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Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

same, but i'm in new england

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Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Filthy Hans posted:

what the gently caress is an "influencer"

remember how you could join an MLM scheme and purchase a ton of cutco knives and amway products to try and shill to your family?

well now you can do that with any product and to a much larger audience

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

We have a word for people obsessed with children

supreme court justice is 3 words

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

intelligence in this case is defined as possession of money and/or white skin

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

ate all the Oreos posted:

Every picture of Instagram ~influencers~ I see always looks like a loving stock photo, I don't get kids these days.

something something about millenials killing the stock market

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
can we all at least agree on the fact that sharks do keep a 7 day week calendar and are aware of the concept of mondays?

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
younger me had a great plan to take a $100 bill and a $1 dollar bill and cut both in half and tape them together to pass off as 2 $100 bills

older me knows the real money is in taking like 10 $100 bills, cutting them into tenths and taping them back together into 11 9/10 $100 bills

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

this is dumb because the blowjobs in a porno are probably performed to look sexy but not get the guy to blow his load since that would make him have to take a break from filming to recuperate

basically this machine is going to give terrible bjs

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Evilreaver posted:

This is like Day 1 programming, you don't say "IF (no safe paths) THEN {fuckin explode OR ram a grandma}", you say "FOR (all paths) GET {safety score (100 - grandmas)}" and pick the best score. Ideally there are no grandmas, but you pick the path that has the fewest.

If multiple paths have the same score, you choose the first one calculated, doy.

actually this is ~machine learning~ so you just train it on some data sets then shrug if anyone asks how it decides whose grandma to run over

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

Anyone ever post this, because it's... something:

https://tacticalbabygear.com/



I can't carry around things in a normal bag to take care of my child, what am I a gay?



If it doesn't have a bunch of velcro for attaching my many pepe patches and special pockets for holding extra magazines why the hell would I even bother carrying around this dumbass baby, he doesn't even know what the AR in AR-15 stands for and his trigger discipline is awful!

Diaper Fi o7

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

it's cool that when you hit a pebble or crack in the sidewalk, your infant child will be there to break your fall after you pitch over the handlebars

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
it's kinda quaint how marketing to children used to mean just spelling "kids" with a "z" or drawing some letters backwards

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
consultants/small business owners

basically any job where they get to see and handle their gross income and feel entitled to 100% of it

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

wow i've never seen :thunk: from behind before, much less so many times in one place

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

how much does it cost to hire a private fireman? i've got a fire that could use extinguishing
:wink:

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
i have a 3L bottle of booze and a 5L bottle of hooch but i need to consume exactly 4L help cspam

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

The Bloop posted:

They always get so close to realizing

it's not even close to realizing, it's that they think something like "poor people SHOULDN'T die in the streets???" is a loony position to take

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

SpacePig posted:

How did he argue for this not being a fulfillment of a fetish of his?

as a hooters patron, the number of wings i order is highly correlated with how many beans my waitress can consume in a short period of time

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
gacha machine where the booze content of each ball varies from 1 to 100 proof would really hit all the psychological and physical addiction centers

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
one of the beer stores around me has mystery 6 packs which i think are just the leftovers from when someone makes a mix pack

i never get them tho because they're not cheaper than a regular 6 pack

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
my take on vr is this: after HD tv was mandated and took off, tv manufacturers made bank selling everyone an upgrade from old rear end CRTs to new flatscreens. once everyone was upgraded, demand plummeted so they've been trying to come up with some other way sell cheap screens at huge profit. 3d tv, curved displays, most smart tvs failed to launch, but 4k and VR are seeming to stick a bit. but none of the hype or advancements in vr tech are demanded by consumers, it's all just an industry trying to recapture a one time event that got everyone to buy new tvs

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Shear Modulus posted:

did people really think virtual headsets were going to be a new smartphone. were people going to be staring into their vr headseat as they walk on the sidewalk and reach for it as soon as they wake up in the morning and compulsively put it on every 15 minutes

people? idk. investors? enough to fund some companies, sure

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

The_Franz posted:

4K is sticking because it's not a gimmick, just another incremental evolution. 10 years ago 720p displays were phased out as 1080p became the standard and now it's going to 4K. It doesn't carry a $1000 premium like the curved displays and doesn't require everyone to wear goofy glasses like 3D did.

Remember when companies thought that people would actually do this lol:


yeah but 3d technology is just an application of an incremental evolution, super high refresh rates. the HD to 4k transition is nowhere near as striking as the SD to HD transition, nor is it accompanied by a nationwide format change. in 10 years literally everyone went from having a 4:3 CRT tv to having a 16:9 hdtv and no new technology is going to recapture that rate of adoption on its own

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

spacetoaster posted:

When did this become legal in the US?

Last I heard you had to fly to panama for this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtL1fEEtLaA

everything is legal if you have enough money

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

The Nastier Nate posted:

I’m just gonna ask, how many sandwiches does $79 a month buy you?

one but it's pretty big

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Len posted:

At some point it was decided ads on websites that you can block are bad but influencers and brands are Twitter are good.

I don't understand but I feel like I can blame teenagers

influencers are the same thing as product placement in movies/tv, just without the movie/tv part

did people get mad when seinfeld did a whole episode about junior mints? (e. they probably should have)

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Moridin920 posted:

Idk about Seinfeld (before my time) but most people in my peer group hates product placement. It's definitely something people have become more aware of as it gets more egregious and obvious.

yeah i think product placement has its place, especially in something like comedy where specificity tends to make a joke funnier. but it's really easy to push that dial too far into the realm of like sports press conferences being required to have a bottle of gatorade on the podium. influencers are just product placement: the genre, but that's not a particularly new development (see basically every 80s cartoon)

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

Replace football teams with mandatory yoga, tight pants and testosterone blockers so we can finally realize the secret gay agenda dream of the queering of america dammit :argh:

still not as gay as football

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Outrail posted:

Which football?

american football where you dress up in tight pants and pads that make your shoulders look extra broad and then stand behind 5 300 lb dudes bent over and grab a ball from between the middle one's loins

european football is not gay, it teaches you the most straight man tactic of whining and rolling around like a baby whenever you encounter anything remotely close to harming you

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Mr. Lobe posted:

why would they want to attract herbivores?

that's generally a thing plants don't want to do, with the limited exception of the fruity parts of fruit-bearing plants.

the herbivores then get the munchies and eat all the competing dorito and pizza roll plants obv

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

EvilJoven posted:

All you need to succeed is the educational game Stardew Valley and the quaint country farm rear endets you inherited from your granddad.

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Moridin920 posted:

guaranteed that's not because ethics but rather a corporate branding decision. CVS can't market itself as a healthy friendly drugstore when they sell cigarettes. :shrug:

e:


yup

cigs are also a super low margin item

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005
didn't watch the hulu one, but the netflix one was good at making me not feel sorry for anyone involved except the locals who got fleeced. but it was definitely way too sympathetic to the marketers and the fyre app team and the influencers. it's framed as, oh no he was just such a charismatic con man, perverting the noble idea of a music festival for rich people

i did lol at the two dork rear end fyre attendees they interviewed

i just wanted to pay $50k to hang with influencers and listen to blink 182 :qq:
                                   /

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Concerned Citizen posted:

not if they're built like 10 feet from each other

yeah those castles are way too efficient for american housing tastes

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Len posted:

I have a co-worker who honestly believes you shouldn't ever poo poo at work.

I try not to poop in the morning just so I can get paid for it.

if you want to see more people like that in the wild, just browse https://workplace.stackexchange.com/

half the questions are like "is it unethical to use my health insurance for something that doesn't affect my job performance?"

(the other half are dealing with workplace harassment)

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Norton posted:

My work offers 25 cent Gatorades to the warehouse employees in the summer. They have the same policy because as soon as the machine got filled, an employee would just buy every single Gatorade to resell after work.

sounds like they don't value the entrepreneurial spirit

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

Shame Boy posted:

Celery, like cilantro, is one of those foods where you can have a genetic predisposition to it tasting awful, so a chunk of the population thinks it tastes like poison.

i can't stand eating celery as like a main ingredient, but cooking it up in a aromatic base w/ some carrots and onion is real good

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

trap sprung but yeah it's good

Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

imagine how dumb you have to be to actively try to make your currently legal drug appear in any way "urban"

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Plank Walker
Aug 11, 2005

ribbed smoothened for her no one's pleasure

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