He did nothing wrong

>>212499832 (OP)
Objectively true.

>>212499832 (OP)
the digital clones were not people and never could be. Just simply data. They were lucky he didn't do worse to them

>>212499832 (OP)
“You fucking play VR space adventures after work you fucking psycho?! Off to an eternity of digital hell you sick freak!”

I can’t take the br*tish seriously.

>>212499975
They kept existing when he wasn't around, they're more real than you guys are when I'm not on here.

>>212500240
>>212499975
>>212499886
>>212499832 (OP)
Did you guys not just assume, as I believe the plot was asking us to, that these digital clones were so advanced that they really were concious? Just like a biological clone would be? Your alternative takes only make sense if we disagree with the shows obvious presentation and treat them as NPCs.

In which case yeah he did nothing wrong.

>b-BuT da AI hAd hEcKiN fEeLIngS!!!

He was very chud coded but really what he did was no different then what people do in GTA to blow off steam. I guess copying his employees likeness without their permission was scummy but he was in a private server by himself. I remember reading a review from some jew online saying this episode was a great example of white privilege/misogyny or something? 2017 was a gay time

>>212499832 (OP)
He got fat and married crazy

>>212500421
No I grasp that fully and take it on as my own assumption while watching. If you create a being it's yours to do with what you will. You can't do wrong with it or to it.

>>212499832 (OP)
>could've recorded kino Star Trek episodes
>sadistically fucked with them instead
yes he did that wrong

>>212499975
>dude you aren't actually a real human, you're just a bunch of chemicals and electrical signals so its okay for me to torture you
this episode was an empathy test and you failed

>>212500421
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. Did these conscious beings ever attempt to tell the programmer this or did they just go straight for the kill?

>>212500517
You can't torture your own children, anon. I mean your parents obviously did, but they aren't allowed to, legally. Unless you're from a red state probably.

>he doesnt rape them
>BuT diS EpIsOdE iS rApe CodEd

Why are critics so fucking retarded?

>>212500627
He was in full control of them and rape wasn't necessary.

>willingly uses basketball texture JJ Abrams uniforms
His greatest crime.

>>212500627
He did though. He forced the women into awkward kissing and he removed people's genitals for some reason.

>>212500623
Strawman.

>>212500746
What are you talking about, I refuted your point.

>>212500627
They need to be able to accuse you of things you obviously haven't done, so they invented "coded" and "adjacent" and "dog whistle" so that they could suggest you + the bad thing side by side, and have people's subconscious minds do the rest, while they keep the plausible deniability of actually having leveled the patently false accusations, which they know they couldn't get away with. Very commie coded stuff. Very Jewish adjacent.

>>212500675
>>212500738
They're computer programs who gives a fuck? He should've just coded their behaviors to just obey him

>>212500580
90% of the episode involves him threating and/torturing them whenever they try to get that point across. He is completely aware that they have their own will. The real point is that they are in his prison without any way to alert anyone else to the situation

>>212500789
No you set up a strawman of my point and refuted that. We're talking about the computerized characters in that episode, not human children. The need to change one for the other is because the difference is meaningful, or the argument could've just remained with the digitized characters. Strawman. Uhhhh if you only had a braaaainnn!!!

>>212500900
He refuted your point though.

>>212500858
>He should've just coded their behaviors to just obey him
he intentionally made identical copies to see how they'd react to being tortured

>>212500932
The point refuted was a different point altogether, of his own creation.

>>212501008
He presented a parallel example to the matter to help you better understand the flows within your own argument. That's not a strawman.

>>212501051
flows/flaws*

>>212501051
What?

>>212501051
It wasn't parallel. The differences are fundamental, and change the situation by a matter of kind, not merely degree. Stay retarded.

>>212500572
>this episode was an empathy test and you failed
You think autists can comprehend empathy? Thats why /tv/ thinks Daley did nothing wrong and /v/ thinks Verso did nothing wrong.

>>212500900
Fine then. He didn't create them. He stole their likenesses. And even though he exerted near omnipotent control over them he didn't change their base personalities in the slightest. You want to talk about applying our real world standards towards video game npcs but by your own argument there is no real world counterpart to fully sentient digital creations. So by your own standards of arguing it's absurd to apply vidya npc treatment to the characters in the show which are presented as fully sentient, cognizant, aware or whatever criteria is meant to evoke human feelings of sympathy or empathy.

>>212499832 (OP)
>He did nothing wrong
Neither did Bart, quite frankly

>>212501225
He did nothing wrong.

>>212500572
>>212501184

This entire show is an intelligence test, you both failed.

>>212500421
>that these digital clones were so advanced that they really were concious? Just like a biological clone would be?
The show clearly portrays them as obviously being equal to other people and not mindless NPCs. Anyone that doesnt get this is just media illiterate.

>>212501230
>Take a picture of the mona lisa
>Open paint
>Scribble all over it
>"YOU HECKIN VANDALISED THAT ART!!!"
Anything digital is not real and has no ownership and value. This is why I agree with and accept companies getting rid of people's stuff, because you don't actually own anything digitally. Physical is king. Also you cannot steal digital art and if you put a gay watermark I will either crop it out or draw over it.

>>212502115
Meant for
>>212499832 (OP)

>>212502115
Cropping out or defacing watermarks makes me smile every time.

>Plot line to destroy the DNA which is completely pointless because he could just get all back again within a week.
>Game just fucking kills you if you're logged in when the server goes down.

>>212502115
So you're a communist that doesn't believe in ip rights?

>>212502341
I believe in property rights for physical things, because those can only be replicated, not duplicated. Duplication takes less than a second and can be done infinitely. You can own your house, and unless I build one identically and copy every single detail, furniture placement etc it'll never be the same. But I can have a hard drive full of nothing but 1000 copies of Cedar Rapids, or a million of a photo of the mona lisa. Not a commie at all.

>>212502532
>1000 copies of Cedar Rapids

>>212499832 (OP)
He got the unis all wrong, looks like STO garbage

>>212500900
> If you create a being it's yours to do with what you will

You literally said this and he refuted it, get bent faggot, maybe you should have said IN A TV SHOW

>>212502274
It's in the TOS that you can't sue if you die while playing.
Also his copy was modded so he extra can't sue.

>>212500627
It’s a British tv show, their government is literally bringing in military aged brown and black men en mass to rape their natural population. Everything is rape culture outside of the real life rape cultures that the British empire used to be proud in putting down

>>212502780
I'm not talking about the distinction between fiction and non-fiction. Holy fuck you're stupid.

who cares if they're sentient or not, there's nothing wrong with abusing and torturing people anyways