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Smash it. It’s performance art. Remember when Bansky shredded that painting (print?)?
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Jun 7, 2020 11:00
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Knormal posted:if I remember right even then they just showed him holding hands with another man. There seems to be a weird reluctance to show two men kissing on TV. I don't have any stats to back it up, but I feel like there are a bunch of shows where gay/bi women kiss each other onscreen but almost none where gay/bi men kiss each other.
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Jun 7, 2020 12:10
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I have no intention of watching Black Mirror because it comes off like that photoshop of a bunch of pills but they all have app logos on them
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Jun 7, 2020 12:40
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There's some Black Mirror episodes worth watching. San Junipero and the one with Miley Cyrus, probably a couple others too. The choose your own adventure movie was pretty bad though.
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Jun 7, 2020 12:49
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Schubalts posted:Metal Gear repeatedly calls out America's actions within the series as lovely. A major point of MGS3 was America basically forcing someone to be a sacrificial lamb, which eventually rippled outward and caused every villain later in the timeline, directly or indirectly. The military-industrial complex and war economy are also decried as a horrific waste of human life and resources. i dont think you read the post i was responding to all the way :p
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Jun 7, 2020 13:05
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I liked the one where the woman wakes up and everyone is filming her with their mobile phones, coz it turns out she is a child murderer, and her punishment is to be tortured psychologically whilst tourists come and film her
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Jun 7, 2020 13:11
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BrigadierSensible posted:I liked the one where the woman wakes up and everyone is filming her with their mobile phones, coz it turns out she is a child murderer, and her punishment is to be tortured psychologically whilst tourists come and film her Black Mirror is such a loving dumb show. Every single episode falls apart completely if you think about it for five seconds. Well, except for the ones that don't even hold up that long. It's got the depth and sophistication of a show written to teach simple moral lessons to children but pretends to be serious social commentary for adults.
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Jun 7, 2020 13:18
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I prefer the og Twilight Zone  I will not be taking questions at this time
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Jun 7, 2020 13:23
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Tiggum posted:Black Mirror is such a loving dumb show. Every single episode falls apart completely if you think about it for five seconds.
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Jun 7, 2020 13:55
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I'll be honest, I saw the first few seasons of Black Mirror before it went netflix and while it was OK, Humans was a more interesting show by the end, about human like robots and how people react to them. It had an interesting subplot that actually went places where before he was fully aware that their robot was sapient (although of course the kids caught on early), the father activates the Adult-only mode and sleeps with the robot. Everyone is super horrified because she's humanlike enough even without sapience that they're like "You seriously had sex with something that couldn't give informed consent? (plus cheating on the mum with the robot didn't help)" especially since he tries to let his son take the blame for the mode being activated (because it's a red herring that the son's kind of crushing on the robot, he just respects her enough not to do that poo poo) The whole family basically kick the father out at that point and sever ties with him for a while before he starts to try to make up for his mistake. Something I liked about the situation was that the wife never blames the robot for what happened, she doesn't get all weird about machines stealing her husband or anything, she puts the blame directly where it belongs.
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Jun 7, 2020 14:07
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I can never watch Black Mirror because I just think of the Chapo riffs on it (“Wot if your mate was a TV? Wot if your dog plugged into a wall?”) and all of these descriptions make it seems spot on.
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Jun 7, 2020 14:12
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Black mirror bums me out because every season has like 2 good episodes. It’s enough to get me to watch it to find those 2 good episodes, but the remaining 75 percent of the season sucks.
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Jun 7, 2020 14:23
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PancakeTransmission posted:Yes unlike all other media which has no issues or plot holes at all Yep, you got me. This is my actual opinion. Every show is good except for Black Mirror.
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Jun 7, 2020 14:56
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people treat black mirror as if it's trying to be biting commentary all of the time but it's mainly just an anthology show like the twilight zone or are you afraid of the dark where it's characters getting put into weird/scary/spooky situations without needing to shore up every plot point as to why poo poo happens. it's just replacing the alien and supernatural with technology so futuristic that it's basically the same thing
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Jun 7, 2020 15:15
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I liked the Miley Cyrus/Nine Inch Nails episode. I don't remember anything about the episode, mind you, but I liked the Nails remixes.
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Jun 7, 2020 17:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kind of a theme in that game is that by then you're well past the point where you were the good guy. Also there's a pretty huge difference between what Big Boss is doing in that game and chattel slavery.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:08
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It's actually a perfectly decent show, and better than a lot of other ones. It's just a spooky horror show,
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Jun 7, 2020 18:13
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OG Twilight Zone probably had just as high a rate of bad episodes or goofy ideas as Black Mirror - but a show with two dozen episodes a season can get away with being hit or miss. A show with, like, three episodes a year, you expect each of them to have more thought put into them.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:19
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Pick posted:It's actually a perfectly decent show, and better than a lot of other ones. It's just a spooky horror show, The episode where everyone has a social-media score, bolstered by "likes" in real life, and it acts like a credit score on meth, bad scores gate-keeping you from getting decent housing, jobs, services etc, where people have to slavishly suck up to the popular people with outstanding scores to bolster their own is creepy and feels too much like something that might really happen
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Jun 7, 2020 18:41
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Elviscat posted:The episode where everyone has a social-media score, bolstered by "likes" in real life, and it acts like a credit score on meth, bad scores gate-keeping you from getting decent housing, jobs, services etc, where people have to slavishly suck up to the popular people with outstanding scores to bolster their own is creepy and feels too much like something that might really happen This has been tried, look up how pissed people rightfully were about an app called “Peepl” and discussed how it could be used to discriminate. Regarding Star Trek: go back and watch Garak’s introduction on DS9, how he chats up Bashir, and how Bashir goes running excited to the bridge to tell everyone Garak talked to him! I’m convinced Bashir was given a Bond obsession and shown dating women frequently later on to quash the way he was clearly smitten with Garak (and it’s clear from the first moment Garak approaches him the feeling was mutual, imo).
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Jun 7, 2020 18:47
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Isn't that also China's social credit system basically?
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Jun 7, 2020 18:54
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Elviscat posted:The episode where everyone has a social-media score, bolstered by "likes" in real life, and it acts like a credit score on meth, bad scores gate-keeping you from getting decent housing, jobs, services etc, where people have to slavishly suck up to the popular people with outstanding scores to bolster their own is creepy and feels too much like something that might really happen Yeah I haven't actually seen that many episodes but I saw that one and it seemed more likely than not.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:56
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Regarding Star Trek: go back and watch Garak’s introduction on DS9, how he chats up Bashir, and how Bashir goes running excited to the bridge to tell everyone Garak talked to him! I’m convinced Bashir was given a Bond obsession and shown dating women frequently later on to quash the way he was clearly smitten with Garak (and it’s clear from the first moment Garak approaches him the feeling was mutual, imo). This is literally what happened, the writers were told to give them fewer scenes together by guy-who-is-given-too-much-specific-flack-since-he-wasn't-the-only-rear end in a top hat-working-on-star-trek but yes, in this case, literally Rick Berman. In fact, the final scene of them saying goodbye (which is also Garak's last scene in the show, so, the last appearance of the character usually rated as the most popular in the entire series) was cut from the original airing of the finale and only later spliced back in, because it was a scene with him and Bashir. The guy who played Garak in particular has been super upfront about this. Oh well, at least he got to write his beta canon novel where Rick Berman couldn't get in his way.
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Jun 7, 2020 18:59
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The Orville has an episode like that where there was a planet of people that upvoted/downvoted each other and everything was settled by majority vote. It was a pretty good episode, felt cheesy in the same way the Star Trek original series did.
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Jun 7, 2020 19:02
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Elviscat posted:The episode where everyone has a social-media score, bolstered by "likes" in real life, and it acts like a credit score on meth, bad scores gate-keeping you from getting decent housing, jobs, services etc, where people have to slavishly suck up to the popular people with outstanding scores to bolster their own is creepy and feels too much like something that might really happen
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Jun 7, 2020 19:29
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Also the Gumball episode with the site that rated everything and everyone.
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Jun 7, 2020 19:32
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Years ago, I worked at a store near the Bath and Body Works corporate headquarters. They gave out promotional ball caps to their employees that just had the initials of the company in big block letters. Absolutely lost my poo poo at a group of old upper management type guys out to lunch all wearing hats that said "BBW" on them.
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Jun 7, 2020 19:57
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SlaveToTheGrinds posted:There's an episode of community that had a really similar plot. yeah the MeowMeowBeenz episode felt the most realistic honestly, except the part where it ever ends
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Jun 7, 2020 19:57
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Tiggum posted:Yep, you got me. This is my actual opinion. Every show is good except for Black Mirror. Well poo poo, you liked Iron Fist, maybe this is actually your opinion.
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https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1269729709585244162
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:There's some Black Mirror episodes worth watching. San Junipero and the one with Miley Cyrus, probably a couple others too. I’m indifferent to Black Mirror but Bandersnatch (the CYOA) was one of the best things they put out imo. It wasn’t trying to be overly self-serious, but it was really interesting with some intense scenes. The Miley Cyrus episode I thought was weak and corny, with some really eye-rolling and tired attitudes about pop music and a wacky foul-mouthed AI sidekick. Kevin DuBrow has a new favorite as of 03:50 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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BioEnchanted posted:I'll be honest, I saw the first few seasons of Black Mirror before it went netflix and while it was OK, Humans was a more interesting show by the end, about human like robots and how people react to them. It had an interesting subplot that actually went places where before he was fully aware that their robot was sapient (although of course the kids caught on early), the father activates the Adult-only mode and sleeps with the robot. Everyone is super horrified because she's humanlike enough even without sapience that they're like "You seriously had sex with something that couldn't give informed consent? (plus cheating on the mum with the robot didn't help)" especially since he tries to let his son take the blame for the mode being activated (because it's a red herring that the son's kind of crushing on the robot, he just respects her enough not to do that poo poo) The whole family basically kick the father out at that point and sever ties with him for a while before he starts to try to make up for his mistake. Something I liked about the situation was that the wife never blames the robot for what happened, she doesn't get all weird about machines stealing her husband or anything, she puts the blame directly where it belongs. Yeah, but that show has a really dumb thing where being a robosexual is a thing, and the kid's parents just have to accept that. Although that might have been only a thing for the original Swedish show. Also, some people getting upset and suing a club that they can't bring what are essentially highly advanced sex dolls to a club IShallRiseAgain has a new favorite as of 04:18 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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Jun 8, 2020 04:14
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Different BM episodes appeal to different people. I broadly enjoy the show but would only say that I truly like about half the episodes. White Bear, the Christmas episode with Jon Hamm, and San Junipero are all excellent. Don't watch the episode with the robot bees though, that one is peak "What if phones but too much".
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Jun 8, 2020 04:25
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what if bees, but computer
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Jun 8, 2020 05:45
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Six Million Merits was pretty good
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Jun 8, 2020 06:07
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What if your mum ran on batteries
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Jun 8, 2020 06:20
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Dragonwagon posted:How the gently caress is this guy even real. He's like a living caricature. https://twitter.com/OneAngryGamerHD/status/1268886173348495365 I want to believe this is some incredibly elaborate troll because no one person could be this stupid but that's the internet for you
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Jun 8, 2020 07:07
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:I want to believe this is some incredibly elaborate troll because no one person could be this stupid but that's the internet for you i think someone can easily be that stupid, it's just less likely to me that someone could be this hilariously stupid- but also yeah we get to see literally billions of posters out there so we're gonna get a few, extremely hilarious, edge cases
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Yeah, but that show has a really dumb thing where being a robosexual is a thing, and the kid's parents just have to accept that. Although that might have been only a thing for the original Swedish show. 
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