I always find it fascinating how much gaming press and even youtube creators fawn to an irrational degree over Nintendo. It always comes across like stockholm syndrome or people so steeped in their childhood nostalgia, stuff they’d crucify Sony, Microsoft or Warner Brothers for just don’t ever seem to register. Not…

I think it’s just Nintendo’s Management/Legal staff has never really had a big kick in the pants. It’s not stupid for them so much as they’re so insulated from how bad the decision is (because the brand is so dominant anyway), it just never registers.

Yea- sports is like that too. The number of people willing to put down the game or turn it off is actually a very small number.

It’s always good to keep in mind different jobs have different... “Standards”. Legal and finance people are exceptionally boring and not cool, and that’s by design.

Up to a point. There’s plenty of fan made patches which have fixed long standing issues. I think it’s not that they can’t, it’s that they have a certain financial point where they refuse to go further.

It’s always been horny. Leisure Suit Larry predates Bethesda’s existence which itself was a redo of Softporn, a commercially available product.

I’m glad they put together something that people really liked and resonated with people on its own.

I’m pretty anti-Nintendo’s actions as a general rule - but yea, I’d still consider that piracy.

Sure you can. As a consumer you DON’T HAVE to take an IP creator’s side reflexively.

I mean if it has the same basic structure as BotW, I can see people beating it very quickly.

Brand loyalty is a hell of a drug.

Are you not aware that the press may get these games early?

If your big point is I’m not like you, well obviously. If your point is I should just ignore actual definitions and the basis for terms because “internet folk don’t care to know them”, I mean I just can’t agree with that.

“Socialism is the left”

“Holding them Acountable” is the job of the legal system.

The American left’s obsession with using the Overton window as a generality and it’s implications are a big weakness overall in their rhetoric. It tends to speak to how “not great” they are at speaking politics in an American context and consequently why they tend to repel people not to the left of them.

“At one point, Even seemed to suggest the strike wasn’t as important as other global issues, saying “From a logical perspective, there’s so many problematic world catastrophe things going on year-round [unintelligible].”

Kinda. I think the the fact that everything he does is for the lulz tends to confuse people.

As a centrist, there’s a difference between a centrist and a conservative troll.

With this article, you have to determine what your actual end game is. These ideas are... really, really, old at this point. “Can’t find the clit” was an insult in the 80's.  And while yes, films represent the views of the men and women of their day, there’s also an element of the “gatekept” views of men and women of…