TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[go birds]

may finally get to see kermit and miss piggy [expletive] on camera

[Vidor]

Kind of uncomfortable to see that "nude Charlotte McKinney eating hamburger" commercial when I'm watching MLB Network with my 7-year-old girl.

[thrill]

Mr robot is really, really, really great. This is the best new show in years. It's transcendent tv.

[ghostrunner]

Mr robot is really, really, really great. This is the best new show in years. It's transcendent tv.

I love the relative accuracy w/r/t hacking and computers, and the dig in episode 4 about Tron-like interfaces in movies. And that the episode titles resemble torrent naming conventions - Episode 4 title is "eps1.3_da3m0ns.mp4"

[MrSaigon]

Has there been a scene yet where a guy is waiting for the download progress bar to complete, saying 'C'mon, C'mon' whilst repeatedly looking over his shoulder?

[Vidor]

Has there been a scene yet where a guy is waiting for the download progress bar to complete, saying 'C'mon, C'mon' whilst repeatedly looking over his shoulder?

Exact Progress Bar

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... rogressBar

[ghostrunner]

I don't think they have had a progress bar scene, but similar situations. As big a cliche as that it is, it's legit enough that I don't get bothered by it. If you're physically sneaking into a place to upload or download a file, a progress bar isn't even an atypical way for that to be shown to a normal user and it's going to take the most time where you have nothing else to do.

The user interface thing is more annoying. I was just watching Jurassic Park with my kids the other day, and there's the part where they have to get systems back online. The 12 year old girl sees the system and says "It's Unix... I can do this" and then uses a mouse to direct a pointer through what is literally a Tron-like user interface, she finds a "building" on the Tron landscape with the label she's looking for and clicks it. This brings all the systems back online.

[go birds]

I don't think they have had a progress bar scene, but similar situations. As big a cliche as that it is, it's legit enough that I don't get bothered by it. If you're physically sneaking into a place to upload or download a file, a progress bar isn't even an atypical way for that to be shown to a normal user and it's going to take the most time where you have nothing else to do.

The user interface thing is more annoying. I was just watching Jurassic Park with my kids the other day, and there's the part where they have to get systems back online. The 12 year old girl sees the system and says "It's Unix... I can do this" and then uses a mouse to direct a pointer through what is literally a Tron-like user interface, she finds a "building" on the Tron landscape with the label she's looking for and clicks it. This brings all the systems back online.

lol yea that always bothered me way more than it should have as well.

[thrill]

Mr Robot transcends hacker tropes because it's not really about hacking. It's about identity, privacy and existence in a modern society controlled by corporate interests and the banal sociopaths that run the world. Is Eliot insane or is Eliot just hyper sane and reacting to the insanity of our impersonal, duplicitous online existences and inability to control our own lives/personalities in the face of overwhelming social programming and faceless corporate power?

[ghostrunner]

I don't think they have had a progress bar scene, but similar situations. As big a cliche as that it is, it's legit enough that I don't get bothered by it. If you're physically sneaking into a place to upload or download a file, a progress bar isn't even an atypical way for that to be shown to a normal user and it's going to take the most time where you have nothing else to do.

The user interface thing is more annoying. I was just watching Jurassic Park with my kids the other day, and there's the part where they have to get systems back online. The 12 year old girl sees the system and says "It's Unix... I can do this" and then uses a mouse to direct a pointer through what is literally a Tron-like user interface, she finds a "building" on the Tron landscape with the label she's looking for and clicks it. This brings all the systems back online.

lol yea that always bothered me way more than it should have as well.

Well, what the hell. I actually looked this up just now, and that system in JP was actually a visually oriented UNIX system that was real but never took off.

Back to Mr. Robot, apparently this screenshot from when they hacked a car shows the tools you would actually need to do it:

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