I too hate when people of all stripes are treated with dignity and respect. To fight against it, we must harass harder! Send more death threats! Blow every imagined slight out of all proportion! Our opinions on game translations may be meaningless and stupid but by God we will be heard, no matter how many careers we…

Specifically we’re talking about someone who’s gone on record saying that if we spent more time working on the causes of pedophilia and less time (not none, because seriously who the fuck would argue that in a college paper) pressuring Japan to change something that’s not inherently exploitative, we’d have less of a…

Nintendo is editing out sexualized fictional characters, particularly underage. Rapp’s entire essay from years ago is about protecting the sexualization of fictional character, particularly underage. Now, if you didn’t allow for the fact that she no say in the former AND don’t allow for the fact that people have…

This article indicates that she clearly draws a line between “real people” and “fictional characters,” and tries to carefully draw a line between Western values being driven by trying to stop real abuse vs. our attempts to constantly force those values onto Japan even in the fictional realm.

There’s a whole lot to unpack in here, but this part in particular

Alternately, you could assume that since this article is specifically about harassment that you have nothing to do with, it isn’t about you...?

As someone who used to butt heads quite frequently with GGers... for the most part, that’s exactly what they are. An amorphous, vile, spiteful, angry sack of shit collective.

What Nintendo is doing is not censorship. It’s content curation that they’re entitled to do on THEIR product. They’re not curtailing anyone’s speech.

Exactly, that idea is dumb. I mean, I’ll disprove it right now and say I pirated a game that I bought, and went back and returned it. Absolutely a lost sale right there. I highly doubt I’m the only one who’s literally ever had money to buy a game and pirated it.

So because copying software doesn’t remove the original there’s nothing wrong with piracy? Even though it’s basic economics that it costs money and resources to make a game which is then recouped through sales afterwards?

Did you just refute your own point by defining stealing all while still managing to be condescensing? Impressive!

“If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game, there are simply more of them in the world.”

Just a lame excuse since you can get your money back from Steam nowadays.

This may come as a surprise to you but Chucklefish that produces the game is in fact a corporation

Completely over your head

I’m inclined to bullshit on that, though. Fallout is a well-known entity. Anyone who pirated Fallout 4 was never going to buy it to begin with, so of course they wouldn’t be beating the drum for others to buy it. Most people know if they’re going to support the big AAA stuff well in advance, and considering the…

That’s terrible reasoning, and even worse justification.

Same. I can’t wrap my ahead around showering at night. I have woken up as disgusting as ever the mornings after I showered before bed.