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WescottF1 posted:I don't recall seeing this one mentioned yet, but that goddamn cell phone one with the prick dad deciding who gets the most data on the shared plan is getting old.. I personally like seeing how lovely the home life of ADA Novak from Law & Order SVU is. She just wants to take a drat bath.
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ElwoodCuse posted:He's absolutely not, that would be another very easy "likelihood of confusion" Lanham Act claim. I would dearly love to see this go to court on First Amendment grounds. I'm pretty loving sure that a human being owns the rights to their own face when they're acting as themselves, not whoever they first worked for when they got famous. Not that it would surprise me in the least that decades of corporate aggrandizement of the law have tried to set precedent otherwise. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Oct 15, 2012 |
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I really hate those drat gamefly commercials. Although it really shows what petulant loving babies gamers are.
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TontoCorazon posted:I really hate those drat gamefly commercials. Although it really shows what petulant loving babies gamers are. Seriously, they drive me crazy. "9 dollars? I paid 60 for this new!" Well, yeah, and now it's used. You can either take the guaranteed money from GameStop, or take your chance and hope someone will buy it from you online or something. Games lose value the exact second you open them, like driving a car off of a lot. Dont' throw a loving tantrum in a store, you baby. And then there were the "screaming and throwing things" commercials a little while back. Because that is absolutely a reasonable way to react to a bad game, and portrays your target demographic in a very positive light.
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Oct 15, 2012 14:15
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That goddamn InvisiLine commercial where the one twin has InvisiLine and the other twin still has braces. "I can't eat popcorn..." "I LOVE POPCORN." Great parents.
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Oct 15, 2012 20:58
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SpacePig posted:Seriously, they drive me crazy. "9 dollars? I paid 60 for this new!" Well, yeah, and now it's used. You can either take the guaranteed money from GameStop, or take your chance and hope someone will buy it from you online or something. How anyone doesn't know about Amazon's trade in offer is beyond me. But hey commercials 
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Capn Beeb posted:How anyone doesn't know about Amazon's trade in offer is beyond me. But hey commercials Or Glyde if you just plain want cash.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Or Glyde if you just plain want cash. Now I'm the fool. Hang on a moment while I defenestrate my TV!  E: Wow, $12.75 for the last Assassin's Creed? Amazon was gonna give me a quarter.
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Oct 15, 2012 22:00
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I just saw a Christmas commercial for Target. Halloween isn't for another two weeks! 
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Oct 15, 2012 22:46
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Target loves Christmas. They also love eating farts.
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Oct 15, 2012 22:49
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McSpanky posted:I'm pretty loving sure that a human being owns the rights to their own face when they're acting as themselves, not whoever they first worked for when they got famous. Nope, that's the cost of being a spokesman. Also, and this is the key part, is that its both video games in both things. That's the entire crux of the issue. He could have been out there pitching Jello at a picnic and there wouldn't have been an issue.
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Sash! posted:Nope, that's the cost of being a spokesman. Also, and this is the key part, is that its both video games in both things. That's the entire crux of the issue. He could have been out there pitching Jello at a picnic and there wouldn't have been an issue. Yeah, I don't think anybody cared when he did those Bridgestone commercials which were just for tires. It'd be like if the guy from those "Most interesting man in the world" commercials did ones for another beer company, even if he wasn't playing the same character.
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Sash! posted:Nope, that's the cost of being a spokesman. Also, and this is the key part, is that its both video games in both things. That's the entire crux of the issue. He could have been out there pitching Jello at a picnic and there wouldn't have been an issue. According to the likelihood of confusion clause of the Lanham Act, the offending persons must be actively trying to conflate two different products or trademarked images to deceive consumers. This guy was dressing, speaking, acting differently and portraying a character completely distinct from his Sony executive character in the previous commercials. The only thing linking the two characters is the same individual actor and the mere subject of videogames in both commercials. An imbecile could tell the two apart. They might have a point on the dilution by blurring clause, but that's almost as big a stretch for the reasons already mentioned. I sincerely hope that whomever judge draws this case has the good sense to see it for the legal bullying bullshit that it is, and realize that being a person who did a thing once doesn't mean they can't ever do a similar thing again simply because cameras were rolling the first time. Though again, I would (very, very begrudgingly) understand if it doesn't go that way. After all, when it comes to civil law corporations are the biggest whiniest  babies on the planet.
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Gonz posted:Target loves Christmas. They also love eating farts. Target put their Christmas poo poo out in a small corner of the seasonal aisle with the Halloween stuff--in like loving late August when the back-to-school crap was gone. McSpanky posted:According to the likelihood of confusion clause of the Lanham Act, the offending persons must be actively trying to conflate two different products or trademarked images to deceive consumers. Intent is only one of eight factors considered by courts in cases brought under the Lanham Act, and it's not as simple as "if we can check off enough of these factors, the plaintiff wins". No one element is singly determinative.
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Capn Beeb posted:Now I'm the fool. Hang on a moment while I defenestrate my TV! Goozex gives a better value for trade-ins towards another used game. For instance, Glyde will give me $6.50 for Battlefield Bad Company 2, Goozex will give me almost 1/3rd of a full priced new game (Dishonored = 1000 points, trade in for Bad Company 2 = 300 points).
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constantIllusion posted:I just saw a Christmas commercial for Target. Halloween isn't for another two weeks! Got an email from Yankee Candle telling me to buy my Christmas scented candles before it's too late. A) Alright that's the most first world problem ever to have, B) It's fuckin October, it's not gonna be too late to have a candle.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Target put their Christmas poo poo out in a small corner of the seasonal aisle with the Halloween stuff--in like loving late August when the back-to-school crap was gone. I know, I was trying to keep the derail as simple and brief as possible, and I guess enough has been said about it by now, anyway. As if it wasn't obvious enough, I don't look kindly on the corporate influence on intellectual property law in general. Don't even get me loving started on Walt Disney or DC Comics.
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, I don't think anybody cared when he did those Bridgestone commercials which were just for tires. It'd be like if the guy from those "Most interesting man in the world" commercials did ones for another beer company, even if he wasn't playing the same character. him doing a beer commercial I'd see as a problem. Him doing a commercial for Johnsonville Brats or something and drinking another brand of beer while grilling would be a better comparison. This all could have been avoided if they just thought to switch to Move controllers but nobody would know what those were which is probably Sony's bigger problem Edit: regarding Goozex. Nobody seems to be trading anything anymore. it's hard to get rid of any points you have accumulated. I think that site is pretty much dead Tree Dude fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Oct 16, 2012 |
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Timett posted:him doing a beer commercial I'd see as a problem. Him doing a commercial for Johnsonville Brats or something and drinking another brand of beer while grilling would be a better comparison. This all could have been avoided if they just thought to switch to Move controllers but nobody would know what those were which is probably Sony's bigger problem Why would they have used Move controllers? The promotion they were doing in the commercial involved the Wii, hence they were playing on a Wii with Wii controllers.
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Ah my bad. Didn't realize there was a promotion. Shows how much I pay attention. I just thought somebody decided messing with motion controllers would be cool in the ad.
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SAY CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-uh-EEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS loving calm act can't come fast enough. The FCC adopted the rules on December 13, 2011. They will take effect on December 13, 2012. Fun fact, when this commercial comes on my cat attacks the satellite speaker closest to him.
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raditts posted:Why would they have used Move controllers? The promotion they were doing in the commercial involved the Wii, hence they were playing on a Wii with Wii controllers. Hmm. Maybe the fact that there was a promotion for another platform involved complicates it.
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I'm so sick and tired of Verizon's stupid shared data commercial. The one with the tuba. It's a horrible commercial about an absentee father who couldn't be bothered enough to show up to his son's lovely recital. It should be focused on the grandparents who presumably live very far away.
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Thwomp posted:I'm so sick and tired of Verizon's stupid shared data commercial. The one with the tuba. But on the other hand, the Beverly Hills Cop Theme played on a tuba is pretty bad-rear end.
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Thwomp posted:I'm so sick and tired of Verizon's stupid shared data commercial. The one with the tuba. For my recital piece I will be playing Axel F. The "F" stands for "farts."
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Worth watching if somebody stuck a banana in the tuba first
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Are tuba recitals actually a thing? I've always just thought of them in marching bands, never as a solo instrument.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=instream&v=Yx3-AWouTy8 of all the commercials to parody for his re-election campaign ads, he chooses this one? getting real old seeing this one and the one "Hispanics for Obama" in spanish none-the-less, every youtube video I watch. gently caress you ohio. FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Oct 17, 2012 |
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The Human Cow posted:Are tuba recitals actually a thing? I've always just thought of them in marching bands, never as a solo instrument. It looks weird because he's playing a sousaphone sitting down in a concert setting - he's actually not playing a tuba, which is what he would/should be playing instead. sousaphone:  tuba: 
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Having a Top Chef Masters also-ran try to convince me that Taco Bell is selling food that's either a)authentic or b)good somehow winds up being more annoying than KFC's or Quizno's attempts to make me believe that they employ "chefs" too. I don't know. Maybe it's because she went to the Sofia Vergara School of Elocution.
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Oct 18, 2012 02:00
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The Ageless Male commercials drive me insane every time I see them. The song, the overly macho announcer, and the doctor who is championing this product who looks like he should be in a tank top at the Jersey shore doing jagerbombs with The Situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNrDKd2vU0
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It's Punkin Chunkin time, so that means just one thing: hearing a lady shriek "FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!" every commercial break on the Science Channel! You'd think I'd be numb to it by now, but no, no it still grates on me every single time.
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Oct 18, 2012 03:01
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Her song is really bad, but the new O.com girl is adorable. 
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Mister E posted:It's Punkin Chunkin time, so that means just one thing: hearing a lady shriek "FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!" every commercial break on the Science Channel! You'd think I'd be numb to it by now, but no, no it still grates on me every single time. The Science Channel is about as watchable as the Discovery Channel these days.
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raditts posted:The Science Channel is about as watchable as the Discovery Channel these days. I know.  I just want science on the talking picture box, it didn't seem like a hard request, but programming today has taught me otherwise.
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Anastasia Global: A Love Story that's Really Creepy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41wsgsp28A0
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raditts posted:The Science Channel is about as watchable as the Discovery Channel these days. An Idiot Abroad trumps anything on the Discovery Channel by a wide margin. 
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The ad for the new sandwich at Burger King makes zero sense. The guy is waving the sandwich around, and the dog is staring at it, but then so is everyone else. The dog gets a pass, but why is everyone else under a spell? I am assuming the the guy is eating his sandwich at a Burger King, just like everyone else there. Did they not go inside and order like he did? Did they not see the ads plastered all over the inside of the store?
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There is an AARP commercial out now that I can't stand. It starts with a man playing a tuba (seems to be a trend in commercials now), and at some point a doorbell rings. My dogs hate doorbells, and this commercial comes on constantly. I work from home and leave the tv on in the background, so I have at least 5-6 moments a day where my dogs go insane.
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kittenmittons posted:An Idiot Abroad trumps anything on the Discovery Channel by a wide margin. Why don't they play it as much any more? That and Mantracker were pretty much the only reasons to watch it
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