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a plastic frame to put the notice in along with the front of the game manual. That plastic display is now at eye level right where all their boxed copies of the game

Good work, Drakino! Voting with your dollar; the only remaining democracy! I vote to support the indie gaming scene which is more creative and less abusive to programmers. See the attached magazine clipping, reposted from somewhere, picking top 10 indie games to check out (sorry, shrunk to fit BBS) (do note Narbacular Drop; magnitudes more creative than any big budget shooter).

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We've been playing ad-laden games for years already. And seeing ad-laden feature films

As scheduled, the corporations are gradually increasing their advertising greed. Gradually enough that we don't notice its creeping filth. No we don't mind, "it's only a little worse than the previous game or last television season." This long but funny flash bit sums up the point, and how television has made us gradually more mindless over the years:
Invention Pioneers of Note

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Lingering shots of a brand logo totally destroy all credibility and turn the viewer against the product

I hope they realize that they've bred a generation whose suspicious of advertisements, "offers", and corporations in general. Hopefully they'll notice as people move away from ad-laiden network TV and broadcast radio to cable and satellite. Maybe we'll soon see pay per view TV channels specifically without product placement.


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