friskykillface
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Bighead is still best character B^)
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Silicon Valley - Season 3 of the hilarious Mike Judge comedy series - HBO Sundays
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The moment of the season. So happy they ended on it.
UnemployedVillain
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Even though they made up, Richard has been an enormous dick to Erlich
-Pyromaniac-
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I feel that
firehawk12
Subete no aware
They never win on their own merits. It's always "oh shit we're about to go out of business" and then some random thing happens to save the day. And half the time it's because Richard sabotages himself.
Someone said it's like Curb, and yeah, but Larry David was somehow more likeable than Richard.
Ballers is okay and the Leftovers will be back soonish.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Good finale, albeit it was predictable how everything would turn out.
I loved how that dude was asking Monica if they should give it a chance and the new guy just slowly shook his head.
I loved how that dude was asking Monica if they should give it a chance and the new guy just slowly shook his head.
Leftovers is the good shit. When is that coming back. Hope may not be lost after all.
SynthFetish
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so happy to see Dang again, loved this finale
Was I the only one surprised that CJ seemed to sell the blog without Erlich's approval?
Should be January/February.
FrenchMovieTheme
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It was renewed.
FrenchMovieTheme
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I couldn't stop laughing at bighead saying a hard days night
Ninja Scooter
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Did Bachman's FOMO speech activate anyone else's iPhone?
Jack Scofield
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Wait, I'm confused. Richard was right when saying that regardless of users, the software still works. A few episodes ago this software was worth billions of dollars. But know that VCs know that some users were fake the whole thing becomes worthless? I feel like I'm missing something.
Just caught up on the 2 latest episodes. I can't believe how consistently good this show is. Fucking hilarious and well written, kept interesting and fun characters. Can't wait for season 4.
At the end there when they were saying Big Head's name was just fucking hysterical to me, especially how erlich said it. I kind of want Pied Piper to be renamed Big Head for the video stuff
At the end there when they were saying Big Head's name was just fucking hysterical to me, especially how erlich said it. I kind of want Pied Piper to be renamed Big Head for the video stuff
I think it was more the fact that it had high install base but abysmal active user base so basically everyone hated the platform
Adding fraudulent activity from the ceo just polished it off
Yea I get that company is poisoned by the fake users but the tech itself must have some value. Though I guess the tech is out since Endframe reverse engineered it.
Cabbagehead
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That's how i wanted this to play out. Good on BigHead and the Big E.
Oh Dinesh with the win.
Now call the app BigHead.
Monica now on board!!
Lets get this party started!
Oh Dinesh with the win.
Now call the app BigHead.
Monica now on board!!
Lets get this party started!
Cabbagehead
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Depends on which location you're talking about.
It's still weird to me that redesigning the UI or bringing in a UX guy was never tried out as a serious solution, even though it was alluded to multiple times.
Still, really fun season with a good setup for the next one. I like how Gavin keeps voicing his sociopathic tendencies almost every episode, I want to see them go nuts with that next season.
Still, really fun season with a good setup for the next one. I like how Gavin keeps voicing his sociopathic tendencies almost every episode, I want to see them go nuts with that next season.
Cabbagehead
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Yeah its time for this group to go nuts, werid sudo vacation, odd partnerships...etc no more pivoting back to the pad. Now its time to venture out. Can only restart so many times.
Rentahamster
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Pretty cool episode. I really liked this season.
A few things that I keep thinking about:
Why didn't Pied Piper just sell a box too, since they already had one ready for market?
How the heck does no one else put in a bid for Pied Piper's IP? I mean, with the failure of their platform, wouldn't they just be reverted to their post-Tech Crunch status, where they had no platform, but a really fucking awesome compression algorithm? Even if the platform at the end of season 3 sucks ass, shouldn't the IP ALONE still be worth a shitload of money?
A few things that I keep thinking about:
Why didn't Pied Piper just sell a box too, since they already had one ready for market?
How the heck does no one else put in a bid for Pied Piper's IP? I mean, with the failure of their platform, wouldn't they just be reverted to their post-Tech Crunch status, where they had no platform, but a really fucking awesome compression algorithm? Even if the platform at the end of season 3 sucks ass, shouldn't the IP ALONE still be worth a shitload of money?
Rentahamster
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In addition, it's sorta not making sense to me how Jared, of all people, is the one guilt tripping Richard into blowing the whole "fake users" cover.
For fuck's sake, Donald, you were the one who ordered them in the first place. What the fuck was your gameplan, if you weren't willing to go all the way with it?
For fuck's sake, Donald, you were the one who ordered them in the first place. What the fuck was your gameplan, if you weren't willing to go all the way with it?
Melon Husk
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Finale of S3 wasn't among the best episodes in the series, but I got a few laughs out of it. It was a feel-good episode.
I thought the "always blue" bit was a flashback for a second because Erlich's face didn't crack.
Oh yeah, the show deserves a bigger budget.
I thought the "always blue" bit was a flashback for a second because Erlich's face didn't crack.
Oh yeah, the show deserves a bigger budget.
Yeah I think it does
Laieon
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Daddy's going to sit in on board meetings.
I don't get it why people ask questions like this in a tread when it takes 5 seconds to look at a show's wikipedia article and see its been renewed.
It's one of those - wait, that's not quite right moments (but let's just go with it for the sake of the story).
I mean the compression stuff alone is already worth a shit fucking truckload of money to any of the big cloud computing or internet players.
It's just Pied Piper had super terribad implementation... and the show was trying to draw your attention to that in order to say - they can't make it succeed it a platform, therefore it has no value.
In reality, like the show shows, there are any multitude of applications (including video chat) for such amazing compression technology that the algorithm itself has huge innate value.
In the real world, simply verifying the demonstration of this level of compression would be sufficient for the company to be valued into the hundreds of millions or billions as the large SV companies tried to buy that shit out.
The (compression tech) premise that they're running with in the script is simply at a mismatch between the actual value such a thing would have in the real world and the value that the show intimates something like that has.
Cornballer
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Orbis Tabula
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They mentioned back when Action Jack was pushing the box idea that the company only wants boxes if they get exclusive control over the Pied Piper algorithm or whatever. Richard wasn't willing to so that, because he wanted to build a platform.
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