its latant advertising. theyre betting that per dollar spent advertising, if they get 100 times as many people to see their message and half remember the message, and half of them remember the ad was so annoying that they wont buy or pateonize out of spite, then a quarter will be annoyed, forget the annoyance and remember the product or service
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
Advertisers, take note. If people are blocking your ads, it's because you're being way too obnoxious about shoving them in people's faces
That's because they're coming from the ideal world of broadcast television, where 1/4 to 1/3 of the time is spent forcing you to watch commercials. And yeah, they would ban commercial skippers if it was technologically feasible.
before the whole internet started shitting all over video games.
This never happened. It was made up by idiots like you who crave the righteous feeling of being a persecuted martyr, but don't have the fortitude to endure any kind of actual persecution.
It happened, but it happened over a fairly limited time. "Shitting over video games and gamers" would be pretty accurate, though saying there was real persecution would be an exaggeration.
Makes me wonder who's behind the massive publicity behind this non-story.
Recently all the media, even 'respectable' ones like the New York Times, have become desperate for anything to bring in page views. If there is a story that brings eyes to someone else's page, they all want a piece of it.
My God, it's like the news media version of Network Decay! Among other things, it's the trope where various disconnected channels try to aggressively chase the same demographic, and end up showing the same shows. So you'll have Spike TV, A&E, the Sci Fi Channel, and Bravo all showing Law and Order reruns, because that show brings in viewers, even if it has nothing to do with the channel's once-core mission.
Saying that this makes him an MRA is about as stupid as saying that I am a Nazi because I agree with Adolf Hitler that water is blue. (There, Godwined the discussion for you.)
I don't think you can Godwin a discussion by comparing -yourself- to Hitler!
No, I've been around, but to keep calling some site an MRA site when it explicitly says that it is not is ridiculous.
Sure, that makes sense, but of course a bunch idiots will start chanting "No True Scotsman!" as if that was some sort of argument.
I guess you could call them remakes. Some were of decent quality, others (the oil one in particular) just fucking awful.
The best 1980s action movie: Aliens, with Sigourney Weaver taking the gun-toting action role.
And thinking of it, if Steven Seagal was to star in a chick flick instead of Jennifer Aniston, that would be a sign of true gender equality
It's true, but Seagal has little charisma outside of his chosen genre. I don't think most women want to think of him as anything other than an action star. Most men for that matter.
Gerard Butler and Hugh Jackman are most famous for their action movies, but they have serious chick-flick cred as well. Hugh was in Kate and Leopold and Australia and in a number of stage musicals. Gerard Butler was in Phantom of the Opera and then in P.S. I Love You the same year he was in 300. He followed that up with rom-com The Ugly Truth.
Saturday Night Live used to have a recurring skit called "Best of Both Worlds," highlighting actors who played both sides. Unsurprisingly, it was hosted by Andy Samburg as Hugh Jackman.
Who else would count? Nicholas Cage? Liam Neeson? I'm not sure Leonardo DiCaprio or Tom Hanks would count, since they're a bit more "four-corners" actors. Do comedies that both women and men like count? By the late 80s, Arnold Schwarzenegger used to alternate action with family comedies (Twins, Kindergarden Cop, Dave, Junior, Jingle All the Way).
I looked briefly at the massive "MRA" "activists" behind this. One mental patient with a wonky web page.
Makes me wonder who's behind the massive publicity behind this non-story.
No surprise, the crazies get the press and the attention.
Earth Liberation Front (or whomever) might drive spikes into trees, but they hardly represent the majority of folks who care about the environment or just like forests.
Put another way, 20% of the film is special effects.Dang, that is a lot of special effects.
No, that's not putting it another way, it's an intentionally inaccurate restarting of "80% of the effects are practical."
Good old Marc Morano. He was a representative for the most dishonest of blowhard radio "entertainers," Rush Limbaugh. He posted the false allegations from the Swift-Boat folks against John Kerry. He lied about activities in an AIDS research fundraising dance party. He popularized "Climategate," to falsely show a global scientific conspiracy, and he published private email addresses of climate scientists to harass them.
With that record of honesty and integrity, why WOULDN'T we trust his word over the climate scientists of the world?
no, he said he likes to assault people or he gets grumpy, Jock sniff much?
Get back into the locker, nerd. No one said you could come out yet.
Granted Common Core has some faults, for sure, but at least it is an attempt by someone to do something.
Very frequently, doing the wrong thing is much worse than doing nothing.
They might be doing something, but doing something is not in itself a praise-worthy goal.
$51.1 billion? (I'll switch to 55 billion for 2015 numbers since they're close enough and 2015 numbers are what everyone uses now) You'd have to be crazy if you think it's going to be that low. The current estimate (Feb 2015) is for $68 billion for Phase 1, the Central Valley segment.
[2]: Back in the "don't copy that floppy" days, we were promised by software publishers that prices for games and applications were high due to piracy. Now with consoles having a 0% piracy rate, if one factors all the DLC needed to play an average console game, the price has gone up by 2 to 10 times. They couldn't have lied to us, could they?
While there could be a few bad actors, Most of the DLC I've seen is an extra for an already-complete game, a game with plenty of content.
Also keep this in mind. In the mid-1980s, most games cost around $40. That's nearly $90 in 2015 dollars.
Game prices have FALLEN drastically in the last 30 years.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
