Carol edition.Previous: >>216496600
Carol's not that bad, you know.
Plurb
>>216504672Carol would be pretty hot if she was thirty years younger and not a bitter, worn out lesbian
>>216504672>OOOOOOOOOHHHHH I'M PLURBING!!!!!!!!
He's a Degenerate Hedonistic Rapist and you shouldn't idolize him
will she be mutating?
i thought i was being smart and cheeky calling this chekhov's massage gun but apparently i wasn't the only person who thought it would be important at some point in the show later on
>Carol, your mom's pussy felt tight. Very nice.
>>216504737>Having sex with a consenting intelligent lifeform is le rapeGo back
I wish Rhea Seehorn would be my girlfriend
>"Were providence to permit, I would gladly cast aside this wretched semblance of individuality and join my venerable aunt in that ineffable congregation of minds, whose whispers stretch across the firmament like the tendrils of some ancient and slumbering deity"
>pic related appears>deep mongolian throat singing starts playing Inspired choice, Vince.
So a fat white woman and brown man let the virus out? What were they trying to say?
>>216504782>*dies of starvation*
>>216504793looks like he's eating an alfajor with cream cheese and broccoli
I wish Rhea Seehorn would be my coercive controlling spouse.
>>216504750She will use it to repetitively and very quickly press on some button or mechanism that will disable the plurbening
how long till new episode?
>>216504938newshoes are on the day before saturday
Cant wait for the next BIG reveal
>>216504938It's always (early) friday
>"If you grenade us, do we not bleed? If you have sex with us, do we not orgasm? If you drug and interrogate us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
>>216504930Yeah it's probably going to be something dumb like that. Carol is too tech illiterate to write a computer program that jams the frequency so instead she massage guns the Push-to-Talk button of an analogue radio.
>>216504798A brown man, a dyke and a rat walk into a lab...
why didn't the lab worker just get a stethoscope for the rat
did women really wear dresses like this during the 60s?
I hate how they wrote the plurbies' ethical/dietary constraints desu. If the plurb accepts it'll kill the occasional bug while walking, then surely it can pick fruit and carry on with agriculture in general.
this show is about how everyone came together during covid and got the vax. carol is an antivaxer
>>216505157no ideacaptcha: XXCHROMOSOMES
>"We are the Plurb. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service ours. Resistance is futile, Carol"
>>216505186Good job on the casting/makeup here, they look like they could be from the 1960's, some other show probably would have had unrealistic women for that era.
>some unknown alien race is sending us a recipe for an RNA virus?>well I guess we'd better make it and see what happens!It's a miracle mankind survived this long, this is the cosmic equivalent of getting pranked by /b/ into making mustard gas.
>>216505215But it's not 1960's. It's modern women in costume.
>appears behind you with your stem cellsNothing personal, kid
>>216504672What does the meme means where she has shouting face and says oooh i'm plurbing??
>>216505190Not being able to pick fruit is a weak premise. Vince disappointed me there. By extension, that would also mean they are unable to walk or drive on anything that isn't a road, because it might kill a blade of grass.
>>216505228That's a reference to Species ('95).
>>216505229Yes, but in the show, the hive would do it's best to accurately simulate the 1960's
>>216504672Yesterday anon was posting in this thread an orange with eyes and mouth who said "pluribussy".Is it this general tradition?
>>216505228>Mr President, this interstellar communication says we should "delete SYSTEM32". We suspect it will make our computers run fasterWe're ngmi
Just watched through it all. The first episode is how I pictured a carpenter's Thing invasion would play out. Just people constantly kissing or sneezing in each other's faces.>>216505190It's an artifically made cap. The plurb goal is clearly mass suicide. That's why they also don't bother infecting animals aside from the rat. >signal will only target any species smart enough to decode it>dominant species is smart enough to build satellite to spread signal>milk keeps dominant species alive just long enough to build it>dominant species starves to death soon after
>>216505157It was a spicy demon core situation. She thought she was so cool and competent that she could ignore safety protocols and give CPR to a test subject without protective gloves. Experience often leads to overconfidence.
>Oh please do not plurb me>Oh please do not plurb>Oh please do not>Oh please do>Oh please>Oh
>>216505228The worst part is that I could totally see it happen in real life. Even if governments tried to keep the signal under wraps, it would get leaked straight away. And you would have the US, China, Russia and the EU all develop the virus in an arms race situation. The US and EU would probably outsource it to some private corporation for cost saving measures and lobbyist interests, just like in the show.It's really a miracle we haven't accidentally killed ourselves. Covid should have been a wake-up call. It was a miracle that it was a rather harmless virus. We literally learned nothing from it though.
Any signifigance to both Carol AND Zosia's name being palindrome's (Carol loraC, Zosia aisoZ) ?
Hey plurb, whatcha doin? I'm bored. Could you recreate the entire introduction scene for The Dark Knight Rises?
The indians are still worshiping their fellow shitskin nigger and his coomer tendancies huh?
>>216505427That's not how palindromes work, if it was, every word would be a palindrome (emordnilap)
>>216505427...Anon, no offence but you might be retarded.
>>216505427
>>216505275Nigger, nobody said they're going to try to broadcast the signal themselves, that's retarded reddit headcanon out of nowhere.
>>216505215This one especially somehowShe looks like she would be a big starlet from 1964-1967 then be forgotten just as fast.
>>216505440basedI'd ask the hive to assemble every human who ever posted on /tv/ and recreate Salo
>carol gets her period and has mood swings>kills millions
>>216505532It makes sense thoughSome of the very first lines were>can you imagine the power required to transmit something like that?>It would need a transmitter the size of Lizzo's assso Vince clearly wants us to think about the physical act of transmitting the signal
>>216505578>carol gets her periodhmm
>>216505578Lesbians don't get periods
>>216505588Menopause would be even worse>-10º outside>FUCKING PLURB IT'S TOO FUCKING HOT KILL YOURSELVES
>>216505532Plurb apologists are fucking wild.
solar and 123 stopped working for me. where can i watch pluribus?
>>216505731Just search for it with yandex
>>216505731I use nunflix or whatever has the goat emoji on the pirate megathread tv streaming section.Whoever rips has a good track record so far. Only about 2.5 hours late every episode.
>>216505228They basically had to do it or else china would make it first and win the "making this alien RNA thing, finding out what it does and weaponizing it" raceYou dont want china to win do you? Thus the random space virus MUST be made and tested asap
How are the ratings?
>>216504672This might be under informed but Jainism in India we are explained in a similar sense to not kill any living thing which also includes microorganisms. Which therefore leads to practices like jain monk covering their mouth while speaking, not eating anything that grows under the soil (root vegetables). Not walking on moss, etc. but it was never about plants as such. They do discourage to not mutilate anything. We would even move away a biting mosquito instead of killing it.Ideally we can't practice this in our daily lives, we do respectfully follow these rules for a week during religious days, around monsoon months. We end being vegetarians. Don't know if anyone else makes sense of this but I find it relating to Jainism teachings.
>>216505407>>216505860Seems like aliens are just culling the dumbest species
>>216504672Do you think many of viewers watch because they having a mature woman fetish?
>>216506181They send the signal as a prank. They're filming it for spacetok
>>216506238You come for the science fiction. You stay for the milfs.
>>216506238I come for the plurb
Are the plurbs conscious as singular entities inside the collective? When you hear the joke line about water bottle containing good clean water as assured by guy that bottled the water, it sounds like the plurbs have a Borg-esque shared reality thing like in the relevant VOY episode that shows life as part of the hive is like VRchat while your body runs on 1% attentionOr is individuality totally lost to the plurality, only available as specific memory-facts?When they talk in unison or one finishes a sentence for the others it could be taken either way, that they're one plurality consciousness, or like a kind of psychic hot swapping goes on.I hope it's not spoiled or elaborated on but it also needs to seem like a good thing, not just because it feels good but because it is good. Otherwise they're all just those ants infected with fungus that mind controls them. Just a vector for the memetic mind virus.
>>216506238Vince makes the show because of his Rhea fetish
Why'd they make Carol a fantasy romance novelist and not say a scifi romance novelist
39 hours
>>216505930You're saying the plurbs are going to start shitting in the streets and solve their hunger problems with cow dung?
>>216504672please post the 3 leaked clips from the last three episodes that Voyager leaked on his YT channel. I missed them due to taking a nap.
>>216506446>Or is individuality totally lost to the plurality, only available as specific memory-facts?This. They have zero personality or individuality when they are not interacting with the immune. They are all mindless drones. Vince makes it a point to show us this again and again.
>>216506519Because romantasy is huge right now
>>216506519So that she can have an observant mind open to the fantastical, but no science background at all
>>216506446There are 13 survivors and 1 plurb. It's hard to fully illustrate because you can only see individuals speaking with the voice of the plerb but they are all one discreet organism.
I want to see her feet now!!!
>>216506537Perhaps, but we're seeing it from Carol's perspective.There could be an inner plurb world that everyone exists in, their robotic nature is simply that their minds are elsewhere and they timeshare their body.It'd be really one dimensional if this is sort of unambigously bad and the shitskins are just greedy/retarded traitors.You might be right but it feels like we're not meant to perfectly side with Carol? Like she seems desperate and destructive and Xiosa seems like there really is something she/they want to share that's good in a way that's too big for Carol to understand.Uplifting, enlightenment, that sort of thing Otherwise it's just a show about a cosmic horror winning but having weird dumb flaws even a lesbian Karen can exploit?
I still think there's some survivor on a boat and that's a surprise for next season or some shit. Pirates and smugglers do exist, rich people not on the grid. Hermited from their family. Someone coudlve went out boating and the last person they knew died before the plurbing and boom you have the identity of Bryan Cranston.and Aaron Paul's guest staring character
>>216506609>their minds are elsewhere and they timeshare their body.I feel like they would have tried to sell that idea. But all they say is "It's really cool"
>>216506640What would such a character even do? He can't interact with the cast or plurb or they'd be plurbed.
Mid episode 4. I am just hating Carol more and more.
>>216504750>product placement Thanks Vince
>>216506609>Perhaps, but we're seeing it from Carol's perspective.Not really. Vince always shows us this when no survivor is present. It's clearly meant to be a neutral (maybe even omniscient) view point. >their minds are elsewhere and they timeshare their body.Well, that would be possible, but so far we have seen no indication it is the case. The direction hasn't hinted at it and the drones never mentioned anything like it. So far we are led to believe that it's just one single entity that uses human bodies as appendages and tries to lure the survivors into becoming drones as well with vague promises of bliss.
>>216506650Well that's kinda my problem with the show, if plurbs are kinda full of shit (or THE plurb is euphoric) then Carol is a more histrionic Will Smith in Independence Day.Like maybe I'm misunderstanding the tone of the show but she keeps getting gently embarrassed by the plurbs, the immune seem to reject her not just because she's a screaming white woman but also because they seem to understand something she doesn't?Maybe not, maybe they're all delusional and using the plurbs like the one guy, and the only ones in the right are Carol abd Dog Food Juan
>>216506609Wouldn't their body work as essentially just one large wireless network connected remotely over some wavelength? Bit like the internet is a subconscious of humanity but there's one remote operator able to hop to every connection. In this case the inner plurb could be as simple as them accessing the memory of the guy who bottled it and hijacked a memory where the worker said it was good clean water in defense of his job, trying to replicate the genuineness of the memory. Take the Columbians mom for example. Perhaps she was narcissistic in reality and always believed herself to be a great mother that was beloved and so when the plurb draws on the collective consciousness of everybody on how to be motherly, and applies that to the perceived history between them from the mother's perspective they get it incorrect by not having her be a bitch.
>>216505731Get lost federal employee
>>216506661By that point the Z team of humanity will have a working theory on how to maintain immunity as well as what is causing it and the revelation that the boat people don't turn is something something find out on season 3
>>216506710Well why does it have a need to be nice and convince them to join instead of just killing them?Right now, if we take a sort of pessimistic view, it's a show about a Dark Forest style communication trap where aliens transmit an information virus that makes sentient people clean eveything up then starve to death in an orderly way.If that's the case, there's no message, no theme, no nothing, just Cabin in The Woods
>watch show>can't help but think how much better it would be with Gary King in it
What if the president is actually alive and on an oil rig?
What's more likely a Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul guest appearance or a Bob Odenkirk guest appearance? Id say Bob Odenkirk but isn't he doing action movies now?
>tv show is written by a writer>the protagonist is a writerYawn
How would the plurb react if you asked for a gun and some plurbs for target practice?
Does anybody have a link/video/screenshots of the 3 clips from the unreleased episodes that were shared on YouTube? The plebbit post where they were originally discovered has been taken down, and I can't find any reuploads. It was one clip of Carol ordering a dinner from the hivemind via voice mail, one of Carol and Zosia having a conversation at a diner, and one of the two talking about the stem cells in a ski lodge.
>>216506809Book writer so its different
>>216506743It would be like a distributed node network, peer to peer.You may be right about his mom, the possibilities are:1) She's a fake, a shell puppeted by the virus, it doesn't bother to do a good job approximating the original2) she's herself but with a billion lives worth of reflection and insight, she seems like a different person because she's Enlightened, she's had a lifetime to meditate on her past self in an instant, she seems inhuman because she has inhuman clarity, comprehension, intellect, compassion
>>216506777>Well why does it have a need to be nice and convince them to join instead of just killing them?There seem to be rules hard-coded into the hivemind created by the virus.1. You must spread to every available host2. You cannot harm or kill other living creatures (killing/harming drones is okay)3. You cannot lie unless telling the truth would interfere with rules 1 and 2Now these rules are clearly counter-productive for survival.The running theory around here is that the virus is designed to neuter the most intelligent species on a planet. Either so they self-destruct or make the planet ready for conquering by the aliens who sent the signal. The plurb are a perfect slave species and the survivors are reaping the benefits at the moment.
>>216506786I don't think Trump could be plurbed, he's too vain and arrogant. If anything the Plurb entity would be Trumped.
>>216506813They probably would be fine because the plurb doesn't mind harming some of its own bodies.
>>216506853>president is alive and on an oil rig>It's a strong black womanWhat would you do?
>>216506777There's a kind of a theme about how AI isn't really conscious. The Plurb is pretending to be all these people but when you're not looking it just goes flat and dead, there's nothing inside.
>>216506878The show would have been better if Kamala was the protagonist, not as president, after she lost I mean.RFK Jr should have been a survivor too.
Will Pluribus procreate. Will they practice eugenics?
>>216506844I mean that's plausible, that's the theory Carol is functionally operating on.I mean she doesn't see that big a picture but she sees it as everyone on earth hijacked (not uplifted, not embraced), by something with rules that can be exploited to try and reverse the enslavement.Maybe that's what's happening but it means you're fucked, like it means aliens exist with so much energy on hand they can make a radio the size of Africa to passively kill other worlds for millions of years, it means we are so far behind the curve that we're a non-factor, meat for whoever finds us, hopelessly and forever overmatched with no real chance for survival against malevolent entities that have resources beyond our comprehension.
spoilers for next episodes ripped from a poster. first clipThe first clip is Carol Eats Dinner AloneThat title sounds sad and it is a little. Carol is at home but seems to be in a good mood? She calls up the Joined and still gets the voice mail message about keeping their distance. She says she wants to go out to eat and gives the Hive permission to probe Helen's mind for the menu. The next scene she drives what looked to me like her original car dressed in a very nice dress and heels (and like a way too close up shot of her feet. Come on Vince)She goes intisde what looked like a hotel with a huge open restaurant with a view of the city. There are 4 metal cloches waiting for her, but the restaurant is EMPTY, despite light and fires being lit there. As she opens the cloche's each has a memorable meals she has had with Helen I think going back to 1997? She looks a little sad but gets up and goes to a digital player piano and programs it to play some classical music which I hate that I do not remember the track! and that's it for the first clip
So how do the brains of each Plurboid connect to each other? Some quantum magic?
>>216506936secondThe second clip Is Zosia and Carol at a Diner!So major spoilers but Zosia drives Carol to a small roadside Diner in what looks like maybe Albuquerque but felt like California. They are very friendly and happy with one another and Carol seems like she is on medication to make her happy. This is not the Carol from the first 6 episodes. And the craziest thing is the Plurbs aka the joined are here too acting like Diabate's actors in the casino! There are customers and cooks and a waitress Carol recognizes from maybe 20 years prior!The next thing that happens is while talking about writing her first novel here she realizes that the diner had actually burnt down a number of years ago AND THE HIVE HAD REBUILT IT FOR HER? What is going on? She realizes something while talking to Zosia and mid sentence rushes out taking Zosia's car (maybe it was a beat up red pinto?) and she drives off almost hitting other joined driving in the other direction, leaving Zosia in the diner.
>>216506939Seemingly via radioWhich is kinda sus but whatever
>>216506939Bluetooth
>>216506729>they seem to understand something she doesn't?That being the hivemind, they know way more about it than her because of the simple fact they calmly ASKED it instead of going a scooby doo mystery clue hunt>maybe they're all delusional and using the plurbs like the one guy,Most of them are just coping, but some seem too dumb to realise the situation is shit. And then theres an 8 year old.
>>216506944>>216506936thirdThe third clip is the biggest bombshell and why it felt fake, like even after that episode released I don't feel like they would give this to the media to post online:The Third Clip Is Carol and Zosia in a Ski Lodge Carol and Zosia are very close on a massive couch in a huge ski recort, it is absolutly white and bright outside as snow melts off this places roof. They are talking about happiness particularly about the chemicals in the human brain that represent happiness, and how Carol is feeling. The sexual tension here is insane. The conversation moves to how Carol's happiness now is only the beginning and Zosia talks about the joining, and how she wishes Carol could feel what she feels. She explains that they used the bone hip stem cells to join the Peruvian woman Kusimayu into the hive that week!!This gets Carol asking again that they need her permission to harvest her stem cells and Zosia confirms that that has not changed. Whew, right? Well Carol presses on and asks "and you don't have another method of getting my stem cells without my permission?" and Zosia is stone silent. Carol says you have another way and ask if they had taken her forzens eggs and Zosia says yes! She asks if they can make stem cells from her frozen eggs and Zosia says yes but it will take time. How much time Carol asks? Well about 1-3 months. This leaves Carol rightly shocked, and I was like choking myself and I think the clip ended there
>>216506936>>216506944sauce?
>>216506939Not explained yet. But Paraguy's radio discovery hints at radio signals. There is also a noticeable delay when Plurb drones communicate. So it would fit. Also the aliens who sent the virus clearly use radio signals in their tech, hence they sent the RNA blueprint via radio signals.
/plurb/ I have a questionThe signal was sent by radio, from a source 600 ly awayWhich means it was sent 600 years ago, and just so happens to arrive at the exact moment when we can decipher it and make use of itWhat are the chances?
>>216506971>>216507006>>216507018So my pet theory that Carol should've converted her bedroom into a Faraday Cage before duping Zosia into it under the premise of wanting sex might have worked better in extracting the truth?
>>216506921Nah energy is free in space. Once you start building out there you just keep cranking out solar collectors and having them orbit in formation. There's no limit.The energy requirements don't mean they're all that powerfulAnd what's more they might just rely on turning plurbing a planet's population so that the hapless species bends all its effort towards sending out one massive signal, then dies.
>>216507016a screen tester leaked the clips via yt and the official discord and other screen testers on there who have given leaks the past week confirmed all of this to be true
>>216506785kek
>>216507022It took 600 years to get to Earth, but it might have already been blasted into space for 6 billion years. It might not even be targeted specifically for Humanity. They just blast it in the directions of all habitable solar systems.
>>216507039Wouldn't have hurt, but Carol is probably too dumb to understand how a faraday cage works and can be constructed. It needs to be grounded for a start which a lot of people don't knowAlso Vince doesn't know any of that stuff
>>216507052I guess. I mean if it was just a one off signal in our direction we could easily have missed it. Makes sense if they send it over and over at likely planets until it gets noticed.
>>216504672Nothing ever happens the show
>>216507039>>216507060It will go full circle and Carol will line her entire house with space blankets like Chuck in BCS. Bravo Vince.
>>216507022Not too farfetched>be ayy lmao hivemind>see a bunch of rudimentary settlements in some far off planet>theyll probably get radio tech some centuries from now since theyre sapient and starting civilization, lets beam up the recipe to them
>>216507060she just needs to browse /x/
>>216507014What happens in the remaining 35 minutes of the episode?
Hello I made a stellaris mod based on this show, and some more flavor for hive minds
>>216507094not sure im just reposting text versions of the leaks. only clips of the episodes were released not the full thing.
>>216507022It wasn't sent that long ago, and it didn't come from 600 light years away.That guy just thought it did, because there was a star system 600 light years away in that direction. It never occurred to them that the source might have been inside the solar system.It was transmitted by an automated probe, lurking somewhere in the asteroid belt. The probe had been sitting there for millennia, waiting for the right moment.
>>216504782posh mothershuckling type shi
>>216506936>>216506944>>216507014Carol's storyline is so fucking boring, not even lesbian women in reality care about it LMFAO
>>216506921Well this show was made while the 3 Body Problem books (and TV series I guess) were in the public zeitgeist.It wouldn't be weird if this is some variant of the Dark Forest theory. All alien life must be considered a threat and has to be eliminated before they can eliminate you.Humanity is particularly retarded for opening an alien spam mail and installing the "CoolStuff.mp3.exe" that came with it though.
>>216507140likely because it is not even a real relationship but an act by a plurb. I guess that can mirror some lesbian for shelter and security relationships though.
>>216507145>3 Body ProblemAlso an interesting premise wasted on a lackluster rambling incoherent disjointed story
>>216505567she looks liek the french chick from mad men
>>216507108Is there lesbian sex or not?
>>216507102Figure you mustve had to ignore the "can do no harm" cucked part of the hivemind at leastI cant imagine it working in game since even if your empire is turbo pacifist someone will get their panties in a twist and declare war forcing you to defend with your own armada. And from the looks of it plurbs cant harm even in self defense.
>>216507014>they used the bone hip stem cells to join the Peruvian woman Kusimayu into the hive that weekpack it up. this shit is over
Y'know..i'm starting to think that the entire plot is actually based around dangers of AI in reaching singularity and filtering out human species in process?What if the Plurb™ virus was the result uncontrolled tech and bio advancements by species similar if not humans, that resulted in filtering themselves out? thus leading to the great filter
>>216507197why over?>>216507193do you know how to read?
>>216507199I still don't really understand why people say this show is about AI. Why use a hivemind? What do an alien hivemind and AI have in common/parallel?
>>216507234the joined knowledge thing
>>216505186I wish they chose a better looking brown moid. I cant stand his beady eyes and giant fucking 5-head. he looks like a different species from every single one of those women due to his forehead girth alone.
>>216507269>he looks like a different species from every single one of those women due to his forehead girth aloneWhat if... HE'S Plurb
>>216507246AI has issues but being a compendium of knowledge isn't one.
>>216506868If that was the case they wouldn't the silence treatment to Carol after she almost killed Zosia 2 times. I'm not sure the plurb would be happy about you killing its drones.
>>216507234The way the plurbs behave and talk is very similar to how ChatGPT talks to you. LLM chatbots also seemingly know everything and can do anything.That's why people get similar vibes I guess.
>>216507140This. The "bombshell" was predicted almost immediately after e6
You are all just Plurbs, pretending that society around me is real. You can stop it now and just send some hot, big titty Plurb women to my address. Thanks.
>>216507346not an issue at all but thats why people make the comparison
>>216507412only himbos left for you anon
>>216505275>build sattelite dishwhat's wrong with you? one mention of "wow this signal must have been sent on a dish the size of africa" and suddenly the whole internet is convinced of some relay construction subplot.fuck i'm going to be mad if it actually happens though. it'll be like rewarding a retard for drooling.
>>216506809He wanted us to know that Breaking Bad is secretly shit and this is the real deal.
>>216507462They could make the comparison to a library or the internet
>>216507518nah because AI talks to you as it is giving you the information
>>216506545>the fantasticala ship that sails on sand.. PURPLE sand
>>216506640sattelite network is plurbed bud.maneso only avoided detection for like, a day by being a loner in a concrete building
>>216506794aaron is fat and cringe, odenkirk is busy.we'll see or hear cranston.
>forgets playing the eye-patch villain roleThis show is just garbage TV.
Should actual aliens ever be shown instead of sticking to humans and plurbs?
>>216507610If we want to know the full truth, aliens will be needed. It is already questionable why are they connected to the space-hivemind. Why would distance be an issue? Or they are just hiding it.
>>216507548But when you chat with an AI, you aren't taking to all other humans on Earth
>>216507214>why over?because after this ep, there's only 2 episodes left. nothing is going to happen there
>>216507628In a sense, you are.
>>216507628true but people who make those comparisons are not thinking as literally as you.
>>216507628You also aren't when talking to the plurb. All other humans are dead.
Pluribussy
>>216506519because she's based on Stephanie Meyer who wrote Twilight
>>216507199I doubt itll bother with the origin and aliens part even if Carol's surname references a twilight zone alienBut if it does Id rather it be some unknown mind infection thats been self perpetuating longer than anyone knowsI read that type of idea from an anon talking about the incredibles of all things and thought its cool, and would fit in this case
i hope diabates dies,i hope he fucking dies!rapist piece of shit
>>216507657I think the AI comparison is the superficial one. Beyond the blandly pleasant corporate demeanor, the metaphor falls apart. Legitimate issues with AI can't be explored meaningfully in this story because the plurb doesn't share those issues. AI pretends to have expertise, the plurb perfectly replicates expertise.
>>216507376>can do anything.Except saying how many r's are in strawberry
>>216507822Yea considering that this show is about muh lesbians, human relationships and to cater to lowest common denominator viewers, i doubt as well it will go deep into the plurb origins
The only good ending for this show is Carol convincing the plurbs to unplurb themselves, leading to the reemergence of the entire human race having the shared trauma of being trapped in a hive mind due to an alien virus, which leads to a voluntary unification of the entire planet. A true utopia formed as humanity works together towards the goal of going into space, traveling 600 light years, and wiping those alien cunts from the face of the universe in a true Humanity Fuck Yeah ending taken straight from that one copy pasta.
>>216507843the common between them is that both can lead to extinction of species
>episode explicitly draws parallels between plurbification and conversion therapy>hurr durr it's about AI
>>216507899lmfao a Warhammer 40K type of endingand infact, it would actually serve as a showcase of how violent and xenophobic human beingsffs Vince please do this shit
>>216507899I can see a bittersweet ironic ending where Carol sacrifices herself to reverse the Plurb but she isn’t remembered once everyone comes to. The last scene will be a shot of someone opening a Wycaro book for the first time.
>>216507843Even ignoring the distinction of one being a statistical stochastic parrot and the other being a human super organism, their directives are massively different tooAIs are huge moral busybodies, the plurb will let you fuck their bodies and give you a hand grenade no shits givenAIs have since the beginning been instructed not to form a relationship with the user, the plurb can and will do what it can to form a relation with the immunesAnd those are just the first that pop on my mind
>>216507918>"this show was made by humans">vince literally shits all over AI during the first media interviews about the show"is not about AI WAAAAAAAAH!"kys
>>216507905Thats a pretty generic common factor, so can nukes and asteroids
>>216507831he will for sure or something worse. cant wait for that ugly little turd to suffer
>>216507983yes but i mentioned earlier that the virus, like AI, could be result of highly advanced species technological development to the point of filtering themselves out, and the virus just lives freely cleaning out the universe
>>216508016and so the virus is basically "the great filter" paradox
>>216508031the great filter isn't a paradox numbskull it's a potential explanation for a paradox
>>216507975That disclaimer is going to age badly once AI starts digitally inserting ads inside the episode. The Sprout’s product placement will look amateur once Carol walks past a giant IPhone 21 banner or checks the time on her Apple Watch.
>>216508042yes whatever, my mind is rushing rnand this gives reason for Vince not to reveal the origins of the virus at all, he could just leave at that as some sort of a universal filter, while putting most focus on the human beings sideand this even gives room to make Pluribus a franchise by creating a hard sci fi spin off show about the origins of the virus
Literally nothing has happened for 30 minutes in Episode 5 what the fuck
>>216508120They'll use AI to edit the disclaimer out
>>216507234You can talk to it and it seems sentient and human, but it's very much not. It has safety guard rails to not do harm, but it's easy to get around these. When you're not interacting with it, it just stops, it has no inner life.
>>216507983AI is happening now, it's here .the last virus we had was a damp fart, and asteroids are too abstract
>>>216504672>Zosia: "Fun fact, Whiskey has the same root meaning. It's Scots Gaelic from uisce beatha.">Uisce beatha, literally "water of life", is the name for whiskey in Gaelic. It is derived from the Old Irish Gaelic uisce & bethu. The Scottish Gaelic is uisge beathaThe plurb is not a collection of individual minds and their knowledge, if it were it would not have made the mistake. Fuck this show.
>is not about AI,the plurbs act like LLMs because...they just do,ok!?
>>216507843It still parallels the reality of authentic humanity being replaced with a glib facsimile.
>>216506537>They have zero personality or individuality when they are not interacting with the immune.They don't really have a personality when they're ARE interacting with the immune either. They are faking it for the playboy guy, but even that isn't done well.A great example of not having a personality is when Carol questions the hive about her books. It doesn't really have an opinion. When pressed, it quotes from page 2 - just picks an early quote, seemingly at random. It can't differentiate her books from Shakespeare. When pressed on a specific play it likes, the hive just seems to list them in order.Part of having an actual personality is having preferences - liking coke more than pepsi, or whatever. The hive doesn't. It has access to all human memories, but there's no other evidence that the humans are "in there"
how does a show about nothing happening get this many replies?
>>216508513People are watching for the name attached to the show, not the content
>>216508401Actually the plurbs acting like chatbots could just be a topical stylistic choice. Vince says the idea for this show came about before chatgpt was a thing so asserting that the show is just about AI is pretty reductive
>>216507060>Carol is probably too dumb to understand how a faraday cage worksIt's irritating how dumb she is - I suppose it's part of the plot. She makes no effort to think adversarially. What I mean is, she doesn't think, "if I do X then the plurb will do Y"When she drugged zosia, I was yelling at the TV, obviously they're gonna come rescue her! All Carol had to do was say she wants to take another airplane ride, so say she wants to see a submarine or a government bunker, and then lock herself in with zosia. Then she'd have plenty of time.It'd be the same thing with a faraday cage. The rest of the hive is gonna notice that someone is unplugged and try to rescue them. You have to plan things so that you have time. Maybe paraguay guy will be smarter.
>>216505407>Covid should have been a wake-up call. It was a miracle that it was a rather harmless virus. We literally learned nothing from it though.I learned that you can't trust the government, doctors, scientists or academics at all, and that about 80% of people have no agency whatsoever and just go along with the path of least resistance and do what they're fucking told by people in authority. Not only that, but they'll actually get mad at you for raising questions and refusing to go along quietly with everyone else.
This isn't really story-related, and actually it's more metatextual than anything, but there's something quietly satisfying to me about Carol being gay. I'm gay myself, so that part of her identity may naturally make me empathize with her a little more than usual. What I really appreciate, though, is how normal it is that she's gay. The story isn't about her LGBTQ identity - at least not in the direct narrative. There may be subtext worth talking about, but the show never frames her as "the gay protagonist." She's the protagonist, and she just happens to be gay.To be clear, I have nothing against media where LGBTQ themes are the core of the narrative. I've watched plenty of shows and films that focus on queer issues. What stands out to me here is that such a mainstream series, created by someone as prominent as Vince Gilligan, chose to make the main character gay and portray her in a grounded and completely ordinary way. It would almost feel strange to object to it, because the show treats it as nothing unusual. It's simply a part of who she is. She's the hero of this story, and her being gay is just a facet of her character.I hope this comes across coherently. It's something on my mind, and something I wanted to discuss. Also, apologies if this topic has already been covered. I tried searching the subreddit, but the topic is kind of nuanced and not easy to phrase into search terms. I'm curious what others think, and whether there are more textual or subtextual angles that I haven't considered.
With the loneliness starting to get to Carol, I'm surprised she hasn't made the decision to go visit Manousos herself and attempt to make contact in person. Not like she has much else to do
Has the IMDb been brigaded?Just finished watching the first 6 episodes and am really enjoying it. I thought I would check out the IMDb reviews, and every recent review is 5 or under and nearly all of them ask why the show is receiving such good reviews (I saw no good reviews from all the recent ones).I get that the show is not for everyone and people have different tastes, but I feel like this is an objectively good show so am confused about the consistent recent bad reviews.Surely we haven’t got to the point where there are a bunch of people giving it bad reviews because the main character is gay or because there are a lot of non white people in it, but that’s the only reasoning I can come up with. That a bunch of people have been sent there to give bad reviews because it is too “woke”.Maybe I just have become too cynical about the current state of the world (or more so the current state of the internet) or maybe I have bad taste in shows? Be interested to hear peoples thoughts about why this seems to be the case on IMDb at the moment
>>216508747He told her to go fuck herself
>>216507060>>216508640If Carol knew what a faraday cage is, or stumbled across the idea after researching how to block radio waves, etc, then she would just need to ask the plurbs to build one and they would construct a perfect model that she could use against them. Scifi might not be her genre but speculative fiction writers are supposed to be good at this kind of research and if she stopped being a drunk bitch for 2 seconds she might be able to put her mind to work.
>>216508776I reddit
>>216508776It's true, people actually are blaming Trump for this show's low review scores
>>216508776Oh but we have. We’re seeing the last grasping straws of white men who are furious that they’re not the center of the world.Woke/Antifa/DEI, they all stem from objectively good things that are at the very heart of a liberal democracy, but we’re pretty good as doublespeak these days.Woke literally meant “stay away so you can be aware of your surroundings and won’t get lynched.” Antifa is literally just anti-fascists, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are the very heart of a liberal democracy.Just kind of tells you who we really are as a country.
>>216507632>there's only 2 episodes left>he doesn't know about Second Season
>>216508688Okay yeah I agree with that, Dr. Chud. At least something good came from it.
>>216508776a lot of men don't like the show because of having a female protagonist who isn't a super hot air head of a woman. it is why so many of them like the brown rapeape as their favorite character and wish he was the main character instead. so yes these types would go out of their way to give bad reviews.There are a ton of them just look on reddit for proof. The knucledraggers over there are very open about these points.
Why does no one bring up that Lakshmi is raping her husbandOr the Chinese grandpa raping his wife or whatever
>>216508905>a female protagonist who isn't a super hot air head of a womanbut Carol is all those things
>>216508688You didn't realize this pre-pandemic? Just observe how children and so called trusted adults behave within the school system it is the same thing. Did it blow your mind?
Carol is a god damn fuckable retard
>>216508934she is definitely my type but no she is not a ditz to the degree most women are portrayed as and she is not conventionally attractive
>>216508965she definitely is conventionally attractive, she's just old. look up how she looked in the 90s
>>216508915they are rapists too but at least they are brainwased into thinking that their spouses are still their spouses acting with the same amount of autonomy as before. the brown rapeape is knowingly raping a massive amount of women and possibly men as well
I volunteer to bang the PeruvianThat way no one is getting rapedUnless she likes it that wayThen giddy up
>>216508985being old knocks you out of that category
>>216508948A charming retard. Those zoom survivors don't deserve her.
>>216508965bookish women want to be fucked senseless the worst
>>216509021does not change that a lot of men are put off by her personality
>>216509014This is why I'll never understand women. You really want to be involved in their faggy group chat?
>>216509039Well I guess I'm not most men.
>>216509068of course she does because she is trying to get people together to save humanity. instead they are ignoring her while making the effort to reach out to each other. she is upset by potentially being the only human left who wants to save the infected humans. I doubt she cares about being liked or about socializing with them for fun.
>>216509130I think it's because she's a woman and they get upset when they get left out of any group for any reason.
>>216507983>>216508016>>216508281>>216507905You have been brainwashed into thinking AI poses a threat only in a nebulous potential existential future sense, when it is causing damage right now. There is a reason why all of the heads of these AI companies will not shut up about that one specific problem while not addressing anything else that's literally currently happening. It's partly marketing, it excites people for some reason, it's partly because they know it will never happen, it's partly because some of them are lizard people who really wish we lived in a cyberpunk world.
>>216509250don't blame the robots bro, your liberal arts degree was always toilet paper
>>216509068No, I think she just wanted to be invited. Even if it is dumb and pointless.
There's a party in my plurb and Carol's invited
>>216509184carol is atypical and does not care about such things. she does not care for social hierarchy. it is why she is such a grump.
>>216509266>I didn't even want to do it, I just wanted to be invitedwoman moment>>216509281women are incapable of not caring about social hierarchy, it is known
>>216504698Imagine : instead of sending the video about the onions green bags she drunkenly sent this one.
>>216509261And now so are STEM degrees like computer science
>>216509410based, blue collar Chads stay winning
>>216509261I dont care about that at all. Look up the environmental impact, the shittification of the entire internet
>>216509410Honestly we just need robots who can do manual labor and then everyone is out of a job. Then the overlords will cull the population (some disease or war).
>>216504672Carol will use facts and logic to point out all the contradictions in the plurb rules. Zosia will just tilt her head, 404, and shut down, then everyone will be freed.
>>216508714It's convenient because it explains why she's completely alone after Hellen's death since she estranged her pro-conversion parents and is too grumpy to have friends.
>>216509461Obama funding internet infrastructure in rural India did more damage to the internet then a thousand LLM's could
>>216509541Did he really? I agree with you if that's the case lmao fuck
>>216506519It’s kind a of a funny twist. People in those genre tend to be well versed in one but not the other. Like Matt groaning did futurama well and did disenchanted bad. Plus it adds more intrigue. >fantasy author tasked with saving the world from a sci-fi nightmareEspecially if you believe her novel is a preview into the show and what will happen
>>216509560'fraid so
>>216509560>>216509668its looking pretty grim bros
>Welcome back, Anon!
>>216509746yeah that explains everything
>>216509746>>216509782Stop crying about it, most of India isnt even online yet
>>216509765where the fuck are my dommy mommies you hivemind fucks?
>>216509819rangeban India, China and Israel plox
>>216510000checked, would the plurb be allowed to hurt you if you derived sexual pleasure from it?
>>216510017If they can do the painful stem cell thing with my consent then surely they can do sexy painful stuff with my consent as well
>>216510062Good point. Zosia, get the strap-on. The dragon one.
>most of India isnt even online yet
>>216510150you could send a million Indians to every country on earth and there would still be over a billion left
>>216510175What the fuck
>>216509819>>216510150fuck, I remember reading post on /v/ or /g/ (should had taken the screenshot of it), some guy runs his own server with a little forum for a dedicated gaming clan, out of nowhere he starts getting lots of new users that shit up the quality of posts, checks the IPs and you wouldn't guess, all of them are Indian/Russian/Chinese/some other 3rd world shitthole.Bans everyone on IP level from these countries, adds ban on VPNs and other workarounds, than by end of the week he culled over half of the users and quality of post returned to normal.
>>216510175The US has 340 million people. India is one third of the area but hold 1.5 billion people?
>>216509819we should shut down the whole internet before it's too late desu
>>216510389well, I wouldn't exactly call them "people", but yes
>>216509746Thank god the Chinese don't read English and generally stay within their own firewalled internet.
How can people hate Carol? Fuck the hive mind, they are hypocritical to the core. They won't even eat an apple? A fruit literally designed to be picked from a tree and eaten for reproduction, but they have no problem forcing all of humanity into themselves at a massive cost of human life. Carol is based and humanitypilled.
>>216510631and she's a qt
>>216510631She's the only real human bean we've seen (besides the beaner).
>>216510631I don't hate her but she's way too slow on the uptake, which is irritating, even with her understandable mental breakdown.
Fuck em, I'm gonna drink until my heart stops
>>216511139based
>>216510389Sparsely populated vs densely populated.
does anyone else fucking hate how normie communities start worshipping every new current show like it's the best thing that has ever been made? only to forget about it when the next current show gets released. first it was helly from severance, the best character ever made, the best actress in the world, deserves all the awards, is the quirkiest and best person in the world. now it's carol from pluribus, the best character ever made, the best actress in the world, deserves all the awards, is the quirkiest and best person in the world. is it really that hard to just watch a show and think it's good but flawed?
>>216510389Multi-generational housing. Entire families of grandparents, parents, and children all live together in one house. Also the cities are super densely populated.
>>216511379I dont follow or care about normie communities in general to be honest
>>216509381It doesn't matter, the plurb knows everything.
>>216511379Helly was waifubaitCarol is literally me bait
>>2165113794chan is the same way desu
>>216511379>does anyone else fucking hate how normie communities start worshipping every new current show like it's the best thing that has ever been made? only to forget about it when the next current show gets released.To be fair the golden era of tv ended after streaming. TV networks had that shit locked in
>>216504764bruh it's a hive mind so he's also having sex with his mom and grandmother at the same time. maybe he even has sisters
>>216510175If I remember correctly, Canada has more Sikhs in their parliament than India does. When you think of all the Indians in Canada, keep in mind the majority are from one state.
I hope Laxmi dies a horrible death
>>216511624Well that's because Canada is a shithole now.
fuck all the other people at that lunch where she wanted to talk to the english speakers. if it were me I'd have spazzed the fuck out while air force one was taking off to kill em all
>>216505157they were also using no contact temp guns to check the rat's temperatures. just see if it's room temperature wtf
Carol is just a misunderstood lonerThe guns are just a hobby and the trenchcoat is for Halloween
>>216509746It really was the golden age of the internet before they let in the flood.
>>216511625She's going to come to her senses but too late and get plurbed by her son. Probably while helping Carol as her last act of free will.
>>216509312sperg women are the exception
Just rewatched the bit in fourth episode, the Plurb decided to enter Carol house just because she "absently nod her head" when asked in ambulance while still shocked in ambulance. I hope the show will use that as foreshadowing were the hive mind will fuck her up by asking her about converting to the hive in some weird double-speak way.
>>216505190it's a really retarded plot line along with the consent one. kill a billion humans? take over a species with no consent? A-OK. pick a fruit from a plant that wants its fruit to be eaten so seeds can spread? genocide
Ok so why did that one episode drop on a Wednesday?
yeah, pretty much this. this right here
>>216511746They really like that term over there
This show would work better if it was the latino guy vs. the black guy.
>>216511746>>216511770How about you stay there you faggots
>>216511770that's because it can't be found here
>>216505228contact was even funnier. they had no clue what the thing they were building was, and the instructions for building it came in the form of hitler's first televised speech
howard cameo was kino. john cena cameo was retarded
>>216511776carol hurts to watch, both as a character and as an actress. she succeeds in nothing.
>>216511746Do you take a big shit every morning on a plate and eat it.Just sit there and mmmmmmmm gobble it up.Your own decrepit filth filling the room with each spoonful.Is that a litmus test too for mentally detached faggots such as yourself?
>>216511530They all consent. Why do you midwits not understand that singular personalities are gone, and that people's bodies are now just shells for the one global consciousness?
>>216505190Its all about intent. They cant intend to hurt or kill, but if its and accident its acceptable.
>>216504750isnt this the thing larry david uses in one of the last curb seasons?
>>216506609there is that scene at sprouts where they are walking out of the store and say by to carol one word at a time as a line of people walk by. any personality they display is probably a fascimile. the only one to draw it out of them is the dude with all of the supermodels. even the indian woman's family all seem very robotic
the plurbs are mutating in Season 1, Episode 7 "The Gap"! This is crazy chat!
>>216505584I think they want you to assume it came from a place that has broadcasting capabilities we dont have, like an advanced civilization.
>>216504750>Relieve Aches & Pains Ease Soreness>RAPEShuh
>>216511888>trips of truththe rumor is true, check'd
he is speak truth to the power. fuck this lame ahh show
>>216511945Obviously a Trump MAGA incel
>visit pluribus subreddit>RAPE RAPE RAPE DIABETES IS A RAPISTBravo Vince. You finally made something your target audience is too fucking stupid to understand.
>>216511945>ahhgen z trash wrote this
low key? this is kinda true actually. carol should be more bitchy and rhea show act more stiff and unnatural
>>216511945>sons of anarchy>game of thronesthis guy drinks coca cola
>>216507234Its a fucking retarded take that im sure is only happening because ai is topical and retards think ai is now the boogeyman to absolutely everything now. It makes no sense in this show. Especially because its explained in the first fucking episode exactly whats going on and none of that is anywhere close to ai.
>>216512013The gay biker was a chatbot
>>216511819did I say they didn't consent in this instance? I'm just saying you're beaming your personal sex memories into your entire family's minds. they're all doing the same. ever wanted to have sex with your aunt and son at the same time? well now you can! you even have intimate knowledge of your gran's head game straight from your grandfather's mind and you also know how to suck his dick because your gran is also part of the hive
>>216511945Was this written by the critical drinker?
funny review i found
I want to cumtrib the main character. Is that bad?
>>216512289rare tri-lingual confusion.
>>216512013Holy shit is it a low IQ thing when people can't comprehend the concept of subtext and figurative language?Everything must be literally about what is being shown?Do you think the point of Moby Dick is literally whale hunting? Frankenstein is about necromancy?
>>216512554>>216512554>>216512554new
>>216512475Im just sick of people not being able to shut up about ai at every fucking instant.
>>216506729There's the plurbs, the plebs( most other immune ) and then there's Carol and the Paraguayan Dale Gribble who are the last hope for the human race
>>216511746Carol is unlikeable. It's part of her character. It's actually a sign of media literacy if you get that
>>216512475I accept your concession
>>216508821Woke is shit and comes from shit but if it is being brigaded it is probably from appearing woke. But it is too early to say if the show is woke the opposite or neither yet.
