“This game may include references to unwanted advances, stalking, and other forms of emotional manipulation. Play with care.”

See also “we couldn’t find the flashing lights warning for Cyberpunk, even though VIDEO GAMES ARE MADE OF LIGHTS THAT FLASH,” or that one game that included a slider to hide spiders because of people vocally complaining about seeing spiders. Folks are babies.

So, the content warning accurately reflects the game's content, but people made bad assumptions about that warning and are now mad at the dev and want the dev change the game itself? 

This is the idiot who was charging for access to his site, right?

Because we should feel 0 sympathy for this level of stupidity, but there’s already a dozen ‘bUt ThInK of tHe GaMes!’ comments from people who don’t have a clue.

Look, I'm as pro-game preservation / emulation as a force for good where the industry constantly fails as anyone. But the difference here is that he charged access to stolen property, and if I remember right from the last set of articles, made a couple hundred thousand dollars doing so. This is not the grey area that…

And some people think it’s about game perseveration. Like this guy was hosting an altruistic video game museum with chargeable higher priority access to stuff he doesn’t own that’s still being sold publicly by the owner.

This is when little boys and girls learn about IP and how it works in the real world.

You’re trying your best to make us feel sorry for the guy but it’s not happening. ROM sites are expensive, are they? Then maybe he shouldn’t have started one. It's illegal to make money off the damn things, and "but I need to be able to afford keeping the site active so I can give away even more stuff I don't own the…

And what if all the proceeds from the ROM site were going to feed starving orphans? The guy is a hero! All you need to do is accept hypothetical scenarios that have no evidence as indisputable fact!

I think it’s more of a precaution for the future. If I understand it, with this order if he ever so much as handles a Nintendo ROM again it could be grounds to investigate him for violating a court order which could mean jail time. Afaik that applies to any court order, including ones for civil suits like this. 

If the goal was historical preservation, they wouldnt be charging people for faster downloads.  If he kept them without distributing them, thered be no case.

No... Just No... This was a bad rom site that charged for access. There is zero chance anything of value was lost. The effort this person put in was the bare minimum just to make some quick cash and they did it stupidly too, this is why they are being so badly burned by Nintendo on this. ANYTHING that was on this site…

Literally the only time I don’t think corporations are overstepping. I’m fine with them being the sole purveyors of their property.

Well you’re wrong. That’s Nintendo’s property, being stolen and given away for free. There’s no ideological connection to the act. It’s to prevent resale and distribution, not to destroy. People can be so damn dramatic.

There are literally thousands of other sites hosting the same roms and the Internet Archive. It's going to be alright. 

It does make sense. I mean, based on current real world information, racists are among the group least likely to seek out vaccinations or other medical assistance in the event of a zombie plague. I bet they just lost their MAGA hats in the zombie shuffle.

Same

I gotta say. Of all the things that you can argue Sony does better then MS, custom controllers aren’t one of them. My son recently saved up to buy a custom Xbox controller and when he orders I took the plunge as well and they are really cool. The custom colors look great and they weren’t they much more then standard…

to try and prevent itself from pedaling misogyny in the future.

“... to try and prevent itself from pedaling misogyny in the future.” - In this context, I think you were after “... peddling ...” rather than “... pedaling ...”