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I can't believe it, I've just gone over to the wireplay messageboard on the recommendation of Embattle and the most dire advert hit me.
There was a banner ad advertising the fact that u can pre-order a copy of the high and mighty, although yet to be proven, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
The word’s flashed up in front of me: FITTER, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE.
Word’s from the great Radiohead track of the same name… The thought hit me that a favourite group of mine were advocate’s of the detested yet ‘put up with’ mighty corporation.
After a moments pause thou I realised the irony of the advert…
The song in question describes the perfect, yet sterile, world, where everything is as old television programs portray. The kind of consumer driven market where the consumer is powerless and impervious to choice.
Does this describe anyone’s favourite company anyone?
As you might have guessed the song takes the ‘this is not good’ approach; describing the people not only as “fitter, happier, more productive” but as “like a cat tied to a stick that’s driven into frozen winter shit.”
Is that what microsoft really think of us all?
To add insult to injury; the song was recorded using a Mac voice synthesiser… I bet that sure hurts.
Granted… I doubt it was anything near official, probably never even seen microsoft’s offices, but that was my interpretation of what gameplay were thinking anyway.
There was a banner ad advertising the fact that u can pre-order a copy of the high and mighty, although yet to be proven, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.
The word’s flashed up in front of me: FITTER, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE.
Word’s from the great Radiohead track of the same name… The thought hit me that a favourite group of mine were advocate’s of the detested yet ‘put up with’ mighty corporation.
After a moments pause thou I realised the irony of the advert…
The song in question describes the perfect, yet sterile, world, where everything is as old television programs portray. The kind of consumer driven market where the consumer is powerless and impervious to choice.
Does this describe anyone’s favourite company anyone?
As you might have guessed the song takes the ‘this is not good’ approach; describing the people not only as “fitter, happier, more productive” but as “like a cat tied to a stick that’s driven into frozen winter shit.”
Is that what microsoft really think of us all?
To add insult to injury; the song was recorded using a Mac voice synthesiser… I bet that sure hurts.
Granted… I doubt it was anything near official, probably never even seen microsoft’s offices, but that was my interpretation of what gameplay were thinking anyway.
