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bongwizzard posted:I do two of the fishing lure boxes and while I am always on the verge of quitting them often enough I get something cool that was totally off my radar so I keep subscribed. But, despite there being a million lures out there, I see how eventually I will be too "advanced" for them. huh I didn't know there was a fishing box service, I could probably get some use out of at least a month or two of that if the price is ok, got a link?
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Cumslut1895 posted:Personally I subscribe to SkinnerBox. It's really cool, sometimes SkinnerBox stuff is sometimes good, but sometimes the stuff inside is just trash and I can never rely on them coming on time.
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TKIY posted:We get BarkBox and it's actually a good deal. Usually two new dog toys, three or four different bags of treats and one larger treat every month. Aw, that's cute, it's like dog Netflix.
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Gumby posted:SkinnerBox stuff is sometimes good, but sometimes the stuff inside is just trash and I can never rely on them coming on time. You should get the BetterSkinnerBox, then. It's always something kinda okay but this one time eight years ago it was AMAZING and I'm kinda hoping it eventually gets that good again.
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Somfin posted:You should get the BetterSkinnerBox, then. It's always something kinda okay but this one time eight years ago it was AMAZING and I'm kinda hoping it eventually gets that good again. WootBoCs.txt
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TKIY posted:We get BarkBox and it's actually a good deal. Usually two new dog toys, three or four different bags of treats and one larger treat every month. bongwizzard posted:I do two of the fishing lure boxes and while I am always on the verge of quitting them often enough I get something cool that was totally off my radar so I keep subscribed. But, despite there being a million lures out there, I see how eventually I will be too "advanced" for them. See, to some degree, I can see merit in specific boxes like this. It's only dog toys and snacks, or only a grab-bag of fishing lures, or something for a specific hobby. Those things are usually at least useful, even if it ends up being something you'd never buy again. The thing with LootCrate is that it's basically just a box of garbage from stuff that you might like, from franchises you might know. Like, having a lure that's a cartoon character or superhero logo might be a bit weird, but at least it's a lure and you'll still get some use out of it. Getting a Funco statuette of a character you don't know or like, or a goddamn bowtie with a character from a niche internet cartoon is just a job now because you either have to find a place to put it, or hope someone buys it on eBay. I give a bit more of a pass to things like Naturebox and Blue Apron, because at least that stuff is edible, so you're rid of it pretty quick. I just wish they'd stop billing themselves as some sort of exceptionally healthy alternative to the grocery store, is all. At least MunchPak is honest about it being junk food.
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I was getting (and enjoying) SkinnerBox for 9 years, but then suddenly we all discovered it was a FAKE SkinnerBox and the real SkinnerBox showed up instead. We weren't even all the way through our first box before we discovered the new/real SkinnerBox was terrible, so we complained until we got the Fake SkinnerBOx box. Then we all just pretended like it never happened.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:huh I didn't know there was a fishing box service, I could probably get some use out of at least a month or two of that if the price is ok, got a link? The two I have are Mystery Tackle Box and Lucky Tackle Box. They both run the range from awesome to meh and iirc both do a deal where the first box is $5. MTB is much easier to cancel then LTB, but both are small companies and have good CS. My main issue with both is that often most of the value in each box is a crankbait, which I don't really use, so I end up sitting on them for months then selling them all.
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Jul 12, 2016 17:53
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I want to see Patrick McManus review a fishing tackle lootbox.
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bongwizzard posted:The two I have are Mystery Tackle Box and Lucky Tackle Box. They both run the range from awesome to meh and iirc both do a deal where the first box is $5. MTB is much easier to cancel then LTB, but both are small companies and have good CS. Nice. See this is what I think these boxes should be for, dumb specialty stuff like this. The broad 'geek culture' and 'snack' stuff always seems to suffer from the whole 'jack of all trades master of none' thing.
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This lootcrate poo poo pisses me off because I'm a massive video game nerd and even the items that include references to things I like tend to repulse me. I don't want cheap lovely gaudy bowties about Zelda or whatever. I may be a nerd that likes dumb things but I'm going to dress like a goddamn normal human being. It's like you get a grab bag of lovely thrift store toys for 3000% markup. Also, anyone that actually likes those awful funkopop figurines must have brain damage or something. There is literally nothing appealing about those ugly, dreadful things.
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How Rude posted:Also, anyone that actually likes those awful funkopop figurines must have brain damage or something. There is literally nothing appealing about those ugly, dreadful things. It really is a case of the more you've seen of them the less appealing they get. It feels weird to say this about a piece of merch, but there's no heart in their creation
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Mierenneuker posted:It really is a case of the more you've seen of them the less appealing they get. It feels weird to say this about a piece of merch, but there's no heart in their creation Yea I got a couple way back when they were novel and it was cute but now that I've seen them everywhere possible they're just a generic blob of exact same figures
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How Rude posted:It's like you get a grab bag of lovely thrift store toys for 3000% markup.
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Are Dorbz the same as the Pop figurines? They look really similar. I got a friend one of a Dalek as a nerdy gift a while back since she loves doctor who, but at least that one isn't the same exact shape as every other figure.
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Jul 13, 2016 06:10
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Clearly all the different "loot" boxes don't fail at marketing, since a shitload of goons ITT seem to have fallen for them.
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How is it that any rational person ever thought that things like carpet and wallpaper made sense in a bathroom?
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Yeah my parents got wallpaper for their bathroom and it didn't take long to go mouldy and curl around the edges. It also doesn't help that the tiles were too close together so the mortar is failing to hold and the tiles keep falling off. It's like Silent Hill in there.
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Nobody posted it yet but here's the mystery box SA mart thread, still amazing reading it back http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3338464&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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I grew up in a house with carpeted bathrooms. It was like that when we moved in, and one of the bathrooms definitely had this hideous orange/yellow/black carpeting which was probably specifically chosen to hide piss.
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Jul 13, 2016 13:00
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Probably was white when it was put in.
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Jul 13, 2016 13:14
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I'm pretty sure it was a status thing. You go from where carpets were expensive hand made things you might have in one room covering part of the floor, to well made and inexpensive enough to put in wall to wall, to inexpensive enough to put everywhere so you did it to show off. Sort of like how aspic/jello salads let you show off that you were able to afford a refrigerator, even if a lot of them were gross in retrospect.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Probably was white when it was put in. If you're a man, even when you are a careful, there will be times a drop of urine will fall to the floor below. Now multiply that for several years. So loving disgusting.
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A neighbours house where I used to live had this hideous shag carpeting everywhere (yes, including the bathroom) and our cat regularly managed to get into their house after which we got annoyed phone calls that she was tearing up their carpet. Good cat.
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Sedge and Bee posted:Are Dorbz the same as the Pop figurines? They look really similar. I got a friend one of a Dalek as a nerdy gift a while back since she loves doctor who, but at least that one isn't the same exact shape as every other figure. Dorbz aren't the same as the Pop! figures, but incredibly they're both made by the same company. I assumed they were competing brands of vinyl pop icon dolls, but no; its the same company marketing two different lines of vinyl figures. Holy poo poo. The Dorbz are all the same kinda rounded matroshka doll style, while the pop figures all have the same oversized square heads. Its bizarre.
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I think Dorbz would be more interesting if they were actual matryoshka dolls of the series they were representing. Like, a Link that has progressively older representations of himself until it's just a small, blocky rendering of the NES version. As it is, though, they're just more generic poo poo that I don't understand for people outside of, like, middle school/early high school.
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Taking a risk here posting an actual marketing fail rather than more BoxTalk: The University of North Texas didn't think this one through
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Wylie posted:Taking a risk here posting an actual marketing fail rather than more BoxTalk:  That did take me a minute
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Zubat used Pussy Pump!
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Geokinesis posted:Zubat used Pussy Pump! Is "Brands posting about Pokémon Go" going to be the new "Brands saying bae"?
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when bae needs her pussy pumped
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Full Battle Rattle posted:tfw bae's zubat needs her pussy pumped 
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Wylie posted:Taking a risk here posting an actual marketing fail rather than more BoxTalk: Their student radio station used to be KUNT until they changed it to KNTU 10-15 years ago
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Wylie posted:Taking a risk here posting an actual marketing fail rather than more BoxTalk: I need this mug. I'll put it on my desk on Thursdays. That's the day when we promote colleges.
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blugu64 posted:Their student radio station used to be KUNT until they changed it to KNTU 10-15 years ago I miss the weekly show that was just this on loop.
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 DOSE - One half teaspoonful three times a day.
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You Are A Elf posted:
I like the terrifyingly vague "skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients". I suppose the rest of it probably can't be worse than loving chloroform and morphine, though.
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