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IiAFewBricksShy posted:Pretty much any time a company starts answering questions on Twitter or other social media is going to fail. Phone posting, so I can't pull examples, but that reminds me of Total Nonstop Action's president Dixie Carter doing a twitter campaign to have people #askdixie. It did not go well, especially since she'd recently fired a guy who broke his neck on live tv, once the statute of limitations ran out. Strangely that was one of the less popular topics.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Also, that rebranding was so widely disliked, the company themselves had to admit it was a terrible idea and changed everything back. Not gonna lie, I was thinking pyramid scheme, like Amway.
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Barudak posted:So a lot of this ties back to companies getting too smart for their own good. When pre-roll videos started companies didn't think about the first five seconds so you'd get a weird ad that was just the first 5 seconds of a TV spot making it both annoying and usually not great branding. Well pretty soon they realized, hey, people are skipping these so all these impressions I'm paying for are hot garbage since nobody is finishing these ads. So for many companies they try to pay based on completed (usually at least 50% of ad watched) pre-roll rather than just raw total pre-roll. So this payment incentive means advertising agencies want to be intriguing to stall you to get to the cutoff point where they get paid rather than rush out to beat you clicking skip. The best one I ever saw was awesome, and I've only seen it once. It was for an insurance company, I think, and it was just a guy who basically said "we're here to make your life easier. Here, let me get that for you." And 'pushed' the skip button. A 5 second ad. And drat it, if I didn't have insurance, they would have had a sale. Some companies get it.
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muscles like this? posted:Pretty sure those are all theater based because the one in my area doesn't have any "ad" ads before movies. Once it starts you just get trailers. Nope, it's contracts, and that poo poo comes from way above the theatre. Same way that theatres get dick from ticket sales for the first few weeks, especially on blockbusters. This only applies to first run theatres. Dollar theatres and revivals don't have to deal with the same poo poo.
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Cage posted:I think you know what "normal" means. gently caress you cheese goes on top. Then you broil it for five minutes to crisp it up.
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The White Dragon posted:The few times I've been to a Starbucks, I've always gotten the "Venti" correction. Once, I even got "what size?" "Large." "Venti?" "Yeah, that." "So which size, again?" "LARGE." "We don't have large." Seriously dude at the counter, I'm not gonna fuckin' say it. Hate that Starbucks fake vernacular culture. Outing myself as a fat goon, but for a while McDonalds had small, medium, and extra-large. I ordered a large soda, was given a medium, asked why, and was no poo poo told "we don't have large".
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lamey_whinehouse posted:yes, this thread with the 30 page loving coffee derail can't have a brief orca discussion No, it can't. Because it won't be brief, and it'll end in bans and thread closures. Do you not know goons at all?
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death .cab for qt posted:Y I was making a joke. I don't know what you just made, but my cat is trying to bury it. Note: that is also a joke. I do not own a cat, and do know what you made. It was a lovely post. 
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:Shut up, idiot. Yeah, because you're a bastion of great posting.
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Niven posted:Interestingly this is how the Canadian cellphone market works too. Each of the big three has their own budget/"discount" brand - Telus/Koodo, Bell/Virgin, Rogers/Fido. You'll see advertising claims all the time touting things like "Telus! Best signal available!" when (here at least) they use literally the exact same towers as Bell/Virgin/Koodo. No, Koodoo, Virgin, and Fido are tainted as "Pay as you go" brands, which are for poors. Yes, even when they offer post-pay options.
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Dr_Amazing posted:There's a real feeling that unions exist to either collect dues and do nothing. Or make it impossible to fire a bad employee so all the hard workers have to carry the extra weight. My experience with a Canadian union was a roommate working in a warehouse, and they did protect the lovely employees. They also protected him from being disciplined over a stupid reason: 40%of his sick days were Fridays and Mondays. Assuming a random distribution, that's what you'd expect.
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Spikeguy posted:This has happen to me in regards to watching stuff from as recently as when I was 16 which was less than 15 years ago. From shows like the Gilmore Girls to the Clerks Cartoon series to even stuff like early Penny Arcade comics, you can see a lot of stuff that just doesn't fly these days. In these cases casual derogatory statements about gay people. Wait, in Gilmore Girls? A lot of stupid stuff was said in that show, and it's been a few years since I've seen it, but I don't remember more than one episode even talking about gay people.
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As a Canadian, I want a game about us invading the US, but with every goddamned stereotype played straight. Hockey players riding battle-moose using week old Tim Bits as ammo. I don't care who I play as. I just wanna play.
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A Man and his dog posted:Steak is suppose to be cooked medium rare. Have some drat pink in the middle. Stop chewing on a drat hockey puck. Well done done well isn't a hockey puck. Learn to cook.
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Ignimbrite posted:Sandals have other straps and poo poo on them. The only thing connecting a thong to your foot is a piece of rubber / fabric which goes between your big toe and the next toe along. Bikini bottoms, G-strings, and thongs are all different. Lrn2fashion
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It's almost like the names of things can vary by geographical range and culture 
A "thong", as in the underwear, usually gets called a bikini bottom or a G-string here.
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The Hyperion Fury and Proteus Core etc. may sound like dumb names, but I actually got to talk to a Logitech rep and he explained it. And it isn't dumb. The way he explained it was asking people "what phone do you have?" The majority of people say stuff like "6S," "Galaxy S5," etc. They don't often go "Apple," "Android," etc. And model numbers are hard to remember properly. So you give the product a name, and people remember it and communicate with it. Then you sponsor some esports teams who say "when I'm fragging noobs, I use the Proteus Core from Logitech." And it worked. Sales of those mice are gangbusters.
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Anyone who gives a poo poo about what version of windows they use is a loving moron, shut up, use whatever, no one cares why you use either the old lovely thing or the new broken thing, it doesn't even have anything to do with marketing.
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mandatory lesbian posted:yikes, kids in the 80's were in dire straits 
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Johnny Aztec posted:Most "stars" end up insane. I thought he stopped after he divorced Jenny?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:He had a Twitter meltdown pretty recently when California changed vaccine laws to close some loopholes crazy people were using to not vaccinate their children. Last year I think. drat, I thought he had an ounce of sense.
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Platystemon posted:You have to be at least a septuagenarian to remember a pre‐atomic age. Popular consciousness moves slowly on things.
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The Golden Gael posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/via-rail-passes-sold-out-1.4047338 There's points where it's half the price to fly vs. taking VIA rail. That seems incredibly wrong to me.
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Alhazred posted:Which is the symbol of a fictional nazi organisation. THAT IS JUST WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK! WE'RE ALL BEING BRAINWASHED TO IGNORE NAZIS! WE ALREADY IGNORE CHEMTRAILS AND THE ILLUMINATI!!!1!
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Platystemon posted:It’s easier for a computer to find nearly identical pieces of media and police copyright than it is for a computer to discern content. They don't even need an army. 20 people, have a threshold for number of reports relative to view count. You can usually tell in the first 5 minutes of a video if it's hate speech etc. Call it 8 videos an hour per person, kill a channel for two or more videos removed. 160 videos an hour should be plenty, it's not like they need to review every single thing uploaded.
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WampaLord posted:300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, you really aren't comprehending the scale of the problem here. I specifically said they don't need to review everything, nor every minute of every video. It doesn't matter if you upload 10 hours of nyan cat unless someone reports your video for splicing hitler in the middle.
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ArtIsResistance posted:Please don't get too aggravated over internet posts and try to spend less time on this site since it's tough to conquer issues when you're surrounded by "sadbrains" You either need to use more drugs, or less drugs. Probably less.
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ArtIsResistance posted:Im gonna suggest the opposite for you, and probably not recreational ones either. Actually my doctor tightly monitors my levels and is quite happy with my current mental state. So, again, stop taking drugs. Or maybe go to TCC. You'll find some kindred souls there.
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Sir Lemming posted:I don't think you have to apply for that status at this point, everyone gets it free You can, actually. Keeps the last few die hards out of your space.
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bongwizzard posted:
More CEOs have ruined companies than line workers have ruined companies. QED.
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bongwizzard posted:Pilots have crashed more planes than stewardesses. QED You asked why CEOs weren't the worst employees. Your response is a non-sequitur and has no analogous relevance to the conversation. The logical conclusion is that you're a complete smooth-brain who is obviously only alive due to numerous medical interventions after you repeatedly tried to gently caress an electrical outlet.
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bongwizzard posted:But boy you sound smart. And you sound like an outlet fucker.
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food court bailiff posted:Calling out someone as a moron isn't the same as defending CEOs, although I suppose it might look that way to you if you're as bad at recognizing analogies as Avenging_Mikon. Don't defend outlet fucker, his analogy is poo poo.
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Iron Crowned posted:"All Taxation is theft!" I'm betting it's more like "Don't tax the job creators, tax the worthless shits sucking up all the resources from companies."
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Mierenneuker posted:Well, you should shut the gently caress up about other countries. Hot take. Care to list the circumstances people can legitimately level criticism? Do I need to write a book before I can say Ready Player One sucks? Do I need to produce a movie before I can say I love the Shawshank Redemption? Do I need to be a millionaire before I talk about how the rich have too much money? And before your obvious retort, I'm Canadian.
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Trig Discipline posted:Yeah but you can continue to fart for a long time after you're dead and it's Superman sooooo.... False, a true fart requires muscle flexing.
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King of Foolians posted:So is that really a real movie poster for Justice League? Because in addition to how fantastically terrible it looks it has the character names instead of the actors and instead of the release date it says "All in November", whatever the hell that means. This looks super fake to me. Teaser posters are often like that.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Some mysterious rich people bought LA Weekly and then fired their staff. Now they’re trying to get free contributions. Wasn’t LA Weekly the one that unionized so the bosses fired everyone?
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Waffleman_ posted:Cool of a company to use private user data to publicly shame its customers. Anonymized data, most likely a joke.
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