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Can't have anything nice apparently :/
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.
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.
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
No shade here but do you also work a full time job? If so shit where do you find the time.
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
SPACEBALLS! the Toilet Paper!
-you won't believe this shit
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.
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
You shouldn't need a site. If you look closely at the original link you posted, it's usually demarked by either a & symbol or a ? symbol, both the symbols and all text that comes after them are extraneous data of some type (not always tracking, but tracking is most common).
For example, a youtube link where you put a timestamp so it always starts at a specific time would be https://youtu.be/aeyLZHaGj3s&t=30s
In this example, I appended "&t=30s" to the end of the link, which starts me at that time stamp (30 seconds). Removing it again provides a "clean link."
So what you need to look out for are special characters, anything after those tend to be tracking data. (Not always, but mostly)
So find a special character (as I said, usually & or ?), and remove that character and everything that comes after it and you'll have a clean link.
Another example (not tracking related) might be a zoom link. They'll have a "?pwd=" followed by a hash of the password so you can log in without typing the password. "www.zoom.us/j/555555555?pwd=slfdujghagrfdlgkjh" Something like that for example (not a real zoom link).
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
I was just thinking about this last weekend when I heard a Run The Jewels beat on a TurboTax ad during an NFL game.
Isn't Killer Mike one of those "black capitalism can save us" type guys anyway? Because that kind of tracks with him.
Love his music, not so much a big fan of him personally or his politics.
Honestly at this point that's how I feel about most artists in general.
Isn’t Killer Mike one of those “black capitalism can save us” type guys anyway? Because that kind of tracks with him.
Maybe? I don't know much about his personality or politics, but I would have said a lot of RTJ songs are fairly strongly anti-capitalist ("Ju$t," "Report to Shareholders," etc.). But maybe that's just me projecting my own anti-capitalist beliefs on their lyrics.
Honestly at this point that’s how I feel about most artists in general.
Yeah, as my politics get more progressive/radical, it's gotten to the point where I either have to listen to stuff that's almost explicitly apolitical (mostly stoner/doom metal songs about death in battle, wizards, and weed work pretty well) or else I actively avoid reading about the artists so I can pretend they're more progressive than they are.
I just accept that all humans are flawed and don't allow myself to worship artists in any capacity. They're no better or worse than the rest of us, and most of them are educated in music, not politics, theory, economics, etc.
If you go in expecting them to suck, it's a lot less shitty to find out they suck.
Fair. I try to take that approach, too, but I still don't like the cognitive dissonance of knowing someone I respect as an artist is a piece of shit. I can ignore it a bit if they evolved into an asshole over time (like I can still listen to early Kanye, barely), but I still don't like it and it colors my appreciation of their work.
Oh yeah, there's some stuff that's just too far and too awful to be able to ignore. I've never really been able to enjoy any Louis CK or Dave Chappelle comedy for a long time now, for example. CK being a sex pest and Chappelle being an outright asshole to the trans community is just too much to swallow to even bother with em.
https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-ca/instruction/the-game-of-life-tripadvisor-edition
This is like saying a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean set is an ad for Disney.
It's literally just the "tripadvisor edition." It's a legal agreement between both parties to brand the game with tripadvisor stuff. The traditional Game of Life is still out there, without this. There's also a litany of other versions of these special editions of the game. The tripadvisor one does seem a little weird, but it's not any weirder than Game of Life Yokai Watch edition. I didn't know life involved death and ghosts.
I didn't know life involved death
You learned about mortality from Game of Life Yokai Watch edition?
This is exactly what was ordered, there's absolutely nothing to indicate this is a "TripAdvisor edition".
I don't consider licensed themes like a "LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean" set to be ads, or at least if it is its more like some sort of "mutually beneficial" ad. Those are actually cool or neat or themed in something of interest that has a fan base like a show or movie. Some random logo of a website/service slapped all over is not that.
On the backside of the box, there is microscopic branding for TripAdvisor on one of the cards. There is also a closeup photo of the cars that shows the TripAdvisor logo a couple of times across the board design. These could easily be missed by someone who wasn’t looking for them. The branding should have been more clear and the producer likely did mean to deceive. Always check the reviews before buying and take note of the manufacturer’s specific ID number or code for the product.
I’ve almost entirely stopped purchasing online unless I am familiar with the specific product or I have watched a thorough review of it. If you had the box in your hands, you’d be more likely to spot the branding on the back, and the side faces might have branding too.
There are fringe instances where the outward distinctions between manufactured products are so trivial that you’d really have to be in the know to differentiate between them. The only occurrence that I can think of which I’ve experienced is buying CDs that have the swear words censored vs. uncensored.
I agree that the other commenter’s analogy doesn’t make sense with the packaging/marketing context.
Damn, that's a bad look. I just assumed it was the tripadvisor edition because one existed. It sounds like this is a stealth "Amazon edition" that's different than other retail copies. I wonder what the agreements were that lead to this edition?
Interesting, apparently been spammy for years
Thank you for clearing it out. Important detail indeed. You get what you pay for I guess?
It's Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy.
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.
Crosshairs on people? Fine. crosshairs are on CEOs? panic.
Hasbro is uniquely shitty, and has/had multiple important individuals that are former pinkertons.
I'm still pissed at what they've done to my boy, D&D
We do have Pathfinder and 13th Age, both of which are better than 5e. They don't have the marketing budget though
There's also homebrew :P
And soooo many other games and genres as well
Pathfinder 2 is sooo much better than DnD, especially if you want to GM any official campaigns/modules/one-shots. Paizo's writing on their adventure paths make it so easy to just jump in and run a game or pilfer encounters and piecemeal a homebrew campaign
Plus, the character creation, ancestries, and classes are so flexible that you can play almost anything you can imagine without having to homebrew anything. You want play as the Rat King from The Nutcracker? Sure. A goblin sapper from Warcraft 2? Easy-peasy. You want to play as C-3PO? No problem. Christ, you can play as the fucking Velveteen Rabbit if you want.
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.
Corporate doesn't just want a lot of money, they want all of the money.
I've seen publishers advertise their other titles within the box, which honestly, not an issue for me. These, however, are crossing a line.
Yeah - it seemed pretty normal for a Parker Bros game from the 70s to come with a couple of inserts that advertised their other games. I want to say the same thing about NES cartridges.
If any of the components have advertising on them I'm removing that game from my library and never touching another game from that publisher, ever. One of my reasons for getting into board gaming was to avoid this shit.
Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.
