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TL;DR. If you want more information about this, read the sources below Fast food companies target children as their primary audience for their commercials. The reason marketers make their fast food products look enticing in a commercial, despite looking horrible in reality, has to do with how children can be easily influenced by visuals of enticing foods. When a kid watches a commercial for, say, a McDonald's Big Mac, it needs to look enticing and delicious in appearance because that's what convinces (specifically, primes) children to want a Big Mac, either going out to buy it themselves, or requesting it from their parents, which affects their eating habits. The sight of appealing and delectable food activates reward circuits in the brain, outside of one's awareness, which prompts them to seek out the food they saw, or something related to it. So, I want to make it clear that this isn't considered "rigged". This is simply deception by the marketers to lure in their target audience: children, but I can understand why you see it as rigged, since you aren't getting what you paid for. If fast food companies chose to advertise exactly what they sold to you in-person, they probably would not make many sales. Why? Because the food you buy looks disgusting in appearance, and showing that on TV or online immediately switches off reward circuits, disabling you from even considering buying the product being advertised. Remember: these companies are targeting children; they need to attract them the most to their products. So, the next time you watch a fast food commercial, try and recognize your unconscious desire to have whatever is being advertised. Best way to do that: see if you are slightly salivating. Couple of misconceptions I want to clear up being posted here: I'm assuming this is sarcasm, but this isn't true. Fast food restaurants, like any other eating establishment, have managers, and these are not children. The lower employee subordinates can include people among the middle-to-late adulthood age groups, but these are not children. Laziness and non-complaining are potential contributors to why people easily buy fast food they see in a commercial, despite it looking disgusting in-person, but minimum wages has nothing to do with it. The factor of "just eating it" would apply in the case of just finding something to eat for the sake of eating and satisfying hunger, but more often than not, people will think about what they eat. Sources Priming Effects of Television Food Advertising on Eating Behavior (Harris, Barngh, & Brownell, 2009) Why do McDonald’s products look different from their advertisements? (Garun, 2012) How Fast Food Advertisements Get Under Your Skin, Whether You Realize It Or Not (Pirnia, 2019) Influence of child-targeted fast food TV advertising exposure on fast food intake: A longitudinal study of preschool-age children (Emond, Longacre, Drake, Titus, Hendricks, MacKenzie, Harris, Carroll, Cleveland, Gaynor, & Dalton (2019)

Fast food places are run by kids with a 1.7 GPA, nicotine addiction, and temper tantrums. If we considered fast food a professional's approach to the cooking industry I'd say that we could get pretty close to the advertisements.

Homer JUST sniped the day from me, it's ok though because homer is homer

Played hockey since I was little, best sport by far.

First Game: Quake 2 First RTS: StarCraft First FPS: Half Life 1 First online FPS: MAG First RPG: Final Fantasy 2 First Horror Game: Silent Hill

Stop flexin' on us Snowy.

Not gonna lie, Joblin brought up a really really interesting topic of discussion, so I had to reasearch it.

^ Also those sloppy burgers be hittin different

Minimum Wages, laziness, people not complaining very much about how the food is structured and just eating it.

People know the burgers look like that, but everyone eats there anyway, so there’s no reason for the restaurants to make them better.

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I'm only posting it because my name was mentioned I've posted my setup on too many topics lol

Update: We are currently waiting on the datacenter which is making space for us on the bottom of one of their server cages due to our liquid cooling.. to be safe. Hope to have an update by end of month.

First game: Tomb Raider on the ps2 first pc game: Left 4 Dead

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super monkey ball on gamecube or legend of zelda twilight princess first cod was mw2 goat cod

Waiting for Mack to come and show his lol.

We do have a lot more maps, but a lot got removed about a month ago because they were hardly played/never won. I agree with mrrobot that we have a good amount of maps, maybe a few more would be nice but if we had 1000 maps with a 24 hour cool down we would pretty much play the exact same maps every other day

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King - Wait to get a 3070. I am not kidding. it was just announced today. for 1/3 the price, its better than a 2080TI, it comes out late september, so wait until then.

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Some Reason The I Feel Like The Xbox Series X Don't Fit In With The Rest Of The Xbox Series. I Don't Know Why, But Its Just My Opinion.