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[Kagus]

For the information contained therein? Absolutely not. I expect all information provided in those kinds of advertisements to be completely misleading.

If it's actually worth watching, a la Old Spice or the Long Long Man series? Yeah, I'll watch that. That's some clever stuff, the artists deserve the appreciation.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, companies figured out that the thing isn't interesting so instead they make an arbitrary interesting thing and then scream the product's name at you right at the end.

[itisnotlogical]

The thing is it has never worked on me, to my recollection. Unless it's something I already know about and am already intending to buy, there is no amount of interest an ad could generate that would prevent me from muting it. Even those stupid meme ads (Tide, Old Spice, etc.) make me think "Wow, those guys are a bunch of dicks, I don't want to buy their stuff."

[scourge728]

The only ads that have made me want the product were Sonic (restaurant) ads, but those didn't work because there isn't a sonic anywhere near me so no matter how much I want the ice cream I can't

[Frumple]

Most commercial ads have done nothing for me... but ads for, say, web serials or FOSS games or somethin' has occasionally earned a click. It's all about dat interest -- and there not being a pricetag involved, and not in the bullshit way a lot of more commerical "free" offers roll with. Stuff aiming to generate interest more than profit margin, basically.

It's pretty much strictly been limited to occasional banner ads, though. Presumably anyone not running for profit can't afford much else ad wise, heh.

[Kagus]

A friend was talking about her travels around the world and was mentioning La Sagrada Familia and by extension Antoni Gaudí, commenting on some of the architectural marvels.

I'm not entirely sure if it was Sagrada Familia specifically, but she noted one place as having a "geometric joke", where standing in one place and observing the surrounding engineering would eventually reveal itself as some impossible-to-explain comedy to those who were "sufficiently intelligent", and that this was sort of an inside joke from the creator.

And I've been wondering since then just what the fuck she was actually on about, because I'm having a hard time finding any references to such a quirk and I'm curious as to whether or not she just got the wool pulled over her eyes or something.

[Arx]

I'm pretty sure someone's having the wool pulled over their eyes, although she might be trying to do it to you more than anything else.

[EnigmaticHat]

Ads are boring to me because I don't have money.

[Kagus]

I'm pretty sure someone's having the wool pulled over their eyes, although she might be trying to do it to you more than anything else.

Eh, she's not really the type to do that... She is however very much the type to get really excited about ancient geniuses though, even the more outlandish claims about them, and I wouldn't put it past her to go a little "emperor's new clothes" given such an opportunity.

[Eric Blank]

Any good image editors for Android tablets? I'm used to using gimp, but neither it nor paint.net support android

[Yoink]

Does "I planned on using at least a couple of my beers as an accompaniment for a music-listening sesh but instead wound up drinking them all whilst watching the teev" count as a "First World problem"?

[Egan_BW]

On the one hand yes, on the other hand that probably happens to lots of people living in non-first-world-countries and indeed pretty much throughout history. That particular situation has had potential to exist since at least the neolithic.

[itisnotlogical]

What's something you've seen in a movie or game that scared you, despite not meaning to be scary at all? CRPGAddict just wrapped up a game called Dark Stone Ritual, and the full-screen character portraits in that game are wigging me out. Somehow, it gives the feeling of someone being in my personal space.

[Kagus]

Does stuff you experienced as a kid count? Because there was some old movie with a bunch of fluffy bunnies getting terrorized by a big angry dog, so the bunnies banded together and made a gigantic hollow bunny suit that they all climbed into in order to intimidate the dog into leaving them alone.

The horrifying glare of that bunny suit gave me nightmares for a very long time...


If we're talking about modern stuff, there was a sort of ad for "what altered reality could become" that showed off the utility of having an augmented headset, such as keeping track of meetings or quickly highlighting importance pieces of contracts or textbooks, or automatically datamining a woman's social media profiles in order to determine what you should say to her for the best chance to get laid.

This was somehow *not* intended as a dystopic view of a future gone mad, but was instead supposed to inspire investors for this prospective market.

[itisnotlogical]

If we're talking about modern stuff, there was a sort of ad for "what altered reality could become" that showed off the utility of having an augmented headset, such as keeping track of meetings or quickly highlighting importance pieces of contracts or textbooks, or automatically datamining a woman's social media profiles in order to determine what you should say to her for the best chance to get laid.

This was somehow *not* intended as a dystopic view of a future gone mad, but was instead supposed to inspire investors for this prospective market.

That's literally a dream I had. In my dream you could buy some sort of plugin for Facebook that would automatically generate the best possible reply when talking to somebody and basically steer the conversation how you wanted.

I wonder what it says about me that my dream-self thought this was awesome and not creepy or weird at all.