Can’t have anything nice apparently :/
I already dislike ads in general, but ads on things I pay for, be it physical goods or digital services, is crossing a line I find unacceptable.
Let me tell you clothes and shoes lol
FWIW I’m with you. My latest pet peeve has been wondering why car dealerships get to plaster their shit on our cars.
It’s Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy to monetize everything.
Maybe it’s just years of labor organizing, but I’m deeply unsettled by this for some reason. Surrounding the consumers on all sides with crosshairs centered on them gives me a bad vibe.
Welcome to late stage capitalism where air should be monetized at this point. You could make a lot of money paying people to breath and taking away all of the supply. Obviously we failed at something if the air is still free.
where air should be monetized
Was expecting Spaceballs.
Was expecting Lorax
The Lorax? You mean that character who sells SUVs?
The best way to keep the air clean and safe is to privatize it. Air owners will have a financial interest in keeping their air clean and can sue polluters. Meanwhile, government would just ignore (or at most monitor) pollution.
– Libertarians
Corporate doesn’t just want a lot of money, they want all of the money.
Crosshairs on people? Fine. crosshairs are on CEOs? panic.
Remember in that Dethklok show that I can’t spell when people went to the live performance of a band that had a less than 10% survival rate for their audience, on a frozen mountain top, to hear a fucking coffee jingle?
We’re not far removed from that, people will be lining up to buy fucking tickets for a high budget McRib ad come this Novmeber.
Metalocalypse?
Yes, that’s the one, unfortunately it kept being flagged as misspelled. In retrospect, portmanteaus are probably not considered real words by spellcheckers.
Brutal
Good on them for having Dethklok in there, though!
Who the hell is buying The game of Life nowadays? Boardgamers don’t touch games with roll and move mechanics and small children are too screen addicted to play a board game. The only target market are probably clueless grandmas but even they are too savy to buy a boxed waste of time like this one.
I literally bought it because I thought it would be fun.
It was fun. Once. Now I’m too bored to play it again tbh.
TIL I’m a clueless grandma…
Hasbro.
This is disgusting.
They have been performing horribly quarter to quarter lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf has no springs and shoddy plastic, Wizards of the Coast are dropping a ton of middling-popular products from production, even their Marvel line has really taken a hit to quality with bad fabrics, cheap printing, etc. Everything is being cut to the barest minimum to try and claw back their profitability.
… It’s stunning they can’t seem to connect the dots, really.
It feels like MTG has a crossover/cash grab every other month. It’s just too much.
Yeah, MTG is a flaming dumpster heap of new mechanics every other month; I got sick of it and stopped playing Arena. Then, they had their whole OGL fiasco prompt a whole lot of content makers (who, let’s be real, did a lot of work for Hasbro basically for no cost to the company) to move off of 5E.
They tried everything but making a better product.
The original 1965 broadcast version of A Charlie Brown Christmas special, a 20 minute rant against consumerism, had scenes like Snoopy crashing into a Coca-Cola Sign. Because advertisers paid to have their ads built into the show itself.
Thanks! What site do you use to clean the tracker off of links?
I think if you get the video from Duck Duck Go, you can copy the link without the tracker. Plus, I think Firefox gives you option to “copy link without site tracking” from most search results
I hate being advertised to so fucking much.
It’s visual and often auditory assault. More people should deface public advertising.
Then you’ll love this new product that’s guaranteed* to reduce the amount of advertising you’re exposed to!
*Warning: may cause blindness, loss of hearing, and inability to leave your room.
But in all seriousness… I hate it, too. It’s fucking everywhere.
It’s branded right there on the front. It should really be free since it has ads, though!
imo if you pay for something, ads should be illegal lest it’s like the company logo
What about products subsidized by advertisement to reduce the price?
Unless that company is operating at a loss, ads in things you pay for are there to further make excess profits.
It’s unethical at best.
I just don’t anymore.
I don’t buy a wire- or mechanical- puzzle I make one. If I want a tile-based game (think scrabble, qwirkle, rummy) I make them with upcycled junk and paint markers.
I don’t buy bread or pizza crusts or tortillas, I make them. I can make a month of bready products in an optimized hour of work for 1/30th the price.
I play indie games by inexperienced developers who charge $4.99 because I’d rather try new mechanics even if they fall flat.
I’m currently precipitating copper into an aqueous solution on my stovetop and later I’ll try electroplating the copper onto some random thing. Because this is free and fun AS FUCK. Forget going to the arcade or to a pre-packaged event show or movie.
I am just drifting away from everything that’s not hand made. Fuck it already.
No shade here but do you also work a full time job? If so shit where do you find the time.
In full forensic accounting, you make/save money by getting off the “convenience” train.
Once you realize that a checkerboard costs $5 but a piece of paper and 24 pennies costs… well nothing… it starts to make more sense. Because most stuff in life, you use once then throw away or stuff into the closet and never think about again.
Breadmaking is just one great example. If I save $300 by making some bread I have to earn $300 less at work. I work less now.
I don’t want 25 cents worth of checkerboard, I want a decent wooden object that doesn’t make me feel like I live in a dumpster. And most people want a sturdy piece of decorated, folding cardboard that will last a century if nobody spills juice on it.
Your position sounds a lot like “why do you kids need Super Soakers anyway, we have a perfectly good hose.”
I need to see a picture of your phone. Could you send me a chalk rubbing?
(Sorry, had to joke) More to the point, how does it take you an hour to make pizza dough, bread and tortillas? Pizza dough on it’s own takes 15-20 minutes active time, and then it’s a long wait
Dough is a great discussion topic to explore.
Once I learned to make dough, I realized it’s actually a total of 30 minutes work distributed over 4 hours. Reorganize and re-prioritizing my time made it work. Simple planning.
If I make dough, I make 2Kg so I cut it up, freeze the chunks I wont be immediately using and I have dough for as long as I need. Why make new dough every time? Batches.
It’s way simpler than you guys think. Scoffing is fun, but getting off the “convenience train” was the best thing I ever did. Requires a bit of upfront adjustment and learning, but change isn’t free.
edit: Another guy above was mean/joking about not having a job. Think, guys. If I save $300 on bread that’s $300 I don’t have to earn at work and pay taxes on. I win big for just learning to stop the bs already and take control.
I wasn’t mean/joking about you not having a job.
I literally said “no shade” meaning I’m not calling you out over it.
Then I was questioning how much time it takes to do these things I was curious and somewhat impressed. You then replied with a comment I wasn’t really understanding. Did you say you worked in forensic accounting or was that part of your story about check boards and whatnot.
What stage do you freeze it at? I need to do this, but I’ve tried a few things and it didn’t work well.
I’ve started making my own bread and pizza dough. It’s also practice. The more you do it, the faster it takes. You think of ways to make it easier next time.
Costco was having a sale on those heavy duty KitchenAid mixers so I bought it and it makes dough. I’ve recently doubled the recipe and freeze half and make the other half.
Admittedly, a lot of my lessons are learned by reading which assumes you have the time already to read.
Nothing. Is. Sacred. If we had any form of functional government they wouldn’t be stuck 75 years behind on progress and dumb issues like this could be taken care of. The only chance of this happening now is some random gov official doing it as a PR stunt.
And they did this since 2017 (I think)
Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.
Just wait until toilet paper real estate starts being used.
I would pay good money to have toilet paper with the face of my previous middle-manager on it.
Sounds like a money maker. Now just as AI to it and you’re set with your 2025 business model
