Flour Power

a blog by António Farinha


FarmVille and MafiaWars Parody Commercials

It was the happiest day of my Facebook-life when the possibility to hide applications from the news stream was added.

Since then I've been able to get rid of all the crap app/quiz/game that kept showing up on the screen. And a lot of it was from a single game - FarmVille. If only I had been shown this video, I might have been convinced to play it...

And while you're at it, check out the parody commercial for MafiaWars. This one I do play, but only due to my OCD ("obsessive completion disorder"), because I'm sick of the damn thing. The enjoyment is as big as the video shows...

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Super Bowl 43 – The Commercials

The Super Bowl is probably as famous for commercials as it is for football, and so there's always a lot of hype and expectation about them. This year I managed to watch most of the match through a live stream on USTREAM.TV, and what ended up happening was that for the most part I wasn't really watching it, but I never missed the ads.

Here are some of the ones I liked the most:

Pedigree

 

Budweiser

 

Doritos

 

Pepsi light

 

Heroes vs NFL Legends

 

Monster.com

 

CareerBuilder.com

 

There are a few places where you can see all of them, for those of you who have some of the video websites blocked at work (like I do). Lifehacker lists eight such places.

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