That's exactly what I was thinking when I started watching the original. I doth my cap to you my liege.
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i think its just from emo kid that found out about windows video editor...you can see various sources in that video
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probably GB since there is a lot of reverse traffic and also spoted www.streetracing.ru in one of the videos
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They're from a few different places I think, but there's definitely some Irish and Northern Irish ads in there.
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thats right, you cant feel a thing from hollywood shit, these are not realistic accidents or crashes
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Didn't change anything. I still feel the same way about this.
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oh great. now i'm afraid of small cars randomly rolling over on top of important shit.
guess who's not going shopping at the mall today?
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You're not taking any more risks than before because you watched this video...
But teleportation will save us! :D
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i'm gonna purchase a flock of pure white doves to fly me everywhere from now on so i can laugh at the bitches on the sidewalk as they get mauled by the evil cars from Saints Row 2
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that stuff happens at low speeds also, always assume the other drivers are retards and will kill you with their stupid.
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Most of these are just laughable. Especially the one with the texting idiot. That one wasn't the drivers fault but the kid's own, so why the hell was in shown in this?
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Context, in that the others were all about speeding.
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im fairly certain that was for people who dont use commons senseand just cross the street with no caution
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Laughable?
Wow. Had a lot of respect for you here till now.
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Was a personal reflection, but perhaps a window for me.
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Azza, don't start shit. You're the one that had a freakout and blew everything entirely out of proportion because you weren't let into a giveaway. You're the one who thinks that the equivalent of hurricanes are caused by gay people. Don't even start.
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I don't start shit... I might see shit and therefore consider I need to do something about it, shoveling it and end up just spreading it around to make a point. However, I'm not gonna start. ps: It had nothing to do with not getting into the giveaway rather the forced R18+ requirements to enter it... coming from a mod of all people, not thinking it would be allowed and therefore recreating my own version to test the selective ethics of this site.
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Azza, I'd explain why you're a fucking idiot, but if you didn't learn from the way you epically failed at getting people on your side in the Steamgifts chat, in Support or on the Steam forums (yes, because they care), I don't think you'll ever understand what exactly you did wrong, so why should I waste my time explaining again?
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Like wise, I don't think your ever understand why I did what I did and what you did which was also wrong (plus that other person came added me who disliked you as well to tell his story, not the other way around)...
You wonder why I'm back here after you perm banned me by abusing your power? Lets just agree to disagree.
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Yeah, what I did was refuse to be a prude. I'm sorry that goes against your fundamentalist ideals.
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Well, they are. These adverts are just so bad. Most adverts, about anything, are laughable. The special effects, the music (in this case, not heard over the equally laughable "tearjerking" music the uploader chose, but usually the originals are just as tacky), the acting. I mock most cancer ads too. That's not saying "ha ha, cancer victims." That's saying "oh my god, this advert is awful." If you lose respect for me because I don't think an advert does its job all that well, then I didn't particularly want your respect anyway.
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just don't get into a thai insurance advertisement youtube spree....I've been there and it was not pleasant (worse than the end of the walking dead or the lost odyssey or even to the moon, I thought I had to dump a whole bucket of liquid leaking from my eyes)
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I was expecting something funny to happen. Turns out the only funny thing were the lame ads.
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i dont understand what that gesture with the pinkie finger si suppose to be, you have a small dick and compensate with speeding?
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Amazing all the flippant comments in this thread.
Sometimes this forum makes me sad for humanity.
Was the video over the top? Yes. Was it unrealistic? Not really. I have dealt with automobiles and motorcycles for a good portion of my career now, and they are most certainly not to be taken lightly.
The truth is, sometimes you can't control a giant truck hitting you. But you should control what you can.
And parents (of which there are few on this forum), for the love of your kids and everyone else, please get your new drivers training at a professional closed-course facility with professional instructors. Not just the minimum. Parents pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure their kids get the best education possible, but they won't pay even $500 to get education behind the wheel, a lack of which could render all that other investment moot.
I know exactly what violent auto and motorcycle incidents look like (many times over), and they are ugly, ugly, ugly. Even single-car incidents that are victimless are major epiphanous moments for the driver/rider.
If you don't value your life or the lives of others, then by all means, mock.
Even if the video was over the top, the warning it presents is very real and very serious.
We are soon to become a planet where developed nations will likely have autonomous vehicles that carry us without us driving. Based on this thread, I'd say that's a very good thing.
Till then, have fun in a safe place and don't fuck around.
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The one in the country with the woman sitting on the wall kind of horrified me, knowing she was pinned in with her bf for quite some time before they could get her out.
But the texting kid didn't do that much for me (until he hit the ground with blood coming out), because you could see it coming and it seemed more like a sketch.
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"We are soon to become a planet where developed nations will likely have autonomous vehicles that carry us without us driving. Based on this thread, I'd say that's a very good thing."
When I wrote this on other forum (that became full of conservatives) I was criticized, because "COMPUTER STEERING CARS WILL KILL US AND WE CAN'T TRUST THEM! We are so better drivers and we will never let some machine to control our car!"
Once I was almost killed by retarded driver - he was driving from opposite direction and started outpacing a car in front of me, on double line, just before intersection and pedestrian crossing. That was straight road, but I'm not even sure if he saw me, because he didn't brake... Fortunately side of the road was asphalted.
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I can't see how someone would assume that computer operated vehicles would be LESS safe than the ones with a human behind the wheel in general.
Sure, freak accidents may happen but I assume the total amount of accidents would drop quite low. Still, I can imagine those occasional crashes raising a lot of arguments how we can't trust the computer and need them banned etc etc, I think a lot of people, mostly ones not very familiar with computers, would have a need of control of the vehicle to feel safe.
On the other hand if we had both self-steering vehicles and ones with human control on the street then the statistics would show what's better quite fast.
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Don't forget that a program is only as effective as the hand that programs it, and we as humans are notoriously fallible. Computers have far superior 'reaction times' and 'thinking speed' but they are also cripplingly limited by their inability to improvise. Any contingency not fully accounted for by the programmers and designers is something of an eventuality on the road.
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I'm fully aware of this and still think computer controlled cars would be much safer. Also it's rather not possible that these cars wouldn't have manual control for reason you mentioned - sometimes, but only sometimes, people would have to take the wheel. You need to control your jeep on dirt roads too, etc.
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I don't see the flippant comments in this thread as too bad really. Consider the material they are mocking, which in itself inadvertently downplays it's own seriousness by its design. By overlaying the oh-so-sad music from the get-go, the audience already has a good idea what they're in for. The music is not synchronised. It is there simply to desperately make the audience feel sad, and as a result, kind of has an opposite effect. It's like making a video of funny moments in movies but then playing Yakkity Sax over the top at such a volume that it drowns out the audio of the footage. It would make it substantially less funny. Or in perhaps a better comparison, it's like a piano player who only uses loud notes and faster pacing in hopes of making the tune more powerful, while completely neglecting to realise how effective softer notes, slower tempo or even moments of silence are. I'm willing to bet that had the music not been there, each individual advert would have been far more effective. Moreso had they not been strung together back-to-back as an attempt to slam the audiences collective heads against a point going all "LOOK, SEE? SEE? SEE?" If a video I open immediately goes into awful low-grade dubstep and slow motion explosions in a random FPS game, I roll my eyes because of how cool it is trying to be, and close it. The same kind of applies here.
The reality of the message behind the video was completely muffled by contrived attempts at forcing the audience to feel bad. This isn't about forum users mocking it because they don't value the lives of others, and insinuating as much is kiiiind of a similar tactic to the video. "You monster, what have you done". As much as I think people need to take more of their shit seriously and stop believing they are invincible by default, this is totally the wrong way to go about fracturing that illusion.
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Yeah I know, that's kind of the point. In the original adverts, I'm sure that silence/calm before the impact would have played a big impact, as would the revelation of the damage they have done. That is kind of pre-empted by the music prior to anything happening. The harder something tries to manipulate an audience's heartstrings through effort rather than content, the more of an opposite effect it tends to have.
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This can change your life.
P.S: Do not watch it if you have problems with your heart.
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