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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 throwaway290 »

oh_sigh wrote: post #223
gchamonlive wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you can do isn't necessarily the same as what you should do. McDonald's missed an opportunity to make this even cooler by compensating the developer. A couple thousand dollars in the right place can be more effective than millions in marketing. It just shows the company cares.

Who else should get random bonuses? How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.

Maybe it's both OK to say things like this to promote the megabusiness...

>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.

...and it's also OK to wonder if that megabusiness could've paid or otherwise credited the small guy. Not that it's obligated to.

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

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Post by Andrex »

binji wrote: post #218
Andrex wrote: post #207

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If this is the same emulator ejected by GB Studio when it exports to web, that makes sense. All GB Studio projects on Itch.io likely use your emu too! https://itch.io/games/made-with-gb-studio 725 listed so far (lots of asset packs and tech demos I'm sure, but still.)

heh, good point! Most of the older ones are using GameBoy-Online[0] instead, since that was the GB Studio default for a while. But I think everything since GBStudio 3 should be binjgb. [0] https://github.com/taisel/GameBoy-Online

GB Studio 3 is the shit. Thanks for (unintentionally?) being apart of that!

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

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Post by HKH2 »

throitallaway wrote: post #53
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 call this the Twitter effect. Artificial limitations encourage the use of short and snappy communications. Also, who can be bothered to read through a paragraph today? I live my life one sentence at a time.

Writers write books and articles when they haven't got anything to write about.

Songwriters write songs when they haven't got anything to sing about.

Directors make movies when they haven't got anything to make a movie about.

Copies of copies of copies... It's no wonder people are tired. Where is the substance? Where is the risk?

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

dumpsterdiver wrote: post #217
makapuf wrote: post #210

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I have the right to stand up in front of a music performer, invite friends to come over and listen to the great show, receive expensive gifts from my friends for their great evening and then give nothing to the street performer. Its my right !

I mean... yeah. In the meantime you haven't taken anything from that person; they are performing on a public street. On the contrary, similar to a packed restaurant, your presence might signal to others that there is something worth experiencing where you and your friends are crowded. This could in turn benefit the person you're crowded around by bringing more wallets within earshot. So you haven't actually given not…

Yes, the performer would benefit from that attention. Maybe some of the people your presence brings around will tip them, etc.

The difference is that the existence of the performer is super obvious while in this case author and their work is hidden so author will not benefit in the same way.

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

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #226
splatzone wrote: post #193

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McDonalds makes ~$23 billion per year. You deserve something.

I personally don't think we should expect more from a "richer" user as soon as they're following the license of OSS (or expect anything different at all, regardless users' background or purpose). It just doesn't make sense, not even morally.

Where do you put the bar of the legal vs morale argument? A few days ago, I discovered a government entity in Pakistan was using my AGPL software [1] to handle censoring of media through their "ministry of information and broadcasting". I did release my software under AGPL as I like the underlying ideology of free software with a large emphasis on the freedom and not the free of charge but would have never expect some regime would come to use it to handle censoring.

[1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

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

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Post by thrdbndndn »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #235
thrdbndndn wrote: post #226

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I personally don't think we should expect more from a "richer" user as soon as they're following the license of OSS (or expect anything different at all, regardless users' background or purpose). It just doesn't make sense, not even morally.

Where do you put the bar of the legal vs morale argument? A few days ago, I discovered a government entity in Pakistan was using my AGPL software [1] to handle censoring of media through their "ministry of information and broadcasting". I did release my software under AGPL as I like the underlying ideology of free software with a large emphasis on the freedom and not the free of charge but would have never expect som…

I personally think your particular scenario is the easier one: such "client" will ignore any license requirement or "moral pressure" anyway, as soon as they can acquire the software in some way. There shouldn't be moral burden on the devs. You do more good (way more) than harm. Otherwise I doubt Linus can sleep at night. I'd say this is no difference from, say, a knife manufacturer when it comes to the harm the knives do.

Commercial use is something devs are more torn because they feel they're being exploited while the client is not doing anything wrong inherently (doing business).

And in that case, you have to adjust your expectation to be exactly the same as the license you put in to resolve such cognitive dissonance.

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

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Post by polygot »

nacs wrote: post #175
binji wrote: post #142

This is using my gameboy emulator, binjgb[0], on the website! (well one of my gameboy emulators, heh [1][2]) It's been used as the emulator for GB Studio for a little while now, but I don't know how often people embed it in their websites, so it's really cool to see. [0] https://github.com/binji/binjgb [1] https://github.com/binji/pokegb [2] https://binji.github.io/raw-wasm/badgb/

Online version using the emulator is here: https://grimacesbirthday.com/

The animation when grimace wipes out is mildly amusing

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

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Post by issore »

noduerme wrote: post #206
FullyFunctional wrote: post #105

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

I say it with humor, because it sounds like an oxymoron. But it does describe a certain wealthy, anti-capitalist clade here in Portland. (And I'll happily point that out to my friends, whether or not we agree on things). I was just thinking of the last time I was waiting in my car at the McDonald's drive-thru with the rest of the proles, and a friend called. When I told him where I was, he had let out an involuntary…

It’s funny since pricing is set based upon social behavior (do we spend that or not and/or should we charge that or not?) capitalism is socialism with obligation to carry around a mind virus that preserves the figurative identity of Bezos and the like; they’re “better” capitalists.

Also hi from Portland

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

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Post by gchamonlive »

oh_sigh wrote: post #223
gchamonlive wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you can do isn't necessarily the same as what you should do. McDonald's missed an opportunity to make this even cooler by compensating the developer. A couple thousand dollars in the right place can be more effective than millions in marketing. It just shows the company cares.

Who else should get random bonuses? How about the hundreds of open source contributors to web browsers? What about the children of the people who clean the offices of the studio that made the game? I bet I could identify about a million people who deserve a bonus here.

It's not a random bonus though. It makes sense in the context of the promotion.

In any case, that is far off the point of my comment, which is explicit in the very first sentence. You tried flipping my argument but destroyed the context in the process.

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