Wow! Marketing have really raised their game!
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2012-05-15 11:00 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
PANTHER STEALTH POWER!!!!!!!!!! AVAILABLE NOW AND FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!**
Transmogrify yourself into the coolest, most awesome looking panther that no one can see because it turns invisible, but take our word for it its jet black and way cool. For the incredibly low price of just two paragon points a day*** you can, with just a single toggle, disable all of your powers! Except the one that turns you into the awesome Panther!! That no one can see!!! And if you act now****, we'll throw in the use of one vanity pet with the toggle, so that you can't say it disables every power! Purchasing this item will allow you to use this awesome power on every character you create in your account, and also every character anyone else creates in your account, at every single combat level higher than 3! Without exception!***** ** time limit currently intended to be between one and one million months *** assuming at least ten months of play during which you want to turn into an invisible panther; first ten months must be paid at time of sale **** if you don't act now, the power will also allow exactly one vanity pet to be used, given its current implementation, which may change ***** Only combat levels 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22 ,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,3 9,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49, and 50 are explicitly included in this offer |
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Originally Posted by Paladiamors
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You made my point as well Tony. Trying to blame obesity on one thing is a flawed argument. There are several factors at work.|
Originally Posted by TonyV
Genetics has a part to play in it as well. Some people just have lucky metabolisms that make it really hard to be obese. Some people have unlucky metabolisms that make them predisposed to obesity.
Not saying you have no control over it. If you tried to be obese, I'm sure you could manage to do it. Likewise, just because one is predisposed to obesity doesn't mean that they have to be obese. With a good diet and exercise, anyone has the capacity to be a healthy weight. I do think, however, that our particular culture that rewards people for sedentary lifestyles, that is driven by non-stop passive entertainment (television and the Internet), and in which eating healthy is considerably more difficult and usually more expensive than shoveling a steady stream of junk food down, it's hard not to be obese no matter what your metabolism is. Sure, we can fight it, but do we as a society really want to? |
Trying to blame it on specific products or a high sugar diet is just as flawed.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Unless you blame it on the law of conservation of mass.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Trying to blame obesity on one thing is a flawed argument.
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He'd have to live on a toilet and eat nothing but donuts and cheap ramen noodles, never moving.|
Originally Posted by TonyV
Genetics has a part to play in it as well. Some people just have lucky metabolisms that make it really hard to be obese. Some people have unlucky metabolisms that make them predisposed to obesity.
Not saying you have no control over it. If you tried to be obese, I'm sure you could manage to do it. |
TJ - I respect you as a person, but I HATE your metabolism with a overweight man's passion, from what I recall at the Pummit
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Don't worry, there are times I hate it as well.|
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
TJ - I respect you as a person, but I HATE your metabolism with a overweight man's passion, from what I recall at the Pummit |
EDIT: I did gain quite a bit of weight over a short span of time once. Well, mostly just a bad case of Dunlap's disease (belly dun lapped over the belt) rather than real weight gain.
I was eating at least a quart of Blue Bell Ice Cream a day, specifically the Banana Split flavor. There were days I ate a gallon of it. This was over a span of about 2 months.
I was crawling through the attic at our house one afternoon running wiring for the DirecTV system when I got hung on some rafters. I couldn't move forward, backward or sideways except in extremely slow increments. It took me almost 30 minutes to get myself "unstuck" so that I could move freely along the rafters again. All of the regulars (and some of the irregulars) of our local CB Radio network were laughing their heads off when they heard about it. Of course, they heard about it while I was still in the attic. Someone called on the radio for me and Dad told them why I couldn't answer them.
I lost all of it in a bit over two weeks simply by stopping eating Blue Bell Ice Cream. When I eat it now, I do it in extreme moderation.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Marketing departments are what brought us the "sugar is sugar" commercials paid for by the Corn industry. Yes, it is, but sugar is also what is making this nation incredibly fat, and that includes your high fructose corn syrup. I am actually happy that the marketing team here finally learned that people want to make informed decisions when it comes to their money. I wish more companies would actually admit the truth of their product, and let customers make informed decisions.
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Yeah let's ban marketing and save the people from themselves!
Thelonious Monk
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Marketeers like you live their lives exploiting innocent victims who don't realize that they're targets of con artists, scams, and fraud. |
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Yeah let's ban marketing and save the people from themselves!
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Originally Posted by Rakeeb
Marketeers like you live their lives exploiting innocent victims who don't realize that they're targets of con artists, scams, and fraud.
If you value yourself in the least, you should consider another career to make up for your vile, manipulate actions. |
Ok
*considers*
No!
But I'm glad you appreciate what we do
Thelonious Monk
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But then they wouldn't SELL as many! Gasp!|
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Marketing departments are what brought us the "sugar is sugar" commercials paid for by the Corn industry. Yes, it is, but sugar is also what is making this nation incredibly fat, and that includes your high fructose corn syrup. I am actually happy that the marketing team here finally learned that people want to make informed decisions when it comes to their money. I wish more companies would actually admit the truth of their product, and let customers make informed decisions.
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This is why people hate marketing and commercials. Obviously, they care more about making money than preventing harm. An informed customer is the enemy of marketing, unless the company actually has a superior product. But then again, they wouldn't need superior marketing nearly so badly if they did.
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Originally Posted by NekoNeko
But then they wouldn't SELL as many! Gasp!
This is why people hate marketing and commercials. Obviously, they care more about making money than preventing harm. An informed customer is the enemy of marketing, unless the company actually has a superior product. But then again, they wouldn't need superior marketing nearly so badly if they did. |
The best product (or service) in the world is useless if nobody knows it exists; which is exactly what this game suffers from most I'd argue.
Thelonious Monk
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The answer is obvious then.|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
The best product (or service) in the world is useless if nobody knows it exists; which is exactly what this game suffers from most I'd argue.
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What would Don Draper do?
I don't see what the problem is with letting people know what an item does and doesn't do if it's not obvious?
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This looks like your transmogrifier. To the inattentive and brainless layman, yes, but you crawl under the transmogrifier, whereas with the time machine, you climb in the top
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Transmogrify yourself into the coolest, most awesome looking panther
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I don't see how sleeping with you and drinking all of your brandy would help this.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
The answer is obvious then.
What would Don Draper do? |
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Or perhaps they are just not marketed well.
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Originally Posted by Rakeeb
Marketeers like you live their lives exploiting innocent victims who don't realize that they're targets of con artists, scams, and fraud.
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Originally Posted by Rakeeb
Marketeers like you live their lives exploiting innocent victims who don't realize that they're targets of con artists, scams, and fraud.
If you value yourself in the least, you should consider another career to make up for your vile, manipulate actions. |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Originally Posted by Void_Huntress
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Obvious example of fraudulent marketing as a strata is diet pills.
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Originally Posted by DLancer
I don't see how sleeping with you and drinking all of your brandy would help this.
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PANTHER STEALTH POWER!!!!!!!!!! AVAILABLE NOW AND FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!**
Transmogrify yourself into the coolest, most awesome looking panther that no one can see because it turns invisible, but take our word for it its jet black and way cool. For the incredibly low price of just two paragon points a day*** you can, with just a single toggle, disable all of your powers! Except the one that turns you into the awesome Panther!! That no one can see!!! And if you act now****, we'll throw in the use of one vanity pet with the toggle, so that you can't say it disables every power!
Purchasing this item will allow you to use this awesome power on every character you create in your account, and also every character anyone else creates in your account, at every single combat level higher than 3! Without exception!*****
** time limit currently intended to be between one and one million months
*** assuming at least ten months of play during which you want to turn into an invisible panther; first ten months must be paid at time of sale
**** if you don't act now, the power will also allow exactly one vanity pet to be used, given its current implementation, which may change
***** Only combat levels 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22 ,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,3 9,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49, and 50 are explicitly included in this offer
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