Thank you! That’s what I’ve been asking for from the beginning of this conversation, some level of detail on how the law works regarding this. And thank you for admitting that the likelihood that something like this could ever negatively affect Nintendo’s IP rights is very slim, which is what I’ve been saying.

Did Jared Leto winning an Oscar portraying a trans women discriminate against trans people and create negative outcomes for them?

You don’t think people who have resources should use those resources to make the world a better place in some small way rather than perpetuating discrimination and encouraging negative outcomes for marginalized groups?

Holy shit, dude. How do you still not get this? It’s the “must” that I have a problem with. If someone tried to claim that Nintendo didn’t step in and stop an online video game tournament so they’ve abandoned their IP and lose all rights to it, they’d be laughed out of court. That’s nowhere near sufficient grounds for…

I read both your article and your response. All you’re saying is that people are playing illegal copies of the game. Maybe. But everyone here, including you, is saying that allowing it would endanger Nintendo’s IP and you’re not explaining why that would be the case. Big House isn’t selling illegal copies of the game.…

I get that. But the backend code of the game isn’t the intellectual property that needs to be defended and that code is likely not still being used in the current games. The intellectual property is the characters, the setting, the music, the playstyle, etc. Those things aren’t threatened at all by someone modifying…

What recognitions said. Also, your argument presumes that Scarlett Johansson has always been Scarlett Johansson. She was once an unknown actor too and someone gave her a chance. It’s not an abnormal risk to give LGBTQ actors and actors of color and actors with a disability those some kinds of opportunities that…

Emulating a game doesn’t challenge Nintendo’s IP. At all.

What the fuck??? The people who made Smash Bros. Melee were paid for their work a long ass time ago. They don’t retroactively lose that money because someone emulated their game to make it playable online during a pandemic. 

You’re confusing two different things. If someone were to use one of their trademarked characters in a work and it happened repeatedly, that could conceivably, maybe one day affect Nintendo’s trademarks. Possibly. But that’s not what’s happening here. People emulating games has nothing to do with IP.

People make the same argument about trans actors and actors of color too. But how are we ever going to have high-profile actors from those groups if no one ever gives them an opportunity. There are no famous trans/autistic/Native American/quadriplegic/whatever else actors, so Hollywood won’t cast them but there are no…

Hoffman is accused of groping and harassing multiple women, one of whom was 17 at the time. It’s fucked up to make light of that and pretend that it’s some kind of unfair attack because he got laid a lot.

But how much did you spend on your computer when you built it? Everyone is assuming that the average consumer has a top-of-the-line computer with a graphics card made for gaming. That’s simply not the case. I built my own computer this last time, but my goal was to spend as little as possible while not being super…

There’s a unicorn skin in Odyssey. It’s just not a camel since Odyssey only has horses.

It’s Origins.

This is the kind of gritty realism I want from my historical murder simulators.

According to this article, it’s not the Impossible Burger. It’s Beyond Meat. Those are two different companies. Which makes sense given that Impossible is working with Burger King.

[extremely hack comedian voice]

Oh man... Wrong Enya song. Probably better for my cred that I miffed it.

When “Orinoco Flow” kicks in...