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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by mturmon »

blocked_again wrote: post #13
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?

The characters, especially the female characters, were just too far off the mark. Also, too many girl-meets-boy plot lines. It got worse as the show went along with no new ideas. "Friends" with nerd jokes.

(I live next door to Pasadena and am acquainted with many Caltechers.)

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by inscionent »

skunkworker wrote: post #7
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

This Venn diagram always gets me. https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8291744000/h3159FC59/

All of those shows have an acceptable time, place and use for me.

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by weihanzhang »

buboard wrote: post #16
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

Mike Judge predicted how democracy turns to idiocracy 10 years ago. i wonder what he thinks about the future of tech

America is already there, it's half hull of tarded mud mutts begging the white man to fix everything for them.

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

As someone who fits almost all of the boxes for people Big Bang Theory has made fun of, I still enjoy the series immensely, as I have since it started. Sometimes I wonder if it just hits too close to the truth for some people, or if on the opposite end, they are too detached from the sort of people it characterizes and hence don't see where it draws from.

Silicon Valley is a very different show, but definitely on solid ground. And it's unique in that it seems quite popular amongst people its blatantly making fun of.

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by 24gttghh »

blocked_again wrote: post #13
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?

Pardon the terminology, but I consider that show to be Nerd-Blackface. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I find how the show deals with anything technical to be an affront to intelligence in general.

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by Dirlewanger »

blocked_again wrote: post #13
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?

Someone on a podcast I listen to called it "nerd blackface", which I think is a fair assessment. The main characters have so many different stereotypes and so many different personality quirks rammed into singular people that it's borderline ridiculous; they don't feel like real people. It's still a really well-written show though, but many people will choose to blindly hate them instead. Much like the same hate Lorre's other show, Two and a Half Men (Sheen era), got.

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by [deleted] »

blocked_again wrote: post #13
slivym wrote: post #3

It's quite amazing how good a job Silicon Valley does considering how badly wrong it could go (I'm looking at you Big Bang Theory). I'm sure there are quite a few industries that could have similar comedies about them from people who really know what the industry is like. W1A is another great example.

Pardon my ignorance but what did big bang theory got wrong?

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Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by city41 »

ModernMech wrote: post #30
ryanmercer wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>He strikes me as a genius when it comes to understanding human behavior - Office Space, check! - Idiocracy, check! - Silicon Valley, check! For Silicon Valley it helps he's actually worked for a startup, a hardware one at that.

Don't forget King of the Hill. That's a double check right there.

even Beavis and Butthead captured defiant male teens pretty well

Re: If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley

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Post by ip26 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #33

It’s pretty crazy how the real SV has been obligingly giving the real show new material since it first debuted, with ever-increasing excess, quixotic ventures in search of markets, worsening scandals, and externalities everywhere!

There were also several moments the real show gave the real SV new material.
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