Everything You Think Is Real Is a Lie to Make You Buy Video Games

Is anything real anymore?  No – it’s all stealth marketing.  I looked at this blog, BloodCopy, last week.  It’s a blog only about vampires!  So naturally I thought, “Well ain’t this dumber than a possum wearing people clothes!”  But no, it’s all stealth marketing for the show True Blood airing at 10PM EST/9 PM C on HBO check your local listings!  

And your shirt – look at it.  A shirt, you think.  But no, stealth marketing.  For greenTM: the color that looks green.  Mine is, anyway.  Yours is probably for pink.  And that Verizon ad above this post?  Not just a picture of phones with attractively priced long-distance packages.  You guessed it: stealth marketing.  For Nike.

Now this: protesters picketing the Dickens out of the new Electronic Arts game Dante’s Inferno at the E3 convention.  But they weren’t conservative Christian protesters.  They were lies!  

The few ‘protestors’ can be seen carrying signs which read “EA = Electronic Anti-Christ,” an ironic sentiment, given the source, that most gamers would not disagree with. Armed with pamphlets that read ”Our high score is heaven!” and ”There is no reset button in Hell”, the PR materials are a laugh riot and obviously take great inspiration from the drivel pushed out by Fred Phelps’Westboro Baptist Church and other similar religious organizations.

Of course, most media outlets totally didn’t get it, because that’s the point of a stealth marketing campaign: you are made to feel stupider than the marketers.  In shame, you go to Circuit City to pay them their ill-gotten $70 for a crappy game because you know you have been beaten.  The L.A. Times blog was among the duped:

It now appears that the protest against the Electronic Arts game “Dante’s Inferno” that we posted about Wednesdaywas actually a publicity stunt arranged by EA itself. A brochure handed out by the protesters — or is that actors? — points to a website, wearesavedgroup.org, which appears designed to promote “Dante’s Inferno” as much as bash it. There’s a video full of game footage, a link to the trailer, and a link to the official Dante’s site.  

The site was registered on Monday, June 1, through Domains By Proxy, a company that lets people set up websites without disclosing their identity.

Hell, however, is very real.

Source: Hellforge.