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You're probably seeing a lot about this interactive @blackmirror film...

Let's talk about why Charlie Brooker is a genius and why Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is the ultimate Black Mirror moment.
Like the Twilight Zone before it, Black Mirror has captured and blown minds with stories from the future.
Sometimes, Charlie Brooker's stories take place in a not so distant future. (gulp)
But many @blackmirror stories take place far enough in the future where, for example, a madman can use your DNA to trap your sentient clone in his custom video game.
Or to a world where robot dogs run the world.
(Just leaving this here)

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But perhaps the most chilling place @blackmirror can take us is... nowhere at all. A present time and place where technology forces us to make choices—or force someone ELSE to make choices—that are less than ideal.
Spoiler alert: the future is now.
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So now the cat is out of the bag - I was responsible for a couple of ZX Spectrum related easter eggs for Black Mirror's #Bandersnatch choose-your-own-adventure special...
Without getting too spoilery... a post-credits scene shows the main character listening to a tape marked "Bandersnatch Demo", consisting of screechy electronic noise. Tape close-up:
Naturally, this has caused no end of confusion to Americans and millenials who have no idea about the connection between cassettes full of screechy noise and 1980s computer games.
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#Bandersnatch is some good, goofy fun that gets less satisfying the longer you spend with it. The on-ramp was well designed, and CYOA style “early endings” + jump-backs worked surprisingly well IMO, but the mix of tired IF and traditional narrative clichés felt lazy.
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as many have said, the genius = madness trope is played out and dangerous, and in this case also a crutch that covers for incoherent narrative (a major character can be either dead or not-dead in a single branch, with no clear causality AFAICT)
Also, interactive fiction that declares “surprise! all choice is an illusion! that’s the point!” has been done many times before, and adding the meta layer of fictional auteur giving up and removing meaningful choice from the game doesn’t make it feel any fresher IMO
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Mi experiencia sobre historias interactivas a raíz de #bandersnatch. Reflexiones a vuelapluma #AbroHilo 👇🏾
Resulta que tengo una relación bastante profunda con el mundo de la interactividad, pero siempre se me olvida. Después de lo típico en los 90, Elige tu propia aventura, rol, Lucas Arts, Sierra, Los justicieros... (no llegué a jugar a Marbella Vice. Sorry @alexdelaIglesia)
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis me alucinó tanto que una de las primeras cosas que hice en internet fue meterme en un grupo internacional de adolescentes igualmente flipados que intentaban hacer una secuela. Nunca se acabó, por supuesto.
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#Bandersnatch is frustrating because it gets so close to a great idea but doesn't go there enough. I'm gonna spoil it so don't read on if you haven't seen it yet
Bandersnatch asks you a lot of questions, both thematically and literally. But the one question that sits above it all is the one question that it feels like it already knows the answer to: Can you fight fate?
It ultimately posits that you can't. Oh sure, you're given options, but limited options. By framing your choices as identical the choices in the book/game of Bandersnatch, it's saying that you have as little real control of the outcome as Stefan does.
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.@Blackmirror has gone back to the 1980s with #bandersnatch. A thread of real fears about tech in the past that would make great episodes:
Blackmirror 1897: Bicycle riding turns women into violent, psychotic homicidal pet torturers. news.google.com/newspapers?nid…
BlackMirror, 1888: radio takes over teenagers brain and causes him to murder. news.google.com/newspapers?nid…
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Looks like the cabal is using the McCain and/or Aretha Franklin funerals for a secret meeting.

#QAnon #WWG1WGA @POTUS #GreatAwakening #redpill #walkaway
Following up on this #Qanon post from yesterday. An anon put together an interesting analysis, here is a pic, and I will copy paste it in text. Minor edits to fit in tweet format.

#QAnon #WWG1WGA @POTUS #GreatAwakening #redpill #walkaway
It must be hard to communicate

No personal servers in basements. Phones being listened to. Emails read. Personal conversations probably being listened to w/ long-distance mics. Where can they talk except in person? If so, Q-team knows who spoke to whom & when. Blatant trolling.
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