The person who invented video advertisements with audio on gas pumps needs to be flayed alive : chapotraphouse

[+] vegeta1@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] roux@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

We are basically a cyberpunk dystopia without all the pizzazz at this point.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

First I don't wish Ohio on anyone, even my worst enemies.

That still tracks. Us poors can't even afford the disassociation treats that the movies and books suggested that the cyber-poors would be enjoying. I just wanna be the homeless guy with the beanis-pump gooning himself with VR in the first episode of Edgerunners. Is that too much to ask?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they're right in your face. There's lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Also from what I've seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can't destroy the speaker cones.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the "end user".

[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's one of the reasons some advertising and ATMs have switched to panel speakers, there's no requirement for vent holes for the sound to escape, so it's pretty much impossible to vandalise. A physical part of the gas pump or ATM becomes the speaker, by being energised by an audio exciter stcuk to the back side of it. If you see something producing sound with no obvious speaker holes, it's probably using a DML exciter. It's actually a very interesting technology, a shame it's being used in advertising.

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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

There is nowhere you can go in this country without somebody trying to sell you something

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[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

The people who take a sharpie and draw an arrow to the mute button are unsung saints.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

You know what goes great with volatile flammable vapors? Distractions!

I hope whoever invented that shit stomps on a rake and the rake somehow goes up their ass.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

One of my favoirte "you've got to be fucking kidding me" contradictions in modern life is a 50 foot by 10 foot billboard next to the high way screaming "don't look at your phone pay attention to the road!" On a road lined with brightly colored bullboards. Hell, some are giant animated screens now.

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[-] btfod@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Exactly, these aren't just annoying, they're dangerous for people with hearing impairments who already have trouble processing the sounds of the world around them.

I just press every button, starting on the right. Mute is usually the 2nd or 3rd from the top.

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Everything about cars is treated with this insane level of ease and casualness that nothing else with their level of danger gets, I guess simply because they’re for common civilian use?

Forklift drivers are held to a much higher standard than car drivers, despite forklifts being much less dangerous

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Drink verification can

I fucking hate advertisements with all my soul

[-] dukedevin@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The person who invented ~~video~~ advertisements ~~with audio on gas pumps~~ needs to be flayed alive

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Learned you usually mute the fuckers. It isn’t marked, but if you hit the buttons on the console, usually the top left or right mute the ad.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Most ones out my way are right hand buttons, third one down in most cases.

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Death to all advertisers, death to america. Glad we can at least shut these fuckers up for the meanwhile though.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Oh a cutomer let me DIAL THE VOLUME TO 11. NO YOU CAN'T TURN ME OF HEHE! KEEP PUMPING YOUR SLOP!

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The person who invented ~~video~~ advertisements ~~with audio on gas pumps~~ needs to be flayed ~~alive~~

I also crossed out alive since they are dead for thousand of years at this point, but still.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

brought back from the dead and then flayed izutsumi-idea

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[-] Luna@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

I go out of my way to avoid these gas stations

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[-] MineDayOff@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Wait, you guys don't follow Maria Menudos' podcast?

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I genuinely have no idea who Maria Menudos is aside from “That super annoying lady that won’t shut up at the gas pump and before movies start”

Literally who the fuck is this woman and why do people keep giving her jobs where she speaks on camera

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

who the fuck is this woman

That super annoying lady that won’t shut up at the gas pump and before movies start

it's a narrow niche but it is all hers

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[-] context@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

those showed up around me a few years ago but now they seem to have mostly stopped, seems like pissing off 100% of their customers every single time they show up may have had unintended consequences over time

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the one by me started doing them around 2019 or so and stopped about a year back. They were loud as fuck too and I'd hear them echoing off the buildings across the street.

They still do ads but it's silent slideshows of food and products that are on sale in the gas station store. Still shitty but kind of an improvement I guess?

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[-] shath@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

flensing knives for everyone

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

I avoid those gas stations like the plague. I've never seen a better advertisement for electric cars in my life.

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[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

One gas station near me has had the exact same ones for over a year too

[-] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 13 points 2 years ago

I don't want any TV blaring while I'm smoking cigarettes filling up the ol tank

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Expanding foam.

Or if its winter, fill it up with snow

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

I didn't think they would do a worse version of in taxi ride ads

Chapotraphouse