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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Kana wrote: »
    I'm just here for the tanuki

    so you're doing it for the nuki

    yeah

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I'm only human

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    and I need to be loved

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    king charles has cancer

    now, i think we can all agree, fuck cancer, but, it would be very funny if he corked it that fast

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    The Queen died a week before I had to go to London for a tribunal, and futzed with our train plans

    The tribunal decision was appealed and is being heard this April

    If he shuffles off this mortal coil late March, then either the royal family are doing this deliberately to mess with my travel plans, or I've cursed them somehow

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    the tribunal cannot occur until every royal is dead

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    The last superbowl commercial that had an impact on me was the Taco Bell one with the lions for the taquitos because I fucking loved those taquitos and still mourn their passing. Was it an amazing commercial? not really, I just loved the product.

    Internet tells me that was 2007.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited February 5
    I remember a Super Bowl commercial that was basically all about cowboys and cattle herding. Except it wasn't cattle, it was cats.

    Just...so many cats

    https://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE?si=JMTFpcHnDaHHVG6P

    Madican on
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    Man, that's terrible. Condolences to the person who just now managed to dispose of the last remaining stock of mailbox mourning shrouds, the timing could not be worse for you.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    king charles has cancer

    now, i think we can all agree, fuck cancer, but, it would be very funny if he corked it that fast

    remember when rush limbaugh died from cancer

  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    Paramount+ has been getting weird with their ads. They're running a Superbowl spot that has Patrick Stewart throwing Hey Arnold like a football

  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Carpy wrote: »
    Paramount+ has been getting weird with their ads. They're running a Superbowl spot that has Patrick Stewart throwing Hey Arnold like a football

    They need someone to climb a wall... and Knuckles is there. He supports throwing Arnold. I can't decide if that's amusing or terrible.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
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    https://www.404media.co/a-3-500-chastity-belt-early-apple-vision-pro-adopters-alarmed-to-learn-vr-porn-doesnt-work/

    well at least all the nerds using the apple vision in public aren't looking at porn?

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited February 5
    Uh uh uh, you didn’t say the magic word

    Also I assumed it was a 3500 dollar chastity belt because it prevents you from ever getting laid

    Prohass on
  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    I remember a Super Bowl commercial that was basically all about cowboys and cattle herding. Except it wasn't cattle, it was cats.

    Just...so many cats

    https://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE?si=JMTFpcHnDaHHVG6P

    The thing was, it was for a company that...didn't need to advertise on the Super Bowl (it was for EDS (now HP Consulting), Ross Perot's old headshop.) It was literally a flex.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    man VR porn looks like a huge pain to produce

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I hate to say it but at this point I'd rather watch the football game than the ads

    This was the first NFL season in a long time where I didn't watch a single game. I've never been a passionately devoted NFL dude, but I'm a casual Broncos fan and I generally enjoy watching the sport. But I just can't with all the sportsbook ads. I'm already watching a combat sport, I already feel a LITTLE weird about it, I really don't need to feel like I'm being accosted by bookies every five minutes.

    It makes the whole enterprise feel even sleazier, even more exploitive. I've got friends who have kids, and there is absolutely no fucking reason for a six or seven year old to know the word "sportsbook." It's insane that you can't show people smoking in an ad, you can't show people drinking alcohol in an ad, but you can go ahead and teach kids what a "parlay" is so they can play Uncut Gems at recess. It grosses me out too much, I can't quarantine that quadrant of my brain well enough to enjoy the football.

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    I'm someone who learned to bet on racehorses at like ten and even I think it's excessive

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    Gambling adds are so fucking sleazy. In Australia we had this big campaign in the 90s and early 2000s against poker machines and gambling adds. But like 6 or 7 years ago we just gave up, and now every second add on tv is for online betting or some sort of sports betting app. It’s fucking wild. I’m not even exaggerating, at least 25% of tv spots are sports betting related

    Each add has a government warning at the end and it’s just an absolute joke. Like if gambling is so bad why are you showing wall to wall adds where it looks super fun and everyone’s doing it with their mates and having a blast

    We just completely caved

  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    All the ads are bad, but I think the worst for me since I follow sports, is all the sports reports posting the parlay they're betting for on the upcoming game like its news and not an ad.

    Although there have been some wonderful screen caps of reports about players getting in trouble for gambling with several ads for gambling around the article.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I hate to say it but at this point I'd rather watch the football game than the ads

    This was the first NFL season in a long time where I didn't watch a single game. I've never been a passionately devoted NFL dude, but I'm a casual Broncos fan and I generally enjoy watching the sport. But I just can't with all the sportsbook ads. I'm already watching a combat sport, I already feel a LITTLE weird about it, I really don't need to feel like I'm being accosted by bookies every five minutes.

    It makes the whole enterprise feel even sleazier, even more exploitive. I've got friends who have kids, and there is absolutely no fucking reason for a six or seven year old to know the word "sportsbook." It's insane that you can't show people smoking in an ad, you can't show people drinking alcohol in an ad, but you can go ahead and teach kids what a "parlay" is so they can play Uncut Gems at recess. It grosses me out too much, I can't quarantine that quadrant of my brain well enough to enjoy the football.

    Doesn't help that sports betting, more than anything else, can and absolutely has fucked up the actual sports involved, so even if you would be able to set aside how awful sports betting can be for the fans who gamble, then you start looking around and dealing with fans screaming at players for not scoring enough for their parlay, or college baseball coaches desperately calling bookies with insider information, or refs fixing games. It breaks containment the way most ads don't, especially since they can and do plaster odds all over most in-game overlays and stats

  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    Kana wrote: »
    I did it all for tanuki

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    FUCK I scrolled down to see if anyone else made that joke but I stopped one post short.

    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • DesyDesy She/Her YeenRegistered User regular
    I, for one, am shocked shocked that tying advertising for a product with a financial outcome produced incentive to the people in an industry to game or influence the outcome or just place bets themselves.

    Utterly baffling how that immediately happened. It’s perverse; that’s what it is. ;P

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    man VR porn looks like a huge pain to produce

    It's actually mostly just 3d porn as is, but rendered twice for both eyes

    Like a lot of people imagine that they're making a full space that you're moving around in but no no no. They are settling for much less.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    VR porn should be much more ambitious, like trying to recreate Ludacris' "What's Your Fantasy"

    Let me get down in the Georgia Dome on the fifty-yard line while the Dirty Birds kick for three

  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    I wish King Charles III a speedy recovery from his diagnosis of monarch

  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    I played Fantasy Football in an extended family league for over a decade and sports betting was not allowed to be so directly tied to the sport itself. Then my fantasy league decided it should be a money league and everyone in it simultaneously got addicted to Pick 'em Bets. I had to ditch it all, the real sport and the fantasy stuff, why anyone would want to deliberately go Potterville style escapes me.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    There's a pretty effective surgery for that, as pioneered by the first King Charles.

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  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    Somebody posted a basil cauliflower soup recipe the other day and it's excellent. I fucked up and didn't note the poster but many thanks to you, nameless soup benefactor

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Prohass wrote: »
    Gambling adds are so fucking sleazy. In Australia we had this big campaign in the 90s and early 2000s against poker machines and gambling adds. But like 6 or 7 years ago we just gave up, and now every second add on tv is for online betting or some sort of sports betting app. It’s fucking wild. I’m not even exaggerating, at least 25% of tv spots are sports betting related

    Each add has a government warning at the end and it’s just an absolute joke. Like if gambling is so bad why are you showing wall to wall adds where it looks super fun and everyone’s doing it with their mates and having a blast

    We just completely caved

    It's also super prominent on the mobile app for YT and yeah, they've got it down to a formula. It really is damning how lax advertising standards have become.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    the tribunal cannot occur until every royal is dead

    If it gets to the Supreme Court then we'll have a teenage king again

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Carpy wrote: »
    Somebody posted a basil cauliflower soup recipe the other day and it's excellent. I fucked up and didn't note the poster but many thanks to you, nameless soup benefactor

    That would be @Rhesus Positive and I'm going to be making it on Friday. Looking forward to trying it.

    Think I might add some prosciutto to the mix for some protein though..

  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular

    NEW: DeSantis today endorsed a bill to address homelessness that Florida lawmakers say is "cutting edge."

    In short, it puts people in camps.

    The idea has the support of a think tank created by a venture capitalist who backed DeSantis' run for president.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/02/05/florida-could-adopt-cutting-edge-solution-homeless-crisis-camps/

    I am 90% sure they were floating this months ago, but they’re still at the “put homeless people in camps” bullshit in Florida

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    Lanz wrote: »

    NEW: DeSantis today endorsed a bill to address homelessness that Florida lawmakers say is "cutting edge."

    In short, it puts people in camps.

    The idea has the support of a think tank created by a venture capitalist who backed DeSantis' run for president.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/02/05/florida-could-adopt-cutting-edge-solution-homeless-crisis-camps/

    I am 90% sure they were floating this months ago, but they’re still at the “put homeless people in camps” bullshit in Florida

    I think they stole that plan from the seattle times

  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »

    NEW: DeSantis today endorsed a bill to address homelessness that Florida lawmakers say is "cutting edge."

    In short, it puts people in camps.

    The idea has the support of a think tank created by a venture capitalist who backed DeSantis' run for president.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/02/05/florida-could-adopt-cutting-edge-solution-homeless-crisis-camps/

    I am 90% sure they were floating this months ago, but they’re still at the “put homeless people in camps” bullshit in Florida

    I think they stole that plan from the seattle times

    I mean, if Seattle is dying, I can only imagine what's happening in Florida.

    Of course, I can foresee the future where this is just a stepping stone towards making the homeless population into slave laborers to replace the migrant workers that stopped coming to the state, and the prisons just don't have enough in them yet.

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
    Hail Hydra
  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
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    And yet the right wing keeps wanting to cancel her smh

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field ---Registered User, Transition Team regular
    I couldn’t believe Inc actually published a story with that headline (i mean, I can) so I checked online and now it’s titled “With Only a Few Short Words, Taylor Swift Just Taught a Brilliant Lesson in Leadership” and there’s a note that the title has been changed.

    Jesus.

    Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    On the one hand, it's annoying that fascists can co-opt "the concept of mentioning some numbers"

    On the other hand, come on, Bill Murphy Jr, get your head out of your ass

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