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Gorn Myson posted:This is exactly my idea behind it. He'd be fearlessly winging these completely empty self-help style lectures and people will lap it up. "He's so *humble*!" I kind of want one of Bighead's former employees to become his own personal Frank Grimes who does nothing but drive-bys him like the "jackass" guy in Happy Gilmore.
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Quoting, as I'm sure something will happen to remove it from the site in the next few episodes:LetterFromHooliCEOJackBarker posted:An Important Message from Hooli CEO Jack Barker HooliPressRelease posted:Hooli Names Jack Barker in as CEO as Gavin Belson Exits
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May 8, 2017 22:46
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Echo Chamber posted:hooli.com has got the full Jack Barker treatment. The marketing team at HBO must have a loving blast between this and Veep.
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Last week's obsession was on the Always Blue ball. But what is this?  Not, 'what is it?", but like, why is it? Who came up with it. What is the point or rationale. Do they ride it until they crash into something. Anyone here have personal experience riding the teamcycle or whatever it is called. What is it called. Don't tell me to google it, don't want to use it for this. Binary Logic fucked around with this message at 01:23 on May 9, 2017 |
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Binary Logic posted:Last week's obsession was on the Always Blue ball. But what is this? Looks like the boring version of a drinking cycle.
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May 9, 2017 01:23
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Meeting Bike? The juices are flowing, the red corpuscles are corpuscling, the breeze is cool and your meeting format is wholly disrupted or something
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Binary Logic posted:Last week's obsession was on the Always Blue ball. But what is this? Back in S1 it was referred to as a device for "bike meetings", where teams would ride the bike around while meeting. Also in that scene, anyone else notice that the building behind them was labelled "student union"? Did they film that at a college campus?
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May 9, 2017 01:38
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I think in the first episode Gavin was also observing how the worker cliques have the same basic makeup of nerd archetypes. That was great.
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May 9, 2017 01:48
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Also great callback when they're in Gavin Belson's room, the car says "Select destination" to Jared and he shudders and runs away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UBdrMTxsvs
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Binary Logic posted:Last week's obsession was on the Always Blue ball. But what is this? It's just like an impractical gimmick bicycle for 8 people. Some people at Google rode one to the top of a nearby mountain once because it was a nice day and a silly thing to do. The tech industry is weird don't think too hard about it.
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Binary Logic posted:Also great callback when they're in Gavin Belson's room, the car says "Select destination" to Jared and he shudders and runs away. That was my favorite part of this episode. And his woos. He really is the best character.
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It's a bike for people who use "team building" as a noun to use for a quick team building. I work remotely in a huge corporation and that is exactly what I'd expect to find in an open campus location. I usually go to office towers which don't have the space. They have small coffee pots and keep the "good sandwiches" three floors down in a vending machine to ensure people keep focused while eating or on breaks.
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Binary Logic posted:Last week's obsession was on the Always Blue ball. But what is this? One person steers, they generally have the seat in the "back" thats slightly elevated. Its kinda fun, and the best ones have minibars in the center with someone who knows the area steering while the drunk people just peddle. (The driver also has a clutch to disconnect everybody peddling so he can stop the bike)
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take a look at the new Hooli website, which is going all-in with Action Jack's B2B Box: http://hooli.xyz
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^^^^ Previous page. Echo Chamber posted:hooli.com has got the full Jack Barker treatment. The Software and Hardware splash might be a stealth goatse, but there's no ring!
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Troy Queef posted:take a look at the new Hooli website, which is going all-in with Action Jack's B2B Box: http://hooli.xyz "Our products are products"
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M_Gargantua posted:One person steers, they generally have the seat in the "back" thats slightly elevated. Its kinda fun, and the best ones have minibars in the center with someone who knows the area steering while the drunk people just peddle. (The driver also has a clutch to disconnect everybody peddling so he can stop the bike) I saw one of these pedaling around Asheville a couple of years ago. I dunno what kind of liquor license you have to have to sell alcohol under those circumstances.
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Pope Guilty posted:I saw one of these pedaling around Asheville a couple of years ago. I dunno what kind of liquor license you have to have to sell alcohol under those circumstances. The ones near me don't provide alcohol, you have to bring your own.
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mrmcd posted:It's just like an impractical gimmick bicycle for 8 people The showrunner put the bike in as a hidden metaphor for communism. Actually the entire series is a metaphor where Hooli represents the USSR, Belson is Stalin, Jack Barker is Krushev. Pied Piper is supposed to represent the Nazis in WWII, with Richard being Hitler and Erlich being Mussolini. Jin Yiang in this metaphor is supposed to represent the USA. It's pretty easy to see what the show runner was going for once you know the signs to look for.
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:The showrunner put the bike in as a hidden metaphor for communism. Actually the entire series is a metaphor where Hooli represents the USSR, Belson is Stalin, Jack Barker is Krushev. Pied Piper is supposed to represent the Nazis in WWII, with Richard being Hitler and Erlich being Mussolini. Jin Yiang in this metaphor is supposed to represent the USA. It's pretty easy to see what the show runner was going for once you know the signs to look for. this is also how i took it.
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ptkfvk posted:this is also how i took it. Wait... people were looking at it a different way?
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May 9, 2017 16:35
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Only people who don't know how to TV.
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Art can only be interpreted one way, so it's pretty obvious.
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Yeah, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. I think that's called Shroedinger's Cat theory.
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Pope Guilty posted:I saw one of these pedaling around Asheville a couple of years ago. I dunno what kind of liquor license you have to have to sell alcohol under those circumstances. Nashville has them all over downtown. They are filled with drunk bachelorette parties.
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May 9, 2017 22:07
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They're a massive scourge in Amsterdam and other major European stag party centers.
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Yeah they have them where I live too, basically they're for bar hopping and you can also bring your own beer along. I don't think any of them actually sell beer.
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So do you not get a DUI because you're not the one steering?
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The ones I know actually have beer taps + barrels on board. You just serve yourself while pedalling. Mostly used for bachelor parties and other dumb student stuff.
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Thar Richard really is a cautionary tale.
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Solice Kirsk posted:So do you not get a DUI because you're not the one steering? No, the ones that serve/let you sell beer have an actual employee/person that you pay that does the "driving." They don't drink, they just steer you around a pre-routed course and some of the better ones are fun and interesting and give you nice insights and interact with you to some extent. The larger ones that you see on the streets are actually motorized and have plates etc. My immersion was definitely ruined when I saw a guy back out a party bike cart thing like a golf cart.
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They probably have motors to move them around but you are definetly powering them with the pedals. I did one for a bachelor party and they are really loving stupid and you look like a weekend warrior idiot on them. I know you have to power them with the pedals because only like 4 of the 15 people invited actually showed and we had to pedal it on our own .They are also comically expensive to rent.
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They also take up a whole loving lane on busy streets in my city and go like 8 mph
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Oh yeah that is maybe the worst part. We were blocking traffic the whole time and it was in the neighborhood I lived in and I always cursed those things, and here I was on one, being the pos that every local hates. They also blast incredibly loud lovely music. It was also 400 dollars for 1.5 hours and the dude acted like he got stiffed when he only got tipped like $100. gently caress those miserable things. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 06:49 on May 11, 2017 |
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May 11, 2017 06:47
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only $100 for 1.5 hours work.
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And for some odd reason, in Germany you get breathalysed before getting on them.
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The first I've ever heard of those group bike devices was from an episode of Detroiters. I checked the website that was advertised on it and I was shocked to learn it was real.
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I first saw them in this show, and my reaction was "Well, obviously!"
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Red Oktober posted:And for some odd reason, in Germany you get breathalysed before getting on them. Operating a bicycle while intoxicated is DUI, at least in the states, though it doesn't really make sense on one of these for that to apply to anybody but the person steering.
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