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New comic 9/15

i kan reedi kan reed Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Social Entropy++
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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Bill Gates is Costanza?

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I agree with this comic.

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    birds are weird

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Fantastic.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    These commercials are so bizarre

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  • falling_stonefalling_stone Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    its an operating system about nothing.

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  • BagrationBagration Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    That would make a great commercial!

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  • AstraphobiaAstraphobia Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Root! Sleep! Death!Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    What is the deal with birds?

    I mean, aren't they dinosaurs?

    Why aren't they trying to eat Samuel L. Jackson on a plane?

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    you mean Windows Mojave is really Vista?

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I haven't seen these commercials.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    The logo in panel three priceless

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw

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  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    What's the deal with Cheetohs?

    Cheese and Toes, who thought that sounded appetizing?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    So wait what are these commercials for
    I really don't get it

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    they are for windows

    I guess

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Me Too! wrote: »
    So wait what are these commercials for
    I really don't get it

    Vista, I think

    I find them cryptic and confusing so I pretty much just change the channel when I see 'em

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    haha

    ah, where's that D&D seinfeld comic

    edit: here we go
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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The message I took away from the first commercial is "PCs are like cheap shoes - they break easily and smell of cheap rubber"

    Is...is that what they were going for?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    GUYS I HAVE AN IDEA FOR THE NEW AD CAMPAIGN HOLY SHIT
    Calm down Bob what's going on
    WE PUT SEINFELD AND GATES TOGETHER, RIGHT
    AND THEN WE NEVER TELL THEM WHAT WE'RE SELLING
    THEY'LL BUY ALL OUR SHIT JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE AD WAS FOR

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  • NibbleNibble Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I kept waiting for them to be funny
    I want ten minutes of my life back

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    The message I took away from the first commercial is "PCs are like cheap shoes - they break easily and smell of cheap rubber"

    Is...is that what they were going for?

    More or less

    They're also trying to indicate that dummies spend big piles of money on shitty dells

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  • EtchEtch Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There's a thread about these commercials in the technology subforum.

    I'm glad I read it like 5 minutes before this comic got posted.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    haha

    ah, where's that D&D seinfeld comic

    edit: here we go
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    oh god

    i have so many people i need to show this

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  • MattieMattie Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I haven't seen any on tv but that 4 minute youtube video was funny. I approve of these commercials.

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  • GrathGrath I'm a much happier person these days Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The first one of those I'm a Mac commercials was clever

    Then they became a nuisance, than grating and painful, and now they just make me so mad

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Grath wrote: »
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

    no, not really. at least the mac/pc commercials were about the products they advertised, and said products were mentioned during the ad

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I really hate those "I'm a Mac/PC commercials"

    so much

    which is sad because the guy who plays PC was really funny the one time i saw him on The Daily Show

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  • GrathGrath I'm a much happier person these days Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    Belruel wrote: »
    Grath wrote: »
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

    no, not really. at least the mac/pc commercials were about the products they advertised, and said products were mentioned during the ad

    they are usually complete total lies as well.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Belruel wrote: »
    Grath wrote: »
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

    no, not really. at least the mac/pc commercials were about the products they advertised, and said products were mentioned during the ad

    The bee beat me to it
    The MS ones are like "look at us shooting a mini episode of Seinfeld! Don't you wish you knew why we made this?"

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    Druhim wrote: »
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  • MattieMattie Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Belruel wrote: »
    Grath wrote: »
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

    no, not really. at least the mac/pc commercials were about the products they advertised, and said products were mentioned during the ad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

    Doesn't have to make sense to be good.

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  • GRMikeGRMike The Last Best Hope for Humanity The God Pod Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I might be in the minority, but I love these commercials.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    maybe they're trying to do something about the whole "giant evil congolmerate" image

    just sort of be all "hey, everyone, bill gates just sort of a regular dude, yeah? built computers in his garage, remember?"

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Mattie wrote: »
    Belruel wrote: »
    Grath wrote: »
    as incoherent as those commercials are, still better than the "I'm a mac, and I'm a pc" commercials

    no, not really. at least the mac/pc commercials were about the products they advertised, and said products were mentioned during the ad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

    Doesn't have to make sense to be good.

    If you're advertising a product with important and moderately complicated technical specification, yes it fucking does

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Bill Gates is not a regular dude
    He has more money than Jesus and God and the devil combined
    And the devil's been making a shitload off of coke deals over the millenniums

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  • DarkHawkeDarkHawke Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    See that's the thing.

    Whether Mac/PC fills you with immense joy for the platform or sends you into a rage, at least they got a reaction. You associate emotion with the project now.

    At the moment the Seinfeld/Gates commercials don't do that. They're just... eh. I don't really get anything out of them. Now, in the future they may build up the characters to make them more engaging, give them some sort of character arc to get you engaged with the platform. I think that's what they're going for ultimately, but hell I don't know, I'm not an advertising professional.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Belruel wrote: »
    birds are weird

    you just reminded me that I have this poster and have not hung it up yet

    LOVE YOU

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    This commercial is probably less about a single product and more about how Microsoft want to you to use the entire range of their products in your computing ways.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    DarkHawke wrote: »
    See that's the thing.

    Whether Mac/PC fills you with immense joy for the platform or sends you into a rage, at least they got a reaction. You associate emotion with the project now.

    At the moment the Seinfeld/Gates commercials don't do that. They're just... eh. I don't really get anything out of them. Now, in the future they may build up the characters to make them more engaging, give them some sort of character arc to get you engaged with the platform. I think that's what they're going for ultimately, but hell I don't know, I'm not an advertising professional.

    to be fair, this also got a reaction

    enough of a reaction that PA made a strip about it and people immediately knew what they were talking about

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i love the commercial

    it's more entertaining than most full television programs

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