Here’s the tl;dr for everyone:

Yeah thats bullshit. I can see maybe for testing purposes to see if it works well on your PC but for most who claim that reason they’re just feeling the need to justify their actions on the internet to strangers.

Your privilege is that you’ve never had to personally grapple with the logistics of poverty. This line proves it:

Weird that pirating didn’t exist until The Witness.

People who pirate are not people who would have purchased it.

All Wii U and most 3ds owners made a Nintendo Network account so maybe it’s prioritized towards current Nintendo product users, I think that’s pretty fair concidering that they have been supporting Nintendo through this tough generation haha.

A man after my own heart. Prog metal and fishing. :D

Those Weasley twins look familiar

I would imagine all kids that age have that level of handwriting. That’s what, 2 grade? It’s way before you get to the “I’m great at writing super quick!” stage and that usually when handwriting goes downhill :/

Nintendo looks to see if kid has uploaded any content to youtube, immediately issues takedown notices.

A friend of mine at work said that Nintendo must be ready to fold up and make games for other systems >_>

People forget about the eternal Sequoia money tree called Pokemon. Wii U sales woes won’t even but a dent in that juggernaut

gotta leave something for the sequel

No one learns. Did they not see the outrage over King trying to copyright ‘candy’ and ‘saga’?

“An infinite number of fucks upon your heads.”

It’s assholes like the Fine bros that make me feel no guilt about AdBlocking youtube.

“Fuck you forever” -Merlin the fish wizard, 2016

I think Merlin the fish wizard said it best:

I have seen a few big youtubers (mainly those who are friends with the Fine Bros) come out in defense of this move. But heres the thing, if their motive was anything besides greed, why didnt they just copywrite “ReactWorld” instead of the generic “React”.
And beyond that, why are they issuing takedowns to videos that…

The problem with saying that they are applying for an overly genetic trademark but that they won’t be evil with it is that they could still have the power to be evil with it if it’s granted... and if you’re going to be evil in the end don’t you start out by lying about your intents anyway?

“No, Mr Bond, I’m stockpiling…