Jesus what a room full of stiffs. Compare this to the response he gets a 'ComicCon' .. it says a lot about TechCrunch and its crowd. Sad when a guy gets so good at satirizing what he knows that those who know it best can't appreciate the satire.
I think it makes it better to watch. These same people at the heart of what he satirizes in Silicon Valley are unable to see (or react to) what about them is worth satirizing. The lack of reaction from this particular crowd validates his creation. Judge is sharper than any of them.
The audience is silicon valley, and the speaker is silicon valley, because Judge said he studied "you guys",meaning he based the characters on thesr guys. So he is trying to explain the characters to the people the characters ate based on.
ok i thought it was just me. i was like this is probably the first mike judge related thing that bored me to tears. but i think its the moderator and the crowd. theyre all NPCs
My limited exposure to Tech, it was almost entirely male. So the complaint about the sexist audience is a little funny to me. "Lady have you bothered to walk outside your boardroom and look at the stats of who works in tech!?". It is changing slowly, but hasn't changed much. That is not anyone's fault that I can think of, the vast majority of the women i've met have 0 interest in tech beyond actually just using to DM their friends.
He took my stapler... it was a really nice red swingline... and they moved my desk four times... and I used to be by the window and I could see the squirrels and they were merry... but that's it... that's the last straw... I'll set the building on fire!
I like to call the lack of women in crappy jobs, the glass floor. They could easily break though that floor but they and society have no desire to spread the pain along diversity lines.
I thought he did a pretty good job actually. At first I was worried, but there never was a down moment. Mike Judge isn't the most emotive person and as an interviewer, I'm sure he felt the need to balance that out with exaggerating his own.
I've worked for some organizations that had strong ethics and altruism and I've worked for some that did not, and you're much better working for the ones that do. I don't think that you have to be a hippie to demonstrate those ethics and altruism, either. The companies that don't possess that goal of making things better for people will eventually turn out like Enron.
Yeah 'conservative' doesn't define a guy who gets a physics degree then quits his silicon valley job to become an animator. But I think Judge is far too creative and smart to fall into these political definitions (with even 'political' being up for grabs these days.)
B. Michaels: You contradict yourself with "people who think there's a magical being in the sky" and then "God didn't give us a bible or a Quran, he gave us brains and senses, which is science." So which is it, a fantasy or a creator who endowed us with analytical brains? Also these words are just words, and as such transcend any simple attempts at definition. You define a 'conservative' as one who sees gay people as less than human and sinners, and yet within the context of the gay community there are 'conservatives' (older house-owning, property value minding partners) and 'liberals.' Words are just guideposts at best and labels at worst.
Dustin Hawk he is close to a libertarian. He talks about it briefly in an interview that he went from a liberal because of his parents to someone on the “very small government side” when he got older
HBO came to him for an idea about video game developers. That sounds so terrible and out of touch lol. Gonna make a show about massive day 1 patches and micro-transactions
