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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Bleak Thread Gets Riled Up Over Smug Adverts About Returning To The Office
Home office or the real deal? It’s a question that has plagued the public discourse for most of the past two years, with people on both sides of the argument making some thoughtful points about the benefits of both. Going somewhere else for your job means that it’s a lot easier to separate life and …
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Brand Strategist Reveals How Grocery Stores Practice Subconscious Marketing
For most of us, there are few things more mundane than a visit to the grocery store. Most times, it’s usually a case of getting what we need, then getting out; if it’s a particularly exciting occasion, maybe we score something good in the reduced section, or have a tense standoff over the last bag …
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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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Malfunctioning Digital Bathroom Faucet Prompts Nightmares
Between the plethora of smart devices in our homes and all those massive servers in the desert pumping out new types of money, it’s safe to say that most of us are pretty well acquainted with computerization. There’s a gadget out there for almost everything these days, but this doesn’t always turn out to be …
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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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Informative Thread Explains What Cookies Are and What It Means to Accept Them
Websites are always demanding us to accept their cookies, but what if we don’t want any cookies? What are cookies anyway? They’re certainly not delicious sweet and buttery treats. They’re something invisible and mysterious. Twitter user @wtfjummy recently tweeted, ‘I be on websites accepting cookies not even knowing what that is’ and we felt that. …
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If Crowdfunding Sites Were Honest
What would happen if crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo and others were actually honest? They probably wouldn’t raise any funds at all.
30+ Times Connecting Objects to the Internet Went Wrong
A home that calibrates its vibe to your liking as soon as you walk in the door sounds like a cool, futuristic detail from a Philip K. Dick story, but in reality it looks like a refrigerator that blue-screens every time you try to open it and shower that forces you to watch three commercials …
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Incredulous People Discuss ‘Conspiracy Theories’ They Actually Believe
There are some pretty bonkers conspiracy theories out there that are only convincing if you’re stoned enough, but unless you’re living in blissful ignorance, there are probably more than a few things you’re at least a little skeptical about. In a recent r/AskReddit thread about plausible conspiracy theories, incredulous people discuss all the things they’re …
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