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Intergalactic Bounty Hunters Wanted
myukew wrote in to let us know about a viral marketing campaign by Nintendo that went awry. A while back Nintendo posted an opening on the jobs board Monster.com for an "Intergalactic Bounty Hunter". The response they received was unnerving. From the article: "Within the first day of posting the job, we had several replies from real applicants who seriously wanted to be an intergalactic bounty hunter for a living. The skills and experience these people listed went beyond surprising into the realm of frightening. We never expected such a wide array of replies from so many people who were actually pursuing interviews for gainful employment as a space warrior."
They talk about all the oh-so-frightening skills that people presented, but they don't list one. Are they blind to the fact that at least some of these "real applicants" were probably just playing pranks of their own?
Honestly, nothing humanity does on the Internet surprises me.
On the other hand, I've met plenty of otherwise intelligent people with a few oddball beliefs (UFOs, some-weird-never-released-cold-war-technology, religion, &c.). [Of course, I've met a lot of morons with oddball beliefs too; however, those beliefs often follow the trend of popular cinema and can be traced back to a simple source like "The Crow".]
Thus, it's not unbelievable to me that 80-or-so high functioning people would believe this. "A Beautiful Mind" aside, you don't have to be a mathematician to see and believe extra craziness in the public media. Intelligence is in no way uniform, and in particular, I've had to train myself to not be more gullible than what society considers an "average" person.
It's as though Nintendo has revealed the fact that they uncovered huge secrets but they can't tell us what they are. This has to be the most fustrating story I've seen in years. They need to show us ALL of the responses or just stfu.
The government which is strong enough to protect you from everything is strong enough to take everything from you.
myukew wrote in to let us know about a viral marketing campaign by Nintendo that went awry.
So, I wonder what was actually the viral marketing campaign: posting a job on Monster.com where 90 people read it and then replied, or a bunch of games news sites like games.slashdot and gamesdaily rehashing a statement by a PR read by hundreds of gamers if not thousands?
Or, more eloquently: "Who's the more foolish...the fool or the fool who follows him?"