Black Mirror

[Rock8man]

Brilliant. Thank you. I tried to find such a setting on Xbox last night, but it wasn’t there. I should have known Netflix wouldn’t make that available anywhere except their website.

[anonymgeist]

Oh my god… thank you!

[Freezer-TPF]

@Ginger_Yellow

You can turn that off, you know.

You are the MVP, thanks! Just in time for Stranger Things 2.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Making Nosedive reality isn’t just for the Chinese, apparently. Blockchain idiots want to do it too!

The “Kudos Project” will run on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing customers to rate any transaction they make, Skedaddle co-founder and CEO Adam Nestler told Business Insider.

Those ratings, for anyone from your Uber driver to restaurant server to grocery supermarket cashier, are then instantly published to a decentralized database that allows anyone using the system to see the ratings that then follow an employee from one job to another throughout the full gig economy.

They also function as a “reward” for the worker in lieu of a tip.

[wumpus]

Awww balls man

Fans Hoping to See 'Black Mirror' Season 4 in 2017 Are in for a Disappointment

[Cormac]

Psych!!

Season 4 will launch on Netflix Dec. 29, the streaming service has announced.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Your regular China Nosedive update.

As part of this scheme, the Supreme People’s Court has published lists of people who have failed to carry out local court orders since 2013. These untrustworthy “chronic cheats” are named, shamed and barred from flights and fast trains. Some local governments even put their pictures, full names and addresses on billboards. By 2017 it imposed such punishments more than seven million times.

How did Mr. Li get on the list? In 2013 he defended a man accused of rape. The lawyer gave a copy of his defense statement to the man’s family. Unknown to him, they posted it online. The alleged victim sued Mr. Li for defamation and won, and in 2015 a Beijing court ordered him to apologize. Mr. Li sent the court a written apology. He had forgotten the incident until he found himself blacklisted. He learned that the court inexplicably dismissed his apology as “insincere,” in part because he had dated it April 1.

In 2013 investigative journalist Liu Hu published an article alleging someone was an extortionist. Two years later the man successfully sued Mr. Liu for defamation. The court said it would issue an apology in a newspaper on his behalf and at his expense. He wired money to the court, but months later Mr. Liu abruptly found that he couldn’t buy plane tickets. Only then did a court official say the payment had not been received. Mr. Liu immediately corrected the mistake.

There is nothing wrong about authorities enforcing legitimate court orders, but in the case of Messrs. Li and Liu, penalties were exacted in wildly arbitrary and unaccountable manners. And the courts failed to notify them, leaving them no chance to contest their treatment. While both found a loophole—using their passports to buy tickets in person—their lives were initially upended, and they have faced enormous difficulties challenging the designation

[wumpus]

Just a heads up, season 4 came out at 12 pm pacific time. USS Callister was solid so far!

[Ginger_Yellow]

Happy Black Mirror Day everyone!

[tgb123]

Thanks for the reminder

[Ginger_Yellow]

Really enjoyed the first one. Great to see Plemons do his creepy thing again. A bit less sold on the execution of the second one, but I liked what it was trying to do - classic BM material.

[wumpus]

Yeah Arkangel didn’t hang together well, it felt like a cheap parable. Not one of the best. I was all like “these aren’t that dark?” until I got to the third episode, Crocodile. Well played.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Crocodile is brutal. And I just finished Dark today as well, which has its own particularly brutal episode, so that was fun.

[JonRowe]

USS Calister was probably my favorite episode so far.

Aaron Paul as Gamer691 was pretty good too.

[LMN8R]

Just watched Callister. Great start to the season! I loved how intentionally cheesy all the visual effects were even after the intro.

[wumpus]

Watched all of S4. I don’t know that anything blew me away quite the way some stuff in Season 3 did, but there are some solid entries here.

I’d say, for me:

• Arkangel is the runt of the litter. It felt sooo predictable and preachy. Not the worst in the series, but not far from it either. Also as a parent who knows anything about anything, you’d never do this shit.

• Metalhead is the standout, might be a top 5 of the whole series for me. Also appropriately dark. This felt like an outstanding short film in so many ways, even divorced from the whole Black Mirror “ooo scary future might be bad” brand, it’s just a damn good story, told well. It’s also scarily plausible based on tech we have today, much less 50 years from now.

USS Callister, Crocodile, and Hang the DJ are all solid entries.

Black Museum is … interesting. It’s kind of two stories in one, ala White Christmas, but it also seems to be a criticism of Black Mirror itself in some ways, hence “Black Museum”. I’ll avoid saying more right now because everything just came out and I want to hear what others think about this one in particular, first.

[Editer]

Just watched USS Callister. That was one of my five favorite hours of TV ever.

[Tim_N]

I liked Callister. It reminded me of a plot line where a bunch of people get trapped on a planet by an alien who forces them to perform star trek storylines. Can anyone remember what show that is from?

[Ginger_Yellow]

Futurama?

[Tim_N]

@Ginger_Yellow

Futurama?

Yeah that’s it, good job! I do wonder if that was a direct inspiration in the writing of the episode.