There's fucking ads in board games now

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0/strategy.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s just years of labor organizing, but I’m deeply unsettled by this. Surrounding the consumers on all sides with crosshairs centered on them.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hasbro is uniquely shitty, and has/had multiple important individuals that are former pinkertons.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Corporate doesn’t just want a lot of money, they want all of the money.

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Crosshairs on people? Fine. crosshairs are on CEOs? panic.

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• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Let me tell you clothes and shoes lol

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The original 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.

  youtu.be/aeyLZHaGj3s?si=d436vRSThhdtMjBD

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was just thinking about this last weekend when I heard a Run The Jewels beat on a TurboTax ad during an NFL game.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nice

    Also here’s the link without the tracker

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks! What site do you use to clean the tracker off of links?

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hasbro.

  This is disgusting.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They have been performing horribly lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf, Wizards of the Coast, even their Marvel line has reslly dropped wuality to the barest minimum. It’s stunning, reallt.

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    • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It feels like MTG has a crossover/cash grab every other month. It’s just too much.

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    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They tried everything but making a better product.

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• Neuromancer49@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve seen publishers advertise their other titles within the box, which honestly, not an issue for me. These, however, are crossing a line.

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  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If any of the components have advertising on them I’m removing that game from my library and never touching another game from that publisher, ever. One of my reasons for getting into board gaming was to avoid this shit.

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• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hate being advertised to so fucking much.

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  • verdigris@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s visual and often auditory assault. More people should deface public advertising.

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  • BillibusMaximus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Then you’ll love this new product that’s guaranteed* to reduce the amount of advertising you’re exposed to!

    *Warning: may cause blindness, loss of hearing, and inability to leave your room.

    But in all seriousness… I hate it. It’s fucking everywhere.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No shade here but do you also work a full time job? If so shit where do you find the time.

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In full forensic accounting, you MAKE money by getting off the “convenience” train.

      Once you realize that a checkerboard costs $5 but a piece of paper and 24 pennies costs… well nothing… it starts to make more sense. Because most stuff in life, you use once then throw away or stuff into the closet and never think about again.

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  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I need to see a picture of your phone. Could you send me a chalk rubbing?

    (Sorry, had to home) More to the point, how does it take you an hour to make pizza dough, bread and tortillas? Pizza dough on it’s own takes 15-20 minutes active time, and then it’s a long wait

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dough is a great discussion topic to explore.

      Once I learned to make dough, I realized it’s actually a total of 10 minutes work distributed over 4 hours. Reorganize and re-prioritizing my time made it work. Simple planning.

      If I make dough, I make 2Kg so I cut it up, freeze the chunks I wont be immediately using and I have dough for as long as I need. Why make new dough every time? Batches.

      It’s way simpler than you guys think. Scoffing is fun, but getting off the “convenience train” was the best thing I ever did. Requires a bit of upfront adjustment and learning, but change isn’t free.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …hasbro.com/…/the-game-of-life-tripadvisor-editio…

  This is like saying a LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean set is an ad for Disney.

  It’s literally just the tripadvisor edition. The traditional Game of Life is still out there, without this. There’s also a litany of other versions of this. The tripadvisor one does seem a little weird, but it’s not any weirder than Game of Life Yokai Watch edition, I didn’t know life involved death and ghosts.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is exactly what was ordered, there’s absolutely nothing to indicate this is a “TripAdvisor edition”.

    I don’t consider licensed themes like a “LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean” set to be ads, or at least if it is its more like some sort of “mutually beneficial” ad. Those are actually cool or neat or themed in something of interest that has a fan base like a show or movie. Some random logo of a website/service slapped all over is not that.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Interesting, apparently been spammy for years

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    • Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      On the backside of the box, there is microscopic branding for TripAdvisor on one of the cards. There is also a closeup photo of the cars that shows the TripAdvisor logo a couple of times across the board design. These could easily be missed by someone who wasn’t looking for them. The branding should have been more clear and the producer likely did mean to deceive. Always check the reviews before buying and take note of the manufacturer’s specific ID number or code for the product.

      I’ve almost entirely stopped purchasing online unless I am familiar with the specific product or I have watched a thorough review of it. If you had the box in your hands, you’d be more likely to spot the branding on the back, and the side faces might have branding too.

      There are fringe instances where the outward distinctions between manufactured products are so trivial that you’d really have to be in the know to differentiate between them. The only occurrence that I can think of which I’ve experienced is buying CDs that have the swear words censored vs. uncensored.

      I agree that the other commenter’s analogy doesn’t make sense with the packaging/marketing context.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Damn, that’s a bad look. I just assumed it was the tripadvisor edition because one existed. It sounds like this is a stealth “Amazon edition” that’s different than other retail copies. I wonder what the agreements were that lead to this edition?

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  • TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you for clearing it out. Important detail indeed. You get what you pay for I guess?

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s branded right there on the front. It should really be free since it has ads, though!

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    imo if you pay for something, ads should be illegal lest it’s like the company logo

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    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What about products subsidized by advertisement to reduce the price?

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Metalocalypse?

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s the one, unfortunately it kept being flagged as misspelled. In retrospect, portmanteaus are probably not considered real words by spellcheckers.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    TIL I’m a clueless grandma…

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  • PatTheBunny@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Grandmas don’t have time to play life

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• Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nothing. Is. Sacred. If we had any form of functional government they wouldn’t be stuck 75 years behind on progress and dumb issues like this could be taken care of. The only chance of this happening now is some random gov official doing it as a PR stunt.

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• lemmur@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And that’s why you should always use an adblocker (black permanent marker)

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.

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• Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And they did this since 2017 (I think)

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• pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just wait until toilet paper real estate starts being used.

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  • heavydust@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would pay good money to have toilet paper with the face of my previous middle-manager on it.

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like a money maker. Now just as AI to it and you’re set with your 2025 business model

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SPACEBALLS! the Toilet Paper!

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      -you won’t believe this shit

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