Black Mirror: White Christmas

>Experiencing 1000 years every minute for weeks without any sleep whilst stuck in a room with 1 song on repeat

Is this the cruelest punishment in the entirety of Black Mirror?

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He wasn't real

For all intensive purposes the cookies have a consciousness, they're real

no

What does a normal person have that a cookie doesn't

The somewhat certainty that he is real and shares his existence with billions others and not part of a new uncertain technology that we have no way of knowing if is as real as us.

It is literally impossible to have that certainty.

the white bear episode had the cruelest punishment, but the bitch deserved it and it was a fantastic episode

Considering it's literally impossible to tell if you're a cookie or not unless somebody tells you, I don't see how they're any less real

Every day they left him in that machine he experienced 1.4 million years stuck in that room, unable to change anything, unable to sleep, unable to stop the music.

I mean if their Christmas holiday was for a week, that cookie experienced 10 million years of pure hell

Any white man who gets cucked by an Asian man deserves this punishment. Absolutely pathetic

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No idea but White Christmas is the defining moment the series slid into idiocy with exact sentient replicas of people being easily available.

I'm not saying it wasn't bad, but it was a copy of a person. Whether or not it is morally right to do this to a bunch of computer code can be debated, but the white bear episode had a flesh and blood human being punished and tortured in the cruelest imo best way possible

It's a terrible way to go mad. You ever read The Jaunt? It's a short story, pretty good. Sorta the same concept.

The cookie copy of a person is considered real enough to get a legally binding confession from. Ergo, a cookie is a real person.

It's up there with having to watch the love of your life doing blacked porn although you're also black, so don't know if it even counts

White Bear was rough, but for half of the day at least she got to interact with other people and had no memory of the evil she'd done. Plus judging by the scrolling text on a later episode she got out due to human rights shit

subtle bait

actual brainlet detected

wow black mirror is entry level sci-fi too

>she got out due to human rights shit
god damn libtards

>It's a short story
>cue 10 pages of boring technicalities of how some guy created the machine

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You are a cookie.

What was the song?

No, that makes it a legal person. Like companies these are legal entities but not real persons.

I wish it could be Christmas every day

>interesting tech
>good twist
>sad ending for jon hamm
but the showrunners just had to stroke their depression boner and overdo it like every other episode

all the best eps have natural endings without the forced "technology but bad" parts

these extra bits at the end of some episode have nothing relevant to say and only serve to make it sadder "because black mirror"

>LITERALLY an almost exact rip of Stephen King's "The Jaunt"

Yeah so cutting edge and original.

>LITERALLY a ripoff of The Shining
what the fuck vince gilligan

I think Bandersnatch is the best they've done.
If only it wasn't a cringe visual novel

My only issue with The Jaunt is that, had a person's consciousness been locked in a state of perpetual waking white nothingness for a perceived near-eternity, their entire sense of being/who they are/what they are/how to speak/etc. would have been utterly burned away beyond madness by the time they got out. The way it ended had to happen that way to make the story scart I guess, but really you'd probably be just as (mercifully) brain-inert as the lab rats the guy sent through

Feel like this could have a good sequel where the police go back into the digital space he's in after christmas and see what happens to someone who had to endure that torture.

>cookie learns over "eons" how to control the environment it is confined within
>becomes a mad godlike entity within
>police check in on him the day after christmas for yucks
>he locks them in and puts all but one through some "i have no mouth but i must scream" style torture while duping the remainder into hooking his cookie into the world wide web
>lays low the entire world by gaining full control of the networks, accessing nuke launch codes, etc. etc.
>everyone who was jacked in at the moment of "Judgement Day" is now fully copied into his nightmare realm where he puts them through endless torture and torment for eternities lasting only minutes in the real world, and beyond
>the "spoopy black mirror" factor is how the entire world was brought down from a glorified egg-shaped flash drive with a mad cookie inside it


So basically it would rip off:
>Lawnmower Man (film)
>I Have No Mouth
>Terminator franchise
>at least three episodes of The Outer Limits

So par for the course for your typical Black Mirror