{"id":6864,"date":"2023-01-29T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2023-01-29T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T23:07:13","slug":"game-thoughts-1-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6864","title":{"rendered":"Game Thoughts 1\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>McDonald&#8217;s Game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie, I don&#8217;t think I ever even figured out how exactly to beat this game or if I even have the mechanics down correctly. I played like 5 more times after class, and just couldn&#8217;t beat the system. Maybe it&#8217;s because I truly just hate capitalism and not because I&#8217;m just really bad at a game. It obviously frustrated me enough that I played in my free time, but when a game infuriates me I will just quit (this quitting attitude does not apply to all areas of my life, just with things that waste my time). I would like to also add that this game did not in any way sway my attitude towards McDonald&#8217;s and that I did in fact have a Big Mac just last night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mo-not-poly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I played this game as the character in the 1% tax bracket, and I hated it. I felt horribly guilty for every action I took, and the obscene amount of money I acquired throughout the game. I hated the limited player interaction because I was the only one who was able to enjoy playing the game at all. It&#8217;s important for games to make individuals uncomfortable like that. Not everyone who played as my character would have had a problem with that, and I think that says a lot about a person. I thought it was an absolutely ingenious way to make a statement using a game we hate to love already. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s Game I&#8217;m not going to lie, I don&#8217;t think I ever even figured out how exactly to beat this game or if I even have the mechanics down correctly. I played like 5 more times after class, and just couldn&#8217;t beat the system. Maybe it&#8217;s because I truly just hate capitalism and not because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=6864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Thoughts 1\/23&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}