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Pizza Hut Tempts Gamers With a $10,000 Gaming Setup
Now when you are trying to decide which late-night temple of crusty dough and burnt cheese gets your dinner vote, there may be an extra moment's pause for Pizza Hut. Along with a free 30-day GameFly membership, you also have the chance to win the gaming setup of a decade. Including a Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, and a 60-inch plasma TV, this package would be sure to make any gamer's heart skip a beat. Unfortunately, it also means you have to break that typical gamer diet of soy and bean curd, good luck.
I like my soy and bean curd diet!
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Without Slashdot, I would have missed Pizza Huts' advertising campaign!
Can you alert me next time Coke has one of those bottle-cap things? I always miss those...
The cake is a pie
http://pizzahut.eprize.net/gamefly/index.tbapp
No thanks, I just eat the pizza delivery guy when he comes. Remember, you never have to pay if you eat him. And you get a free car, it's like the prize in a cerial box.
ScuttleMonkey? Advertising? Who would have expected that? I have nothing against ads, but I'd really like to see them recognized as such, rather than presented as actual content.
If you object to an onslaught of advertisements and self serving "press releases" thinly disguised as technical articles, then you really should be here. Slashdot jumped the shark and went to the dark side some time ago.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Is ScuttleMonkey permitted to post all this disreputable spam about (usually poor) games?
They need spend that on paying there drivers gas money as they are under paying them buy a lot.
Surely you can't be serious.
Kind of like how your school district under-funded its English classes?
(I'm not one to bash foreigners trying to learn the language, so if you are, my apologies, your mistakes just look like they were made by a native speaker with poor grammar.)
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But this is an ad. Lets just call it an ad, or a "sponsored story" and move on. If you guys didn't get paid for this thing then that's even sadder. I don't mind the ads on /., it keeps things going, but please don't try to pass them off as content. There's nothing in this story that at all meets the (admittedly low) editorial bar for submissions here. Its product placement, pure and simple.
They need spend that on paying there drivers gas money as they are under paying them buy a lot.
I'm sorry. I'm usually not this picky, but for God's sake, it was ONE sentence. Surely you could limit yourself to merely dinging or scratching the English language rather than mauling it.
It should have read: "They need to spend that on paying their drivers gas money, as they are underpaying them by a lot."
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
$10,000? I'd prefer an anime-themed pizza box over that. C.C. was pretty cool.
You have to cut words to get stuff to fit in the Subject line.
Manager, someone just ordered an "extra sauce" from our website. 50 times.
Wow, something that combines eating Pizza Hut pizza and listening to Bose speakers? Just when I thought neither of those two could get any worse...
If you're ever in Ohio, passing through Dayton, make a detour and stop in Yellow Springs. There's a place there called Ha Ha Pizza. It is honestly the best pizza I've ever had, by far. Also, it's all organic to boot! You want soy cheese? They have that too. ;)
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Here's where the $10,000 goes:
The big-ticket item is the furniture.
Did they throw in any games?
Interesting choice of the microsoft logo for the icon for the website
It is not hard to make a decent pizza. It is very hard to make a decent pizza while maintaining a decent profit margin. Or perhaps it is only hard on that scale. Seems all the local spots make at least halfway decent pizza while chains couldn't make a pie to save their life!
All points of time and space are connected.
The only problem with the promotion is you have to be able to actually purchase something from Pizza Hut.
The last time I attempted to, my stomach leaped out of my mouth and dragged me pert damn near fifty miles - then proceeded to slap me around the head while burping vindictives that haunt me to this day.
I learned a lesson that day, I found out it was more nutritious to suck pond scum from a fetid Florida swamp, then to attempt to consume anything that pizza hut calls a pizza.
I need to start a therapy group.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Last I heard, gaming on a plasma display still caused a burn-in effect similar to really old CRT computer displays. Has this changed recently, or is it still far safer to use an LCD display for this sort of thing?
8==8 Bones 8==8
If you're ever in Ohio, passing through Dayton
:P
If these two things are ever true, we'll feel sorry for you.
I live in Ohio. I'm allowed to make those jokes =]
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I don't live in Dayton myself, so I'd actually tend to agree. I visit family up in that area however, so I know a little about the surroundings. I prefer the country setting of the southeast part of the state, myself. ;)
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
I grew up in the southeast part of the state, actually.
Pretty country and some decent people, but also more than a few people who would not look out of place on the set of Deliverance. =]
Sadly, a not insignificant number of the people there are also *ahem* rather conservative and fairly isolationist and extremely resistant to change. That, in my opinion, is one of the worst parts about the area and why a lot of the nation still takes a sort of dim view of the area.
As far as pizza goes, my favorite in this state has to be the Mount Olympus Greek from Avalanche Pizza in Athens (I went to college at OU).
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This has changed, and not recently. There is image retention, which means that if you leave your display on the same, high contrast image for a while, you'll see the bright bits on very dark screens for a couple of minutes. It's nothing even remotely permanent, and it never happens in motion video.
Unless you're showing airport departure times 24/7 (where I admit burn-in is likely), plasma screens are awesome. For gaming in particular, the total response times on plasma are typically better (try the calibration tool in Guitar Hero), and Panasonic (the only remaining plasma manufacturer) has great scalers in their sets so you don't get the fuzzy image that so many LCDs have when not showing their native resolution.
wow... I was all set to say "YHBT HAND" yadda yadda, but it looks like he was serious. hell, he was serious enough to defend it by adding letters and spaces to get things to fit, even.
yep.
You don't need Geeksintraining if you're on Slashdot.
Although I don't care about these contests, I wonder why the PC wasn't added.
Is it because it's not popular anymore?
Or is it because a 3000 dollar addition is a little too much?
I'll take the real pizza, please.
Incidentally, anyone remember Pizza the Hut from Spaceballs? He was cool. (I'm just trying to make this article somewhat relevant to this site.)
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Anyone know what you would have to pay for taxes on this stuff. It still costs to money to win free stuff.
Winning this stuff would go a long way towards apologizing for the state of pizza hut pizza.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Sorry, we don't do separate ads nowadays. Consumers have gotten too savvy, there are Tivos and Ad blockers and whatnot. You want ad supported content, you will fucking well look at our ads, capiche? I don't care if we have to pack every story, every TV show, every song, every painting, every fucking poem full of ads, you will look at them. I don't care if we have to pay random people on the street to talk about our products. If we could beam our ads into your heads, we'd do that too. Because you aren't our customer, you are our product.
Now be a good little product and sit there passively absorbing the ads without critical thought so we can get paid for delivering you to our real customers. If you don't then you don't love America or the Free Market and the terrorists have already won. You don't want that, do you?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
What good is winning the 30/60 day free membership to Gamefly if I don't own any systems? I say they give me the grand prize first, then we will talk about this free membership deal.
Disclaimer: I am not god.
We may not be created equal
But we can be treated equal.
meh, even better, make an Avoid the Noid FPS, anyone remember the old one?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoid_the_Noid
"Avoid the Noid is a platform computer game for the Commodore 64 and DOS operating system, written in 1989 to promote Domino's Pizza. It was modeled after the company's ad campaign during the late 1980s. The ads featured a "noid" that destroyed pizzas and must be avoided.
The Commodore 64 version was developed by BlueSky Software and ShareData was the publisher for both versions. In the game, you must deliver a pizza to Doom Industries on the top floor of an apartment building while avoiding the Noid creatures and their traps as you go.
The protagonist pizza delivery boy can walk, run, roll and perform impressive somersaulting leaps. He is armed with a limited amount of Noid Avoiders, which when activated remove all Noids from the screen. Each screen consists of three floors; the player runs right on the first, takes the elevator up to the second, runs left, takes the elevator up to the third, and runs right once more. Hidden trapdoors are plentiful, dropping the player down to the next lower floor.
Within the elevators, the player is safe - but Noids often run out of them and attempt to knock the player down in the corridors. If not avoided by jumping or rolling, the protagonist is stunned and the Noid will then proceed to destroy the pizza. When all pizzas are gone the game ends. Later rooms include heat-seeking (i.e. pizza-seeking) missiles being fired from the doors, as well as Noids wielding bazookas. After losing a life, the player is treated to a close-up of a sneering Noid.
Several elevators are locked, requiring the player to find keys. These are hidden in the coin return slot of the various phones that hang on the wall. Certain other phones contain a digit, three of which are required for a digital lock near the top floor. However, the player must listen carefully to the phone ringing; searching a wrong phone causes a Noid (on the other end of the line) to blow up the phone, destroying your pizza once more. Ironically, one of the topmost phones in the building contains two bonus pizzas.
Finally, to open the door to the penthouse where the pizza is to be delivered, the player must visit the roof to obtain three more keys. Noids come by in planes and drop water balloons (with impressive splash damage); needless to say, water ruins your pizza."
Ohio: combines the warm, down-home friendliness and charm of the East Coast with the sophisticated urbane cosmopolitanism of the Midwest.
"This has changed, and not recently. There is image retention, which means that if you leave your display on the same, high contrast image for a while, you'll see the bright bits on very dark screens for a couple of minutes. It's nothing even remotely permanent, and it never happens in motion video."
partially wrong, Plasma TVs have a nice built-in Image Retention detection chip, they cycle those pixels often enough for the display to avoid burn in, also, you can have screen savers set to prevent 'uneven phosphor wear'
CRTs are also prone to burn in, I've seen 'used' slot machines with a CRT with a permanent burn-in of the prize table, and even some ghosting in the other screen areas. plasma TV makers claim than they've got new phosphors that are 'as good as crts' this doesn't mean burn in proof, and phosphors can earn 'wear patterns' where some of the phosphors loose brightness over the 'wear cycle' of the phosphors. But again, modern Plasma TVs have modes, and computer technology to 'reverse' damage, caused by burn-in/uneven 'wear leveling' for instance, if you watch all yoru standard def, in a 3/4 box, the edges of the screen can become extremely 'bright' for playing HD/movie content. this problem is so bad, that modern plasmas default to stretching 3 by 4 content, unless it's 'digital' and set to display with black bars by the content producer
"Enhanced Screen Saver Functions
A variety of screen saver functions help minimize the risk of uneven phosphor aging. You can also use the timer to set the screen saver operating cycles, operating time, and start and stop times. This lets you make settings that match your application.
* White Bar Scroll: White bars move across the screen from left to right at regular intervals. Good for ordinary still-image displays.
* Screen Reversal: Displays images with the black and white reversed. Good for text displays.
* Side Panel Adjustment: Brightens the black bands on the sides of the screen when displaying images in the 4:3 format.
* Wobbling: Shifts the image's position by several pixels at fixed time intervals.
* Peak Limit Mode: Lowers the peak brightness level (image contrast) by 30%"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I have plenty of issues with "city folk" as well, so any location can be a double edged sword. I can put up with the occasional banjo dueler though if it means that I live out in the middle of nowhere. I don't like being able to see or be seen by my neighbors, likewise I don't like having to listen to vehicles passing by and such.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
I am quite familiar with Portsmouth as I dated someone from there many years ago.
I grew up in Jackson County. lol
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-1: Flamebait? I see Pizza Hut's marketing department is trolling the Interwebs tonight.