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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 mortenjorck »

mattl wrote: post #91
hbn wrote: post #5

That would have been cool if they did a run of physical cartridges, with the box and everything. Limited Run Games does runs of physical Gameboy cartridges still. They have to restyle things to not have Nintendo branding, but it can be done.

Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot

Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.

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

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Post by mawadev »

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…

The entire page on mobile is a wall of ads with text padded around it.

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

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Post by groestl »

packetlost wrote: post #14
hbn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

TBH, there are also quite a few posts here in this thread where my internal ChatGPT detector goes off. The funny thing is, they could also very well be meant ironically, and I can't really separate this anymore.

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

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Post by FullyFunctional »

noduerme wrote: post #94
relativty wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The “other people don’t speak how I prefer” regardless of the context is such a lame complaint. Corporate blandness has infected us all; from my reference frame you’re just some bland text on a corporate website that silences spicy discourse. Are others lame or is that all you feel given hypernormalized routines? Look at the rebels willing to risk going against this thread by eating McDonalds; highway to the danger z…

I was gonna eat McDonald's tonight anyway. Regardless of the sneering of the privileged commies who live around me.

"privileged commies" is a fascinating oxymoron. Is that really how you think of the people that disagrees with you?

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

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Post by yamazakiwi »

gowld wrote: post #65
yamazakiwi wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is McChicken sauce packets? Mayonnaise?

It's a Canadian thing https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-p...

I'm concerned that it says "Mayonnaise Style Sauce Packet" and thank you for bringing that to my attention!

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

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Post by Rebelgecko »

willis936 wrote: post #79
bigyikes wrote: post #17

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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.

If anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.

Are you familiar with normcore? There's an argument to be made that the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs

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

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Post by isiahl »

teej wrote: post #32

The agency who developed the game has a website that nails the Geocities-era aesthetic – https://krooltoys.com/

Love that their logo is an homage to Yahooligans, Yahoo’s old kids web portal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010708042828/http://www.yahool...

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

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Post by RajT88 »

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.

Chex Quest and Sneak King were both pretty amusing for what they were.
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