good grief lol
Yeah that one is real bad
@Syzygy#17833 this one has never left my nightmares
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and I'm sure it never will
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@yeso#17842 An entire generation is still recovering from the “Play It Loud!” campaign
@kory#17843 Hey, this ad being burned into my brain got me into the Butthole Surfers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArjEUhBgP4
Shit... that was the last band I saw live I think
https://twitter.com/vg_history/status/1363371752034758657?s=21
Edit: this ad seemed a little too...avant-garde...even for 2000s era Sony so I tried to do my due diligence and there is barely any meaningful info about this ad campaign actually existing. This may even be a mock-up or proposal for all I know.
I’ll leave this up, but in the future I will only post ads I’ve either personally seen or verified!
@kory#18103 I’m sorry… wat??? Am I missing some context here or… WAT
@CidNight#18105 I don’t know…but your comment made me do some due diligence and after several searches and a reverse image search I was only able to uncover a handful of Spanish language websites (e.g https://www.adlatina.com/articulo.php?slug=/marketing/el-universo-sin-fin-de-playstation) that (from what I could tell through machine translation) attribute this to an ad company called “Grey Mexico,” though I'm not even sure if this was a mock-up or a true ad campaign.
As with many things on Twitter, I should really have done some verification before reposting, I’ll edit my post to reflect that.
@kory#18106 well thank you for looking into it - I was just super confused by how bizarre this thing was. And of course it’s got an early aughts whiff of transphobia to boot. All of this seems perfectly in bounds for this thread and some of the other stuff people have posted. I was very interested in the origins of this thing and now it just seems even more mysterious.
@yeso#18108 “Female players may find difficulty with the higher skill levels”
they always find a way
@yeso#18217 I’m still trying to figure this out. Is this a fart joke? A penis pump joke? A blowjob joke?
ALL THREE?
@Syzygy#19643 the fact that this made it through conception, pitching, writing, planning, pre-production, casting, filming, post-production, airing, and god knows how many other steps in between that involved actual humans is completely baffling to me
@CidNight#19664 ecco the dolphin does not use cocaine
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Are we allowed to post great ads here?
https://twitter.com/burger_chaser/status/1321236316848357378?s=21
John Oliver, confirmed IC forum lurker?
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@kory#23271 Lurker…or just… one of us?!
it's me I'm John Oliver. Can't you tell by the accent of my font?
This thread was making me nostalgic for old issues of PC Gamer, so I pulled one up to browse on archive.org and first page is this fold-out monstrosity that I forgot about. 
