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McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#11

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects. >I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word. Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#13
I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it.

I think it's because every sentence is pretty short.

These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph.

The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gluing parts together!

I wonder if they received a McDonalds presser, and I wonder how much of those are still human-in-the-loop.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#14
post #11

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects. >I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word. Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"

Get used to it, it's probably at least partially generated by ChatGPT which really likes fluffing up the prose.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#17

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects. >I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word. Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food?

The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad.

I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#18

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects. >I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word. Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

It is okay to like things, even if those things are marketing campaigns by global corporations.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

#20
The era where "retro" meant "NES" is behind us, now retro means Game Boy Color, PS1, and Quake-era PC aesthetics. To wit, the developers of Shovel Knight (the premier NES platformer homage) are developing a GBC-styled Bloodborne-like called Mina the Hollower: https://www.yachtclubgames.com/games/mina-the-hollower/ (though sadly it's not designed to run on original hardware).
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