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[Sperry]

Dear Escapist Marketing Division:

I just registered, although I'm a big fan of Zero Punctuation, Unskippable, and ENN, as well as the upcoming LoadingReadyRun crossover bonanza (so yeah basically a LRR fan who also likes Yahtzee). Anyway, the reason for my arrival on the forums is to say that dang, the ads are getting out of hand! Not the amount of them mind you, I understand that times is hard, but it's the recent content. I mean Christ, I generally watch this stuff over breakfast, I don't want to see a zoom-in on a middle-aged lady's sinus cavity, revealing the obese mucous hoedown within. Or, indeed, a time-lapse of a meth-addicted girl's face melting off.

I mean, I guess I can see where Concerned Parents Against Getting Wicked High and Mucinex would want to advertise on a site catering mostly to us dangerously irresponsible twenty-somethings who don't get enough exercise, but do they really want to do it in a way that puts me off my Count Chocula and morning blunt?

Oh wait...I guess they would...

 

[Swaki]

i never seen those adds, but i know what you mean, the normal news site i use have adds where they press fat out of a smokers veins, not something i need to see while enjoying a cup of tea and a cigarette.

actually i have never seen anything like what you describe on this site, and i visit it an embarrassing amount of times each day and mostly theres adds from "the citykids" and something about "theres a bridge"

 

[Sperry]

Eugh, really? I shall count my blessings then! Keep the Mucinex ads if that's the alternative!

Heh yeah, I've been coming here multiple times a day for months now, and the ads I mentioned only started very recently. And it's not like it's the majority of the ads on the Escapist - most are standard gaming/clothing deals. And heck, they don't seriously bother me, but I was wondering if anyone had had similar reactions here