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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

everyone watch Only The Strong btw

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

...of SCIENCE! posted:

Yeah those ad campaigns were great. It's a shame that gamers decided to :goonsay: it up about them because that was back when it was cool to mindlessly hate EA before they moved on to mindlessly hating Activision, even though that was the period of time when EA were actually going out of their way to make new games.

The advertising campaign for Dead Space 2 built around the fact that moms were offended by it was pretty bad, though.

sexually harrassing women is loving radular

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

kizudarake posted:

Hopefully, this doesn't count as a meme, but it is pertinent.



i remember all those bluray commercials in 2001

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Hug Those Dads is a pro-tier sign tho

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

hahahahaha jesus christ that pizza looks like milky poo poo, saying it looks terrible totally means you've got autism yup

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

MisterBibs posted:

As someone who was distinctly curious about the game when I first heard about it, I'm going to suggest pretty much any other person's LP over the FA one. Two (three?) guys who don't know what they are doing, rambling constantly, talking over the game, and jokes that'd make a redditor blush for being childish.

you're just bitter your parents named you Apetit

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

kazil posted:

I concede. Millennials are just such special snowflakes that they are too smart to fall for scams and advertising.

*posted from my iPhone at Starbucks to facebook and twitter*

when did 70 year olds learn how to use the internet

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Ishamael posted:

Yes milennials are the first generation ever to be immune to the effects of advertising and truly blaze their own trail into the unknown and





ugh fukkin sluts mirite bro

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Yes it sure is a slapfight to: Know a year.

you are the most unnecessarily hostile dude i've seen on this place, and i exist

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Len posted:

You guys are really mad about ___________.

better reflects the Goon Experience

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I honestly thought I was in the First World Problems thread until I reached the bottom of the page and saw the title again

every thread in pyf blends together at some point because the same 15 or so people post in every thread at the same time

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

hyperhazard posted:

If anyone knows a place to buy real root beer or birch beer (not that sugar water A&W and Barqs make), I will love you forever. The closest I've been able to find, outside of Amish farmers markets, is the Pennsylvania Dutch brand. Even that doesn't really have the same yeasty kick to it as true homemade root and birch beers.

Virgil's

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

What the gently caress does any of this food stuff have to do with marketing?

every pyf thread is a homogeneous mass that has no real differentiating qualities so everyone thought they were in the anti food porn thread for 10 pages

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

"dang that's a skeez sounding slogan, they didn't think that one through"

*like four dudes climb out of the bushes*

"ITS NOT LIKE BUDWEISER IS GOING OUT AND RAPING CHICKS"

"what"

"GOD YOU SJWS ARE SO SENSITIVE"

"get the gently caress out of my backyard"

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

am I the one that types in all caps

that was a simple writing technique to distinguish different speakers

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Decrepus posted:

Not even death can save you from cheese.

MY UDDERS DEATHS WILL NOT BE IN VAIN

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

MAD ABOUT GAS STATIONS AND GEOPOLITICS

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

wait no i think that's the subtitle to the politoons thread

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

obviously the solution to this is more privatization!!!!!!!!!!

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

can i just say this thread is way better with the "millennials-to-snake people" chrome plugin, and the wikipedia page for millennials is loving incredible with said plugin.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

FIDEO BAMES

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Slime posted:

Wasn't that the game where some goon guild leader was a pedophile and his guild members defended him?

yup

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

hackbunny posted:

Or, it does gently caress all in the first place, and the obsession with coffee is magical thinking bordering on cultish. I'm not the one needing literal quick fixes of coffee throughout the day, and the expensive wasteful machine providing them, either

"what if, instead of me building up a tolerance, everyone ELSE in the world is crazy!"

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

clearly you should just stop drinking coffee at all, since it doesn't do poo poo to you

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

i am going to poo poo in all of your mailboxes

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

C.M. Kruger posted:

I saw a case of these at a local grocery store.


"Yeah brah can't wait to crack open a case of CO2 and suffocate myself!"

that clearly says C20

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Turfahurf posted:

Wii U has some really good games but the library is pretty small and the only ones worth playing are first party ones.

so it's a nintendo console

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Sleeveless posted:

Totinos seems to be leaning pretty hard on alt internet nerd comedy, several podcasts I listen to are sponsored by them now and My Brother My Brother And Me did an entire sponsored Totinos-focused episode.

and you know what? It was a good fuckin episode

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

sweeperbravo posted:

It's b/c people kept putting condoms over the gas nossel

Little Known Facts of America

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

ditto John Cougar Melloncamp

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Zaphod42 posted:

To me Coke is clearly winning the mindshare game because whenever I see a Coke in a tv show its like whatever, but anytime I see a Pepsi in a show or movie its like "welp that's clearly a paid ad". Not like the coke appearing wouldn't be paid-for either, but coke just feels more like something a writer would naturally use while nobody would say "pepsi" unless they had to.

Not that I have anything against pepsi, and I don't even really like coke. Just feels that way.

Like it'd be pretty natural to just say "get me a kleenex" or "get me some jello" but if you said "get me some X brand gelatin" I'd be like 'that's an ad'.

I wonder if Coke would ever risk losing their brand name to being too generic. Lots of people do say "a coke" when they mean a soda. Course they've got lawyers for days to battle over keeping their brand.

anecdotally, i started playing Parasite Eve 2 recently and the first time i saw a Coke vending machine I laughed and was immediately reminded of Terminator 2 with all of the conspicuous Pepsi vending machines

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Ryoshi posted:

Non intrusive product placement in games is cool, but keeping with the theme of the thread...who the hell greenlit the marketing abomination that threw Stride Gum all over everything in Shaun White Skateboarding?

STRIDE GUM HATES THE MAN TOO!

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

a lot of people just really can't believe what happens next

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Full Battle Rattle posted:

You know, maybe if we were all more open with what kind of porn we were into the world would be a better place

a world without handshakes

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

it's a two-headed ourobourous of smug superiority, really

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Somfin posted:

Hold on hold on, I know the institute you're talking about-

The Puppetmaster Institute of Social Experiments, right? I know their motto by heart: "We meant to do that, and you all fell for it."

Seriously dude, stop pretending that advertisers know what the gently caress they're doing. This is the age of the internet. Advertising is a terrified and limping profession that refuses to understand that people don't do things the old way anymore. I know that you've watched Mad Men and can probably recite a bunch of Don Draper speeches by heart but that doesn't make you an expert.

like i said, two-headed ourobourous of smug self-satisfaction because this post is so pleased with itself it's treating itself to some Ben and Jerry's

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Colonial Williamsburg is like one of those "historical artifact" towns right? Where the whole place is basically a museum and there's a bunch of period-costumed people walking around?

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Somfin posted:

Because I'm aware of the influence that ads have on decision making and consciously attempt to counteract it? You're the one who posted a discredited 20 year old study about subliminal ads, dude.

i'm gonna lock the two of you in a room so you can shout at each other "ADVERTISING TOTALLY WORKS!!!" "NUH UH!!!" at each other forever

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

5er posted:

Sometimes it catches me by surprise when I hear something on the radio that I only ever heard being used with an advertisement. I only ever can associate that music with the ad. Hell, it's gotten so bad lately that I can hear these lovely shoegazey "alternative" songs that are put out fresh lately and visualize a Capital One or Coca Cola ad coalescing around the lyrics. "Oh, here's where that cute, sorta Jewish looking girl with the long, large-ringlet curly hair is squinting into the sunset and smiling which is probably where the marketing toads are saying it's the young person wisely looking ahead in the years while in truth they're expecting her tits in the loose sundress to reel in the less thoughtful. Ok now we fade to some attractive 20somethings smiling and laughing and running along the beach without a care as the Chase logo flashes in a corner..."

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Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

kith_groupie posted:

Also not getting the hate for that Disney billboard. Mermaids are cute. Cats are cute. Disney is, by design, cute. It's a perfect marriage and it makes me nostalgic for the times me and my sister would take our mermaid barbies with us when we had to go around town with my dad all day to the hardware stores. Can't we just have cute things?

the explanation, as for many baffling things on this website, is that goons are crazy and programmed to only see the worst possible explanation for something

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