Operation: Humiliate Players Enters Fifth Groundbreaking Year

Posted on September 20, 2007
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RENTON, Wash. — Seeking to challenge itself after creating Pro Player cards, Operation: Humiliate Players said Thursday its new flash advertisement is the next big thing in embarrassing Magic players.

A new advertisement features a young man who is “king of your mom” and who likes “hanging out with [his] friends, just not at [his] house.”

These and other lines have been calculated to incur maximum embarrassment to people who read it, the organization says.

“The goal was to take the average Magic player and portray him as an insane, narcissistic sociopath,” said Wizards of the Coast spokeswoman Tina Gaffney.

“The most important thing was to make sure players could relate enough to see the ad as themselves viewed through the lens of insanity,” she said.

“We created over 30 different ads looking for the one that would be the most emotionally damaging to our test subjects,” Gaffney said.

“When we tested an ad that made our subjects bleed from their eye sockets and beg for death, we knew we had a winner,” she said.

The response to the ad has been largely negative.

“Players do not seem to like an ad designed to humiliate them. Sometimes I wonder why we even have a division for embarrassing our customers,” Gaffney said.

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8 Responses to “Operation: Humiliate Players Enters Fifth Groundbreaking Year”

  1. peppersprayed on September 20th, 2007 10:51 pm

    having seen the ad this article is fucking hilarious

    also HEY EVERYBODY

  2. peppersprayed on September 20th, 2007 10:52 pm

    great article

  3. phodos on September 21st, 2007 3:35 am

    so good I read it twice

  4. Aziraphale on September 21st, 2007 6:38 am

    so good phodos read it twice

  5. topdeck on September 22nd, 2007 1:23 am

    so good Aziraphale made a joke about phodos.

    something about reading it more than once.

  6. Basilisk on September 23rd, 2007 1:02 pm

    so good I read about phodos reading it twice - twice.

  7. sexican on September 23rd, 2007 3:07 pm

    so good I skipped reading it and just posted a comment

  8. Aziraphale on September 25th, 2007 6:42 pm

    So, good, I posted twice.

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