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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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WaltherFeng posted:I'm pretty sure this counts as dumb marketing trick http://i.imgur.com/j3kklnD.gifv
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Boywhiz88 posted: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. Apparently It's a customized Glock designed by firearms manufacturer that specializes in gun modifications. Obviously it's a one of a kind show piece, hence "dumb marketing" because they were clearly trying to promote their actual mods to general public. WaltherFeng has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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Burger King South Africa posted this ad: Not really bad marketing to be honest, I just found it real loving grim. Maybe I'm just being weird.
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Apr 11, 2016 21:07
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AtomD posted:Burger King South Africa posted this ad: Is that 29.90 in rands? That's like $2 US, which is crazy cheap. Is that right?
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Apr 11, 2016 21:11
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AtomD posted:Burger King South Africa posted this ad: You're interpreting it as "Payday means you can afford to eat really fancy food like Burger King!" No worries, I'm reading it as "It's pay day, so you can afford to eat at all!"  
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Apr 11, 2016 21:16
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Karma Monkey posted:Is that 29.90 in rands? That's like $2 US, which is crazy cheap. Is that right? Yeah, for a 1 burger meal, though I don't know the exact details. That's real cheap by ZA standards anyway.
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Apr 11, 2016 21:24
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AtomD posted:Yeah, for a 1 burger meal, though I don't know the exact details. That's real cheap by ZA standards anyway. What makes me sadder than the ad copy is that the burger meal NEVER looks anywhere nearly as good as the ad photo. I see these drat ads and I think hell yea, I want that! then I go to the lovely fast food place and order it and it looks like garbage. 
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Apr 11, 2016 21:42
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Karma Monkey posted:What makes me sadder than the ad copy is that the burger meal NEVER looks anywhere nearly as good as the ad photo. I see these drat ads and I think hell yea, I want that! then I go to the lovely fast food place and order it and it looks like garbage. The amount of bullshit they're allowed to do to food when they're preparing it for advertising photos is astonishing.
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Apr 11, 2016 21:51
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Besesoth posted:The amount of bullshit they're allowed to do to food when they're preparing it for advertising photos is astonishing. From what I've seen as a casual observer, the Hardees/Carl's Jr people have that down to an artform compared to their competitors when it comes to advertising image beauty versus cheap crud you get when you buy.
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Apr 11, 2016 22:21
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Oh hey, that one actually looks kinda like the loving Zapper it was basing itself one not just a loving paint job.
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Besesoth posted:The amount of bullshit they're allowed to do to food when they're preparing it for advertising photos is astonishing. Yea I remember watching a mini-doc about food photo shoots and it's fascinating and evil in equal measures. Then again, if they showed what the food is really gonna look like when you order it... 
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Apr 12, 2016 00:16
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AtomD posted:Burger King South Africa posted this ad: I missed this being from SA for a second and was very concerned over three burgers, a pepsi, and a large fry costing 30 bucks 
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Apr 12, 2016 00:26
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sweeperbravo posted:You're interpreting it as "Payday means you can afford to eat really fancy food like Burger King!" No worries, I'm reading it as "It's pay day, so you can afford to eat at all!" It's saying you can buy a decent amount of food for a cheap price, even if it is not payday, i.e. on payday you might buy a lot of food because you have funds available, but with these cheap prices you can buy a lot of food with whatever funds you have available on any day, be it payday or otherwise.
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Mu Zeta posted:One I saw was "No sleeveless shirts for males"
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Wandle Cax posted:It's saying you can buy a decent amount of food for a cheap price, even if it is not payday, i.e. on payday you might buy a lot of food because you have funds available, but with these cheap prices you can buy a lot of food with whatever funds you have available on any day, be it payday or otherwise. Oh, I know  It still rings wrong when you read it, and then if you think about it too long it gets sad. But the admakers were operating under the (probably correct) assumption that most ad viewers wouldn't even get to step 1.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:"NO DO-RAGS, FLAT-BRIMMED HATS, OR ROLLED-UP PANT LEGS. Wait, what do you mean, 'that's racist?' It has nothing to do with keeping certain people out of our nightclub!" Who the hell rolls up their pants legs?
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Apr 12, 2016 02:17
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Lagomorphic posted:The key word in that "blog" is Canada. We're on of the markets where they've spent a bunch of money renovating and launching trying to go more upscale. They've been running TV ads trying to play it up as a great place for young people to work as well (which is sort of true even if it's mostly because we've got decent minimum wage laws). McDonalds Canada is cool because they actually showed how they make the food in the ads look better than the real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8
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Besesoth posted:The amount of bullshit they're allowed to do to food when they're preparing it for advertising photos is astonishing. This episode of 99 percent invisible gives some good background, but definitely loses something from being a podcast vs. like a Youtube video. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/flying-food/
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Apr 12, 2016 02:26
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Ahh the days before CGI when the delicious slathering of chocolate in commercials were done by using thick brown paint. Also microwaving wet tampons to make instant steam.
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Not sure if it's marketing or not, but it struck me as a bit creepy. I had to renew my license a while back and i picked up a pamphlet about organ donation to read as I waited. The last part was a picture of a bunch of people staring out at me with the caption along the lines of "We're on the waiting list for your organs, so please don't smoke or use drugs---We want your organs healthy!" Just felt a bit weird and morbid. Like they were cheerfully hoping I'd die soon as possible.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:"NO DO-RAGS, FLAT-BRIMMED HATS, OR ROLLED-UP PANT LEGS. Wait, what do you mean, 'that's racist?' It has nothing to do with keeping certain people out of our nightclub!" The best of these was at the Hulk Hogan restaurant where the dress code prohibited almost entirely clothes I normally associate with Hulk Hogan.
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Guy Mann posted:McDonalds Canada is cool because they actually showed how they make the food in the ads look better than the real thing.
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Wandle Cax posted:It's saying you can buy a decent amount of food for a cheap price, even if it is not payday, i.e. on payday you might buy a lot of food because you have funds available, but with these cheap prices you can buy a lot of food with whatever funds you have available on any day, be it payday or otherwise. While that's probably the intended message, the SA economy got tanked so hard lately I can only read it as "Your money is worth next to nothing right now so you may as well make it count."
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Radio Paranoia posted:While that's probably the intended message, the SA economy got tanked so hard lately I can only read it as "Your money is worth next to nothing right now so you may as well make it count."
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Nitrox posted:That is really cool. I eat McDonals one in a blue moon and the boxed sandwiches actually do look like the advertisement. Minus the composition of course. Thinking about it, the only burger places I've seen where the burgers appear remotely as advertised are McDonalds and Whataburger. Maybe Burger King, too; I can't remember the last time I had one there. It could just be the franchises around here since we only have one Whataburger, but McDonalds are indeed pretty consistent with appearance.
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Karma Monkey posted:Is that 29.90 in rands? That's like $2 US, which is crazy cheap. Is that right? 29.90 rands? The world could barely handle one.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:29.90 rands? 
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Rough Lobster posted:Who the hell rolls up their pants legs? Dumb crackers evidently think that having one rolled-up pant leg is a gang sign.
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That Robox posted:Not sure if it's marketing or not, but it struck me as a bit creepy. I had to renew my license a while back and i picked up a pamphlet about organ donation to read as I waited. The last part was a picture of a bunch of people staring out at me with the caption along the lines of That should probably be the cover of the class M license rulebook.
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dpbjinc posted:Thinking about it, the only burger places I've seen where the burgers appear remotely as advertised are McDonalds and Whataburger. Maybe Burger King, too; I can't remember the last time I had one there. It could just be the franchises around here since we only have one Whataburger, but McDonalds are indeed pretty consistent with appearance. A local burg place here does it too Don't you want those burgs?
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Rough Lobster posted:Who the hell rolls up their pants legs? One gang signifier is which pants leg you have rolled up, so it is (was, I haven't worked in that area in a few years) an inner-city style.
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That Robox posted:Not sure if it's marketing or not, but it struck me as a bit creepy. I had to renew my license a while back and i picked up a pamphlet about organ donation to read as I waited. The last part was a picture of a bunch of people staring out at me with the caption along the lines of Poorly planned yes. But please, still be an organ donor. It's important.
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death .cab for qt posted:I missed this being from SA for a second and was very concerned over three burgers, a pepsi, and a large fry costing 30 bucks In Washington DC that costs me about twenty.
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Apr 12, 2016 19:49
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Dumb crackers evidently think that having one rolled-up pant leg is a gang sign. That reminds me of some campaign against saggy pants that tried to convince kids not to do it because it was a gay thing, which is astounding on so many levels on top of being complete bullshit.
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Someone was giving out bracelets and encouraging people to register as donors when I was at the DMV a few years ago. I showed her I was already a donor and she hugged me and declared that she had two donated lungs. All I could think to say was "Well they're not my lungs but you're welcome."
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Choco1980 posted:Poorly planned yes. But please, still be an organ donor. It's important. I definitely am, though hopefully it's now going to be printed on my license instead of a sticker, you wouldn't believe how many gas station clerks have tried to peel it off when I had to show ID, or have warned me to take it off myself, lest the paramedics make no attempt to save me and just gut me like a fish right on the spot. It was always only the older women clerks for whatever reason. They seemed really concerned. But now I haven't smoked in about 4 years, so cleaner organs, and no weird conspiracies for me. Woohoo!
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Ugh, as someone that has received several transplants, that kind of behavior disgusts me. Honestly, what they need to do is change it to an opt-OUT system rather than opt-in. There'd be a lot more people just going with it if they didn't have to do anything extra. Whenever I renew my license, the clerks are always pleasantly surprised that I actually want to pay the extra three dollars for the check mark on the back of mine.
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Choco1980 posted:Ugh, as someone that has received several transplants, that kind of behavior disgusts me. Honestly, what they need to do is change it to an opt-OUT system rather than opt-in. There'd be a lot more people just going with it if they didn't have to do anything extra. Whenever I renew my license, the clerks are always pleasantly surprised that I actually want to pay the extra three dollars for the check mark on the back of mine. "TH' GUBMINT DEATH PANELS IS TAKIN' ARE ORGANS!" An opt-out system for organ donors will never fly in the US.
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Bonster posted:(was, I haven't worked in that area in a few years) Yeah, I don't think it's been a thing for ages. I remember a nightclub that had similar policies back when I was in grad school; they didn't want sagging pants, shirts featuring drug paraphernalia, flat-brimmed hats, or (my favorite) "cloth head coverings," the last of which was specifically to target do-rags. When the local media kicked up a fuss about the obviously racist policies, the owner went into damage control mode and had his staff start only targeting white people with baggy pants and bandannas. I went there for a costume party dressed as Axl Rose and was told that if I didn't take off my bandanna immediately, I'd be shown the door  Choco1980 posted:Ugh, as someone that has received several transplants, that kind of behavior disgusts me. Honestly, what they need to do is change it to an opt-OUT system rather than opt-in. There'd be a lot more people just going with it if they didn't have to do anything extra. Whenever I renew my license, the clerks are always pleasantly surprised that I actually want to pay the extra three dollars for the check mark on the back of mine. Yeah but what about all those doctors who will intentionally let you die so they can take your organs
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