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Notice that Sprint always talks about a reliability metric in their commercials. I'm fairly certain that reliability as a metric is measured by dropped calls which is totally a thing which smartphone users would be concerned about.
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It's weird having broad national commercials about cell phone coverage, because unless you're a jet-setter-type who is traveling all over the country constantly, why would you give a poo poo about how great coverage is everywhere else besides where you live?
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Parachute posted:It's weird having broad national commercials about cell phone coverage, because unless you're a jet-setter-type who is traveling all over the country constantly, why would you give a poo poo about how great coverage is everywhere else besides where you live? I chalk that up in the same vein as truck makers advertising their vehicles being strong enough to drive up mountains and through deserts when 80% of them will never leave smooth pavement.
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Mar 30, 2017 18:40
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It's a positive to brag about, and that you can use to belittle your competition. Even if Company B has more reliable towers, Company A is going to brag that they have MORE TOWERS to make it seem like they're better than company B. Even if all of those towers have half the range, there's MORE OF THEM, and that's what's important (to their marketing strategy).
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Parachute posted:It's weird having broad national commercials about cell phone coverage, because unless you're a jet-setter-type who is traveling all over the country constantly, why would you give a poo poo about how great coverage is everywhere else besides where you live? Eh, the most I drive on a regular basis is between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the data coverage on that 2 hour drive was loving atrocious on T-Mobile so that meant no music streaming while I was driving and no anything else fun when I wasn't. So I guess if you're so much as driving between areas that are outside big cities, it could make all the difference in those patchy areas.
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If you have family scattered across the country it can help to know if there's coverage in their neck of the woods, too. I chose my carrier based off of whose towers they used since where my dad lives there's only one company with 3g coverage
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Mar 31, 2017 01:19
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I can't wait to taunt my daughter with "I couldn't use my first cell phone until after 9 pm" and "I didn't send text messages regularly until I was 27". Meanwhile she's 2 and can start, and play, Neko Atsume on my phone.
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ElwoodCuse posted:I can't wait to taunt my daughter with "I couldn't use my first cell phone until after 9 pm" and "I didn't send text messages regularly until I was 27". Meanwhile she's 2 and can start, and play, Neko Atsume on my phone. Gonna suck when she has social development issues because she's glued to a screen all day
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vyst posted:Gonna suck when she has social development issues because she's glued to a screen all day What the gently caress is this? Go gently caress yourself.
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Apr 2, 2017 01:18
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Hardee's/Carl's Jr has announced that they're finally going to stop doing the "sexy lady eats burger" commercials.
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Hopefully those commercials are replaced with robotic animals eating their burgers. I want to see an android monkey consume fast food while scary, scary music plays in the background. I would also settle for ghosts eating burgers, ala Slimer.
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Apr 2, 2017 03:54
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They aren't just stopping the commercials. They have a new commercial about how they're no longer doing those style commercials with "Carl Sr" blaming "Carl Jr" for everything.
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muscles like this! posted:Hardee's/Carl's Jr has announced that they're finally going to stop doing the "sexy lady eats burger" commercials. Maybe they'll also stop using that sound effect when someone's biting into a burger that sounds like a pile of dried leaves being crushed.
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I would be pleased as punch if I never have to hear " I need a hero" play in a commercial ever again.
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If the Ferris Bueller wannabe in the Domino's commercial got hit by a train, I would be okay with it.
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Mister Kingdom posted:If the Ferris Bueller wannabe in the Domino's commercial got hit by a train, I would be okay with it. He was big on Stranger Things, that's why he's doing an 80's theme commercial.
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muscles like this! posted:He was big on Stranger Things, that's why he's doing an 80's theme commercial. Welp, that's a good reason to not watch that show.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Welp, that's a good reason to not watch that show. There's really no reasons not to watch that show because it's p awesome
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Mister Kingdom posted:Welp, that's a good reason to not watch that show. This is a bad decision.
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And he's a fairly minor character in it if you really can't stand the sight of him.
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He does have a punchable face but it's a good show and they take advantage of his punchability with his character arc 🙂
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Yeah, watch Stranger Things, it's good
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Mister Kingdom posted:If the Ferris Bueller wannabe in the Domino's commercial got hit by a train, I would be okay with it. My problem with the Ferris Bueller Domino's ad is that I always expect Jeffrey Jones to be there with the pizza. 
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I just got a commercial involving Duke Nukem in A Christmas Carol. And it may no joke be the worst commercial I have ever seen. Literally everything about it is just wrong.
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So, that Pepsi ad.
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Kay Kessler posted:I just got a commercial involving Duke Nukem in A Christmas Carol. And it may no joke be the worst commercial I have ever seen. Literally everything about it is just wrong. What what where!?? I need to see this!!!  E: well holy shitballs, we're getting a new Bulletstorm too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNClmw3AoUk jojoinnit fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Beastie posted:So, that Pepsi ad. I saw people claiming "Well, maybe Pepsi did this on purpose, after all, it got people talking!" Somehow, I doubt that: https://twitter.com/pepsi/status/84...r%3D158%23pti20
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Money Supermarket came out with the best/worst advert a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vo6YG9U_o8 Hash Tag EPIC SKELETOR.
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Beastie posted:So, that Pepsi ad. Between this and the makeup commercial a couple years ago where she struts down a city sidewalk to a song about a prostitute, Baby Kardashian should probably find a new agent
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jojoinnit posted:What what where!?? I need to see this!!! No, they're re-releasing Bulletstorm and because Gearbox somehow got involved they're kind of shoehorning in a mode where you play as Duke.
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muscles like this! posted:No, they're re-releasing Bulletstorm and because Gearbox somehow got involved they're kind of shoehorning in a mode where you play as Duke. Is it even really a mode? I thought they just swap out the character model and voice lines for the exact same campaign.
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They're advertising it like it is something else but yeah, going by a video released today it literally is the same story with not even completely unique dialogue for Duke. A lot of the time he still uses the same lines as the original script.
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muscles like this! posted:No, they're re-releasing Bulletstorm and because Gearbox somehow got involved they're kind of shoehorning in a mode where you play as Duke. Also they removed the original release of Bulletstorm from Steam so that anybody who wants to buy it has to shell out several times more for their largely redundant PC rerelease. They did the same thing for their Duke Nukem 3d rerelease last year, they removed the old remaster and then made you pay twice as much for a new one that actually had less content. Gearbox is the worst.
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Guy Mann posted:Also they removed the original release of Bulletstorm from Steam so that anybody who wants to buy it has to shell out several times more for their largely redundant PC rerelease. Not to mention Gearbox partnering with G2A, a site notorious for buying game licenses from individuals who bought them first-party with stolen credit cards, thus screwing developers and giving G2A a hearty profit margin. Gearbox is cold diarrhea in a dixie cup.
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Thank god march madness is over so we don't have to endure those "and you don't want to miss a THAAANG!" commercials. Not funny the thousandth time. Also gently caress that "oo oo oo ole ole!" "I meditate because my girlfriend told me too" commercial.
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rocket_man38 posted:Thank god march madness is over so we don't have to endure those "and you don't want to miss a THAAANG!" commercials. Not funny the thousandth time. Also gently caress that "oo oo oo ole ole!" "I meditate because my girlfriend told me too" commercial. The irony of them trying to sell you on DIRECTV by saying you won't miss anything in the tournament if you have their service while watching it on the free NCAA March Madness app is just hilarious.
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Huh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1lngzDopk4
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Saw a weird ad for a podcast on TV. They were basically just doing the original Ghostbusters' TV ad though.
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