Submitted 17 hours ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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“In the twilight of bourgeois decadence, even the most trivial ornaments of culture shall be seized by the ruling class, for in late capitalism the elites will weaponize every spectacle - yes, even the egirls - to distract the proletariat from its chains.”
The worst part about this is that if Karl Marx was alive today he would 100 percent be posting shit like this online. You cannot convince me that Karl Marx wasn’t the 1800s equivalent of that dude giving indepth historical economic overviews to his team in CSGO.
He’s probably going to be a twitch streamer if he’s alive now.
Weird to think that there is some percentage of this world that still goes to BestBuy, GameStop, and watches ads on TV and that its big enough to be worth marketing to.
I’m often surprised when I hear how other people live. Conversation at work will go like:
Employee A: “Youtube ads are getting ridiculous.”
Me: “You still see Youtube ads?”
Employee B: “Yeah, just get Youtube Premium. Such a smart investment.”
Me: “Wait, what?!”
Several of my millennial friends have cable TV and Tivo or something just because they are creatures of habit and are too tired from raising kids to consider changing their process. Weirdly, my boomer parents are the most tech savvy media consumers I know. They just have terrible taste.
This is one of those things that I go against the Lemmy hivemind on. I cut out pretty much every streaming service and sail the high seas for most of my media.But I consider YouTube Premium worth the cost.
I got grandfathered into it when Google Music shut down and I really haven’t felt the need to change anything. YouTube music is better than Spotify. I don’t have to constantly play the whack-a-mole game of ad blockers that will inevitably break during a YouTube update. I don’t have to rely on finicky software to get videos to play in the background with my phone screen off.
Look, I get it. All these features used to be offered for free without ads. I think that more than anything is why people are so rabidly against premium, because they feel like they had that stuff stolen from them. But YouTube is a service, not a right. The cost of Premium is miniscule compared to the benefits I get from it. I use YouTube a LOT. Weather for how to videos, or ASMR, or background music, or documentaries, or podcasts. I like knowing that no matter where I use it, from my computer to my phone to the random smart TV in a hotel that I cast to, I’m not going to see any ads.
All this is based on the current services offered at the current price. If and when they start making those services shittier or increase the cost, then I will seek alternatives; but not before.
I definitely buy YouTube premium, have had it for a few years. But I also use it a ton instead of Netflix or Amazon or anything else. I figure at a minimum of 50 hours a week on YouTube I should probably pay for it, even at the like $20 AUD a month or whatever it’s climbed to at this point, and creators get a % of my premium money so that supports people.
I haven’t been to Best Buy since I caught them jacking the prices on laptops for boxing day ‘sales’… that was 10-15 years ago
haven’t been to GameStop in about the same timeframe when I stopped sinking money into consoles because they were/are more expensive then pc gaming in the long run.
also haven’t turned my 65inch tv on in about 2 years. it’s all streaming on my desktop with pihole so clean watching.
If you have pihole, the ads would be blocked on your tv too lol
Maybe it’s a combination effort? I run pihole but I tell my friends (who aren’t ‘techy’) when best buy has a good deal. Having the 2 forms of suggestion (ads and word of mouth) may give them a boost.
One of those good deals is a 2-year controller coverage (+$10). If a controller gets stick drift (or any other damage including user-inflicted), you can exchange it at no cost if you paid the extra $10. I know stick drift and defects are typically covered under the manufacturer’s warranty but that can be a pain. I sent an elite series 2 controller in 5 times and it was never truly fixed.
With best buys paid extended coverage, I’ve turned in dualsense controller twice now (I’m on my third currently) for a total of $75 USD.
The Venn diagram is a circle.
Yes. They are similar stores and are therefore competing for each others’ customers. Hence this headline.
They both have some items that are semi exclusive or are better to buy from. Like if you want to buy big exercise equipment, it’s easier to return it if you have a physical store. Also, online places have higher rates of counterfeit items. So there are plenty of specific reasons to buy things in person.
Counterfeit concerns, porch pirates, and also basic manufacturers warranty coverage is simpler in my opinion. I don’t want to deal with cross shipping and email chains and off shore call centers when my gadget dies. I’ll pay a 5% premium for that convenience.
Also shuckable hdds
Best Buy has been one of the best places to buy PC components like GPUs from (as long as they’re in stock), since they don’t mark up prices above the manufacturer’s pricing, and they price match with Microcenter in case Microcenter’s price is lower.
Besy buy is my go to for PC parts since Newegg sold out.
Unironically, Best Buy pivoted really well into the modern market and they sell a lot of broad tech stuff at good prices. I’ve bought a lot of stuff including SSD’s, ram, and a big 43" monitor from them with good discounts. Don’t diss them till you’ve used them.
GameStop though, I’m still not sure how theyre in business. Mostly Nintendo physical items I think.
Best buy has been on my “one-bad-black-friday bankrupsy” bet for years, yet they seemed to have survived the death of Sears, Radioshack, Circuit City, and Frys Electronics…
For me, as a customer, they are the shop of last resort. I will go literally anywhere else because they will likely have the thing, but no specific models. If you need an SSD, RAM (lol no in todays market) or a cable they will likely have it, but its going to be a smaller range than Microcenter, if time is no object, just order exactly what you need.
The thing I will give them credit for is keeping the home theatre market, I feel that only a fool will buy a TV without physically looking at it first (they turn the blue up, just an FYI).
I don’t have a connection to broadcast television, channels, cable, and advertisements, and I just watch my shows by pirating. I think most of us are like that: TVs are for game consoles, or at best, a TV hooked up to a computer with YouTube on.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a TV showing broadcast content at my friends’ houses either.
Who the heck is keeping the TV industry profitable?
I think most of us are like that
Tech-savvy Lemmy users (and their friends) are a small portion of the population though. Plenty of people pay for cable TV, IPTV, or a similar service, as well as VOD platforms like Netflix.
Boomers. There are still a lot of them around.
I do shop at Best Buy, usually for computer parts and accessories. Because my local alternatives for computer hardware and peripherals, AV gear etc. are Wal-Mart and maybe our increasingly pathetic Staples. Or Amazon. Best Buy is literally the only place within 20 miles to buy a GPU in a brick and mortar store.
I don’t watch TV ads though. Is this chick a spokesman?
Best buy gets it, it’s just a meme for the Internet to pick up on, also they sell Land Line Telephones
Why are we posting about commercials
A true shit post one might say.
GameStop glow up
This reminds me of when the “can you hear me now?” guy from Verizon moved to Sprint, I think it was. How about them Epstein files though?
Remember Jared, the pedo subway guy (rest in piss). Bet he’s in there
You had gotten me all excited. I had thought he was still alive, so I looked it up. He is still alive. And now I am sad.
Look im glad she’s getting a paycheck but why do people give these 2 soulless companies free marketing by falling for this fabricated rivalry.
For the same reason it’s posted here and you’re commenting on it.
Hey I already jacked of to the best buy commercial, I’ve done my duty. Now it’s your turn.
I thought Best Buy paid a fee to any employee that gets featured.
Whatever Best Buy used as a filter to enlarge her eyes creeps me out. At least the Game Stop version looks like an actual person
It’s not a filter. She had an eye embiggening.
Wouldn’t she have had to get an eye disembiggening (ensmallment?) since best buy was first?
I don’t know, they look like perfectly cromulent eyes.
How do you not understand which image is from earlier?
I think it’s just under-eye eye liner
The original and the remix
I remember when you weren’t allowed to have piercings or coloured hair to work at these places lol
This is much better.
i miss funcoland :(
Is that where the pop came from?
The only thing I remember about it was that it was expensive as FUCK there.
The funco land near me was still cheaper than the Gamerz store that took the storefront when they closed.
Who is she? Not sure why I should care.
An actress. You shouldn’t care.
Not just an actress. A commercials actress.
Roll out the red carpet.
she got popular on tiktok for…idk
went to school with her, shes a nice person
The gaming retailer posted a new commercial on X on Wednesday, Dec. 10, featuring TikTok influencer Rilie Huntley (@okaygnomie), better known online as the “Best Buy Girl.”
From the article
Did people care enough about the Best Buy commercial for this to be on Gamestop’s radar? Did she have a fan club or something? She’s fairly attractive, but not in a memorable way. It seems like good casting in the sense that she looks like she might be someone who works a retail job.
I’m trying to figure out what the next level of progression is… Netflix?
The light side progression is Micro Center and the dark side progression is Linus Tech Tips.
This is genius.
Only Fans
Isn’t this the reason Epstein and Trump broke up?
GameStop as I knew it from a few years ago is dead. Now that all almost all games are digitized, its stores only carry a handful of discs and cartridges with barely enough to cover half a wall in shelves. The rest of the store is mired in miscellaneous pop culture crap like Cowboy Bebop T shirts, pop figures, and some various other knick knacks. It can’t live up to its name so it might as well shuffle off from store fronts and on to the collective memory of gaming enthusiasts.
GameStop died here. I haven’t seen one since before the pandemic. It’s been blissful.
I live in the UK and I haven’t seen GameStop in about 15+ years. They stopped operating here in 2016, but the one nearest to me shut down long before that.
The funny thing about Best Buy. Is that they hire. Kinda sorta good looking women. Not exactly good looking but from a far they were. It was always so funny how it worked out.
Wow. Necky.
I thought boxxy
I’ve had this weird thing lately where something keeps being mentioned or random things remind you of something and it’s been boxxy. It started with me watching black sails for the first time some weeks ago and thinking one of the characters looks familiar, which I then realised was boxxy (not that she is boxxy, but that’s who she reminds me of) then it just went as it always does; mentions of boxxy in the most random places, that actress appearing in stuff I’m watching and me thinking “that looks so much like boxxy” before realising it’s the same actress (who isn’t boxxy). It’s always a fun journey when this happens, and it’s the most random thing that it’s about too.
And now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t think I’ve ever watched an actual boxxy video, not back then or ever since. Just mentions, images and gifs on forums etc.
What decade is it?
That’s honestly the vibe yeah, less child looking I guess
Boo advertising
I thought I asked you to order corn
Was Best Buy paying her a retainer? No? Then she’s gonna go where the work is.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
this is fuckin weird. i went to school with her. she came to my apartment for a poker night once. wild seeing her on lemmy