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Flaggy
Jul 6, 2007

Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair



Grimey Drawer

Handsome Ralph posted:

HBO has a doc about this coming out at the end of the month.

Or you can read the article the Doc is based on now: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions

E: its a long read so make yourself cozy

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Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
:nws: in the replies

https://twitter.com/bostonmarket/status/1221935500925292544?s=21

This went about as well as you’d expect

Shut up Meg
Jan 8, 2019

You're safe here.

Bobby Digital posted:

:nws: in the replies

https://twitter.com/bostonmarket/status/1221935500925292544?s=21

This went about as well as you’d expect

"That's just a photo of a chicken? Why is it being posted so often?'

*clicks on photo*

"oh...."

Casu Marzu
Oct 20, 2008

oh yikes

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Bobby Digital posted:

:nws: in the replies

https://twitter.com/bostonmarket/status/1221935500925292544?s=21

This went about as well as you’d expect

Absolute cowardice of them to hide some of the replies. That shouldn't be a thing, but I guess twitter doesn't want to let anyone offend the poor Brands™.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Memento posted:

Absolute cowardice of them to hide some of the replies. That shouldn't be a thing, but I guess twitter doesn't want to let anyone offend the poor Brands™.

Nah hiding became a thing because checkmarks started getting offended people disagreed and made fun of them online

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010

CharlestheHammer posted:

Nah hiding became a thing because checkmarks started getting offended people disagreed and made fun of them online

So Twitter helped them by making a feature that’s basically “click this button to show all the best owns”

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Henchman of Santa posted:

So Twitter helped them by making a feature that’s basically “click this button to show all the best owns”

All the best owns that the bluecheck is guaranteed to have seen.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


I'm bad at Twitter, how do I view the hidden owns?

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

dirksteadfast posted:

This entire week about 90% of my Spotify ads have been about tampons. I am a man. I would happily buy my wife what she needs with no shame, but we do so at the store and I have never bought nor searched for anything regarding tampons or any feminine hygiene products online.

It’s not so much dumb marketing, I’m just confused. Does Spotify think I’m a woman between the ages of 12-50 based off my music selections?

That sort of thing is done algorithmically and computers are stupid. Pandora used to apparently think that I was Mexican as for like two years my adverts were all in Spanish. Now, I do speak some Spanish but I am by no means fully fluent nor even adjacent to being Mexican.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That sort of thing is done algorithmically and computers are stupid. Pandora used to apparently think that I was Mexican as for like two years my adverts were all in Spanish. Now, I do speak some Spanish but I am by no means fully fluent nor even adjacent to being Mexican.

i think you just need to listen to less Morrisey

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Len posted:

I'm bad at Twitter, how do I view the hidden owns?

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Henchman of Santa posted:

So Twitter helped them by making a feature that’s basically “click this button to show all the best owns”

But they don’t have to see them

So ego protected

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

Ahahaha, what an incredible feature.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That sort of thing is done algorithmically and computers are stupid. Pandora used to apparently think that I was Mexican as for like two years my adverts were all in Spanish. Now, I do speak some Spanish but I am by no means fully fluent nor even adjacent to being Mexican.

YouTube played me exclusively Spanish Language adds for like 6 months, you'd think they could figure out I don't speak Spanish by the 0 Spanish language videos I've ever viewed.

dirksteadfast
Oct 10, 2010

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That sort of thing is done algorithmically and computers are stupid. Pandora used to apparently think that I was Mexican as for like two years my adverts were all in Spanish. Now, I do speak some Spanish but I am by no means fully fluent nor even adjacent to being Mexican.

That happened to me too for a while, but I was commuting from Orange County to LA County with a large Hispanic population in both so I chalked it up to location-based algorithms.

jojoinnit
Dec 13, 2010

Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

Beartaco posted:

Ahahaha, what an incredible feature.

It's literally just the picture of a guys dick in a raw chicken over and over. No good burns were hidden, wtf are you guys on about?

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

dirksteadfast posted:

That happened to me too for a while, but I was commuting from Orange County to LA County with a large Hispanic population in both so I chalked it up to location-based algorithms.

At the time I lived in the place with very, very few Mexicans. I can't think of any possible reason that the algorithm decided I spoke Spanish.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

At the time I lived in the place with very, very few Mexicans. I can't think of any possible reason that the algorithm decided I spoke Spanish.

Uh huh. What's your porn preferences

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

jojoinnit posted:

It's literally just the picture of a guys dick in a raw chicken over and over. No good burns were hidden, wtf are you guys on about?

I think it's hilarious that the company has a has accidentally added a dedicated "show me a dick in a raw chicken" button. Instead of the images being buried in the comments they're now just embedded right there in the tweet. It's the Streisand effect at its finest.

Beartaco has a new favorite as of 14:03 on Jan 30, 2020

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

ToxicSlurpee posted:

At the time I lived in the place with very, very few Mexicans. I can't think of any possible reason that the algorithm decided I spoke Spanish.

No one expects the Spanish intermission.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Milo and POTUS posted:

Uh huh. What's your porn preferences

Penguins.

...

DON'T JUDGE ME.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Are they latinx penguins? Those Galapagos ones might be.

James Cameron did me a favor with his latina robot movie, I tell you what.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

Platystemon posted:

All the best owns that the bluecheck is guaranteed to have seen.

Yeah, I actually think this is one of the best features that Twitter has ever introduced.

CharlestheHammer posted:

But they don’t have to see them

So ego protected

Still had to see them once

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008




Probably puts the hidden replies in a queue to be deleted quickly

Schubalts
Nov 26, 2007

People say bigger is better.

But for the first time in my life, I think I've gone too far.

The MSJ posted:

Are they latinx penguins? Those Galapagos ones might be.

There are penguins at the southern tip of South America. They definitely count.

e: There's actually quite a few penguin species on the South American coast and islands https://www.volunteerlatinamerica.com/blog/posts/penguins-of-south-america

Schubalts has a new favorite as of 20:06 on Jan 30, 2020

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Fried Watermelon posted:



Probably puts the hidden replies in a queue to be deleted quickly

They deleted the tweet that the hidden replies were associated with.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014



Gonna chug single malt straight from a bull’s rear end.

oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

chitoryu12 posted:



Gonna chug single malt straight from a bull’s rear end.

Oh yeah, smartass? What animal rear end do you chug whisky from?

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

christmas boots posted:

Oh yeah, smartass? What animal rear end do you chug whisky from?

My husband's

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

rude

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

christmas boots posted:

Oh yeah, smartass? What animal rear end do you chug whisky from?

An iguana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9uAwV61-I

alexandriao
Jul 20, 2019


dirksteadfast posted:

I exclusively play a 1,000+ song playlist with as many genres as possible and no more than a few songs per artist. So it’ll skip from Shania Twain to Mastadon to Outkast to Foo Fighters etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if it leaned enough in one direction to trigger them thinking I was one demographic over another. Or maybe they didn’t have a good pulse so it defaulted to something.

would you mind linking to this?

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

Contagion and Outbreak are on sale in the iTunes movie store. Though I guess that could be a good marketing move.

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002
You can also type "watch insert movie name here" into Google and watch it that way

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


alexandriao posted:

would you mind linking to this?

Here's mine.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Funny, I also use your husbands rear end to chug bourbon out of.

Clockwork Sputnik
Nov 6, 2004

24 Hour Party Monster

alexandriao posted:

would you mind linking to this?
I'm a similar vein, here's a Playlist of every song mentioned in the (completely loving awesome) beastie boys book.

Every track on this is stellar, and it's wildly diverse and fun.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vSDVrbClwbgCvU7dY63ir

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Admiral Joeslop
Jul 8, 2010




ratbert90 posted:

Funny, I also use your husbands rear end to chug bourbon out of.

I prefer rum with a reach around. Haven't lived till you've had a Rum Tum Tugger.

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