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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 thrdbndndn »

vocatus_gate wrote: post #257
thrdbndndn wrote: post #236

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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 knive…

"the harm the knives do" Ah yes, those famous knives that jump up and attack people, when they're not too tired from autonomously cutting steaks and chopping vegetables.

You got what I meant. Sorry, not a native speaker.

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

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Post by yellowapple »

ekianjo wrote: post #254
yellowapple wrote: post #250

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...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.

Ubi Now you are showing your true colors here

I haven't exactly been quiet about my Georgist socioeconomic stances :)

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

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Post by chrismaltby »

Andrex wrote: post #232
binji wrote: post #218

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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!

As the creator of GB Studio, thanks, really appreciate that! And thanks to binjgb for the excellent emulator.

Really cool to see GB Studio being used for this.

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

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Post by tetrisgm »

i_c_b wrote: post #88

This isn't even the first legitimately interesting video game connection to McDonalds, weirdly. Treasure is an influential game development studio that did a lot of really interesting work in the mid to late 90s, responsible for games like Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Bangai-o, Silhouette Mirage, Dynamite Headdy, Mischief Makers, Alien Soldier, and others. They were a bunch of ex-Konami developers (who…

Let's not forget Mick and Mac (Global Gladiators?).

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

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Post by kortilla »

splatzone wrote: post #193
binji wrote: post #189

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nah, people can do whatever they want with it :)

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

You’re thinking of revenue. Where is your outrage over the government using open source given its revenue?

You’re missing the point of open source if you think it’s quid pro quo.

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

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Post by LukeShu »

circuit10 wrote: post #141
foldor wrote: post #134

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It gives it enough authenticity to make headlines. A generic html game wouldn't have made any where near the same buzz.

Do they advertise it as a Game Boy Color game anywhere? I wouldn’t be surprised if they can’t (or rather don’t want to risk it) for trademark reasons Edit: The game page itself doesn’t mention it but the article has information on how it was made and by who so they must have got the information somehow, maybe the developer talked about it

There's an in-game credits screen.

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

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Post by hnbad »

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.

Morally, everyone in a value chain should get a cut, including the cleaning lady keeping your toilet stalls fresh and the midwife who helped deliver her.

Alas our cultural narrative frames achievements as products of genius individuals existing in a vacuum rather than celebrating them as accomplishments of humanity or at least the societies that enabled them to be brought about.

So yeah, legally it doesn't make any sense. Morally it's highly debatable.

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

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Post by TMWNN »

TillE wrote: post #209
praisewhitey wrote: post #46

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They're clearly joking.

How is this the only response which acknowledges the obvious joke? Are people even reading the words, how do you not see the jokey tone?

One of the symptoms of autism is the inability to recognize sarcasm http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...> without the "help" of idiotic, illiterate signals like "/s".

There are a lot of autists on social media, sadly not excluding HN.

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

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Post by bpye »

xoxxala wrote: post #178
bityard wrote: post #76

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It's pretty trivial for a company to make a mold for a plastic cartridge. The chips are nothing special, they are just ROMs. Cheap and widely available. In fact, I'm pretty confident that a competent DIYer could 3D print a cartridge shell, flash a ROM, and etch a PCB in an afternoon or two.

The easiest part would be the 3d printed cartridge. There's a file on Thingiverse. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13605

For something at McDonalds’ scale I’m sure they could do an injection moulded run anyway.

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

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Post by TMWNN »

CSMastermind wrote: post #118
wturner wrote: post #102

In beginning of the game, the McDonalds logo only appears on a garbage can and if you run into it - you die. It's a positive message for health conscious parents.

Back in college (now 15 years ago) I did an analysis of fast food menus for a nutrition class. McDonalds turned out to be the easiest to get a healthy meal from at the time. They had things like salads, apple slices, and a much wider variety of items than other fast food restaurants meaning that if you were to eat there every day it was much easier to make different healthy meals than it was at the others but like an…

>Back in college (now 15 years ago) I did an analysis of fast food menus for a nutrition class.

>McDonalds turned out to be the easiest to get a healthy meal from at the time.

The McDouble is "The greatest food in human history" https://nypost.com/2013/07/28/the-greatest-food-in-human-his...)

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