So Sup Forums, what are your thoughts on the predictions of the cons of technology portrayed by Black Mirror?

So Sup Forums, what are your thoughts on the predictions of the cons of technology portrayed by Black Mirror?

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I don't watch netflix garbage

I don't watch TV, I don't really know what that is

#virtuesignaling

What technology? What cons?
This is not Sup Forums

Then don't reply to the thread you stupid faggots. No one is impressed that you're an asocial retard who avoids popular things. This is why Linux is shit after 30 years.

Being alive is really popular too. Are you so sure you want to follow the herd?

quick rundown for those of us only watching anime?

This

youtube.com/watch?v=E5XLJW-2zCo

It's all very doom and gloom. Wish they could give the upsides of technology for once. Just feels very luddite all the time.

Also, 90% of the episodes is like social media garbage. I wish they would do things like: "What would the world look like if you could get Chinese delivery FROM China to your door in 30 minutes in New York" or something like that.

Lastly, I hate hate hate how they never explain how society came to accept fucked up things like the meow meow points episode or the merits episode or white christmas.

WOT IF FACEBOOK WAS IN YER BUM

GET THIS LADS, MOBILE PHONES RIGHT?
BUT THEY'RE IN YOUR BRAIN!

WOT IF IN THE FUTURE YOUR DAD WAS ME MUM

Most of it is magic-tier so I don't tend to take it seriously

Every tech keynote for every shitty smart nipple clamp startup is optimistic about the future. Black Mirror offers something that's actually quite rare.

Do you also judge the quality of your computer equipment based on whether it came from Amazon or Newegg?

Oh shut up, do you watch hallmark channel movies or lifetime original series?
Netflix is known for youtube red quality garbage

the singing competition one was hot

ITT: people who have never seen black mirror.

its stupid euro humor that is completely unrealistic to how euros even live

>t. cuck

idiocracy for the next generation

>humor

That's not what virtue signaling means

See

WOT IF BRITISH GAS BOUGHT THE SUN AND TURNED IT OFF COR IT MAKES YA FINK DUNNIT

Bleak fiction? I can go down to a nursing home or a psych ward if I want that.

why? BECAUSE THERE IS A NIGGER IN IT?
So liking the ass to ass scene in requiem for a dream makes me a cuck because there is a nigger in the movie?

I don't give a shit who paid money to have it made. I just watch it based on the quality of the work.

Nice accent.

I'm honestly shocked with BM popularity. Most plots "tech is evil" are boring or disappointing. Add lesbiands and generic social commentary so people like to think they're smart by watching it.

What's so smart about lesbians?

I'll reply to whatever thread I want to, fuck off back to facebook normalfag

No....It's be because a guy works his whole life to get 1.5mil merits, gives to a girl so that she can sing and be famous, girl becomes a bimbo and he is forced to watch her get fucked all the time, aka he's a cuck.

I'm just making a joke m8, relax. Save your energy for when you need to prep your bull.

but CryBaby is good

Meow meow points episode? I don't remember a meow meow points episode.

Nosedive I think it was called.

It's a rip off of a much better done community episode where the showed exactly how the system rises, falls, and the pitfalls and rewards.

Really ironic how a random comedy show is better at being black mirror than black mirror.

Is he /our guy/?

>oy bruv wot if yew 'ad a facebook account when yew were born, scary innit
>wot if robots replaced humans all body-snatcha style, cor

It's so true tho

FHACKEN ELL

There are more dead people than there are alive people. Not so popular now, is it?

Pessimism isn't rare in science fiction.

S04 was utter fucking garbage though.

t. watched S01 when it aired originally

wow nice joke

Community is unwatchable fucking garbage. disgusting.

Still have some of the season 3 and 4 to watch but I like it. The one where you can get BTFOd because of your "rating" made me anxious just watching it. Shit got too real.

>Watching a nigger get cucked
>Cuck
Riiiiggghtt

The only thing I found accurate was people confusing artificial intelligence for real one, and believing harming a real person as revenge for having "harmed" a computer program is acceptable (from the last episode).

Also the whole
>whitey baaad
>darkie goood
theme got old real quick. Pretty blatant propaganda.

fpbp

I'm tired of all this fucking dystopian shit.
Shows how our society has given up on idealism.

Nothing, but normies feel smart when watching lesbians for some reason.

I dont care I only watch anime

I haven't even watched the show and I can assume with confidence that "white honkey EBIL" is a relevant trait of it since it's Netflix.
If they want to portray us as evil, maybe we should give them some of that good old evil whitey from the old times resurrected, life is short after all and most whites have no motivation in life making the susceptible to finding their "spirituality" in the way their ancestors operated.

meh

>and believing harming a real person as revenge for having "harmed" a computer program is acceptable (from the last episode).
The assumption there is that it's a 1:1 replication of a consciousness and that the only real difference between that mind and the one residing in the original body is that the latter is housed in a biological instead of an artificial brain.

I don't feel like that should be dismissed as just a computer program but I don't really have strong arguments one way or another. It's pretty simple to claim that a human mind is basically an advanced program anyway so what's the difference, but there's no real way to prove that.

Its entertaining and well made but not thought provoking. I think it is okay if you watch it just as a series of mini films that just take place in some vague future rather than explicit sci fi.

>people will blackmail you for watching child pornography
>in the future you wont get away with cheating or murder

The most dystopian ones like the one about the tv show or about the bug people are actually laughable.

Black Mirror went to shit once netfilx started making it (it's still better than 90% of their other content). Also, have you noticed how the latest season is no longer bleak and pessimistic. All but one of the episodes end with something like a happy end. The series got netflixed. I am no longer a fan.

>has an amazing thing going on
>brings in "muh stronk wimminz"
>she manages to ruin everything

If he was in control of everything why couldn't he control their personalities?

Also his character is totally unrealistic. No human being behaves this way. This is another problem of the new season, most of the characters are unrelatable or uninteresting. There is too much time spend on muh technology and not enough on character development.

Yup, the newer episodes just don't have the "bite" of the original two seasons. Fucking Netflix watering down another good thing. I can 100% grantee this is down to Netflix's statistical analysis of viewer data. They probably saw their audiences preferred a happy/bitter-sweet ending... and so it was.

If you though the trend of most modern TV and Film being cooked up by a board of directors was bad enough, welcome to the age of entertainment being designed by algorithms and statistics.

House of Cards was good.

Do you think that's smart? It isn't. It is fucking philosophy and irrelevant to technology.

The only patrician answer.

This would make a fucking great episode for season 5

>No one is impressed that you're an asocial retard who avoids popular things
THIS

Of course it's about philosophy and ethics. That's why people watch the show, not to marvel at the magical technology. Philosophy is only irrelevant to technology on its own, but it's the application of technology that Black Mirror concerns itself with, and philosophy and ethics are very much relevant to that as you well know.

>Do you think that's smart?
No, especially since they've done that concept to death by now. Even assuming it's eventually possible it's way too far in the future to take seriously.

Torrenting and the internet rendered television obsolete. No, this isn't Two Broke Girls, you are missing out.

...

>The one where you can get BTFOd because of your "rating" made me anxious just watching it. Shit got too real.
I'd argue that people who left negative reviews or refuse to consider or continue watching the series have seen that very episode.

>Shows how our society has given up on idealism.
And God bless them too. Christians for one dreamt of an idealistic world, and we all know how well that has served humanity.

I haven't seen season 4 yet. Is that when the takeover happened? I was also only underwhelmed by the first and the second episode.

Only season 1 was made before Netflix bought the show

Then, I suppose this is the problem.

/thread

Some of the old episodes are good, now it's literary garbage.

What's so wrong with the fourth season? Or are you just doing this?

Only the first episode is even remotely plausible. VR episodes are especially cringe-worthy.

Fucking normies. Get off my board.

Deep down everyone knows that our society is rotten to the core and unsalvageable. Those who say nothing is wrong know in their hearts that they are lying to themselves.

No TV show should dare explore fiction? There was one genius in particular, on Sup Forums of course, who insisted that songwriters shouldn't possibly write about situations they personally haven't experienced. Hopefully you're not going there.

>Those who say nothing is wrong know in their hearts that they are lying to themselves.
But that's exactly what Black Mirror isn't doing. Did you just comment on his post regardless or are you agreeing with him by disagreeing?

I didn't say the program isn't entertaining. OP asked about the technology.

qt desu

Yeah, so? Doesn't change the fact that dystopian fiction is everywhere and I'm sick of it. It's boring, repetitive and unoriginal.

>t. fedora tipper who knows nothing about history and christianity
And I'm not even Christian, or even advocating it.

>What's so wrong with the fourth season?
It's lame. Specially compared to older episodes.

>thread about topic asking opinions
>stop posting bad opinions
Not your safespace.

I laughed too much
Fuck I hate Britain

>t. fedora tipper who knows nothing about history and christianity
>And I'm not even Christian, or even advocating it.
Oh, so why aren't we living in a literal heaven right now? I'm waiting and so are you.

>thread about topic asking opinions
>stop posting bad opinions
I'm , but not .

Worst season so far imo. Still ok though. I was much more entertained by watching Anthony Fantano shit on it.

I went to school with her

Whoever you are is not related to the post.

>No one is impressed that you're an asocial retard who avoids popular things.
Most of the popular things are killing the principals of the internet, privacy, or are terrible ideas. The internet of shit and bookface are prime examples.

>what if they're called cell phones because they're like a jail
>what if the computer turns your off

This season was fucking garbage.
A fucking guinea pig? Fucking guinea pig memories? In court? I thought you were supposed to like trigger the memories with certain words to pull them out? Like they showed through that whole fucking episode? How the fuck would you get a baby to remember someone walking by a door? HOW THE FUCK WOULD YOU GET A FUCKING GUINEA PIG TO REMEMBER A TIME WHEN SOMEONE MURDERED A BABY?!?! HOW WOULD A FUCKIBG GUINEA PIG EVEN REMEMBER THAT

This, fuck Netflix and DRM

me too

OBJECTION!!!

Also sneak peek of season 5 episode.

>reddit spacing
>makes fun of unsocial people
>extends commentary to things he doesnt understand like linux
>makes a shitty analogy
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