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WampaLord posted:Master of None. the Hollywood sexual harassment scandal arc aged amazingly well after a few months and then it suddenly aged amazingly badly
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Not exactly that old, but In the last season of Black Mirror there was an episode where the basic premise was people could vote on twitter for an individual that deserved to die most and stupid magic bees would kill them (it's a weirdly schlocky episode). In the episode, the crowd is self-righteous and tend to kill people who are kind of common bullies/flavour of the week assholes. I remember watching the episode and thinking "nah that poo poo would be co-opted by alt-righters to kill some woman in the games industry right quick". Maybe that's not an episode ageing badly, but it seemed to kind of misunderstand internet groupthink I reckon. 4channer aren't ganna care about Billy from Plymouth kicking a dog.
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Calico Heart posted:Not exactly that old, but You probably should spoiler that, but it sounds like The Orville did it better
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Jan 17, 2018 19:51
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I liked Hated by the Nation (that episode) better than the Callister but they're different beast.
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Calico Heart posted:Not exactly that old, but How often do reality shows with viewer votes (like Big Brother) get taken over by groups like that irl?
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Jan 17, 2018 20:08
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If you read twitter these days for sure Weinstein and Trump and Aziz Ansari would be getting bee'd. The mass market vote vastly outweighs the crazy niche blocks in big popularity contests.
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well, the twist in that BM episode was that it was collecting data on the people voting, and the bees were ultimately designed to kill the millions of people who voted to kill someone else with bees, so if there's a couple of people willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good we could theoretically get rid of all the twitter chuds in one fell swoop
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If nothing else, I really wanted more Kelly McDonald and The Waif going around being buddy cops.
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GrandpaPants posted:If nothing else, I really wanted more Kelly McDonald and The Waif going around being buddy cops. 
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WampaLord posted:Master of None. It sucks now, but I guess it could get worse.
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GrandpaPants posted:If nothing else, I really wanted more Kelly McDonald and The Waif going around being buddy cops.  e: I adore Faye Marsay and wish she was in more stuff TheKennedys has a new favorite as of 02:33 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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Jan 18, 2018 02:25
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Watch Love, Nina. She's a quirky babysitter but it's not as insufferable as it sounds.
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sassassin posted:How often do reality shows with viewer votes (like Big Brother) get taken over by groups like that irl? Although it's not exactly what you are after. In England there is a show called Strictly Come Dancing, where celebrities do ballroom dances, and get progressively voted off until there is a winner. One year they had a respected political journalist John Sergeant on it. He was loving awful at dancing, as one could expect a 50+ year old political journalist to be. But he charmed the crowd, so they kept voting him to stay on. The judges, (all proper dancey types), hated this, and every week John Sergeant would be one of the two to vote off, but the viewers loved him and so just kept keeping him on, up to the point where it looked like he could win. This really pissed off the judges and the network, and eventually John Sergeant quit the show. Citing reasons of professionalism and that he didn't want to make the show into any more of a farce than a reality TV show about amateurs dancing already was. There are also issues with the Logies, (Australian TV's povvo version of the Emmys). A lot of the awards are fan voted, including the Gold Logie for most popular TV personality. One year about 10-15 years ago, some internet rascal got into his head the idea he would put a write in candidate, (Hot Dog, a Big Brother reject who hosted a late night filler show), and try to get him to win. The internet responded as it does, and this near unknown was leading the polls for a while. The TV network stepped in and declared it void for party pooper reasons.
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I remember Cupid, a "audience voted on who marries some attractive lady" show, produced by Simon Cowell, and airing in like July(worst month for TV viewership). While most contestants were normal, one contestant was super skeevy (had her get naked for a hot oil massage on their first date). Because no one was watching/voting, skeevy dude made it to the final two and it was hilarious, with the woman's friends constantly begging the voters to stop, while this lady has to go on a date with a guy who constantly made things awkward. Made a horrible show actually watchable. E: come to think of it, that hasn't aged well. i remember loving watching this greasy guy constantly proposing sexually-forward activities to the horror of his date. Today, I'd just feel bad. Drunk Nerds has a new favorite as of 03:10 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:Although it's not exactly what you are after. In England there is a show called Strictly Come Dancing, where celebrities do ballroom dances, and get progressively voted off until there is a winner. One year they had a respected political journalist John Sergeant on it. He was loving awful at dancing, as one could expect a 50+ year old political journalist to be. But he charmed the crowd, so they kept voting him to stay on. The judges, (all proper dancey types), hated this, and every week John Sergeant would be one of the two to vote off, but the viewers loved him and so just kept keeping him on, up to the point where it looked like he could win. This really pissed off the judges and the network, and eventually John Sergeant quit the show. Citing reasons of professionalism and that he didn't want to make the show into any more of a farce than a reality TV show about amateurs dancing already was. Of course, it worked so well ratings-wise that they have one joke contestant on every year now (Ann Widdecombe, Ed "Ed Balls" Balls etc.).
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Jan 18, 2018 10:04
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It was amazing at how well Ed Balls handled the mockery from that.
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Calico Heart posted:Not exactly that old, but Nah, if you follow Internet stuff fairly closely Gamergaters and their ilk seem like an overwhelmingly huge noise, but realistically the kind of easy-outrage things that hit real news would be the prime targets - think of that doctor who killed Cedric the lion, or the woman who threw a cat in a bin. Besides, that episode was a year too early. A post-Brexit version would have been rich in source material with that Daily Mail "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE" front page and its ilk.
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A year too early? People vote to kill someone is a concept that's been dabbled with since even before social media was a thing. The only bit black mirror adds is magic bees, and even then I'm sure that's been in a few forms.
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poptart_fairy posted:A year too early? People vote to kill someone is a concept that's been dabbled with since even before social media was a thing. The only bit black mirror adds is magic bees, and even then I'm sure that's been in a few forms. Not the framing story, but the specific targets. UK media has whipped itself into a frenzy over Leave vs. Remain and we've seen some really ugly stuff come out of the right wing press because of it. I think that a post-Brexit Hated in the Nation would have been reflective of that particular zeitgeist.
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Oh, that makes a bit more sense. This is the same country that went mad over Katie Price being on I'm A Celeb, and collectively lost it'd poo poo over Big Brother. We don't need something as big as Brexit to kill each other. 
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poptart_fairy posted:A year too early? People vote to kill someone is a concept that's been dabbled with since even before social media was a thing. The only bit black mirror adds is magic bees, and even then I'm sure that's been in a few forms. Death from bug you say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism
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the guy who shot harambe would have been six feet under within a week in a vote-for-death society
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Huzzah! posted:unless.... There's a reason there's not a live person right next to him in that shot he blew her loving head off jk
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Jazerus posted:the guy who shot harambe would have been six feet under within a week in a vote-for-death society What about Trump?
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Jazerus posted:the guy who shot harambe would have been six feet under within a week in a vote-for-death society But only after America killed the mother and the kid.
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Corrode posted:Nah, if you follow Internet stuff fairly closely Gamergaters and their ilk seem like an overwhelmingly huge noise, but realistically the kind of easy-outrage things that hit real news would be the prime targets - think of that doctor who killed Cedric the lion, or the woman who threw a cat in a bin. Also a few times some random shlub dies because everybody accidentally writes in the name of Minnesota vacuum repairman John Smith instead of Villain of the Week Jon Smith.
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The LP for Dante's Inferno hasn't aged well at all - it was fine until fraud, but when they get to the person damned for being a sorcerer and changing her gender from male to female (because to be fair the poem was written by an rear end in a top hat 800 years before it was known what was actually going on with transpeople) they just can't stop calling her a "Tranny". It's just unpleasant to listen to. Bad commentary all round.
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BioEnchanted posted:The LP for Dante's Inferno hasn't aged well at all - it was fine until fraud, but when they get to the person damned for being a sorcerer and changing her gender from male to female (because to be fair the poem was written by an rear end in a top hat 800 years before it was known what was actually going on with transpeople) they just can't stop calling her a "Tranny". It's just unpleasant to listen to. Bad commentary all round. I wonder what they'd have to say about Tiresias.
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kupachek posted:I wonder what they'd have to say about Tiresias. I think it was Tiresias. I didn't know the story at the time of that post.
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BioEnchanted posted:I think it was Tiresias. I didn't know the story at the time of that post. I've never heard Tiresias referred to as a sorcerer, but it was the first thing to come to mind. You are correct though, it is Tiresias in the circle of Fraud. We both learned a little something.
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Jan 20, 2018 09:49
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Jan 20, 2018 10:18
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John Murdoch posted:Wait which LP are we talking about. Lawrence Friday's from 2010. I watched it on the internet archive.
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Ouch. Do you have a specific time code or something for where that poo poo crops up? Last thing I want to do is sift through that crap more than I need to, but I'm morbidly curious.
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Jan 20, 2018 10:40
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About 8 minutes (don't know the exact time code, the first half or third) into the first video of Part 10. They stop talking about the character eventually, but it's an ugly 3 minutes.
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Had to dig around for it a bit but yeah, there it is. Eesh. I ~mysteriously~ didn't join in, and thus feel a lot better now.
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Jan 20, 2018 10:56
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The episode of Jeopardy! that aired Tuesday, August 25, 2015. I still remember the answers and where the Daily Doubles are.
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MariusLecter posted:The episode of Jeopardy! that aired Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Why? On all counts, why?
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kupachek posted:I've never heard Tiresias referred to as a sorcerer, but it was the first thing to come to mind. Tiresias supposedly invented augury. Ornithomancy is surely a form of sorcery.
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Mister Kingdom posted:That was the new station manager. Everybody knew he was gay except Frasier. That ep even won a GLAAD award. The WWE tag team "Billy and Chuck" won a GLAAD award in 2002 despite being extremely homophobic and anti-gay. I don't think they were very discerning around that time period
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