Otana posted:

LMAO

Len posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

for those interested in a briskly paced and very amusingly written overview of how tragically stupid medicine was for most of the past few millennia I recommend Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages by Nathan Belofsky. I just finished it like a week or so ago so it really makes a poignant and depressing contrast with the information in the above quote. It's wild how little medicine had to do with science across many cultures for such a long time, despite the occasional doctor speaking up to say "Uh actually I've cut open hundreds of bodies and never seen 'green humour' so" it was like just a contest for who was the most effective and persuasive bullshitter.

The Bloop posted:

Again there is actual literature on this that I'm not up to date on but having your first language, that you primarily think in, being not your main verbal and written language could possibly be harmful, yes

Sign is loving great but it's pictogram simple compared to the syntax of a language like spoken English

CJacobs posted:

There's a pro-lifer ad on a billboard along the highway near my town that reads "IF UNBORN INFANTS COULD VOTE - THEY'D VOTE TRUMP" with a pic of a fetus to this day.

edit: There is nobody on this planet stupider or more gullible or more easily parted with their money than republicans. If you parrot their gibbering moron sayings, they will give you money for the privilege, because they are that dumb. Pandering to them works easier than it works on anyone else so I'm really not surprised there are signs bearing "WUHAN VIRUS TRUMP'S NOT FIRED BELGIANS IN THE CONGO" meant to attract like-minded people.

RagnarokAngel posted:

At least in New England those are very abnormal.

1redflag posted:

When I used to drive down I75 to see family I’d see this billboard regularly (and worse)

TITTIEKISSER69 posted:

Drunk Nerds posted:

Plus I get to grind in extra fat to get the % to 30 %. Yum!

Let's see, content, content, content: ever since I did a writeup about the bigger testicles company on GBS, EVERY ad I get is for that unbelievably horrible looking company. The videos frequently start with the pitchman saying something I really don't want my kids hearing like, "your body contains 5-20 pounds of poop right now!"

Cool, now I have two hyperactive little boys rolling around shouting "poop!" They were sitting quietly, assface!

Serperoth posted:

Brazilian food is kind of a rarity where I am

plainswalker75 posted:

loving hell

Marcade posted:

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

SpaceX posted this at about the same time their latest rocket blew up in flight, which I think made at least two launch failures this month alone. Probably not the best timing in the world.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1376902938635870209

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

How much do you love car?

thepopmonster posted:

You really need to untimg for the full glory of this one.

SgtScruffy posted:

[video type=""]https://youtu.be/_jG_MPbyPIo[/video] they got Craig Robinson!

JacquelineDempsey posted:

Our restaurant carries locally roasted coffee, one variety of which is called Dee's Nuts. Because it is hazelnut, and one of the employees is actually named Dee. This makes sense. And the packaging is classy, so even if you don't know the meme or dont find it funny, it's neither confusing nor embarrassing.

Those sausage bites, which are not nuts at all, are some dumb marketing. You think anyone with a nut allergy is gonna look twice at that snack? Yeah, the ad IS pretty funny, but if I saw them in the store without
having seen it, i wouldn't give them a closer look, I'd just go "nope".

subpar anachronism posted:

this is the thread where you learn you have an auditory processing disorder

pentyne posted:

"I, the head person of the organization, am solely responsible for this and I apologize for it" is like the most absolute progressive woke thing a billionaire businessman can do in that situation. Going even further to say "and no, I won't try to pretend like it didn't happen" is even more shocking.

I was expecting they just pull a "we regret the tweet, the social media intern in question has been fired" and try to play it off like nothing happened.

SiKboy posted:

Its selling people a game on the promise that one day it will be good and have lots of interesting content. A promise which the developers are apparently under no obligation to keep once they have your money, as off the top of my head I actually cant think of any games which delivered their "content roadmap" on anything approaching their original timescale, and many dont deliver it at all. I'm trying to think of any analagous situations where a company can sell a consumer something, then just... choose not deliver part of it.

The Moon Monster posted:

The whole roadmap thing is just inherent to games as a service. They can't make content as fast as you can play it, so it's just a way of showing that they've got more stuff planned once you finish the current stuff. Whether the game launches with enough content or adds it at a quick enough pace or fails and gets shut down are separate issues.

That said I'm not really a fan of games a service in general, they quickly end up feeling more like a work than fun. See also: battle passes.

Platystemon posted:

The Nintendo Seal of Quality was a better authentication mechanism than that used by NFTs.

Alhazred posted:

Read the replies

ponzicar posted:

I'm nostalgic for the days before corporate marketing "got" social media, and it was all poo poo like "post your favorite way to eat our snack food!" and people would endlessly dunk on it.

Fruits of the sea posted:

Some more context for that deleted tweet: https://ignemployees.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-leadership-at-ign-ziff-davis-and-j2-global-f7171d5ad42f

Basic summary- management at Ziff Davis gets wind of one of their publications publicly supporting relief efforts in Palestine and deletes the tweet overnight, bypassing IGN’s editorial entirely.

There are some decent journalists at IGN apparently because they put together an exact timeline of events and publish an open letter protesting the deletion. Pretty much all of IGN’s staff sign the letter.

I guess this now counts as dumb marketing since it’s advertising that IGN has exactly zero editorial independence.

Cleretic posted:

It's not that bad.

It's about 90% 'daycare for failchildren', and then 10% 'remarkably intensive and well-researched features, mostly on stuff you never thought anyone could care that much about'.

In gaming journalism, just because we're on the subject, that last part manifests as 'for every one feature article on crunch culture and industry-wide sexism, there's about five deep-dives into stuff like the FFVII remake's use of architecture, and about forty glorified press releases and/or weightless reviews on exactly the games that one feature article called out'.

SpacePig posted:

Back in my day kids would just jump off of poo poo and crash things into stuff and put whatever in their mouth, and their like 7 siblings all did the same. Now everyone has, like, 2 kids or less and they don't do those things. This is worse.

teen witch posted:

quote:

A promotional video for the Spanish Tourism Ministry’s recent relaunch of the country as a tourism destination aimed especially at British and other European markets called “You deserve Spain”

7of7 posted:

My friend's condo pool is staying closed for the same reason. Apparently the company they contract to maintain the pool and provide lifeguards imports workers from overseas normally.

It's weird as hell. Like are there no local teens who would want to be lifeguards?

Haifisch posted:

I'm a fan of the part where they ran their plan by risk management professionals, the professionals shat their pants at just how terrible of an idea it was, and Hoover went ahead and did it anyway.

Len posted:

It's honestly kind of impressive watching the internet sour on it more and more each year

HopperUK posted:

What? No, you pour them out, separate by colour, and make sure there are an equal number of each colour by eating the excess. Then you eat them in groups so there are always equal numbers of each colour left.

Heathen.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

IIRC Steam actually cleaned up in Russia by actually making the stuff legally available at affordable prices, not a ridiculous markup like everything else. (see also why Australians rampantly pirate)

Blue Moonlight posted:

The thing to remember about streaming fragmentation is that a lot of the current pain is attributable to the fact that media companies aren’t exactly nimble.

So as short-sighted and long-lived exclusivity deals start expiring, and as companies and services merge in an overall consolidation of the media landscape (see Disney+Fox, and Warner+Discovery), it’ll settle down again. The halcyon days of “Oh gently caress, we don’t have a streaming service, better just sell this poo poo to Netflix so we can all get our new yachts this year” are over, but the trend, slowly but surely, is towards simplicity.

zedprime posted:

They're calling the bluff of every person who said they'd love to pick up $75 a month of a la carte cable channels instead of the $150 mega pack of 900 garbage channels and 3 good ones. Looking at what we say we want or expect we can get, this fragmentation is the stable part inbetween the monopolization or consolidation of market disruption.

Phanatic posted: