Okay, buddy, I'll tell you what. I will be totally on board with the tired-ass cliche you are trying to claim never happens as soon as there's equal representation in media of unattractive female characters dating male models. I want that scenario to be 50/50. I want half of all romantic comedies to be goddamn…

What world do you live in where "unappealing dude dates brilliant and gorgeous woman" is some kind of out-there and edgy plot shakeup instead of a genre norm?

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Oh, no, I definitely think she's a character in her own right, and I like her. That's partly why it bothers me so much to see her being shoehorned into this romance that doesn't feel in-character for her just because it's a trope of the genre that the protagonist gets the girl at the end.

She did feel bad about it, but she also apologized for it and tried to make it right, so that was already settled. I don't like the idea that she would ask him out as some kind of additional apology, which is not a thing women actually do, and I don't like the idea that she's into him for his money, because she hasn't…

I'm put off by the idea that a competent woman in a relatively powerful position with all of her shit together is randomly asking out a guy with half her emotional maturity who once went into a meeting with an investor claiming that "I didn't know any of this stuff was due yet."

I was going to make a strawberry smoothie after Game of Thrones. I did not end up doing that.

Yeah, I was really just thinking from a sense-making standpoint, I don't think they'd really be a good match either. But since they seem determined to pair Monica up with someone whether it makes sense or not, I would just rather it not be Richard, even though it will be.

I can see Richard's appeal, I think he has really nice classic features, but Jared just does it for me so much more. Maybe it's the height. I can't resist a really tall skinny guy. It's just a matter of taste, but neither of them is bad-looking, for sure.

I'm usually completely opposed to anyone over the age of 12 saying this, but I can't think of any way to describe that reaction without using the words "glomp" or "squee." It was great.

I meant that Jared was meek and timid, not Monica. Jared and Richard are pretty similar, except that Jared generally has his shit together and Richard does not.

Zach Woods just steals shows. He's like the Alan Rickman of TV comedy.

I think they have good platonic chemistry, but I don't see romantic chemistry. Thinking he's sweet and admiring his coding skill doesn't have to equal attraction, and I really do have to agree with the reviewer that the show only seems to be going that route because the male and female leads are expected to hook up no…

I don't think Nucleus was actually competing. Gavin Belson was the keynote speaker, and he was unveiling Nucleus for the first time at the conference, but it wasn't actually part of the competition. But it still had the power to screw over Pied Piper by demonstrating how it was the same thing but with more bells and…

Huh, okay. I just thought I remembered there being discussion after earlier episodes about how Richard's algorithm wasn't quite something that could ever exist in real life, but wasn't so wildly out-there that it would be impossible to build a realistic story about. None of this is my area at all, so I just basically…

Ohhhhh, really? Oh man, that makes everything make a lot more sense. And is pretty clever, really, because it's a handy shorthand/plot device to quickly demonstrate the relative positions of competing companies, but it sounds enough like a real thing and was integrated well enough that obviously viewers who aren't…

I was convinced that he was going to puke right on her like he did with Erlich. I have never been so glad to see a character make it to the garbage before hurling.

That's true. I know lossless compression isn't really even a thing that can exist, so given that, I guess the show can kind of set whatever rules for it that it feels like.

I don't know if this was the best episode yet, but it did make me laugh harder than any of the others. Although I am kind of disappointed that we didn't get to see Ron LaFlamme in person. I hope he comes back next season in all his douchey glory.

Yeah, I don't know how a Weisman score works, so I was hoping someone here would be able to explain how plausible that scene really was. I think you're probably right that the fact that it was 3D, which seems like it would be the most complex thing that could be compressed, accounted for some of it (and we knew that…