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That's some Shia-level incompetence right there.

Bachelor switches off as I understand it, with the loser becoming the Bachelorette or something. The reunion show spoiler really rings false because Unreal seems to not give a crap about the other contestants.

I don't even really care for that title sequence. Then again, a lot of shows don't have one.

I can certainly attest to not knowing who the hell the contestants are. It kinds of reminds me of the movie "Who Wants to Marry Ryan Banks?" which was renamed "The Reality of Love" for DVD. The contestants disappeared at an amazing clip, with only the two important actresses left for the last half hour.

It was definitely better than I thought it was going to be. I also wonder if the real pastor will show up eventually.

This episode pretty clearly shows us that Sarah Shapiro is only basing a little of UnReal on her experiences. Obviously, no one took a header off the balcony on The Bachelor. I think the Breaking Bad analogies some of the cast made are accurate. Walter White wasn't shown teaching for very long. Rachel has been shown editing maybe twice and messing with contestants a handful of times. Actually, one of Rachel's best scenes with a contestant was taken directly from Sequin Raze.

Adam s supposed to seem like a nice guy, that's why he was cast for Everlasting. He's not a moustache-twirling villain like the network president, but he is as bad a person as the rest of the conflicted hot messes running the show. I think Jeremy is less involved in the evil going on behind the scenes, but he's a jerk with Rachel, so the audience hates him. Obviously, Rachel is a kind of Mary Sue for the creator of the series. I'd like to see more of her psychological manipulations rather than her schemes and personal issues. It's starting to give me bad flashbacks to Revenge.

If they use the "guy stays because girl is pregnant" trick twice in a season, that's pretty lame.

My take on the handwritten note (they don't let them use computers on these shows) is that Mary's sister needs to "lose" that note immediately. As of the last episode, it is not evidence. If she loses it before it becomes evidence, there's no way to punish her. The ex can't really get money for a fake letter. He would have to try getting the DA to open a conspiracy case against the show. I doubt he even suspects the note is not in Mary's words. I think Rachel was smart enough not to tell anyone what she did, even though some of the important people put 2 and 2 together. In the other story, Jay didn't want to hear Shia's confession because he was not told what she did and he didn't want to know. The fact that he could still have deniability (and denial) about what Shia did made him "okay" with her.

I think Kirk said something to Mary like "They said you knew." That implies that the producers told him that Mary requested the meeting. They didn't tell him otherwise and Mary was too erratic for him to reliably interpret her reaction as not knowing. I very much doubt he could prove the letter was a forgery with Mary's sister confirming it. There's no claim of fraud right now, so if the sister "lost" the note in her luggage on the way back there's nothing he could do about it. Everlasting is filmed week to week, so the show is currently airing on some fictional network.

In the world of UnReal, he is trying to get custody of the daughter and the lawsuit helps him look like a victim of production. With Lily Belle, he would have control of the estate, plus he can also sue for emotional distress. The sister is going along with this because she wants Lily Belle and that "note" makes sure of that. She'd rather take care of her niece as a guardian than take care of her financially with Kirk constantly trying to get a payoff. For the contestants, I know BJ girl quit. That leaves Black girl, closet lesbian and kinky school teacher. ETA: I forgot Anna, the girl whose father died (a.k.a. "the bitch")

It sounds like from the preview that they are planning a spin-off (like that wedding thing from The Bachelor Trista and Ryan, I think) of Everlasting. I guess that means only one of the actresses in the contestant pool are getting a next season. That will keep Adam for at least another season.

I have to say that the last 10 minutes! was a bigger surprise than the last 30 seconds previously. Rachel was already planning to fake that video for Jezebel (I wonder how that site feels about being labeled a dupe for reality TV news) so the note wasn't much of a stretch. It threaded the needle perfectly. It incorporated her (enhanced) feelings about Adam, reasons for going off her meds, explaining why she killed herself to save her daughter and laying the blame squarely on her abusive ex. Mary's sister was apparently impressed by the content from the get-go and knew this would ruin any chances of the ex getting Mary's daughter. Best of all, I didn't really see it coming. This also shows why Chet is such a good executive producer. He knows when to bow and scrape to his superiors. Quinn probably would have been fired out of spite, even if it were her show entirely.

Most recently, I remember Shiri from the dramedy "Life Unexpected."

Cameron got to be authentically right this week. Whatever Joe wants to do, it's gonna turn out bad. Joe may not have known the specifics, but he knew something would happen to Mutiny after it was bought. For all Joe's rewriting history to Bos, how exactly were they going to get to COMDEX without that money? As for everyone else, I can see why Cameron was extra pissed at him. Joe killed her personalized OS. Everyone else just had to find another job. That was weird how Joe reminded us that he was a little gay for a while. I guess some Mutiny user invented Catfishing. Well, Gordon is declining ridiculously fast. I assume he will be in a Christopher Pike chair by the end of the season.

Maybe it's because I just saw it, but the thing where Matt talked about that child molester drinking his meals through a draw reminded me of "The Shawshank Redemption."

People are prone to some level of social compliance. Most of us do what we're told when there's an authority figure involved (like a boss) and we have no strong objection. When things get more stressful and isolated, the alphas and the betas start coming out. There are a lot of experiments where people allow bad things to happen because someone else told them. The kind of people who do object are usually alpha types themselves. That can be good or bad, because an alpha may also have trouble being managed.

I think that episode was one in a long line of <insert name here> outsmarts Frasier. They had to construct a scenario where Frasier was left with a kid and was then outsmarted by her even though he is supposedly a great psychiatrist. The set up was weak and the execution was painful. I prefer to watch the bachelor auction parts, like when Bulldog can't get any takers.

I looked it up. The serial port was used for the disk drive, which made it pretty slow. But at that time I was used to cassette drives and I had an accelerator cartridge. Most of the real business was done over the Expansion Port (the header I mentioned). The would have needed a kind of serial adapter (UART) to run it, but a Commodore could certainly do serial-to-serial communication, which was old school networking. Even Windows let you direct connect through serial ports.

Back then, there were places that didn't take checks. I think this was when credit cards were still run on carbons. I can't see why checks at the grocery store are that bad. You don't even fill them out now.

While commenting in another thread, I was thinking of something. Rachel had her freak out in the previous season for some reason. We also see that Rachel's kind of off this week. I'm thinking that her lack of sense in bringing on Mary's ex is related to her getting rejected by Jeremy. I wonder if Jeremy set her off in the previous season as well. Rachel seems to be good at faking feeling and empathy but she may not be prepared for actually experiencing emotions like the strong ones she had for Jeremy.

Maybe it's a matter of quantity. I watched the pilot where Rachel said my favorite line of the series "This show is Satan's asshole." Maybe it's edited for TV after the first airing or something.

I never had a modem for my C64. Did it connect to that board header in the back? I'd say use the 6 pin disk drive port. It was designed to be daisy chained (ancient USB!) so it could transfer databack and forth.

About 15-20 years ago, for example, the rage was photonics and optical storage. Fiber optics is the worldwide standard for long-haul communication, but optical storage has been replaced by solid state media like flash drives and SSDs. Star Trek had people carrying around tablets with information, but they also showed little cartridges being stuck in tiny TV screens. Prognostication has limitations.

Unix is better because it's the backbone of servers after the 80's. For a bunch of game players, an OS that doesn't have (16) colors kind of sucks. From Mutiny's (especially Bosworth's) perspective, Joe may not have been that much of a jerk, but he basically wanted to become an owner dictating their business practices. From an objective POV, Joe was a huge ass. He could have gotten Mutiny for $4, probably $4.50. He was authorized to go to $3.50 with no "benchmarks." He changed the conditions, using that $1.50 leeway to make them do what he thought was the FUTURE OF COMPUTING. Joe's act is getting tiresome. I'm guessing he will destroy Mutiny and possibly his boss' oil company by the end of the season.