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piratepilates posted:But...it clicks! Do you not want a tablet with a snap in keyboard?! IT CLICKS! Aren't some of them the real Windows 8?
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Sep 27, 2013 02:51
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greatn posted:Aren't some of them the real Windows 8? Yes, the Surface Pro (and maybe some others) is a laptop with a touchscreen that runs Windows 8, the Surface or Surface RT or whatever the hell they call it that they spend 90% of the time advertising just runs a tablet OS that looks exactly like Windows 8 but won't run most Windows programs.
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Sep 27, 2013 02:53
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I saw a really weird commercial for a company that sequences your DNA for $99 and apparently you're supposed to use it to check for any genetic predilections towards diseases and such. Also just saw another really weird Dominoes commercial that literally tells you not to ever call them to order a pizza and instead just do it online.
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Sep 27, 2013 02:54
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Maxwell Lord posted:Awful yes, but I'm curious to hear how they're misleading. Insinuating that the Windows tablet comes with a keyboard (it doesn't) and/or the iPad isn't able to use a keyboard (it is). I mean, when you flat out compare two products on the screen but give YOUR product an extra accessory that's sold separately, it's pretty drat misleading.
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Sep 27, 2013 03:03
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Mahoning posted:Insinuating that the Windows tablet comes with a keyboard (it doesn't) and/or the iPad isn't able to use a keyboard (it is). That and the keyboard in question costs $100.
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Sep 27, 2013 03:06
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They also make a big deal about how the iPad doesn't take SD cards but that's pretty much on purpose from Apple since they just want you in their ecosystem where everything just syncs automatically.
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Sep 27, 2013 03:07
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I don't know if it has been posted yet but I hate this commercial so much. They seem to play it nonstop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=886UlSIPdwk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Sep 27, 2013 03:12
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Maxwell Lord posted:Awful yes, but I'm curious to hear how they're misleading. Besides what piratepilates said, they also love to make their tablet look bigger by using the ipad mini in the ads.
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Sep 27, 2013 03:22
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Time warner is running a commercial where a dad is telling his son to go play in the rain because dad's trying to watch TV and he can't record his show because of the family's current lovely DVR capabilities. Former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher then unlawfully enters from the storm and announces, "with time warner cable you can watch more than 4 shows at the same time" then stands there grinning like a serial killer. Thats all of his dialogue...it is pure lunacy.
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Sep 27, 2013 03:55
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Mahoning posted:Insinuating that the Windows tablet comes with a keyboard (it doesn't) and/or the iPad isn't able to use a keyboard (it is). Ahhh. I hadn't picked up on that (though I'd heard about iPad keyboards.)
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Sep 27, 2013 04:22
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ShaqDiesel posted:Time warner is running a commercial where a dad is telling his son to go play in the rain because dad's trying to watch TV and he can't record his show because of the family's current lovely DVR capabilities. Former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher then unlawfully enters from the storm and announces, "with time warner cable you can watch more than 4 shows at the same time" then stands there grinning like a serial killer. Thats all of his dialogue...it is pure lunacy. Also Cowher supposedly comes in from the rain but he isn't wet at all. He's even wearing a poncho! Now that I've noticed it, I cant unsee it.
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Sep 27, 2013 04:41
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Well, some of the surface ads are going to go away since the showcase product on some of them was discontinued by Dell.
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Sep 27, 2013 04:47
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It's always annoying when advertisers think they're going to get something "viral" happening. Like, the hip lingo that seems to pop up all the time in fast food ads, as per the thread title- most recently "Floasted" for Quizno's, and I also remember some KFC ad where a woman used elaborate mime to convey her love for the Famous Bowl. Nobody is repeating these things. Nobody is talking about them over the water cooler (well, maybe some people are, but those people are best avoided.) It's so forced. Also some gum company is trying to make "Phone keys gum" into a thing. You'll notice I can't remember which brand. Always a good sign. (I wonder if this is the same firm that devised Axe's "Double Pits to Chesty" campaign which ugggghhh) It's like they're trying to create the image that a culture has already developed around their product, but these are all inexpensive purchases that nobody gets invested in. At least with consumer electronics there's a sense that, okay, people spent a lot of money on the new iPad or Galaxy or Surface, they've got some reason for brand loyalty or want to retroactively justify the money they spent or whatever.
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Sep 27, 2013 07:19
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's always annoying when advertisers think they're going to get something "viral" happening. Ugh, if I see the "floasted" ad one more time I'm tempted to just punch a hole in the TV. All that reminds me of when KFC came out with boneless chicken and in some article about it, you could tell the company honestly believed "I ate the bones" was going to become some beloved piece of pop culture history. I think the other thing is for Trident gum, but I'm not really sure either.
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Sep 27, 2013 09:33
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piratepilates posted:Yes, the Surface Pro (and maybe some others) is a laptop with a touchscreen that runs Windows 8, the Surface or Surface RT or whatever the hell they call it that they spend 90% of the time advertising just runs a tablet OS that looks exactly like Windows 8 but won't run most Windows programs. You know, I can almost see the logic behind it, if you think of it like a "tiered" kind of thing. There were (inefficient, oversized, overpriced) tablet PCs that ran Windows before iOS and Android made it a thing, so maybe they wanted to carry on that legacy for... whoever was asking for that? I dunno. At the same time, they also wanted to piggyback on iOS and Android's current tablet success, so they adapted Windows Mobile to follow that as a mobile OS that is similar, but not the same as proper Windows. And since Windows 8 can run both regular windows and mobile Windows apps, they figured maybe some people will want a cheaper version with just the mobile poo poo, and maybe some people will want full Win 8 to take with them. Which isn't the dumbest idea in the world, but the problem is that in this stupid push to give everything the same name and unify everything under the same look and feel, nobody can tell the god damned difference. That, and when your average person thinks of Windows, they probably don't think "mobile version that can't run the poo poo I have on my computer at home." So I feel like there's a spark of a good idea somewhere in there, but it's buried under pounds and pounds of poo poo. Of course, considering MS had their finger in the mobile / tablet markets years before Apple and Google took it over and just chose to squander that opportunity, they have nobody to blame but themselves. raditts fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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Sep 27, 2013 14:25
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's always annoying when advertisers think they're going to get something "viral" happening. "Farm Fresh Egg Boy" was in an ad for Egg McMuffins about 10 years ago. It entered into my parents vernacular and they have been using as a random nickname for me and my brother ever since. 
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Sep 27, 2013 14:38
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Kimmalah posted:
To be fair to Trident, that commercial where they pay the babysitter in Layers gum is funny and I now almost constantly joke about paying people in gum.
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Sep 27, 2013 15:23
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Sash! posted:My lovely little Rust Belt mill town I grew up in has zero Starbucks. I believe it to be the last population center in the Western world to have no Starbucks. There are about 14,000 people. My town of 15000 has 7. 7 loving Subways.
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Sep 27, 2013 15:28
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Cuban Chowder Factory posted:To be fair to Trident, that commercial where they pay the babysitter in Layers gum is funny and I now almost constantly joke about paying people in gum. Nobody ever pays me in gum. 
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Sep 27, 2013 15:32
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:Also Cowher supposedly comes in from the rain but he isn't wet at all. He's even wearing a poncho! Now that I've noticed it, I cant unsee it. If the dad would just acknowledge the absurdity of Bill Cowher in his living room (maybe like, "Bill Cowher?") I could accept it but as it is it's like an unintentional Tim & Eric sketch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8snCWeNAe8 -up to the part when he's shaking his coat forever.
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Sep 27, 2013 15:49
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Maxwell Lord posted:"Double Pits to Chesty" I had to crack a smile at this. Almost forgot about it. Never got it. HE KILLED IT!
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Sep 27, 2013 15:54
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raditts posted:You know, I can almost see the logic behind it, if you think of it like a "tiered" kind of thing. There were (inefficient, oversized, overpriced) tablet PCs that ran Windows before iOS and Android made it a thing, so maybe they wanted to carry on that legacy for... whoever was asking for that? I dunno. At the same time, they also wanted to piggyback on iOS and Android's current tablet success, so they adapted Windows Mobile to follow that as a mobile OS that is similar, but not the same as proper Windows. This isn't really how it works exactly. When they ported Windows to the ARM processor architecture they made the wonderful decision that they weren't going to allow any programs other than Metro applications be built for the ARM version of Windows, probably in some attempt to create the appearance of a tablet OS. The only problem was that the Office team never got to make a Metro version for ARM Windows, meaning MS threw the desktop into Windows RT for Office and Office alone. Also, by basing the ARM Windows on, well, Windows and not Windows Phone, they threw out any chance at cross compiling apps for phone and tablet that exist on all major competitors' platforms. They have not announced any plans to change this almost a year after Windows 8's release. Is it any wonder their stock jumped 11% on the news Ballmer was retiring?
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Sep 27, 2013 16:14
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Kimmalah posted:Ugh, if I see the "floasted" ad one more time I'm tempted to just punch a hole in the TV. All that reminds me of when KFC came out with boneless chicken and in some article about it, you could tell the company honestly believed "I ate the bones" was going to become some beloved piece of pop culture history. Yeah that KFC ad was terrible, but it did inspire a video that I don't think they had in mind by SA very own video genius, Everdraed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GL5lzMJomY
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Sep 27, 2013 16:30
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Here's the Cowher Time Warner commercial mentioned earlier, it truly is surreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQdN0fhhbRM
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Sep 27, 2013 17:58
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Really tired of this toilet paper ad with a British lady running around New York asking people about their bums.
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Sep 27, 2013 18:42
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I was sick for about a week so I've come here to see if the ad I heard was a fever dream or not. I went to sleep with my TV on for a few nights in a row and I heard a commercial more than once on at least two different nights during my sickly stupor that seemed to heavily feature what sounded like a woman screaming over and over. Just full-on screaming over and over and over, then it would stop for some kind of narration I couldn't make out, then back to screaming. My TV was turned down just enough that I never clearly heard what it was for, and I couldn't make out what the announcer was saying during it, but I think it was some kind of whistle or something? I either didn't roll over in time to see what the gently caress it was or didn't waste the energy to do so. Is some company making a "I'm murdering the poo poo out of a woman" whistle or was my brain just overheated?
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Sep 28, 2013 00:18
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Eat like that guy you know you sack of crap!
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Sep 28, 2013 00:33
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Arschlochkind posted:I was sick for about a week so I've come here to see if the ad I heard was a fever dream or not. You will die in seven days.
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Sep 28, 2013 00:44
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Delta Airlines has this ad that's been running for a while, maybe it's just me but it feels smug as gently caress and way too self-congratulatory for a drat airline that isn't even advertising any specific features or successes, the only thing it really says is "hey, we exist, check out how great we are". It's like it was made just for one division to fellate another's profit margins or something and they accidentally released it for general advertising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MseMGAxgw The 30-second edit that usually runs on TV manages to make them sound like even bigger ego-puffing assholes about themselves. "Crossing the Atlantic non-stop in a wooden plane, riding an exploding skyscraper to the moon? Forget those chumps- we're a commercial airline, you ain't seen nothing yet" 
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Sep 28, 2013 02:31
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McSpanky posted:Delta Airlines has this ad Saw black pilot, not flying Delta.  See what you've done with your ad there guys?
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Sep 28, 2013 02:58
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raditts posted:You will die in seven days. Well I'm glad I got that cleared up.
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Sep 28, 2013 03:13
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Arschlochkind posted:Well I'm glad I got that cleared up. Your avatar fits this convo well.
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Sep 28, 2013 03:27
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Arschlochkind posted:I was sick for about a week so I've come here to see if the ad I heard was a fever dream or not. I bet you caught that "The Heart, She Holler" ad from a few pages ago. That whole thing is like some sort of Basilisk Hack or Videodrome signal that's hitting people when they're most vulnerable, when they're all hypnagogic and/or drunk.
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Sep 28, 2013 04:20
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Young Freud posted:I bet you caught that "The Heart, She Holler" ad from a few pages ago. That whole thing is like some sort of Basilisk Hack or Videodrome signal that's hitting people when they're most vulnerable, when they're all hypnagogic and/or drunk. I didn't have the TV on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, so unless they show those ads on other channels I'm leaning towards "die in 7 days".
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McSpanky posted:Delta Airlines has this ad that's been running for a while, maybe it's just me but it feels smug as gently caress and way too self-congratulatory for a drat airline that isn't even advertising any specific features or successes, the only thing it really says is "hey, we exist, check out how great we are". It's like it was made just for one division to fellate another's profit margins or something and they accidentally released it for general advertising. United revived Rhapsody in Blue, so they've won at airline commercials for the next generation. Again.
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Sep 28, 2013 05:48
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Arschlochkind posted:I didn't have the TV on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, so unless they show those ads on other channels I'm leaning towards "die in 7 days". The "The Heart She Holler" ad in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhl40sZDHe8
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Sep 28, 2013 05:56
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I've only seen 2 ads for the upcoming movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2". One of them has a Strawberry apparently making GBS threads jelly, with another character stating "You scared the jelly out of him!", and the Strawberry gives a "Oops, did I do that?, I'm sorry" reaction. The other ad is an adult character who is wearing a diaper, being carried on the back of the "you scared the jelly" yeller character, and the Jelly yeller remarking that it's good that the character on his back is wearing a diaper, and the diaper-wearer stating that he could use a fresh diaper, implying that he has soiled himself. Is this what the whole movie is about? Is this what the entire 1st movie was all about? 5th grade poopy jokes? When the execs at the studio sat around the big table in the conference room, is this what they believe would generate maximum interest in getting people to go see this film?
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Nerdfest X posted:I've only seen 2 ads for the upcoming movie "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2". One of them has a Strawberry apparently making GBS threads jelly, with another character stating "You scared the jelly out of him!", and the Strawberry gives a "Oops, did I do that?, I'm sorry" reaction. The character wearing a diaper is probably the guy who was a popular advertising mascot (like a knockoff of the Coppertone girl) as a kid in the context of the first movie, and that was where he peaked. I'm probably making it sound way worse than it is, the first movie was surprisingly enjoyable. Sash! posted:United revived Rhapsody in Blue, so they've won at airline commercials for the next generation. Again. Have they? I haven't seen a commercial where they used Rhapsody since that really good series of animated commercials like 10 years ago now.
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More nightmarish dolls. Do little girls really go for this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-SsTMSMQds
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