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Date Posted: 15:52:12 07/19/02 Fri
Author: Rachel
Subject: yes, that is disturbing!
In reply to:
Seril
's message, "Disturbing post of the day" on 11:15:19 07/19/02 Fri
I can't see why people would go for that. I think it's really insensitive. if a member of my family died, i would not want their stone to be made all tacky by an advertisement.
Aside from the disturbing side, who would actually see it? people in the cemetery, grieving a lost one, i'd have thought would be least inclined to buy a game about death!
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I thought the same thing, Rachel! -- Glory, 17:59:28 07/19/02 Fri [1]
I didn't really make sense to me from a business standpoint. Graveyards are not exactly "high traffic areas." I have a hard time seeing how that would be considered a workable advertising strategy. Would they actually get enough business from the ads to make it worth doing them?
Unless, of course, it was something like the mausoleums in Forest Lawn Cemetery in LA. A bunch of movie stars are interrred there and tourists do go by to gawk at Clark Gable's headstone and whatnot. And have you ever seen what Doors fans have done to poor Jim Morrison's grave site in that cemetery in Paris?
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No, what did they do to poor Jim's grave? -- Rachel, 18:13:00 07/19/02 Fri [1]
those people are fans of famous people, not grieving families who would be offered money! ugh! i think it's wrong!
What did people do to the grave, then?
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It's just all fucked up. -- Glory, 18:26:39 07/19/02 Fri [1]
People are contantly painting stuff on it and carving stuff in it and chipping away pieces of the headstone to take home with them. People are morons.
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Kinda like how every once in a while someone steals James Deans headstone in Lowell, Indiana -- Lijdrec, 18:39:53 07/19/02 Fri [1]
Though I think they took some extraordinary measures this last time to anchor it to the ground...
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Yes, exactly. -- Glory, 18:42:40 07/19/02 Fri [1]
I'm pretty sure Jim Morrison's grave has had to be redone/replaced/cleaned up more than once. Who knows how many times. And people just keep continuing to do it. I just don't understand what gets into people sometimes.
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do those people have no respect? -- Rachel, 18:58:07 07/19/02 Fri [1]
Man, it's a screwed up world!
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Jim's grave... -- Lanna de la Rosa, 03:53:39 07/20/02 Sat [1]
They are all just a bunch of hippies. I have no real issue with it. Jim lived a controversial life. It's funny that he is also living a controversial death.
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I hate hippies! ;) -- Glory, 12:12:28 07/20/02 Sat [1]
Goddamn stinky, Birkenstock-wearin', patchouli-burnin', pot-luck-attending fucks!
:)
Thanks for posting the pic, Lanna!
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Hippies are cool, man!! -- Lanna de la Rosa, contempo hippy extraordinaire, 15:03:11 07/21/02 Sun [1]
Besides signing epitaphs on his gravestones (and surrounding ones), they alse leave beer bottles and cans for him. That's love. ;)
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Well, it could make business... -- Lanna de la Rosa, can spot a corporate fucker a mile away, 03:48:44 07/20/02 Sat [1]
...off the news reports alone. IE, this article. People become shocked/intrigued/interested and buy the game just because of the media buzz. It doesn't have to be a long term media campaigne, or, in fact, be an actualized advertisment method to get a buzz going. The media is providing the advertisment without them actually going through with the marketing scheme, which makes for free ads and quick consumption by a variety of target audiences.
So, there you go.
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Kinda like the whole "Boycott your own movie so people will come to it" scheme -- UHC, 04:07:11 07/21/02 Sun [1]
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