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TontoCorazon posted:Holy poo poo I'm really getting annoyed by that drat sprint (?) ad that tries to tout how productive it is but Angry Birds is a blight and quickly stops being fun after a few levels, but it's sadly a massive cultural phenomenon and stands no chance of going away until it suddenly collapses from public favor like so many Furbies. But yeah, I hate it too, along with the HTC one mentioned earlier. Still, it PALES in comparison to that utterly hosed up furry commercial running lately. I'm open minded. I have my kinks, but they're at least based on what I thought was at least a normal female form. What the gently caress?!
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Doc Hawkins posted:I'm not sure I want to know, but what are you talking about? Druggachusettes posted:What's this one all about? I hate both of you so much for having to look this up. Everything about it gives me a full body shiver. WHAT THE gently caress AHHHHHHHHH I don't know what it is, I don't care what it is, I just want this loving commercial off my goddamn TV. [edit] Bliggers- posted:My favourite: Ohhhhhh man, these made everything better, especially that last one. The laugh is perfect. SamBishop fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jul 13, 2011 |
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unhwillneverwin posted:Dear Vizio, Why would someone want either? Every time she "dances", she has a standing epileptic fit. Seriously, at the end there she's just spazzing out under the control of the Beyonce Dial. Poor, spastic, crazy Beyonce. She knows only the toil of The Dial now...
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Crowetron posted:Speaking of those commercials, the new tag line really bugs me. "It's our world, but THEIR planet!" The world of humans is being retaken by the very ancestors that inhabited the planet for millenia? What's not to get?
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ElwoodCuse posted:just as powerful This is the absolute truth. We have a Dyson Animal (made for pet hair) and it DESTROYS anything else I've ever owned. The amount of hair it sucks up is incredible, and despite looking completely full in the tank, it's just as powerful when full as empty. It's pretty drat awesome, I must say.
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vyst posted:The Zoosk commercial where the girl goes out to a bar with the guy and plays darts still cracks me up though. MOUNTAINTOP! I still don't know why he screams that, but it gets me every time. That and his KA-KA-KOW! stretch right before while he gets "stupid loose".
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raditts posted:There's a black guy that pops up everywhere now too, although not as ubiquitous as asian guy. When Ubiquitous Black, White and Asian Guys end up in the same commercial, the universe will collapse in on itself and we will be born anew in fire. Or it'll cause this thread to explode with like 50 simultaneous posts. Aw, who am I kidding, there's like six of us that actually rage here constantly. But we'd probably make up like 99% of those 50 posts.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I just saw that goddamn Five-Hour Energy commercial. The one with the lady who apparently would much prefer her man stay the hell asleep rather then actually be awake and do poo poo with her. What the gently caress? The best part of this post is that I saw that commercial while heading to the bathroom to pee and got all aggro about how seemingly every commercial is now about how couples hate the poo poo out of each other. It's not cute, it's genuinely destructive when like 90% of the poo poo you see while waiting to get back to your show is how everyone hates themselves. I'm sure there's an advertising reason for this -- something about tapping into the fact that people are unhappy right now in general, but I'm sick of it. It started with making the white dad a brain-dead dumb gently caress because that was "safe" and now it's just everyone and everything because "well, we can't not include the Necessary Ethnic Group (no biracial now!)" in things because then somehow some folks are excluded from identifying with the hate and distrust and superiority. It makes me really sad, and I don't really like watching TV anymore, which is sort of counter to this whole subforum. TontoCorazon posted:Holy crap just saw the Fiat commercial with jennifer lopez and that poo poo sucks so loving much. The car looks like a piece of poo poo, the doing sounds loving horrible, and she does this really horrible dance move in the end. I really used to like jennifer lopez back in the the day and used to think she was a decent dancer but this poo poo lazy Yeah, it's a really, really bad commercial. The car really is fugly (drat near Cube-level fugly if it weren't so goddamn... featureless), she's as hot as ever until she moves, but that song is... not so good. Or any good. And it's on. A LOT.
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Yup, I'm straight-up double-posting because BRENDA WALSH IS HAWKING EDUCATION CONNECTION. I'm so not even kidding. I want you all to see it, naturally.
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Good god, these Big Bang Theory promos on TBS are so painfully unfunny I can't imagine how monumentally brain dead you'd have to be like that show. Then again, there's like six Tyler Perry shows on that have me scrambling to fast-forward past them when the DVR gets the tail end for Conan or something, so I guess it's in keeping with TBS' usual stuff.
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raditts posted:Nobody should ever express a desire to support Blockbuster. Nobody. I'm asking this genuinely because when I used Blockbuster's mail service, it worked well enough, but is there a reason aside from the fact that they were based on an increasingly archaic business model that one should hate them? I'm going to get unlimited games, blu-rays and streamed video for $10 because I have Dish, and I'm curious.
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raditts posted:You say the "archaic business model" part as though that wasn't a significant (read: complete) part of their business. The lovely way they treated customers and employees alike (I've never met a person who worked for Blockbuster that doesn't despise them) isn't something that people are going to quickly forget. I honestly didn't know about how they treated customers or employees, as I haven't set foot in an actual retail location in the better part of a decade, and didn't really follow them in the news aside from the whole Chapter 11 thing. I really did see them as just an antiquated retail store that was making a lumbering, bumbling transition into having RedBox-style kiosks and mail-based service and that the retail side was going under. It's a shame they dicked over so many people, though. I'm glad to hear there were exceptions to the norm, and I really do hope that the Dish ownership might change things, as I'm just excited about getting all the crap in the mail for a flat rate. I've little doubt that their streaming service will suck next to Netflix, but if I can get major Blu-ray releases and games for relatively cheap, I'll be happy to see Blockbuster morph into some kind of half-assed Netflix/Gamefly combo.
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Cup of Hemlock posted:Ahahahaha it's so terrible! Are you kidding me? That commercial is incredible! If I lived in the area, I would lose it every time that off-camera dude yelled "hey, Gary!" and Gary's stony mask of insanity cracks just enough to let ONE eye half-blink. I seriously watched that video like five times in a row for that and the spaz out at the end. Gary Busey is pure joy. Wait, not joy, I meant crazy that collapses into joy just by watching it. It's like Schrodinger's Brain Condition, a superstate of nuts and hilarity that becomes hilarinuts. I love that man.
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100 Years in Iraq posted:You may enjoy the "Street Lessons with Uncle Gary" commercials he did for Saints Row 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMELFck7ZU Oh, I did indeed, thank you so much for reminding me of them. "I'm With Busey" was also a tiny peek into how the man's mind works and it's like the more you know, the more insane he becomes -- which is saying something. For those that aren't terrified by the man (and I don't blame you if you are), I'd highly recommend checking it out if you can find it. Somehow when he's sincere, he's even more disconnected from this reality. And his Buseyism acronyms are... well, I'll just let you guys discover them for yourselves.
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Professor X posted:gently caress you, Marty Lempkin. I'm pretty okay with the "hottie" they show in that commercial though. More than pretty, really.
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letthereberock posted:When I first saw people here discussing that ad before I had actually seen it I remember rolling my eyes and thinking, "Goons think everything is sexual". And I'm still rolling my eyes and thinking that. I thought was sappy, but sweet. Speaking of, not only is Truvia completely disgusting thanks to an aftertaste that makes Aspartame seem like it's actual sugar, but those jingles are infuriatingly bad. They were nominated for all kinds of "worst commercial" awards and yet they just. Keep. Going.
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Rirse posted:Tired of seeing ads for the lovely Need for Speed game. It bombed with the critics, but I see more ads for it then any game that came out this year. Sony helped co-market the game like they did with Battlefield 3, so the ad campaign is running heavier and longer than most, but there have been some REALLY pushy game ads this year. Dead Island would show every single commercial break in some Adult Swim and Comedy Central slots, as would Deus Ex. In fact, as much as I LOVE that game, if I never hear "I never asked for this..." and "it's myyyyyyyyyyy wooorrrrrllllddd" again, I'll die a happy man.
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muscles like this? posted:The funny thing about it is that it seems that in most of these the actors in the commercial had no clue it was going to happen. And it means the return of big forehead/big... other things girl. 
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Combo posted:So after going for the old meme approach with Chuck Norris, Blizzard now has a nice looking girl talking about dumping her boyfriend for WoW. Is she famous too somehow? Yeah, that's Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Rec. She's quite cute, but not in that commercial. I guess it fits her personality, but it just made her seem rather bitchy instead of really dry.
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Professor Wayne posted:I've never really minded hipsters. Fads just as stupid come and go all the time. But now I kind of hate them, because this commercial has been coming on Comedy Central non-stop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR5Us_bBKc It really is getting a terrible amount of airplay. Between that and the smug iPhone spots, I'm really starting to hate Apple's marketing department more than I already did -- and that's saying something. I wasn't really sure if those kids were hipsters, and I'm trying as hard as I can to keep and open mind about stuff because I'm getting older and was never fashion-forward (t-shirt and jeans all my life makes shopping a few-minute affair), but they really do look like a bunch of hobos that have enough money to buy an iPhone without the phone. Each outfit seems worse than the previous as they just dogpile on top of each other in a never-ending mess of retardation. They may not be hipsters, but whatever they are shouldn't be given air time. Who thinks dressing like that is a good idea?
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Rirse posted:Already been covered in the thread, but I really hate the World of Warcraft ad with Chuck Norris. Not only for the terrible meme that stole from this site, but because the fact the new X-Box 360 dashboard has that poo poo ad playing in the corner (thankfully with no sound). Wait, they somehow found a way to cram MORE ads into the dash? I haven't updated yet, but god drat... I guess Blizzard/Activision thinks they've roped in just about every possible person who knows the meme by now and US going after the same crowd that has never heard of WoW.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The ASPCA's commercials come closer to pulling heart strings because it's harder to read animal expressions. To a lot of people all a dog needs to do to look happy is have its mouth open. All the animal pictures they use are just what dogs and cats look like when they're bored and not doing anything. Just curious, but have you never owned a pet before -- specifically a dog or cat? They have no other way to emote other than their eyes, usually, and while I don't deny that the commercials are manipulative, the expression are, at some level, real. By the same token, the expressions on the kids in those commercials may be manipulated, but Christ are they effective. And you are utterly disconnected from your emotions if you analyze both in the same way.
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ProfessorGroove posted:The commercials don't really get on my nerves but I find these new ones selling .xxx domains to be extremely bizarre, particuarly how they're on during prime time pretty often. There was one that was at least a minute and a half long when I was watching the 6 o'clock 30 rock on comedy central the other day. Are there really that many people who run porn sites out there? Is porn becoming this mainstream? I'm not a prude or anything but they just seem very out of place to me. What I don't understand is who is selling those ads. Is it ICANN? Did they think it wouldn't sell on its own? It's a little weird.
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the_Vandal posted:I don't mean to be derogatory, but Korean automobiles are poo poo and are ugly. The 2009 Hyundai Elantra we bought was not only used, but was a former rental and has performed wonderfully for two years now. I've changed the air filter once and obviously done the normal oil changes (usually a little late), but for a former rental that had well over 40k miles, it's been an absolute dream. Zero problems, it looks fairly nice in a generic sedan sort of way, and I'm pretty sure once this thing has been driven into the ground that my next car will be a Hyundai again. Anecdotal, sure, but at least it's first-hand testimony that despite coming at least partly from the same company, Kias and Hyundais are not the same level of cars.
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angerbeet posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3451594 This really does look incredible -- except for the biscuit itself, which is something I begrudgingly acknowledge McDonald's does a brilliant job of when it's right. They come out incredibly fluffy and soft in the middle, but the outsides are intensely buttery and have a kind of fried texture to them that I've never seen replicated. Again, there's plenty of room to screw 'em up, but when they're right, they have this pillowy denseness that lets them be really flaky and crunchy on the outside and then as you bite through them into the rest of the sandwich, you end up tasting everything else. I abhor McDonald's commercials and refuse to go there out of protest, but I will admit that I'll always have a soft spot for their breakfast stuff. It's usually pretty cheap, too, which is rarely something I can say about anything in San Francisco.
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Wagonburner posted:Something got me thinking about the horrible furry-scat scoe 10x commercials this morning and I showed them to my wife, she claims there's no way these actually aired on tv. I want to believe they did, but have only seen them here. Has anyone actually seen those broadcast? Yes, they really aired. On actual TV. You're just going about your day, no warning sign that your life is about to get a sudden influx of girls dressed up like cats and dudes slipping in pee or piss or something. Then your day is ruined, maybe your week. I introduced them to this thread and I am so, so sorry for doing so.
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Arrrrgh, Pizza Hut is back with their ANY* pizza for $10 bullshit. No, it's not any crust (stuffed is extra) or any topppings (cheese is extra). gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you, I don't know how that's allowed when it's a flat-out lie.
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100 Years in Iraq posted:No, you see the "pizza" itself is just the concept and you get that for 10 bucks. Want to put poo poo on it? Well, that's extra! That's the thing, though; they not only have a dude literally singing about the fact that it's "any" but they scroll words too, with it in ALL CAPS even as the disclaimer basically says "nah, just kidding, we're lying right now - any doesn't really mean any!" I just figured there would be some truth in advertising group jumping on them for that. Silly me.
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DJExile posted:TERRY CREWS DISAGREES WITH YOU Even if you hate Tim and Eric, you have to admit that sometimes their format works for commercials. They did a good job with those Old Spice ads, and that new one establishes two very important things: 1) I will lose my poo poo whenever presented with someone trying to talk after their mind has been blown. 2) JEEZUS gently caress, TERRY CREWS, YOU ARE WAY TOO RIPPED. Quodio Stotes posted:Why does the new trailer for Red Tails have dubstep blaring over it? I know when I think about black WW2 air aces I think about thumping dubstep. Dubstep doesn't thump, it goes "bwuhhhhh bwuhbwuhbwuhbwuuuhhhhh". Also 99% of it is loving horrid. That new Skrillex song they're playing on the radio has an amazing melodic hook that really only starts playing in earnest at the very end. SamBishop fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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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. I shouldn't care, but I spend a good portion of the day rejecting a lot of multi-platform videos for the site because we're just PlayStation-based. It happens a ton with promo stuff for multi-platform games (after all, most are started on the 360 and ported to the PS3), but it's exceptionally weird to see it in a first-party-branded commercial that's supposed to be selling footage of the game running on their own hardware.
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Mokinokaro posted:The trailer is one provided by Square-Enix. Same one that's in the demo for either platform. Yet the JP commercials were free of any PS3 button callouts (and the solo 360 branding wrapper). It just smacks of laziness, I guess, but feels like weird come-uppance for trying to dupe the buying public. Sony is just as guilty; it's a really lovely practice.
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Gonz posted:In 'n Out above all others. In 'n Out über alles. This is truth. I've lived in California for about 13 years now, and I'm still completely blown away by the fact that In-N-Out is consistently amazing every single time. No matter which one I go to, the burgers start out as the best I've ever had at a chain and only get better from there (especially if the buns are toasted and they're generous with the grilled unions). I always get 'em without the spread, and it takes like a meaty, lettucey, tomatoey, cheesy bite of heaven. Every. Single. Goddamn. Time. squarerandom posted:Zips was the best thing about Spokane, and so was Dicks burgers. Nothin like a greasy bag of dicks! I lived about 5 minutes away from the Dick's on 45th when I was going to UW and miss that place like crazy. One of my roommates and I actually met Dick Spady (the place's namesake) for some class research and the man was a saint. Gave us a bunch of free food coupons too. The only problem with Dick's is that you can really only eat like two cheeseburgers before you start feeling horrendously ill. It's rad that they refuse (refused? I haven't been home to Seattle in years) to use any sort of POS terminal to calculate the totals for your order, though. It's all done in their head, and holy poo poo is the service there fast. I guess they have to be when literally hundreds of drunk college kids show up around last call.
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Gaunab posted:Google+ ads, while a noble endeavor, don't make it seem too appealing. They all seem so generic like the guys freaking out about their friend wearing an apron and the women freaking out about an engagement. I guess it's better than their first ads where the guy stalked the girl and ended up marrying her. I think the latter ad you were talking about was more about them having a relationship of some sort before and it sort of falling apart, but him basically realizing that they'd done so much together that it was time to finally pull the trigger. I didn't see it as stalker-ish or anything, but that might have been my romantic side just reading a bunch into it. The Chrome ads were really good and helped explain why the Google offerings were so interesting, even getting me a little choked up at times (that dad one was fantastic), but they were more about a general experience that used Google rather than something that WAS Google-only, which I think is the key. I'm not a social networking person. I log into Facebook basically to add friends and just reply to conversations via e-mail. But there's some fairly interesting stuff that Google+ is trying, and I like that it's different, but of course I don't regularly use Facebook, which from what I can tell is effectively an entire sect of the Internet unto its own. The idea, though, of having to spread your conversations across multiple places means social networking as a basic idea is effectively the IM rundown we got into a few years ago. At one point, (and I still use Trillian to manage them all) there was AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, GTalk and MSN. Is there going to be a social "collector" or are we already there with apps that do Twitter and Facebook and stuff?
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Echophonic posted:I actually sort of like this one. I mean, they can't sing, but it's not all that offensive. I even thought it was kind of novel when it came on the first time. I don't know how anyone could even marginally like that commercial. It repeats almost every break on some channels and the entire shitmobile, all of them, are tone deaf. The end result is a cacophony of off key assholes. That commercial makes me want to hurt myself for not finding the mute button fast enough.
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leidend posted:If it's like everything else, the ad server knows what geographic area you're from and advertisers buy ads with geographical targeting. As a western Canadian it is painful - not enough business buying online ads so you'll get the same poo poo 100 times in a row. Especially this Mr Big campaign True, but if you guys didn't, I would have never known the greatness of the NHL commercial with Ovechkin pulling pranks or this bit of amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKTvD3LRSLs
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raditts posted:I don't even understand where the competition exists between Gamefly and Gamestop. "Are you mad that you can't resell your games for the same price you bought them for? Use Gamefly." Both sell games. GameFly, however, lets you rent them first, play them for as long as you want, and if you don't like 'em, you send 'em back and get more, Netflix-style. If you do like the game, however, you have the option of buying them at pretty decent prices (I think it was around $35-ish last time I looked for a $60 new game), and they send you the mint case/manual. In reality, it's an infinitely better model, one that is only lessened by how terrible those commercials are. [edit]Oh, right, something to add: 50% MORE CASH! gently caress you, gently caress you, gently caress YOU, fifty percent more than what you stupid, nebulous fucks. Does it matter? Nope! Because the more you spend to get any supposed "cash back," you're still getting charged out the rear end on interest. I have a card that gives me a percent or two on debit purchases, which is just money that comes from my account. Give me a loving card that does that from an actual bank and I will sign the gently caress up. But they won't do that; they can't, because offering actual benefits from straight purchases is apparently an impossible prospect for banks. gently caress those commercials. I've been told Jimmy Fallon is actually making something entertaining with his show. Why would he shill for a credit ca-oh, right, money, got it. SamBishop fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Jul 26, 2012 |
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raditts posted:Beats Audio (by Dr. Dre!!!) is just basically the Monster Cable of audio hardware, right? Like there's nothing particularly special about it that even retard audiophiles would want to spend the extra couple hundred/thousand dollars for? You'll love this: it was actually a spin off of Monster Cable, so yes, it's literally a Monster thing, complete with huge markup without a tangible difference. All of HTC's most recent phones come with an auto-enabled Beats Audio mode when you plug headphones in. What does it do? Crushes the mids in favor of boosted bass/treble.  Though I have to admit, I actually like the music in that commercial. Because I'm broken, I guess.
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Magnatux posted:Also, I watch CW shows online with MY WIFE and they always run the same three drat commercials: two for two shows, and one "WATCH CW" general ad and it's terrible because whoever sees those ads is already watching CW so why the gently caress advertise them. Hulu has this problem too, I say an ad isn't for me, and they keep showing it time after time. It's not like I forgot I didn't like the commercial or something. Just in case others were curious why this happens, they're called house ads, and they basically fill the ad space when there aren't any proper ads. It's a sure sign (just like other commercials repeated every break) that the number of ad buys is really low. Basically the CW hasn't sold ANY online streaming ads, so they're running promos for their own stuff instead. You'll see it a lot on new networks when they first launch or at a site without a good ad sales team. As for Hulu, that's just telling them if the ad is relevant to you, not that you do or don't want to see it again. Advertisers bought that time, so they're gonna run, but in the future if Hulu has multiple ads they CAN potentially run, they'll opt for the targeted one. Eventually, it could mean you only see ads for movies and cars instead of Golden Girls box sets and Vagisil or something.
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GutBomb posted:They go away after the ball is in play, just like the extended down graphics (the big arrow graphic, not the lines) I don't watch sports, so this is coming from a place of pure ignorance, I'm sure, but I'm amazed it's taken this long for something like that to happen. We're talking about a sport where poo poo like the end zone would open up and robots would come out and try to kill each other or something, and that was like a decade ago when I was living with a sports nut roommate. The only way it's going to go is toward more of this stuff, I'm sure. There's certainly no shortage of people in sports that want more money, especially the broadcasters.
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