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I bought a Mazzy Star album the other day and instead of like "the classic album" or whatever on the sticker it said "the band's universally accepted high watermark" which felt like "yeah it didn't sell a ton or chart or anything but it was the best we ever did so buy it I guess."
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I bought a Mazzy Star album the other day and instead of like "the classic album" or whatever on the sticker it said "the band's universally accepted high watermark" which felt like "yeah it didn't sell a ton or chart or anything but it was the best we ever did so buy it I guess." Are you on the prom committee? Getting a playlist ready? Have you heard that Greenday song?
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Oct 20, 2015 19:14
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5er posted:Since we're on about McDonalds advertising being awful for the bulk of our living memory... the worst ads are the ones where they're trying to suggest that people are making their poo poo food a part of their identities. Radio ads with monotone soccer moms describing the chores of their banal existence and McCafe being a critical part of it. Their ridiculously racist 'urban demographic' ads with minorities in low riders babbling in trendy slang about McD cheeseburgers are how dey roll. Oh you know it. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/mcdonald-s-launches-clothing-line-with-big-mac-prints-10136634.html  Love how embarrassed the middle and left look.
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Oct 20, 2015 19:18
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Rondette posted:Oh you know it. That face says 'coerced'. edit lol that loving Moschino sweater
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Oct 20, 2015 19:20
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Captain Monkey posted:KC is an oasis of well done food in the vast culinary desert that is the Midwest, and you know it. Yeop. Exceptions to every rule and all that. The KC metro area has some amazing stuff.
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Oct 20, 2015 20:32
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John Murdoch posted:There's also a remote possibility that they scheduled things in an exceedingly dumb way and there's more coming in future days that might change the picture. And...boom, with today's update they added in the ability to get drills in-game from random drops. It remains to be seen if the drop rate on them is remotely fair, but that at least bumps things up from scummy microtransaction scheme to simply crappy microtransaction scheme. Not clear if it was planned or just hastily pulled together, but they at least had a cute little animation of Wolf to go along with the announcement, which may be what the whole bindle thing was about. John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 22:24 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 22:16
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5er posted:Since we're on about McDonalds advertising being awful for the bulk of our living memory... the worst ads are the ones where they're trying to suggest that people are making their poo poo food a part of their identities. Radio ads with monotone soccer moms describing the chores of their banal existence and McCafe being a critical part of it. Their ridiculously racist 'urban demographic' ads with minorities in low riders babbling in trendy slang about McD cheeseburgers are how dey roll. Well, there are donk cars, don't ask me whether they're supposed to be ironic or not.  Also, I've met more than a few people who almost ritualistically go to food chains as a highlight of their week. It's just that it's not blatantly scripted or forced when they talk about their love of [product]. Slightly related, though, why is this even a thing? 
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Oct 20, 2015 22:25
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MizPiz posted:Slightly related, though, why is this even a thing? Autism.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:42
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They have mobile apps that do the same thing. They're fun and I don't think I'm autistic, just trivia-minded. I get a kick out of recognizing things.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:14
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MizPiz posted:Slightly related, though, why is this even a thing? It exists as proof that advertising works, despite everyone wanting to claim ads have no effect on them. In fact, it works so well that people will pay to show off how well it works on them! 
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Oct 21, 2015 00:40
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*Looks at a Denny's sign, points* Denny's! man I'm good at this game
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Oct 21, 2015 00:47
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MizPiz posted:Slightly related, though, why is this even a thing? Extortion racket. "Well, I mean, Denny's signed up. You don't want Denny's having a leg up in the lucrative brand fanatic board game enthusaist market, do you, Dairy Queen?"
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Oct 21, 2015 01:52
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Tempest_56 posted:You're even managing to short-change how badly they handled this. Taking it back a step: The game is at the tail end of what most games would consider their lifespan - it's doing fairly well in spite of that, which is great for them. Two years is a solid run. So they chose to introduce a new monitzation scheme, which isn't a huge shock for an older product that's probably trying to squeeze out a little extra income. Problems with how they did it: This is so boring I can't talk myself into the sentences. I have no idea what this is about. Looks like it's written by an economist? Or a general-purpose ideas person? I don't know.
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Oct 21, 2015 06:39
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5er posted:Since we're on about McDonalds advertising being awful for the bulk of our living memory... the worst ads are the ones where they're trying to suggest that people are making their poo poo food a part of their identities. Radio ads with monotone soccer moms describing the chores of their banal existence and McCafe being a critical part of it. Their ridiculously racist 'urban demographic' ads with minorities in low riders babbling in trendy slang about McD cheeseburgers are how dey roll. I seem to remember a while back it came out that McDonalds had tried to pay rappers to mention the Big Mac in their music and not one would do it.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Are you on the prom committee? Getting a playlist ready? Have you heard that Greenday song? Yeah it's going to be rad as hell.
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John Murdoch posted:Not clear if it was planned or just hastily pulled together, but they at least had a cute little animation of Wolf to go along with the announcement, which may be what the whole bindle thing was about. Pretty obviously hastily pulled together. Otherwise you have to accept that Overkill purposely made their customer base angry, undermined the good will generated from an anniversary celebration, damaged future sales and their overall reputation for the purpose of going "LOL trolled u". While it's possible they're that dumb, damage control is the far more likely situation. Mescal posted:This is so boring I can't talk myself into the sentences. I have no idea what this is about. Looks like it's written by an economist? Or a general-purpose ideas person? I don't know. Game company introduces copies new way to make money (from other companies) into old product in a dumb way at a bad time and simultaniously with several other major unpopular changes. Reddit gets upset and does dumb poo poo like trying to call the FTC on them. Goon attempts to phrase situation with using as few game-specific terms as possible so others don't need a translator, does so poorly. Company later does damage control, Reddit is proud of itself for being sperglords. End of tale.
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Oct 21, 2015 14:44
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Henchman of Santa posted:I recently learned about the existence of Supermarket Sweep so this is the least surprising thing I've seen in this thread. You talk as if Supermarket Sweep wasn't awesome. Guy's Grocery Games just doesn't compare.
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Oct 21, 2015 14:46
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Henchman of Santa posted:I recently learned about the existence of Supermarket Sweep so this is the least surprising thing I've seen in this thread. That show owned and was my favorite thing to watch when I was a little kid. I don't care if they were brainwashing me, I actually watched an episode on youtube a few months ago for the nostalgia.
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Oct 21, 2015 16:45
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This advert is playing a lot on UK tv at the moment, it drives me a bit crazy for many reasons, but mainly because the dubbing is piss-poor, and that kid needs to smack. I can't seem to find it on Youtube but here is a link http://www.tvadvertsuk.com/automobi...nt-tvadvertsuk/
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Oct 21, 2015 17:51
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OctoberBlues posted:That show owned and was my favorite thing to watch when I was a little kid. I don't care if they were brainwashing me, I actually watched an episode on youtube a few months ago for the nostalgia. It's a good way to learn what the most expensive things in the supermarket are, meat. Always get turkeys and hams to throw in the cart.
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Oct 21, 2015 17:53
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Bird in a Blender posted:It's a good way to learn what the most expensive things in the supermarket are, meat. Always get turkeys and hams to throw in the cart. And diapers!
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Oct 21, 2015 18:07
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Coffee as well.
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I think they had things like plastic garbage cans too didn't they? Those were good because they were pricey, and you could still fill them up with other things.
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VendaGoat posted:Coffee as well. Yeah but only because coffee was special. You got $100 for grinding a bag. That show went to poo poo when they started putting the giant promos throughout the store. Then the primary strategy became "grab the giant promos and hope you got the best ones." I liked it more when grandma was huckin' giant frozen turkeys in her cart, or Jimbo was snatching drugs off the shelf.
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The real trick was grabbing the long packages of pork ribs and using them to line the perimeter of your cart to increase your capacity
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About a year ago two West Coast grocery stores, Vons and Albertons, decided to merge. The FTC told them they had to sell off 200 stores to avoid becoming a monopoly, and most of them were sold to a Washington chain, Haggen (who only had 18 stores before the acquisition). This ended up being a horrible move for Haggen, because they filed for bankruptcy last month and announced they're going to close ALL of the stores they had just opened up in California. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Haggen-Closing-All-California-Stores-Including-19-in-San-Diego-329326671.html
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Oct 22, 2015 09:19
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The radio ad for a local nightclub has what I'm pretty sure is Goat Simulator music in the background. The best part is from interning at that station I probably know the guy who did it and he's more than enough of a disgruntled old cynic to know exactly what he's doing. 
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AlphaKretin posted:The radio ad for a local nightclub has what I'm pretty sure is Goat Simulator music in the background. The best part is from interning at that station I probably know the guy who did it and he's more than enough of a disgruntled old cynic to know exactly what he's doing. I love it when stuff like this happens and you know someone, somewhere, had a chuckle doing it.
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Oct 22, 2015 10:31
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Henker posted:About a year ago two West Coast grocery stores, Vons and Albertons, decided to merge. The FTC told them they had to sell off 200 stores to avoid becoming a monopoly, and most of them were sold to a Washington chain, Haggen (who only had 18 stores before the acquisition). This ended up being a horrible move for Haggen, because they filed for bankruptcy last month and announced they're going to close ALL of the stores they had just opened up in California. Doesn't surprise me, the haggen here has all the exact same shittiness the old Albertson's had.
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Something like that happened here a few times. There's a big grocery called Lucky's that changed into Albertson's years ago. Then it turned back into Lucky's after like a decade. Starbucks bought a chain here called La Boulange and after a couple years they shut them all down. Then the La Boulange owners bought back the name and re-opened the stores. It all looks like a huge waste of money and time.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:02
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You could probably throw in grocery stores Dominick's and Mariano's in Chicago. Safeway bought Dominick's in the early 90s and then they slowly lost market share until Safeway up and closed all of the Dominick's in the Chicago area a couple years ago. Bob Mariano was CEO of Dominick's before Safeway bought it, and pretty much right as Dominick's really started to collapse, a bunch of Mariano's grocery stores started opening up. Once Dominick's finally went kaput, Mariano's ended up moving into like half of the old Dominick's locations.
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Mu Zeta posted:Something like that happened here a few times. There's a big grocery called Lucky's that changed into Albertson's years ago. Then it turned back into Lucky's after like a decade. The first one isn't as dumb as it sounds. Albertsons got broken up when it was acquired by a group of companies, and the Lucky's stores were among those that lost the Albertsons name. So it was a waste of money in a sense, but it wasn't one company buying stores then just converting them back. As for La Boulange, closing the stores was because Starbucks didn't give a poo poo about them. They bought the company for its recipes and production facilities as part of the chain's major (and hugely successful) bid to increase food sales. Now, whether letting the existing stores fail was a smart decision is up for argument, but considering it was after the cupcake crash that turned Crumbs from the Next Big Thing into a joke I won't blame Starbucks for not trying too hard. Also Starbucks still owns the name, the new La Boulange chain is La Boulangerie de San Francisco. Similar, and it's being opened with Starbucks' official blessing, but it isn't giving up the old name.
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Mescal posted:This is so boring I can't talk myself into the sentences. I have no idea what this is about. Looks like it's written by an economist? Or a general-purpose ideas person? I don't know. Occasionally this thread spirals into people complaining about video game companies and warhammer creators changing their beloved toy prices or whatever. It's always dull and nearly incomprehensible.
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I used to work at BellSouth and AT&T so we had a fun time with name changes. First we had BellSouth Mobility for cell service. Then we went into a joint partnership with SBC Telecom and started Cingular. Spent millions making that orange blob guy synonymous with wireless phones. Then AT&T sold their wireless business to us and we spent more money changing AT&T Wireless to Cingular. Then SBC bought AT&T and BellSouth and we changed Cingular to...at&t wireless. But to be fair we went from upper case to lower case and modified the Saul Bass iconic logo for Web 2.0. I think the AT&T Wireless to Cingular to at&t all took place within a two year time frame.
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Krispy Kareem posted:But to be fair we went from upper case to lower case and modified the Saul Bass iconic logo for Web 2.0. What did Saul Bass know about graphic design, anyways
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Oct 22, 2015 17:28
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What the Death Star looked like, apparently.
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Here's one that's getting lots of discussion in the UFC thread: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/oct/21/reebok-blames-design-error-for-regrettable-ufc-ireland-shirt?CMP=fb_gu
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I like how even the model has that "are you sure this is going to fly?" look.
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AlphaKretin posted:The radio ad for a local nightclub has what I'm pretty sure is Goat Simulator music in the background. The best part is from interning at that station I probably know the guy who did it and he's more than enough of a disgruntled old cynic to know exactly what he's doing. I work in creating ads and the only thing getting me through the day is adding in little things that only a few will notice.
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