I just finished the third episode of Silicon Valley (HBO) and found it really funny, but wondered if those that "live it" also find it humorous or do they take offense?
Ask HN: Do you think Silicon Valley (HBO) is funny or offensive?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you think Silicon Valley (HBO) is funny or offensive?
#2It's funny to me. I live in "SV".
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#3http://youtu.be/fHMoDt3nSHs?t=3m32s
So what, be offended, nothing happens. You're an adult, grow up. Deal with it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you think Silicon Valley (HBO) is funny or offensive?
#4http://youtu.be/fHMoDt3nSHs?t=3m32s So what, be offended, nothing happens. You're an adult, grow up. Deal with it.
Do you live in Silicon Valley?
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#5FakeValley has a lighter flavor. But it is a long form read so its not the same thing.
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#6I think it's funny, mainly because I feel like I recognize many of the archetypes among people I know or have met. It's only a slight exaggeration of what it's like here.
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#7Obviously it's funny.
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#8I don't take offense (nothing to be personal about, why should it) but I find the show pretty boring and awkwardly stupid if I was honest. I think it's extremely exaggerated but not in any way I personally find is good. It's not funny, acting seems awful, and it's nothing like Silicon Valley as I know it and I've lived here for almost a decade. To each his own I guess. I just stopped watching, it was too bland for my taste.
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#9I've always liked the quote "Nobody has the right to not be offended." Certainly as members of a very privileged group few people have that right less than us.
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#10I don't take offense (nothing to be personal about, why should it) but I find the show pretty boring and awkwardly stupid if I was honest. I think it's extremely exaggerated but not in any way I personally find is good. It's not funny, acting seems awful, and it's nothing like Silicon Valley as I know it and I've lived here for almost a decade. To each his own I guess. I just stopped watching, it was too bland for my…
I tend to agree with you on this after having watched the first two episodes, but I'm keeping an open mind (I'm still keen to see what happens, so it hasn't lost me just yet).
The show just seems like this really weird combination where on the one hand it tries to be ultra-realistic (hey look here's a TED talk; here's something else mentioned in the netsphere! ) but then you have that stupid premise about the company inventing some kind of magically-impossible compression algorithm. Plus I think it was far too quick to show it's cards; BIG COMPANY vs LITTLE COMPANY?!?! REALLY WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT?!?!
Maybe I don't get the humor either but I can't decide whether the show is actually trying to be a comedy or a drama. It definitely seems much more like a drama to me. I remember genuinely laughing more at parts of 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'.