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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 17, 2012 0:08:26 GMT 1
So I was on Cracked's website earlier, and they had a smaller version of this advert for the new movie Total Recall. I guess the movie is doing badly and they had to hire the guy from Evony to help them out!
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 17, 2012 0:58:50 GMT 1
What's Evony? Also, those ladies are a little on the scrawny side... a good stiff breeze would blow them both away... *raises one eyebrow*
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Post by Mr. Glow on Aug 17, 2012 0:59:59 GMT 1
This movie's marketing team are loco. Why use that for sexy marketing when this guy is actually in the film?
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 17, 2012 8:06:50 GMT 1
Arnold must be turning around in his grave....
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 17, 2012 12:37:24 GMT 1
Sexist explotation and scantily clad ladies? That seems right up Arnold's street, if you ask me! Good Lord. I forget that you're relatively new here, Lily. For a long, long time we had a running joke going about the increasingly ridiculous midleading adverts for the rubbish online strategy game 'Evony', whose adverts started at 'irrelevant and creepy' and just got worse and worse. And yeah I agree - they look a bit malnourished. But to their credit, they are on a boat...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 17, 2012 18:27:51 GMT 1
Karma for the booat shizzles1
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 18, 2012 1:08:39 GMT 1
Oh, for the unholy love of Sithis... *facepalms* I looked up Evony on Wikipedia - and I simply do not see how a game where you build cities can be advertised by a bunch of mostly-naked girls with rather noticeable boobs who have absolutely nothing to do with the game... *sigh* I just don't get it.
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 18, 2012 4:20:01 GMT 1
It's because the game wasn't popular, so in desperation they turned to an advert where there was a medieval girl with cleavage!
And then that did well s they replaced it with a girl who didn't really look medieval at all, but kinda. And that did even better..... and it just carried on like that until it was literally a girl in the bath and the words 'Play now'. xD
It was a big thing on this site - following the slow collapse of the Evony adverts. The Ryan Reynolds of its day, kind of thing! One time I even signed up and tried playing it. It was rubbish. The little chat window it had was hilarious though, because every single message was 'Where is the girl on the poster?' or 'How do I get to the part with the girl??'
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 18, 2012 8:08:56 GMT 1
I was one of those guys! I played it for three days after i found out though, maybe i would be good at it. Pro-tip, radiing settle;emts is good because chances arethere will be no retribution.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 18, 2012 9:25:11 GMT 1
This is what annoys me though - it's exploitative, just using nearly-naked girls to promote something that has no nearly-naked girls in it... using soft-porn to promote something completely clean... making it look like all a woman is good for is to look good and purr seductively "Play now, My Lord" at a camera in advertisement of a game she has absolutely nothing to do with... *sigh*
It's a cheap, disgusting move.
Now, to be fair, I don't mind seeing pictures of scantily-clad women, I do find a lot of women to be rather attractive... but there is a fine line between posing for legit pictures and being exploited to promote a game that has nothing to do with scantily-clad women.
EDIT: Sorry for the mini-rant... I'm tired and when I am tired I am more sensitive to emotional irritants...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 18, 2012 9:49:16 GMT 1
It's okay Lily, sorry if i sounded like a pig earlier.... But yeah i can see why you are angry, it would piss me off to
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 18, 2012 12:02:51 GMT 1
At the time we found it funny rather than annoying.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 19, 2012 0:58:01 GMT 1
I actually was not mad at you, Gorvar, and I don't think you sounded like a pig either. I would have most likely been saying the same thing ("Where's the girl from the adverts?") only for different reasons... as in, why was she on the ad if she's not in the game?
Also, as I stated before, I (somewhat hypocritically) found those girls in the adverts attractive. So, I can't say a thing... ;D
And as for what you said, Buch, in hindsight and from a certain angle, it is funny - hilarious, even - that there would be such a discrepancy between the advert and the thing it is promoting. The point I had been trying to make, though, in my mis-guided mini-rant, was that if ads like this keep going on, and they will because the media does not change and has no shame, then it just continues the idea that women are only on this earth to look good and are only there for the male appreciation. It's a bit of a blow to my self-esteem, seeing as how I am not in any way attractive enough to be appreciated for my looks, and my personality is what my friends like about me. If women (me included) are reduced to non-thinking de-personalized 'pretty things' then where does that leave me?
Also, sorry for this new rant, again I am not mad at anyone here and I realize I am being mildly hypocritical seeing as how I appreciate a beautiful woman just as much as any man, but I would like to think that I see more to the woman than just her looks.
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 19, 2012 1:06:29 GMT 1
Ahhhh, you had to be there. xD
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 19, 2012 1:10:27 GMT 1
I had to be where?
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