His inability to profit from his work, because he lacks the trademark rights, does not automatically transfer in Nintendo’s right to profit from his work using their trademarked character. He still owns a copyright on his original render (of a trademarked character), and deserves to be paid a fee for his work.

He might…

I mean, tariffs hurt both sides. It’s why globally we all agreed to stop doing it, why we engage in trade partnerships etc.

I don’t see anything contradictory here - the Joe Biden Island was a pretty transparent means to appeal to younger voters by way of a (very) popular video game and hopefully get them to turn out and vote for him (I can’t imagine anyone at all saw the island and decided to vote for him because of it, though the media…

Just throwing it out there: they account for about 8% of the sales.

Far be it from me to throw shade as an American, but I do find it fascinating how casually Japanese exceptionalism gets toted out for this kind of thing. Plenty of people in plenty of places believe the world should adapt to them instead of the reverse, but Japanese people seem unusually comfortable stating such in…

We are aware. We load this page more than anyone else.

They offer a 88/12 split and have no Draconian rules on who does or does not get to use their products. Additionally, unlike Apple and Google, there are plenty of competitors in their space, Epic is just the dominant one.

Jesus, why do gamers have such a strong xenophobic tendency about them? Tim Sweeney is the controlling shareholder which means Tencent has nothing to do with this.

According to Unity’s keynote last year, over 50% of all games made are using Unity. So not quite. On mobile it was well over 50% as well. I wanna say like 70-80% of mobile games, but I can’t find that quote as it was like 2-3 years ago.

I feel like there’s an ongoing competition to make the desktop version more unusable than the mobile version, and then the mobile version more unusable than the desktop version to make up, and so on.

I read this as a Brand New Animal (BNA) animal crossing villager found, and was exited for the crossover

New Leaf had towns, not islands. Shut up, idiot.

We banned the Dukes of Hazzard paintjob? Excellent, racism solved, everyone. Way to go. Because the only people cosplaying the single most famous paintjob for a Charger were all Klan members, no exceptions.

This has been my biggest frustration with current media.  Stop fighting for the right to be first, and start fighting to be the first to be right.

No. They didn’t “scold” the media for “noticing.” They scolded the media for scrambling to post something very questionable and obviously dodgy as a legit leak without doing any attempt at quality control or verification, which is a very legitimate reason to scold the media for.

Noticing a patterns of slideshows on these sites now. Not a fan of it. Feels like a G/O Media thing and it just feels like a sign of things to come. Unfortunate. Thanks for writing this though. I’m assuming it wasn’t your decision to make this a slideshow post.

I understand the baggage that comes with me saying that I’m a regular Joe Rogan podcast listener, but he’s been bringing this up for a while. It’s not surprising.

I don’t know anything about UFC, but I know about giant sports organizations. They’re trying to keep a huge fight in the spotlight at any cost. Because…

Their jobs are almost 100% reliant on donations and subscriptions, there is no money to be made on ads unless you are a gigantic streamer.

NASCAR did that. Today. It was broadcast on FOX. 

Man Boomer Remover is such a “funny” joke. Would you be willing to share it with your grandparents, or your friend’s grandparents? Ask Italy/Spain/France/China how FUCKING FUNNY IT IS.