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Bluemillion posted:Wait, are they really trying to market a third pound burger? Take into consideration what happened when A&W tried that: This sounds like bullshit, and Google is turning up tons of sites calling it bullshit but none that even claim there to be a source.
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Turfahurf posted:This is interesting because I'm 25 and the only people I know who even own a credit card are people a couple years older than me that had kids and needed money. I can't name a single person my age that got a credit card out of anything but desperation. I don't know anyone who didn't get a credit card somewhere between 15 and 18, even if they weren't allowed to use it for anything besides, like, eating out once a month. It's about building a credit history before you need to take out a loan. The takeaway here is that anyone generalizing a group as large and diverse as millenials, to include "they're all broke," is making the same mistake as these marketing goobers. It also demonstrates that the marketers aren't just dumb. It's just really, really hard to realize when you're missing details.
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KakerMix posted:I don't get it, how can you want to have sex with that? It doesn't have skin and has exposed pipes and poo poo all over. It doesn't even have a real butt! I dunno, I'd give it a shot as long as the relevant orifice doesn't make horrifying blender noises. But that sells me on the wifubot, not the vodka, so unless each bottle comes with some serious coupons they've got a problem.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:They don't pretend Spot is anything other than a cat. There was one episode where she turned into an iguana.
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canis minor posted:Sorry, but I just don't get how eating poop (be it unicorn poop) can be either of two; it's just awkward, to the point where you think "did they really do that? didn't they see they're advocating coprophilia?" - and then you've got the prince serving poop to toddlers. How exactly is it informative, serving to promote the product, I don't know - I guess, we're talking about it, so some kind of mission accomplished, however I don't understand why people would indeed go for buying Squatty Potty (was it a footstool? a toilet?) because why? (are they constipated? they have problems with digestion?). Yes, the shock factor (at least for me) is there, but how does that translate to people that will buy the product and recommend it? It's not real. It's obviously not advocating coprophilia. Jesus christ.
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I think the current pepsi logo looks good and the old one looks like poo poo.
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sout posted:I love that PDF, it is terrible. Yeah, people see that number and decide it's crazy without bothering to think through the math. Assume: -Pepsi ran focus groups in at least a few countries to detect differences in perceptions due to culture--eg the old accidentally racist problem. -a number of designs, so all tests must be run multiple times -All studies produce a of data, which must be checked for various trends, eg men like it more than women, whatever -there is at least one high level managers involved, in the multi hundred k salary range Pick any number of staff for each location, any reasonable pay range for a white collar worker with a few years experience, any project duration, and start multiplying. A million bucks is absolutely trivial for a logo redesign for a company that size. And if any of you think any of the assumptions are unreasonable, I don't know what to tell you. We're not talking about a random billboard ad or TV commercial.
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mostlygray posted:Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like I can taste the difference in Mexican Coke vs American Coke. Part of it might just be the glass bottle. It reminds me of being a kid and drinking one of those 8oz bottles they used to sell from chest coolers outside of a business. You had to finish it right there as the bottles were always returned. I certainly can. There are American cokes that come in the same bottles as Mexican. I've bought the wrong kind by mistake and I can always tell immediately, before noticing the label. The difference for mountain dew throwback is way bigger than for coke and Pepsi. I don't know if they just use less of it, but you can actually taste things, eg hints of citrus, rather than just sweetness and yellow (I've always had trouble describing the taste of regular dew, and "yellow" just seems right; I'm not claiming to detect the taste of coloring, nor am I professing a multi sensory experience). Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 17:26 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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Wanamingo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHM2J8_iHfM I only have a landline because it mysteriously made the price of my cable/internet bill go down. Beats me what Verizon gets out of it. Feel like that qualifies for this thread. VVV I hope the NSA enjoys me trolling telemarketers and providing tech support to my parents. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 15:50 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Phanatic posted:So she's allergic to *herself*? Hope she's not a self-cannibal!
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Guy Mann posted:People don't want another Mega Man game, they want the warm fuzzy feeling that thinking about playing Mega Man as a kid gives them. The guy I know who backed the kickstarter really, reaaaaaally does want another Mega Man game. He still replays the old ones periodically, and has refused to buy anything from capcom since they cancelled Legends 3 (except Mega Man 9 and 10) Point is, retro gaming is real.
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The Door Frame posted:You're not crazy, there's not supposed to be a difference, but some places label green onions as green onions, and spring onions as scallions. I was just warning her that if she wants to buy scallions from the little grocery store we go to, to buy green onions instead of the spring onions that they sell under the name scallions I like the way you say "when in reality" and then compare it to a difference of regional dialect.
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Platystemon posted:The Australian animals are always “possums”, but the North American animals can be either, and if anyone tells you otherwise, they’re an ocunt.
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The Door Frame posted:Audiophiles are insane people. It drives me insane to hear them brag about their high end systems, only for them to be listening to highly compressed audio sources. At least go with FLAC if you don't want to bother with the headache of vinyl, but don't tell me so much about your setup, only to play a CD ripped MP3 on it. There's software that lets you double blind test yourself to see if you can tell the difference between different encodings. Spoiler: the difference between very high bitrate compression, eg 320, and FLAC is placebo, even on the best equipment.
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The Door Frame posted:.... gently caress.  And yeah, I definitely remember downloading mp3s from kazaa and being horrified at how many people used the god awful default settings. And the tagging.  Edit: VVV System of a Down- Legend of Zelda Parody Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 04:49 on Aug 8, 2016 |
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:... This is so specific it has to have really happened.
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I always see folks in this thread say "who can afford ______." A lot of people don't seem to realize that the more wealth is concentrated in that top layer of society, the more marketing will be designed to extract larger amounts of money from fewer people. In other words, the more stratified society gets, the more out of touch most advertising will seem to most people. And just for the record my parents loving love the Kia hamsters. They're terrible at model names, so they literally call the soul "that hamster car." I could easily believe those commercials were targeting adults who want to feel like they "get" the younger generations.
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Johnny Aztec posted:gently caress you, Mister Rogers and Carl Sagan were who they presented themselves as, and I will hear none of your lies. Mr Rogers's children said that any time he got mad at them, he wouldn't raise his voice or anything like that; he'd sit down at the piano and play angrily until he calmed down. Then he'd calmly and compassionately talk with them about what happened and what the consequences would be. Every account I've ever seen of him has been like this. I'm sure he had flaws, being only human, but there is more than enough evidence as to how he treated other people that even if it was discovered he was a furry with a vast collection of farm animal on modified kitchen appliance pornography I'd still say his TV persona wasn't an act. Don't know anything about Sagan aside from that story about Neil Degrasse Tyson.
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Phlegmish posted:I always end up with Logitech because their mice are ubiquitous and cheap. Which brand would you recommend? My first Logitech mouse survived four years of college and all the moves that go along with that, then the right mouse button stopped working. The replacement (a g5) lasted through the fifth year of college (  ) and is still going strong six years after graduation. I'm a pretty heavy gamer, though not a pro StarCraft player or anything like that. I don't know whether I've been lucky, I'm a gentle clicker, he's an angry clicker, or if maybe the different models vary wildly in quality. Or maybe he just has different expectations for lifespan of mice.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:heck them if they're rich enough to fly to Europe for their wedding. my heart bleeds for them We apparently live in a world where not only is geography forgotten, only rich people can afford to go on a vacation. Ever.
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bongwizzard posted:Pilots have crashed more planes than stewardesses. QED Phlegmish posted:As far as I'm aware Americans are not innately more dishonest and lazy than the rest of the developed world, so if they're being treated like poo poo the problem lies with the corporate culture there.
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Besesoth posted:Re: spoilers, I have learned to approach things through the lens of Ebert's Law: "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it." God forbid anyone derive pleasure from a popcorn flick. Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 01:25 on Sep 27, 2017 |
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food court bailiff posted:In noted realism simulator Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition housecats are famously able to kill most level 1 characters, if not entire parties. In Balder's Gate 1 they'd also narc on you to police if they saw you stealing.
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It's entirely possible for the clown to not to be an explicit racial caricature while still reflecting influence from the minstrel tradition.Byzantine posted:It's the South in 1950, they didn't have to have sneaky subtle plausibly-deniable racist imagery. They totally did. Many of the old Cab Calloway cartoons depicted him as a white-faced clown as a way to erase his race while still enjoying his music. I'm not saying "therefore clowns are racist;" the point is that there's more possibilities than "obviously a caricature" and "totally, completely free of any influence from the racism that permeated the rest of society." Like, you don't have to be some kind it loony skeleton warrior bent on castigating all media ever to put things in context and realize it's not all black and white. 
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Mu Zeta posted:The founder still owns 30% of the company And? He doesn't have a controlling share. What's the problem here?
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It's weird the poo poo people step up to defend. Oh no, think of the huge pizza company!
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Tiggum posted:My entire flat is tiled. I'm not even making that up, it is wall-to-wall tiles. The numbers come out funny because nothing lists nutrition facts per 100g in the US. It's all per "serving" which can be absolutely anything. Nature's own honey wheat has 2g per serving, which is 26g. Same brand's regular whole wheat is "<1g" per same serving size. God only knows how much that actually is. Neither of those two have corn syrup, by the way. Same brand has a sugar free variety that has zero sugar per 25g (  ) serving. Sunbeam Enriched has 3g per 49g serving, and does have HFC. Wonder Bread has 5g sugar per 57g serving, and contains HFC. At this point I got tired of googling bread. The takeaway is that buying at random will get you significantly sweeter bread than elsewhere, but if you're paying attention you can find Euro or Aussie-comparable bread without resorting to fancy hand made artisanal stuff. Edit: apparently I spent too long googling. For the record, most cake I looked at had at least 30g sugar per 100g slice.
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ulex minor posted:it's really clear that they're quoting Gurira and also very clear what the meaning of Gurira's quote is, looking at a photo of her with that quote of course that's what she's referencing, it's an inspirational message I had no idea who that woman was which left me with few awful ways to interpret it. The tiny text in the corner was basically illegible.
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Veotax posted:Announcing it at Blizzcon where no one in the audience will care for it is dumb. Getting bent out of shape about it is also dumb because we know that there will be more Diablo, they wouldn't have released Diablo 3 on six different platforms (with the Switch version coming out just last week) if it wasn't successful. Oh my god, you guys, it was a dumb marketing move posted in the thread for dumb marketing moves. Not every post needs to be a company-ending calamity.
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Alhazred posted:The company that made the lovely aliens game were sued, which cost them money. Tjen someone discovered the bug that crippled the enemy ai. This didn't make the game good, but ut siden make it playable. I didn't hear about this. Was the ai too aggressive or something?
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spog posted:Aggression is one thing it did not have in excess. Ah, that trainweck. Thought we were still talking about the X-com shooter. Lol.
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Necrothatcher posted:High end fashion exclusivity is some guillotine sharpening poo poo. I mean, Burberry aren't even that exclusive and they still do stuff like this: The last paragraph reads like satire. 
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The MSJ posted:Victoria is also in the fashion business for years. I'd completely forgotten the first one existed and can't recall even a snippet of the other two. 
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Volcott posted:But surely you remember that backstreet's back? Aaaaand now it's in my head.
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What point are you trying to make here? That because it didn't do the heavy lofting destroying their civilization it wasn't a biological agent used in the course of committing genocide?
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Edit: misread the dumb and totally academic point
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Jabor posted:The person who designs the ad doesn't give a poo poo as to how many people actually buy the shoes. Their job performance is measured by how many people click on the ad. A piece of classic, timeless business advice I heard somewhere is that the second you use a metric as a means of evaluation, it ceases to be useful as a metric. This is true for pretty much all fields, from marketing to software development to teaching.
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jojoinnit posted:My favourite thing on Facebook is the "why am I seeing this ad?" feature. It tells me what not to do although some things are unavoidable such as my age range and location. I remember a derail in the election thread in D&D where everyone was posting screenshots of their "what does Facebook think I care about" page. Most of any individual's items wear reasonable, like location, age, politics, movies, etc. But then there'd be categories like "wheel" and "things." It's a really weird system.
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hyperhazard posted:Maybe I'm being a crabby millennial, but "snowflake" =/= too much compassion. Maybe if they'd gone with SJW since, you know, they're fighting for social justice? They're using snowflake in the alt right sense, which is essentially a synonym for SJW, bleeding heart, etc.
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