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Draco_Argentum
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Odd advertising campaign

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So I just got a letter from my ISP telling me how to protect my child from infection. It had 10 bandaids (sticking plaster in the US I believe) in it and an ad for their anitvirus/firewall stuff. Thats really... strange.
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Post by Josh_Kablack »

Strange, but they're Band-Aids (or Self-Adhesive Bandages when trademarks are zealously enforced) over here too. It's the Brits who call them plasters.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Post by Draco_Argentum »

Ah, I knew there was someone using the non-trademarked name.
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Post by bourdain89 »

very odd, but did the free bandaids make you want to buy their new antivirus program?
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Post by Cynic »

the real question is, did the bandaid/bandage (gasp), sticking plaster(?) protect your child from infection? hmmm...
Ancient History wrote:We were working on Street Magic, and Frank asked me if a houngan had run over my dog.
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Post by Maj »

A_Cynic wrote:the real question is, did the bandaid/bandage (gasp), sticking plaster(?) protect your child from infection? hmmm...
There weren't enough to cover the entire child.
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Post by Draco_Argentum »

bourdain89 wrote:very odd, but did the free bandaids make you want to buy their new antivirus program?
Not as such, they're a terrible ISP, I wouldn't buy anything from them. I'll be glad to buy a new place and get someone decent.
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Post by Lago PARANOIA »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c

As long as we're doing advertisements...
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.

In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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