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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by kaybe on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:29AM (#12275923)
We recently started 'Barbie - Life in the dreamhouse' on netflix for giggles and found it to be an actually decent show. The plot is what happens if you give the barbie dolls and merch to a bunch of nerds and give them free reign.

You get Glados running the automated closet and plotting for world fashion domination, only to be stopped by the evil switch being turned off again, a large part of the first episode is modelled on an Indiana Jones temple exploration, they often handle things like batteries and glitter in the real size form (so the battery is about half the size of the people).. it's surprisingly funny.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by tclancy on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:41PM (#12277390)
I think you may have solved a mystery for me. For weeks our daughter has been talking about someone named "Bobby SuhMEEsa" and we finally gave up and decided he's Keyser Soze, but I think it may be a corruption of "Barbie's Dream House". I kind of liked the mystery better.

Regardless, I'm using it as my alias from now on.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by secabeen on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:34PM (#12277353)
My daughter went through that show for a while, and we found the same enjoyment. It's self-referential enough, and plays their inanity clearly enough that even the youngest kid can tell it's not behavior to emulate.
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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by kaybe on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:20PM (#12280091)
Now that I think of it, the closet basically proposed to use its vast database of good fashion (formed from Barbie's timeline) to generate new excellent fashion - a machine learning problem plus capable AI.

I wonder whether someone is working on that, it really sounds like a good and interesting idea. Is there a system to parameterize clothes? Hm.. I would have joined the closet if I was Barbie, despite the relation with the 'evil' switch.

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