I can’t see anywhere on the box it claims it’s fun for the entire family. It’s a two person game after all.
Maybe they were going to play after finishing up the dishes?
This shitty interpretation says more about the person making the “meme” than the artist who created the original ad.
(It’s because they’re women)
women aren’t family ; they are posessions
gasp!!!
What? I see an entire family having fun: men with the advertised product and women with seeing their men happy.
I don’t understand the complaints here.
The woman must never interrupt the man, for men do important things
…and the women wash the dishes.
So bad we went so woke, it was a happier world before.
/s
For some it for sure was
People were so much better looking when they smiled.
/s
This is what I don’t understand. Yes, corporations pander to marginalised demographics, but I have not once seen them lose significant income or have been boycotted. Fascist corporations, meanwhile, lost customers and stocks like Target and Tesla.
Like really, who’s going broke? Methinks this is projection from the right, or disinformation from state or non-state actors alike to keep the population divided.
Bud lite. That’s it. That’s all they’ve got. Number one beer to number three and since it’s a massive corporation, the larger entity didn’t go broke but they’re too poorly educated to understand they moved from one brand to another under the same mega corp.
To be right wing is to be ruled by emotions. Humans are all emotional creatures, but for some people it reaches a point where emotion alone creates reality. Facts are there to be picked up or set aside to support feelings. When their guy eats ice cream it’s because he’s a man of the people. When your guy eats ice cream it’s because he’s a baby. Facts don’t matter. It’s feelings.
And most of their feelings seem to be fear. Fear of loss. Fear of humiliation. You can show them stats and history demonstrating how, like, a diverse workforce leads to higher productivity and greater happiness, but that doesn’t matter. They’re not looking at facts. They’re feeling feelings.
Imagine trying to talk to someone who’s drunk. That’s the right wing, except all the time and they can’t really sober up. Honestly, it sounds like hell.
Methinks this is projection from the right
It always is.
You know what they say: go woke, you blew up my battleship.
“G-4”
“You woke my battleship!”
Niiiice
Yup it was a vicarious experience for da women folk.
I like that this demon boy is obviously holding that poor family hostage and they have to indulge his every bullshit.
Classic Twilight Zone
I was just watching Pee-Wee’s big adventure with my kids (mainly my daughter, son is 4 and a buffoon) and was thinking shit, I need to show her that twilight zone movie, with John Lithgow on the plane, the old man kicking the can, and then the kid holding his family hostage.
That was William Shatner on the plane. He actually starred in a number of good episodes.
The Twilight Zone episode was Shatner, the Twilight Zone movie was Lithgow. Both are great and worth a watch
That’s a great movie! I haven’t really started showing my daughter (9) scary movies yet. I was terrified of spiders for like a decade after seeing Arachnophobia as a kid, and those Scary Stories books gave me nightmares for years, so I’m reluctant to expose her to media that might trigger something like that for her. Tough to know when it’s the right time—or at least, that’s been my experience.
I started watching horror movies when I was 12. I think that’s a pretty good age. Look at me, I turned out mentally ill and ADHD!
Or early Supernatural.
Which was just ripping off The Twilight Zone
MAGAots:
SEE? EVERYONE IS HAVING FUN! NOT A WOKE ASPECT IN SIGHT!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME ON THIS MATTER!
The re-release fixed the woman problem
Rest assured, the women are still in the kitchen. it’s just behind a wall now so they don’t bother the men.
Can’t misrepresent women if you don’t represent them. Taps forehead.
Real “I can’t be racist towards a race that no longer exists” energy.
Exactly. Women wouldn’t and shouldn’t enjoy this man’s game. /s
The scary part is, that for them “everyone” is having fun. Because women are usually not included in their everyone.
If course not, “everyone” refers to people, not things.
“Women have fun in the kitchen, where they belong!”
I had this box & I always thought it was weird the sister didn’t want play.
In the last frame there is a thing that looks like a post it note or a paper stuck to the wall which we don’t see in the previous two frames - and they’re all supposed to be the same image, only zoomed in. It’s too blurry to be read but it appears to have something written on it, any clues as to what that is?
Seems like an MRP sticker of the game, 6 dollars or something
In the before-times people would purchase objects that were displayed on “shelves”. They would pick the object up and carry it to a “cashier” who would then look at a small sticker called a “price tag” on the item, and charge the customer that amount.
Still, it’s weird that the zoomed-in image came from a different copy of the game than the other two. (Or that they took off the sticker before taking another photo, and then didn’t use that new photo for the zoomed-in image.)
I feel like the “ai” upscaling comment is probably right. The women in the last frame have a lot more detail and contrast, in addition to a partially illegible price tag that wasn’t there before.
Like, it could be from a different photo, but why would the creator go find a whole different picture when they had one right in front of them?
I agree with you guys. I just thought it was funny.
Maybe they had to use a different, larger, pic to get anything recognizable? It’s an internet mystery.
We shall never know lol.
You got the 'membering
Truetrue
Maybe a calendar?
You mean the price tag?
Right, thanks! But why is it not present in the previous ones?
It looks like its a different picture taken with a different camera. If it was just zoomed in it would be very blurry. For whatever reason they took a picture of a different box, or got images from multiple sources to make this meme.
It’s a price tag from Woolco. It looks like it cost $6.xx
Looking at the fringes between colors, the last panel looks upscaled to me. Maybe the AI invented a price sticker?
Can I share this in [email protected] it’s right up our street
OK but those dishes better be done before you do.
/s also it’s not oc so it’s definitely fair game for stealing/crossposting
Fuck you for making me laugh at this.
Haha thanks 😊
Only if you pay OP royalties per click
Fun for half the family! while your wife and daughter watch from the kitchen where they belong
Red circle.
You might be color blind
Red. Circle.
Lmao i done fucked up.
If you don’t see the (very much red) circle as red, then you might want to get your eyes checked.
Lol true. I did completely miss it.
Well, that’s on me and my smartass dumb brain.I’m leaving the comment, as a reminder to myself.
Wow. This again
The ship that dad is holding is sending up slop flares.
Edit: 🤦♂️ I know it’s the original art. But the ship is huge, looks like it holds about 9 pegs, and the one on the left is lined up directly over a finger. 🤷♂️
… I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not, but those are probably the red pegs you actually stick into the battleships in the game when your ship is hit. this is actually the box art from 1967, furthermore, I can remember seeing it before the age of slop came upon us.
Not everything is AI
I enjoy how every misplaced accusation of something being le AI le SLOP ends up just backfiring against the claim that AI only makes objectively trash things that can always be distinguished from beautiful pure human-made art. If it’s plausible that AI could have made this, then it must be plausible for AI to make art as good as humans have. What’s even better is it doesn’t matter if you can correctly distinguish it 95% of the time. Even just one misclassification is enough to undermine the claim that AI only produces #slop. The sentiment of the claim could even be saved if people were willing to say that just X% of AI art is #slop, but this is unacceptable for the dogmatist’s needs, which will only settle for 100%.
I’ve been seeing the trend recently where now anything bad with uncanny valley elements must be AI. It’s just as much of a thought killer as blindly enjoying AI. This example was easy to confirm and before making an accusation, they just went “I should add doubt to the validity of the context for the sake of it.”
This is old. I’ve seen this image long ago… well before AI slop was a thing.
Sometimes real people also fuck up
AFAIK, the
adbox art is definitely real:Boing Boing: Revisiting the horrifically sexist Battleship game cover from 1967
FYI your link has an extra bracket up front that breaks it. Was wondering why it wasn’t working 😋
Thanks. Sorry about that. Fixed it.
