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@Soyweiser @dgerard You can’t get all of the shiny cyberpunk over-the-top special effects when you syphoned the budget into the stockholders’ debauchery fund.

@Node Dem’z back in town

@cstross @CinnasVerses @techtakes Given how many of them there are, we wouldn’t need the Via Apia, just a side street in Rome, or six lions and not very hungry.

@cstross @CinnasVerses @techtakes Reductio ad absurdum: that’s why this time maybe we should crucify/throw them to the lions <all> of them.

@Soyweiser @YourNetworkIsHaunted
@cstross But it’s not only that: satire can’t reach the fash because they internalise and accept the monstruous, and thus, what is satirised to expose in ridicule its and their monstruosity and aberrant values for average, still decent and sane people, for them it is “Yes, this is what we want.” It’s never “if you can’t tell it’s satire it’s bad satire”, you can be as “subtle” as a kick in the face and they won’t get it because it <is> what they want.

@sc_griffith @self
-Yudkowsky: “It was a thought experiment!”
-The FBI guy operating the wiretap: “Yeah, mate, sure it was.”

@kamenLady Ah, but you’ll notice I specified “the best British TV shows”. ‘Sherlock’ always was Moffat and Gatiss thinking they were more clever than Conan Doyle.

@exscape @lucidinferno @BradleyUffner One need only look at the best British TV shows and how their seasons are shorter and their schedules are not yearly to see how time to work on scripts and production makes for great fiction, but that can’t be exploited.