Captain Aggravated

It was this webcomic that put this idea in my head and I just can’t stop seeing it everywhere “I don’t like this because I’m a woman” comes up. The original commenter also slut shamed the model in the ad which is why I figure it’s either homophobia or sex negativity in general.

But yeah yeah I know homophobia is bad and you can’t accuse women of being bad.

Your homophobia/sex negativity is noted.

Given this is a print ad, I think the primary payload is just “SEX DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL” shouted as loud as it can to get the reader to stop flipping through the magazine and actually look at it, and then once it’s got the reader by the foveas it then says “Sony Playstation 2. Circle Cross Triangle Square.”

PS2 launched in late 2000 so this ad would be targeting tween, teen and young adult millennial boys and men, so the secondary payload here is to associate the PS2 brand with thoughts and imagery that demographic is interested in or curious about, such as clubs/raves/parties, girls, sex, party drugs, and sex with girls on party drugs at a club or rave and thus transfer some of that interest/curiosity to itself.

The tertiary payload would be to use association with more grown up imagery (also during this time were ads featuring four condoms in see-through packets bent into the Circle-Cross-Triangle-Square shapes among others) to set themselves apart from Nintendo, who generally maintains an all-ages friendly image, and especially during the GameCube era when they revealed The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to much fan backlash at the “childish, cartoony” graphics. The PS2 looked more like a piece of AV equipment than Nintendo’s Barney The Dinosaur purple box, and could play audio CDs and DVD movies, VERY important socializing tools for teens in the 2000s.

Bottom line is it FUCKING worked. The PS2 sold like toilet paper. Sony sold 155 million PS2s worldwide, Outselling the GameCube (21.7 million and the Wii (101.7 million) combined And they did it with ads that said “Hey, if you’re grown up and with it enough to recognize what this chick is doing, ours is the game console for you.”

Not much can top the 3DFX VooDoo graphics card boxes.

Oh so you you can stack 3 crates twice as tall as you can stack 3 tables if you can only summon 3 total things.

You do get the sense that someon was actually trying on the CD-i games. There was an attempt to do a thing.

Absolutely not. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Crates are opaque where tables aren’t so you can hide from baddies behind a crate?

Or “We’re Nintendo so we have to take this to some logical extreme?”

The manual to A Link to the Past contains basically the franchise’s design document. Go read the little lore section at the beginning of that manual and tell me they haven’t been just pulling nouns out of it to make games out of for the last 20 years.

Was it GameChamp3000? That’s their MO; beating BotW without climbing, beating Sonic without pushing right, etc.

The Poseidon adventure IN SPACE!

Turns out the reason Tom Paris ended up with B’ellana is because the show couldn’t afford to take Sarah Silverman on as a cast member.

I always liked this game’s theme song.

What idiot applies for a job at Google?

Meanwhile Captain Archer: “Just keep him away from my dog.”

Like, I think I know what to google in order to start learning how.

FreeCAD is a strange mix of over-designed and unfinished.

There’s like three different workflows for doing parametric CAD, plus a drafting workflow for an AutoCAD architectural experience, plus workbenches for meshes, NURBS, etc. Occasionally a tool you need will be in another workbench. There is no official assembly workbench included. It’s not exactly obvious how workbenches work together. A lot of shortcuts which have become Just How You Do Things in other CAD software aren’t present, so you have to do things an awkward long way. Add-ons and macros can help…but are poorly documented if at all.

No, IKEA dressers are categorically not pre-fabricated. Basis for my assertion: IKEA and other flat packed furniture arrives in a “some assembly required” state, compared to “normal” furniture which arrives from the factory fully assembled and ready to use. Nuts like me that have their own personal wood shop and build their own furniture from scratch are the exception, rather than the norm.

In the aviation world, there’s a category for Experimental - Amateur Built aircraft. There is a rule for certifying an aircraft in this category: The amateur builder must perform 51% of the fabrication and assembly of the aircraft. There’s this whole points system for figuring that up as well. There are kit manufacturers, but they can’t offer “We cut all the material to their final size, drilled all the holes etc. so all you have to do is rivet and bolt it together” because there’s no way to make that total up to 51%. They can give you enough sheet stock cut to rough size for you to fabricate wing and fuselage panels out of, provide an engine, etc. These airplanes are often informally referred to as “kit-built.”

I think “kit-built” lives somewhere between “from scratch” and “pre-fabricated.”

Is it correct to call those Sears houses “pre-fabricated?” The lumber was sawn to size if I understand right, but it still had to be stick-built on site. It’s not like it was built in pieces in a factory, trucked to the site and assembled.

Are there any good left-handed scissors?

Complaint: What was the point of the entire sequence?