Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/25/look-at-this-unintentionally-c.html
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Seems pretty spot on to me.
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Aah, the perfection of designer who hates having to work for such a client, and a client who is so busy fleecing his own clientele that he doesn’t see what is in front of him.
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Just wait until truly self driving car ads arrive.
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It is very strange. I’m trying to imagine what they are pitching as freedom— I suppose it’s the same kind of “freedom” a person gets by zoning out on games or drink or drugs from the stresses and pressures of real life. More of an escape, than freedom.
But in that case you’d want to represent the small microcosm of the game as the beautiful, sunny fields, and the surroundings as chaotic, dirty, crazy, etc. This ad does the reverse, making you feel like she is escaping from the beauty and serenity of nature into the tense, controlled, artificially of the game. Discordant. Maybe the place pictured is The Uncanny Valley?
ETA: looking at it again, it isn’t even like the image of the valley is very natural or beautiful: a lone, barely living tree, isolated in a barren, artificially colored landscape…maybe it really is a good representation of what they are selling after all…
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Only the text is wrong. It would make so much more sense if it said, “Welcome to Slavery.”
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I know where you’re going with this subby. And if I had more GIMP skills and time I would replace it with a banana myself.
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That can’t be freedom- there isn’t a bald eagle, flag or gun in sight and I can’t tell if she’s maskless.
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where is the upside-down bible and military LEO jackboots there to enforce said “freedom”?
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I have been informed from my Big Brother that Freedom is Slavery.
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And here I sit in my beautiful back yard, with my face in this screen.
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I think you can say that about a lot of things right now!
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The freedom they are talking about is from California coronavirus measures. Native Casinos are the only open indoor bars and restaurants in many counties. Notice no mask.
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Aren’t Native Americans disproportionately affected by COVID? The idea that NA casinos aren’t enforcing distancing and mask rules boggles my mind (even if the players are mostly haole).
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The idea that casino owners are putting a quick buck before the health of workers and customers doesn’t boggle my mind at all.
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No need for a mask when you got no face!
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She’s in her “Good Place”!
I remember walking the dog while behind a father walking his kids to school. The slightly older boy didn’t attempt to engage his father, while the daughter, holding his hand, kept up an attempt at a lively conversation. The father was transfixed by his phone in his other hand, and would occasionally manage a mumbled “Mmmmm” in response. His kids could die the next day and he wouldn’t even have a last conversation to remember them by.
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So glad the Chumash finally got their fancy casino. It’s not near recompense for the atrocities their people faced, first at the hands of the Spanish, then at the hands of the land developers and the cacophonous horde following in their wake.
Of all the tribal people in the USA who survived the 19th century, some of those California tribes received the bad end of the stick, both from the colonizers and the government itself.
Also this picture makes me very happy – goodbye “Father” Serra:
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