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it's crazy how every day society becomes more and more like a tv show that I've read about but never seen
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I raise my fist to the blackening sky as thousands of robotic enforcers descend upon my city like a stampede. Even now I can feel the nanobots my smartphone infected me with wreaking havoc on my cerebral cortex. Before the last vestiges of autonomous thought are snuffed from my brain I offer up one final cry of defiance: "I never even watched the show!" |
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Jan 10, 2018 21:17
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google THIS posted:I raise my fist to the blackening sky as thousands of robotic enforcers descend upon my city like a stampede. Even now I can feel the nanobots my smartphone infected me with wreaking havoc on my cerebral cortex. Before the last vestiges of autonomous thought are snuffed from my brain I offer up one final cry of defiance: "I never even watched the show!" |
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Jan 10, 2018 21:26
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little munchkin posted:it's crazy how every day society becomes more and more like a tv show that I've read about but never seen
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Jan 10, 2018 21:54
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Jan 10, 2018 22:21
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i don't even own a tv [black mirror twist] ... i am a tv |
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Jan 10, 2018 22:54
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*enters combat/athletic stance every time I walk past my friends fridge with a screen on it* |
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Jan 11, 2018 00:53
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sockingtonsworth posted:*enters combat/athletic stance every time I walk past my friends fridge with a screen on it*
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Jan 11, 2018 13:19
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| The real Black Mirror was the friends we made along the way. | |
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Jan 14, 2018 15:53
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Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. -Ambrose Bierce |
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Jan 14, 2018 16:28
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iPhone: "Not enough memory. You can either delete a few photos, or upgrade your iCloud storage for more space." British Person: *shrieks in terror* |
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Jan 14, 2018 18:27
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This thread... is funny. But the title is dumb and there is not a strong central hypothesis. Is it that people talk about Black Mirror in social commentary without having watched it like a kind of modern "Kafka-esque"? Or is this some techno-utopian honeypot thread for dumping on the 'phobes who can't keep up with you starry-eyed STEMlords? You have one day to get it together, weird TV ranty thread! So sayeth the IK! |
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Jan 15, 2018 20:59
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Is it that people talk about Black Mirror in social commentary without having watched it like a kind of modern "Kafka-esque"? Or is this some techno-utopian honeypot thread for dumping on the 'phobes who can't keep up with you starry-eyed STEMlords? I have no idea, I don't watch tv. I just saw this thread and started winging it based off what other people were posting.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:04
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Koishi Komeiji posted:I have no idea, I don't watch tv. I just saw this thread and started winging it based off what other people were posting. Oh okay so... wait a minute. Are you double-dipping now? ... ... INT- Buckingham Palace. QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND (70's) pulls her face forcebly from the glowing blue goggles of the QUANTUM FORUM, panting for breath. QE2 What madness!! They tell jokes about the jokes about the jokes, endlessly and on forever!!! GUARD 1 Shall we destroy the thread, yer majesty!? QE2 Belay that, captain. I'm going back in...
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Jan 15, 2018 21:15
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:This thread... is funny. But the title is dumb and there is not a strong central hypothesis. Is it that people talk about Black Mirror in social commentary without having watched it like a kind of modern "Kafka-esque"? Or is this some techno-utopian honeypot thread for dumping on the 'phobes who can't keep up with you starry-eyed STEMlords? This is the funniest thread going rn what are u doing |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:43
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| My thought is it would be funny if someone from the Victorian era looked at Kellogg's Corn Flakes and said "my God... It's just like looking into a black mirror," seeing as how back then Corn Flakes were a new thing back then, and also as how they've brought untold suffering on millions. | |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:44
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Hugh Malone posted:This is the funniest thread going rn what are u doing I have no idea but I don't get this thread. Probably because I haven't watched Black Mirror.
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Jan 15, 2018 22:45
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| Another funny thing would be a Victorian dandy reading "Dorian Grey" and saying "black mirror did it better." | |
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Black mirror s4e1: a patient gets a pacemaker But they were trying to set a record for most microwave dinners eaten They are bested by technology and are forced to adopt a normal diet Slush Garbo fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:46
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| Or how about a hunter-gatherer looking at an irrigation ditch and just freaking the gently caress out | |
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| The agricultural revolution profoundly reduced human quality of life and mortality rates for like a thousand years before they began to rise again. Crop rotation and walled cities were the real Black Mirror. And rivers, of course. | |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:48
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| Ancient Black Mirror writer, looking at the Tigris: ... But what if it flooded ALL the time, you wouldn't like it then, would you? | |
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Jan 15, 2018 22:49
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An amoeba hanging out with a buddy. Then there's three of them WTF |
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Jan 15, 2018 23:03
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Everybody's crawling out of the ocean these days. Going bipedal. Not me, though, not Eddy. I like it in here. I don't need to follow the crowd. *gets fished out of ocean BY HIS OWN SON* |
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Jan 15, 2018 23:17
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Panicking woman wearing no makeup "All I did was lose 3 emotion credits because of my very human parenting issue" Mr Black Mirror leaps into frame "Wotcha guv'ner yer now trapped inside your midwife's brain fer all eternity and it's got a logo" |
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Jan 15, 2018 23:23
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Black Mirror: Origins S1E1: The fire that burns brightest Episode summary: Cavemen begin using a new invention called fire to cook meat and warm their caves. The technology seems good until it turns out it's bad because it can burn stuff too. Notable quotes: Caveman(seeing that his cave has burned down because he left the stove on): What grotesque hubris brought this upon man? To think he would play at being a god and temper the very forces of nature herself to his bidding. We though of technology as a boon but in the end we reaped only folly. Dinosaur inside the stove who's job it is to blow on the fire to keep it going: Does this mean I don't get overtime? *laugh track*
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A man looks out of an airplane window only to see a mid range I-Phone ripping the wings apart and nobody believes him. |
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Jan 15, 2018 23:36
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guy in a hoodie, talking to a smartphone: "Ok Google! Find me... my next murder victim" Narrator: Uh oh! It looks like we're through the looking glass (pause) the black looking glass
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Koishi Komeiji posted:Black Mirror: Origins S1E1: The fire that burns brightest haha ---------------- |
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Modrasone posted:A man looks out of an airplane window only to see a mid range I-Phone ripping the wings apart and nobody believes him. ---------------- |
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cda posted:Ancient Black Mirror writer, looking at the Tigris: ... But what if it flooded ALL the time, you wouldn't like it then, would you? lol |
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arthur c clarke throwing his iphone at the tv |
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Jan 16, 2018 01:13
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Modrasone posted:A man looks out of an airplane window only to see a mid range I-Phone ripping the wings apart and nobody believes him. lol |
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Black Mirror: Origins S1E2: What Comes Around Episode summary: Ugh has trouble dragging bundles of sticks and rocks. Slick Caveman offers to help him by trying out his new invention: the wheel. This new invention makes moving his stuff easy at first, but quickly leads to a downward decent and the loss of all he holds dear. Notable quote: Ugh (after all his sticks and rocks rolled down the hill and into the ocean): What is the nature of a man but to toil against nature? We can strive to elevate ourselves, but in the end we succumb to our own hubris. Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan |
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Jan 16, 2018 03:27
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Jan 16, 2018 06:13
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cda posted:My thought is it would be funny if someone from the Victorian era looked at Kellogg's Corn Flakes and said "my God... It's just like looking into a black mirror," seeing as how back then Corn Flakes were a new thing back then, and also as how they've brought untold suffering on millions. Also their mirrors were filthy because they thought the filth would trap their reflections on the other side better (this was covered in season 10 EP 22 entitled "help I'm trapped behind this filthy loving mirror or is it they who are trapped????") |
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Jan 16, 2018 14:13
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It was definitely a turning point for the show when they just gave up cool titles in favour of just saying what the twist is. Definitely saved me having to look it up on wikipedia instead of watching and enjoying the show, and my anxiety dropped substantially. |
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I definitely did not enjoy the 12th season though, where every episode was 40 minutes of Mitchell and Webb asking "are we the baddies?" in different time periods. |
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