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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
I've heard it on Spotify too, so it's making the rounds.

Of course, Spotify was also the place that I saw an ad for Cyber Monday proclaiming "Let's Cyber!"

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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

ilmucche posted:

I'm that type of person. Red lobster why do you have to so expensive, I just want your biscuits. :(

Red Lobster also sells a box kit to make them. You have to bring your own cheddar and butter, and they turn out pretty well.

I’m also fairly certain that it’s just $.25 of restaurant supply Bisquick and generic garlic spice mix.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

FilthyImp posted:

Kind of wish Aspergers hand't been consumed by ASD, because that was a pretty succinct way of saying "I can be accidentally rude inadvertently, but also super focused on technical things and super sensitive to random poo poo but otherwise mostly functional"

Agreed, it was useful in that way, but it being added to the spectrum seemed to quiet the people wearing Aspergers as a badge of honor really drat quick. I haven’t heard anyone mention an “aspie” in years.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

bad posts ahead!!! posted:

someone slapped an infowars sticker on a mailbox by me, peeled that thing off

I’m vacationing in Maui, and someone’s painted INFOWARS.COM on an abandoned building on the highway between the airport and Kihei. Because if there’s one thing sane people do, it’s visit web sites named in vandalism to derelict buildings.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Mu Zeta posted:

I'm in the US and this is at a local udon place. They don't really make a big deal out of it though.






Hot or cold!

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Samuringa posted:

I wonder how she feels nowadays that we have hamburger chains with Impossible/Beyond Meat Burgers

I’m sure Burger King will rebrand to just BK any day now...

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
I used to drive a Versa. It burnt through taillights, but other than that, it sure was A Car. Bland, boring, but went from A to B.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

chitoryu12 posted:

At this point that commercial is a Christmas tradition.

There’s a Hershey’s Kiss one where the kisses play “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” - it’s aired since 1989, and the only alteration I’m aware of is that I think they adjusted the aspect ratio to 16:9 at some point.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Last Chance posted:

i believe this is the commercial that started this conversation last page lol

:negative:

The Cadbury Bunny ad for Easter candy has been around for 35 years!

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

DrBouvenstein posted:

No, the pizza insurance is if YOU gently caress up the order. Yo u drop it getting out of the car or something.

They've had some variation of "if we gently caress it up, let us know and we'll remake it ASAP" for a while, since 10-ish years ago when they put out those commercials where they acknowledged that everyone said their pizza was crap and they actually improved the recipe.

To their credit, they did own up to the fact they had the worst pizza of the national chains...it was like ketchup and Elmer's glue on cardboard. I'm not saying it's fantastic now, but it's passable and a lot better than it was.

I believe they’re referencing a new ad they started this last year. They now have two fake insurance products they advertise. One is “carryout insurance,” for if you gently caress up, and the other is “delivery insurance” for if they screw up the order. AKA what they’ve always done, but Branded™.

The carryout ads were at least vaguely amusing. The delivery ones act like if you call about missing olives on your pizza they spring into action like they’re on their way to defuse a bomb.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Marketer 1: How can we get the press to report on this car but not lead with how awful it looks? gently caress!
Marketer 2: I think you’re into something!
Marketer 3: Bonuses for everyone!

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Recognition Scene posted:

This is all apparently so that during the third quarter of the Super Bowl, they can air Mr. Peanut’s funeral.

I know that an aristocrat with a top hat, monocle, and walking stick is not what us socialist millennials and gen z are into these days and that probably motivated the need for a new mascot, but I’m really hoping it’s some weird Poochy anarchist try-hard peanut. Just make it a disaster that offends boomers, Xers, AND the rest of us.

Time for the return of spongmonkeys, IMO.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Doggles posted:

:vince::vince::vince::vince::vince:

Oh my god, I looked it up and it's actually real! Comments are conspicuously turned off for that ad on Youtube.

To be fair, if they didn’t, the comments complaining about how men can invent things too and how unfair it is that girls got a million dollars would outnumber those calling Hasbro on their bullshit like five to one. It is YouTube after all.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

The girls in the ad dream of science and invention, of making the world a better place through their works. Ms. Monopoly is naturally a venture capitalist, buying and selling these efforts in a real-life game of Monopoly until those hopes and dreams are crushed and distilled to be sold at fire-sale prices, intellectual property and trade secrets floating away like dust in the wind.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Knormal posted:

It wasn't until Star Trek Beyond in 2016 when they retconned Sulu as gay that Star Trek had an official gay character, and if I remember right even then they just showed him holding hands with another man. Star Trek has a pretty disgraceful track record with homosexuality for as progressive as people credit it as being.

In Beyond, you saw both Sulu’s partner and daughter. I don’t recall if there was any more PDA, but they were pretty clearly a family, which I’m sure had some idiots clutching their pearls.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

grittyreboot posted:

I believe he hated Gates McFadden to the point he made an ultimatum to Roddenberry that either she leaves or he leaves. That's why she got fired for season 2. Patrick Stewart actually threatened to leave the show if they didn't bring her back for s3.

That was Maurice Hurley.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Well, it’s already gone. Anyone have a screenshot?

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

YeahTubaMike posted:

Also, gently caress the Progressive fake Zoom ads. I don't want to look at Zoom, I don't want to look at fake Zoom, and I don't want to look at any of the uncomfortably charisma-free non-Flo people, especially Mara. She should go back to smoking her bowl, offscreen.

I loathe the Zoom Aesthetic that is now “a thing” in advertising, but I feel like Progressive’s take on it is probably the most cynical of all of them. From a marketing perspective, I think it’s fairly impressive that their ads literally have a cast of characters that are named and consistently written. Consider - you know the name of the third most recurring character.

Maybe I like Progressive ads too much…what have I become?

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

BioEnchanted posted:

I like overanalysing media and have come to the conclusion that Yoda is probably self-taught at English. His unusual sentence construction is fairly standard "Verb, Object, Subject" ie "Obey me, you will" - this implies to me that his native language has that kind of grammar, and that when he learned english, probably from a computer or book, he just kind of swapped his own words for the english equivalent, never learning English grammar properly due to no formal tuition.

Ahem. English? I think you mean Galactic Basic.
:goonsay:

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

SiKboy posted:

So as Lady A is taken, they should go with xox_Lady_A_xox?

Lady_A_420_69 or bust.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic



What does God need with a cell phone?

Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Jul 20, 2020

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

CJacobs posted:

I also am sick of ads within podcasts that start off by talking about how lovely ads are. Shut up, just peddle squarespace or meundies or raid shadow legends or whatever and get back to talking about crimes or old cars.

I heard an ad on the radio for a podcast (and the iHeartRadio® app!) in which it was just a clip from the podcasters’ show in which the hosts are talking about being sellouts for running advertising in their show.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Tired Moritz posted:

was yahoo buying tumblr a dumb marketing move

Realistically, we could title the thread “Dumb Marketing Moves: Yahoo” and it would be evergreen.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

I wonder when games like this will start realistically depicting life.

For example, instead of wearing a black and white striped shirt, mask, and knit cap, the criminal should just look like Matt Lauer.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
What I love is that there is probably a cut of that guy saying “sperm” and every euphemism for “sperm” under the sun, but “swim-swims” was the only one that didn’t make a bunch of suits at HP break out into a cold sweat.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

The Moon Monster posted:

J-list and Lucy Lastique will always be the SA banner ads of record for me.

Did the Shmorky/Fleshlight ads ever play here?

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
The phone of the lactose intolerant goon that only eats cheese just records constantly.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Dylan16807 posted:

Is there a problem with the game about shooting nazis/hitler while they are also corn flakes? What's wrong with choosing that game?

Probably just that without the context of what the game is, it just appears to be a logo with iffy typography and Spongebob in Hitler cosplay, which seems like a bad thing to associate your company with.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Pastry of the Year posted:

Q: Did Pizza Inn just post a super-long twitter thread about "election reform" and "voter fraud"?

A:

https://twitter.com/PizzaInn_Inc/status/1346539477242699781

Sir, this is a Pizza Inn.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
While I think he’s right to call out that it could negatively impact the entire production and a lot of people’s jobs, and it’s OK to be upset about it, I wonder how much of the anger in his reaction stemmed from the fact that it’s really hard to justify putting people’s lives at risk over a largely disposable action movie franchise sequel, which is what he and the rest of the big shots were doing.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Captain Hygiene posted:


Just ran across this ad copy and assumed it was some kind of satire before realizing it's right on their website. Like drat, Arby's :rolleyes:

Friars Club Roast of Arby’s Customers, hosted by Arby’s.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Sir Lemming posted:

I understand why you can't edit tweets. But Twitter should really let you add some sort of clarifying thing (outside of the 280 chars) to a tweet after the fact which will (almost) always appear alongside it. Instead of this thing where if you don't delete it, it can just show up anywhere without context forever, and people keep engaging with it regardless of how it might have been addressed afterward. Or maybe some sort of "tweet lock" where you can suppress engagement on a tweet; can't be liked/replied/retweeted anymore, maybe it won't even embed anymore, etc.

Twitter acts like it’s some unsolvable problem, but it’s just another example of how irresponsible they are as a platform.

Consider that the Something Awful forums, running on code birthed from the fires of hell twenty loving years ago, somehow manages to not only let people edit posts, but also flag that they’ve been edited, give them a grace period to edit without that flag, and block edits on a forum-level granularity.

All Twitter needs to do is put an edited flag on a tweet that, when clicked, shows the original tweet. SA might not do that, but despite Jeffrey’s riches, he’s not a multinational corporation worth billions of dollars that employs thousands of engineers.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Zereth posted:

Watch out for Dr. Robotnik's deadly speed traps!

aka "clipping into terrain"

To my understanding the Seal of Quality didn't actually do comprehensive testing. So there's released games with the seal which have potentially game-killing bugs and so forth, they're just not early or easy to trigger.

This was still much better than the preivous shovelware glut, though.

The other thing about the Seal of Quality was that Nintendo was basically entirely in charge of how many carts they’d make for you, how much they cost, when they’d be ready, etc.

So if you hosed around and tarnished that reputation, they could restrict production of your future games, consign them to release during poor sales times, charge you more for them, or refuse to work with you at all.

Oddly, this serves as a better forcing function for games being delivered with proper QC than “lol OK you can just do a day one patch.”

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Volmarias posted:

A thing media companies are eager to get on board with, as evidenced by the fragmentation of streaming platforms in lieu of just using a couple!

The thing to remember about streaming fragmentation is that a lot of the current pain is attributable to the fact that media companies aren’t exactly nimble.

So as short-sighted and long-lived exclusivity deals start expiring, and as companies and services merge in an overall consolidation of the media landscape (see Disney+Fox, and Warner+Discovery), it’ll settle down again. The halcyon days of “Oh gently caress, we don’t have a streaming service, better just sell this poo poo to Netflix so we can all get our new yachts this year” are over, but the trend, slowly but surely, is towards simplicity.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

YeahTubaMike posted:

Ummmmmmmm this can't be real...can it?

https://twitter.com/54thirtydesigns/status/1402244936678924289

Reason to believe this is actually real is here.

That says "piks".

Piks or it didn’t happen.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Captain Hygiene posted:

I haven't met a single person who likes the buttered popcorn flavor.

Discovering my wife likes them made me momentarily question my marriage.

Then she bought me a bag full of only lime flavored jelly beans and I remembered why I married her.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Len posted:

Someone decided we the readers needed to see that Batman was circumcised

Batman is canon in Silent Hill?

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Push El Burrito posted:

Only in America.

Yeah, but Pizza Hut wins it elsewhere. Obviously, the YUM Brands conglomerate were the victors, and they will subject the citizens of Earth to their cruel whims. Countries that submit to their will get to experience the delights of Taco Bell. Those who resist are forced to consume Long John Silvers.

Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic
Honestly, I think a mobile game that was basically “WarioWare, but all the batshit insane nonsense mobile game ads depict” would kick rear end.

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Blue Moonlight
Apr 28, 2005
Bitter and Sarcastic

Daddy’s…nunuyummies?

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