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[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago

'edgy to a fault' 90s

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here is notorious pedophile Bill Clinton reading a Guilty Gear ad on national television

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Cigarette_comedian@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 12 points 2 weeks ago

"All these years, I thought a skunk crawled in here and choked to death on dogshit!"

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

I will say that the magazine ad for Blood gave me some feelings when I was a wee lad

[–] siv9939@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone didn't like getting made John Romero's bitch.

Suck It Down!™

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Compared to JP magazine spreads which were just concept art and screenshots of the game.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmericanKirbyIsHardcore clear example.

[–] AnExcellentSteelHorse@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

CW: hitler, pol pot, and some other gems

spoiler

Real magazine ad from 1995

Edit: contemporary article about it where the author is extremely mad that a right wing french politician is among the rogues gallery

Edit 2: "Your cheeky chappies have included Napoleon on the poster, too. What is this, get the French week? Or are we simply witnessing an American entertainment company (Virgin Interactive Entertainment is owned by Viacom) displaying to Europe how ignorant it is of European history?

For the record, the Napoleonic armies of revolutionary France swept away medieval despotism across Europe, destroyed the archaic Holy Roman Empire, and broke the repressive hold of the Catholic Church on secular states in what is now Germany. Of course, Napoleon later turned towards autocracy and had himself crowned emperor, but that just illustrates my point: real life is more complicated and more interesting than the nerdish simplicities of advertising and computer games."