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raditts posted:Well, at least Bing is good for getting free Microsoft points Wait, really? If this is true, they might actually get me to use the drat thing. And no, my 360's Dashboard still has a Zune thing in the corner every time I glance over it.
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I believe how it works is that they stopped making physical Zunes but are keeping the name for the music service.
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Sep 25, 2012 16:24
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Sad thing is the physical Zune wasn't all that bad. I liked the HD one until I dropped it and the screen shattered. The software was loving awful though.
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Sep 25, 2012 16:30
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Wait, really? If this is true, they might actually get me to use the drat thing. And no, my 360's Dashboard still has a Zune thing in the corner every time I glance over it. You've been missing out, homes. http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards It's not nearly as exploitable as it used to be, but if you click on 20 or 30 "Related Searches" links on Bing every day, you'll have enough points to buy a pack of 400 MS Points every month or so. MindlessHavok posted:Sad thing is the physical Zune wasn't all that bad. I liked the HD one until I dropped it and the screen shattered. The software was loving awful though. I don't get what it is with Microsoft and user-friendliness. Like, there's always something, or several things, that are obvious things they could do to not make their mobile products a pain in the dick to use, but they don't do it, and then Apple swoops in to do it and is heralded as genius. They had like a good decade to make Windows Mobile not a piece of poo poo before iOS came along, and now the only thing they have in response to that is loving Windows Phone 7. raditts fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Sep 25, 2012 |
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Sep 25, 2012 16:32
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Windows Phone 8 looks really awesome though.
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Sep 25, 2012 16:38
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trunkwontopen posted:Speaking of cars, I'm disturbed that they decided to scrap the puppet for a CGI animated version of Carfox. I liked the Carfox puppet. I would buy a Carfox puppet if I found one and throw a Carfox party. I've got an inflatable one if you want it. The actual puppet though? I'd have to do some searching. Probably also an express written confirmation you won't film lurid Carfox/Pets.Com sexvids to publish on the internet.
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Sep 25, 2012 21:46
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Barudak posted:I've got an inflatable one if you want it. The actual puppet though? I'd have to do some searching. Probably also an express written confirmation you won't film lurid Carfox/Pets.Com sexvids to publish on the internet. Better make sure the contract also covers the term "carfux," in that case.
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Sep 25, 2012 21:50
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TontoCorazon posted:Jesus Christ! Those new iphone ads are so loving bad. They say nothing about the phone but they show off the headphones you get with the phone and another one shows how your thumb can reach the loving screen. Nothing about the phone or its new "features" just grasping at straws. As soon as I saw the thumb one, I picked up my Droid X2 and discovered that it has more screen than range of motion in my thumb. And I don't have little baby paws. I have giant gorilla hands. I was in that 3% of the population that found the original xbox controller to be comfortable.
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Sep 26, 2012 05:55
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Yeah even with the new real estate the iPhone 5 has a smaller screen than pretty much all it's major competitors, at least according to the BBC article I was reading.
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Sep 26, 2012 06:31
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I love Apple promoting new (to them) technology like they invented it, while it's been around for years. "Can your phone browse the web during calls?" "Can your phone play music?" "Do you have comfortable earbuds?"
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Sep 26, 2012 14:19
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Just saw this Citicard commercial yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQqjAgQpL8w Basically the guy is told by a date that he's boring, so he uses his Citi credit card to do "interesting" stuff, which includes going to some art museum alone and meeting Alicia Keys backstage in a really awkward way. Sorry, my friend, you're still a boring a white man.
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Sep 26, 2012 14:32
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I keep seeing commercials for rhapsody of all things, kind of like this one, except with the smug douche on the left going on about "Sugarland, Nirvana and Lil Wayne" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7N66cxws34 I'm shocked that with spotify around, that rhapsody is even in existence.
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Sep 26, 2012 22:14
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I want to know whose brilliant idea it was to show a clip from Frankenweenie where the kid is resurrecting his cobbled-together dog, and juxtapose that with a kid choosing the meat for his sandwich from Subway. Because that's honestly loving hilarious, but probably not in the way they intended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJRSAvOaTI
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Sep 27, 2012 04:52
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The Life Alert commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5cpFXf1IEg The woman at 25 seconds just seems so bitter. I can just see her adding onto it "Life Alert was there for me. Unlike my bastard son who never calls"
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Sep 27, 2012 04:55
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From the sounds of it, that kid isn't even making a sandwich with lunchmeat in it. He's making a submarine sandwich that consists of "mustard, cucumbers and jalapenos", and nothing else.
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Sep 27, 2012 04:56
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Gonz posted:From the sounds of it, that kid isn't even making a sandwich with lunchmeat in it. Well clearly he's already got necrotic dog meat for his sandwich. But if he didn't, he could get the next best thing by going to Subway.
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Sep 27, 2012 05:43
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raditts posted:Well clearly he's already got necrotic dog meat for his sandwich. But if he didn't, he could get the next best thing by going to Subway. I wonder if they'll give him any rotten dog flesh with the 5 lbs of lettuce they put on their sandwiches?
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Sep 27, 2012 05:56
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Rabbi Raccoon posted:The Life Alert commercials. That commercial has been airing since like 1988. If it makes you feel any better, all those people are dead now. It just makes me depressed when I see it.
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Sep 27, 2012 06:53
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raditts posted:I don't get what it is with Microsoft and user-friendliness. Like, there's always something, or several things, that are obvious things they could do to not make their mobile products a pain in the dick to use, but they don't do it, and then Apple swoops in to do it and is heralded as genius. They had like a good decade to make Windows Mobile not a piece of poo poo before iOS came along, and now the only thing they have in response to that is loving Windows Phone 7. That's kind of been Apple's deal for a while now, they may be more expensive and not have as amazing pure stats but they really drive home making innovations in user-friendliness that are subsequently ripped-off by everyone else.
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Sep 27, 2012 08:13
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It looks like our theme for this year's Major League Baseball Postseason commercials is Bruce Springsteen. That's already better than last year's "Written In the Stars" theme and 2007's "Dane Cook being a stupid idiot" theme.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:29
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Y-Hat posted:It looks like our theme for this year's Major League Baseball Postseason commercials is Bruce Springsteen. That's already better than last year's "Written In the Stars" theme and 2007's "Dane Cook being a stupid idiot" theme. As a Rangers fan, Written in the Stars sends me into convulsions.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:32
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the_Vandal posted:That commercial has been airing since like 1988. If it makes you feel any better, all those people are dead now. It just makes me depressed when I see it.   That does make me depressed too.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:41
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I'm marginally impressed that the iPhone can make panoramic pictures. I'll give it that much. I'm getting really goddamn tired of the new Kia commercial, though; I preferred the old one with the dancing robots. It is neat functionality, I've been using it for almost a year already on Android.
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Sep 28, 2012 03:42
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Farbtoner posted:That's kind of been Apple's deal for a while now, they may be more expensive and not have as amazing pure stats but they really drive home making innovations in user-friendliness that are subsequently ripped-off by everyone else. Well no poo poo, my point is that those innovations aren't particularly brilliant but somehow nobody at Microsoft can figure this poo poo out. I remember fiddling with my Dell Axim in 2004, and while I loved that thing, there were so many things about it that pissed me off that I thought to myself "It's only a matter of time before Apple comes out with a PDA that will do obvious poo poo like let you decently control it without a stylus and not clear its memory when the battery runs out" and, well, you know the rest. If some dumbass like me can figure that poo poo out, someone who gets paid way more than me to design these things should be able to. I'm just thankful Google came along to provide a third option.
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Sep 28, 2012 04:22
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Has VW ever made a bad commercial? Even (especially?) their print ads are amazing. However this last one with the bulldog that swallowed the keys and can somehow roll up windows and lock the car through his stomach has me kind of confused.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:00
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raditts posted:Well no poo poo, my point is that those innovations aren't particularly brilliant but somehow nobody at Microsoft can figure this poo poo out. I think it's a question of priority. MS seems to put other things ahead of user friendliness, they'd rather do a bunch of different things at once than make them easy to do.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:27
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Already tired of KFC's new "Little" series of ads for their little Chicken Little sandwich.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:32
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Motherfucking DirecTV, i've had your service since 2006 and I have no problem with it. You guys give me free poo poo all the time and your support staff has been helpful each time i've called them. So please, I beg of you, is there some sort of chip I can install in my DVR so I don't have to see that "I just saved you 500 dollars, looks like you owe ME!" commercial? I HAVE THE GODDAMN SERVICE. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME TO BUY IT. IT'D BE LIKE PEPSI SHOWING ME A PEPSI AD EVERY 5 MINUTES WHILE I'M TAKING A TOUR OF THE PEPSI FACTORY. STOP IT.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:37
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Rirse posted:Already tired of KFC's new "Little" series of ads for their little Chicken Little sandwich. It's not even a new product, it's just a re-branded KFC Snacker sandwich.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:40
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Rirse posted:Already tired of KFC's new "Little" series of ads for their little Chicken Little sandwich. They certainly think its the funniest thing ever and are trying to run it into the loving ground.
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Sep 29, 2012 05:40
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Can we bitch about internet ads? I hate all of those [A POWERFUL ENTITY] Hates this [MAN/WOMAN/THING]. You know the ones: Language Professors hate this man! Supposedly the ad will tell you how to learn a foreign language in 10 days. I'm pretty sure a language professor wouldn't give a flaming rat's rear end one way or another.
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Sep 29, 2012 12:49
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bull3964 posted:It is neat functionality, I've been using it for almost a year already on Android. It's also been patched into the 4S anyways. The iPhone 5's only differences are 4G and LTE.
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Sep 29, 2012 21:08
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Mokinokaro posted:It's also been patched into the 4S anyways. The iPhone 5's only differences are 4G and LTE. But it's thin too! Don't you want to spend another few hundred dollars for the feature of A Few Millimeters Thinner?
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Mokinokaro posted:It's also been patched into the 4S anyways. The iPhone 5's only differences are 4G and LTE. Much faster processor too, pretty much the fastest mobile SoC on the market right now (unless there's some weirdo sperg superpowered ARM chip that outperforms the latest iPad, which the iPhone 5 outperforms).
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Sep 29, 2012 22:08
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Jesus loving christ I am getting tired of these Sprint 'unlimited data plan' commercials. I'm not sure whether it's just from the sheer number of times I've had to sit through them while trying to watch Food Network or because it keeps reminding me of how hosed up my own family is  Either way, go away!
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Sep 30, 2012 00:13
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can we bitch about internet ads? I also dislike the claim that it was invented by a housewife or stay-at-home mom. Without getting into gender politics (although I will say its never a "househusband" or "stay-at-home dad", who can be as clueless), how much schooling, experience and research does it take to be in those professions? Because it sounds like anyone can be a "stay-at-home" anythign. Also, hasn't anyone heard of "old wives' tales" which tend to be erroneous fiction?
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Sep 30, 2012 00:27
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the_Vandal posted:That commercial has been airing since like 1988. If it makes you feel any better, all those people are dead now. It just makes me depressed when I see it. C. Everett Koop's not dead. He basically invented half of the pediatric surgery procedures they use today, too.
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Sep 30, 2012 01:47
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Luigi Thirty posted:C. Everett Koop's not dead. He basically invented half of the pediatric surgery procedures they use today, too. That's Why He Wears One TooTM.
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Sep 30, 2012 02:57
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Mister Kingdom posted:Can we bitch about internet ads? It's all about the moms. I don't know why moms are such experts at teeth whitening and such. I don't think there's an entrance exam or vetting process for being a mom, so why do they assume I care?* *Even if the ridiculous ads had any truth to them, I mean.
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Christmas Jones posted:It's all about the moms. I don't know why moms are such experts at teeth whitening and such. I don't think there's an entrance exam or vetting process for being a mom, so why do they assume I care?* Never underestimate the general public's disdain for "experts." Why do you think the whole anti-vaccination thing took off so fast even though the only person really pushing them was that one lady who's name I'm blanking on and the doctor she paid off.
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