Except they did. You think earning 800 on SAT math is something you do naturally? Or even through studying your ass off? No, it’s something you get through tutors, through extracurricular education. And those things cost money. Again, you don’t get into these situations out of pure pluck.

at least he earned his own money instead of getting lucky with picking the right parents

Counterpoint: By accepting Tomato’s translation as a freebie, Nintendo would essentially be insulting the localizers and programmers at Treehouse, saying their work is worthless.

Uh, guys...I think you forget: Nintendo added an arbitration clause to the Switch EULA. One you had to opt out within 90 days. That clause basically prohibits you from joining a class-action lawsuit.

There are three counter-points to make here:

That’s like asking Melee fans to quit their scene and move on. Fat chance.

I don’t trust Ray to be into the games of the video kind. I suspect he believes they don’t exist

I dunno. I mean, Norman probably negotiated that detail.

I think you misunderstand who I’m referring to in my comment. It’s not so much fans such as yourself but nominally non-aligned figures within the media and other places. These figures are often defending the institutions in question because through that they gain access to them, and with it whatever perks that come…

Well, it’s simple really: Marcus Morris doesn’t know his place in the minds of those who defend institutions like the Knicks/Spurs. It’s almost as if they’re just bootlickers...

You’re deluding yourself if you think that. This shit has been going on for decades, over half a century.

...Why was it blue? Which country in the EU was to blame for this?

Ummm...this is gonna fall apart like previously, isn’t it?

Conformity still exists in the United States, though. It just takes a different form than what you see in Japan. I would say it’s more tribal than national.

That, and the US only had a formalized class system for a time until slavery was abolished. Otherwise all class distinctions are a loosely formulated social construct. So there was always a sense of some degree of social fluidity (ymmv anyone not lily white), even if in practice that was seldom ever really the case…

I’d say the Boston Sports Press would be a Cinderella story

Yeah...let’s just blame Albert Burneko for all of this.

This is stupidly adorable.

Looks like Albert got Burneko’d

...I take it you’re a European, Chris? I ask because you put Terranigma (which never had a stateside release) in there, and the image you put up had a blatant price tag in one of the Scandinavian currencies on the Terranigma box.