The Good Place Season 3 - You put the peeps in the chili and you renew for s4

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Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

How many points is being totally ripped?

# ¿ Oct 21, 2018 19:03

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# ¿ Mar 19, 2025 19:24

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Chidi is capable of any physicality which virtue might demand. He is truly committed to the philosophical life.

# ¿ Oct 23, 2018 03:49

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Here's two angles I like:

Maybe we're busywork and The Bad Place is for bad immortals?
Maybe immortals are scored and he wants into The Good Place? Help us for right action. Befriend us to create right intention?

# ¿ Oct 28, 2018 19:59

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

FILE_FOOTAGE: FORCETT, DOUG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_ra9CXZOQ

When I heard, "rural Canada," hoo, I can't tell you how excited I was.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 16:13

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Whalley posted:

Also nobody new gets into the good place because the accountants got tired of the paperwork and hosed the qualifications to make their jobs easier. There's people there, just nobody new for a while.

I like this theory.

People hate standards. Standards reduce flexibility, like doing your job wrong on purpose to make your life easier.

Immortal beings probably hate standards, too. Standards reduce flexibility, like doing their jobs wrong on purpose to mitigate their Sisyphean toil.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 20:20

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I've been assuming it's one or both of:

The Good Place's standards are too alien for humanity.
The Good Place's standards are too high for humanity.

But that's still hard to reconcile with Mike Schur's spoilerish remarks from an interview:

quote:

[INTERVIEWER] Why has the Good Place been broken for so long?

[MIKE SCHUR] �The question of why no one has gotten in [the Good Place] in 521 years will be answered in the next episode,� Schur says. But like so many other small details on the show, that specific length of time wasn�t an arbitrary choice. �We sort of figured once the world was closed as a loop � once exploration moved from Western Europe and had moved across the ocean � after that moment it was essentially impossible for anyone would get in by the criteria we set up,� Schur explains. Sorry, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/the-good-place-season-3-janet-episode.html

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 16:01

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Mameluke posted:

So is it something like the context of your actions is important as well? You're judged in relation to the maximum possible number of people you can help, and a globally interconnected world means that nobody can reach that number? Whereas a farrier in 6th-century France could give one set of free horseshoes to all the farmers in his 5 mile-wide world and be assured entry for having helped a large percentage of all people he could know?

My other thought is that humanity in general was tainted by the mass genocide and violence that the Columbian Exchange prompted, but I don't know about that.

That's a good take. If it's about action-on-community then that could explain how globalization(?) screwed even the Sentinelese. Like, sorry pal, your community is now the world and you're negligent..

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 17:59

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Maybe they weight for individual age and species' age?

Makes me think of The Onion's piece on babies:

quote:

Study Reveals: Babies are Stupid
May 21st, 1997

LOS ANGELES - A surprising new study released Monday by UCLA's Institute For Child Development revealed that human babies, long thought by psychologists to be highly inquisitive and adaptable, are actually extraordinarily stupid.

The study, an 18-month battery of intelligence tests administered to over 3,500 babies, concluded categorically that babies are "so stupid, it's not even funny."

According to Institute president Molly Bentley, in an effort to determine infant survival instincts when attacked, the babies were prodded in an aggressive manner with a broken broom handle. Over 90 percent of them, when poked, failed to make even rudimentary attempts to defend themselves. The remaining 10 percent responded by vacating their bowels.

It is unlikely that the presence of the babies' fecal matter, however foul-smelling, would have a measurable defensive effect against an attacker in a real-world situation," Bentley said.

Another test, in which the infants were placed on a mound of dirt outdoors during a torrential downpour, produced similarly bleak results.

"The chicken, dog and even worm babies that we submitted to the test as a control group all had enough sense to come in from the rain or, at least, seek shelter under a leafy clump of vegetation or outcropping of rock," test supervisor Thomas Howell said. "The human babies, on the other hand, could not grasp even this incredibly basic concept, instead merely lying on the ground and making gurgling noises."

According to Howell, almost 60 percent of the infants tested in this manner eventually drowned.

...

What if we aren't keeping up with our expected developmental milestones?

Illiteracy and pants-making GBS threads are okay when you're 3. Not okay when you're 30.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 22:28

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I don't want lose points by being too judgmental here

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 22:47

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Maybe they quit?

Made the threshold impossibly high then sealed themselves off in Good Place neighborhoods.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 20:12

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King of Foolians posted:

I guess for an in-universe explanation perhaps the entity

I'm rationalizing it with, "It prevents spurious resets by residents."

Good Place residents:

will stop for pleas.
won't know about marble-ization.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 08:44

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

VanSandman posted:

Does anyone know a good place (ha) to watch the first few episodes of Season 3? Hulu doesn't have them all and the wife and I are hooked.

Somehow we've managed to watch with a newborn.

Soysaucebeast posted:

I just checked and they're 2$ each for the SD version on Amazon. 3$ each for HD. I've been watching it on the On Demand Charter Spectrum app, but you need Charter TV for that.

I use Amazon and episodes go up around midnight, iirc.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 04:26

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

The real bad place was capitalism.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 11:08

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I suspect 'size of community' is it.

Points for impact-on-community captures Unintended Consequences. You capture all the more for the size of your community.

The Bad Place watched Europe discover the New World and were like, "lmao owned." Everyone's now in a global community.

Accretionist fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jan 12, 2019

# ¿ Jan 12, 2019 23:12

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Regy Rusty posted:

Jeremy Bearimy babyyyy

This was a sweet line.

Rarity posted:

Oh god, love is dead

For embed in thread title:

# ¿ Jan 25, 2019 19:38

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# ¿ Mar 19, 2025 19:24

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Marathoned S1 and E06 reminds me of S3's ending with it's claw machine dialog

Michael: I didn't even want that thing. Why am I trying to win it?
Eleanor: Because the machine says it's a prize.

Way to let the system get ya, Eleanor

# ¿ Mar 3, 2019 06:43

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