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How very Blade Runner of you. Depends on the size of the ship and its purpose. If the ship does the same loop all the time and is highly visable in numerous starports I expect advertising would be very attractive.

gadrin wrote:have you seen GURPS Transhuman Space ?

they get into memes and I believe they have things like implants that get broadcasts from cybered things around you, so when you walk by a car on the street, you may get a FOR SALE sign in your field of vision while you're near it.

god, think of the terrible electro-postie-post-it-pocalypse that'd be around everywhere you go

the horror, the horror

or these damn emoticons everywhere

WE've had meme plagues and nuero-ads go out of control.
We've had rogue DOminator ships laser "Eat at Fat Maggot's" into entire continents.
Upper Atmosphere global holo-projectors have been tried and banned(except in the TGE, where the state does all advertizing)
Asteroid miners often pick up extra cash if they're towing asteroids into near orbits of populated worlds for mining by allowing advertizers to paint massive ads on the rocks.
Other ads of varying effectiveness(and annoyance value) include singling beverage ads, nanotech bottlecaps and magazine inserts that morph into little similucrum pitchmen/jingleers/dancers before disintegrating to dust, wearable smart-paper flatscreens, cyber-holo-implants(where recipients are paid a fee plus free installation of the cyberware, to go around with a mini-holo ad projector on their foreheads, in a shoulder, falsie breasts, buttocks, or belly, or dancing across their teeth), and even some Free Worlds Council robot and fighetr pilots have gone into battle sporting ad -patches for the benefit of any watching war correspondants(the companies placing such ads pay handsomely to the Rebellion).

I think that everyone's comments do help fill out those mobile ads you'd see in a setting like "Phase World's Center."


Those are some great ones!!!

LOL

This just came to mind. We have advertisements all over the places, including private and public vehicles. So what and where would we see these ads? And how much are the advertisers willing to pay for the space on the vessels?

watch Cowboy Bebop, and then a few episodes of Outlaw star.

Bebop has holoads littering the orbital paths from the hyperspace gateways down to the planets, and usually has lots of big ads all over the cities too.

outlaw star has similar things.

gadrin wrote:walking along, when something pops-up into your Optic Eye Implant...

Dear Unfortunate,

you have just entered Thraxus Private Property, by the time you read this you'll be dead, so if you close your eyes and think about your next of kin, our Neuro-Interface field will capture your last few thoughts before you're incinerated.

Stop reading...now...you're dead.

then a few moments later...

If you can read this, then you've somehow survived. Yes, our Neural Scanner still detects a brain-pulse or two.

In which case, Thraxus would like to hire you for employment, providing you can be healed in time.

Please remain in place and don't mind the Adult Dragon, he's a vegetarian.

Graciously, your host,
His Immortal Highness,

Thraxus

Ouch......proof that it pays to advertize...
And the idea of multi-staged assaults on one's senses, tied to certain conditions(you're still moving, you're still harboring aggressive thoughts, you still haven't replaced the coffee you just consumed...)

darkmax wrote:Nice one, Gadrin!

Taalismn, I think we have gone through those, didn't we?


Imagine, if someone paid Neil Armstrong a billion bucks all those years ago, to write huge gigantic words across the bright face of the moon..... or even better, he just went and etched "Armstong Was Here!" and made it big enough to be visible to the people looking up at the moon....

Yep, we have...
And was it Douglas Adams who has some race fire off a series of supernovas because when their light finally reaches their homeworld several years hence, they form a pattern spelling out some cheesy franchise logo...

LOL

Or "If you can read this sticker! You're chestnuts are already done roasting!"

darkmax wrote:Imagine bumper stickers for starships.....

"If you can see this sticker, you are already being roasted"

"If you can read this, check your dosimeter."

"Infinite Space Around Us---Quit Tailgating!"

"WE have heavy guns on THIS end too, you know!"

"WE make sudden stops."

"Alien Intelligence BOund and Gagged in Trunk."

"Mass Driver Propelled...Watch OUt for Flying Mass."

"Orion(Nuclear Detonation) Propelled--Sux to Be You!"

"Get Off That Handheld Cellular Hypercomm, *******!"

"My KId Conquered the Oriniod Nebula; What Did Your Underacheiver Do?"

"Proud Member of the CosmoKnight Slayers Association."

"Nova Bombs Don't Kill Entire Solar Systems! Over-Zealous Regulations Do!"

"Arm the Zembhak!"

"Free Worlds Council Covert Operations CRuiser---Flash Your Running Lights If You LOve Freedom!"

"INtruder Covert OPerations Marauder---Didn't Think WE WEre This Sneaky, Didja?"

"Keyboard Capitilization Key Emergency Repair Team---We Make Sudden Starts and Stops."

"Smart Spacer---We Don't Investigate Suspicious Derelicts, We Don't Pick Up Strangers---You're JUst Dumb Outa Luck, Pal!"

darkmax wrote:And the corniest of all: Eat my space dust!

It's those Wulfen spread-eagled and crucified with suction cups up against the inside of the viewports of Splugorth ships that get me....

darkmax wrote:ohh....... that's gonna be ugly

Not quite as bad as those shrunken body bobble-necked figures the Splugorth like the keep on their dashboards...especially when I recognize who they were...

darkmax wrote:"OOOOHHH!! SSSOOOO KAWAIII!!!!!!" scream the Japanese fanfare...

Just what we need...Japanese Splugorth(well, they already have an oversized eye...)

ROFLMAO!!!!

darkmax wrote:sigh... how low can we get....

NEVER...EVER...feed me a straight line like that...you should know better than to throw a gauntlet or make a statement like that on these forums...

You could always get a Splugorth who acts like Azusa from Ranma 1/2( for the uninitiated: Azusa **** little twerp girl martial arts skater with a kwai complex, combined with kleptomania and a tendency to give cutsey names to anything she steals----Applied to an immature(or insane) Splugorth, we basically get a Splugorth on roller skates, clad in day-glow fuchia skirts and sleeves with puffs and lace flourishes----the sort of thing that gives you a fear of gumball machines, or anything relating to bright colors and round objects...)

darkmax wrote:OHHH MMMAAAANNN!!!! I need an eye wash now, I need an eye wash now!!!! Wait where's the de-neuralizer? Where's that damn de-neuralizer!!!!

You kidding?! I'm considering a chainsaw, and I WROTE the damn thing!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!


Poor Ranma! Either of his forms!

Even better................ What happens when a splugorth falls into the pool of drowned red headed girl! Ponder that over.

darkmax wrote:It ressurrect them and made them his slave.

Or the Spluggie gets to rudely surprise some rival..
"Ah, lackey, lightly boil this pink piece of meat..(splasH*FWHOOM*)....er, Gorgrythh?!"

Honestly, the Splugorth would turn a place like Jusenko into a high-security research facility.

Now 'Spring of Drowned Splugorth' would be a major deal for all concerned..

"Oh no, Mister Visitor! You fall in Spring of Drowned Panda!...Oh no! Young MIster VIsitor, he fall in Spring of Drowned Giant Eyeball Monster! Is terribly tragic tale of..."

Later...

"Saotome! Why is your son wearing a wetsuit under a raincoat, with an umbrella? "
"Well, it's sort of like this..."

"Oh my..."
"erg..."
*SORRY. YOUR SISTER STARTLED ME. I'M SURE THE DOCTOR CAN PATCH UP THOSE MISSING CHUNKS...ONCE YOU PUT THE FIRE OUT*

"RANMA! PREPARE TO DI-"
#SCRUNCH#"ACK!"#GULP#
*HMMM....WONDER WHAT -THAT- WAS ABOUT...GOTTA FIGURE OUT WHAT ALL MY MOUTHS ARE DOING*

"Foul sorceror!---merp!"
*DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?*

"IT's like this...the Amazons can either kill this monstrous aberration---or petition to become his chief minions...."
"Shampoo think sue for peace better option...See what Ranma-gorth do to bonbouri without thinking..."

Clearly we have a possible new 'Anime Addventure' thread or a fanfic along these lines...

darkmax wrote:hmm.... it would be so.

I might be tempted to make it so if I have any more delusions of grandeur...

:::Hunkering down in preparation for Taalismn's delusions!:::

darkmax wrote:I have the Crazy modification system ready. Anytime doctor, any time you're ready.

Unlike a lot of Crazies, I have an aversion to having those unsightly plugs sticking out of my head...

I hate to ask this! But I guess I have to.... Where do the plugs stick out?

Aramanthus wrote:I hate to ask this! But I guess I have to.... Where do the plugs stick out?

Forehead, temples, occipital lobes....Makes getting fitted for a hat a real pain....Supposedly, advanced MOM gear doesn't have unslightly stimulator plugs(but sits flush to the skull), but Crazies consider the 'bolt-head' look to be part of the 'Crazy-chic' of the MOM culture. That just proves how nuts they are.

Probably(and this gets back to the main idea of this thread) the more enterprising MOM-conversion clinics inscribe theirs company name and logo on the sides of the larger neuro-stimulator plugs for a (don't hit me) free plug of their services....

I know that silly! I thought you were placing the plugs elsewhere!

darkmax wrote:And I thought those plugs were for interfacing with a computer and recharging....

Among other things...but I always thought they made good hangers for jewelry and fuzzy dice...

darkmax wrote:Or steam irons......

Mini-Lightning Rods...
Can just see a Crazy with Saint Elmo's Fire dancing around his head, dancing the 'shock-jig'
Mage(looking at slightly smoking finger): "Okay, THAT was unexpected...did I really shock him or is he grandstanding for the audience?"

Now, imagine an Advertizing Firm consisting entirely of CRazies...

darkmax wrote:I can see where that is going, but a bunch of insane people cannot possibly work effective together, no?

Well, the Three Stooges could be classed as not being able to work effectively together(though the actors made it look easy), but they got your attention, and that's half the fight in advertizing...

Very true!

darkmax wrote:Hmm... true.....

Hence; SPAZZAD Advertizers....."We 'll do just about ANYTHING to catch your customers' attention!"

Cut to a Kreeghor Doombringer, alarm lights and klaxxons on full overpower, as a small ship shoots away from it at maximum speed...
Draped over the entire length of the massive Kreeghor warship is a banner;
"Zaltoids, the Curiously Strong Breath Mints!"

darkmax wrote:wouldn't it be nice to see a starship with lights like those on some of the trucks on the America interstate highways?

Starship with low-rider lights? That would be pretty cool, but if you're engaging the stealth, remember to turn them off!

LOL I can just see the low rider lights on starships. Especially those runner ships.

darkmax wrote:hmmm... runners should get blue or green neon lights below their ship to make them look like they're actually floating!!!

And rear-holo projectors for stuff like 'Eat My Redshift, Porcines!"
Plus they also project that delayed image 'zooming' effect...

New Program on the NON Entertainment Channels:
"Pimp My StarCruiser!"

Or how about........ "Monstar Starship! "

Hey, I thought we were doing PW Starship shows, not bumber stickers. At least if we changed topics, I wish someone would have told me!

Aramanthus wrote:Or how about........ "Monstar Starship! "

Might be appropriate for the GeeBee version of a starship...
You know the GeeBee racers? The formula was the biggest radial engine you could fit into the bare minimum airframe you could build for air-racing? High speed and high fatality rate....
Apply the same formula to a spaceship....big honking engines, bare minimum crew structure and life support(or simply have your crew wear spacesuits and eat helmet-dispenser paste for the duration of the trip...

Sure that a lot of old discarded battleship and Warshield cruiser engines wind up on such 'uglies'...
"THis Ball-Bustin' High Accelerator Powered by Go-Mo' Gravitonics! The Need for Speed Company!"

And tonight our host Justinian James is going to take this old scimitar and add these old Kreeghor Doombringer Dreadnaught engines to it. And he and his crew of mechanics have 1 month to assemble this vehicle and we'll bring it to you on their regular time on Omni Channel.

darkmax wrote:there goes another competitor..... into the next galaxy.... he won't be back to collect his prize for the next 200 years

Yes, but if he's alive to tell his tale, he'll have LOTS to say about hs engineering company! THAT'S advertizing!


Oh dear....that suggests another ad campaign idea....open up a random rift, immediately begin pushing all manner of semi-autonomous ad media through...from billboard-building robots and meme-nanotech-injecting robosectoids, to pixie-dust cloud-seeders(that turn clouds different colors and project holoimagery into them), to jingle-singing frog analogues...
Pray whatever world you just dumped unsolicited commercial junk mail on doesn't declare war on your firm...

Oh dear! :::Putting combat helmut on and cinching it down tightly:::

Aramanthus wrote:Oh dear! :::Putting combat helmut on and cinching it down tightly:::

I was WONDERING who was responsible for putting "Tasati Tasti Psi-Cola!" in gl;owing letters across my sunset this evening!!!

It wasn't me. It had to be Splugorth! :::Keeping from smirking::: It couldn't possibly be me! :::Ducking for a close foxhole!:::

darkmax wrote:Prankster Inc Gremlin: Who painted that ad? Why it's m..... the T'Zees of course!

A massive dreadnought appears over Dellian III, weapons deploying in silent, ominous fashion.
Between two of the massive emplacements is a giant banner:

"GORGORANTH ARMAMENTS. UNLTD. WHEN YOU WANT TO SEND THE VERY BEST!"

ROFLMAO!!! Some more very funny stuff!

:::Keeping eye peeled for any falling orbital advertising after the bombamdment is over!:::

Are you sure that could be it's competitors bar? Couldn't it be a Heretic Vanilla Bar?

It's classified as too it's ingredients. If you find out you're declared a Heretic and we come to pick you up.

No, not at all. :::Making sure to try and hide the arm by pushing it into the ingredients for the candy bar.::: Nothing in here but fully organic ingredients. :::Activating the giant mixer. Which begins to hum loudly, covering up any screams from the mixing bowl.:::: Nope nothing going on here at all!

Thank goodness! Here's a candy bar for your trouble! :::Handing a candy bar with a deformity which is quite obviously a finger tip in it.:::

Aramanthus wrote:Thank goodness! Here's a candy bar for your trouble! :::Handing a candy bar with a deformity which is quite obviously a finger tip in it.:::

"mmm...strange texture to this thing...interesting crunch.."
"That's our tasty, crunchy, calcium clusters!"

Yes, it taste good and it's healthy for you too!

I can see frieghters in the 3Gs having extensive deployable holograms that display such things.