OMG! I thought this was selling a house that already had a 'rollercoaster' in the backyard, how wrong I was, and what an awesome real estate agent! Talk about bringing in buyers!
*promote

The Protoss bravely fight for Aiur.
They stand during times that are dire.
This cool cinematic
Shows events climactic?
Heck, that's why I'm a Starcraft buyer.

The Gist:

Guy in business suit looking thoughtfully out of window.
(Doubtful anyone who designs fine consumer goods, *actually designs consumer goods*, wears a suit). Maybe its supposed to be you! You avant-garde millionaire, you!

Person sketching watch designs. This is probably semi-close to reality, though they don’t show the hundreds of designs the visual designer creates that are dismissed at whim by the aforementioned, assumed (but inevitable even if not shown) suits.

People fiddling with plastic representations of what one would assume as the model for said watch design. Maybe realistic, though with the caveat that two people are sitting there going over said physical design, in any serious discussion concerning the actual physics of the end product. I can *not* imagine that nearly the entirety of this process today, both visual and mechanical design, are not done digitally.

Okay, there’s some CG. Because CG is the next step, rather than the first, least expensive step in any design process today. Who wants to quickly model everything in a matter of hours when you can fabricate expensive, physical material for iterative testing?

Holy shit, was that guy just looking at a wood cutout? I can’t even think of a shitty, sarcastic/realistic remark about that one. I might have misunderstood that shot.

Alright, now we’re machining shit. You can’t really fake that with a few grand for marketing. That’s the real stuff. (1.5m in)

No, they don’t sand/polish things by hand during the fabrication phase. That’s entirely too inaccurate and subjective to the assembler to leave up to human hands. (But hey: it’s a 2.5 million dollar piece of metal, so lets make those buyers feel good about their money spent).

Oh look: gemstones! (???) That's kingly.

More faux machining that is veritably inferior to quality mechanical assembly.

Oh shit, someone just turned a nob!

3.5 minutes in, and we see some actual hand-polished work that is legitimately viable to perform by hand.

Hey lets sand those nodules off the finished pieces, and micro-inspect those printed markings, because nothing about us says “accuracy” without a fallible human to do it. Also: what are they printing shit on there for? Was it pushing the price to $3mil to engrave the timestamps on the faces? That better be the highest quality electroplated coating, but even then I can't imagine that's superior than a tactile, physical representation.

Now they’re hand-engraving the sculpted ornamentation, but it’s one more point I can gladly give them because those kinds of human touches let you know at least some sort of artisan was involved. I can appreciate that, though realizing what I just said causes me to reflect on the inaccuracies of mass-production, and why we would take one over the other…

More microscopes. (Because if one notch is off, it’s back to the furnace for you!)

Awe shit, payday. A guy in a suit looking confident is walking towards your building!

Finally, the gear assembly. It certainly looks fantastic, photographically speaking. I can’t help but notice that all that detail is lost to hundreds of textural indentations or are due to stylized alternating polish/grinding. However, I’m confident that spending $2.5mil on this product would get me the absolute, most accurate, unnoticeable details (hand-made!) within a micro-millimeter of accuracy. Those indentations are like chrome on a street-racer in the 90’s: the more you have, the greater they perform.

@~8min, I’m pretty sure no one works like that at their desk. That posture would kill you in a month.

They know you can’t spin the head of a watch while it’s on your wrist, right?

Awe! It’s got 5 ringtones! That’s way more than any other watch I’ve even heard of! Except everything that doesn’t cost $2.5mil.


If I can take anything away from this that’s even remotely positive, it’s that at least millionaire shitheads are now being just as suckered as the rest of the consumer base. Let me sell ONE of those watches, and I would have enough money to overtake their business within a year, except for that I don't have the greed, dishonesty, and overall lack of morals that it would take to set up a quality factory, and trick such dickheads into buying (even superior BS) products.

The fact that if I get it on my 360 that I can carry that same character and stats to an XBox One if I get one is a positive selling point. Same thing for PS3 buyers to PS4. Now I don't think there's a discount on the actual game, but they do transfer your characters over.

And you know full well that starving people aren't buyers in the auto market and so probably don't much care how much they cost or how safe they were.

I repeat, wealthy distribution is a different subject. The point friedmen makes is that government should ensure buyers are informed when buying a cheaper but more dangerous product, and that gov should not decide for consumers what cost is too high for added safety.

Probably just selling them, it will be a lot easier for buyers to check them out when there's only a few.

No one really believes that the GOP will let the country default on the debt. This is all political theater. The debt limit will likely be raised. (But who knows for sure?) It could happen in theory that a group in the GOP lets it happen. Either way the US cannot pay on its debts. It can either default (not pay), or it can borrow more, but that is not paying its debts but increasing them. Those are the two options. It cannot/will not pay off the debt. No one even claims it can at this point.


"And while Wall Street is sanguine, big banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are still working out contingency plans [in case of default] that involve redoubling efforts to keep clients calm and are selling government bonds — a sign that confidence in Washington has waned."

And if/when bond buyers stop buying bonds, that means "game" over.

The travelling salesman trope, and it's implications, are as old as the hills. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TravelingSalesman

In that case shouldn't the narrative have been shown from the point of view of the village occupants? The closest we saw to them suffering any consequences of their actions was a distant puff of purple smoke as the Smoke Seller laughed.

If let the buyer beware was the point, then show me the buyers suffering the consequences. A massive guard dog turning into a mangy ankle-biter while defending his owner from a burgler, the boy's airplane / rocket turning back into a pointy stick and catching him in the eye, show me the old ladies at a fancy party being laughed at when their fancy bags and clothes turn back into tat, or the major becoming a laughing stock when, as he goes to unveil it to invited dignitaries, his massive monument tuns back into a walking cane (without even a jewel adorning it anymore).

a guy dupes a bunch of people and gets away? sounds like allegory to something pretty obvious to me... religion? politics? maybe its just an animated film...

in case you missed it the point was Buyer Beware, pretty simple. Even the seller himself was an illusion...

Sam Harris has some interesting thoughts in this blog post: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-riddle-of-the-gun

"We could do many things to ensure that only fully vetted people could get a licensed firearm. The fact that 40 percent of all guns in the U.S. are legally purchased from private sellers without background checks on the buyers (the so-called “gun show loophole”) is terrifying. Getting a gun license could be made as difficult as getting a license to fly an airplane, requiring dozens of hours of training. I would certainly be happy to see policy changes like this. In that respect, I support much stricter gun laws. But I am under no illusions that such restrictions would make it difficult for bad people to acquire guns illegally. Given the level of violence in our society, the ubiquity of guns, and the fact that our penitentiaries function like graduate schools for violent criminals, I think sane, law-abiding people should have access to guns. In that respect, I support the rights of gun owners."

I love these grand, light-draft horses....My ma just adopted two Fresians from a woman that used to breed them for Amish buyers. They are like doggies in their fondness for people-Gentle giants. (if remember I'll post some pics this week of em!)

Sold! For two million dollars to buyer number 3 for humanities first Fecal Moon Rock

Buying a couple of lottery tickets is fun. But I see people who clearly don't have much money buying buttloads of tickets, desperately hoping.

I buy lottery tickets myself. Every December. I buy them for my co-workers to scratch off at our annual Christmas dinner. I even buy one for myself, so I can join in the laughter. And I like that some portion of the proceeds goes to schools.

It is the desperate, low income buyers that I ... mourn for.

@Fletch I wasn't clear.

This guy is selling this cabinet. He may not have kids but the buyers may have kids.

It is a fact that some gun owners ARE irresponsible gun owners. A gun safe is the only thing to have in a household with children. Responsible gun owners with children would not buy this product.

In the past year or so, here in the State of Washington, TWO police officers were careless with their guns around their children. A three year old boy killed his 6 year old sister with a service pistol left unattended in a car while the parents went to pay for the gas. A ten year old girl shot herself in the leg when her father left his service pistol on his nightstand -- just one week after a gun safety class where he was reprimanded IN CLASS for handling a gun carelessly.

I grew up with guns. I was taught gun safety. I have no problem with most guns.

And there is plenty of evidence of people being stupid with guns. This guy who is selling a gun related product would do well to have a warning that his unlocked cabinet is not safe around children.

I wonder if gun owners ever get buyer's remorse.

I spent over 5,000 bucks on these guns, all I need now is an excuse a reason to use them.