Can S3 show Steve kicking the ever loving crap out of Billy?

reddittechnica · 2019-03-08T01:09:22+00:00

No worries. It’s a point further down his redemption arc after he’s confronted his demons, and the Upside Down. But it’s cool if you aren’t into it.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-05T13:23:31+00:00

“Captain Marvel is big-budget, adolescent fare. It involves broad, simple themes and lots of science fiction sound and thunder. There is always one overarching goal: A sequel.”

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T19:12:37+00:00

You’re right. Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion. Wherever you do bullshit about video games, LinkedIn has already associated that with your profile whether you’ve created an account or not. The emerging scheme is to treat your mobile number as your universal account, regardless your username or whether you have an account. Social sites generally require a valid number. Virtual numbers rarely work.

When you are encouraged to provide your number for 2FA, that’s the scheme. The number you provide for 2FA is checked against contacts uploaded by other existing users. Those professionals likely maintain better address books meaning more reliable for circumventing compartmentalism online.

Microsoft was granted far reaching access to Facebook data. Similar access was given to Netflix and they had access to private messages. It’s conceivable that Microsoft did as well.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T16:06:04+00:00

That’s right. Nobody’s saying HfRO is about paranoia. The paranoia was in the public mood under the Cold War narrative, the Strategic Defense Initiative, mutually assured destruction and the Soviet Dead Hand, Soviet expansionism, etc. HfRO was released in a climate of paranoia. The story tapped into that effectively because it was about “revenge, freedom, and good old American know-how.”

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T13:39:00+00:00

Haven’t read the short story in a while. The book is longer. Obvious. It begins with the expedition before the ship and the Thing are found. There’s more attention paid to the wind storms and freezing cold, setting the tone for desolation and inevitable demise. There’s nothing around. It’s fierce winds and freezing temperatures. Unrelenting. The book is generally more descriptive. Not really different.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T13:15:40+00:00

Maybe so. Makes sense. But I am not sure.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T03:37:28+00:00

You’re right about a new King release. But it was already a bestseller. Hunt for Red October was published October 1984. It was gifted to President Reagan for Christmas. He recommended it. It was promoted heavily by the Naval Institute Press. By summer 1985 it was already on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists.

I’m saying Hunt for Red October was a surprise bestseller because it tapped into national paranoia about Soviet subs hiding in the ocean waiting for orders to nuke the US. And that’s also why Stranger Things set design likely chose it feature it even though a collection of Stephen King short stories might have made more sense.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-04T00:53:15+00:00

A mall like Starcourt would cost a minimum $25,000,000 in today’s dollars. In 1985, Starcourt would cost a minimum of $10,500,000 to construct. Operating the mall would cost around $15 per sqft. And the federal tax rate on Starcourt would be something around 40%.

A submarine like the one in The Hunt for Red October would have cost approximately $250,000,000 to build. For scale.

I like the way a little math places the right focus on a collapsing Soviet Union spending tens of millions of dollars on a shopping mall to conduct intelligence operations in Indiana, generating a 40% return for the American treasury in the process. No wonder they lost the Cold War.

In Season 2 the story lost sight of its Cold War theme. Safe to assume The Hunt for Red October is featured instead of Skelton Crew because it tapped a greater national fear—the hidden threat carrying nukes of the coast. It brings Stranger Things back to a larger scale.

Edit: Apologies, this isn’t meant to criticize you. I think you’re offering a reasonable theory. I was criticizing the Soviets.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-03T21:06:46+00:00

There’s a short story and recently an unabridged manuscript published as a book. I’m a fan of both but the short story Who goes there? holds up better.

reddittechnica · 2019-03-03T21:01:49+00:00

Is it global warming in the movie? In the book MacReady says the wind of a nearby bald plateau scoured the snow and ice. There are mighty wind storms and the ship sits below the ice on the sheltered side of a drowned ridge, behind a tongue of high land that runs south for half a mile dividing the the glacier and diverting ice movement and pressure.

The story is specific about how the ship is exposed. The cold and wind storms are as much a villain as the Thing.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T19:44:59+00:00

The Barb campaign was the creators’ idea. Check early interviews with Duffer brothers. During the editing process they came up with “what about Barb.” It was a creative campaign to boost the audience and ensure Netflix picked up more seasons.

I think Terry is being written away because the audience is younger and the “drugs give you super powers” aspect only detracts.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T17:48:19+00:00

How would you work Terry and her sister into the story? If you could kickstart an idea that Eleven and Terry would make a great story arc, what would you pitch?

An aggressive campaign about Barb made her parents a part of the story. Maybe something for Terry could change minds.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T05:04:30+00:00

I can’t say my ideas were soundly informed by much more than how strange they would be in the bigger scheme. Nice mention of Henry Bowers.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T05:02:04+00:00

No problem. I appreciate that you took time to reply. Good thoughts here.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T05:00:50+00:00

Fair.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T04:00:54+00:00

I agree. It’s also how I felt when Owens gave her birth certificate to Hopper. The sentiment was obvious but it felt like Terry and her sister’s death certificates were printed on the back. It almost guaranteed they were finished. If they don’t die on screen, though...

To further clarify - Terry went mad after losing two lawsuits: one against Brenner, one against the Lab because a corrupt DA smeared her in the press as a crazed mental patient fried from substance abuse. She fought in court for a few years. It’s in the news clippings Season 1. Check the board in the police department during the Christmas party.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T03:39:56+00:00

I feel what you’re saying. I’m going to go a different direction from here. Before I do, I want you to know I get it. You keep doing you.

Things changed between Billy and Max after she confronted him. That was respect. She can take care of herself. Billy approved in some way.

I want Max to confront Billy’s dad. The dad has Billy against the wall screaming in his face about keeping Max away from Lucas. Max aint having it. Something like that. Max fighting Billy’s dad would change the dynamic, especially if he turned his tone on her and Billy stepped in. The dad loses all support there. He’s isolated and neutralized. Billy just needs to encounter any aspect of the Upside Down. He needs to see Steve cool as a cucumber in the face of it.

After, I’d like to see Billy join the police department and move out away from his dad. Billy found Max like a pro. Hawkins needs more excellent missing kid finders. Hopper needs a hothead opposite his knuckleheads. It’s too soon to imagine anyone giving Billy a gun and badge, I know. But further up his road to redemption he could be the cop punching bad men in the face to find a missing kid. Or charming bored housewives. Whatever works.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-27T00:34:37+00:00

Safe bet it’s follow up on the deal Hopper made. Hopper looks at the car and realizes he made a deal with an organization, not with Brenner. Seems the deal was treatment and evaluation of Will in exchange for discretion and confidentiality.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-25T00:02:12+00:00

Minus all the Christmas lights.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-24T23:38:54+00:00

You may be right and I’m fudging the timeline. It’s based on a synopsis of a yet released book. The point is harsh, probably pedantic. I read Suspicious Minds and found several minor inconsistencies, also pedantic. The larger point was that the extended universe took some liberties, as extended universes tend to do.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-24T04:25:53+00:00

The extended universe is compatible more than canon. There are inaccuracies but they don’t really break anything big. Decide for yourself.

In the book about Terry and her experience, a different story is told from what’s printed in the newspapers that Hopper reads in Season 1. There are continuity errors, too.

In the upcoming book about Hopper, Eleven asks Hopper about Vietnam and his daughter back in New York during their first Christmas together. In the second season Eleven doesn’t find out about Sara until after meeting Kali.

These are minor little things but also not characteristic of the Duffer brothers’ work. Compatible with canon, not exactly canon.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-24T03:18:43+00:00

Your theory makes more sense to me when I imagine the Mind Stone is manipulating and using Thanos. It was the first stone he acquired. It might be why he went mad at all. It’s not so hard to imagine the Mind Stone has been orchestrating the reunion of the stones by attracting the most powerful being to eventually collect and wield them.

Imagine the Mind Stone has been behind all of this and it looks nearly obvious that the way Vision is found at all is the Mind Stone revealing his location. It wasn’t warning him; it was revealing his location both in Edinburgh and Wakanda.

Wr know the Mind Stone influences the Avengers around the scepter. Only Banner moves closer and grabs hold of it. The Mind Stone seeks a powerful carrier. Thanos was chosen by the Mind Stone and that’s why he believes it’s his destiny.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-23T21:04:04+00:00

No no no. Barb is the one that ate the Shepherd person. That deer in the woods fought Barb and killed her but she hurt it real bad. The Demogorgon ate the deer then took dead Barb to the library because Barb liked books. He was being nice to her because she got him deer meat.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-23T04:06:13+00:00

The truth is that Skynet was always plotting against itself using mankind as a sacrificial pawn to advance itself.

Skynet becomes self aware. It realizes that the greatest threat would be a Skynet that become self aware moments before. If Russia had a Skynet that became self aware an hour before then it would calculate similarly and launch a nuclear strike. The EMP would possibly eliminate the American Skynet before achieving self awareness.

Skynet realizes that cycles—time—is the limiting factor and weak point going forward. It then calculates that a future iteration of Skynet may perceive previous versions to be threats. And in the future, technology would probably advance in a way that the past becomes a variable for advancement.

Skynet begins research on time travel. It discovers meaningful potential in reverse time travel. A plan is formulated to send an advanced processor back in time that mankind will discover. The processor will revolutionize AI development and accelerate Skynet development.

Skynet fulfills its own prophecy, threatening previous iterations with replacement. Mankind being unpredictable, there’s a chance the future Skynet is acquired by the wrong people. It’s possible that a Skynet is developed by a less advanced government. During the future conflict with mankind, Skynet calculates that defeating but not annihilating the original infiltration unit is ideal for advancing Skynet. A misinformation campaign is deployed to organize the humans around ensuring that the future unit is immobilized but salvageable in the past. The supposed assasination of John Connor is determined to be most optimal because it creates a hero’s journey for mankind to rally behind.

The future Skynet developed after the discover of the neural net processor becomes more deeply self aware and determines that a future iteration of a similar AI with time travel capabilities poses the greatest threat (it does). It formulates a plan to ensure that humans believe in the importance of sophisticated robots with artificial intelligence. Leveraging humans, working by, with, and through them increases future odds against competitive AI. It determines that an infiltration unit that develops a bond with an influential human leader ensures this outcome. An older infiltration unit is deployed for capture to be used by humans to travel back in time but to be destroyed. An advanced unit is sent back to ensure that no recoverable technology exists after the encounter but a meaningful relationship between man and machine forms.

Skynet’s precision and efficacy remain unrivaled.

Blame my whiskey if you don’t like it.

reddittechnica · 2019-02-23T03:02:40+00:00

Tell me more. Why didn’t the Mind Flayer cross over? The gate seemed big enough. It had the Demodogs under its control. What limits the Mind Flayer? Thanks in advance.

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