No it’s not, he just isn’t a gamer. My girlfriend’s mom had never even heard of Fortnite. And he’s obviously heard of GTA, he just didn’t realize it was a game for adults. Remember.. he’s in his mid-50s. The fact that he ultimately ended up doing this should back that up - he just needed to be shown the game

I mean, you don’t launch a “high profile” defamation suit, you just launch a defamation suit, and other people make it high profile because of who you are. What’s your takeaway? That famous people shouldn’t sue if they feel they’ve been wronged?

Not to defend Nintendo here, but that’s every temp contractor position. I once spent a week as a contractor for a credit card company without a computer to actually do any work because they forgot to get my account set up

Love how they say aggregate websites are bullshit but that is the entire point of this article is summarizing other reviews.

“artificial attempt at garnering interest"

The Dick Tracy timeline?

I don’t know that I understand the commentary. This kind of thing is pretty standard in collecting. I mean sure, the ramen logo makes it a little dorkier than, say, a carded A New Hope Darth Vader with two lightsabers but it’s essentially the same idea. A limited run thing (in this case intentional) that’s far more…

I think this person probably thinks westerners like these anime adaptations because we keep making them for some reason.

No, it’s ruined by that point. Should’ve found themselves before they started filming.

And to be fair, they did as much as they could. Upgrading the existing servers and extending queues, and such, but there’s a limit to what they can do with just the current equipment.

Out of curiosity I made a facebook poll on the FFXIV Endwalker group as for whether people thought the measure made up for the issues. Currently, I have 839 data points

Never said it wasn’t. I just said that between propaganda from the US and those and dictotorial countries like Laos, Burma and North Korea, I’ll take that of the US. And I might add that I hold US propanganda in contempt as well. Lesser evil and all that.

How does that makes any sense in your head? Genuingly curious.

Never said it wasn’t. People have such difficulties reading those days....

Still miles better than the state controlled propaganda outlets of these countries.

Because even the horrors of capitalism can be seen as culturally contaminating. I mean the Kim family are just as much cult leaders as they are dictators.  Within that context it makes more sense why any outside perception is considered problematic.

I don’t disagree, but just to be clear: Previous incidents like this have shown that games just get removed from storefronts, not from the players library, because it’s the distribution for money that infringes on the copyright, not owning it.

I don’t disagree, but Metal Gear has also seen what appears to be deliberate contempt from the studio that owns the rights to it. There’s probably stack of letters which included warning that this was about to happen all forwarded to one Pepe Silvia.