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[Matlock]

http://www.geekonstun.com/mt/archives/hd_allard_050605.html

Wow, what a makeover for the 360 era!

 

[Gahiggidy]

Seriously? J Allard got an earring in his thirties?

:lol

 

[Dalamar86]

Yeah, the hip marketing stuff really has gotten to him. At least we know hes a lovable chubby guy at heart.

 

[explodet]

Looks like he went a couple of rounds with the Goth Makeover Team.

 

[Father_Brain]

:lol That is just pathetic.

 

[android]

"I'm too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts
And I'm too sexy for Milan too sexy for Milan
New York and Japan
And I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing"

 

[Ninja Scooter]

he looks like michael stipe, only gayer.

 

[aoi tsuki]

When he gets a tribal Xº tattoo, then he'll be cool.

 

[Dezcom]

Stacker 360 really works you guys.

 

[midnightguy]

J. Allard: 'Xbox has lost weight, and so have I '

:lol

 

[dark10x]

E3-2004's Allard...

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

J. Allard: 'Xbox has lost weight, and so have I '

:lol

And still not stackable! Unless

 

[Sync M]

He is ready for a golden shower on the tower of power.

 

[Ronin]

Love the captions. :lol

 

[aoi tsuki]

E3-2004's Allard...

RICHIE HAWTIN, MOBY, MICHAEL STIPE, AND MICHAEL ROSENBAUM AM CRY.

 

[Rhindle]

J is an inspiration to me in everything I do.

 

[Rlan]

He used to look like a good mixture of George Kastanza and Tony Soprano

Now he looks like Mickey from Natural Born Killers :lol

 

[Days like these...]

I thought it was Michael Stipe losing his religion or something!

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I cant believe he shaves his head now. What a fucking baby killer.

 

[dorio]

Wow, I wish I could get that makeover. He looks alot younger.

 

[Ristamar]

Dear god, Allard... And I thought the old XBOX sneakers were bad.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Kabuki Waq]

wtf? is that billy corgan?

 

[jenov4]

Looks like Moby to me.

But congrats to this guy for his total make over. I bet he's too cool for his friends from his chunky days.

 

[miyuru]

Amazing how much younger he looks though.

Still, I can't help but :lol

 

[DCharlie]

Afraid of chives and loves spirit levels by any chance?

 

[fatty]

Seriously? J Allard got an earring in his thirties?

:lol

But he's now really good friends with Jenny McCarthy.

Pupil:

Sensei:

 

[Barnimal]

someone betters their appearance and its pathetic? wtf?

 

[Geek]

Holy shit. My first GAF link. I think I'm gonna cry.

EDIT:

someone betters their appearance and its pathetic? wtf?

Nah. I just thought it was funny and too obviously forced. Big ups to J. I love the Morphine Generation line, so I'm probably just jealous.

 

[Ryudo]

He looks like Mike Stipe, and thats a good thing.

 

[Days like these...]

someone betters their appearance and its pathetic? wtf?

It's more a matter of him trying too hard to be hip not knocking him for losing weight or wanting to look better

 

[Ryudo]

It's more a matter of him trying to hard to be hip

and i bet the slime crawlers who post here are totally fucking fabio's........

 

[Almighty_Chocobo]

Yes.... yes I am Michael Rosenbaum.

 

[evolutionseed]

someone betters their appearance and its pathetic? wtf?

That's what I was going to say. Then again you have to realize that 95% of the people on this forum have zero fashion sense (or any concern for their physical appearance for that matter). Hell, most GAFers probably look very similar to the pre xbox launch Allard. :lol :lol :lol

 

[Days like these...]

Slime crawlers who post here? Would that include you? Get up off your knees already. Defending someone who doesn't even know you exist.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I cant believe he shaves his head now. What a fucking baby killer.

i plan on doing the same if i go bald.

 

[EAJAPAN]

I actually think he looks pretty cool these days. No harm in improving your personal presentation.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

i plan on doing the same if i go bald.

That was a pretty sarcastic remark. My actual reaction was along these lines

someone betters their appearance and its pathetic? wtf?

 

[jett]

Come on, people. The makeover is a definite improvement.

 

[Suerte]

I like his emo glasses *thumbs up*

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

See, the easy thing to do is hate on him. That is quite easy to do actually. I'm doing so now, but then, when he looks at his bank account and you look at yours, it more than even out.

His balance statements probably proclaim: YOU ARE A PAID MOTHERFUCKER!!!
Your balance statement probably has $200 or less.

We laugh at him on a message board, he laughs at us in real life. He does look like he needs some snatch though.

 

[miyuru]

I think people are more just mocking the fact that this makeover was probably forced upon him by MS Marketing. Which is, PRETTY FUCKING OBVIOUSLY TRUE.

 

[demon]

He looks better/younger with the shaved head, and that shirt in the first pic was pure anti-style. I will agree that he/they went a bit... overboard, though.

I just picture a videocamera/speaker with the Microsoft logo and a green HAL-like eye on it in his closet, watching his every move...
"What are you doing with that red and brown plad button-up shirt, J? Put down the black jeans, J."

 

[daegan]

What if J Allard isn't a real person, but just a name? Who REALLY goes by the name J anyway? </conspiracy>

 

[DCharlie]

seen as everyone else is pimp and fly, lets see YOUR fucking pictures and GOD FORBID if anyone has changed their look over the last few years....

 

[Ristamar]

Well, there is the Post Your Pic thread in the OT forum...

 

[Stinkles]

LOL at the idea that MS marketing would ever say anything to J that wasn't, "You're awesome just the way you are."

Also, he gets laid a lot more than me. And I'm kinda hot.

 

[human5892]

seen as everyone else is pimp and fly, lets see YOUR fucking pictures and GOD FORBID if anyone has changed their look over the last few years....

That's not the point, though. Allard's change comes off as an average early middle-aged guy who someone desperately and violently made over to market to the XTREME DUDEZ crowd...like, the kind that Microsoft has been targeting since day one. I don't find this hard to believe.

It just makes him come off as a tool.

 

[Ramirez]

This place is so fucking stupid,you know you have too much time on your hands when you make posts of people you don't even know and mock them,heh.

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

???

He looks a hell of a lot better now. I'm having a hard time seeing what the funny is here.

 

[element]

I think all of you would be in the same boat if you went from a faceless job to being the poster boy for a billion dollar product.

I know if I had the money that J has (worked at MS for almost 15 years now, so he is EASILY worth over $30 million in stock if not more. I know if I had to be in front of the public I'd be spending some money to look good.