Is it really that surprising that there’s new glitches being found in a game that’s only four years old? We’re still learning new things about Super Mario Bros, and that’s 35 years old.

Wow. Well done for treating the suggestion of possible neurodivergence as a deep personal insult.

So you went from a “legal reasoning” that private speech doesn’t exist to “legally private speech does exist, obviously” so I’m now just wondering what point you’re trying to make. At no point was I talking about legality, by the way. I’m talking about expectations between friends, family, or similar. Obviously there…

I wonder if this is a generational thing? I’m late 30s and the idea that two people literally cannot speak to each other in confidence is just completely alien. What about medical confidentiality?

Ok? I don’t think I said otherwise. The user I was responding to was saying that spoken communication between two or more parties cannot ever be private, which is plainly contradicted by our spoken language (“can we speak in private”). Of course, there’s no guarantee that something said in confidence will not be…

There’s been an ongoing effort by neonazis to infiltrate and radicalise redditors for over a decade now

Well, it’s a gacha game, so you’ll pay 50 times to get that upskirt. Prepare your wallet.

Just FYI, if someone says “can we talk about this in private” they aren’t talking to themselves.

Ibuki has a bit of the Rowan about her too. Specifically Mr. Bean.

Remember when Ellen Pao said “hey, maybe an entire community dedicated to hating on people just for their weight isn’t a good thing” and the entire website threw a hissy fit?

You mean the same US Congress that bought into the San Andreas “Hot Coffee” insanity in the mid 00s? I think it’s a little premature to claim that “culture war scapegoats” are ancient US history.

Well, we exist.

But Titus, why would you want kids learning logic and maths in Minecraft when they could be reading real literature, like Superman Comics #294?

Yeah, almost all ROM hacks and mods work on data differencing, as you say. The key here is that there’s no sense in including anything that could make distribution a crime.

You’re ignoring the obvious. The real question is, has any other company dealt with an older version of their software being modified and played in a tournament that people profit off of? That answer is... no. Hence the circumstances of the situation putting Nintendo in this position where no one else has been in.

it was used to defend a horrific violation of human rights, and that’s the way that phrase is usually deployed

I watched the Lieberman hearings from the early 90s, which is what I guess you’re referring to here (they were hosted on a US gov site, many years ago now, doubtless on Youtube these days). I was really surprised to see how reasonable most sides were. Lieberman himself was not trying to ban anything, it was all about…

I’m definitely stealing “Nurgle cultists”.

My understanding is that the later rulings changed the wording to something like “falsely call fire in a crowded theatre” which obviously does not change the spirit. If that’s wrong I’d like to know, I’m hardly a scholar on American law but it is a famous phrase. In any case I don’t really care if he later recanted,…

So that’s “none” then, yeah? Thought so.