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Aug 30, 2023 16:09
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Aug 30, 2023 16:12
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Serious_Cyclone posted:I bought a french door refrigerator from Best Buy about a year ago, and today I still get promotional emails from them about french door refrigerators. As if I would not only be in the market for another french door refrigerator in less than a year, but if I were in the market again I would somehow be willing to buy another one from the people who sold me a poo poo french door refrigerator that crapped out after a year. It was explained to me that large appliance purchases are usually near impossible to predict from a marketing standpoint. However, when people do buy a large appliance a certain percentage of them won't like it and will be looking to return and replace it with something else. So that segment of people unhappy with their first purchase are who they're trying to market to. Or maybe that's just a really clever after-the-fact explanation for their brain dead algorithm.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:14
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That is a very pale "dog". Headline checks out.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:15
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Bouillon Rube posted:Who the gently caress does this poo poo benefit? Does Hyundai want their products marketed as a hosed up Kronenburg Mini Coupe? I would drive the poo poo out of that Cronenmobile and I am furious that it only exists as an AI-generated image. Apparently the real Hyundai Venue is a lovely SUV or something.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:19
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We didn't have enough ads, so here have some ads for products that don't even exist.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:21
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What is the actual point of those ads though? They make me feel insane just seeing them. Clearly they only attract people with mental illness or dementia. Do they take you to a page that just says "enter your credit card information here:" or is it a bait and switch for a worthless product or service?
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Aug 30, 2023 16:30
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Fitzy Fitz posted:What is the actual point of those ads though? They make me feel insane just seeing them. Clearly they only attract people with mental illness or dementia. Do they take you to a page that just says "enter your credit card information here:" or is it a bait and switch for a worthless product or service? Every few years a bunch of articles pop up about how online ads don’t actually do much for sales. No idea if it’s true or not but maybe they get clicked by bots, babies, and demented old people and that’s enough to satisfy the idiots writing checks. You’d think they’d catch on but grifting big business in various ways is a pretty big business and just off the top of my head I can think of various grifts that have gone on for decades.
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Aug 30, 2023 16:49
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wash bucket posted:It was explained to me that large appliance purchases are usually near impossible to predict from a marketing standpoint. However, when people do buy a large appliance a certain percentage of them won't like it and will be looking to return and replace it with something else. So that segment of people unhappy with their first purchase are who they're trying to market to. That makes infinitely more sense than the assumption that I collect french-door refrigerators. But it doesn't entirely absolve the seller of responsibility for having sold me a presumed-defunct appliance. If I bought a fridge from Best Buy and it crapped out after a year, I sure as poo poo would not buy a fridge from Best Buy ever again.
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Aug 30, 2023 20:28
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Bouillon Rube posted:Who the gently caress does this poo poo benefit? Does Hyundai want their products marketed as a hosed up Kronenburg Mini Coupe? Speaking of ads which are blatantly using generative AI to make hosed up cars, have another ad, this time for the Fallout tv show that is coming out apparently:  It's the sorta poo poo that looks fine at a very quick glance but the more you look at it the more is wrong with it; though the cars with two front ends are pretty easy to see. I sortaaa get it when normal ads go for generation with no oversight on the AI but come the gently caress on, this is an ad for what is in theory a creative work with a large budget that probably has concept art, promotional stills, etc. Is a generative image with three legged people, gibberish letters, and palm tree streetlights the best you can do?
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Aug 30, 2023 21:49
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Nothing Bethesda has ever made could be considered creative work any more than a toaster is.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:53
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Serious_Cyclone posted:That makes infinitely more sense than the assumption that I collect french-door refrigerators. But it doesn't entirely absolve the seller of responsibility for having sold me a presumed-defunct appliance. If I bought a fridge from Best Buy and it crapped out after a year, I sure as poo poo would not buy a fridge from Best Buy ever again. Most people would blame the manufacturer in that case; not Best Buy.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:55
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Triikan posted:Nothing Bethesda has ever made could be considered creative work any more than a toaster is. Well good news, this is being made by amazon or a subcontractor since it's a tv show and bethesda doesn't make those.
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Aug 30, 2023 21:57
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aniviron posted:Well good news, this is being made by amazon or a subcontractor since it's a tv show and bethesda doesn't make those. Monkey's paw strikes again
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Aug 30, 2023 22:14
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I had no idea they were making that show and now I’m excited for a dumb fun show
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Aug 30, 2023 22:19
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Silo is a better Fallout TV show than Amazon's Fallout will ever be, mark my words.
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Aug 30, 2023 22:59
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wash bucket posted:Most people would blame the manufacturer in that case; not Best Buy. I'd blame both, the former for building the poo poo and the latter for selling it.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:10
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The little menu in Gmail to switch between accounts changed and every time a perfectly serviceable function changes I am simply waiting to see what's wrong because we live in hell
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Aug 31, 2023 00:18
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aniviron posted:Speaking of ads which are blatantly using generative AI to make hosed up cars, have another ad, this time for the Fallout tv show that is coming out apparently: What’s sad is that I think the output could be really interesting if it were intentional - utilizing kitsch art that, as you look at it, you feel more and more uneasy, and start finding more and more wrong about it, seems like it would pair perfectly with the post-apocalypse meets-midcentury-modern vibe. But you and I know drat well that they just tasked some intern with slamming something into a text box in :15 and this is the result.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:27
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If you want to see basically Fallout IRL the movie, Albert Pyuns “Radioactive Dreams” is worth a watch and then some. It is the inspiration for a few things in Wasteland as well.
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Aug 31, 2023 00:33
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aniviron posted:Speaking of ads which are blatantly using generative AI to make hosed up cars, have another ad, this time for the Fallout tv show that is coming out apparently: It's kind of annoying, too, because in the Fallout universe, there are canonical cars driven during the time just before the war, and they didn't look like that. They looked like these:  edit: though I'm not sure how much classic Fallout is even lore anymore :\
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Aug 31, 2023 00:58
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Isentropy posted:Just got a new router from Rogers Communications in Canada and holy poo poo they moved all the basic network settings* into a loving app? An app? For your own home router?!? fun fact: you can only port forward to a device if that app sees it it does not see all of them it's great
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Aug 31, 2023 01:02
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credburn posted:It's kind of annoying, too, because in the Fallout universe, there are canonical cars driven during the time just before the war, and they didn't look like that. this is because that image is ai generated, the ai doesnt' know the aesthetic it just knows 1950s. Bethesda bad
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Aug 31, 2023 01:03
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i hate ai/clickbait nonsense ads with such passion, it's probably one of the very few things i'd commit murder over
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Aug 31, 2023 01:10
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SRQ posted:fun fact: you can only port forward to a device if that app sees it I'd suggest changing your computer's ip temporarily to set up the forward, but watch it do something "smart" like track if a mac address changes its ip
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Aug 31, 2023 01:12
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credburn posted:It's kind of annoying, too, because in the Fallout universe, there are canonical cars driven during the time just before the war, and they didn't look like that. its not really. bethesda cranked the 50s cosplay up to 11 and also made it so everywhere on earth is a perma waste. f1 and 2 laid down the basic lore but ultimately aren't the blueprint any more
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Aug 31, 2023 01:12
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aniviron posted:Speaking of ads which are blatantly using generative AI to make hosed up cars, have another ad, this time for the Fallout tv show that is coming out apparently: with the creative strike, there is a non-zero chance that the people working on this think thats what LA looks like
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Aug 31, 2023 01:30
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:its not really. bethesda cranked the 50s cosplay up to 11 and also made it so everywhere on earth is a perma waste. f1 and 2 laid down the basic lore but ultimately aren't the blueprint any more I like to remind people that the first settlement you see in Fallout 1, the literal stage setting, is mud-brick. Not garbage, but a primitive agrarian commune. Bethesda never played 1 or 2.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:35
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Sentient Data posted:I'd suggest changing your computer's ip temporarily to set up the forward, but watch it do something "smart" like track if a mac address changes its ip Never had luck. The reason I wanted to was to join a hosted retro game thingy from an actual period system. Unfortunately Rogers said no and also gently caress you.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:37
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SRQ posted:I like to remind people that the first settlement you see in Fallout 1, the literal stage setting, is mud-brick. Not garbage, but a primitive agrarian commune. Shady sands did seem to be the exception though. There were a bunch of people living in shacks, made from junk and abandoned houses in towns and cities. Honestly Shady Sands had there poo poo together far more than most. Does make some sense that they were the ones that ended up expanding so much.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:42
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dr_rat posted:Shady sands did seem to be the exception though. There were a bunch of people living in shacks, made from junk and abandoned houses in towns and cities. Even the community in LA was kinda-clean. Fallout 2 expands on these ideas. Vault City is a modern city, Shady Sands has expanded into a psuedo-state, and even the farming towns and Redding look like actual places people live in and not a pile of garbage.
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Aug 31, 2023 01:45
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SRQ posted:I like to remind people that the first settlement you see in Fallout 1, the literal stage setting, is mud-brick. Not garbage, but a primitive agrarian commune. To be fair, the background of the main menu is supposed to be Bakersfield, which maybe because of hardware limitations couldn't really be depicted well in-game in Fallout 1.  Which in-game looked like this  I definitely prefer the barren-desert, mud-brick, and junktown aesthetic of classic Fallout to the ruins of cities and over-saturation of 50s kitsch like in Fallout 4. credburn fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Aug 31, 2023 01:47
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SRQ posted:I like to remind people that the first settlement you see in Fallout 1, the literal stage setting, is mud-brick. Not garbage, but a primitive agrarian commune. Fallout 1 and 2 were video games, Fallout 3+ are an "IP". One set of games had visuals designed to make sense in their own context, the other to be a toyetic and easily reproducible aesthetic signature.
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Aug 31, 2023 02:08
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i think it's universally agreed that fallouts 1,2 and NV are the good ones and the others are only as good as the modding community around them.
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Aug 31, 2023 02:14
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John Fallout asks: "okay it wouldn't be practical but what if the V-22 was also a big bug."
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Aug 31, 2023 02:16
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Woolie Wool posted:Fallout 1 and 2 were video games, Fallout 3+ are an "IP". One set of games had visuals designed to make sense in their own context, the other to be a toyetic and easily reproducible aesthetic signature. If there were other fallout games with the same graphics and tech as F1 and F2 I would 100% buy the hell out of them
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Aug 31, 2023 04:49
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:If there were other fallout games with the same graphics and tech as F1 and F2 I would 100% buy the hell out of them Fallout: Tactics comes close.
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Aug 31, 2023 05:06
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Fallout 1, 2, 4, New Vegas, Brotherhood of Steel, and that Mobile Game all are bad games because I never finished them.
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Aug 31, 2023 06:27
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Barudak posted:Fallout 1, 2, 4, New Vegas, Brotherhood of Steel, and that Mobile Game all are bad games because I never finished them. They never actually bothered putting in an end to any of them because they knew you wouldn't. They all just exit to dos prompt shortly after they knew you'd stop. Even the mobile game.
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Aug 31, 2023 06:37
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credburn posted:To be fair, the background of the main menu is supposed to be Bakersfield, which maybe because of hardware limitations couldn't really be depicted well in-game in Fallout 1. that's just how Bakersfield looks
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