Oooo we need more Silo memes!
Edit: Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Rashida? In a heartbeat!
Ah yes, the stroad. One of America’s greatest contributions to the world…
I think of this meme often. My wife and I recently bought a house in a quiet cul-de-sac of a safe older neighborhood. My daughter went from spending most of her time indoors (because there was fuck all for her to do or go, and surrounding streets were busy) to spending probably 75% of her time outside, whether playing with friends or flipping rocks in my garden to look for bugs. It’s wild how much a child’s interests change when their environment actually provides them the green spaces they need.
I hate that in most places (at least here in North America) parks, trails, and other green spaces are just an afterthought, when we should be planning our neighborhoods around them. But hey, you can’t squeeze another cheap manufactured home in between these two other densely packed manufactured homes if there are empty spots for trees and nature.
I am pleased with the city I live in for leaving so much of our forest and river valleys intact. We have an elaborate trail system weaving throughout the entirety of our city, all interconnected, and any time additional roads to ease congestion are proposed, people vote them down in favor of protecting the bands of forest and dealing with traffic. Only the worst people I’ve known are voting yes to bulldozing chunks of it for the sake of an easier commute.
Thankfully not all of the usa is like that. My city especially, we have walkable area and a decent(not strong) amount of green
Thankfully not everyone lives in USoA.
I can hear this picture it’s deafening without actually sounding like anything.
What’s the opposite of white noise? Because it’s that. That’s what I hear.
Plaid noise…
They’ve gone to plaid!
That’s a tough one. I’m thrilled to see how future me will get this sorted out.
What series is that from?
Silo.
it’s good.
It’s good, but there was one glaring plothole that, once I noticed, ruined my love for the show
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During the blackout, when people are huddling there’s a flicker of the above tree from outside, but it’s alive. There is no reason, other than to build suspense for audience members, for there to be any showing of an alive tree during the livestream. The video feed isn’t hacked, the tree most certainly isn’t alive, and nobody ever brings up how the entirety of the silo saw for a split second an alive tree. I hate it when a show or movie does something that makes no sense in-universe just to fool audience members
That being said, I haven’t watched season 2, so maybe it’s explained there
yeah, thats still an open question, if i dont forget anything about s2.
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i’d guess it will be some technobable about the video signal thats send to the cleaners helm and the cafeteria window are processed by the same programs, if they ever want to get back to it or it will be explained as some kind of fail-safe to get potential rebels out of the silo or something like that.
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I mean, it still doesn’t explain why nobody, not a single person (especially the people who already suspected it), brought up why the tree was alive for a second
But it was a good show, so I’ll probably watch season 2 at some point
Script-wise it is struggling in some places, as many sci-fi shows making stuff happen is more expensive than just having people talk. But the performances are great.
The source material isn’t great. Interesting concept but painful execution at times. The three novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) read like YA. I stubbornly read my way through them during pandemic but it was rough going and I ended up donating them to my library because I knew I’d never want to read them again.
I’ve watched the first two seasons of the show, and I think they’re doing a reasonably good job given how mediocre the novels are. Pacing and characters making dumb decisions are both problems, but they were problems in the books too.
One of my pet peeves with the show is that some of the actors had a different accent (like Juliette and her dad), which doesn’t make sense at all. With such a small colony that lived close together for hundreds of years everyone should talk with similar accents or at most a different accent per social class. Like Common’s accent sticks out like a sore thumb, they could’ve at least shown a couple of more people from the floors he grew up in and have them speak like him to ground his accent in the world.
A - it’s a science fiction TV show, suspending your disbelief is part of consuming any fictional content
B - places in UK have difference accents over small geographic distances, a vertically built society with limitations on movement could reasonably lead to accent variations across the floors
I get where you’re coming from, especially when it comes to immediate family such as Juliette and her father; but given the strict societal heirarchy of the Silo - it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a drastic shift in accents depending on high high you ascend.
Like, the wealthier and more affluent levels on top would put on an almost Transatlantic accent to intentionally differentiate themselves from the riff-raff below.
Just consider of the width and breadth of English accents, given that it would be much easier to travel between English cities now, than ascending 100 levels of the Silo in the show.
Didn’t Juliette grow up down in maintenance? It might have been long enough to develop a slight different accent…
Every meme has to be from the 80s because nobody is ever going to watch the same thing enough to recognize loose frames ever again.
What are you talking about?
I’m confused by the confusion. I’m saying media is getting atomized and decentralized so there are no media touchstones other than the algorithm anymore.
So memes are harder to make from newer media because there’s no watercooler thing everybody is watching at the same time anymore so there’s less cultural overlap that everybody will recognize at a glance forever.
You made me say it all boring now.
Silo is from 2023.
Yes, media is getting atomised and decentralised, but what does that have to do with this meme?
Is this about not everyone recognising every meme template? Because that is like that since the beginning of memeing.
Yes. It’s a response to a post asking what the meme image is from, which I also didn’t recognize. And then you took it upon yourself to ask about it and now the entire thread below the meme is dominated by two idiots arguing about whether memes can be made from newer media.
Which is why every meme has to be from the 80s because nobody is ever going to watch the same thing enough to recognize loose frames ever again.
Kind of agreed, but also you can just ask
Sure, but… then it’s not a meme, right? The point of memes is that spark of recognition. You know what the template means, or at least you can figure it out, you get the joke, then you… well, you meme.
But if you make a meme and every time you post it the chat is about “hey what’s that show?” then it’s not a meme, it’s you recommending some show.
It’s fine, it’s not the end of the world, and memes can work even if you don’t understand where they come from if the image doesn’t depend on its original context to work (see for instance: blinking guy meme not needing to know who Drew Scanlon is), but it’s a weird reminder that we no longer have a shared cultural repository in the algorithm age.
There is no power socket outside.
