As a teen, there was a brief period where I thought that 5 Gum actually gave you full body hallucinations.

What about the rest of y'all? Any ads capture your imagination only to disappoint you? I mean more than usual.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      my first election was 2012, so i had a chance to see he was full of it by then, but in 2008 I genuinely thought Obama was gonna end the war on terror and close Gitmo lol

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        He got me in 2008 but I figured it out and didn't repeat my mistake. The murder of al-Awlaki is what truly, finally, completely broke any lingering illusions I had about the USA.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I ended up casting my first presidential vote for Nader after Obama vowed to filibuster the bill that gave telecom companies legal immunity from their participation in Bush's warrantless wiretapping, then turned around and voted for it after getting a campaign donation from AT&T.

      Then I voted for Obama in 2012 :blob-no-thoughts:

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I thought owning a Dreamcast would make me a cool rebel who does graffiti. In reality it just meant a lot of saying "no shenmue is good actually"

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Axe Body Spray did not make gorgeous women flock to me

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      holy shit i was just about to tweet this. you know what's the worse part? that a girl actually smiled at me on the bus after using axe once so i totally hallucinated for like 2 weeks that this shit did work.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        One of my female friends gave me a hug and told me I smelled nice when I was wearing it once, that was it

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    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      That response will really help my survey data. Thank you for contributing!

      :fedposting:

    • Dryad [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Tbf, back in 2012, the idea of promising to make a video game and collecting money for it and then just ... not doing it was almost completely unheard of.

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        • Dryad [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Yup, I find it most satisfying to refer to what they're doing as just "not making the game they said they'd make." The hope is that someone will get baited into saying "what do you mean they didn't make the game, I've played it" and I can be like "then why isn't it released more than 10 years later?" :comfy-cool:

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      • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I just wanted to be a space trucker, I couldn’t care less about the whole squadron 42 thing. But this earth will long be dead before the game ever releases

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Oh yeah! I thought those would make you jump five feet in the air.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        they actually made you jump about half as high as usual and also made you six thousand times more likely to obliterate your ankle

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I wanted some pretty bad but my parents must have saw through the scam so here I am ankles intact.

    • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      You probably are just too desensitized to taste it but green m&m's are actually very spicy by mayo standards

  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't know about "fell for" since they were just fun, but those Old Spice commercials got me to try their product. And I liked it better than the deodorant I was using, so I still use it 20 years later. Pretty successful on their part.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    I was really legitimately excited for Cyberpunk 2077 and believed it would be on par with Rockstar's work. :deeper-sadness:

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Same here. Ordered it day one and everything. Come to think of it, that'd the last game I tried before moving away from games as a whole. Barely play them anymore

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Won't happen again. Hopefully Rockstar keep up their standards, Red Dead 2 is the benchmark for what I hoped Cyberpunk would be though and it's really disappointing that CDPR did not aim for those standards. They didn't even try to in my honest opinion.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I started listening to The Archive after that slick teaser came out. But then years later when actual screenshots started coming out it looked like someone liked the superficial aesthetics of cyberpunk but had no understanding of the themes and values of the genre, or what it was warning about. And.... Yeah.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      Why would you believe an alteration to the perfect meal (hot n ready pizza) would be better than the original?

      You're a fool and most of all, a liberal.

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    2 years ago

    all those dudes who joined the marines after seeing a guy fight a shitty cgi dragon or whatever

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  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    as a gamer, the Fable and Spore hype marketing got me good, but pretty much inoculated me entirely to future game hype.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      SPORE oh my GOD

      It actually was supposed to be good. They nuked it. The alpha version was probably better than release. You were tricked by the marketing because it straight up lied and they dumbed the game down intentionally despite internal controversy.

      • Animal abilities are based on attached feet, eyes, and beaks etc. of varying points. Legs arms necks and tails literally do not matter. They were actually going to matter. The body design would have actually mattered.
      • Once you hit the space stage, planets are colonized by shooting fucking nukes and terraforming missiles. That's fucking it.
      • You don't go back and play the cellular stage to evolve the right kind of animal to terraform a planet
      • You don't go back and play the animal or tribal stages to help create specific types of alien allies
      • You don't go back and play the city stage to consolidate power and allow your allies to become spacefaring

      You just play a 4 hour long fucking minigame and then run around for 100 hours shooting missiles and upgrading a ship. The entire game is fucking pointless.

      • Dryad [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Spore is still a great game, and to this day completely unique. Though there are spiritual successors in the works now.

        It doesn't come anywhere near the hype, but it's still good.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yup. No preorders, ever. Sometime's I'll throw money at an early access if I like the concept but I do so with no expectation that the game will ever be released as a finished product.

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