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Posted on 09-04-09 10:20:32 PM Link | Quote



It's been amusing watching the ads from this game go from "here's a vaguely-kinglike figure on some brown background" to "here's a terrible looking woman on the brown background" to "here's that ugly woman begging you to 'play now, my lord'" to "let's just cut the shit and show breasts".


Somewhat amusingly, this ad is basically the only thing you see on TV any more. Advertising satellite TV? YOU'RE MISSING THIS. bzzzrt GIANT TV FILLED WITH BARELY-DRESSED CHEERLEADERS.

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Posted on 09-04-09 10:23:21 PM Link | Quote
Don't touch that

obviously it comes from the headcrab infested City 17 underground, in the chapter Lowlife.

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Posted on 09-04-09 10:23:59 PM (last edited by Revya at 09-04-09 07:24 PM) Link | Quote
Should've cropped it a bit more so it was crab-infested.

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Posted on 09-05-09 01:09:06 AM Link | Quote


Fixed.

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Posted on 09-05-09 02:43:18 AM Link | Quote
I fucking lol'd

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Posted on 09-05-09 04:05:01 AM Link | Quote
Get HD sports channels now and see a lot of barely legal college cheerleaders flopping their breasts all over the place and almost falling out of their skimpy uniforms.

Also, a couple of football games.

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Posted on 09-05-09 04:09:11 AM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Colin
Get HD sports channels now and see a lot of barely legal college cheerleaders flopping their breasts all over the place and almost falling out of their skimpy uniforms.

Also, a couple of football games.





Who cares about the game.

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Posted on 09-05-09 04:19:19 AM Link | Quote
You know, HD really does a lot to improve picture quality... but I dunno if you necessarily want to see some of those cheerleaders in HD.

Or some of the sideline reporters whose name is not Erin Andrews.

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Posted on 09-05-09 04:23:34 AM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Colin
but I dunno if you necessarily want to see some of those cheerleaders in HD.


What did you say? I was too busy looking at them.

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Posted on 09-05-09 01:50:47 PM Link | Quote
I remember reading an article about that very ad. I don't remember where it was, though, but it showed the general decline of the ad.

For some reason, I'm pretty much numb to advertising, and none of the sex-appeal stuff has any effect on me. But for those that haven't learned to ignore it, and remain vulnerable to it's tricks, is unfortunate. They continue to be taken advantage of, because the products that are most advertised are the worst products out there. For example: fast food chain restaurants, horrible as seen on tv style products and so on. Oh well, just need to do your best to keep them out of your life and /ignored.
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Posted on 09-05-09 01:54:05 PM Link | Quote
The person who invents Adblock for TV wins the Internet.

But seriously, I'll just use the ads to get some snacks or drinks in the meantime. That's the only good thing about them. In all other aspects, they're becoming worse.

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Posted on 09-05-09 02:25:02 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
The person who invents Adblock for TV wins the Internet.





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Posted on 09-05-09 05:23:35 PM Link | Quote
What did you say? I was too busy looking at them.

Well, HD could bring out the crooked teeth... the wrinkles... the herpes...

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Posted on 09-05-09 06:44:30 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by devin
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
The person who invents Adblock for TV wins the Internet.




The only button on that remote that will actually do anything for ads is the one in the top left, given that programming is basically 75% advertising these days.

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Posted on 09-05-09 06:47:36 PM Link | Quote
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Originally posted by paulguy
I remember reading an article about that very ad. I don't remember where it was, though, but it showed the general decline of the ad.


http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html

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Posted on 09-05-09 08:52:16 PM Link | Quote
We also apparently need Asian remotes to do that, based on closer inspection of that picture.

Or you just download episodes of shows which have the commercials cut out. :\

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