I would agree, but it is highly improbable to arrive at the same exact angle of the cacti branches by sheer chance. 

Why are you assuming that the modders are upset? If you look at the linked Twitter thread, he explicitly says:

Working at a software agency, it’s pretty common when you need some asset from a company to just take them of their website or even google if necessary, as otherwise you might have to go through weeks of back-and-forth to get it “officially”. I imagine it could have similar for the prop builders.

This would appear to be a thorny issue.

Not defending nintendo at all, but sometimes us devs do not know ALL the games and ALL the assets from the company we work at.
Like, we should, yeah. It is hard retaining SO MUCH INFORMATION.

Something to remember is that Nintendo developers and execs weren’t working with all the various prop makers and artists every day. It’s very possible that someone, in a crunch for time, wanted to add a bit of cactus variety to this small bit of the ride and did a google for reference. 

Well, that’s a big ol’ helping of mac-irony and cheese.

I honestly love this bc of the very fact... that Nintendo is so zealous but then look in their backyard... et voila.

“Taking Personal Responsibility for Your Actions Culture” 

You think they really understand consequences? They've never had to deal with them before in their lives.

Maybe they'll understand if we start calling it "consequences culture"?

The commenter most definitely needed to hear that. I don’t care if they are 13 and only recently discovered their hormones. The anonymity of the internet only encourages people to say things they wouldn’t say to a stranger in person, and they 100% deserve it when that wall gets pulled down every once in a while.…

Yeah, I’m beyond tired of people saying shitty things and then claiming it was a joke when they’re called on it.

Gonna be honest. As a simple and sometimes pathetically empathetic person, I dig what she had to say. Even IF the commenter didn’t deserve to hear that (he did), there are a whooooooooooole lot of other peeps that absolutely need to hear what she had to say.

Some people just legit hate women that much. It seems exhausting, agreed.

As usual, streamer news about someone of whom I have never heard and makes me feel old. But of all the stupidity exemplified by shitty guys in this story, the Minecraft quote sticks out to me for some reason.

Here’s the thing, though. There’s thousands of streams on Twitch where everybody’s chill and having fun, and every weekend there’s at least a dozen streamers raising money for various charities.

I dunno... there are a lot of basement dwellers, and gaming douchebro is a bit international. If forced to wager, my money is on dick-gamer-bros outnumbering the people at the US capitol handing out free-dumbs. I can be convinced otherwise, though.

I mean the two aren’t mutually exclusive i’m sure.

I swear a larger group of man babies has never existed.