bit_user I don't usually go for stuff like this, but it might be kinda neat. I wouldn't play the gachapon, machines though. I'd rather pay a bit more and select the parts, like I do for real PCs. On a loosely-related note, I'm still a bit sore that Lian Li never entered the case market for Raspberry Pi. I wanted to get a black, aluminum tower case for it, to match my other black, aluminum Lian Li cases. Reply
Syntaximus Dating myself here, but these should absolutely get branded as "Micro Machines." Reply
bit_user Syntaximus said: Dating myself here, but these should absolutely get branded as "Micro Machines." zLP6oT3uqV8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLP6oT3uqV8 You have to watch the video to truly appreciate. I'm not sure modern social media influencers have anything on that guy. Reply
Syntaximus bit_user said: zLP6oT3uqV8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLP6oT3uqV8 You have to watch the video to truly appreciate. I'm not sure modern social media influencers have anything on that guy. This guy was an absolute legend in advertising! I remember this as a kid + the FedEx ones – so iconic he was a teachable benchmark in production/messaging. NeK5ZjtpO-M View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M Reply
bit_user Syntaximus said: This guy was an absolute legend in advertising! I remember this as a kid + the FedEx ones – so iconic he was a teachable benchmark in production/messaging. NeK5ZjtpO-M View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M I'm not sure whatever really happened to him, but I assume he was a victim of his own success. Probably the novelty of this pitches wore off and then maybe there wasn't much more work to be found. Going onto a further tangent about 80's culture, I re-watched Ghostbusters 2 , not long ago. I really liked how that movie started out, in the way that it implicitly acknowledged the "15 minutes of fame" phenomenon that had become somewhat entrenched, by that point. Reply
Syntaximus You nailed it, he burned out as a type-cast, but his impact never left the industry. Reply
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