Oh, don’t get me wrong. They achieved something. Most definitely. But what was achieved was not “Twitch beats Dark Souls”. It’s not being dickish to point that out.

False equivalency, try again. Quick Saves are built into the game by the designers as a portion of the game itself. Pause, much less pause for best input was not.

It really does. They weren’t playing Dark Souls. They were playing “turn based game with democratic choice of movement using Dark Souls assets”

The base on Stitch is amazing. Love it!

Working in the industry, I can tell you that very rarely is an exploit figured out by the player base without us knowing about it soon after it’s first used. At least for the games I’ve worked on I can’t think of a single one, minor or somewhat major, that would have somehow gone unnoticed without it being posted on…

No, just the story content. I’m level maxed with all non-raid HW content complete, never stepped a foot into either 2.0 EXs or 2.0 raids.

Geoff is channeling... his best... Shatner.... impression here.

Now we’re back to “game is slow” though. Either you pick them off one by one or you use special ability power. Which means 5 seconds-ish before you take on the next group because you definitely want to alpha strike them.

Starred for pretty much exactly what I was going to say, with the addition that the Diablo clone itself isn’t even very good

It made my iPhone 6+ hot enough to trigger the “Your phone is too hot” auto-shutdown. Not even Infinity Blade III did that.

Phineas and Ferb. There’s also a weirdly voiceless “Ain’t got Rhythm” later on. That show is freakin’ amazing.

I’m not so sure about that. How about car enthusiast channels that show off their track days and mechanics tricks? Or gun enthusiasts showing off this cool rail sight with their Sig? They are all using someone else’s IP in very much the same way, but no one bats an eye at any of those making ad revenue.

Certainly possible, it would explain why they started doing lots more contact info checks around the time magazine/Rhapsody subscriptions really started to be a thing. :)

Calling out one part of the Brass Shadow story. Best Buy workers don’t work off commission. It’s one of their little claims to fame. It was actually part of the spiel that we had to roll out when speaking to customers at one point. (Source - 7 years at Best Buy across multiple departments)

It’s murky because your usage could still be covered under fair use as a transformative piece. But there’s no real way to tell that without going through the legal process for it. And how many Youtubers have the cash to go through 2-3 court cases against a multinational like Nintendo?

Yep. Nintendo can claim that all they like. However, it’s a federal right under fair use law. The thing about ToS and CoCs is that the maker can claim or ask you to sign away any rights they want. It doesn’t mean it would stick in court.

How so? Alright, put aside for a moment that it’s 99% *not* like this (very likely a net downloaded pre-patched thing), but if a user took the dump of their own cart, grabbed the ROM and applied an IPS patch to it, they have done nothing illegal. Sure, Nintendo hates it, but nothing illegal has occurred.

I can certainly get behind that. It starts to get really rough for the individual creator when ad revenue or what have you comes into things.

Nintendo hasn’t taken Alex Tan to court either, so that’s not really an argument either way unless/until it does happen.

True, but with Mario Maker out, they want to control the entire message.