To be honest, such shot only appears 2x in the entire ad but I was simply too far into making it into an automatically looping embeddable image (GIF is the only cross-platform option despite the awful lack of compression) to pass up on it even after the annoyance became apparent. After all, that’s how I remember the shot because it was looped in a Czech YouTuber’s critique of the ad 10 years ago.
Aww, a couple’s costume!
!Couplememes@sh.itjust.works
At least the TNS one has a YT reupload as part of a collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYK7kmBNlCI&t=1172
It starts with the animated “Mr Egg” who announced ad slots
Also, some products had English on the package despite never being sold abroad, to increase the appeal… Maybe that’s why this ad is in English? (OK is the Czech(oslovak) aviation country code, we should have got CZ or CS but our delegation to ICAO screwed up)
And did you know about bagged milk and syrup in motor oil bottles?
Edit: ripped the loosely-DRM-protected “ČT-Mediatheque” video playable in the Czech Republic (or if you have a VPN) but couldn’t be bothered to get higher quality, enjoy 288p
Intermissions were common, the TV studio often experienced telecine jams or blown tubes, cutting to a “sorry, it’s not your TV” card or similar.
They did have adverts, too. Most were for normal products and services, but longer, milder than Western ones (e.g. products slowly rotating on a tray) annd almost never mentioned prices. There was little risk of litigation so overpromising with phrases like “ensure”, “indestructible” and “only at” was common even though many things required frequent repairs (especially TVs) or were easily beat by gray market imports or underhanded services. I saw a Czechoslovak 80s ad collection and two stood out:
TNS JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice. ZZN Gottwaldov.” (JZD means Collective Farm. Slušovice was by far the most “capitalist”. ZZN means Agricultural Distribution Center. Gottwaldov is a town named after our worst Stalinist president, now bearing its original name Zlín (Eviltown). Slušovice (Politeville) is a random village near Zlín.)I wonder if there was also more blatant propaganda they cut from the collection, or if adverts were just like that.
And ads they were never expected to make money, they had bottom-of-the-barrel budget. Which is not bad, considering they don’t create value. An example of a low-budget technique was in the ad for Rekord chewing gum, where rapid zoom in/out on 12 people chanting in an empty stadium was presumably employed to make them seem like a crowd…
Like dude, I get you didn’t have compositing tools, but you could have used a shot from an old newsreel (TV alternative from back then), not like anybody cared about copyright…
By the way, the comic appears to show a cartoon, many of which (Slovak Pat a Mat, Polish Bolki i Lolki, Hungarian Mézga család) beat current production because acclaimed film creators who didn’t quite ideologically align with the party were delegated to children’s programming, and many of the resulting productions were enjoyed by all ages. Also, dubs of Western films/shows were uncommon but very good.
Of course, nobody but party cadres had a VCR so people were very careful not to miss episodes.
Before you knew the xkcd reference, that would have been an understandable conclusion, but the comic has solid logic which should have made it clear enough.
Well said. Just one tip: include a backslash or 2 spaces at the end of a line to make a line break.
Edit:
That’s 2 backslashes (only one is seen since one escapes the other), presumably your client is messing with that…
Try the 2 spaces instead
Do you think all the 10,000 random people are Lemmy users? And into yuri?
Yes, it’s shitty but not worth more than 10 upvotes. It’s not like seeing things numbered 6 and 7 together is rare.
The church is a small part of the complex. The “Mordor of Prague” is the Emmaus Monastery, whose 17th century Baroque towers (on the otherwise mostly Gothic building) were destroyed by American bombardment meant to target Dresden, and the spires replaced them during a rare Communist-era (1964-1968) reconstruction of a church building. During the time, a Brutalist “mushroom” was added into the monastery park (thankfully too short to be seen from the river), and the Architecture and Urban Planning Centre is located there now.
Palestinians 'cause you’re getting your numbers from Google
They are elevators 6 and 7, anything funny otherwise?
I think these are muyhiram’s original characters, and it makes more sense if all three are lesbian
I think it isn’t in VSCodium
The obvious tell of it being AI-generated is the lack of any brown liquid around him
It seems to be a Unicorn 2 picosatellite, which includes the power, inertia control and communication systems and a telephoto camera as default payload. See the original Xitter post (via Xcancel) for details. Like most cubesats, they don’t use shielding and it works.
There’s one left
Requires weird IDE to build
I shifted 8 GB of files to an older machine just to be able to install Android Studio on barely-supported hardware, and now I’m cloning the repo and the .gradle directory alone is 1 GB?
99.99 % ≠ 100 %