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YOU NINJA YOU!Elementary - Dear Watson said:Greenday isn't proper punk...
Punk was a lot more raw... and had infinitely less ballads!
It's stuff like the Rolling Stones thing that makes me hate current generation music. Greenday the best Punk band? Does anyone know what punk music is or was? Maybe if you went back in time to the 90's when Greenday was first starting out, I would agree that they were a decent Punk band and that they vaguely fit the definition. Now they're just a bunch of main stream musicians who write a lot of ballads.
Also regarding viral ads. The nice thing about them is that it's pretty cheap to make one, which is good for people without the resources to advertise their product or, in the case of music, their band. Big companies getting into viral ads are just trying to be "with the times" so to speak and save money. Why spend thousands of dollars on a TV ad when you can spend a few hundred on a youtube video and have people promote it for you?
Now granted, the old spice ones and the blendtech ones probably aren't hurting for money, but at least they're hilarious and awesome. I always get this feeling that a big corporation viral video would feel artificial or forced.
I totally agree, & the name is just coincidence. People can/should make up there own minds about environmental & dietary dangers (except where they are forced on people, fluoride & the like). Give the video a watch, it can't hurt, and if it leaves you with more questions than answers, well... mission accomplished.
As for the people blinded by aspartame consumption; most of it gets diagnosed as all manner of macular degeneration. There are a few special cases of retinal detachment & spontaneous degeneration that have been positively/casually linked to aspartame consumption, but these are rare; the process normally happens slowly over decades & thus can ONLY be casually linked to people consuming huge quantities every day (a half pack of diet sodas). You probably aren't going to wake up one day and be blind because of it.
There are people like you who will stand up and say "well show me the horns" show me the obvious, unique, anecdotal symptoms. Well... they typically don't exist. Especially for substances operating at a quantum level, symptoms blend in with other symptoms & exasperate others.
I've just gotten into Slender. And I'm drinking Splenda with my coffee as I write!!!
Why do I feel like someone just walked on my grave?
THEY MADE ME DO IT! THEY MADE ME DO IT!
Why do I feel like someone just walked on my grave?
That bloodthirstiness or yours will serve you well at the Escapist's Hunger Games.Evil Smurf said:
THEY MADE ME DO IT! THEY MADE ME DO IT!
Green Day, the best punk band ever... Mad people. Especially given that all the good (read: old) stuff is basically just Social Distortion-lite.
That little thing with Rolling Stones readers calling Green Day the best punk band ever almost made me angry before I realized that I really don't give a shit about what their readership thinks. The Clash, ************, have you heard them?
Pffft, Splendaman could whip Slenderman's ass. Splendaman's got that whole Burger King mascot thing going for him in that he shows up out of nowhere like a rapist (ahem, what do you think his tentacles are for?) offering you food products you didn't necessarily ask for but still take anyways because hey, it's free food.
Slenderman just feeds on your paranoia before gutting out your organs and hanging them in little baggies for unknown reasons. Ho-hum.
Slenderman just feeds on your paranoia before gutting out your organs and hanging them in little baggies for unknown reasons. Ho-hum.
I'm not sure I'd qualify it as successful. In order for an advertisement to be successful it has to not only stick in peoples minds but also sell product. I don't personally know anybody who owns a BlendTec blender. So even if more people can connect 'Will it blend?' with BlendTec than can connect... whatever Cuisinart's ad is with Cuisinart, it doesn't matter if they still buy a Cuisinart blender instead.Dafttechno said:
On a related note: The "thatsa one spicy meatball!" commercial was actually for an antacid if I recall correctly and ended up not helping because although everybody knew about it, they connected it with spaghetti sauce or meatballs instead of antacids.
As for the Aspartame thing: If it takes decades to start causing deterioration, I'm not sure you can claim any sort of meaningful link. After all, I'm pretty sure I can provide scientific evidence to prove that people who drink water are significantly less fit forty years later than they were at the beginning of the study.
In fact, I'm not sure you'd be able to prove that something as common among older people as worsened eyesight is linked to any specific item. This is especially true given how universal artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame are these days. It's not like smoking where the effects are obviously connected and there's an obvious delineation between smokers and non-smokers. Even if you did try to compare the general health of people who do consume aspartame and those that don't, the simple fact that anybody willing to take the effort to avoid aspartame (See the bit about it being incredibly prevalent these days) is also probably the sort of person who in general pays more attention to the quality of their food and thus will likely be healthier regardless of what aspartame does or doesn't do.
A side note: No, I didn't watch the video. It's an hour and a half long. I'm not in the habit of wasting an hour and a half of my time to watch a biased video in order to continue an internet argument.
Well, yes and no. It's mainstream in the same way The Cthulhu Mythos is mainstream. It's known to nerds and those in fandom, and there are lots of us, and creators are using it as an inside joke in mainstream sources.Impluse_101 said:
That said, with the relative success of things like "Marble Hornets" and Unfiction in general, you have to expect awareness to grow.
It was also from Something Awful which was never exactly underground.
All of those points aside, it seems there are at least two other Slenderman themed games under development, both mentioned under "Project Greenlight" on STEAM. I expect it to become rather popular in the indie game circuit for a while, though I doubt it will ever get to the point where we see Slendy vending products directly.
I'd also say that if someone DID decide to use Slenderman for profit of this type, there might be some backlash. I believe there was a social MMO a while back that was selling Meme themed items, and they wound up pretty much stopping after a pretty huge uprising from Goons, Chans, etc... threatned to decimate their business. I'd like to think that after what Lulzsec did to SoE (and they were just script kiddies) that big business is going to be careful about what it riles up at the moment. I could be wrong about that though.
Still, very awesome strip, all that was missing was a circle with an X over it.
How very... Paradigmatic of you. Your unfounded self assurances are as phony as that Wikipedia article. Give the video a watch, or a listen, you might(would) learn something.Falterfire said:
The only reason that you can, in rare cases, casually link smoking to health issues is that the act of smoking is very overt. I remind you that it took decades of studies/lies/evasions from the Cigarette industry for people to become informed about the health dangers. It will take some time for the facts to make their way into general public forums.
It's a product of the era/country we live in, that we endure countless fraudulent studies and defenses on behalf of things like Cigarettes, Leaded Gas, & Asbestos (to name just a few) before the truth wills out.
But i can understand why someone wouldn't want to spend more than an hour watching a video, so let me summarize a few key points.
*There were conclusive reports linking Aspartame to the formation of brain tumors long before the product was even approved for market. The Affected companies simply withheld those studies until after the product was approved.
*Aspartame is produced as the fecal like secretion of a genetically modified e-coli virus.
*Aspartame was stumbled upon during the manufacture of a an ulcer treating drug. It was only suggested for market when one of the scientists realized how sweet it was.
*Consuming aspartame in the form of chewing gums, & any form that encourages contact with the Gums for extended periods of time, will cause the substance to go directly into your bloodstream.
*The side effects of aspartame are primarily related to the nervous system. In the first years that aspartame was released, over 80% of volunteered food complaints to the FDA were aspartame related.
There's plenty of information available. The internet certainly isn't suffering for lack of it.