also occasionally it is not nearly caustic enough, and buys the idea that some stuff is actually sorta neat. (i mean, maybe some is, but it would be a better voice to never acknowledge it!)
wait, you think valleywag is TOO credulous?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
i actually thing vw suffers a bit from not having boots on the ground. i read a great piece about the silicon valley premiere and all the dumb shit tech people were saying about it on recode, really sort of hang-them-with-their-own-rope stuff, and i wished vw could do that sort of thing.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 12 May 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
this was the dumbest episode so far
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
it's enjoyable but I could stand about 100% more satire
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 05:11 (ten years ago) link
most exciting file download ever
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
first legit funny ep i thought
― Mordy, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
hopeful for next season now that this one is out of the way.
― ryan, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
I thought the hand job efficiency calculating was very funny!
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was a really funny ep top to bottom
the calculation stuff was cracking me up
also Jared crowdsourcing his "pivot" ideas was hilarious
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was definitely the best episode yet, though it made the tacked-on romance thing seem even more superfluous than before somehow
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
I just found out today that Christopher Evan Welch died in the middle of the series.
― akm, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
Woah
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
yeah he'll be missed
idg what made this episode different from those that preceded it for you guys. seemed like more of the same to me (which is fine). Erlich consistently the funniest imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
It is another case of a relatively young 9/11 first responder succumbing to the asbestos exposure of that day, it seems like they are dropping like flies. I have had plenty of that shit myself but nothing compared to that day in one dose.
― xelab, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 23:54 (nine years ago) link
idk anything else that that eldrich guy is in but I recently saw a pretty great thing on youtube where he does a moth-like standup thing and tells a story about getting part of his brain removed
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kduZLSyCU6s
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
tj miller is a weird funny motherfucker
his podcast is bizarre & funny if you're in the right mood for stonertalk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed the Kara Swisher cameo in the finale. Homegirl is pretty short!
Will Sam Biddle be in season tiddle
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
So good.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
hotswap dicks in and out
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
the absolute commitment to the question on its own terms (populated by dick diagrams) and the lengths to which they took it really made the bit incredibly funny
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
when they got to "hot swapping dicks" i was in love, i lold so hard
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
Watched the first half of the season (eps 1-5) last night. So good.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 September 2014 19:48 (nine years ago) link
it gets better as it goes along imo
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Prob better here than the LOLZ thread: http://uproxx.com/tv/2015/04/silicon-valley-dick-joke-oral-history/
― schwantz, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
4 more days!
― schwantz, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
gonna miss my favorite character :(
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
It's funny that consultant is anonymous despite his name being all over the internet associated with this joke.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kumailsiliconvalleydickjoke22-thumb-550x309-113200.gif?w=650&h=365
― NotKnowPotato (stevie), Friday, 10 April 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 April 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/kumailn/status/586678680576925696
― some stupid push back (some dude), Saturday, 11 April 2015 01:12 (nine years ago) link
loooool wtf
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:24 (nine years ago) link
lol, kumail should be fucking with them hard about this
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Patton Oswalt has the biggest grin right about now.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
ah well he took the high groundhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/silicon-valley-star-calls-salon-787889
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
ugh a lot of people I normally like are being stupid on twitter about this
worst part of the original flub was def the use of "in fact." ouuuch
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 April 2015 06:24 (nine years ago) link
could not stop loling at the name "Stern Taylor"
http://i.imgur.com/FUhsvbS.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/74b1qQA.png
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
so this dealt with the peter gregory/christopher evan welch-sized elephant in the room really well - the bizarro monologue explaining his death was utterly hilarious
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah i loved that
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how much of the season they'd shot and how much of it they had to overhaul and rewrite/reshoot
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
I think he'd already died while they were shooting the end of last season.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
I read somewhere that he'd filmed 5 episodes of the new season though
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Pretty sure it was that he'd filmed the 5 episodes of the first season. That's why you never saw him later in S1.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that's right.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
i believe he was dead before they started airing the show.
"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do" was perfect
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
this episode was written by clay tarver, the guitarist from Chavez(!) he also co-wrote 'joy ride' with jj abrams, what a world, what a country
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/is-slack-really-worth-2-8-billion-a-conversation-with-stewart-butterfield
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
Erlich Bachman really is one of the best comedy character creations in TV in a long, long time.
I can't get enough depictions of horrificly awkward tech parties. Kid Rock last series and the SF Giants ballpark this time - so cringey
― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 10:23 (nine years ago) link
Do any of you guys ~do~ tech? Is it really this embarrassing? Bcz Gawker says yes.
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link