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"Elsewhere there’s also an entire episode in which the plot arc willfully requires that the audience fail to understand the difference between an interpreted script and a compiled software binary."

I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
posted to MetaFilter by Banky_Edwards at 1:09 PM on May 16, 2015

mccarty.tim: "Mainframe: Snake neutralized, all worm detection circuits report null."

Snake! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!
posted to MetaFilter by symbioid at 12:56 PM on May 16, 2015

I have watched every episode of this show. It's very clear from watching the advertising on the CBS stream or on live TV that the target of this show isn't millennials, it's the parents of millennials. The first ad for every episode, whether on TV or on the App is always for Lifelock, the anti-identity-theft company and literally the first thing the commercial says is "YOU HAVE HAD YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN"

Patricia Arquette's character on the show talks in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sleeping bear at 11:52 AM on May 16, 2015

Hey now, don't knock The Beek. He was wonderful on Don't Trust The B.
posted to MetaFilter by kmz at 11:28 AM on May 16, 2015

[paraphrasing a joke from the YOSPOS subforum of something awful]

CoP: This RS-232 guy, what do we have on him?
Cyberexpert: I'm sure you know he's a serial killer.
Cute Russian Female Intern: I hear stories of him on deepweb. Not good. Worst sort of cannibal.
CoP: Go on.
CRFI: He chops victims in eight bits.
CoP: Lord...
CRFI: Then he take byte.
posted to MetaFilter by mccarty.tim at 11:09 AM on May 16, 2015

Cyberexpert: My god, it's not actually a worm at all! It's actually a snake!

Chief of Police: What's that?

Cyberexpert: It's like a worm, but every time it eats a Bitcoin, it gets a little bit bigger. They're damn near unstoppable.

CoP: Will the orphanage's computer system be okay?

Cyberexpert: This could take down the whole net, unless... Have you ever heard of an ouroboros?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mccarty.tim at 11:04 AM on May 16, 2015

Mainly I like how the episode summaries sound like Mallory Ortberg fake Black Mirror episodes.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:43 AM on May 16, 2015

It's pretty damn funny, actually.
posted to MetaFilter by riruro at 4:03 PM on May 16, 2015

Your light was on.
posted to MetaFilter by I-baLL at 6:29 PM on May 16, 2015

I've never seen MacDonald genuinely emotional before, that was really sweet.
posted to MetaFilter by LooseFilter at 10:10 AM on May 16, 2015

I just wanted Lorelai to be happy too, Rosa. I think everybody did.
posted to FanFare by koeselitz at 9:26 AM on May 18, 2015

Jake gets so emotional about his favorite robots.
posted to FanFare by Mizu at 8:20 AM on May 18, 2015

How did a bunch of ten year olds buy a castle?

And why are they such boring ten year olds?
posted to MetaFilter by brennen at 8:35 AM on May 14, 2015

How did a bunch of ten year olds buy a castle?
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 8:31 AM on May 14, 2015

Fuck them, their "this may be the wrong place for you" criteria should be a list of life goals.

- Watch more than 4 hours of TV/movie/game entertainment per week
- Have more than 1 tattoo
- Have ever attended more than 1 protest
- Make more than three posts a week to social media
- Listen to a songs with explicit lyrics more than an once a day
- Wear make-up more than twice a week
-... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by graymouser at 8:28 AM on May 14, 2015

gosh, as many things that irked me about this season (triplett, come back!), i thought the little coda with cal was just pitch perfect. and of all the things i saw coming or had a bad feeling about or whatever, man, that took me by surprise and i just loved it. i found it so unbelievably touching!
posted to FanFare by oh really at 4:59 PM on May 18, 2015

(And by 3d I mean hologram)
posted to MeFi IRL by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:32 PM on May 17, 2015

Thanks to captive predator (meow!) for organizing this! It was great to see Pronoiac again, and that sorbet, books for weapons! I need the recipe! And I want to see that crazy 3d art installation thing again!
posted to MeFi IRL by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:10 PM on May 17, 2015

http://xwebsrvdenew:705 is one of my favorite website
posted to MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:07 PM on May 18, 2015

Sorry, guys, my old boss got a letter so i guess we'll just have to cease and desist.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:32 AM on May 18, 2015

Come! Restaurant didn't accept reservation until 5:30. It will (probably) be one of the picnic-y looking tables, and we'll have a discreet ;-) "MeFi" place card out.
posted to MeFi IRL by captivepredator at 3:26 PM on May 17, 2015

I want to see the movie where the earth is destroyed because someone couldn't let a puppy die.

SPOILERS:


You want The Cabin In The Woods.
posted to MetaFilter by asterix at 10:58 AM on May 17, 2015

If superheroes can't do a better job of fighting than regular people can, why have them?
posted to MetaFilter by Legomancer at 7:28 AM on May 17, 2015

I have to give Marvel credit for not ignoring the longer term consequences of their mayhem. Fallout is still raining down in the MCU from the Battle of New York; one could argue that Stark's PTSD is what caused him to make the bad decision to create Ultron, and the rebuilding of NYC is the entire backstory of Daredevil. Whereas Man of Steel seems to want to pat Supie on the back and say "good job" for making that hard, hard decision to kill Zod.
posted to MetaFilter by localroger at 6:09 AM on May 17, 2015

What offended me most about the climax of Man of Steel was how the screenwriters had clearly marked off every possible outcome other than Superman snapping Zod's neck and carefully arranged circumstances so that no other option was possible.

As depicted in Tom Godwin's short story, "The Kryptonian Equations".
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 5:51 AM on May 17, 2015

Man of Steel was just ridiculous. Pa Kent "yells" at Clark for using his powers to save the bus of kids. Then he tells Clark not to rescue him in front of crowd of strangers, in order to keep his powers secret, and then Clark listens to him.

Imagine that, you have the power to save one of your parents and they tell you not save them and you listen them. What kind of bullshit is that? No wonder you wind up trashing a city, you haven't been taught to value life!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:51 AM on May 17, 2015

Man Of Steel's Superman kills the bad guy because THE BAD GUY MADE HIM DO IT. It's a movie that says, "It's okay to abandon your principles if the bad guys make you do it. Don't worry, you're still the Good Guy; you might have done a few bad things but you didn't have any choice." The perfect message and the perfect Superman movie for modern America.

If that's "a more realistic, mature view of superheroics", you can have it.
posted to MetaFilter by Sing Or Swim at 5:00 AM on May 17, 2015

"Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism", to quote Flex Mentallo.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 3:46 AM on May 17, 2015

>THE ENTIRE SECOND SEASON FINALE IS AN HOMAGE TO THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Maybe, but Iron Man 3 is definitely Lethal Weapon 2.
posted to FanFare by Catblack at 5:03 PM on May 13, 2015

Well, that was the most ominous last five seconds of a season finale involving fish oil EVER.
posted to FanFare by kythuen at 6:22 PM on May 13, 2015

WAIT WAIT WAIT

"IT'S A TRAP"
WE CAN RULE AS MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
COULSON'S HAND
SIMMONS IN CARBONITE

THE ENTIRE SECOND SEASON FINALE IS AN HOMAGE TO THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
posted to FanFare by leotrotsky at 4:41 PM on May 13, 2015

'Agents of SHIELD' Season 3: [mild spoiler], Terrigen Crystals' spread and Simmons answers

The article does not have any concrete spoilers but does answer the casting question.
posted to FanFare by Karmakaze at 12:41 PM on May 13, 2015

Me: "Did that ferrofluid just eat Simmons?"

Husband: "uh, yep"

Me: *stands up violently from couch* "WHUT??? NOOOOOOO! Who's going to make Fitz his favorite sandwich???"

That's when I realized that our household desperately needs Agent Carter to come back and punch the patriarchy out of my face again. Hearing it was coming back for a second season is pretty much the only... [more]
posted to FanFare by Unicorn on the cob at 11:35 AM on May 13, 2015

All future Inhumans will be very health conscious.
posted to FanFare by Brandon Blatcher at 8:49 AM on May 13, 2015

The alien stone down in the cargo hold "ate" Simmons.

Love that I can write that sentence. What a great season!
posted to FanFare by Brandon Blatcher at 8:03 AM on May 13, 2015

When they brought back the possibility of the Fitz/Simmons romance, I just said 'welp, one of them is dead'.
posted to FanFare by dinty_moore at 6:45 AM on May 13, 2015

Slightly tangential, but might scratch the same itch for you: Rift Recon has the Art of Escape in San Francisco (though I think they've offered it in other cities in the past), which is a multi-day urban escape and evasion class with a practical exam at the end. You're first trained in ways to evade capture, escape when captured, and use your environment to your advantage, and then set loose in the city to test those skills versus pursuers.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rhiannonstone at 6:40 PM on March 29, 2015 marked best answer

EVE Online has serious intel and counterintel, but it is pretty boring for most people, and more than a little bit creepy. Imma explain it to you in a wall of text, so you can decide if "serious espionage games" are actually a fun thing you want to do. There are two roles, intel and counterintel, and they are each other's adversaries.

Intel: In EVE, playing the spy generally means joining an enemy gaming group and playing on their team, hanging out with them on... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ryanrs at 10:49 PM on March 29, 2015

I would have rather watched a movie directly featuring the Marvel lawyers debating the finer points of being a mutant vs. being Inhuman with Fox lawyers. Comedy gold.
posted to MetaFilter by benzenedream at 12:25 AM on May 11, 2015

Age of Ultron is the worst film of all time.

All Films are the Worst of All time.

Every time I see a film, it's the worst one I've ever seen.

I don't enjoy anything anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by hellojed at 8:08 PM on May 10, 2015

Metafilter : I don't enjoy anything anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 11:08 PM on May 10, 2015

I knew I wouldn't think much of her opinions when she said "Thor is a very bad movie."

I think she and many other critics of Avengers 2 are missing the whole point of the Avengers movies.

Marvel somehow made 3 superhero movies in a row that were better than most other superhero movies (Iron Man, Thor, Captain America) with 3 distinct, interesting,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by straight at 10:14 PM on May 10, 2015

Well written for a click bait anger article. Which is basically the internet version of the popcorn movie.
posted to MetaFilter by OnTheLastCastle at 8:44 PM on May 10, 2015

Also I want ant-man to be EO Wilson voiceover narrating the activities of an actual ant having ant adventures amidst scenes from extant MCU film canon

This is my biggest goddamn problem with Ant-Man, the concept. I mean, you have all the world's ants at your beck and call, complete with pheromonal ant mind control, and you goddamn use it to make yourself really big in a fight? What the fuck is wrong with you! Ants are amazing! A... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sciatrix at 8:40 PM on May 10, 2015

Which leads me to think which niche does Falcon fill on the team?

Sam's critical to this. He's the only person there with any significant quantity of emotional intelligence on a team with Actual Robot Vision LeJarvis, Literally WWII-Sized PTSD Man, War Orphan, Pining Vengeful Superspy and...well, okay, Rhodey's actually a pretty well-adjusted guy.
posted to FanFare by kagredon at 1:36 PM on May 10, 2015

Over the course of the show I became weirdly invested in the idea that Owlsley would literally become The Owl any minute despite how this was clearly never going to happen. I was screaming at the screen for him come flapping and hooting out of the elevator shaft to fuck up Fisk. Come on man, don't just lie there with a head injury, you're the OWL OF WALL STREET! Use your OWL SERUM! I think you had an actual volcano lair at one point (just like a... real owl?), maybe use that somehow!... [more]
posted to FanFare by emmtee at 10:38 AM on May 7, 2015

The elevator door hole moving in both inner and outer doors bugged me, but overall, I really enjoyed it. They've dug a pretty big hole for our intrepid heroes - how will they survive?!?

I feel bad for Control. She should've shot Greer while she had the chance.
posted to FanFare by DowBits at 10:59 AM on May 7, 2015

The part where the Machine miraculously saves them by turning all of the lights green annoyed me. How else were our heroes going to get their cop car thru the city fast enough? Well, gee, they could have turned on the fucking siren.

It also seemed a pretty mundane achievement for an intelligence that can access all digital information on the planet and can predict much of the future.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 10:31 AM on May 7, 2015

Oh, my.

I was overall enjoying the episode: particularly the fact that Samaritan's correction was not a bomb strike or something else silly, but a more surgical plan to get things stabilized, that the Machine started talking to John (even though it was a little hokey at the outset - John doesn't need "Can you hear me" while getting free in a room full of hostile people who, by rights, should've had the drop on him), the T2 homage with John, that Fusco had two... [more]
posted to FanFare by nubs at 8:21 PM on May 6, 2015

Ivan: It's not clear that Elias is dead, given that he was shot in the shoulder, or so it appeared. Co-showrunner Greg Plageman, meanwhile, told TV Line the following:

TVLINE: Turning to the finale’s many deaths and possible deaths: Dominic?
PLAGEMAN: Yeah, he’s gone.
TVLINE: Elias, though, seemed to be hanging on by a thread….
PLAGEMAN: We can neither confirm nor deny...

TVLINE: And Martine was... [more]
posted to FanFare by raysmj at 5:28 PM on May 6, 2015