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Can't have anything nice apparently :/
Who the hell is buying The game of Life nowadays? Boardgamers don't touch games with roll and move mechanics and small children are too screen addicted to play a board game. The only target market are probably clueless grandmas but even they are too savy to buy a boxed waste of time like this one.
I literally bought it because I thought it would be fun.
It was fun. Once. Now I'm too bored to play it again tbh.
TIL I'm a clueless grandma...
Grandmas don't have time to play life
Remember in that Dethklok show that I can't spell when people went to the live performance of a band that had a less than 10% survival rate for their audience, on a frozen mountain top, to hear a fucking coffee jingle?
We're not far removed from that, people will be lining up to buy fucking tickets for a high budget McRib ad come this Novmeber.
Metalocalypse?
Yes, that's the one, unfortunately it kept being flagged as misspelled. In retrospect, portmanteaus are probably not considered real words by spellcheckers.
Good on them for having Dethklok in there, though!
I already dislike ads in general, but ads on things I pay for, be it physical goods or digital services, is crossing a line I find unacceptable.
Let me tell you clothes and shoes lol
FWIW I’m with you. My latest pet peeve has been wondering why car dealerships get to plaster their shit on our cars.
I just want to point out... They took a quote from what appears to be a review... Then credit tripadvisor for it rather than the person who made the comment/review on the tripadvisor platform.
Bad citation.
Any words you use on TripAdvisor are the property of TripAdvisor.
-Lemmy, apparently.
Any words you use on TripAdvisor are the property of TripAdvisor.
~~-Lemmy, apparently.~~ -TripAdvisor ToS
Actually I don't think it is. They'd have a license to use it in perpetuity but if they claimed legal ownership then they'd be responsible for what you post.
They get the benefits of ownership without any of the responsibility.
Yeah I was trying to shoehorn a joke that because I wrote it on Lemmy, it is now property of the Lemmy, but as I tend to do with most things in life, I half-assed it. Whole ass next time.
I didn't get it at first, but good joke, close enough to whole ass.
And it's the most generic boring non-specific review imaginable. Any Markov chain would generate better results.
And that's why you should always use an adblocker (black permanent marker)
It's Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy to monetize everything.
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.
Also, how easy it has to be to convince an average American that this is a good thing. That they want you to be at the center, because they care about you, or some other horseshit.
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.
Hasbro.
This is disgusting.
They have been performing horribly quarter to quarter lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf has no springs and shoddy plastic, Wizards of the Coast are dropping a ton of middling-popular products from production, even their Marvel line has really taken a hit to quality with bad fabrics, cheap printing, etc. Everything is being cut to the barest minimum to try and claw back their profitability.
... It's stunning they can't seem to connect the dots, really.
They tried everything but making a better product.
Yeah, MTG is a flaming dumpster heap of new mechanics every other month; I got sick of it and stopped playing Arena. Then, they had their whole OGL fiasco prompt a whole lot of content makers (who, let's be real, did a lot of work for Hasbro basically for no cost to the company) to move off of 5E.
It feels like MTG has a crossover/cash grab every other month. It's just too much.
And they did this since 2017 (I think)
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.
Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
I work at a used book store. Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is a great seller, one of the best selling titles we ever get in, in fact. As a result, we keep raising the resale price on the thing each time a new one comes in, and it keeps selling. I've never had to mark down a Communist Manifesto for sitting on the shelf for too long. It's a textbook example of supply and demand in action... and I think that Karl would kind of hate that.
Okay but what about the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith? I doubt its comparable but id assume ya guys move some copies entirely because of EU4.
Adam Smith does pretty well. I'd say it's Marxism, mushroom guides, and beekeeping that remain consistently at the top of the rankings. Then you've got whatever fiction is currently hot. For a while there it was Where the Crawdads Sing or Demon Copperhead. Sarah J. Maas is currently enjoying an extended streak of very strong sales. The Twilight series went through a bit of a low ebb for a while there but for some reason it's been selling quite well again lately. Harry Potter used to be a rock solid seller, but one can see that J. K.'s attempts to alienate her fan base have been at least partially successful. It's interesting to see the trends develop over time.
For the Twilight one there was a bit of a piss take renaissance on YouTube for a bit. Probably folks reading it to see how bad it is.
I've seen publishers advertise their other titles within the box, which honestly, not an issue for me. These, however, are crossing a line.
It's branded right there on the front. It should really be free since it has ads, though!
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.
No shade here but do you also work a full time job? If so shit where do you find the time.
