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>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 pr

>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?'

hbn 3y ago
The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"
- packetlost 3y ago
  Get used to it, it's probably at least partially generated by ChatGPT which really likes fluffing up the prose.
  - groestl 3y ago
    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.
  - Tade0 3y ago
    Explains the recent slew of "long form" articles.
bigyikes 3y ago
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.
- poisonarena 3y ago
  For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige. One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!". Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
  - ifyoubuildit 3y ago
    Hey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be. You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.
    - boneitis 3y ago
      Right. My experience in this realm is often the store employee either charging me or acting like I'm stealing from their personal savings account by asking for extra sauce. e: Wow, I got sniped big time.
    - robgibbons 3y ago
      It's a copypasta. There are different versions floating around, but this one's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg
      - ifyoubuildit 3y ago
        Damn. The sooner reddit gets its shit together the better.
wilsonnb3 3y ago
It is okay to like things, even if those things are marketing campaigns by global corporations.
praisewhitey 3y ago
They're clearly joking.
- TillE 3y ago
  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?
  - TMWNN 3y ago
    One of the symptoms of autism is the inability to recognize sarcasm <http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-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.
endisneigh 3y ago
The irony of this post on YCombinator
tmtvl 3y ago
Kinda makes me think of those tobacco advertisements of yesteryear. It's like "oh hey, Winston cigarettes sponsored the Flintstones, I'll never stop smoking Winstons." Who knows, perhaps one day we'll look back on modern day fast food ads and consider them equivalent to cigarette ads.
chatmasta 3y ago
I cannot read any enthusiastic endorsement of McDonald's without thinking of the meme/patent [0] from Sony proposing that viewers skip commercials by yelling brand names at their TV: > Say "McDonald's" to end commercial > "McDonald's!" [0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
artursapek 3y ago
You will eat the feedlot beef to support retro video games, citizen
TillE 3y ago
If you see something obviously stupid, consider for a moment that the author may not be entirely serious.
tootie 3y ago
I'd wager the game was made by a digital agency for expressly this purpose

hbn 3y ago

The article feels very "teacher set a minimum word requirement on the essay"

packetlost 3y ago
Get used to it, it's probably at least partially generated by ChatGPT which really likes fluffing up the prose.
- groestl 3y ago
  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.
- Tade0 3y ago
  Explains the recent slew of "long form" articles.

bigyikes 3y ago

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.

poisonarena 3y ago
For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige. One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!". Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAYS give me three packets. It's such a fun and cool atmosphere at my local McDonald's restaurant, I go there at least 3 times a week for lunch and a large iced coffee with milk instead of cream, 1-2 times for breakfast on the weekend, and maybe once for dinner when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.
- ifyoubuildit 3y ago
  Hey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be. You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.
  - boneitis 3y ago
    Right. My experience in this realm is often the store employee either charging me or acting like I'm stealing from their personal savings account by asking for extra sauce. e: Wow, I got sniped big time.
  - robgibbons 3y ago
    It's a copypasta. There are different versions floating around, but this one's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg
    - ifyoubuildit 3y ago
      Damn. The sooner reddit gets its shit together the better.

wilsonnb3 3y ago

It is okay to like things, even if those things are marketing campaigns by global corporations.

praisewhitey 3y ago

They're clearly joking.

TillE 3y ago
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?
- TMWNN 3y ago
  One of the symptoms of autism is the inability to recognize sarcasm <http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-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.

endisneigh 3y ago

The irony of this post on YCombinator

tmtvl 3y ago

Kinda makes me think of those tobacco advertisements of yesteryear. It's like "oh hey, Winston cigarettes sponsored the Flintstones, I'll never stop smoking Winstons." Who knows, perhaps one day we'll look back on modern day fast food ads and consider them equivalent to cigarette ads.

chatmasta 3y ago

I cannot read any enthusiastic endorsement of McDonald's without thinking of the meme/patent [0] from Sony proposing that viewers skip commercials by yelling brand names at their TV: > Say "McDonald's" to end commercial > "McDonald's!" [0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/

artursapek 3y ago

You will eat the feedlot beef to support retro video games, citizen

TillE 3y ago

If you see something obviously stupid, consider for a moment that the author may not be entirely serious.

tootie 3y ago

I'd wager the game was made by a digital agency for expressly this purpose