War Room Lounge v53: Short Notice

[Gandhi]

I mean, I think I like the taste/consistency better, but I'm also realize it's a matter of what I grew up with and the sentimentality I associate with it. I couldn't guarantee that I could tell the difference between it and Jiffy in a blind taste test.



I'm meaning in terms of products that are known to be fungible with non-name brands.

Two that come to mind specifically are motor parts and baby food. In the case of motor parts, most of Napa and Primeline are the exact same thing....both as each other and as non name brands. You're paying more for the label (I guess there could be some customer service consideration). With baby food, it's well known and can be verified that Beechnut and Gerbers are, again, the same as both each other and the generic competitors, but the parents care a lot about their kids and want to feel like they're giving their kids the best products; and they develop loyalty to the brands through raising successive kids.

Generally speaking brands have to backed up by something or they get killed off by competitors.

Which, and it is almost is to your point, why traditional brands are under such massive pressure in the grocery supply chain. Private label used to be shoddy, so brands communicated quality, but with Costco and others putting weight behind quality store brands, you get the same thing without having all the stupid marketing costs. But you had to replace the known brand with a store brand to really make it work. Nobody wanted abc acme’s shit private label.

But if your brand can be associated with a better taste, even just a more familiar taste (your peanut b), a sense of trust (real important for baby food and maybe motor parts), or even a sense of status then it’s serving it’s role as a communication device.

Brands do serve a role but also command a premium, and therefore are rightly constantly under attack.

 

[Gandhi]

Engine Kid was a great TS. Kind of a troll, if I recall correctly, but he knew how to get a thread going.

Those threads are a trip. Kind of weird going back and reading that. I think Matt has passed away.

He was the worst kind of ctard, I think I liked idl better

 

[Lead]

He was the worst kind of ctard, I think I liked idl better

What was his av?

 

[Anung Un Rama]

He was the worst kind of ctard, I think I liked idl better

Was he a real CT guy? I don't really remember. I just remember him starting threads that were just clever enough to bring everybody in yelling and screaming.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

What was his av?

@Jack V Savage might remember.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

Matt was pretty cool but I was much closer with his Samoan wife than him.

 

[Gandhi]

Was he a real CT guy? I don't really remember. I just remember him starting threads that were just clever enough to bring everybody in yelling and screaming.

Full on iirc. We used to get into it, and I don’t bother with most full on cters, I think he was knee deep in the Jew hive as well.

 

[Ruprecht]

Full on iirc. We used to get into it, and I don’t bother with most full on cters, I think he was knee deep in the Jew hive as well.

He parroted a bunch of "Serpent Seed" stuff off of Arnold Murray/The Shepherd's Chapel.
Full of it though, no context for his beliefs and they shifted massively for no reason (such as his about face on global warming).
Not sure whether he was telling the truth about getting mangled in a railway coupling accident.
I did laugh at him trolling vets here by arguing with them based on his experience in the America's Army video game.
His AV was Salma Hayek.

 

[Islam Imamate]

A pack of cars in gang like fashion with a guy standing on the hood riffing off guitar solos with an 8 foot high Judas Priest amp stack? LOL!!! That’s like war drums? Except it’s the silliest, impractical, farcical version of war drums ever. War drums can be heard from far away by stationary victims. This will be barley heard over the racket of a mass of engines by people already fleeing a massive amount of scary looking cars. And what’s more it shoots out flames!!!! Oil shortage indeed. It’s there because it was visually appealing for the viewing audience. Which is fine, but if the goal is some sort of internal credibility, this is a detractor.

Also would you look at the state of those roads they were on, better condition than Quebec after one winter. None of the cars make much sense, the weird chassis bolt on, the spiked cars that would destroy themselves, the pole vaulters whose cars would tip if they hit a big truck, the endless silver skull bling outs, etc.

The oil disappeared so much that society collapsed (that’s the back story). All the films are about finding oil. They may mention the resource thing, that does not change how much suspension of disbelief you need to engage in to pretend that a world that has ran out of oil and no longer has any modern fuel processing facilities is dominated by roving bands of vehicular bandits where every action scene is a car chase scene. It’s pretty simple to conclude that in a world little fuel, the one working oil refinery left would not be powering unpainted unsundamaged 2 wheel drive spiked chassis Mercedes big rig hybrids to chase down the super model breeders by non sunburned dessert dwelling albino jihadists that are not Muslims because they want to go the Valhalla.

And that’s just the start. Mad max as a character is not that compelling, Furosa roams free when the other women are breeding slaves (is she not skinny enough?), and the plot as an action film is a rehash of the older films. Furosa is also overrated (Sara Connor and Ripley > Furosa for female empowered action heroes).

As an aside the third film sucked but the first 2 were pretty compelling for the time as they were set close to the OPEC crises era and were novel as an action style. This film is like someone else said, a music video or a video game. I liked its lack of CGI compared to all the marvel stuff. I also thought the thematics were fun if not very campy. But it’s another remake, probably one of the top action movies that year, but still not a any type of movie game changer.

I guess you have a point to an extent but man for me that really was a game changer sort of movie with the way it integrated practical effects, character development, world building, and social commentary. But I'll give it to you that Furiosa is not that stand out of a female action lead though.

 

[Trotsky]

A pack of cars in gang like fashion with a guy standing on the hood riffing off guitar solos with an 8 foot high Judas Priest amp stack? LOL!!! That’s like war drums? Except it’s the silliest, impractical, farcical version of war drums ever. War drums can be heard from far away by stationary victims. This will be barley heard over the racket of a mass of engines by people already fleeing a massive amount of scary looking cars. And what’s more it shoots out flames!!!! Oil shortage indeed. It’s there because it was visually appealing for the viewing audience. Which is fine, but if the goal is some sort of internal credibility, this is a detractor.

Also would you look at the state of those roads they were on, better condition than Quebec after one winter. None of the cars make much sense, the weird chassis bolt on, the spiked cars that would destroy themselves, the pole vaulters whose cars would tip if they hit a big truck, the endless silver skull bling outs, etc.

The oil disappeared so much that society collapsed (that’s the back story). All the films are about finding oil. They may mention the resource thing, that does not change how much suspension of disbelief you need to engage in to pretend that a world that has ran out of oil and no longer has any modern fuel processing facilities is dominated by roving bands of vehicular bandits where every action scene is a car chase scene. It’s pretty simple to conclude that in a world little fuel, the one working oil refinery left would not be powering unpainted unsundamaged 2 wheel drive spiked chassis Mercedes big rig hybrids to chase down the super model breeders by non sunburned dessert dwelling albino jihadists that are not Muslims because they want to go the Valhalla.

And that’s just the start. Mad max as a character is not that compelling, Furosa roams free when the other women are breeding slaves (is she not skinny enough?), and the plot as an action film is a rehash of the older films. Furosa is also overrated (Sara Connor and Ripley > Furosa for female empowered action heroes).

As an aside the third film sucked but the first 2 were pretty compelling for the time as they were set close to the OPEC crises era and were novel as an action style. This film is like someone else said, a music video or a video game. I liked its lack of CGI compared to all the marvel stuff. I also thought the thematics were fun if not very campy. But it’s another remake, probably one of the top action movies that year, but still not a any type of movie game changer.

lol I've never seen the movie (premise and presentation didn't appeal to me), but I love that I don't think I've ever seen you so passionate about something.

 

[punkmother]

Lol Matt didn't pass away that was just a prank

I don't think he liked the new management

@punkmother might enlighten us

matt is not dead. he switched jobs and became a much bigger deal. he was also having a tough time dealing with the post-uncle jeff sherdog this place became. he said he may pop up down the road as i have done over the years with long breaks.

 

[Islam Imamate]

Lol!! I mean I've always been very vocal about I'd never date a fat or unattractive girl/woman to friends, family, whoever. I wouldn't and never have. With her, she's very vocal (probably too vocal lol) that she'd never date short (in her mind a guy under 6ft is short) or unattractive men, or "broke" men. From her perspective, she wants a man she can feel proud of to show off physically and financially, and feels her value would be settling for less on anything under those bars. I don't see anything wrong with that for the most part, since everyone has their relationship do's and don't and physical appearance and success is a big one for both of us. I think most people would date highly attractive or desirable people in general, but not everyone can, so they settle for what they can get within their range.

Almost like car shopping. Most people would want that Tesla, but can only afford the Honda, so they get the best Honda they can. But inside, deep inside, they still desired that Tesla, but found a way to be happy with that 2011 Honda Civic.

As I said, like what you like but being vocal about that kind of thing is a bad look. If someone like that was around me I would almost certainly think less of them.

 

[waiguoren]

 

[waiguoren]

 

[JDragon]

So you would rather be part of an isolated tribal culture?

 

[Sycho Sid]

So we should just kill everybody crossing the border?

 

[waiguoren]

So you would rather be part of an isolated tribal culture?

Brilliant response. Logical reasoning ability truly befitting a German welcher.

So we should just kill everybody crossing the border?

Brilliant response. Grade A+ logic and reasoning.

Good lord, that comment section landed me on this genius:

Cover photo is a quote he attributes to himself: "There is no problem a bigger gun can't solve"

https://twitter.com/Peter_W_Ostman

....and he has 10,000 followers.

Probably a troll account. There are tons on Twitter.

wait... did you just call someone a welcher? Lets ignore the monumentally stupid tweet you posted.... really?

Indeed. There are many welchers in my fanclub. @JDragon

 

[Trotsky]

Good lord, that comment section landed me on this genius:

Cover photo is a quote he attributes to himself: "There is no problem a bigger gun can't solve"

America first, 2A, NRA, Patriot, Trump supporter, Nationalist, build the wall, climate change is too slow, oil is for burning, straws are for drinking.

https://twitter.com/Peter_W_Ostman

....and he has 10,000 followers.

 

[Sycho Sid]

Brilliant response. Logical reasoning ability truly befitting a German welcher.



Brilliant response. Grade A+ logic and reasoning.

wait... did you just call someone a welcher? Lets ignore the monumentally stupid tweet you posted.... really?

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Random topic: Brand Loyalty

This would be a good Mayberry thread, but I don't really care about the perspectives of persons I know nothing about.

I'm not aware of any argument that brand loyalty is a positive phenomenon...or anything other than a horrible defect to commercialism, but most people still have it in some areas.

I don't think I'm a particularly brand-loyal person. I like Bunny Bread, Everyday Essentials potato chips, Super Chill soda, Purus Vodka, and Buffalo Trace bourbon, but I won't go out of my way to get them or insist on them over a more convenient alternative. I just like their product/price point most.

The only two brands to which I would say I'm brand loyal:

Hmmmm, a few... Miele, Craft, Mammut, Haglofs, and Frederic Malle.