Dr_Amazing posted:

What's with the mutants trying to touch type on their phones? Do you guys have little doll hands or something?

Ryoshi posted:

The original DS even came with a weird plastic thumb pad on the strap if you needed more accuracy than a finger but didn't want to mess with the stylus. I personally thought it was great but I never saw anyone else using it.

Hirayuki posted:

Does no one read manuals anymore?

Mu Zeta posted:

We reached peak mobile games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzykoo3DMg0

Pastry of the Year posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjGDDALPhBU

It's entirely different, it's entirely different.

stringball posted:

Dunno if anyone else feels the way I do with the fuckload of dumb emoji merchandise, I work at a Walmart and I've seen the following, all an emoji: piggy banks, beam bag chairs, plushies, cups, shirts, glasses, cereal bowls, birthday/other cards, jewelry, temporary tattoos

There's so much of it and its seriously plastered on anything with pretty much zero creativity involved

I really don't them, and Pepsi in particular makes me sad because instead of doing cool stuff with the designs (dr pepper has cool artwork on some) of the bottles or do something along the share a coke/song, but nope let's just plaster emojis all over our bottles because that's what all the kids love now!!

I really want to know what went down in the conference room

"hmm kids and teens love these emojis, let's put them on our bottles to show we love emojis too!

My Lovely Horse posted:

Oh yeah, there's also a man from Finland who owns a hydraulic press and does with it exactly what anyone would.

The Door Frame posted:

“They are absolutely fragile. They are black rocks on a white background. You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years,” Castillo said. “And the line that they have destroyed is the most visible and most recognised of all.”

Ranma Fan Art posted:

Smashing Pumpkins do scream sometimes but not in that song

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

Lynx (Axe's name in some countries) was super popular at my high school, so whenever I smell it all I can think of is a boys PE class. That's not attractive.

Waffleman_ posted:

I like the implication that millennials were distracted by the powerful face of Paul Newman, an actor they probably only know from the animated movie Cars, which did not feature his face.

tight aspirations posted:

More here: https://imgur.com/gallery/2dF1J

Agrinja posted:

Maybe slightly late, but didn't most of the Radium or Nuclear products have a complete lack of anything actually active? It was my understanding that it was more just marketing speak at the time, and getting used as dumb ad copy because your average shmuck lacked the means to actually tell if their irradiated hemorrhoid massager actually emitted anything.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Here's a fun one: Republican villain and Bill Maher stooge Ben Sasse wrote a predictably awful book, but the reviews report an unexpected objection. Props to the hero working at Sasse's publisher.

spog posted:

I often wonder that if someone came to the US from, say somewhere in the Nordics, and set up a large business but with the philosophy of treating their staff well, whether they would be a huge commercial success.

Memento posted:

There are also plenty of people who think it's OK that Chris Brown did what he did because he can sing songs good. If you asked them if someone else who did the same things should be locked up, they would probably say yes.

sweeperbravo posted:

What the gently caress

I have so many questions about how this came to be made

Krispy Wafer posted:

Goons just wanna goon. Still, it’s a bad ad.

I’m not sure if I’ve told this story before, but I was in a training class and they wanted to make a team name based on the instructor’s last name and I, being the only person from the South, had to immediately object to all of the choices as our team lead’s last name was Lynch*. Often people just don’t know how awful something sounds because they’re from homogeneous environments and have never had to think how a minority might react to their statement or plan. That’s this ad. It’s not racist, but it is inconsiderate of race.

*Lynch party was one of the choices.

Barudak posted:

It takes an incredible brand value to get there, and can only work for goods that can sell extremely limited quantities at absurd markup. Luxury car manufacturers actually do this; theyll make a run of a car of only 50-100 and offer it exclusively to the highest purchasers. There are dozens of one-off ferrari and porsches that you had to be on waiting lists to buy the car that ultimately just sit in some obscure russian oligarchs fifth garage.

Phlegmish posted:

Coworker? And not CEO or something? Goddamn where does your husband work, my coworkers are all losers like me

Doggles posted:

The British army is falling behind in their recruitment levels. Let's see what they come up with the get a young new generation to enlist!

Tiggum posted:

There's really no good way to read this. Either they're saying that their vodka is poo poo that real connoisseurs wouldn't consider vodka, or that Russians are drunks. Either way it doesn't say anything positive about the brand.

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Len posted:

I've still never been at a Hard Rock Cafe despite staying in a hotel where the room service was literally Hard Rock Cafe food.

And on my senior trip I wanted to go to the one in Baltimore but I was out voted to eat at Chipotle instead because "a hard Rock Cafe is just a Hard Rock Cafe but a Chipotle is really good food"

Panfilo posted:

I'm seriously wondering if a sizable percentage of those people are just missing a gallbladder or something. Because that'll do it.

The MSJ posted:

How soon did we forget Kony 2012? Must I go on a nude rampage to make everyone remember (that was bad marketing, but unintentional).

IUG posted:

I now want to photoshop their garbage into some horrible places to be, and make a GBS Photoshop thread about it.

EDIT: Yeah so I went ahead and did that.
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3890753

Parasol Prophet posted:

As a professional twitterperson myself, I would like to plead for my family by saying that we are but pawns following the approved brand "voice" handed down from on high. It's a call-center job, but with all the horrors that 8 hours of straight social media can and does provide.

Edit: Although, once another brand/anyone remotely famous responds, generally only the actual corporate marketing team can respond. I can't argue for their logic.

Mu Zeta posted:

I'm fine if corporations pretend to care about a good cause if it means more donations or raising awareness or whatever. If a soulless corporation supports being gay then that means it's going mainstream.