apples and oranges man, everybody uses CDs in shitholes, because CDs are still being sold in some capacity, VHS tapes aren't even being produced anymore. and as i said thats just the most obvious problem with the paraguay scenes, the whole look of them isn't 2020's at all, i am guessing Vince thought every third world country lived 40 years in the past or something
Pluribus - The new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan
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There's entire warehouses full of blanks though.
The rest of your autism tells me you've never been to that part of south america. Paraguay, even in a major city like asunción, is a place where it's very likely an old combo CRT/VCR would still be in regular use in a staff room at some shitty storage place. Electronics are expensive down there.
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This is all irrelevant since (a) the plurbs would make you a VCR from scratch if you asked them and probably deliver one along with the tape without even being asked if they thought they needed to, (b) it was the American who decided the format, and (c) obsolete formats do not ascend beyond our material realm when they become obsolete, they go into closets. And storage units.
Not that she thought about this, nobody did, because it is a TV show and they picked it for on-screen effect and because Vince has a hard-on for VHS, but he was undoubtedly living with the highest concentration of VCRs between there and the next storage complex. My dude could probably have watched her tape while sitting on a throne made of VCRs if he felt like writing that many IOUs.
The show kinda sucks and does not deserve any apologies made for it, this is just a super dumb non-issue to get hung up on considering all the genuine nonsense in it.
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'I am South American guy, I have an education and good taste in cars, and I want to save the world.'
and then the dumb cunt goes on to behave like she's having a menopausal crisis and acts like a total bitch
The show is shit. Utter shit. And most of this is because of the lead character.
and then the dumb cunt goes on to behave like she's having a menopausal crisis and acts like a total bitch
The show is shit. Utter shit. And most of this is because of the lead character.
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Anyone that didn't realize the writing was gonna be dogshit the instant it was revealed that the main character is a lesbian has the pattern recognition of a gnat.
And as for point two, Carol is a retard that is incapable of asking any of the right questions that make explring these scenarios intresting.
Other people in the thread already explained this with examples:
Pluribus in this regard remidns me of the last man on earth:
A show with a somewhat similar premise, Virus wipes out humanity except a group of people immune and we follow the immune. The difference being that it set itself up as a melodrama from the very get go. There's no DNA alien viruses or any of that shit, you know what you're in for. Ironically it actually explores point 2 a lot better because most of it is in fact about how people naturally react to the sitiuation and what they go through to survive and does melodrama way better despite being a comedy.
Pluribus for the most part is a self indulgent art project using sci fi as a vineer made by a director that bought into his own hype and surrounded himself by yes men that are too afraid to tell him no because "Well he's a genious, he must know what he's doing even if it seems like raw dogshit to us mere mortals." much the same way lucas did with the prequels.
Case in point, episode two's intro being 10 minute long nothingburger of the woman going to the plane. There's slow, and then there's taking the piss.
Vince copied the "Long dramatic slow establishing scene" from BB and BCS somehow without understanding why those scenes worked in that specific context of decompressing the plot and creating a sense of either mystery or urgency as to what is going to happen or wondering how it happened, so he just slapped it on episode 2 because that's what a show by vince is supposed to do/look like.
Its like you told an AI to copy his style and this is what it shat out not understanding why. The entire show is self indulgent as fuck and reaks of a director surrounded by yesmen.
This but unironically. Sci fi has 2 selling points, exploring scientifically fantastical scenarios in obscene detail, or exploring characters existing and navigate within these scenarios. Pluribus doesn't bother exploring the hive anymore than the average stellaris civic description does. In fact arguably stellaris civic descriptions explore it in more depth, so it already fails at point 1.
And as for point two, Carol is a retard that is incapable of asking any of the right questions that make explring these scenarios intresting.
Other people in the thread already explained this with examples:
There's a million things you can do with scifi, shitty lesbian melodrama isn't one of them. You can slowburn characters or you can slowburn plot, with the implication of course that either one will eventually catch up, but you can't slowburn both with no promise of payoff.
Pluribus in this regard remidns me of the last man on earth:
A show with a somewhat similar premise, Virus wipes out humanity except a group of people immune and we follow the immune. The difference being that it set itself up as a melodrama from the very get go. There's no DNA alien viruses or any of that shit, you know what you're in for. Ironically it actually explores point 2 a lot better because most of it is in fact about how people naturally react to the sitiuation and what they go through to survive and does melodrama way better despite being a comedy.
Pluribus for the most part is a self indulgent art project using sci fi as a vineer made by a director that bought into his own hype and surrounded himself by yes men that are too afraid to tell him no because "Well he's a genious, he must know what he's doing even if it seems like raw dogshit to us mere mortals." much the same way lucas did with the prequels.
Case in point, episode two's intro being 10 minute long nothingburger of the woman going to the plane. There's slow, and then there's taking the piss.
Vince copied the "Long dramatic slow establishing scene" from BB and BCS somehow without understanding why those scenes worked in that specific context of decompressing the plot and creating a sense of either mystery or urgency as to what is going to happen or wondering how it happened, so he just slapped it on episode 2 because that's what a show by vince is supposed to do/look like.
Its like you told an AI to copy his style and this is what it shat out not understanding why. The entire show is self indulgent as fuck and reaks of a director surrounded by yesmen.
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Yeah this was complete garbage. Is Gilligan a hack that was mostly lifted up by Peter Gould?
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He's the most based Paraguayan
to have ever lived.
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someone wasnt paying attention to why she had a shift in view over pluribus people when they fucking left for over a month and began to miss them
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someone wasnt paying attention to why she had a shift in view over pluribus people when they fucking left for over a month and began to miss them
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Hard to pay total attention when
a) The main character acts like a post-menopausal bitch
b) Nothing happens for episodes at a time
Yea, she 'fell in love' with the Pirate lady...don't give a shit. The show was filled with bad writing.
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As a lesbian I interpreted it as the writers showing how many lesbian relationships are fleeting & shallow. Carol fell for a physically attractive, yet personality-less shell of a human being, 'cause she's probably been in relationships like that before.
I didn't like Pluribus (Windows XP backgrounds - the series!), and like many I found Carol to be an awful main character; however I got the impression she was written to be that way on purpose? Like, she's a romance author who doesn't have her romantic sh!t together/fell in love with her Mary Sue-come to life.
If I watch Season 2 when it comes out, it will be purely to follow Manusous's arc, He's the GOAT.
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I thought it was to blow up the virus antenna, but it's also possible the writers have no fucking idea yet and just threw it in there, like the machine gun teaser at the start of BB S5
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More like apple did that, those cali fags do that shit to everything now, ev cars, ai, shows, and it always turn to shit
Turns out the entire company was just cancer guy
Nigger what planet were you living in? tivo launched in 1999 barely anyone had any of those before like 2005, and you had to live in a major city and be near a millionaire to have cable modem before the 2000s, that bald midget joe rogan bragged about using his tv show money to get a cable connect to his house so he could play quake online back then, why you think the dreamcast which launched in 1999 had a 56k modem? cuz nobody had cable, but by 2002 many did which is why the xbox had ethernet
Hollywood jews have no fucking idea how the world is outside their fucking commie state, even when they show other parts of amerlardia they fuck it up
Example from xmen:
What it actually looks like irl:
Those dumb kikes turned a resort beach town into the fucking alps and you wonder why paraguay looks like that
Looks like a fucking scam, the page have no deets on if they use a surplus CRT tube, the founders are a couple of fucking zoomers who might be AI gen and they use fucking gmail for contact
Dyke carol is modeled after the people this show is targeted to, your average AWLF
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Do you even know what a Tivo is? It has nothing to do with cable modems. Those old ones use a built in dial up modem to call back, and just regular cable and/or OTA antenna for the TV part. They had them for DirecTV too.
The cable ones would hook up to your cable box and get the TV signal from it and convert to digital and store on a hard drive, and use an IR blaster to change the channels automatically on the box. It wasn't 'cheap' per se, but it wasn't that much more inflation-adjusted than early 80s VCRs and infinitely better for time sharing.
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It wasnt common at all its what I'm saying, most homes didnt have a dvd until the ps2 showed up, vhs was still everywhere in 1999
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It wasn't, but it was possible. I'd say it's more common for a guy in Paraguay in 2025 to have a VHS VCR and CRT setup like in this show than that was then though even.
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Nigger I been to paraguay they are flooded with the latest electronics because they have no import taxes so its cheap as hell, stop talking shit like that when even literal niggers in literal african shitholes have smartphones