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Greetings from Las Vegas, the perfect place from which to report on the penultimate episode ofSilicon Valley!
After all, Sin City has a role in perhaps the best sight gag in the shows history.
For this, we have writer Carrie Kemper to thank.
Maybe its the Vegas booze talking, but I found myself getting a little misty-eyed this week.
We begin with the final Pied Piper implementation meeting.
Russ interrupts, pointing out that his new logo contains his punctuation-based obsession, three commas.
Also at the meeting is Michael from AT&T.
Full disclosure: Neither did I, but YouTube fixed that.
In fact, Im writing this paragraph whilelistening to this.
After the meeting, Michael informs Richard that AT&T has signed with competitor YaoNet USA.
Dinesh and Gilfoyle arrive just in time to hear this information.
Richard, people in there have been working themselves to death in there for weeks with no pay!
Im not gonna say anything, says Richard.
If I do, we wont make it to RussFest.
When this goes bad, Ill cover your ass if you cover mine, says Dinesh to Gilfoyle.
No, says Gilfoyle.
When things go bad later in this episode, Dinesh wont be able to cover his own ass.
He engages Becky and Owen, who are in charge of cashless payments and authentication respectively.
Queen Becky, as Richard calls her, is being driven mad by Russ bonkers ideas about festival currency.
Russ thinks everyone should be a billionaire, she tells Richard.
Every dollar spent will be represented by one billion Russ Bucks.
So a sandwich will cost $15 billion Russ Bucks?
Russ is charging $14,999,999,999.99 for a sandwich because he thought that would sound cheaper.
Next, Richard addresses Gabe to determine the status of the ticketing system.
Its gone, says Dineshs least favorite co-worker.
For some reason, Gilfoyle deleted the whole thing.
He informs Richard that he tasked Son of Anton, his A.I.
component, with debugging code to make it save time.
Faced with what it perceived was inferior code, Gilfoyles A.I.
has gone full HAL.
But artificial neuronets are sort of a black box, so well never know.
I need Son of Anton to deal with all the bugs in my code from now on!
ordered 4,000 pounds of meat.
Jared asks for a tete-a-tete while Richard makes space in the office fridge for all those burgers.
I dont think about her, he assures Richard, which is clearly a lie.
Their moment is interrupted by Russ, who wants approval for his hologram tovery personallyengage with the audience.
My hologram can 100 percent dry hump festival-goers from behind if they ask for it!
he yells to the programmer creating it.
RussFest gets built in a very cool time-lapse sequence that segues into Festival Day.
Costume designer Christina Mongini easily earns this weeks MVP award for her contributions.
While Russ freaks out about his couture, Jared keeps hallucinating Gwart in items shaped like her.
Turns out Gwart is not only really there, shes apparently a YaoNet spy.
Competitor sabotage may explain why PiperNet is experiencing deterioration of service.
A pathetic Dinesh tries to side with the betrayed others, but only winds up embarrassing himself.
Back at Pied Piper HQ, someone keeps calling reception to inquire about the Pied Piper Girls Club.
Ask Priyanka, says Monica, That sounds like her bag of bullshit.
But its not; the caller says Eric Bachmann referred her.
T.J. Millers coming back?
I thought, despite the misnaming, but then I remembered thatJian-Yang is the new Erlich.
Monica arrives at Hacker Hostel to discover a fake Amazon review farm staffed by underage girls.
Monica yells before shutting down the illegal operation.
It does, but Jian-Yang refuses to offer up the SSH key for it.
Your white witch shut down my business!
Monica tries sweet talking to no avail.
I need this information to save my sanity, Jared tells her.
Because if I was wrong about who you are, then I dont know who I am.
Gwart is unmoved until Laurie eats her artichoke!
She sends the info to Richard, but it doesnt help.
PiperNet degrades even more once YaoNets kicked off.
YaoNet does not scale, and neither will PiperNet.
Six fucking years we wasted building this worthless piece of shit!
he cries before locking himself in the bathroom.
While Richard broods, Gilfoyle tries Russs Tres Comas Tequila brand and finds that its fantastic.
Also fantastic is Richards bathroom coding expedition.
Hes taken Gilfoyles computer and reengineered Son of Anton to serve his middle-out code, thereby creating another A.I.
RussFest is a raging success!
You are like the Three Musketeers of code, says Jared, But you are allDArtagnan!
One of the byproducts of the new Son of Anton-based PiperNet is the supersizing of Russ hologram.
It is now big enough to be seen from the plane carrying Michael back from Hawaii.
