{"id":620,"date":"2006-02-02T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2006-02-04T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T17:13:54","slug":"the-unhappy-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"The Unhappy Meal *Update*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/antiMcD.jpg\" alt=\"antiMcD\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/007970.php\" target=\"blank\">WMMNA<\/a> comes word of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=559\" target=\"blank\">another<\/a> anti-advergame(?) called, simply enough, &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s&#8221; (it <em>must<\/em> be officially endorsed, it uses the arches). From the Molleindustria website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.molleindustria.it\/home-eng.php\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Making money in a corporation like McDonald&#8217;s is not simple at all. Behind every sandwich there is a complex process you must learn to manage: from the creation of pastures to the slaught, from the restaurant management to the branding. You&#8217;ll discover all the dirty secrets that made us one of the biggest company of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I have to admit, this just looks like a grab for publicity &#8211; the free sex games hint at a potential business attempting to run in the background. So maybe what we really have is &#8220;anti-advergame as loss-leader advertising&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, no doubt the use of McDonald&#8217;s trademarked arches is going to get a reaction. However, from the description provided the game itself doesn&#8217;t appear to be all that critical; slaught(er)ing animals for food is what most people do. Big deal. Is that one of the &#8220;dirty secrets&#8221;? Hell, I&#8217;d be more interested if one of the dirty little secrets is that the Big Mac is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soylent_Green\" target=\"blank\">Soylent Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>{Update: It appears the more mainstream press is starting to cover these anti-advergame stories. Read C|Net&#8217;s piece &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Games+that+stick+it+to+The+Man\/2100-1043_3-6035028.html?tag=nefd.lede\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a> &#8211; and be on the lookout for more.}<\/p>\n<p>{Image source: la Molleindustria}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via WMMNA comes word of another anti-advergame(?) called, simply enough, &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s&#8221; (it must be officially endorsed, it uses the arches). From the Molleindustria website (Link): Making money in a corporation like McDonald&#8217;s is not simple at all. Behind every sandwich &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=620\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}