Absurdist Anime-Adoring Australian

Does that actually make people drink more soda? IT’S SODA. We don’t drink it because it’s a precious treat we drink it because it’s almost easier to get than fucking water.

Coca Cola was one of the major things we talked about back in my religion, myth, and magic class in college. It doesn’t actually have anything to do with consciously selling Coke. Coke is already a universal. You can get it anywhere you go, and for the most part it tastes pretty similar everywhere. You know the product, and they’re not trying to convince you that the quality’s better than their competitors. They don’t need to. How do you market something so ubiquitous? You market the feeling it gives you. Coke ads tell you that drinking coke will build community. The ads play on the idea that if everyone drank Coke, they’d all belong- they’d be in the in-group. But you’re not supposed to think about what that in-group is- it’s people who drink this fizzy drink. They don’t tell you these things, but they just show you images of the happy people drinking Coke. It’s a deliberate choice that creates happy warm feelings about the brand. There’s a book we read called God, Country, and Coca-Cola that goes into a good bit of detail about the choices Coca-Cola makes for how it markets its products- the excerpt I’ve linked talks about how by some definitions, Coke’s marketing honestly does have religious overtones. That magical marketing works.

this is amazing pizza?

Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (2014)

The final island is very small and houses a single dangerous angry man.

At level 1 you learn the cantrip of “Bees?”

I think that would be fucking dope.

But there’s no one to catch them. Not tonight.