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Dodger // 3♥ ([personal profile] smokedout) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-06-25 08:24 pm

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[The video starts up a bit like an old 70's VHS tape; grainy quality, washed-out colors, that weird lilt in the music as it starts up. The specific music that plays is a bright and cheery tune from the 50's, like something one would find on the shopping channel back in the day.

What it actually shows is a crude puppet, with a scribbled-on baseball for a head and googly eyes that have weirdly realistic irises. It seems to be made to exist in a permanent state of shock, or... terror. Everything about the image is just a little bit wrong.
]

Hey you! Yes, you!

[The words appear on a sort of title card, like a silent film, as if the creator hasn't mixed around with his vintage inspiration enough. And then the puppet can be seen spinning to look at the screen, its eyes jostled in their plastic sockets. Gross.]

Are you in need of PROTECTION AGAINST MONSTERS? Do you suspect someone isn't TELLING THE TRUTH?
Do you enjoy the RUSH OF FEAR? Do you seek to TEST YOUR LOYALTIES?
Do you wish to DEEPEN YOUR BONDS? (Or LIVEN YOUR INTIMATE LIFE?)

[In the style of certain vintage-themed video games, the puppet can be seen in between these pitches engaged in actions related to each question. Pointing a spear at a stuffed animal of some monster. Crying at his bedside. Hiding from shadows in a corner of a room. Shoving another puppet off of a cliff. Hugging another equally not-quite-right puppet... and then a very crude display in the last clip (but at least they're not anatomically correct).

Finally the brand name flashes across the screen, in bright, rainbow, neon letters.
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LAMPYR
is here for you.

Enroll below for beta testing of this sensational product!


[At the very bottom of the screen, very small and blurry text flashes by very fast; if one goes through it frame-by-frame and squints they may notice the words "Test subjects will be selected randomly. Experiments will occur when subjects least expect." Some frames also seem to be replaced by arcane symbols and satanic imagery, as if to scare those trying to read the small text. If one is watching at normal speed, this all flashes by in the blink of an eye before the video suddenly cuts out. Hmm...]
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, this is... really weird. Seems super sketchy. Aoba just goes right ahead and writes a brief review. 1/5 stars for sure, would go lower if he could. ]

What kind of product does all those things?! And that mascot was creepy!

You heard it here first: SOUNDS FAKE.
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
But you just asked a bunch of questions, you didn't even say what the product really does!

This smells really fishy.
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[personal profile] antietam 2017-06-26 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
How long did this take you?
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[personal profile] antietam 2017-06-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. [ This should not have taken that long. But at least Dodger was being productive(?). ]

I have to ask. Is this supposed to be highly suspicious and foreboding of what's to come?
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ The baseball brings back some fond memories or home, oddly enough. He's almost certain one of his younger brothers would jump straight into this just because of the baseball. In fact, this entire video seemed very much like Jyushimatsu anyway-- erratic, unnerving... and baseball.

It takes Karamatsu awhile to respond, but then: ]


So what you're saying is this will get me laid, right?
[ oh my god.. ]
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Whoever I want as well?
[ Y I K E S. ]
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds pretty suspicious.

Is it really legal to ask people to beta test your product? It sounds like a drug!


[ THIS SURE IS SOME SHADY TOUE SHIT RIGHT HERE. ]
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Karamatsu-kun!!?
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[personal profile] antietam 2017-06-26 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but not necessarily buying.

Unless we also start marketing an antidote for the effects.

Which I'm not against.
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ah hello Aoba-kun...
are you interested in this product as well? I don't think i understand it but if it could assist in me charming the hardest of hearts, surely it is worth a try, non?


[ Maybe it makes him likable? That's how he thinks this works. ]
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Bend to my will..? Oh.. i don't think i want something like that.. i just want people to fall in love with me!
This seems like it could be dangerous if it got into the wrong hands doesn't it?
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
What? No!

Karamatsu-kun, just now... what you wrote sounded really weird!

Is there someone you want to force into doing weird stuff with you?


[ He probably has no idea how bad that just sounded to an outsider, huh? ]
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[personal profile] ichimyatsu 2017-06-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
DO I ACTUALLY NEED TO TELL YOU HOW FUCKING ILLEGAL THIS IS
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[personal profile] bottombitch 2017-06-26 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
The commercial just says its some product for beta testing. Like a video game!

If you're going to call it a medical trial, then call it a medical trial! I bet you can't, because then no one would sign up to something so suspicious!


[ Except Karamatsu, apparently... sigh. ]
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh hey, baby brother.. ]
Ichimatsu, what is this exactly? It seems like something you would understand... perhaps you can elaborate..
[ it goes beyond his understanding tbh... ]
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[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-26 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ god, Aoba. ]
Ah.. i never said anything like that.. but if it improves my social standing somehow.. it sounds like a simple way to do that, doesn't it?

[ it's all gone over his head, I'm afraid. ]

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