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You Are A Elf posted:Speaking of dumb and gross video game ads, I'm trying to remember a magazine ad from the early 90s that had a grotesque close-up image of a bloody eye that had its eyelid ripped off. If I recall correctly, it had to do with a tagline about not blinking (thus, the person ripping their eyelids off to never blink again). It was loving gross and made me not want to have anything to do with whatever they were selling. I think so. Maybe Voodoo 5 or Matrox. God. The Voodoo 5 campaign was terrible.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Back in the days that I very rarely used a cellphone I had a Tracfone. There is so much stigma attached to that sort of thing that I always found perplexing. I got my cell phone service for 1/3 of what everybody else was paying at the time in the long run and I didn't text at all in those days. It's one thing that's always baffled me; why pay extra just to say "I paid more for this than you, pleb I believe one of the benefits of the contract carriers is that due to the billing, etc, it can help your credit score. But I've never been 100% sure on that.
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Phanatic posted:The reason the dollar menu is going away is that poo poo gets more expensive with time. Ground beef is more expensive than it used to be, the ingredients for the cheese are more expensive than it used to be, etc. Either you keep a dollar menu and watch it shrink as the things that used to be profitable to sell for a dollar become more expensive (Like, the double cheeseburger used to be on the dollar menu, but they replaced it with the McDouble, which is the same thing but with one slice of cheese instead of two), or you abandon the pleasing marketing hook of the dollar menu and go to a $1.50 menu, or whatever. And national weather patterns. Beef and its byproducts were predicted to go up after 2012 as the drought started to get real bad. We had a glut of beef in the market due to a higher slaughter rate as farmers couldn't keep as many going. And now we're continuing to see the effects. It's pretty interesting.
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Jun 1, 2015 17:48
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I recently saw "Olives to Go" advertised. Gotta make olives the hip young food that you gotta get on the go. It was so "what the gently caress" to me. David Cross has a great bit about pandering companies in his HBO special.
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Jun 2, 2015 04:59
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I'd call DLC a dumb move in marketing. It's incredibly smart in regards to bringing in new revenue and frankly, exploiting the obsessive nature of hardcore gamers. But it just looks like such a cash grab. It wasn't great at first. 2 bucks for horse armor and poo poo. But now? They have DLC that are just loving cheat codes. Pay 10 bucks and you can unlock everything. What happened to loving CHEAT codes not being built in? It just seems like the AAA game market is really going to gently caress itself. I mean, at some point people are just gonna finally stop buying half-finished games, etc. Right? Right?
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Jun 25, 2015 01:08
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El Estrago Bonito posted:My mom got a bottle of this when staying at a Trump hotel once like ten years ago and still uses it to water her plants because she thinks its funny. Are her plants luxurious and yuuuge?
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Sep 27, 2015 00:36
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Egg Poacher posted:Do your inner child a favour Yeah. The Dig is super underrated. I can typically run through it in a few hours after multiple playthroughs. I listen to the soundtrack on the reg. Both the game's OST and the orchestral version. Sooooo good
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Nov 23, 2015 22:47
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davidspackage posted:The turtle puzzle pales in frustration to the bit where you have to show Maggie a specific item on a specific screen, with absolutely no hint you have to do that. That had me stuck for years. Can you spoiler the puzzle? I'm super familiar with a lot of them but I can't think which specific one.
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Nov 24, 2015 08:38
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AtomD posted:
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Somfin posted:Some of the best ads are, ironically, the ones that are super oldschool "take a break in the program to talk about a product" stuff. On Youtube, I'm more than happy to watch an ad sketch by Gamegrumps, or hear about how a given company or product is helping out with, say, Extra Credits' channel by throwing them some money- as long as it's the actual channel folks selling the product to me, I really don't mind. I suppose it's an honesty thing- if someone I like listening to says "Hey folks, this episode is sponsored by Sweet Lewtz, go take a look," I can guarantee that I'll associate Sweet Lewtz with keeping one of my favourite channels afloat. Which, these days, is a pretty loving huge deal. Gamegrumps in particular throws a shitton of effort into really loving nailing their ad sketches- while I don't currently want Crunchy Roll, they've done three ads for it so far so I know the name, which is more than I can say for any other paid anime streaming service. This is what made Gabe and Tycho so loving rich. Robert Khoo saw a TON of marketing potential for them and built their empire out of them being "just 2 guys who won't bullshit you." Now look at them! Yeah, they make a lot of money from their content but they make a shitton on ads/marketing themselves.
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Dec 8, 2015 01:46
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FutonForensic posted:See also: social media links on any porn site I was just thinking of that when I was reading those posts. What a weird thing. "Hey, man! Thanks for sharing that video, it was great to jerk off to!"
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Dec 8, 2015 03:12
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malal posted:Repeating ads in any new media is ridiculous. I got a free 10 day trial from Hulu. Every loving thing I tried to watch was interrupted by the same ad. I watched two shows, and since I had just watched the same ad ten times in those two shows, I immediately canceled the service. What was the thought behind charging the same as Netflix but having ads too? are they gonna charge the same as Netflix but with ads? The real kick to the dick was when they asked why I canceled before the trial was even up, I told them. Their response? "we have ad free for more money!" gently caress you, Hulu. I don't know what happened but I tend to have some repeats but not the same one ad again and again. Also, I hate how people don't understand that Hulu is different in a lot of ways than Netflix, between first-run shows, exclusives like FX series and Criterion movies and Seinfeld, and whatnot. So yeah, they charge what they charge. I like it because it's cheaper and easier than getting cable and DVRing the things I want to watch. Also, with some shows I like the break that commercials provide because of how writing tends to account for it.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:56
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Jason Mantzoukas' episode of "You Made It Weird" is super interesting. He talks about having a deathly allergic reaction to eggs and just how that's impacted his life and outlook.
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Dec 16, 2015 07:50
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stringball posted:I was reading a label of raw chicken that had something along the lines of "Proudly contains no hormones* because we care!" This is more Marketing 101. Like, this is the Mad Men where they come up with Lucky Strike's "It's Toasted," even though all cigarette companies did the same thing. It's just an easy way to distinguish yourself and look better
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Crow Jane posted:I just prefer giving my business to locally owned theatres/restaurants/whatever if at all possible. It's not that I feel I owe them anything, I just want them to stick around. I realize, of course, that that's not an option everywhere, but it is for me, so I take advantage There's a difference between something like that and being beholden to international corporations. Frank at the grocery store knows your name, the CEO of AMD doesn't.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:01
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WaltherFeng posted:I'm pretty sure this counts as dumb marketing trick Except I'm pretty sure that's a mod that an individual did rather than Nintendo or any gun company. Nintendo wouldn't allow it, gun company would be sued.
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Apr 11, 2016 18:30
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Ratoslov posted:Does anyone know why the gently caress they thought this was a good idea? I could write this off as an incredibly poorly thought out marketing stunt if they were selling anything, but it doesn't seem to be that. It just looks like they were doing it for shits and giggles and somehow managed not to get shot doing it. Also, isn't this the second time something similar has happened? I remember a resort had an "interactive event" which involved "terrorists." So yeah, people are dumb as gently caress
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May 15, 2016 04:24
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stringball posted:Speaking of legal commercials or commercials with some form of disclosure: how the gently caress is someone going to reasonably read a giant wall of text that is almost certainly extremely blurry and they don't stick on screen for more than a few seconds at best? We have dogshit consumer rights.
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Jun 2, 2016 08:01
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The Door Frame posted:The most frustrating one was that one that's name was in Korean in the app store, Summoner's War? Those bothered me to no end. All that people see when they look at your app is a guy in an Assassin's creed outfit with Korean(?) text, I don't care how many ads you put in English, I will not even look at the description of that app Just play solitaire and Bejeweled, people
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Jul 24, 2016 21:33
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Schubalts posted:How the gently caress can they have the balls to claim to have more capacity on their service, when they are trying their damndest to make people believe that data caps are perfectly fine? Yeah, I feel the same way when they're like "most people use less than 5gb". Then why is unlimited such a burden?
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Feb 8, 2017 07:56
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Croccers posted:Yeah it's bad let's take 'trending issue 3' and jam some woow yay soda in there, yaaay our soda product somehow fixes everything, everything is better with soda! attempted pandering crap but is it outright aggressive? Which makes me think of DiGornio's during the #WhyIStayed topic. It was actually a really funny response. But definitely not the right account to say it.
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Apr 5, 2017 08:09
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Maybe air travel shouldn't be a for profit industry.
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What happened with the Marvel Ultimate line? That seemed like a smart way to attract new people, but did it go off the rails or just didn't sell well?
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Apr 24, 2017 14:28
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MariusLecter posted:Remember the ads for 7up that went, "Make 7... Up yours! " Up yours!
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May 6, 2017 02:14
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Aesop Poprock posted:tbh I don't know what a Which Wich is other than a terrible name for a store/sandwich place Yeah, but they got the best system for ordering. You mark off the options on the sandwich ba and hand it to the cashier who gives it to the assembly line. Super easy to deal with!
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Oct 3, 2017 01:53
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I took a survey awhile back about the Dropbox stuff while they were working on it, and the whole thing made very little sense then as it does now. I mean...how do they miss the boat so hard like this? Was it honestly something that’s been requested at a high enough level to roll something like this out?
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Oct 6, 2017 05:00
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I took a friend’s ultrathin HP home to do whatever diagnostics I could on it. I couldn’t do a drat thing aside from try a different power adaptor. I opened up the bottom and the rest of the computer was inaccessible aside from one board that facilitated keyboard/mouse input and power flow. All you could possibly do is replace whichever half wasn’t working, or whole drat thing. I think there’s gonna be a reckoning soon on consumer rights and repairability. The only way this can be “serviced” as far as I can tell is by sending it to HP. I get that it’s a sacrifice at some level for the thinness of the unit. But drat, these companies get you coming and going and then don’t pay tax on the money they get from us! Sorry, the Surface servicing comment made me think of this.
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Nov 21, 2017 02:09
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Krispy Wafer posted:I know it's low hanging fruit, but wasn't Comcast one of the providers charging extra to Netflix? Also I can't use HBO Go on some platforms specifically because Comcast would rather I use their lovely on-demand products (which I imagine cost them less in bandwidth). Lmao if you think mobile data isn’t going to be more locked down than Comcast.
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Nov 27, 2017 12:12
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I think it’s Chick-Fil-A as part of their marketing w the cows. The cows have poor spelling and grammar, and they want people to eat more “chikin.”
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mandatory lesbian posted:the gently caress is smart water Bottled water that’s been branded “Smart”
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EoinCannon posted:I have heard that the Volkswagen Golf is the gay man's car. No idea if that's true though Miata’s
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Nov 13, 2019 20:40
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My mom’s a Subaru and she owns a lesbian.
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Nov 15, 2019 02:16
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I just saw a Carmax commercial featuring Limp Bizkit’s song Nookie and a Fred Durst cameo. I don’t know if it’s dumb marketing but it’s definitely something.
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Jan 18, 2020 14:54
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:imagine releasing your self titled rap rock LP and then immediately following it up with something named "the chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water." But they didn’t? It goes Three Dollar Bill, Y’all then Significant Other then Chocolate Starfish. I hate that I know that.
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quidditch it and quit it posted:I think the timing is hugely insensitive, and driven by the desire to capitalise on old people’s current corona virus fears. Seems disgustingly cynical. Ummm, something like this may have been printed out awhile back and unfortunately went out just about now.
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I will say that I saw a Hyundai commercial on Tuesday or Wednesday that explicitly called out Covid-19-related financial burdens as part of their “Assurance Program” to keep payments going.
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Don Gato posted:He also voiced a stuffed bear in Toy Story 3. Hedgehog.
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Not the most egregious team. https://twitter.com/49ers/status/1267846500064784384?s=20
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