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dhex

god of war 2: dead goat edition
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

this is real
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dhex · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject:

in that case...i would like to cremate their marketing team and smoke the ashes!
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yeah, no word if this was the same marketing team that worked on the UK Shadow Man (advertise a game on your tombstone!) and Turok (name your child Turok!) promotions back in the day.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

So this is where former Acclaim employees finally ended up.
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:39 am Post subject:

what i don't get is they do these things - things that someone a million miles away would say "hey, this is going to upset some people" - and then at the first sign of trouble they immediately pull out the apology guns?

what the living fuck does that mean?

ok i know what it means: bigwigs want results. but they also want to be loved by everyone. they're like pop stars in that regard. so you can be "controversial" but not CONTROVERSIAL and you can be "edgy" but not actually EDGY because uh, that'd be bad. it's impossible to please everyone, so you get these sorts of uh, efforts.

fuck that, man. if you're going to have a dead goat, why not cook the damn thing? hell, do a live slaughter (in accordance with kosher or halal guidelines) and serve it to the journos on hand. if you're going to serve up bread and circuses, why go halfway?
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

dhex · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:52 am Post subject:

i get the feeling this is one of those things that seemed like a good idea to a big monkey and all the little monkeys were like "hey ok boss yeah!" and then when the details came floating down no one had the heart to tell the big monkey the idea was stupid.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I thought the choice of what they mosaic'd out was kind of odd.

I thought maybe the guy there was really packin'.

But... boobies.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

dhex · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject:

because some clients are always right, even when they're wrong and you tell them so gently.

there's a great page with 15 kinds of clients on them, meant for freelancers but it incorporates so many types that it applies to non-profs, corporates and even volunteer groups.
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