Re: The travesty has ended
I've said pomo is a good way to interpret this add.
additionally, now that I think about it, Rizter's work on American worship of consumption may offer some insight. He long reveled over the reverence with which we treat advertising; it is as if an advertisement is some sacred symbol in our cult of consumption. Advertisments that do not make sense or seem bad to us are some kind of sacrilege. The minimalist Dom3 add of a suggestive woman and stark simple "I want my Dom3" breaks all tradition with "wargame ads" and does not compute with people who look for some kind of universality and centrality in their cult of consumption; thus they find it offensive. Notice to those who dislike it, it isn't the hot girl, it is that the ad makes no sense, or doesn't have anything to do with dominions.
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