Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?

On Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:59:58 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Although, in truth, my actual response was regarding the 'asshats who
don't spellcheck'* more than the Millennial thing. The entire
'generation' thing always seemed to much an artificial division
created by marketing dweeboids than an actual noticable
differentiation. In my experience, the bad behavior often assigned to
a particular generation transcends actual ages.**

Agreed. I consider it "Boomer" legacy. For some reason, they kept
"talkin' 'bout it." Catchy song.

I much prefer historical markers. Internet Generation. COVID Generation.
SmartPhone Generation. Cold War Generation.

And with historical markers there's lots of overlap and variation of
effect. There's no neat package based on when you were born. Instead,
it's a Chinese menu of things that affected you, rather than a straight
up Chinese zodiac.

This Greatest, Boomer, X, Millenial, Zoomer, Alpha stuff is no more valid
than a horoscope. I would argue it *is* a horoscope.

In marketing, generational demographics have become less valuable over
the years. We still don't know how to market to the so-called X-ers. Some
of them, maybe, but it's not as easy as with their predecessors. That is
probably what you get when you name an entire generation "Brand X."

And forget reaching anyone raised in the height of the Internet age with
traditional advertising. They go to individual influencers for their ads.
Smartphones have encouraged and cultivated the attention span of a gnat,
so you have to hit hard and fast in the context of larger, louder, more
extreme content. It's coming down to word-of-mouth/testimonial these
days. Clickbait is money, baby.

Eventually, the shouting match will become noise. Throats will become
hoarse. The 20-second bursts will become blipverts*. I don't know where
we go after that. Will people literally explode? Maybe society explodes.

And that's also why the traditional channels are so saturated now.
Traditional advertising is everywhere because the advertising is less
effective.

Minority Report was right about one thing; ubiquitous advertising is the
end-game. They were wrong that it is the future.

(Sorry for the marketing tangent, but it's what I know and the prime
source of this novel demographics-based theory.)

--
Zag

This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk