My mistake, I meant to say I'm not defending AMD's video. I linked you the cartoon to show that when nvidia does i, to some people, its OK (If you look at the comments on that page)
I wasn't justifying AMD video with that link. You are right about the unethical tactics, but you came into this thread saying "When's the last time the consensus on any sort of advertising done by nvidia was seen as brilliant around here?" I showed you that page to prove my point that when Its nVidia doing it its cool. It sounded like you were defending nVidia, which happens a lot here, so forgive me for being so quick to judge you.
I don't think that video needs justification. I was meant to be funny and there was no need for it other than entertainment.
Look I didn't mean to sound confrontational either. Sorry for inflating my neckpouches at the first glance; I'm kind of a prick on mondays.
Regarding the ads, as far as I can remember anything that came out of nvidia's PR dept was basically turned into the flavor of the day "let's see if you can bash this any harder than the previous post" contest, complete with photoshop contests, random ad strawminem and even someone re-captioning pictures with limericks (I felt pretty bad for laughing at some of those, they were pretty poignant). And naturally, those political comics nvidia came up with were no exception; people hated them so hard the poor soul who got screwed into having to do it could probably hear it at night. From the perspective of someone who hadn't been in the loop since the radeon 8500 or so, reading any board made it sound like nvidia eats babies or something. (...they don't right? I knew that!)
As for the video, I'll just stand by my opinion and have no problem with anyone else's.
I just feel a bit disillusioned that no one seems to see the horrible bravo sierra weapons race that could escalate from this kind of practice.
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