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Maven
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Yep. CoD: Advanced Warfare. I don't know if a marketing campaign can be shameful, but if it could, I'd point to that.
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schild
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Sex sells, nothing shameful about it.
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Maven
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So what the next Harvest Moon needs are buxom babes tilling the land, ooooh yeah, work that hoe. Churn the butter... CHURN IT. Ahhhhhhh.
Sex does sell, and if we took any sort of normative assessment out of the equation, I'd agree that every tool in the toolbox ought to be used. But then you advocate clickbait, deceptive headlines, and every other misleading trick in the book to get people to do what you want them to do.
I know. "That's marketing!"
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Rendakor
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Harvest Moon has always had dating sim elements, up to and including getting married and having children; advertising that with delicious 2d waifus would not be a strong departure.
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Paelos
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Sex sells, nothing shameful about it.
Shameful? No. Stupid and something we should ridicule? Absolutely. |
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schild
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So what the next Harvest Moon needs are buxom babes tilling the land, ooooh yeah, work that hoe. Churn the butter... CHURN IT. Ahhhhhhh.
Sex does sell, and if we took any sort of normative assessment out of the equation, I'd agree that every tool in the toolbox ought to be used. But then you advocate clickbait, deceptive headlines, and every other misleading trick in the book to get people to do what you want them to do.
I know. "That's marketing!"
What the fuck kind of argument is this? Sex and war are America's two favorite things. Fuck apple pie and baseballs. Guns and tits, bruh. Sex sells, nothing shameful about it.
Shameful? No. Stupid and something we should ridicule? Absolutely. Sure, but I feel like understanding why it exists is pretty important before ridiculing it. |
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Paelos
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Well yeah it exists for the same reason there are tits in car commercials.
I mean I ridicule it in the same way I ridicule Hardee's/Carl's Jr. for having Super Models fuck hamburgers on screen as an advertising strategy.
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Cyrrex
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I personally enjoy every excuse used to display tits. Selling burgers, cars, games, braziers, it's all good. It's all so, so good. Hell, this thread would automatically improve if someone posted some tits, right now.
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Teleku
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So the American Halloween cultural creep into Poland is pretty amusing. All the American expats go all out and decorate the hell out of their houses, and now all the locals come from miles around to gawk at the neighborhoods. Also since most Americans live in the same expat/diplomatic neighborhoods, we organize travel between the various hot spots so everybody can keep taking their kids out to go trick or treating.
It use to be mainly just the American kids, but now all the Poles have learned and are bringing truck loads of kids in to take part in free candy and gawk at decorations. Co-workers said the majority of kids this year were Polish. Its funny watching how they miss the mark though. The Polish kids all yell "Happy Halloween" when they open the door. They don't understand a house that has absolutely all the lights turned off inside and out is not tacking part, and go bang endlessly on every door in the neighborhood.
A lot of local Polish people also live in these neighborhoods, and probably because of what I just mentioned, are also trying to take part now. Co-workers who took kids around to these houses said that most were actually handing out loose candy, individually. So his son actually was given a single gummy bear at one house. Another guy was handing out single tic tacks. One person had taken candy bars and chopped them up into small bits to hand out.
Just sort of funny to watch what happens when cultures combine/clash. It also caught on heavily with the college crowd, who were all out carving pumpkins (most told me that it was for the first time) at the bars the night before. Also, the only people in Poland who seem to dress up are Polish college girls, in the most slutty outfits they can, and that's it. So I approve of their implementation of it so far.
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Cyrrex
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Heh, that reminds me. Yesterday here in DK (Nov 1), doorbell rings. A group of three girls yelling trick or treat. Uh, Halloween was yesterday you dumb bitches (paraphrased). "No no! A lot of people don't know that Halloween last for 3 days!"
Uh, no it doesn't you stupid fucks (paraphrased again). We're from the US and it most certainly last just the one day.
Those were the only trick-or-treaters we got the whole weekend.
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Maven
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What the fuck kind of argument is this?
Sex and war are America's two favorite things. Fuck apple pie and baseballs. Guns and tits, bruh.
Yes, it's playing into American cultural mores to sell a disc. That's a strike against the complacent culture, not the marketers. Any women want to comment? |
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HaemishM
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I'm sure Anita Sarkeesian would have a comment. I can safely go back to not giving a fuck about CoD.
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Teleku
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What the fuck kind of argument is this?
Sex and war are America's two favorite things. Fuck apple pie and baseballs. Guns and tits, bruh.
Yes, it's playing into American cultural mores to sell a disc. That's a strike against the complacent culture, not the marketers. Any women want to comment? As an American who's lived for extended periods of time on opposite ends of the world (Japan and Poland), I've got some unfortunate news with you if you think America stands out in any way when it comes to using sex in advertising....... We are actually rather more on the conservative side of it (unfortunately  ). |
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Cyrrex
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Uh, America is so prude in comparison to most of the western world that you might as well all starting having your women go around in ninja suits. The prudeness may be exceeded by the naivety.
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Samwise
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Churn the butter... CHURN IT.
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Teleku
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Chimpy
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That was the Eurovision one, right?
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Teleku
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Yeah, they nominated it for the Eurovision later on as well.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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schild
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Pennilenko
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I didn't understand a single word, but I watched the entire video.
Edit: The polish one, Schild snuck another video in just before I posted.
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Nebu
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Took me 12s to turn that off. Not joking. |
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schild
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Dude. You have to finish it. It's fucking unreal.
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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It's like a Limahl cover band doing an original.
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schild
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By the way, I feel the need to point out - Vampires are Alive predates Twilight. So like, it has nothing to do with that trash.
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Bunk
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Without Googling, take a guess which game's marketing campaign this still is from.
Haven't looked down yet - the background, especially the rickety looking tower leads me to guess AC:Unity? |
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Nebu
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Dude. You have to finish it. It's fucking unreal.
Why did you waste 3 mins of my life. I want it back. NOW! |
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Sky
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I'm so disappointed that I was correct about that weird Modern Warfare promo pic.
But unfortunately I've seen the stupid Kevin Spacey nonsense so I figured if the question were posed, it was a dumb promo and just went with the last stupid promo I had seen and blam.
Also, I severely dislike Kevin Spacey. And Kevin Costner. Stop naming people Kevin except Kevin Smith.
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schild
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Dude. You have to finish it. It's fucking unreal.
Why did you waste 3 mins of my life. I want it back. NOW! Knowing that piece of pop culture anti-history is important. You'll thank me one day. |
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Cheddar
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Move completeish. Packed moving truck saturday, 8 hour drive, sleep, unpack.
God we have a lot of shit. Next time tempted to just pay someone to handle.
My neighbor is awesome; he is a bass pro fisher for a living!
Free protein 4tw.
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Morat20
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At least my AC waited until now to stop cooling. Last month would have SUCKED.
Don't know what's going on. Outside part seems to be running (which rules out two semi-cheap problems, the motor or the capacitor). It's just blowing room temp air. Maybe freon is low, but that's worrisome because it WAS working this morning, which makes me wonder why it suddenly changed partway through the day.
Seemed fine this morning (hard to tell, the AC is usually off but the temperature was normal for the morning). Turned off when I was gone during the day, and I turned it back on an hour before my wife got home. Temperature never dropped.
Oh well. Guy's coming out tomorrow to look at it. Hope it's not the unit. It's 11 or 12 years old, but I'd really prefer not to replace it.
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Move completeish. Packed moving truck saturday, 8 hour drive, sleep, unpack.
God we have a lot of shit. Next time tempted to just pay someone to handle.
My neighbor is awesome; he is a bass pro fisher for a living!
Free protein 4tw.
What is his name? I got semi-addicted to watching one of the pro bass circuits. Yes, I do feel dirty. |
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schild
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What is his name? I got semi-addicted to watching one of the pro bass circuits. Yes, I do feel dirty. I absolutely abhor spectator sports. But fishing has to be near the top of anti-sports that are labeled as sports. MrsAbvPar: "Whatcha doin MrAbvPar." WAP: "Watching a guy watch the water hoping a dumb fish comes by that's eager to bite onto a hook that's just like, sitting there being all hooky." Nope. |
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Abagadro
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Without Googling, take a guess which game's marketing campaign this still is from.  The way it is used in the TV spot is actually kinda funny. |
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What is his name? I got semi-addicted to watching one of the pro bass circuits. Yes, I do feel dirty. I absolutely abhor spectator sports. But fishing has to be near the top of anti-sports that are labeled as sports. MrsAbvPar: "Whatcha doin MrAbvPar." WAP: "Watching a guy watch the water hoping a dumb fish comes by that's eager to bite onto a hook that's just like, sitting there being all hooky." Nope. It is a great thing to watch when I am trying to get to sleep |
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Fishing shows are all about the guy doing the fishing and the scenery. If you don't like those, move along.
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