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Oh my god, this nature programme on BBC1 just now is so loving surreal. Filming penguins at the South Pole with a camera hidden inside a platic robotic penguin. All the Emperor penguins are waddling along behind the thing as it whirrs across the ice, watching it in quiet bemusement. I love penguins, and sincerely believe they should be prescribed on the NHS as a cure for depression, but this does seem a bit...weird. It'll just confuse the poor little buggers, 'specially if they try to mate with it.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:09
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Fully expecting this Black Mirror to end with a crazy Ashbot trying to kill Martha 
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Feb 11, 2013 23:32
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Rarity posted:Fully expecting this Black Mirror to end with a crazy Ashbot trying to kill Martha It's ever so sinister, isn't it? Like an updated version of the old monkeys' paw tale.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:35
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Oh gently caress she just ordered a real doll to house her dead boyfriend in. This will end well.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:37
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Nothing like an awkward silence with the replica of your dead husband.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:42
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Well, this certainly has Fabulous Idea written all over it
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Feb 11, 2013 23:48
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Feb 11, 2013 23:56
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So apparently Robert Downey Jr bought the rights to make a movie based on The Entire History of You from the last series of Black Mirror.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:58
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Well, that was creepy and sad, not the best episode of Black Mirror though.
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Rarity posted:Fully expecting this Black Mirror to end with a crazy Ashbot trying to kill Martha Or something somehow even worse 
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Feb 12, 2013 00:03
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Brown Moses posted:Well, that was creepy and sad, not the best episode of Black Mirror though. Was an interesting one though. Wondering what could be assembled from the scraps of your online presence, if it would be true to you or not. (At least Ash was a decent guy in his updates, what would happen if your husbands' online persona was trollish and violent, what would he come back as...) It was a very...Roald Dahl sort of episode, if anyone else has ever read or watched his Tales of the Unexpected.
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Feb 12, 2013 00:07
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Jesus Christ, Black Mirror's ending is one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. There's just something so disturbing about the idea of having this grotesque, inhuman facsimile of your father in the attic for eternity, never ageing, just standing perfectly still in the corner when you're not there... Really good, possibly my favourite episode of it so far.
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Feb 12, 2013 00:11
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Irisi posted:Was an interesting one though. Wondering what could be assembled from the scraps of your online presence, if it would be true to you or not. (At least Ash was a decent guy in his updates, what would happen if your husbands' online persona was trollish and violent, what would he come back as...) What if their e-mail account had been hijacked by spammers? Out from the robo box pops Mr Matazumbu, King of Nigeria ready to tell you about an exciting investment opportunity
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Feb 12, 2013 00:13
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The first half of that was horendous. Mostly because somewhere out there someone will have though "that's a good idea, and it can be done"
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Feb 12, 2013 00:20
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toochilled posted:The first half of that was horendous. Mostly because somewhere out there someone will have though "that's a good idea, and it can be done" Tonally, that episode very much reminded me of the film Never Let Me Go, which Domhnall Gleeson was also in.
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Feb 12, 2013 00:27
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Feb 12, 2013 00:40
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No. I refuse to believe this is not a Black Mirror tie-in.
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Those penguins were just so  Rockhoppers tirelessly climbing cliffs, the humboldts having to run gauntlets and the emperors just sledging along. Edit: Yeah was expecting a bit more from Black Mirror like maybe with access to all the personal emails the realdollhusband starts acting weird(er) and she learns that her husband had been cheating or something.
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Feb 12, 2013 00:54
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That would have been a little similar to the memory one from last year.
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Rarity posted:No. I refuse to believe this is not a Black Mirror tie-in. According to the Whois information, it's run by Lean Mean Fighting Machine, a digital marketing agency.
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thebardyspoon posted:That would have been a little similar to the memory one from last year. Yeah it does, hmm, maybe the readollhusband becoming more and then leaving the grieving wife or something. V  V
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Feb 12, 2013 01:08
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gently caress Black Mirror, Is Tix ok!? I was glad we saw more of her this week but not with it ending like that
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Brown Moses posted:Well, that was creepy and sad, not the best episode of Black Mirror though. Really? i thought it was better than the "hey everyone look how corrupting reality tv is, yeah!?" episode last time. At least this episode was a little less bleak (by black mirror standards) and was pretty consistent. Great story, good acting, next weeks better be strong its going to be hard to top that one. Mellomeh posted:When your heart stops beating, you'll keep tweeting. whats next 3d print your loved ones out of cloned flesh?
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Feb 12, 2013 01:36
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onoflalks posted:Filming on Alan Partridge: The Movie has begun
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7seven7 posted:So apparently Robert Downey Jr bought the rights to make a movie based on The Entire History of You from the last series of Black Mirror. This...may turn out good. That one was my favorite episode of the first season, if only for Toby Kebbell.
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toochilled posted:The first half of that was horendous. Mostly because somewhere out there someone will have though "that's a good idea, and it can be done" If they did that with my online presence it would be nothing but a spew of profanity and cat pictures.
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Feb 12, 2013 02:52
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Hey, it's Captain America's love interest on Black Mirror. Cool!
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Oh god that penguin program was the best happy making program I've seen so far this year. Penguins! Black Mirror- really enjoyed it, I knew that the Bee-Gees and the cliffs conversation would figure towards the end so I was feeling quite smug about calling the ending. Until the actual creepy 'robo-dad in the loft' ending. Which was far worse. I loved the tech in the program, especially her amazing drawing board. Speaking of which, she must make fierce money drawing dogs in hats to be able to afford to buy a robo-sex doll avatar of her dead boyfriend. I guess she might have re-mortgaged that ridiculously large house. At one point I did wonder if the Ash-bot was going to get repossessed. Also, nice to see Dan Ashcroft's sister in something again.
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Feb 12, 2013 08:58
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I thought I recognised her. Did anyone watch Mad Fat yet or did you all do Black Mirror first?
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Feb 12, 2013 09:25
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I like how the advert break during Black Mirror is all for super modern touch screen phones, spinning around to noisy techno soundtracks.
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thehustler posted:I thought I recognised her. I'm half-way through watching it now!
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The problem with last nights Black Mirror is had the genders of the two main characters been reversed we probably would have seen a very different version of events. No wonder she didn't get remarried, all the men of the world were probably off banging synthetic replicants of their favourite celebrity.
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I really enjoyed Black Mirror but I couldn't help feel that last time someone made an A.I. out of a persons social media she was cuter: I did take some pleasure that while there's all these lovely phones and gadgets in the not distant future, they still smash if they get dropped from 4 foot of the ground. MrHat fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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I would pay good money for a robot based on the tweetings of @KimKierkegaard I enjoyed Black Mirror but I was a little disappointed in how signposted some of it was. 1. The flesh breakthrough report 2. His incessant use of social media that she didn't like very much. (Telling us he put an unusual amount of stuff online) 3. The Bee Gees bit where she all but accused him of lying. 4. The picture of himself that he gave the back story to, but Roboash just had the single word "funny" When Roboash was asking questions about how she felt, I kept wondering if she had opted in to the customer improvement programme and her responses were being analysed by the manufacturer so it could be improved. That aspect of it felt quite sinister to me, that this machine had been built to emulate someone who was dead and the manufacturer probably knew that people were getting overly emotionally attached to them, but in order to sidestep the ethical issues they probably marketed it as a sort of "living history" machine. That lead me to thinking about what happens to the robots after their "administrators" have died too - you could have a sort of interactive museum (or maybe even an art installation) with either famous emuluations or just ordinary people who can talk about their lives. Lastly, I wonder if her relationship with Roboash was typical of everyone who used the service - starting off by talking to it about Ash in the past tense as she put her thoughts in order, then total dependence, then realising that it's just a mere emulation and letting go, then begrudgingly keeping it around as a piece of high tech memorabilia. Also I really expected when roboash said she could hear him speak he would ask her to enter her credit card details.
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I thought last night's Black Mirror lacked a little of the punchy insight of season one, and Charlie wrote himself into a corner with roboash. That said, it's still the best goddamn thing on television, and I'm over the moon for its return.
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Those penguins live in a 16 bit platformer. Might be a great idea for a phone/tablet game.
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Padje posted:Those penguins live in a 16 bit platformer. I've been tinkering with something like that, actually. Pretty much an Ecco the Dolphin clone.
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DaWolfey posted:4. The picture of himself that he gave the back story to, but Roboash just had the single word "funny" The way I understood that moment was that when Ash shared that picture at the start, he only wanted people online to see it because they would think it was a funny picture of him, but then he explained the backstory to Martha; kind of reflecting how he showed one aspect of himself online but was obviously a different person in reality, which is part of why the robo-version couldn't emulate him.
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