Mike Judge's "Silicon Valley" (HBO Show)

i admire that rogermexico thinks david schwimmer is hunky.

was wondering if we were going to let that one slide

song about disillusionment from meeting david schwimmer in person
https://youtu.be/xpnb3whTjLI

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omg

i admire that rogermexico thinks david schwimmer is hunky.

― Yerac, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 9:13 AM

was wondering if we were going to let that one slide

― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, September 18, 2019

lmao i was too!

bumped into him a few times irl back in the day with witnesses - he surprises people

"nice hog, Schwimmer"

OK.
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is he a nerdy guy irl tho? I honestly have no idea. he’s an actor. I mean he plays nerdy real good but iirc David Schwimmer is like 6’1” and hunky but played “Ross” on friends.

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:51 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he does shakespearean improv he's a fucking nerd lol

http://www.improvisedshakespeare.com/about/writeup/li/BIO-8/

He is in the napolean dynamite physicality category too.

something about him reminds me of a large groundhog

tip of the hat for that cartoon there PN

Shakespeare improv sounds like absolute hell on Earth.

I've seen it done, it was really funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gFSENorEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1uCYK6wnjk

had never heard of the wearable chair

this show is still funny, debut was solid. I was kinda surprised at how hard they go in on the big tech companies, it's like the characters all take it for granted that Facebook, Google, etc. are evil.

Eheh the wearable chair dude was definitely annoying !
Some funny stuff in that first ep indeed.
Also Jin Yang back from China. And big head back from wherever he was.
Actually it seems a lot of things have happened since the previous season.

ooh is this back?

Jared had a hell of a moment on this episode lol

I laughed the hardest at:

Yes.... No

No.... Yes

lol @ the "Foxhole" app

Talking about the tree inside the house, and then revealing that it was in fact an all-glass house was pretty good

Enjoyed the first two but in the Ep3 preview, there was more Richard puking jfc enough already.

this show is v funny but Richard's role as moral compass is weirdly unexplored/unexplained - like, why does he have a problem with all these things nobody else around him ever has a problem with

Jared's the moral compass, Richard just wants things his own way

I don't think that's right. Richard clearly thinks the data-gathering-for-marketing thing is inherently wrong.

I don't think it needs explanation? so many of the silicon valley types are amoral assholes that most of the regular working ppl just go along with it bcz that's the world they live in. Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass, so when he falteringly brings attention to gross human rights violations, a handful of ppl close to him think "yeah that's true" and go along with his efforts to do better bcz a) they get briefly aspirational and b) Richard's whims are the smaller world that they live in.

Gilfoyle mostly just wants to code and either be left alone or be acknowledged to be superior. so if amoral monsters will leave him alone, he's happy, but if he has the chance to do something that fucks over amoral monsters while coding, he will take that chance.

Richard has m/l a normal person's moral compass

but... why, especially after all this time in the Valley?

I think he's just extremely single-minded and right now his vision just happens to align on the moral side of the argument. Also, it's a half hour comedy show that has never really been big on exploring character development.

he also isn't that moral. was going to take the evil chilean dude's money

it’s a lot of money

I think Richard has ethics but not morals, as much as you could make distinctions. Or at least he has an ethic (tech libertarian, with ownership of personal data being prime)

Otm, he may have one principle. He's not a good person, he's just disrupting Big Data.

also the idea that projects should be able to succeed in their purest form: no box, no data mining, just enabling

For a final season of seven episodes (from what I understand), the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward. Episode four was much like episode two in this regard.

lol who cares about the plot? show is basically a comedy of manners, just a series of setups for the characters to get into uncomfortable situations

otm

the creators seem to not be very bothered with moving the plot forward

here's an idea for a plot they could try: Pied Piper starts a new enterprise, and it's going really well but then a competitor sabotages them & they could lose it all! but they do something clever and save the company, ending up with a different business model

they're gonna have to step it up if there's only three episodes left, but episode four was clearly setting up a lot of dominos

no one truly fails in SV, they only fall face first into opportunity

I'm looking forward to RussFest

was dying @ his jacket that was two other jackets cut in half and sewn together

That was one of the funniest ones in a long time

https://www.russfest.net/

I would watch this show just for Jared. even his fake laugh at Richard's attempts at jokes.

The playlist!

"Bitchard" on both Jin Yang's and Monica's phones was good.

they managed to make Russ likable and Richard detestable

Richard has been unlikable or worse for several seasons now

Richard's relatable when he's trying to accomplish a great thing, or takes on an ethical stance that's relatable, but as a person... he's Bitchard and always has been. He's just been juxtaposed with worse people in most conflicts!

it wasn't the best payoff but i'm glad they did pay off bighead's simon obsession