Glaring Reasons Why Jerks Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Design Things

By now, we are all used to the fact that Capitalism™️ requires businesses to keep coming up with clever new ways to maximize profits by bamboozling consumers, but sometimes the levels of trickery can reach infuriating heights. Some true a-holes out there design products, websites and interfaces not so much to sell us something of …
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Funny Thread Looks Back on Unhinged Video Game Ads From the 90s

They say «sex sells,» but there’s subtly suggestive advertising and then there’s Nintendo ads from the 90s. In a Twitter thread started by @choctopusyt, people have been sharing their favorite unhinged video game advertisements from the gaming days of yore. Many of them seem to imply that the Game Boy is so entertaining, that one …
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Amusing Thread Looks Back on Unhinged Video Game Ads From the 90s

They say «sex sells,» but there’s subtly suggestive advertising and then there’s Nintendo ads from the 90s. In a Twitter thread started by @choctopusyt, people have been sharing their favorite unhinged video game advertisements from the gaming days of yore. Many of them seem to imply that the Game Boy is so entertaining, that one …
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20+ Cursed Apps From the Bizarre World of Mobile Gaming

Have you ever noticed those bizarre ads for chaotic mobile games that make no sense whatsoever? They tend to feature crude animations of super specific romantic scenarios often dealing with themes of betrayal and revenge, or grotesque pimple-popping games with dissonant sound effects. Most people instinctively ignore advertisements of any kind, but the weird aesthetic …
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Strange & Funny Craigslist Ads Posted By People Who Tried Their Best

We have to admit that we have no idea how many of these people were trolling, but we kind of hope that all of them were for the sake of humanity… I’m not sure what to say about some of these ads from Craigslist…. People really will try to sell anything and everything nowadays all …
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Extremely Odd Craigslist Ads Posted By People Who Were Trying Their Best, Probably

We have to admit that we have no idea how many of these people were trolling, but we kind of hope that all of them were for the sake of humanity… I’m not sure what to say about some of these ads from Craigslist…. People really will try to sell anything and everything nowadays all …
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20+ Reasons Why Jerks Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Design Things

By now, we’re all used to the fact that Capitalism™️ requires businesses to keep coming up with clever new ways to maximize profits by bamboozling consumers, but sometimes the levels of trickery can reach infuriating heights. Some true a-holes out there design products, websites and interfaces not so much to sell us something of actual …
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20 Rage-Inducing Job Advertisement Fails

Job-hunting is hard enough without having to deal with complete and utter inadequacy at the hiring level. Like, come on people, get your sh*t together and at least set a decent example for your applicants! The following job ads will anger literally anyone who has any decent sense of grammar and punctuation. And we mean …
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