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Reader review by drella
August 07, 2008 "Packaging Man" is no more worth playing than any of the other hundred or so shitty Pac-Man clones built and distributed via Flash. It's noteworthy in that it comes packed with a bleeding heart Dogwood Alliance spiel denouncing fast food companies for utilizing cheap paper. The root of Dogwood Alliance's cause should be 1) attacking the actual companies producing, not buying, the product and 2) lobbying the government for intervention to regulate the producers. But large, well-known fast food corporations are the easiest way to grab headlines and already have the bulls-eye placed on their back by health promoting groups, so why not rally against them instead?In this case large corporations are the middleman. You want your food in wrappers, in boxes, in some sort of packaging. Packaging companies use cost effective though environmentally unfriendly measures that should be better regulated by our government. A McDonald's is simply using good business sense when they give the customer what they want -- disposable food in disposable containers -- from the cheapest available source on the market, companies cutting Southern U.S. forests. It's real easy to attack the company profiting most from the clearing of these forests, but the actual problem lies with the suppliers and demanders. Perhaps McDonald's is facilitating both of us, but they're not the ones that need to clean up their act. Paper producers need eco-friendlier methods and individuals need to act rather than always expecting the more powerful to act for their best interest.
As I see it, the crux of this message is flawed. International Paper is the problem. I am the problem. And even though they could, the fast food conglomerates should not be cleaning up our mess of dependency.
The game itself is just like any other Pac-Man Flash clone (except packed with subliminal self-pity), a useless diversion; the only reason you're playing this is because you should be doing something else. Why not just get the task out of the way with already? You'll feel a lot better than you will vacantly playing this game without a care in the world.
Or about it.
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