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DrBouvenstein posted:Jesus, another reason I'm glad I use Playstation. It has very small, text only ads, in the upper right corner that are very easy to ignore. Until you open the store. The PSN store is full of them. Most are for things available from it and the 360's ads are no different. The new dashboard isn't too bad. The ads are fairly unobtrusive for the most part.
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raditts posted:I don't know if they still do it, but there was a time in the 2000s where Pepsi started consolidating their fast food properties into single buildings as well as single commercials. I remember seeing quite a few KFC/Taco Bells and even a KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut once. I think there were a few KFC's combined with Long John Silver's too. Taco Bell/KFCs seem to be popular in the malls here in Canada. Same with Orange Julius/Dairy Queen.
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SamBishop posted:Jeezus, Microsoft, it's bad enough that you and Sony are trying to keep up this lovely practice of advertising a multi-platform game without actually acknowledging that it's on the competing system, but you can't even do that right. You'd think all those millions you paid Square for the exclusive Final Fantasy XIII-2 commercial would have come with the stipulation that it should be all 360 footage, but nope, there are the PS3 buttons, right there in the lower-right corner. The trailer is one provided by Square-Enix. Same one that's in the demo for either platform.
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tikan posted:I have also found Siri to be a defining feature on my cell phone, I use her most days to help make tasks easier, or make my driving safer. She does what the commercial displays, how is that wrong or to be hated? My favourite part about it is how handy it is in regards to music playback while driving. You can select songs much easier by just saying them rather than navigating and taking your eyes off of the road. EDIT: Though the "If you don't have an iPhone, well you don't have an iPhone." ads just annoy the piss out of me. Talk about smug. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jan 28, 2012 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I liked the Kia Hamster commercial with the dancing robots, even if it was very I like this one too. It's short, funny and relatively unobtrusive if you don't like it.
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Toffile posted:The Music Bullet now you can take your music anywhere with BASS I have something similar to this I use at work with my iPhone but it's half the size. It's basically the accordion part without a plastic case. It works decently for what it is but is nowhere near as good as a proper speaker.
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MiO commercials in general are awful.
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Clamknuckle posted:What kind of restaurant is Jimmy Johns? Is it fast food? Don't have those in the W Mass area that I know of. It's a sub shop with delivery, basically. Subway's even scummier and less healthy cousin.
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rockamiclikeavandal posted:I like these. Simple and low key. No stupid gimmick or retarded stereotypes. Yeah, I like those as well. Simple and to the point (and start an earworm for those who remember the original.)
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Apr 11, 2012 23:39
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DJExile posted:Payday Loans are meant to be paid back in the very short term. I've used them once back in college because my rent was due a few days before payday. I think it cost me an extra 30 or 50 bucks on a 600 loan which wasn't too bad.
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Tardcore posted:You need someone to tell you not to text and drive? My last car was wrecked by an idiot running a red while texting and driving, so yes those people exist.
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Well, Tigger has to get his energy from SOMEWHERE, right?
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ElwoodCuse posted:They edited the song to go "Here comes Johnny yeah, with -- a lust for life" instead of "liquor and drugs". Even worse than Wrangler using only the "Some folks were born to wave the flag, ooh the red white and blue" line of Fortunate Son. JC Penny is now using Rare Earth's Get Ready edited in a similar fashion...
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Aug 21, 2012 23:33
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raditts posted:That's a Temptations song, and I'm fairly certain it's not about drugs. It's about sex and pretty openly so. They cut it so you don't get the context of the lines used. And yes I was mistaken about the artist.
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Siljmonster posted:China has strong censure rules, which is where people get the idea that WoW couldn't have "japanese" pandaren. When in reality WoW panda people are just an amalgamation of the many asian cultures. The whole thing apparently stemmed from an undead-themed WoW ad that scared children in China. So they cut out most depictions of blood and bones in the game (the undead faction have different models that basically make them into pale humans)
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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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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Why does every loving commercial seem to use only the guitar and bass line from CCR'S Down on the Corner? Makes me rage like every commercial break. One of these days, I'm going to march down to Walgreen's...
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Dec 23, 2012 23:47
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PT6A posted:Subway food is every bit as unhealthy and disgusting as any other fast food chain. Like with eating at any restaurant, it's all in what you order. It's possible to get a pretty healthy meal at Subway, but you need to watch what you order (and most of the meat is so loaded with salt it isn't great for you anyways.)
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DrBouvenstein posted:And I'm almost ashamed to admit I finally like a Dr.Pepper 10 commercial: That campaign hasn't bothered me just because even the over the top commercials were obviously tongue in cheek.
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dijon du jour posted:Oh my god why are people in these commercials so amazed that you can swipe over on whatever phone that is (it showed up in that Best Buy commercial) without touching it. It's only a couple of inches difference just touch your drat phone. It's the Samsung Galaxy S4 and I can sort of see the point. It's not about germaphobes, it's simply about keeping the screen as clean as possible and not moving the phone as much since that's how accidents happen and they're easy to break. Like, say, you get a call when eating or doing dirty work you can answer the phone without having to wash the screen later. Now the video playback where it pauses if you look away is an extremely handy feature for commuters. I agree that the commercials are loving annoying though.
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bull3964 posted:Say what you want about Samsung's marketing, it's working. They are currently, by far, the #1 smartphone manufacturer. It also helps that they release a ridiculously high number of models and have a new phone out at least every six months.
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Vakal posted:The original commercials used to say "better than that kitten brand" which was obviously the Royale brand toilet paper. Charmin and Royale are two branches of the same company so I doubt they were threatened.
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raditts posted:I saw that commercial today and all I could think was that girl is way too loving old to be mushmouthing her words like a 3 year old. It's a site ran by a nutty Christian fundie, what do you expect? There's always been a bit of a condescending attitude in those commercials and I can't quite place it.
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Vakal posted:Don't want to feed your children lovely oil-based pseudo cheese products? I hope you enjoy being a terrible mother who does not love her kids then! Reminds of me of the douchey Boar's Head meat commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlQWuv0SVI The radio ones are even worse because they've got the most smug, douchebag announcer they could possibly get with a similar theme about "trusting it with your kids." There's even a back to school one where the letter from mom to the kid lists all of the "ingredients" of the lunch meat.
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Funny, because Kraft Singles (And all individually wrapped cheese slice products for that matter) taste absolutely terrible. Any sort of skim cheese tastes like that from my experience. When you take out most of the fat from cheese you also take out the flavour.
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Vin BioEthanol posted:Wait real cheese is fatty where kraft american singles aren't? I guess I always assumed they were made mostly of fat due to the weird texture/flavor. Yes. It's literally cheese made from skim milk. All skim cheese ends up with that weird texture. I used to work at a hospital and that's all they used on the food. If skim cheddar/American tastes awful to you, stay the hell away from skim Swiss. It tastes like really weak cream cheese (and has a texture somewhere inbetween Kraft singles and cream.)
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Yeah that one and the AssCreed: Black Flag one with the lovely rap are just plain terrible. Ubi needs to fire whoever chooses music for the AC ads as it's universally awful and doesn't fit the series at all.
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Paradox Personified posted:The Woodkid song for AC3 I think it was, for the long trailer- now that was loving amazing. Yeah that one was pretty good. The shorter TV trailer used Imagine Dragons of all things (or Yankee Doodle Dandy in one version, which fit.) 4's TV ad is some rap song that doesn't fit the game at all.
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raditts posted:You don't really believe that wasn't staged to all hell, do you? Yeah it's obviously as "real" as those stupid Febreze in the car ads where the ammount of product needed to cover up those smells would cause you to gag.
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I'm pretty sure a local jewelry place uses that same term on their radio ads here. It's apparently a thing.
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Retail Slave posted:I worked there for 5+ years and it's bullshit more than you could possibly know. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/walmart-employees-organize-food-drive-----for-other-walmart-employees-191602622.html
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Hasters posted:I love this guy because he has a specific market he's aiming at, and is dead on with his message. Yeah, he's nice and straight with what he's selling.
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Rirse posted:At the pace the XBone, their tablets, and Window 8 are going, I wouldn't be surprised Microsoft goes out of business in a few years from now...ironically bought out by Google. With office still being the big commercial suite I wouldn't be so sure. Microsoft has a long way to fall. EDIT: \/ Of course they are, but Microsoft's got such a hold on the corporate world in general they're not easy to kill. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Nov 30, 2013 |
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I work at a hospital and they've had the standard "Keep calm and carry on" posters up for years. I'm not sure if it's due to the meme or someone in administration just thought the motto was a good idea. EDIT: \/ Canadian. Close enough I suppose. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Cobalt Chloride posted:There's a commercial for some car or another that has one for girls and one for guys. In both cases it starts with them throwing a dart at a map to pick a place to go. In the guy's one, it highlights all the cool poo poo you can do with the car and has them go on a crazy adventure with a car chase in San Francisco. In the girl's one, it highlights all the ways that the car can drive itself so you don't have to watch for obstacles or learn to park and has them go shoe shopping. Dodge Dart. The girls one has them going shoe shopping in Beverly Hills.
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It's definitely not local. They play it on the local ABC/NBC affiliates out of Detroit.
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ILL ON PZONES posted:The jewelry industry has really stepped up their game of heaping poo poo on a poo poo heap this year. There's a great one for People's on TV here showing a kid who can't even be 10 buying a diamond necklace for his mom. The commercial even ends with "diamonds starting at $200"
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Peggle isn't burdened with a ton of in app purchases. Also, Candy Crush is Bejeweled with a few tweaks, not Peggle.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Apart from eHarmony's dodgy "Well our algorithm just doesn't WORK for gay people" element It doesn't work (very well) for non-African minorities either from what I've been told. Of course, that could just be the result of a small pool of such people using it.
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