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

"just jam it in a box and no one knows it's there"

*sales people consider this idea*

"hmm, like a rack mount server solution?"

I haven't slept in a box in years!

lol yes

I love how Ehrlich loses every conversation he has with Jian Yang, like somehow he always manages to come out of them worse off than before

Jian Yang yelling at him while shoving whatever traditional Japanese thing that Erlich foisted him down the garbage disposal was great

Also him interrupting to say that yes, Japanese people are racist when Erlich was saying he was not racist was a perfect response to something that wasn't actually said

he's still an iffy character in his portrayal but they're getting better at capturing the stilted conversations between someone who speaks English as a second language and the American person they loathe

jesus fucking christ, I knew sales people were the worst and everything but I guess I didn't realize just how thoroughly and universally they were the worst! Watching this show has made me uncomf bcz it just gives me flashbacks to my last job

have you guys seen what some of the "appliance" data center things you can buy look like? in one way they make sense, in that they're supported by the vendor from the hardware/OS upwards to their product

on the other hand, it's a physical thingy that looks justifiable to buy for higher-ups when it's usually just a software thingy

also some of them have some lol branding

http://www.teradata.com/uploadedImages/Company-And-Careers/News-And-Events/News/2013/active_edw.jpg?n=6285

http://www.forumsys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Forum-Sentry-Appliance.jpg

that first one is like as tall as i am

So no one wants to talk about the fucking horses huh.

pretty standard scene meant to mess with the audience, i chuckled

Real fucking btw

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/silicon-valley-horse-sex-scene-888871

seems like it'd be easier to shoot the real thing

I like the appliance angle cuz that means (hopefully) we'll get to see some hardware development stuff (trips to Chinese factories, etc.).

happy for Big Head getting 20 mil but all he really wants to do is hang with his buddies on the roof

big head is the most sympathetic character, for sure

of course: http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/PETA-Blasts-Silicon-Valley-Explicit-Horse-7390317.php

bwahahaha

"arranged rape" just made me wonder about what consent between horses involves

Are you cool with forks making Spotify playlists out of every rolling thread without permission?

Neigh means neigh.

https://d.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1383332389ra/6507939.gif

please please please have an episode mocking this
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/02/further-future-festival-burning-man-tech-elite-eric-schmidt?CMP=share_btn_tw

jesus christ Marie Antoinette would blush

actually it might not be capable of being parodied, they would have to just present it as-is

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/536405c670ae53c4ffa8ddf015576274902c675e/0_0_1440_2160/master/1440.jpg?w=1920&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=43e3bfd0f80ca33cf82f6e2ddecf92e9

this show keeps getting better

agreed! mike judge may secretly be my favorite comedy creator. i am wondering how hands on he is on an episode by episode basis

I do like this show altho idk if I'd say it's getting better. Sometimes the plot contortions get in the way of the jokes (watching it I have a hard time not thinking about Judge's comment about how they have a hard time "constantly coming up with different ways for them to fail")

totally loving this show atm

http://www.piedpiper.com/

The bios are totally hilarious.

oh boy this goes deep.

http://www.coderag.com/

http://www.raviga.com/

i hope they get more mileage out of dang

lol @ Ehrlich's "BA in Ultimate Frisbee"

bahahahaha

At Raviga, we see the big picture. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards. We not only think outside of the box, we think outside of the box that box is in — and so on — until innovation is free of all boxes that would contain and constrain it. In this way, we seek to disrupt the very concept of disruption itself.

lol @ the companies the members of the sales team worked for previously

had to read Jared's bio to my Vassar-educated wife.

it's very appropriate! after every time he's on screen, I find myself thinking, "Oh Jared, what has the world done to you?"

"hey Dinesh nice chain do you choke your mother with it when you put your penis in her butthole?"

Worst episode in a while?

the continual failures are getting a bit exasperating, but im excited to see how Big Head is gonna back his way into success again.

when does this season end? I was dropping my HBO streaming subscription for a few months and was going to pick it back up and binge the whole season, but you are tempting me into jumping back in now

especially if there's more Big Head content

prob the most Big Head content since the first season!

This was episode 5 so another 5-7 weeks?

5

Something about this show seems very Entourage to me: the quick reversals of fortune, the comic relief from the programmer equivalents of Turtle and Drama, the 'agent,' the token females. That said I enjoy it very much...

That's been the problem for the last couple of episodes, they need to draw out these situations a little longer. The HD bit this week was a bunch of setup for a five second punchline. I expected more hijinks.

http://www.piedpiper.com/

they updated the website to reflect the new hires!

the synergy of television and the web is so 1998

i feel like they are interested in shortening time between plot developments which leaves a lot of potential comedy feeling like it goes by the wayside but also makes it feel like there's a real purposeful meanderingness to the plot lol

the continual failures are getting a bit exasperating,

otmfm, it wd be nice to see the plot progress just a little w/o the excruciating tension of constant and often improbable fuckups