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sun chips are still better than rap snacks fake e: perfect
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Clip was funny but I dig Pringles so gently caress you Oliver 
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Dec 8, 2020 14:54
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The company that makes Red Hot Riplets also made Pork Steak BBQ chips. I don't know if they were only available in St Louis area, and they were an acquired taste, but I really miss those.
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Pringles posted this today: https://twitter.com/Pringles/status/1336432293930557441 So they just happened to have a new mascot costume ready? The whole thing seems like a coordinated PR stunt now.
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They probably had a Pringle hat laying around and the rest of the costume is just a red jacket
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Maybe. But to be fair, that costume is pretty basic.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Pringles posted this today: The costume already existed, here's a pic from an esports event last year 
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Ignis posted:The costume already existed, here's a pic from an esports event last year
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Dec 9, 2020 05:10
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This viral marketing for Cyberpunk is really getting annoying
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I can believe he personally didn't know what it looked like (and clearly, a lot of people didn't either, judging by the segment). Kinda surprised they didn't do more than a surface research on it, though - the google images search doesn't give a lot of official search results, but it's not exactly hidden either. e: i think the actual reveal is that the mascot is now bald Ignis fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Ignis posted:The costume already existed, here's a pic from an esports event last year That's a different costume. The gloves only have 3 fingers and they're trying to get a more chibi look there, whereas the new costume looks just like a normal regular human with normal hands and eyebrows mounted on springs. Also, this may be some kind of larger rebranding because their new mascot has a solid black mustache instead of brown and lined, which I noticed on the pringles twitter right around when the video came out, but if it was something actually coordinated with LWT I would kinda expect...more. The horrible price we pay for jokingly acting all serious about simplistic advertising characters is that then those characters start developing into something you have to start keeping track of.
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Simone Magus posted:This viral marketing for Cyberpunk is really getting annoying Nah, there's nowhere near enough penises for Cyberpunk marketing
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Hmm I like it when John does these stupid bits for charity. But I do not like anthropomorphized brand engagement. Calling this one a wash.
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The interesting thing about Pringles dude is he's based on Gene Wolfe (yes, that Gene Wolfe) who designed an important part of the machine that makes Pringles.
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You're all missing the point: we still don't know what Mr. P's body looks like. All we know is that it can be stuffed into a costume that would fit any humanoid, and he has enough extremities that he can at least simulate having four articulated limbs. There could be anything under there.
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Dec 9, 2020 06:51
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If any of you are anxious for more John Oliver content, there's definitive proof he's not busy with anything right now. https://thebuglepodcast.com/
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pwn posted:Zapp’s are real chips, op 
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I was talking about pringles, though. Ooh i see now, you made your reply at the same minute the one about Zapp’s was. My bad!
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SlothfulCobra posted:If any of you are anxious for more John Oliver content, there's definitive proof he's not busy with anything right now. John was great on The Bugle this week. Just like old times. Highly recommended if you're into LWT
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Of course now he's off air.
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Cancel your Valentine's Day plans, new season starts Feb 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_4wPW6jJQ
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Ok I have a question about an older show: On a plane ride back in may 2015, Last Week Tonight was on the seatback media device. I hadn't watched much of it back then, so I was curious but even though it was on a rather crowded plane, they opted to leave it fully uncensored. I remember having to turn it off because it had full frontal nudity though I forgot the context. Which episode was this?
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Feb 1, 2021 16:41
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How sure are you that this wasn't a John Oliver porn parody?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Ok I have a question about an older show: On a plane ride back in may 2015, Last Week Tonight was on the seatback media device. I hadn't watched much of it back then, so I was curious but even though it was on a rather crowded plane, they opted to leave it fully uncensored. I remember having to turn it off because it had full frontal nudity though I forgot the context. Which episode was this? Could you be more specific? 
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I’ll go out on a limb and guess that it’s the one with the Mitch McConnell attack ad.
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Baronash posted:How sure are you that this wasn't a John Oliver porn parody? because it was literally on the airplane's onboard seatback media tablet and onboard system Freaquency posted:I’ll go out on a limb and guess that it’s the one with the Mitch McConnell attack ad. and yes! that's it: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/john-oliver-interview-last-week-tonight-mitch-mcconnell-old-wrinkly-penis-attack-ad/
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I’m simultaneously proud and disappointed in myself for knowing that off the top of my head.
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It's really reassuring that even if we don't all die from this, we're still going to all die from the next one.
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Sereri posted:It's really reassuring that even if we don't all die from this, we're still going to all die from the next one. Sadly this has been known and worried about for a while. Something they sorta touched on but didn’t connect is that white China’s rapid expansion over the last 20 years they have devastated tons of eco systems there. Think if the Industrial Revolution and then post WWII suburban expansion all happened in a 20-30 year period. To make matters worse you often have subsistence farmers living close to normal working families. Or massive industrial farms near residential areas. In much of Asia there is little regulation and a ton of exposure risk. Basically it is a ticking time bomb unless we rethink how to do much of our society. In the next few years lab grown meat is going to economically viable and will likely cause the need and demand of livestock to plummet which will hopefully aide in this somewhat, but there are so many other vectors that it is amazing we are still alive now.
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Djarum posted:In the next few years lab grown meat is going to economically viable Has there actually been some progress on this or is it the same Betteridge's law "will we all be eating lab-grown meat in ten years?" bullshit that's been repeated every time there's been a slow news week for the past twenty years?
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Djarum posted:
We have synthetic fur right loving now and we still had a mutated version of covid from minks.
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Tiggum posted:Has there actually been some progress on this or is it the same Betteridge's law "will we all be eating lab-grown meat in ten years?" bullshit that's been repeated every time there's been a slow news week for the past twenty years? Yeah about a year ago a company had a big breakthrough with it and got cleared to start selling into to the public, granted only in Singapore. Good Meat I think is the name. I think they only have chicken right now but beef options are on the way. The lab grown or “cultured” meat will likely replace all of the plant based options that are popular now as well as most if not all of the cheaper meat options. You will likely still see “real” meat exist but by and large it will be more expensive and used for specialized dishes/purposes. The biggest hurdles right now from what I understand is bringing the tech to scale, which will take a serious investment of money, and getting the clearances from Governments to sell it.
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I mean, we're not done dying from this one. Everyone is patting themselves on the back that the US has the lowest COVID cases in half a year like it has nothing to do with winter weather shutting down most testing facilities and locking people in their homes because businesses shut down.
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"Dead eyes, empty hearts, Ted Cruz" Goddamn I missed this show
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So I wonder when their going to do a video on ERCOT. Everything to do with the texas grid is more than worthy of an episode.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:So I wonder when their going to do a video on ERCOT. Everything to do with the texas grid is more than worthy of an episode. This was eerily prophetic. As someone that has worked as a cleaner in a pork processing plant, I can confirm that its pretty hosed for anyone on the line.
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A good book that touches on the meat-packing industry, but isn't about just that, is Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Wikipedia describes it as "a 2001 book written by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry."
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Gromit posted:A good book that touches on the meat-packing industry, but isn't about just that, is Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. The film, directed by Richard Linklater, is quite good, featuring my favorite Bruce Willis cameo wherein he drops the sage wisdom "We all gotta eat a little poo poo sometimes"
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We got Texas Power Grid as the opener, I think that's the best we could have hoped for this soon! Meat packing...I think they are top-5 mortality increases since the pandemic. Line cooks also at the top. When government officials say that we are "essential workers," what they mean is it is "essential for those workers to die so that the economy keeps going."
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:We got Texas Power Grid as the opener, I think that's the best we could have hoped for this soon! Yeah, I expect the deep dive on energy providers to be a couple of weeks out. Right around the time people are starting to forget about it.
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