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Ziv Zulander posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABRrctkPcg I knew a guy that did that kind of poo poo grade animation. They do it on purpose to make the company look as no frills as possible, so clearly you are getting a good deal on their products. No clue about the action figure aspect of it.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I knew a guy that did that kind of poo poo grade animation. They do it on purpose to make the company look as no frills as possible, so clearly you are getting a good deal on their products. don't forget, it's really memorable for being poo poo grade
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May 12, 2017 16:43
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Indolent Bastard posted:I knew a guy that did that kind of poo poo grade animation. They do it on purpose to make the company look as no frills as possible, so clearly you are getting a good deal on their products. This is how The Cheat stays in business.
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May 12, 2017 16:59
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The MSJ posted:This is how The Cheat stays in business. Here the Cheat, have a trophy!
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May 12, 2017 17:05
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The MSJ posted:This is how The Cheat stays in business. Any company that would hire the Chapman brothers to do a The Cheat-style animation for a commercial would almost immediately get my money, whether I needed their services or not.
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Ziv Zulander posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABRrctkPcg Is this the same studio that did Food Fight??
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The MSJ posted:This is how The Cheat stays in business. hehe
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I bought a bag of white skittles - didn't think anything of it until I've read:quote:All the lentils are white in the celebration of Pride So - white pride? 
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May 18, 2017 23:06
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It's a really tortured metaphor of "The only rainbow should be those in the parade".
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https://youtu.be/gIiO5_ZHJ8o Alergies are making words disappear? Did they print the world's smallest dictionary to guilt parents into making their kids go outside?
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grittyreboot posted:https://youtu.be/gIiO5_ZHJ8o I mean yeah? I don't think the message that kids don't go outside as much is really a bad one.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I mean yeah? I don't think the message that kids don't go outside as much is really a bad one. Well when it's coming from a pharmaceutical company, the intent seems less altruistic.
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WampaLord posted:Well when it's coming from a pharmaceutical company, the intent seems less altruistic. Nice work cracking the case.
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Wasn't there a juice commercial or something with a bunch of like 50-70 year olds talking about getting chased by bears and hopping fences in their youth and then they're moved to tears by watching a video of kids saying they liked watching TV and playing video games with their friends?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Wasn't there a juice commercial or something with a bunch of like 50-70 year olds talking about getting chased by bears and hopping fences in their youth and then they're moved to tears by watching a video of kids saying they liked watching TV and playing video games with their friends? Yeah, it was pretty infuriating, really. A bunch of parents and grandparents talking about how sad it was that their children said that their favorite thing to do was sit inside all day and play videogames or post on social media or whatever, and how it's sad that childhood just isn't like it used to be. LIKE WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?
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Sucrose posted:Yeah, it was pretty infuriating, really. A bunch of parents and grandparents talking about how sad it was that their children said that their favorite thing to do was sit inside all day and play videogames or post on social media or whatever, and how it's sad that childhood just isn't like it used to be. LIKE WHOSE FAULT IS THAT? Kids these days and their participation trophies!  Is the people who awarded those trophies.
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Platystemon posted:Kids these days and their participation trophies!
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I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy
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Cumslut1895 posted:I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy And when they are handed out, kids treat them like trash, because they know that everyone got one and it's just a hunk of plastic. Kids are not nearly as stupid as many people believe them to be.
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Sucrose posted:And when they are handed out, kids treat them like trash, because they know that everyone got one and it's just a hunk of plastic. Kids are not nearly as stupid as many people believe them to be. Yup, just like they know who really won the game and what players suck. Sometimes I think people forget what it was like being a kid. Think back to like 5th or 6th grade, bet you still remember the kid on your baseball team that you just knew was gonna get out. edit: loving Robbie Walden
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Cumslut1895 posted:I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy Filthy millennial here who has loads of soccer participation trophies. Everyone knew they were garbage at the time. Woulda rather had another ice cream sandwich at the banquet. Think they're all still at my parents house. They wanted the drat things more than I did.
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Jolly Guy posted:They wanted the drat things more than I did. Ding ding ding! Participation trophies were never so much about "making sure kids don't feel bad when they lose" (the kids aren't fooled), they've always been more about stroking the egos of the kinds of parents who scream at referees at children's soccer matches. Enough over-involved helicopter parents demand "well everyone should get something", and it's done. The kids don't care, and wouldn't be listened to even if they did.
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As a kid I saw the distribution of participation trophies as "hey, here's a momento of the time you did that thing". A souvenir for dumb children's "contests", basically. I've still got a few lying around, and sometimes I look at them and say "hey, that reminds me of the time I did that thing". As actual awards, though? I and everyone I knew thought they were worthless.
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canis minor posted:I bought a bag of white skittles - didn't think anything of it until I've read: Honestly the weirdest part of this to me is learning that the individual skittles are called "lentils" what the gently caress
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I got first place in a swim competition when I was like 10 and by brother got dead last and cried so much the swim coach when scrounging around in the storeroom and found a lovely little trophy and gave it to him, so participation trophies definitely existed.
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Apparently the Skittles were released a year ago with the same color and no/less outrage?
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Cumslut1895 posted:I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy At school sports day in primary school (in the early nineties) they gave out ribbons for first, second and third place and everyone else got a "competitor" ribbon. Participation was mandatory, so absolutely no one cared about getting a ribbon signifying that you turned up to an event you were required to be at. I must have had half a dozen of them in the box my mother kept my old school stuff in.
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Len posted:Apparently the Skittles were released a year ago with the same color and no/less outrage? I think last year they were more localized? I.e. only sold at pride parades. Now it's more widespread so more people are seeing them for the first time.
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In elementary school we had a 'Field Day' once a year where everybody would get into groups for various silly competitions. There were ribbons for every runner up and my friend and I were very proud to get 19th and 20th place respectively (out of 20) 
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Cumslut1895 posted:I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy Participation medals have been given out in the Olympics since the beginning if the modern Olympics.
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aren't participation trophies just proof that you attended the event?
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Tired Moritz posted:aren't participation trophies just proof that you attended the event? Actually they're a communist plot to protect the feelings of special snowflakes.
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and now we all have terrible self esteem because we can't trust praise.
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Rough Lobster posted:I got first place in a swim competition when I was like 10 and by brother got dead last and cried so much the swim coach when scrounging around in the storeroom and found a lovely little trophy and gave it to him, so participation trophies definitely existed. Sometimes this back fires. My 5 year old nephew got a bike for his birthday from my parents. My mum was worried that since my 7 year old nephew wasn't getting anything that he would feel bad because a bike is a pretty big present and my parents usually give less obvious presents. So, my mum gave him a pack of dollar store playing cards and within 15 minutes my 5 year old nephew was crying because he really wanted playing cards, not a lousy new bike. Kids are bad at knowing what they want.
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Goosed it. posted:Sometimes this back fires. My 5 year old nephew got a bike for his birthday from my parents. My mum was worried that since my 7 year old nephew wasn't getting anything that he would feel bad because a bike is a pretty big present and my parents usually give less obvious presents. So, my mum gave him a pack of dollar store playing cards and within 15 minutes my 5 year old nephew was crying because he really wanted playing cards, not a lousy new bike. Kids are bad at knowing what they want.
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Goosed it. posted:Sometimes this back fires. My 5 year old nephew got a bike for his birthday from my parents. My mum was worried that since my 7 year old nephew wasn't getting anything that he would feel bad because a bike is a pretty big present and my parents usually give less obvious presents. So, my mum gave him a pack of dollar store playing cards and within 15 minutes my 5 year old nephew was crying because he really wanted playing cards, not a lousy new bike. Kids are bad at knowing what they want. Cold gruel. That's what they want.
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I thought this was only something that happened in a Wimpy Kid book. Here is a follow up on Max. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q603JYd3a8
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Cumslut1895 posted:I have literally never heard of anyone receiving a participation trophy We can't all be Randian supermen.
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One year at summer camp, I was bound and loving determined to Get Good at archery. I never did — turns out I had undiagnosed vision problems! oh well — but I showed up to the range during every last scrap of my free time to put in practice. At the end of camp, I got an award not for being good, but for that sheer persistence, and at the time, that felt pretty great.
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