Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
What's a submarine ad?
The Legend of GayBlade
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#12When I was a child, Smear the Queer was a game all the boys played. Fag was a commonly used slur. When I was in high school the state of California told gay couples to go fuck themselves. Societal progress is a wonderful thing to see.
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#13Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
What's a submarine ad?
An advertisement that entices you to buy a submarine.
Actually, it's a reference to Paul Graham's observation that when news articles start to appear about anything almost simultaneously, it might be the result of a deliberate effort on someone's part to sell something along with all the generated talk: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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#15Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
What's a submarine ad?
It comes from an essay by Paul Graham as far as I know: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
> "One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms."
I see nothing that would indicate this is an ad, covert or otherwise. It was posted by Jason Scott -- whose reputation should be familiar to readers of HN -- on the Internet Archive, and has a legitimate reason for being posted there. This is as good as it gets for "not for profit" and "not an adverticle".
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#16Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
Out of curiosity why are you searching for that? Like if that's your only comment it makes it seem like the possibility of it being an ad dilutes the message they are writing about?
Many articles are sponsored. Many are ghostwritten.
Protip: Often times the second company/solution in the article about the solutions is the one that paid for it.
Who cares?
You want the FTC to step in with an "AHA! #AD!" banner forced on everything?
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#17As mentioned in the article, this was covered in the Netflix doc series High Score (episode 3): https://www.netflix.com/title/81019087
Yes, found that docu-series highly frustrating because they left out so much. But I suppose there was only so much time.
I get your point but I liked it a lot despite this. They had some big names but the focus on the little people (players), the Nintendo call centre, and stuff like Gay Blade was a part of history I hadn't really seen especially as a non-US person.
Finishing at Doom seemed an odd place to stop, though I guess an argument can be made that's the start of the modern era even though it was nearly 30 years ago now. There's definitely setup there for a sequel covering things like MMOs.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's a submarine ad?
It comes from an essay by Paul Graham as far as I know: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html > "One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms." I see no…
>"not for profit" and "not an adverticle"
Neither of those cases excludes the possibility that the article was influenced by a PR campaign in some way (author's intentions are in fact irrelevant to this question), in this case for a recently-released, and apparently not particularly great documentary by Netflix.
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#19Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
The article is definitely capitalising on the show, but I think it's more of an ad for the Internet Archive and the value it brings. A lot of people will be searching for that game after the show, and it makes sense for them to post about it.
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#20When I was a child, Smear the Queer was a game all the boys played. Fag was a commonly used slur. When I was in high school the state of California told gay couples to go fuck themselves. Societal progress is a wonderful thing to see.
It is a great thing to see, California is described as some sort of lefty-socialist-liberal bastion today but like you said it was only 12 years ago they (unconstitutionally) voted in a ban on gay marriage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_...