “bear is sticky with honey” part based on an irl incident? It kinda felt like it was lampooning something but I don’t know what. One time Stalin was shown two designs for a flagship hotel and he just kind of waved his hand at them and everyone was so terrified that they tried to build both designs in one building, half one style, half the other, just sort of welded together in a weird Frankenstein monster situation. I think everybody still got sent to the gulag though.
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Apr 16, 2018 05:24
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Also felt a bit like George Costanza trying to figure out Downtown when he didn't know what his project was supposed to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUICBMQBNU
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Apr 16, 2018 06:22
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I was hoping we'd get more from the mole plot. I can imagine them using the mole to leak false information to Hooli. But Dinesh tormenting him by forcing him to be his best friend is hilarious.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Also felt a bit like George Costanza trying to figure out Downtown when he didn't know what his project was supposed to be. There are movie shows!
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Apr 16, 2018 15:37
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When do they reveal that Richard is gay?
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Apr 16, 2018 15:54
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I loved that everyone was onboard with forcing the guy to be Dinesh's friend.
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Apr 16, 2018 16:32
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Even Dinesh! Does anyone know what game was being played on the monitors at the gaming company Richard visited? It looked pretty cool.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:One time Stalin was shown two designs for a flagship hotel and he just kind of waved his hand at them and everyone was so terrified that they tried to build both designs in one building, half one style, half the other, just sort of welded together in a weird Frankenstein monster situation. I think everybody still got sent to the gulag though. Yeah this is the kind of thing I meant. I guess maybe it's not a direct reference to anything but they do enough making fun of dumb things in tech that really happened that I thought maybe it was a Jobs story or something.
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This season's been pretty good so far. It's not as good as the first two seasons when it was really fresh and funny, but it's better than the last two seasons which were clearly running on fumes. At least now there's a clear purpose they're working towards, they're established as a company, and Erlich isn't weighing down the show by doing nothing.clown shoes posted:What this show needs is a Peter Thiel like villain. get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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get that OUT of my face posted:I thought Peter Gregory was the Peter Thiel type. Good season so far, but the Christian stuff was just a painful miss. Jimmy Oh Yang is killing it.
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Apr 16, 2018 23:29
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Yeah thinking about it, the idea of comparing discrimination against LGBT people to discrimination against Christians is pretty cringey, even if it was done for comedy
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Apr 16, 2018 23:46
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Done for comedy, and exaggerated but it is a thing that’s a real thing in the area.
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Colonel Whitey posted:Yeah thinking about it, the idea of comparing discrimination against LGBT people to discrimination against Christians is pretty cringey, even if it was done for comedy lol have you ever been to the bay area? its like opposite day bible belt
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:lol have you ever been to the bay area? its like opposite day bible belt Yeah I’m from the bay. It’s still a bit gross of a comparison, even if there is some anti-Christian sentiment in tech. I’m not really harshly criticizing the show, it just leaves a bit of a bad taste.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:02
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People forget that Mike Judge is really conservative because he’s miraculously also funny
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Apr 17, 2018 02:05
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It's also problematic that they have a stereotypical Chinese character
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Apr 17, 2018 02:41
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I kind of suspected the christian gag would be unpopular here. SA definitely skews atheist
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:I kind of suspected the christian gag would be unpopular here. SA definitely skews atheist
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Apr 17, 2018 02:50
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I don't get people saying it was bad. In this wacky TV show world, it totally fits.
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I don’t have a problem with them making fun of atheists or Christian discrimination. It’s when they portray it as at all comparable to LGBT discrimination, which has a violent and horrible history, that I take pause. Again I don’t think the way they did it was that egregious but it wasn’t very thoughtfully done and was kind of low effort.
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Colonel Whitey posted:I don’t have a problem with them making fun of atheists or Christian discrimination. It’s when they portray it as at all comparable to LGBT discrimination, which has a violent and horrible history, that I take pause. If you start comparing people being discriminated against, you're always going to get "how dare you make this comparison when this other group has it even worse?" It was a joke in a TV show based on real prejudices, it's not a big deal.
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That's the joke x 1000. It's supposed to be slightly funny *and also* intentionally tone deaf. Cmon now, let's not pretend comedy isn't supposed to touch raw nerves.
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Colonel Whitey posted:I don’t have a problem with them making fun of atheists or Christian discrimination. It’s when they portray it as at all comparable to LGBT discrimination, which has a violent and horrible history, that I take pause. („Yes, but not by us!/Yes, but that was in the past!“ ok maybe, but Christianity literally has a long and famous history of violent suppression.)
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Apr 17, 2018 08:42
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The whole thing just felt a bit heavy-handed and dragged out for too long. It was funny when they did the same joke with smoking a few seasons ago, but having the whole episode plot arc revolve around not wanting to work with Christians just seemed like a stretch even by Silicon Valley standards.
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What didn’t work for me was how Richard was supposedly so on the spectrum, he had absolutely no idea about any aspect of it.
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"Did you just compare the treatment of billionaires in America today, to the plight of the jews in nazi Germany?" "Absolutely. One could argue that billionaires are actually treated worse; and we didn't even do anything wrong!"
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