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The bad sign talk reminds me of the one Eric Andre found and worked into his Legalize Everything standup special. https://www.reddit.com/r/ericandre/comments/das6u3/saw_a_lot_of_people_asking_for_the_bad/
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Aug 19, 2021 03:46
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I saw this when I went to Vietnam two years ago and I often regret not buying it
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low key sex master posted:I saw this when I went to Vietnam two years ago and I often regret not buying it Dear god it's like talking to me when I'm wine drunk.
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Literally A Person posted:Dear god it's like talking to me when I'm wine drunk. A slick Revealing Clear No privacy Honest Grocery Bag ???????????
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Domus posted:A slick Sleek, not slick. All I can parse on that last line is something about a vinyl nerve, which... that doesn't even words.
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Aug 21, 2021 01:07
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low key sex master posted:I saw this when I went to Vietnam two years ago and I often regret not buying it I did a little googling and apparently it's a bootleg of this bag.  The top line is "It was never meant to be a vinyl bag" so i guess that's where the last line of the knock off comes from.
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I found this in a Facebook group for online scams. This person bought a 2TB SSD for dirt cheap. When he tries using it, the transfer speed is hella slow and it fills up after several gigs. He opens it up and found a 16gb USB drive with metal weights inside. Somehow whoever made this managed to make the drive show up as 2TB when connected to a PC.
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Aug 22, 2021 09:45
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Yeah that's a scam that's been going on for years. There's a way to mess with the firmware on a USB drive to report a false size, it's a way for unscrupulous suppliers to get rid of small USB drives that aren't worth anything anymore. Never buy a drive from an untrustworthy source.
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They pull that trick with sd cards all the time. Tons of listings for 512gb and 1tb cards on amazon for less than 30 bucks
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flavor.flv posted:They pull that trick with sd cards all the time. Tons of listings for 512gb and 1tb cards on amazon for less than 30 bucks And if they're shipped from Amazon they're apparently stored in the same spot as the legit ones. So even if you're buying a 512gb SanDisk shipped and sold by Amazon you might end up with a smaller one
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Hardcordion posted:I did a little googling and apparently it's a bootleg of this bag. Ohhhhhhh poo poo! 
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The MSJ posted:I found this in a Facebook group for online scams. This person bought a 2TB SSD for dirt cheap. When he tries using it, the transfer speed is hella slow and it fills up after several gigs. He opens it up and found a 16gb USB drive with metal weights inside. Somehow whoever made this managed to make the drive show up as 2TB when connected to a PC. Basically a USB drive has two parts, a controller that tells the computer what the storage capacity is (along with other things) and the actual storage. The problem is that the controller has no way to actually verify the amount of storage and instead just uses whatever it is told. So scammers can just adjust that and the system will say whatever they want it to.
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Aug 22, 2021 23:25
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This scam has been going on long enough to be considered retro by now
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It’s such an old scam the real drive they use now probably has a larger capacity than the hard disk the original pretended to be.
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The best ones are the ones where when you run out of real space it start overwriting stuff you've already put on!
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Len posted:And if they're shipped from Amazon they're apparently stored in the same spot as the legit ones. So even if you're buying a 512gb SanDisk shipped and sold by Amazon you might end up with a smaller one If someone uses Amazon they deserve to be scammed.
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DoombatINC posted:This scam has been going on long enough to be considered retro by now
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Is that where the gigabytes are stored?
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Hey guys, remember EvilStick? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcnx_nYnC1w LOL this brought back some memories of my younger days on the Internet.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I love the off-model drawings on those old VHS cartoon compilations. There's a place I used to pass on the way to work that had a sign up advertising Karaoke. Except for some reason it was somebody's drawing of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble holding microphones and just said "Karaoke" on top. It's actually more or less on model, except Barney's outfit and Fred's tie are green, and the microphones are modern ones and not y'know, rocks and sticks. Also, why the Flintstones? It's like the person they got to paint the sign could draw them and only them, so that's what they went with. Street View isn't up to date, so I can't get a picture of it unfortunately.
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TVs Ian posted:There's a place I used to pass on the way to work that had a sign up advertising Karaoke. Except for some reason it was somebody's drawing of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble holding microphones and just said "Karaoke" on top. It's actually more or less on model, except Barney's outfit and Fred's tie are green, and the microphones are modern ones and not y'know, rocks and sticks. So customers know they can sing rock music.
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I could read about (although not play) these knock-off mobile games and their reviews all day CallMeKevin's played some on his channel, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GujK7VLDpac
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Vinny Vinesauce has also delved into the realm of Amazing Rope Hero and Friends quite a few times. I also remembered I grabbed this screencap from him playing a ripoff Pokemon game, which I titled "maximumirony.png"
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DemonTrigger posted:Vinny Vinesauce has also delved into the realm of Amazing Rope Hero and Friends quite a few times. I also remembered I grabbed this screencap from him playing a ripoff Pokemon game, which I titled "maximumirony.png"
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Aug 30, 2021 14:12
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Aug 30, 2021 14:22
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For a shirt called Everything, they're missing a Z.
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BigFactory posted:How many of these are intentional now because stuff like this is popular on Instagram or whatever? I'd put money on Shamwow and Sweet Rabbit being intentional. You Areablessing is horrible-OCR'd enough to be undeniably legit, and the Gbic Mac and Everything are kind of up in the air.
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KataraniSword posted:I'd put money on Shamwow and Sweet Rabbit being intentional. Almost -- they were going for "Shammgod" but screwed it up.
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Yeah sweet rabbit is definitely a reference to Thor calling him a rabbit all the time.
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I've never understood why they don't just pay a random foreigner $50 to go through their text, or even just check it themselves if it's a straight copy. It must affect the value of the product, are margins really that razor thin?
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Oh yeah, they are. The play store is so stuffed with garbage you have to put out five games a day in hopes that some idiot kid with his mom's phone stumbles onto one of them. The descriptions aren't even badly translated anymore, they're straight up ai generated
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Yeah, all of these knock-off mobile games are just a random collection of gameplay concepts and buzzwords. They might as well be AI-generated themselves at this point. It's insane just how many of them there are, and I can't imagine 90% of them are able to make a profit at all, even with the near-zero effort put into them.
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