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The hero hacks one site in one night when drunk and in 2 hours it crashes the network

That bit actually happened, right?

A programming competition where the crowd cheers at each line of coded Python. The coders drink a shot to commemorate

Naah, they cheer every time someone takes a shot. That sounds much more plausible.

All nerds are socially inept but still Zuck has psychological insights about what the site needs to succeed.

That sounds kinda like reality too. Actually the combination of second-by-second ineptness in direct social interaction combined with a reasonable rational-mind level grasp of what people want does seem to be characteristic of quite a lot of successful geeky types.

Teenagers outsmarting experienced lawyers with witty responses.

Yes, the Sorkinesque dialogue certainly falls into the heightened-reality category. But a film with fully realistic dialogue including a realistic number of "um"s and "ah"s and false starts would be pretty damn dull.

A bus full of hot girls arriving to be used for sex

Not "to be used for sex", they're just there to attend a party. The portrayal of the final clubs did seem a little over-the-top, though... I'm sure they're not nearly that awesome in real life.

Sex, booze and testosterone is what drives every man

It isn't?




> Sex, booze and testosterone is what drives every man

> It isn't?

Some of us aren't so shallow and self-centered. It grieves me that people live like that.


insisting you aren't shallow and self centered is just another mating strategy.




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