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Alex Goldman from Reply All (A somewhat popular tech podcast) introduces himself before saying "you've been hacked" so there's a decent chance that some of the journalists would have figured out what was up. Somewhat related, there's a funny episode of Reply All where Alex hacks his co-hosts cell phone and spies on his life for a week. Audio recording at any time, geo-positioning, emails, the works. Alex is frustrated at discovering that his co-host is incredibly boring.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:No, it's Alex who gets hacked. The episode is called "The Secret Life of Alex Goldman". The level of mutual exasperation is fantastic. Oh yeah, I always confuse their names for some reason. The "Long Distance" episode about telephone scammers is also real good.
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That's just a DIY mohawk kit and punk piercings.
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quote:Access Denied I think the internet is mad at Gamestop now.
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Hector Delgado posted:I can finally complete my Final Fantasy 15 cosplay outfit now!! I don't get it. Are you cosplaying a cosplayer.
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So EBAY have been taking an unorthodox approach to dealing with bad press: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/15/ebay-employees-stalking-charges-spiders-cockroaches-pig-maskquote:Executives were upset about the newsletter’s coverage, so their employees set out to ruin the lives of the couple who ran the website, sending a funeral wreath, bloody pig face Halloween mask and other alarming items to their home, authorities said. The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on it to their neighbor’s house and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car, officials said.
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Ideally a country has a healthy private sector media as well as a robust and independent state-sponsored media. All this is moot however, because advertising revenue dropped off a cliff when Covid-19 hit. The major newspapers in my country have already fired roughly a third to one half of their employees. I expect some big names in international media will go insolvent or be sold off by the end of this year. E: If there's any good news to be found in this, it's that the Daily Mail has been hit harder than most of its ilk. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 21:02 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Speaking of podcast ads, MANGRATE made a terrible mistake trying to advertise on Norm Macdonald’s show: https://youtu.be/F2XawdY22Ek
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Gann Jerrod posted:https://twitter.com/discoverLA/status/1297982132032167941?s=19 I mean, visiting the taco cart and playing some minigolf three times should be achievable for a lot of folks. Spending three nights in a hotel in Los Angeles is a good way to max a credit card or get bedbugs, possibly both.
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Aug 25, 2020 13:35
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The real issue here is that sex workers don't have much in the way of legal protections or unionisation to prevent them from getting screwed over. People complain about how the new gig economy leaves the employees holding all the risk if the platform changes the pricing. Well guess what, sex workers have been dealing with that poo poo for centuries.
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This is kinda tangential to dumb marketing, but fandom.com has tried to establish itself pretty aggressively as the game wiki of choice. I've forgotten the details (and its hilariously difficult to google news about a wiki), but if I remember correctly they were downright plagiarizing other established wikis. In any case, they push ads really hard, particularly on mobile so it's always a slog trying to get info on a .fandom site.
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Huh, weird. I thought Coke Zero was a rebranding or something? I'm obviously not the target market though since I never buy diet drinks.
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Twitch recently took down a massive number of streams due to copyright violations with no warning. It looks like it was mostly responding to automated DMCAs. Apparently quite a few were false positives, in-game music or ancient streams from before there was any enforcement. I actually think this is exactly the sort of solution that's needed, although "1000s" of songs isn't great. I've seen quite a few Twitch streams where the hosts have to deny music requests from viewers because they don't want the banhammer coming down on them. Or streams where they open a youtube video and quickly have to mute or close it because there's music playing  E: ok Monstercat's catalogue kinda sucks. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 20:30 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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Aphrodite posted:Also it appears to be letting you buy affiliate for $5? Oh yeah, I didn’t stop to think about that. Kinda sketchy for a third party to be advertising affiliate “fast tracking”.
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I like their take on a lot of films, but RLM fell into the trap of having a secondary plot unfolding in each episode and it gets increasingly stupid as time goes on. Also they call out dumb marketing moves in big budget films, so oddly thread appropriate!
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Platystemon posted:
Yeah, the event is cool, and the devs have a decent track record when it comes to responding the their fans (also good). Looks like they tried to respond that they were all about trucks and truckfuckling in response to some angry antivaxxers, when they should have ignored them entirely. Instead, a half-assed PR statement that may or may not have been run through google translate which managed to piss everyone off since it's impossible to "both sides" a global pandemic lol E: OK, one weird thing is that the ETS2 devs had a similiar event last year where they also donated about 15k euros to czech charities buying masks and equipment. No such donations announced for this event so far. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 11:16 on Jan 24, 2021 |
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Honestly those courses sound like a fun time so long as they are cheap. If its 10 bucks I'm sold.
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So here's a dumb marketing move from paypal. I recently had to make a new account thanks to having switched phones and email since I last used it. Cue Paypal sending me an e-mail with this subject line (translated from Danish): quote:You have removed the limit over how much money can be transferred from Paypal to your bank account I had done no such thing. Cue a frantic scramble to remove my card from Paypal and alert my bank and the national credit card service that my card was being used by somebody else and my PII was probably compromised. Turns out the subject line was bullshit, removing the limit is something Paypal does automatically after a certain amount of time. I get that Danish is hard, but jesus christ. Also, they want 2 bucks to register my card again. E: OK technically not marketing but close and this was the best place to bitch about it. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 22:02 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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The Bloop posted:If I can't trust a place enough to order a burg medium rare, I'm just not eating one there. Some of the places I've worked, the chefs will gladly make a medium burg if they know the customer. Randos get well done no matter what they ask for, because too many ended up bitching about their "raw" medium rare patty.
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Bean counters have been weighing the pros and cons of doing business in China for decades now. A company has to factor in the cost of hiring a consultant/fixer that will arrange a chop (a literal government issued red stamp, can’t do business without one), weigh the risks of the product being copied and made locally for a cheaper price and if they are using a local manufacturer, there’s a risk that the manufacturer will just keep the presses rolling off the books and sell the product themselves. Not really an answer to your question, but I expect public opinion/risk of backlash is just another line item on an already long list. The other side of the list is the world’s largest growing population of consumers, so the choice isn’t hard to make in many cases.
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SiKboy posted:Its selling people a game on the promise that one day it will be good and have lots of interesting content. A promise which the developers are apparently under no obligation to keep once they have your money, as off the top of my head I actually cant think of any games which delivered their "content roadmap" on anything approaching their original timescale, and many dont deliver it at all. I'm trying to think of any analagous situations where a company can sell a consumer something, then just... choose not deliver part of it. I'm not sure I would ascribe active intent to deceive to most roadmaps. It's more an issue of lovely planning/marketing. Some features which sound good on paper ultimately don't make for good gameplay, or there just aren't enough people buying the game to pay for future content. It reminds me of the first big wave of Kickstarters, where a lot of late stretch goals either didn't make it into games or ended up being half-baked and not fitting in.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I mean how is this any different from any other road map other than you like the game? Realistically, it was mostly up to external cirumstances.The game made a lot of money and devs/marketing department were pretty realistic about the goals, so they were achievable. Also they had a small-time publisher Coffee Stain, that only put out a couple indie games a year, so there wasn't a ton of pressure from the top. As a side note, the same publisher also put out Valheim. Which also has a roadmap, although everything has been delayed due to the early access release being more successful than expected and a ton of bugs appearing. The folks at Coffee Stain must be pretty happy these days.
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Some more context for that deleted tweet: https://ignemployees.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-leadership-at-ign-ziff-davis-and-j2-global-f7171d5ad42f Basic summary- management at Ziff Davis gets wind of one of their publications publicly supporting relief efforts in Palestine and deletes the tweet overnight, bypassing IGN’s editorial entirely. There are some decent journalists at IGN apparently because they put together an exact timeline of events and publish an open letter protesting the deletion. Pretty much all of IGN’s staff sign the letter. I guess this now counts as dumb marketing since it’s advertising that IGN has exactly zero editorial independence. Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 17:41 on May 21, 2021 |
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Volmarias posted:Videogame journalism, the last bastion of free speech, is finally undone. There is no more value in their articles, no more interest in critiques of AAA games. 8/10. Lol thank you. 80% I wish dunking on the industry was more fun but the “ethics in game journalism” douchebags kinda sucked the joy out of it.
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Brewdog also has a habit of delivering orders late and getting orders wrong. Endless headaches at one of my old bars.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I just assumed it was the gaming Polygon because gaming journalism tends to be just that stupid. Same. Polygon is owned by Vox which has slowly been gutting their news sites. I think SBNation is at like 30% of the staff they had just 5 years ago. Seems like the types who would go into NFTs.
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Read After Burning posted:https://twitter.com/McDonalds/status/1455174998264586243 I especially love this one because all 10 people are getting an identical jpeg which totally defeats the point of it being a unique nft 
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A consequence of legal, taxable weed is dumb and annoying marketing gimmicks. No delivery is a missed opportunity though. There's a big market of medicinal users who have limited mobility for one reason or another.
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chitoryu12 posted:It is for leftists among themselves. Especially with how bad Twitter can amplify stuff, it's really easy for a bad faith interpretation of a mistake (or not even a mistake, just a normal inoffensive statement) to have you get dogpiled by your own side to the point of death threats so everyone can show how good of a progressive they are, with the harassment extending to your friends who refuse to immediately disavow and attack you. It's a pretty common phenomenon in online communities. Just look at how SA chews up and spits out forum superstars cyclically. Sure some of the old helldumps were well deserved but others took things way out of proportion. I also see the same backlash in other forums and comment sections, where random people seemingly come out of the woodwork to dogpile a dodgy comment. It's kinda interesting to see how primed people are to engage in a war of words over relatively mundane things.
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I can't think of a better way to motivate goons to grief a game.
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Captain Hygiene posted:That is a pretty bee czar marketing choice, to be fair
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:They're burning VC money for market share. This. The end goal of all gig economy start-ups is to get bought out once they are dominant. Or get bought and assimilated by another tech start-up, if the price is right. The investors will keep pumping cash in as long as they think they can get a good return.
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It's kind of a crossover with a youtuber niche that focuses on reviewing Disney resorts. These are people who travel around the globe just to watch live Mickey Mouse shows and eat fast food at Disney-themed restaurants for their youtube content. It's extremely weird.
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Edible venture capital
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I know a couple of folks who genuinely don't care about food and just eat because they need to. The only thing they care about is the mouthfeel which makes sense since they aren't interested in the taste. I don't think they would like gelatinous food cubes for exactly that reason.
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CJacobs posted:Man sometimes the title doesn't even matter. Green Day's famous song is called Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) but it's still been used all over the place for good-time gatherings where you are currently having the time of your life which is meant to continue. I've been subjected to crap acoustic renditions of this at end-of-year assemblies, graduations and camps throughout my childhood. Every. loving. Time.
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IIRC, Canadian supermarket chains already got caught in a price fixing scandal some years ago, so there's that. For further context, the no-name branding is basically a national institution at this point so folks take it a lot more seriously than price raises for just about anything else.
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Not sure how I feel about contributing to this derail but the B-Wing has a shitload of weapon/torpedo hardpoints and is pretty clearly meant to be a corvette/capital ship bomber. Not sure about the rotating bit but it’s probably useful for strafing runs. They aren’t shown doing much in the way of agile dogfighting in the movies either. IIRC the ships encyclopedia says something similar. E:encyclopedia released pre trilogies. Don’t really have an opinion about whether its cool, but at least they are only mentioned as having torpedoes, not bombs Fruits of the sea has a new favorite as of 14:48 on May 21, 2023 |
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teen witch posted:Not sure if it’s a marketing move but: I'm ok with this move if they also list animators/set crew/FX/etc.
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