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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

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Post by golergka »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #28
bigyikes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that ha…

Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

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

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Post by krapp »

bentcorner wrote: post #29
bigyikes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Paste this reply:\r\n Their Big Macs are also incredibly tasty. The sauce and double patty beats anything at their competitors.

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

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Post by cazum »

toolz wrote: post #39
cazum wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's unreasonable anti-corporatism so much as it's a very rational cynicism about the psychological effect of marketing. They did something cool and now you want to give them money. Why is that?

What is rational about being cynical that I want to spend my money on things I think are cool? Maybe there's merit in asking why I think it's cool to begin with (and in this case I hardly think mcdonalds is responsible for people who like gameboy games), but there doesn't seem to be much to gain in asking myself why I want to spend money on things I like. What else should I spend my money on?

But that's not what's happening.

They made a Gameboy game and now you're buying hamburgers.

If you're doing a 'vote with your wallet' thing to try to convince them to make more retro games that at least makes sense, even if id argue it's a little naive, but that's not even what were talking about. They made a videogame and now people are pledging to buy their hamburgers.

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

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Post by somat »

The questions it raises are almost more interesting then the game.

Why GBC? Did someone have a canceled but mostly finished mcdonalds game laying around since the late 90's and finally the right person at mcdonalds heard about it and got corporate to let them publish it as a marketing tie in?

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

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Post by praisewhitey »

hospitalJail wrote: post #7

>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?'

They're clearly joking.

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

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Post by wkjagt »

kibwen wrote: post #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).

I find it difficult to call any PC that has a CPU clock expressed in GHz retro / vintage. Even though I know PCs 20 years ago were already in that ballpark.

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

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Post by larvaetron »

bigyikes wrote: post #17
hospitalJail wrote: post #7

>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.

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

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Post by jonny_eh »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #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 gl…

I can't quite tell if this comment is written by an LLM (and aided by a person) 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!

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

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

golergka wrote: post #41
pcthrowaway wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that ha…

Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.
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