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Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Uggggggh https://twitter.com/totinos/status/766709671365312513 originally read it as goatse robot

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Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Creepy esports marketing:


https://twitter.com/mouzNiKo/status/799319033740869632

http://kotaku.com/pro-counter-strike-bobbleheads-look-as-creepy-as-youd-i-1789177498

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

You could always do what the Nier guy did, I guess.

quote:

It’s easy for fans to get behind characters by uploading their own art online. Thanks to Nier: Automata protagonist 2B’s tush, the internet certainly has done a lot of that. And the game’s creator would like it if you could send it his way in a handy ZIP file.

Taro Yoko chimed in on Twitter, writing, “Because of the brouhaha over 2B’s butt, there are loads of rude drawings and whatnot being uploaded [online]. And since going around and collecting them is a pain, I’d like it if I could get them sent in a zip file every week.”

Yoko later tweeted how just by writing “Gimme a zip of 2B art,” he got just that. “The internet is amazing,” he added.

http://kotaku.com/nier-designer-butts-in-regarding-cheeky-controversy-1790967094

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

HenryEx posted:

I'm not sure Yoko Taro belongs in this thread. However, there's an argument to be made that everything he does is either a dumb or a genius marketing move.

Case in point: When all kinds of people spoke out in support of a new fantasy IP or something from Atlus, he chimed in with his own special congratulatory speech, filmed in Square Enix's conference room:
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/12/27/yoko-taro-supports-atlus-new-fantasy-rpg-project-yoko-taro-way-possible/
I was using him as an example to poo poo on Randy Pitchford, which should be done at every possible opportunity.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

quote:

“I’m not against people making a decent salary. But if you’re not gonna put a gun on them, we should get somebody cheaper,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times last month.
lmao this guy knowing the going rate for a gunman vs a dude with a steel pipe

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Brilliant cross-marketing strategy for y'all https://twitter.com/UnitedOverBooks/status/851541810619043845

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Slime posted:

It seems to me that this kind of thing might be useful for like a sandwich place that also sells juice? Just get deliveries of bags and press 'em out. But for personal use it's just wasteful and pointless.
The bags cost at least $7 each, so that'd be quite a markup for the store.

It's just another attempt to get on the subscription-based service bandwagon with a huge down payment up front.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

https://twitter.com/darth/status/855431281928159232

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Everyone knows you can't gently caress in a VW Beetle.
Disagree.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Flying from Washington DC to Iceland is both easy and cheap as hell. Delta is the double-dumbass all the way.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Cumslut1895 posted:

People like ruby tuesdays and chillies.
They were fine when they weren't charging out the rear end, but that's like more than a decade ago. Now if you're going to pay a premium to eat out, you go to a place that specializes in the food you know you want ahead of time rather than a place that serves everything.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

I used to work for a company (let's call them University Research and Tech) that showed some strong initial growth but failed to impress investors. In response, the leadership team went dark for about a 9-month period to figure out how they were going present the next generation of whatever the company was going to do.

The grand unveiling? A "cleaner" logo and compressing the company name into a meaningless acronym (URT) that was supposed to signal broader growth potential or some poo poo. It was confusing, and literally every reference to the company going forward was framed as "URT, formerly University Research and Tech," so they never got away from the old name.

Three years later they got chopped up and swallowed by a private equity firm. Still referenced as "URT, formerly University Research and Tech" in media.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

hello thread title

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

idk; it's not my picture, but it says Paddle Pop

five seconds of googling makes it look Australian, maybe

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Nuebot posted:

Please, who orders whoppers?
https://twitter.com/JosephJBroni/status/915932396842770432

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Ein cooler Typ posted:

is this commercial racist? or is it ok because Chinese culture is different


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY


on a side note you know what really grinds my gears. when searching for this video I had to scroll through a bunch of "_______ react to racist commercial" before finding the commercial
This ad is weapons-grade stupid, not only for the racism, but also how they're just casually swallowing detergent pods.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Costume's fine unless you're wearing/modifying it with the intent of being an rear end in a top hat.

edit: also

quote:

He explained that the company sells costumes for activities other than Halloween, like “school projects and plays.”

Grey Fox has a new favorite as of 23:40 on Oct 16, 2017

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

When the dollar menu fucker wants dessert https://twitter.com/fox6now/status/920258112912752640

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Well as long as we're doing holiday throwbacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnqBL6iYjA

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

someone awful. posted:

the fact that netflix the company knows and tracks what people are watching isn't surprising, but it's not necessarily something folks want to be reminded of.

the fact that whoever runs netflix's twitter has access to that data down to the exact numbers of who watched what when, is a little uncomfortable for some people
I don't know how netflix is structured, but it would make sense for staff connected to their twitter to be involved with customer service. Customer service, ideally, should be able to pull account records.

But yeah, it's not the best idea to blast that information out there unless you have a sexy infographic to draw attention away from the creep factor.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

thegreatcodfish posted:

they occasionally give him shirts that have a little Siemens on them.
I just want you to know that I appreciate this.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Wait, what?

I am an American and I have never once heard the word "slope" used as a pejorative for people of Asian descent.
It's fallen out of use (which is why Old Man Clarkson would bust it out), but yeah, it totally is.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/tide/status/951940660499755008

To be fair, I don't think telling people "Hey please don't joke about eating our bags of poison" is a dumb marketing move, but it seemed appropriate for this thread.
bonus points for getting a trolly idiot to communicate the message to other idiots

legitimately good thinking on their part

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

HopperUK posted:

Americans think it’s weird to have the washing machine in the kitchen. It’s indeed a regional thing.
I know several people living in apartments in the US that have the washer/dryer unit in the kitchen. Just depends on the apartment complex.

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Memento posted:

Move over Tide Pods there's a new delicious challenge in town


energy drinks already smell and taste horrible enough for this to be problematic

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

I'm not sure I want to know the whole backstory here. https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/961946539349499905

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Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

canis minor posted:

Toyota went with gender non-conforming: https://www.toyota.co.uk/go-your-own-way/stella.json, but still - I don't know what to think about this. What does drag queens have to do with your car, what do they have in common? Don't know if "I want my car to have a meltdown" is a good message, I'm confused.
I don't know about any of that, but the front of the car looks kind of rad

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