HOW TO DEAL WITH A MAN APPROACHING YOU WHEN YOU’RE WEARING HEADPHONES:

For the sake of pre-empting further comments like this: I am aware of how much of it works. While admitting some gaps in knowledge.

In order to have a copyright and a trademark you MUST go after all things that infringe on said intellectual property, failure to do so risks you losing your copyright. Nintendo is just doing what Nintendo has to do. They capitalize on IP, not on hardware sales.

The Modern Man has many other articles I find useful, like this one

Headphone-wearing waifu? More like project D.Va

Who also happen to be acting like patent trolls...

Patent trolls need to be the ones prosecuted. All they do is hold back progress.

Happy little mushroom clouds.

I was fully prepared to raise hell about the lack of mutant league football until your last paragraph.

being hand-made doesnt mean it still wont get taken down. the WAY its being made is legal, sure, but if one company started using mario simply because they drew their own pictures of him, theyde still get hit with copyright. its the similarities between the actual game and the fan game that will get it taken down, not…

And Bionic Commando!

Having played it, it doesn’t feel like the Metroid name was just slapped on it. It actually feels like a cool side adventure in a bigger universe and makes me wish we had more of these, just as I’d like there to be more main Metroid games, too. They do a good job not just of using Samus as a supporting character but…

Abs Crunchum.

Well that explains this...