Fun for the entire family

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So bad we went so woke, it was a happier world before.
/s
- People were so much better looking when they smiled.
  /s
- You know what they say: go woke, you blew up my battleship.
  
  “G-4”
  “You woke my battleship!”
- For some it for sure was
- This is what I don't understand. Yes, corporations pander to marginalised demographics, but I have not once seen them lose significant income or have been boycotted. Fascist corporations, meanwhile, lost customers and stocks like Target and Tesla.
  Like really, who's going broke? Methinks this is projection from the right, or disinformation from state or non-state actors alike to keep the population divided.
  
  To be right wing is to be ruled by emotions. Humans are all emotional creatures, but for some people it reaches a point where emotion alone creates reality. Facts are there to be picked up or set aside to support feelings. When their guy eats ice cream it's because he's a man of the people. When your guy eats ice cream it's because he's a baby. Facts don't matter. It's feelings.
  And most of their feelings seem to be fear. Fear of loss. Fear of humiliation. You can show them stats and history demonstrating how, like, a diverse workforce leads to higher productivity and greater happiness, but that doesn't matter. They're not looking at facts. They're feeling feelings.
  Imagine trying to talk to someone who's drunk. That's the right wing, except all the time and they can't really sober up. Honestly, it sounds like hell.
  
  Methinks this is projection from the right
  It always is.
  
  Bud lite. That's it. That's all they've got. Number one beer to number three and since it's a massive corporation, the larger entity didn't go broke but they're too poorly educated to understand they moved from one brand to another under the same mega corp.
  
  What are you talking about? Tesla's stock price is coming back up in line with everyone else. They're actually doing much better than more woke companies like Apple.

I like that this demon boy is obviously holding that poor family hostage and they have to indulge his every bullshit.
- Classic Twilight Zone
  
  Or early Supernatural.
  
  I was just watching Pee-Wee's big adventure with my kids (mainly my daughter, son is 4 and a buffoon) and was thinking shit, I need to show her that twilight zone movie, with John Lithgow on the plane, the old man kicking the can, and then the kid holding his family hostage.

I can't see anywhere on the box it claims it's fun for the entire family. It's a two person game after all.
- In fairness, you're right. I just spent a few minutes looking at higher resolution images of the box and it does not make that claim.
  That said, the meme captures the spirit of an era pretty perfectly. I still think it hits the nail on the head.

What? I see an entire family having fun: men with the advertised product and women with seeing their men happy.
I don’t understand the complaints here.
- The woman must never interrupt the man, for men do important things
  
  …and the women wash the dishes.
  
  They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on the people he loves.

(It’s because they’re women)
- women aren't family ; they are posessions
- gasp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fun for half the family! while your wife and daughter watch from the kitchen where they belong
- We can't allow the Feeemaaales to learn the art of war.

What's the problem? It's just like my favorite book, Men Are From Mars, Women Belong In The Kitchen Making Me A Fried Bologna Sandwich.

In the last frame there is a thing that looks like a post it note or a paper stuck to the wall which we don't see in the previous two frames - and they're all supposed to be the same image, only zoomed in. It's too blurry to be read but it appears to have something written on it, any clues as to what that is?
- In the before-times people would purchase objects that were displayed on "shelves". They would pick the object up and carry it to a "cashier" who would then look at a small sticker called a "price tag" on the item, and charge the customer that amount.
  
  Still, it's weird that the zoomed-in image came from a different copy of the game than the other two. (Or that they took off the sticker before taking another photo, and then didn't use that new photo for the zoomed-in image.)
  
  You got the 'membering
  
  It would have been quite the sight.
- You mean the price tag?
  
  Right, thanks! But why is it not present in the previous ones?
- Looking at the fringes between colors, the last panel looks upscaled to me. Maybe the AI invented a price sticker?
- It's a price tag from Woolco. It looks like it cost $6.xx
- Seems like an MRP sticker of the game, 6 dollars or something
- Maybe a calendar?

I have this version of Battleship.
It is crazy; that this seemed like a good idea to put on the box, at any point in the past.
- All that 50's "advertising" that was essentially social conditioning and oppression, hear me out, because all the women had to do all the jobs while the men were gone. They got a taste of freedom, their own money and skills. They were all like, how hard can it be, boys do it. But when the men came back they had to shove them back in the box, they had to effectively put the cat back in the bag, it required a huge effort of bullying from the government and all. Like they hit hard with this kinda pervasive stuff, everywhere. That's when women were forced into the "get in the kitchen" role. Now we get to have both! Work AND be predominantly responsible for the majority of the house labor and child raising, yay!
  
  Nothing wrong with this image. Men in that era had other expectations. The game was marketed to men because it was "battle ships". Products for the girls were marketed in similar gender stereotypes of the time. Even today some family's enjoy this dynamic. Many women like being stay at mom parents that cook and clean inside the house while the men are there to empty gutters and take out the trash.

I had this box & I always thought it was weird the sister didn’t want play.
- I want to believe they already played and lost and therefore have to do the dishes, while the other two fight for rank 1 in the tournament. But it's not exactly easy to believe this 😖

Even if it's hallucinated by the AI who enlarged the image, I like how the wife has smeared lipstick on her like Joker
I think that's a knife in her left hand
The girl whispers "do it mom"
- I think this meme is quite a bit older than the AI craze.

Can I share this in !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al it's right up our street
- OK but those dishes better be done before you do.
  /s also it's not oc so it's definitely fair game for stealing/crossposting
  
  Fuck you for making me laugh at this.
  
  Haha thanks 😊
- Only if you pay OP royalties per click

Yup it was a vicarious experience for da women folk.
- It just occurred to me that I've never played any sort of war game with someone sporting ovaries.
  If I'm brave enough to do this, does it make me a cultural ambassador of some sort?

Red circle.
- You might be color blind
  
  If you don't see the (very much red) circle as red, then you might want to get your eyes checked.
  
  Red. Circle.

Wow. This again

Maybe they were going to play after finishing up the dishes?
This shitty interpretation says more about the person making the "meme" than the artist who created the original ad.

The ship that dad is holding is sending up slop flares.
Edit: 🤦‍♂️ I know it's the original art. But the ship is huge, looks like it holds about 9 pegs, and the one on the left is lined up directly over a finger. 🤷‍♂️
- ... I can't tell if you're being facetious or not, but those are probably the red pegs you actually stick into the battleships in the game when your ship is hit. this is actually the box art from 1967, furthermore, I can remember seeing it before the age of slop came upon us.
- Not everything is AI
  https://ebay.us/m/P6Rz2N
  
  I enjoy how every misplaced accusation of something being le AI le SLOP ends up just backfiring against the claim that AI only makes objectively trash things that can always be distinguished from beautiful pure human-made art. If it's plausible that AI could have made this, then it must be plausible for AI to make art as good as humans have. What's even better is it doesn't matter if you can correctly distinguish it 95% of the time. Even just one misclassification is enough to undermine the claim that AI only produces #slop. The sentiment of the claim could even be saved if people were willing to say that just X% of AI art is #slop, but this is unacceptable for the dogmatist's needs, which will only settle for 100%.
- This is old. I’ve seen this image long ago… well before AI slop was a thing.
- Sometimes real people also fuck up
- AFAIK, the ad box art is definitely real:
  Boing Boing: Revisiting the horrifically sexist Battleship game cover from 1967
  
  FYI your link has an extra bracket up front that breaks it. Was wondering why it wasn't working 😋

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