I Have Seen the Future and It Creeps Me the F&%$ Out

[snurri]

I don't know if I'm squeamish or what, but there are two recent commercials in heavy rotation that I can't watch; I mean that I literally have to look away until they are over, or change the channel. The first is that AT&T commercial where the texting thumbs have FACES on them. Right, because the world would be better if our fingers were able to

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[batwrangler]

The Xbox commercial weirds me out, too. The thumbs are annoying, but don't make me shudder the way the hollowed out heads do.

[snurri]

So glad I'm not the only one with these squick triggers.

[merylinabarrel]

I know the exact ones you're talking about. The texting one doesn't really bother me, but I agree that the XBOX one is super creepy, but also kind of beautiful like an old clock or something.

[snurri]

I see what you're saying, but I can't bring myself to look at it for long enough to appreciate the steampunky-ness of it.

Welcome back home, BTW!

[castellucci]

I have been in the land of having a tv for the past few months after not having broadcast tv or cable for 9 years. Commercials in general freak me out, but those two are particularly disturbing. I hate that xbox commercial, but I still want one.

I don't even want to talk about the thumbs.

[snurri]

Yeah, just responding to these comments has me suspecting my thumbs of crimes against the corpus.

[barbmg]

I'm slightly uncomfortable at the Xbox commercials, but the the thumbs? So very awful. It's not only a horrible visual, but their voices bother me as well. (Probably because thumbs shouldn't talk!)

[snurri]

They're also spouting some incredibly inane text-speak. Which really just completes the carnival of revulsion.

[jonhansen]

Yes, indeed. Lisa and I actually both hold up a hand to block our view of the screen. There's a "Kill Volume" button, but no "Kill Picture" button. Why is that? Electronics engineers, get on that RIGHT NOW!

[snurri]

You mean "Blind" instead of "Mute"? GENIUS.