You know that Nerf probably stole that tech from some small start up that couldn't compete.
AMC's Halt and Catch Fire
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Had a full-on 80's flashback when I heard the Howard Jones tune.
I was wondering how Joe was going to get the band back together, and I actually figured it out a few seconds before Gordon did in the episode. I thought Gordon had suffered a heart attack in the data center, with the cans of Coke serving as a mocking reminder of the other kind that he had been abusing.
The new first-person shooter sounds like Doom to me. We used to play at work over our company network in the late 90's, (non-work hours of course, haha) but that was with relatively fast PCs and Ethernet cards and good graphics cards. It won't (or shouldn't, anyway) look very good on an 8-bit machine like the C=64 over phone lines, but we'll see how realistic the producers want to make it.
I was wondering how Joe was going to get the band back together, and I actually figured it out a few seconds before Gordon did in the episode. I thought Gordon had suffered a heart attack in the data center, with the cans of Coke serving as a mocking reminder of the other kind that he had been abusing.
The new first-person shooter sounds like Doom to me. We used to play at work over our company network in the late 90's, (non-work hours of course, haha) but that was with relatively fast PCs and Ethernet cards and good graphics cards. It won't (or shouldn't, anyway) look very good on an 8-bit machine like the C=64 over phone lines, but we'll see how realistic the producers want to make it.
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That was awesome!
I think Gordon must have some serious heart damage from all the coke he did. He wouldn't have passed out like that if there wasn't some MAJOR health issue.
Well...that IS possibly the only valid excuse for trusting Joe again. 
I passed out just like that three times in the last four years and all the docs said they couldn't find anything wrong (and I didn't do that much coke back in the days
). But yeah this seems to be a major plot point...
It is an AMC show, and they love to kill off their characters, so it wouldn't shock me if someone other than Joe and Cameron were to go before their time.
You called it.
Our safety group banned lead solder in our labs about 10 years ago, and now lead-free is pretty much industry-wide at this point.
The drugs may also have been a contributing factor. In fact, it's quite possible that the increase in symptoms is a result of the drugs and not just the lead poisoning (even if the lead poisoning is the root cause of the brain damage). His symptoms may actually reduce the longer he goes without the drugs. Sure, he'll still have brain damage (which may get somewhat better, despite what that 1980s doctor believes), but it's not necessarily true that his problems are bound to get significantly worse.
I have been a fan of this show from the beginning, but this season has been a little boring to me so far. The Mutiny storyline really needs to leave that cluttered dirty house, and soon.
Hopefully tonight's episode (July 5th) moves things along. The show barely made it to a second season, and it won't survive another round of dismal ratings to see a third.
Hopefully tonight's episode (July 5th) moves things along. The show barely made it to a second season, and it won't survive another round of dismal ratings to see a third.
^ I really like (or rather, find fascinating) these characters but I agree that this season is feeling a bit too chaotic. I would like them to kick things into a gear a bit.
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This episode was pretty good, certainly more of what I was expecting for this season. We're finally seeing Joe back on his game, dragging everyone forward, kicking and screaming, into the future.
One minor problem concerned the Commodore 64. I owned several C=64s and VIC-20s over the years; there is only a single large PCB inside those machines, so the dialogue in the episode suggesting otherwise isn't accurate. The Apple II had a motherboard with slots, which may be what the writer was thinking of, but the C=64 didn't.
This episode was pretty good, certainly more of what I was expecting for this season. We're finally seeing Joe back on his game, dragging everyone forward, kicking and screaming, into the future.
One minor problem concerned the Commodore 64. I owned several C=64s and VIC-20s over the years; there is only a single large PCB inside those machines, so the dialogue in the episode suggesting otherwise isn't accurate. The Apple II had a motherboard with slots, which may be what the writer was thinking of, but the C=64 didn't.
Yeah but it was fun.
Working for the Clampdown:
With only three more episodes left, the pieces are being set up for a big finale, but will it be a season finale or a series finale?
Gordon's new venture sounds a lot like Gateway to me. If he were my age, I'd say that he was suffering from getting-old-syndrome rather than brain damage, but the strange behavior is disturbing for someone only in their late 30's.
Has Joe suddenly grown a conscience? I'm not sure what to make of him at this point, as he usually fills the Steve Jobs role in this story. Cameron, on the other hand, seems to have taken a step toward the dark side with her "this is my company" declaration.
I'm both looking forward to, and not looking forward to, the rest of this season.
With only three more episodes left, the pieces are being set up for a big finale, but will it be a season finale or a series finale?
Gordon's new venture sounds a lot like Gateway to me. If he were my age, I'd say that he was suffering from getting-old-syndrome rather than brain damage, but the strange behavior is disturbing for someone only in their late 30's.
Has Joe suddenly grown a conscience? I'm not sure what to make of him at this point, as he usually fills the Steve Jobs role in this story. Cameron, on the other hand, seems to have taken a step toward the dark side with her "this is my company" declaration.
I'm both looking forward to, and not looking forward to, the rest of this season.
^I don't think that's her being "dark side" at all; it's her growing the fuck up. She has always been too easy pushed and pulled, despite her "punk rebel" act. It IS her company, she's the boss and majority stock-holder. She didn't go into it just for the money and she doesn't want to hand it over just yet. I think it's her making a decision and sticking to it.
I think Joe's fiancee is very astute; as soon as Joe began his quest to get some division in the oil company involved in the internet business, he turned into killer-shark Joe. His posture, his voice, his eyes, all changed. He was right back to old, evil-dick-Joe. But when he sat down and said he giving it all up, he was different person. But will he really do what he what he promised? Will he really go to California and try to start his own business (rather than fucking with other people's companies)? I rather doubt it.
I think Joe's fiancee is very astute; as soon as Joe began his quest to get some division in the oil company involved in the internet business, he turned into killer-shark Joe. His posture, his voice, his eyes, all changed. He was right back to old, evil-dick-Joe. But when he sat down and said he giving it all up, he was different person. But will he really do what he what he promised? Will he really go to California and try to start his own business (rather than fucking with other people's companies)? I rather doubt it.
Mutiny was supposed to be "different", with no one in charge. Yes, I know that this doesn't actually work in the real world, and that someone has to be the adult that kicks people in the ass to get things done. I just saw this as a change in her character, that she is losing some of the idealism of youth perhaps, or growing up as you say. As Ally Sheedy's character said in The Breakfast Club, "when you get old, your heart dies".
Although I enjoy this show for the most part, I fear this season may be its last. Seems every other episode's plot is "OMG, what happened to the network? Where's Mutiny? Our poor subscribers can't log on!! Were finished!!"
If anyone remembers A Gifted Man, its premise was about a really great (and butthole) of a neurosurgeon (played by Patrick Wilson) who's dead ex wife would regularly visit him from beyond the grave. The show started out to be interesting. But soon every other episode had an old friend of the doc fall ill when visiting him, and he would save them just in time. The show limped along to the end of the first season and was cancelled.
Maybe some shows would be better off as miniseries if there aren't enough episode ideas to sustain a full season. I dunno, just my opinion.
If anyone remembers A Gifted Man, its premise was about a really great (and butthole) of a neurosurgeon (played by Patrick Wilson) who's dead ex wife would regularly visit him from beyond the grave. The show started out to be interesting. But soon every other episode had an old friend of the doc fall ill when visiting him, and he would save them just in time. The show limped along to the end of the first season and was cancelled.
Maybe some shows would be better off as miniseries if there aren't enough episode ideas to sustain a full season. I dunno, just my opinion.
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