Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

I mean theoretically you can win the lottery, but I think we can all agree that with these box things nobody wins!

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It wasn't just made up marketing it was deliberately twisting a doctor's words. This is also around the time that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" came from. Mostly people just had like some coffee and some toast. Light breakfast, at best; it was just a few calories on your way out the door.

Somebody asked a doctor "so do you consider bacon a hearty food?" Doctor says "yes."

Somebody asks the same doctor "is it better to have a hearty breakfast or no breakfast?" Doctor says "hearty one, obviously."

Marketing goes "doctor says bacon is a healthy breakfast."

joshtothemaxx posted:

This seems like a really idiotic way to market a game that could be fun for all I know. Yes let's attach our name to the presidential candidate with all time levels of toxicity with our demographic.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

My first Logitech mouse survived four years of college and all the moves that go along with that, then the right mouse button stopped working. The replacement (a g5) lasted through the fifth year of college () and is still going strong six years after graduation. I'm a pretty heavy gamer, though not a pro StarCraft player or anything like that. I don't know whether I've been lucky, I'm a gentle clicker, he's an angry clicker, or if maybe the different models vary wildly in quality.

Or maybe he just has different expectations for lifespan of mice.

Komojo posted:

Bottles of Drano are $7.39 each at Target. Or, if you want to buy two at a time, you can get the VALUE PACK for only $14.99! What a great deal!

ratbert90 posted:

Oh god my 30 seconds of time! OBAMAAAAAAAAA

If you want them to face consequences for the audacity of making money on their service you use, don't use their service.

Tiggum posted:

We need something like a Steam equivalent for movies, TV, music, books, etc. I haven't pirated a game since Steam became a thing, and it's not because I've got more money, it's just because getting legit copies became the most convenient option. I'm not subscribing to the sixteen billion different TV and movie streaming services I'd need to to get every TV show and movie I want, but if you put everything up on one service that I could just buy the things I want from I'd be all over that.

dissss posted:

Steam isn't complete for games anyway.

Red Bones posted:

The only way I can understand Blue Apron et al existing in the same world as me is if I imagine San Francisco to be some sort of weird alternate future society where everyone orders things from online delivery services for exorbitant prices instead of just walking/driving to a shop.

Barudak posted:

In line with "try to make people remember your product, not its specs" across most pieces of business I've worked on the by far dominant advertising strategy for boosting sales is garish, blunt "here is our product, click to buy it RIGHT NOW" units across all media. Everybody wants to think that beautiful handcrafted, soothing, non-disruptive will work best when, from both a click to buy and last thing seen before buying blunt almost, to steal completely from the Simpsons, super-liminal advertising is what most motivates consumers.

So if you're curious why a lot of digital and mailed ads are hideous, flagrantly product focused, and devoid of much other than "BUY NOW" you have your answer.

ArtIsResistance posted:

only a goon would have a witty comeback in response to someone saying they'd drink water

Andorra posted:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/15/543707953/applebees-ditches-millennials


Hip and cool millennial marketing kind of reminds me of appealing to kids with skateboarding animals.

quote:

"You see very weak results from people like Ruby Tuesday's, Friday's and Chili's as well," says Joe Pawlak of Technomic, a food service research firm. "Consumers are saying that all these people are offering the same food items, the decors are the same, and also that prices have become very high in these places."

Barudak posted:

There are millennials with tons of money and I've sold thm train tours through south east asia that cost upwards of 5k a night to prove it. They are not most millennials, and surprise surprise applebees core demo exists within the Millennial populace where applebees is located: not cities

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Few restaurants can hit all of those targets but at least try for one. Instead they take this schizophrenic approach where four wan "heart-healthy" dishes will be buried in the menu next to Lucky-Charms-Crusted Chk'n Dipperz and a rubbery sirloin dinner that costs more than the one at the nearest good local steakhouse.

Panfilo posted:

What's strange is that back when I was in High School, there was a chinese fast food chain called Mr. Chau's that was hugely popular with the local High School and community college crowd. I don't know if they were still around, but the main draw was that they were the cheapest place around. When I see places like Panda Express I wonder who in their early twenties can really afford to go to these types of places regularly (I'm guessing not many, as most of the people at Panda Express tend to be older families these days). I guess it is true that people assume Millenials have much more discretionary spending than they really do. Food quality in many chains is essentially 'economy' but the pricing is far from it, which is absolutely . Especially with the existence of the internet and restaurant apps where people have a lot more tools to find actually good places to eat.

Aesop Poprock posted:

it's equally dumb to bring the sauce back to every place if that's what they're doing cause Rick and Morty is popular but not like to the extent that probably even 10% of people who eat at McDonalds would get the reference or reason for it

BioEnchanted posted:

Yeah, brain Chemistry is a complex mess of a thing. There is a reason a side-effect of anti-depressants can be suicide - Serotonin isn't a "happy" chemical, it's a "get the drive to go do a thing" chemical, so while it can help you get poo poo done that the depression is stopping you from feeling like doing, if you are having suicidal thoughts already, all it needs is a little extra serotonin to make you actually do it.

May be an over-simplification but I think I got the basics right, if not let me know.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

E: I would honestly be curious to find out who decided they all need to include “do not take Zadoobie if you are allergic to Zadoobie”, though.

Moon Slayer posted:

Data caps on home internet is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around. Like, the idea that you could use up your internet for the month is mind boggling to me. What if you work from home or telecommute? Are you just SOL? Do they turn you off completely when you hit that limit?

Henchman of Santa posted:

Some mysterious rich people bought LA Weekly and then fired their staff. Now they’re trying to get free contributions.
https://twitter.com/laweekly/status/936995889578516482

Also it’s spelled Angelenos.

Pastry of the Year posted:

nerdz posted:

edit: I'm torn between FAG heater and FAG hydraulic nut

Platystemon posted:

It has a zed sound in German.

Like “ZEE‐mens”.

Joey Freshwater posted:

On GA-400 that leads north out of Atlanta there's a city called Cumming, GA. Just off the highway, right before you reach the exit for Cumming, there's a Siemens branded water tower.

So how do you know you've reached Cumming? When you see the Siemens.


Down the street from the water tower there's an intersection with a BJ's Wholesale and a Dick's Sporting goods.



e: it's not the Siemens water tower anymore nooooooo

Joey Freshwater posted:

Crazy thought here but stay with me - it could also be a joke and maybe 53 people didn't actually watch it every day for 18 days.

Iron Crowned posted:

You know, maybe poison control was a mistake

Steakandchips posted:

Why does your flat not have it's own washing machine?

Do they actually monitor people for using powder?

Use whatever you want, IMO.

The Lone Badger posted:

I didn't realize top-loaders were still a thing. Do people really still use them? Don't they use like twice as much water?

JacquelineDempsey posted:

Maybe it's the magic of Tide, but I've never used a front loader in my life, and my laundry doesn't spontaneously fall apart at the seams, even after 25 years of wearing some things. It's like that can opener derail over in the lifehacks thread: I don't know what y'all are doing wrong.

sweeperbravo posted:

Thinking about people whose apartments I've been to, I feel like most had a dedicated laundry closet that had no special relation to the kitchen or bathroom except I guess pipes (though one place you had to go through the bathroom to get to the laundry cave)

stringball posted:

justification

ToxicSlurpee posted:

What baffles me most is that after the horrible failure of so many other "X for girls! Just like X except it's pink, dainty, fragile, and more expensive! Tee hee!" things there are still marketers trying that.

Remember those pink pens? Because apparently women were getting burned by the pens of literally every other color or something. I guess black, blue, red, or...you know any color other than pink was somehow inappropriate for women. They were significantly more expensive than regular pens. But they were pink! And for girls!!!!

spog posted:

Given a choice, I would prefer to buy pink tools simply because it makes them less likely to be stolen.

SiKboy posted:

I agree in principle, but I have known people who by default think of lego (and any other building/construction toy, or in fact toy cars) as a "boy toy". Those people wouldn't buy their daughters lego, but they might buy them "girl lego". Does it make sense? gently caress no. Is it still the case regardless? Yep.

The Snoo posted:

honestly tho I feel really frustrated when I see people (usually older women) come in to my work with their young son/grandson and tell them to stop touching things that are pink because they're for girls

like if it's anything else they just tell them to put it down but they literally will point out that it's for girls, bc it's pink or it's fake jewelry or it's sparkly

gently caress yall, the kid doesn't have any concept of gendered items yet and they wanna loving touch it, maybe even ask you to buy it because they like it, the gently caress is your problem

all of the poo poo we sell is unnecessarily gendered tho, so

Knormal posted:

Not in a "prove him right" sort of way, just because he's the kind of rear end in a top hat who would be really disturbed by having his son turn out to be gay and could stand to learn a lesson.

Last Chance posted:

i can't remember the last time i needed to print something at all, let alone at home

Pick posted:

I hate purses as the top-level fashion item instead of jewels because purses suck poo poo and I just want to throw them around. also they intentionally made it purses because it doesn't matter if you're fat, they can just make the same garbage with no tailoring or anything. fashion has become a crap.

Queen Combat posted:

And like big ones not these jeans pockets that I've discovered are too small to hold even a Kyocera cellphone from 2004, much less an LG V40 from 2018.

WTF women's clothing? And apparently dresses used to have standalone, large pockets back in the day?! Sliding backwards.