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All 201 Episodes of 'The Office' Are Now Playing Out Over Slack (theverge.com) 32

Posted by BeauHD from the workplace-comedy dept.
An anonymous reader writes: If you take out The Office's physical interactions between characters and try to tell the same jokes over Slack, does The Office still work? It's a question that creative collective MSCHF set to find out, recreating all 201 episodes of the series over Slack. Viewers will join a live Slack, where different channels are dedicated to various departments, including accounting, warehouse, and a general office room. Viewers are requested to avoid posting in the "company" channels, but are encouraged to pop in and out of channels to keep up with the episodes as they don't all play in one. Since it is a live Slack, inappropriate messages and images do pop up, but the MSCHF team has a number of moderators working to keep it as troll-free as possible, a representative told The Verge. It could take roughly two to three weeks for each episode to "air" over Slack, so settle in.
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  • More irrelevant drivel! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by b01 ( 6837162 ) on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:12AM (#60050754)
    Hey BeauHD! Look at the comment section two stories out. You're being called out! Here's a summary of the suggestions made for you.

    Step 1: Go back and get your GED.
    Step 2: Attend a community college.
    Step 3: Become a Wal-Mart greeter.
    Step 4: ?????
    Step 5: Profit!

    I'm making none of this up. Seriously, go back two threads. There is a flamewar on whether you or Ms. Mash is the more retarded fake news editor that couldn't get a job at Buzzfeed.

    Take care, kiddo!

  • You know, right now I'm reading a high quality russian novel from the beginning of the 20th century. I wonder if we ever will be able to produce such things again, or is all of our talent being invested in creating new forms of mindless entertainment and stealing money from each other.

    • 304000 books are published every year just in the USA. Unless you think you're unique in creativity among your 328million of your fellow countrymen we not only will be able to produce such things again, but are actually in the process of doing so constantly.

      Mind you if you get your cultural reference on society from Slashdot links to TheVerge then you're part of the problem, and not just some higher mind reflecting on modern day decadent copy culture (which existed just as much at the start of the 20th cent

      • 304000 bits of mostly copycat drivel, like YouTube videos or Play Store apps, except taking way more time before you can tell.

        A singe M&M does not make a pile of shit a Michelin star meal nor a great burger.

        Call me when Doom clones are called that again, and not "3D shooters".
        Or when we laugh at humor again instead of at "references".

        Generation of reference meme parroting clone warriors who actively and aggressively refuse to be indiviuduals or even people, yet believe they are very special snowflakes.

    • High quality? Some of the greats would be considered plodding, poorly paced, stilted and/or needlessly complex by today's standards. Doesn't mean that they aren't great anymore, I think we need to judge such books in the context of the time they were written. But times have moved on, and I don't think we've grown dumber or less critical; we're writing better books now (though not necessarily better stories). A handful of outstanding novels written today will also gain historical significance over time,

      • Also the Old Crap has been lost to the ages.
        You listen to the Pop Music station you get songs spanning upward to about 5 years new.
        You go to the Oldies Station you get songs spanning 40 years (They seem to repeat on the same level)
        You go to the Classical Station you get Hundreds of years music.

        A lot of the stuff that has been lost to the ages were actually popular for the time, however they failed to span generations.

        So we always look at what is new and popular and go what Crap it is with perhaps one thing

    • Re:Decadent copy culture (Score:4, Insightful)

      by N1AK ( 864906 ) on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:30AM (#60051144) Homepage

      I wonder if we ever will be able to produce such things again

      Not if everyone pissed their time away trying to be pretentious about their reading habits. There were people saying exactly the same things about contemporary literature in the very time period you allude to, and in every time period before and after; fortunately great writers keep writing regardless of how many ignorant people see popular entertainment and jump to the flawed conclusion that it represents the peak of work in that time.

    • Try Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson has a pretty good prose style and cleverness.

    • No you not. You were posting on Slashdot about a story of Slack playing all the episodes of the Office.

      Many of us love to challenge our minds gain new insight on things, see things in a different point of view. However there is a point where your brain says Lets watch Cat Videos or something stupid.

      Stupid sells, because we may not all agree on what to expand our minds are. We mostly agree what is general relaxing. And stupid/slapstick will usually sell.

      The best shows IMO like Futurarama seem to mix thou

  • The UK Office or the US version? I must perfect my accent!

    • Re:Which Office? (Score:4, Informative)

      by Dan East ( 318230 ) on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:31AM (#60051266) Journal

      The UK's The Office was cancelled after just 2 seasons giving a total of 12 regular episodes plus 3 specials. The US version ran for 9 seasons and 201 episodes. Since the summary says they are recreating all 201 episodes, it's the US version.

      • This is normal. UK stations usually end when the story has been told, and the world explored.
        US shows are ideally drained to death until literally every single person hates them to death.
        I say usually, because the UK got Doctor Who etc too.
        An I say ideally, because sometimes shows are too good to be kept going. ;)

        • US shows are ideally drained to death until literally every single person hates them to death

          The Netflix shows: typical US shows x 10.

        • US shows are ideally drained to death until literally every single person hates them to death.
          An I say ideally, because sometimes shows are too good to be kept going. ;)

          And thus the huge irony of Game of Thrones. Not only was it one of the biggest money making series ever, but it was in massive, massive demand and people wanted more and more. It had a story to tell, and an ending was coming. Yet the ironic part is that the final season was terribly rushed, and was cut TOO short. Typically a producer like HBO would want it milked for as many episodes as possible, and there was plenty of content left to flush out and explore. Yet the story writers consolidated and concent

        • US shows are ideally drained to death until literally every single person hates them to death.

          Because they're still programming to broadcast schedules, the ideal length for a series is a multiple of 5 years. Then they can do reruns 5 days a week in syndication. That's where the big money is.

  • Slack is pure garbage. The ability to recreate an office layout and wander is the best.

    Who is online for project phoenix? Just go there and see them.

    Slack was for irc people trying to get normies to use it. Then they killed the bridge, so honestly, why bother with a zero level crap irc Clone?

  • Boring, but difficult

  • Bring back Double Rainbow guy. I already have doubles of everything I want relating to The Office, and talking to them isn't on the agenda.

  • Because that's two things that go together now too!

    One McV8 and a large diet gasoline please!
    Do you want oil with that?

  • Another high water mark of western privilege and nonsense of our time.

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