But the year I got there...the president decided that they needed to change the motto- to something flashier!

Let that just sink in for a minute.

wow. just - wow. that is just so funny and so sad. i hope that whoever took down the sign with the old motto on it, used it to repeatedly bash in the skull of the president.

Supposedly they were ourcolony.net members. And it's about freaking time we got some icfe3 stuff, I've been waiting for it for a week now.

Ooo, look at all the pretty, hip people! They all want Xbox360 iPods ! Look how excited they are!
actually the quote describes most everything in modern human culture. The better you look, the more you see.

Actually, the thing about iPods made me realise that no matter how stupid advertising gets, people will still buy it. I mean, look at the current ipod ads. To me, they say one of two things

1) Only spast retards buy iPods
2) Buy an ipod, and become a spast retard.

Well, and I guess
3) iPods only play really shitty music. Techno Legit...Dog.

Apparently, they still sell by the shitloads. Microsoft must have thought that their current strategy can't miss.
And while we're all shaking our heads and calling them sad wastes of fresh air, there's probably a whole generation of morons out there who see that and go "huh, huh, boobies. Xbox. Boobies."
and wind up buying one.

Or not.
God I'm bored.

Creston

This comment was edited on May 18, 14:25.

Fourpak,

That quote you posted reminded me of something that happened at the university I attended in Nashville...Trevecca University. Their motto for a hundred years had been Esse quam videri--"To be rather than to seem."


But the year I got there...the president decided that they needed to change the motto- to something flashier!

Let that just sink in for a minute.

Ooo, look at all the pretty, hip people! They all want Xbox360 iPods ! Look how excited they are!

actually the quote describes most everything in modern human culture. The better you look, the more you see.

Style over Substance,
Form over Function,
Better to Look good than to Be good,
Perception is Reality,
Image is Everything.

I knew there was something weird about the audience when I watched that gamespot video. Particularly when the camera panned out and you caught a glimpse of the usual geeks, but with all these pretty people sat in the middle of them, lol!

hm sad, embaressing -and- disappointing. somewhere there's a PR guy going "hey, put down that [insert execssively descriptive coffee product name], I've got a great idea...lets hire a bunch of people, with, say, 50% of them nice ladies i reckon, and have them respond enthusiastically. high five!"


in fact, shame its quite a small news article, i think it deserves more space. maybe people only continue to do this because they get away with it.

This comment was edited on May 18, 12:49.

That is both sad and embarrasing.

(From the Satori article.)

I noticed that right away when watching the video feed from Gamespot. The entire bank of people behind the stage were either actors or carefully selected players/fans. Judging from the high ratio of women, I'm guessing actors. No offense, ladies... but I've seen enough demographic profiles of Xbox gamers to know that you don't represent 50% of the pool.

Another clue they were just hired "talent" was that they were overenthusiastic about stupid little things, but every once in a while when some significant piece of information was handed out they failed to respond at all until clued in by the response on the "real" crowd. And the article ends on exactly the same thought that I initially had... Microsoft is clearly learning a thing or two from Bush's "town hall meetings." Or maybe vice versa...It's not like MS is new to this whole "marketing" thing.

It really left me with a bad taste in my mouth, though. It was just plain sad. I figured the MTV thing was their chance to get the style-over-substance thing out of their system, but I guess that's the only tune MS knows.