This may be one of the most amazing marketing moves I’ve ever seen in my life. The day I see this headline is the day I see Grimace’s Birthday on these delicious McNuggets w/ bbq sauce. And these fries, so good.
Def in moderation tho.
McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
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#242Great, fast food marketing targeting kids
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#243With vinyl records making a comeback, I expect to receive a flexi-disc copy of “The McDonald’s Song” in my Sunday paper any day now.
https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/mcdonalds-million-dollars-vinyl...
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#244McDonald's plans to overtake Microsoft and Sony in their ploy to become the future gaming console of choice has been revealed.
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#245I didn't understand from the article how McDonalds is distributing the game. I'm assuming you are not getting a cartridge with your happy meal
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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…
Woah. This is really an incredible project. I'm currently running a seafile server for this purpose but it really isn't all that great and I keep debating going back to simple SFTP. Using your frontend would be a great addon.
Very nice work and congrats on taking this on successfully.
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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.
Hmm, I think I actually have something to contribute here in terms of understanding: you're right that counterculture doesn't really exist as it may have in the past, but the desire to show individuality still is there which has led to a progressive acceleration in the edginess/weirdness of modern meme culture.
If you feel slightly put off by the memes you see and/or discourse around them, it's sort of by design. It's meant to differentiate.
I've only recently realized this though (as I've expanded my perspective), and I think for the most part, this is something that largely happens subconsciously. If you ask someone gen z or younger, they won't know what you're talking about if you ask. That's mostly because your baseline of edginess/weirdness is defined by relative experience, and someone who's grown up perpetually online is likely to be skewed much more differently than someone who hasn't.
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#248Does this have the Nintendo logo in the ROM header? Real GameBoys check the ROM for an image containing Nintendo's logo during boot up as a way to prevent unlicensed games. The idea is, to make a GMB/GBC boot, you must at least commit trademark infringement, which gives Nintendo more legal leverage to block/punish any attempts to sell anything that Nintendo didn't get a cut of. If the logo is missing, it would still…
Your jurisdiction may vary, but under Sega v Accolade [1], I'd expect including the logo to be fair use, as including the trademarked data for Sega's TMSS was.
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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…
> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. Then you misunderstood the comment in question. It was quite clearly saying this. We're reading an innocuous blog post, and this person is aping reddit /r/hailcorporate language to vilify a marketing ploy by McDonald's, "exploiting nostalgia blah blah blah." You're right, they are not a good or ethical company. If…
As a plumber flushable wipes have kept several of my service-friends employed-- use more, they've got kids!
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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.
...yes? They all arguably deserve something.
Hell, we're long overdue for a universal basic income - such that everyone can pursue things for the sake of coolness or intellectual curiosity or whatever if they want to, without needing to worry about making ends meet.