{"id":179,"date":"2004-10-19T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T04:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2004-10-19T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T05:03:47","slug":"the-bastards-are-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/the-bastards-are-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The bastards are at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/041018\/sfm092_1.html\">Massive Incorporated Launches World&#8217;s First Video Game Advertising Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ads will be served during the game &#8211; they say it won&#8217;t distract from gameplay, and allows marketers to pin down the elusive 18-34 demographic.<\/p>\n<p>When will these fuckers figure out that we <u>don&#8217;t<\/u> want to be advertised to? I have always enjoyed the lack of real advertising in games &#8211; it was the only visual entertainment left that didn&#8217;t have ads. What&#8217;s next? Ads in my sci-fi novels?<\/p>\n<p>A message to all marketing personnel the world over: <b><u>LEAVE US THE FUCK ALONE!!<\/u><\/b> If you want us to buy your products, release demo units to the press and get someone to review it on \/. &#8211; that&#8217;s all you need to get a geek&#8217;s attention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive Incorporated Launches World&#8217;s First Video Game Advertising Network Ads will be served during the game &#8211; they say it won&#8217;t distract from gameplay, and allows marketers to pin down <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/the-bastards-are-at-it-again\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}