Reacting to the WORST Tech Ads

[James]

Technology companies are notorious for bad advertising campaigns. We react to some of the worst of the bunch!

 

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

What, no Daikatana?

(guessing here, can't watch the vid at work)

 

[eliaspm]

the big question here is why do you know so much about glory holes????? 

45 minutes ago, James said:

Technology companies are notorious for bad advertising campaigns. We react to some of the worst of the bunch!

 

 

 

 

[Needfuldoer]

How could you not immediately recognize the Emissary of the Prophets himself, Captain Sisko?

 

(And I think that's Kevin Costner in the Apple Lisa ad. Apple was very proud of that product for about 10 months.)

 

Hey, wait a minute! Is this a backdoor pilot for the LMG Reacts channel?

[GodAtum]

I cant unsee the glory-hole.

 

I do miss the good old days of sexual ads ... unfortunately the woke generation has made them bad.

[Ripred]

Judging from the thumbnail it should be best tech commercials (simp mod activate)

[Ripred]

1 minute ago, GodAtum said:

I cant unsee the glory-hole.

 

I do miss the good old days of sexual ads ... unfortunately the woke generation has made them bad.

That's why no one buys things anymore an irrefutable fact that no amount of wokeness or activism can ever change as long as mammals exist ( sex sells )

[darknessblade]

Can we get a Linus reacts to the best Tech ads.

 

My vote goes for:

 

Spoiler

And Yes that is technically considered to be a ad for Internet explorer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inori_Aizawa

 

 

 

[Ripred]

Okay guys I just watched the reaction video, and I'm totally buying MSI my next upgrade no contest

[Nystemy]

The thing that surprises me the most is the frankly insanely low production budgets of these ads...

Though, haven't watched ads in years, especially not on the TV. But a few years ago when I did, the production value were a fair bit higher. At least here in Sweden. Though, most tech ads often were mostly about the raw specs of whatever were getting sold, some panning shots and some base heavy music. _{(No, Elgiganten clearly didn't at all get their ads stuck in my head...)}

 

Also.

The concept of "vacuum cleaners creates static discharge" is a very false misconception.

It is true that dry moving air creates electrostatic buildup. This is regardless of what direction the air is moving in. So compressed air is just as bad as a vacuum cleaner.

 

Though, electrostatic buildup is likewise not particularly harmful towards electronics. Since practically all ESD sensitive components have integrated protection against it. _{(It is just a pair of diodes on each pin, one to ground, the other to the positive power rail.)} As electrostatic charge is building up, it will simply continuously discharge, and the circuits won't care about this frankly tiny amount of charge flowing through the ESD protection, it is designed for far larger currents.

However, a net charge can still accumulate, and this could be rapidly discharged and destroy the device. But, If one leaves the mains power cable attached while vacuuming one's computer, then it is grounded. It won't accumulate charge at that point.

 

So in the end.

Vacuum your computer if you feel like it. It is completely harmless.

When cleaning certain devices, mainly BGA and QFN packages, then it generally preferred to use vacuum instead of compressed air. Since compressed air can lodge clumps of dust underneath these packages. This can affect signal integrity if the dust is somewhat conductive. Or worst case simply short things out, sometimes with associated fires. _{(However, these are rare events and if one cleans one's computer at any modest interval, then this shouldn't be a major issue.)}

[Vishera]

Asus and MSI made bad commercials,

It was bad back then and it's even worse now.

And as someone who is stuck with a mindset from 2010 i didn't have issues with the cross-dressing and puppy commercials.

I remember that back in the day Danica Patrick did commercials for GoDaddy and if you notice she was the driver in the puppy commercial.

[sub68]

3 hours ago, darknessblade said:

Can we get a Linus reacts to the best Tech ads.

 

My vote goes for:

 

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And Yes that is technically considered to be a ad for Internet explorer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inori_Aizawa

 

 

 

There is alot more than that.

windows 7

Spoiler

https://myanimelist.net/anime/8792/Madobe_Nanami_no_Windows_7_de_PC_Jisaku_Ouen_Commercial

Windows 8

Whole theme packs with full voices, heck it still works on win 10.

[sub68]

3 hours ago, GodAtum said:

I cant unsee the glory-hole.

 

I do miss the good old days of sexual ads ... unfortunately the woke generation has made them bad.

So the MSi,asrock and ASUS ones I have a theroy.

The asrock sounds like ADR (horrible adr) to be in english, but I bet the target was places like japan or Taiwan.

Mostly asia is really into idol culture and so that happens.

[CommanderAlex]

Man...what the hell was with that Microsoft Xbox commercial at 19:55 of the video??? 

 

In all honesty, that's how I feel playing games to me does as time around me goes super quick and closer to the grave.

[Guest]

I already fell in love with the MS-DOS 5 music video. I already watched this one Xbox commercial on YouTube decades ago. I know this Dust-Off Gaming Gear infomercial because of a H3H3 video 8 years ago.

 

Such nostalgia trips.

[xnamkcor]

Does Linus not remember the era of IBM and IBM clones?

[Ripred]

2 minutes ago, Caroline said:

This goes for the best.

Whatever that is I'm buying one

[SorryBella]

8 hours ago, GodAtum said:

I do miss the good old days of sexual ads

Motto of "sex sells" doesnt work as well in tech as is in other segment like cars and bodycare products, atleast from how i see it. Its just more financially effective to hand out sponsor cash to reviewers or tech media nowadays.

[dogwitch]

there is a ps2  game ad

the ds ad .

the ps porn ad

the banned xbox ad.

a good amount miss here.

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[Zodiark1593]

Good lord, it's been a long time since I've actually watched TV (like, with the commercials and such). And even then, it was pretty much confined to Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and some Disney channel. A lot of my TV watching time was spent with my little sister, so there was a lot of mid-2000's Nick-Jr stuff in there too. And then before that, there was the Saturday cartoons (my intense dislike for sports came from disrupting my Saturday toons), and the after-school toons, maybe an episode of Simpsons. My toddler years were probably the most diverse, including the early-90's children's PBS shows, lots of Simpsons, Home Improvement, Seinfield, Cops, etc. In general, I didn't watch a ton of TV. I definitely spent more time playing games and reading, than watching TV.

 

The more sexualized commercials I felt in poor taste, even in the 2000's. My opinion certainly hasn't changed now. They're about as cringe as ever, especially as the models have little, or nothing to do with the product itself. It escapes my understanding tbh.

 

Was definitely hoping to see some early Pokemon commercials in there. That one with all the Pokemon on the bus was pretty much the height of commercials.

[Needfuldoer]

8 hours ago, xnamkcor said:

Does Linus not remember the era of IBM and IBM clones?

We North American mid-30-somethings are generally too young to remember a time before "personal computer" was synonymous with "IBM compatible" in our market.

 

By the mid-90s, 8-bit home computers were dead, the Amiga was hanging on by its fingernails, and the Macintosh was treading water (partly as Microsoft's "hey look we have viable competition, we're not a monopoly" fig leaf). PCs were "IBM compatibles", but only marketing aimed at stuffy corporate types still called them that (because "nobody ever got fired for buying an IBM").

[Gokul_P]

Iam going to sell my ASS laptop and get a MSI laptop and the ASS gpu for Asrock lol 

[FlanK3r]

Anyone can find this Micorsoft ads on YOutube?

 

[Neroon]

Linus claiming folding phones don't get girls attention, but a few weeks ago I was at a asian shop, and this cute girl behind the counter asked me about it (Fold 3) when I used it to pay, she had been thinking about the 3 or the 4 herself, and wanted to ask me about it, had a nice chat.

 

Ok sure it was the first time in nearly a year... but hey it's the most attention I've gotten from a cute girl in a long time.

 

PS my gf didn't care much for my story. Oh well.