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queserasera posted:The only working Ms Pac Man arcade cabinets I've ever seen were at laundromats. I'm reasonably certain that's because 95% of them went to laundromats in the first place. They only get removed if they break.
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queserasera posted:The only working Ms Pac Man arcade cabinets I've ever seen were at laundromats. I saw some at Holiday Inns alongside Pole Position, but this was during the mid-80s.
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May 19, 2018 03:48
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Arcade games and pinball machines are apparently kind of an endangered species since barely anyone knows how to repair them anymore, so if they break they're basically junk.
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May 19, 2018 05:08
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Arcade games and pinball machines are apparently kind of an endangered species since barely anyone knows how to repair them anymore, so if they break they're basically junk. There are people with the know how. The biggest problem is that it's not necessarily economically viable to fix the machines as the parts aren't often manufactured anymore. It's literally impossible to find parts for some machines as they no longer exist. You can maybe scavenge it out of another cabinet but for some particularly old things compatible parts no longer even exist. The other snag is that the machines decay like crazy if they're not actively played. That machine that sat in a dusty corner totally forgotten about probably quit working pretty quickly. There's actually a reason places like the pinball museum actively encourage you to actually get your hands on the games and play to your heart's content; it's actually good for the gubbinz.
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May 19, 2018 10:24
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Saw an ad on TV for Show Dogs that included a graphic that read "Certified Furry" instead of "Certified Fresh". That word does not mean what you think it means, advertisers...
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May 19, 2018 21:33
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Plus you can just shove an emulator box in a cabinet and not be limited to just one game.
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May 19, 2018 21:40
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Being European not having your own washer and dryer just seems weird to me. Ontopic: I get this super annoying "hip" add for internet by Tele2 on my phone's youtube every day, the kicker: I have my internet from them.
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May 20, 2018 02:36
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ToxicSlurpee posted:There are people with the know how. The biggest problem is that it's not necessarily economically viable to fix the machines as the parts aren't often manufactured anymore. It's literally impossible to find parts for some machines as they no longer exist. You can maybe scavenge it out of another cabinet but for some particularly old things compatible parts no longer even exist. The other snag is that the machines decay like crazy if they're not actively played. That machine that sat in a dusty corner totally forgotten about probably quit working pretty quickly. Huh, that's odd, but it makes sense given I imagine they'd be made assuming they'd be played relentlessly day in and out by bored kids.
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May 20, 2018 02:40
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My uncle has a pinball machine and it's been broken for 20 of the last 40 years, but not like in a row. It must be so drat frustrating to fix those things and then 6 months later it's broken again.
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May 20, 2018 04:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Huh, that's odd, but it makes sense given I imagine they'd be made assuming they'd be played relentlessly day in and out by bored kids. It's really just a fact of machinery in general. The worst thing you can do to any machine is to stick it in a corner somewhere and forget about it. Machines are meant to, you know, do poo poo so if you want to preserve it in a working state it has to spend some of its time doing whatever it was designed to do. Proper maintenance is obviously the other side of it.
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May 20, 2018 04:36
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dissss posted:Yeah I don’t think it’d take very long even with only two people - our fancy washing machine cost like $1200 and the laundromat is $4 per small load. At 3 loads a week that’s over $600 which I’m sure could buy a basic washing machine. You do you, but how in the gently caress are you managing three loads a week with two people? Did you accidentally buy a washing machine the size of a thimble?
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May 20, 2018 04:38
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dissss why in the hell do you have my cat as your avatar
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Zedd posted:Being European not having your own washer and dryer just seems weird to me. There was a while where Tele2 advertised as "the newest 4G network". This is because they 
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Reminds me that there was a car breakdown service that used to adertise themselves with the tagline "We're not the biggest, but we're aiming to be the best." Not often I've seen an advert saying "Our competitors are better than us."
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May 20, 2018 23:44
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I mean, points for honesty.
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Sunswipe posted:Reminds me that there was a car breakdown service that used to adertise themselves with the tagline "We're not the biggest, but we're aiming to be the best." Not often I've seen an advert saying "Our competitors are better than us." Eh, sometimes the honesty is what you want to go for. Everybody screaming "I'M THE BEST!!!!!" at the top of their lungs gets old because of course you're going to tell me you're the best. Saying "we're aiming to be the best" says to me "we realize we aren't perfect and are actively working to get better." Kind of like when Domino's went "uh hey folks, we realize out pizza sucks so we're working on not sucking now. Sorry about that!" It was very refreshing that we got "our pizza went to poo poo, that's our fault and we're fixing it" instead of fluffy PR bullshit or "well you don't really understand pizza." So much of marketing is based on outright lies that seeing somebody be honest gets a lot of attention. "We're small and we're not the best but we'll do our damnedest to get the job done right!" is something I wish more companies would say instead of "choose us because we're the best! Now allow me to show you pictures of happy people instead of telling you why we're the best."
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May 20, 2018 23:49
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Wells Fargo is pushing a big campaign saying “hey we were terrible and hosed over pretty much everyone but now we are good so come back”
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How long until their next massive scandel?
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May 21, 2018 00:47
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RandomPauI posted:How long until their next massive scandel? Couple minutes or so.
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May 21, 2018 01:07
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Allegedly Allergic posted:You do you, but how in the gently caress are you managing three loads a week with two people? Did you accidentally buy a washing machine the size of a thimble? Load of sheets, load of towels, load of clothes. That’s without getting into delicates that apparently need separating from the rest of the clothes.
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May 21, 2018 01:21
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Sunswipe posted:Reminds me that there was a car breakdown service that used to adertise themselves with the tagline "We're not the biggest, but we're aiming to be the best." Not often I've seen an advert saying "Our competitors are better than us." Avis’s marketing played this angle for decades. 
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May 21, 2018 01:24
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Avis’s marketing played this angle for decades. The little "Avis can't afford to relax" caption had me in stitches, as did the "We're not jammed with customers  " line at the bottom.
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May 21, 2018 01:28
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Krispy Wafer posted:My uncle has a pinball machine and it's been broken for 20 of the last 40 years, but not like in a row. It must be so drat frustrating to fix those things and then 6 months later it's broken again. At least with pinball tables, a lot of the basic parts (flippers, bands, mechanisms, etc) are pretty universal over the past 3 decades, so you can find parts pretty easy if you're looking for them. If it's something like a fancy plastic prop or an electronic readout or a paintjob, you're pretty much hosed though.
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May 21, 2018 02:16
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oldpainless posted:Wells Fargo is pushing a big campaign saying “hey we were terrible and hosed over pretty much everyone but now we are good so come back” Recently I was at a friend’s house recovering from surgery, and he pays for Hulu, which means you get commercials every five minutes apparently. One commercial break was Wells Fargo begging for forgiveness, then Facebook, ditto, Wells Fargo again... The Facebook one was especially grating because it talks about “going back to what were made for”, which the narrator wants you to think was “sharing baby pictures with your high school classmates”. And not, you know. Collecting girls’ photographs from their sorority websites so boys could vote on how hot they were.
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shelley posted:Recently I was at a friend’s house recovering from surgery, and he pays for Hulu, which means you get commercials every five minutes apparently. Im pretty sure you dont get ads if you actually pay for Hulu. Free Hulu sure as hell does though.
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May 21, 2018 06:19
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Eight-dollar Hulu, you get ads. Twelve-dollar Hulu, most (not all) shows are ad-free.
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May 21, 2018 06:36
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Eight-dollar Hulu, you get ads. Twelve-dollar Hulu, most (not all) shows are ad-free. Hulu is the worst and I would never use it if my best friend wasn't mooching off his dad's account. I'm not paying money to still see ads. 
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$8 hulu is for dummies, $12 hulu is good and has no ads
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MrJacobs posted:Im pretty sure you dont get ads if you actually pay for Hulu. Free Hulu sure as hell does though. I think it’s the 8-dollar tier based on what other posters here are saying. Idk, I’m broke, I’m not paying for any tier of Hulu. I feel so old posting this, but: it’s absolutely nuts how many commercials there are, any time I actually watch television. And how little variation there sometimes is. Yes, I’ve tuned in to half-watch a lovely reality show, I’m definitely in the market for a fancy car, a different fancy car, and a Disneyland vacation with the family I don’t have.
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Has anybody noticed how some commercials will feature the default iPhone text notification sound? I guess it's not a dumb marketing move, per say, because I've fallen for that trick probably dozens of times now and a lot of people I know have too. It's really interesting, because it's almost guaranteed to get somebody's attention if they've ever owned/used an iPhone for a while.
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May 21, 2018 11:32
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I'm surprised there aren't ads with the old icq/aim sounds (or trillian/pidgin, for super precise tech marketing)
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Astoundingly Ugly Baby posted:Has anybody noticed how some commercials will feature the default iPhone text notification sound? I guess it's not a dumb marketing move, per say, because I've fallen for that trick probably dozens of times now and a lot of people I know have too. It's really interesting, because it's almost guaranteed to get somebody's attention if they've ever owned/used an iPhone for a while. Watching Iron Man, there's a few places where Stark is doing his computer stuff and the default Steam message tone plays. Got me the first time, then I realised I wasn't even logged in to Steam.
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There's also no free Hulu anymore. Everything I've seen is behind the paywall.
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I don't know if it's still the case, but Hulu's ad system was so stupid. Like an episode starts and then you immediately have a commercial before you can even get interested in the show and then 15 minutes later you have an ad block so long you might as well go take a dump while you're waiting. It seemed geared solely to annoy rather than sell a product and wasn't at all tuned to what they were watching. Like do we really need as many ads during the Rockford Files, which is a 40 year old show that probably costs nothing to stream as we do for Hulu's tentpole original productions? I got ad-free Hulu for my mom for Christmas so that I could use it too. Now it's a decent streaming service, but still too expensive to buy without justifying it as a gift to a loved one.
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shelley posted:Recently I was at a friend’s house recovering from surgery, and he pays for Hulu, which means you get commercials every five minutes apparently. Uber is also running a “sorry we suck” campaign. All three run during sports games.
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Krispy Wafer posted:the Rockford Files, which is a 40 year old show that probably costs nothing to stream Nothing costs nothing to stream, extract maximum value from every single byte sent. Even Mr. Rogers needed to be sponsored
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In fairness, cable is a lot more expensive and still features ads every ten seconds.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it's still the case, but Hulu's ad system was so stupid. Like an episode starts and then you immediately have a commercial before you can even get interested in the show and then 15 minutes later you have an ad block so long you might as well go take a dump while you're waiting. It seemed geared solely to annoy rather than sell a product and wasn't at all tuned to what they were watching. Like do we really need as many ads during the Rockford Files, which is a 40 year old show that probably costs nothing to stream as we do for Hulu's tentpole original productions? I remember trying to use Hulu in the dorms. I would pause it thinking "oh it'll load the whole show commercials and all" but no it would take 15 minutes to load the first 5 minutes. The another half hour just for the first commercial block. I still hate the service because of that
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it's still the case, but Hulu's ad system was so stupid. Like an episode starts and then you immediately have a commercial before you can even get interested in the show and then 15 minutes later you have an ad block so long you might as well go take a dump while you're waiting. It seemed geared solely to annoy rather than sell a product and wasn't at all tuned to what they were watching. Like do we really need as many ads during the Rockford Files, which is a 40 year old show that probably costs nothing to stream as we do for Hulu's tentpole original productions? Hulu got rid of The Rockford Files. Literally while I was in the middle of an episode.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Hulu got rid of The Rockford Files. Which episode was it?
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