TS - The World

The Internet is awesome. There are so many cool and helpful things to find. What I absolutely don't like, however, are status messages. No matter where: Twitter, Facebook, Studi/Schüler/MeinVZ...

Why do I hate it so badly? Telling people what you do may be cool if you need attention but it can really hurt. Best example is telling others that you passed your test (or even better show how awesome you are by stating that ypu got an A/1 etc.) if these others failed and have to read your praise. You know, there are many people whose future might depend on one single grade and I doubt that they're pretty happy to see how many people have passed.

Fortunately, it hasn't happened to me a long time. But when it will happen again I will be pissed again because I'm not such a person filled with charity who can be so hipocritically (does that word even exist?) happy for others when I'm down and feeling stupid as hell.

Wow, one day after I praise Q-Cells' commercial a newspaper reports that Q-Cells will shlash 4 out of 6 plants... just didn't read where... probably in Germany...

OH BOY!! Better not praise any commercials anymore but rather criticize them :D

Yeah, a new segment on my blog. I haven't been busy lately but also nothing to write about. Just as a side note: I won the Gamespot presents the HOTSPOT homework assignment: Every week the podcast gives a homework assignment, last week it was "Find a possible last line of a cut scene of a game". Since Electronic Arts/Erklärt Alles/Explains All charges you for the tiniest worthless stuff my idea for the last line was the following: for Sims 4 it would be like: "No, seriously, you really did spend 500 Sim points just to buy this cut scene?" (since there are no cut scenes in a Sims game)

But on to the real stuff: the new segment: Good Commercials - Bad Commercials, and no it will not be a soap opera but rather praises to really intelligently or poorly-done commercials. I only have one good one for this week, though:

Good Commercial:
Q-Cells - a producer of solar cells: The commercial starts off with a cool coreography of drummers and it gets cooler and cooler with cool jumps and cool sounds. Yes, the actors might hold the stick in a wrong way, but it's still cool that it gets revealed more and more what the meaning of the drummers is because you start to see them as units and then standing on solar cells themselves. At the end a young woman wakes up and smiles while the commentary says something like "Q-Cells - the power on your roof". Nice antithesis and anticlimax! Very well done!

Worst Commercials:
1st place goes to Seat Ibiza: I am SO annoyed by their new commercial during which the car salesman shows a customer all the new features of the car and does all kinds of noises. It may be neat the first time but the more you (have to) watch it the more annoying it gets. Too childish. Too senseless. I hate the commercial

2nd place for Weltbild for a new commercial about a new book (sorry, don't know which one). It's soooooo old-fashioned to talk into the camera how nice a service is and those artificial smiles. It seems totally unnatural. GREAT JOB, Weltbild, great job.

3rd place, even though all three are horrible, goes to eDarling.de: same problem as Weltbild: the history of a "couple" is told by them in an awkward way: Again it seems very artificial and strange especially when the guy does a typing motion when he talks about how they wrote to each other and a phone motion when talking about their first phone calls. I don't know. I'm not stupid. I know what typing and phoning looks like. In everyday conversation it might not seem to strange but the way they incorporated it just seems strange!

So, that's it. Tell me your thoughts and your stories about weird/ funny/ stupid commercials.

Oh, and check out a cool song: Embassy - "Gravity" - sounds awesome!