Kotaku has paid Geoff Keighley quite a bit for freelance work in the past, yet I see no mention of it here in this article where Kotaku claims some kind of superiority over this man who they contracted with. Does Kotaku treat all its former freelancers this way? Will Kotaku issue an apology for having worked with this…

I mean on the CES floor one of the other showcased things is a paid GBA emulator on a phone that was absolutely not authorized by nintendo so I wouldn’t assume they’re involved. I think the entire system of copyright is kind of breaking down in the face of AI.

I like that they credited Eurogamer with the correction instead of this comment or doing any independent research like looking at the goddamn store page in the game.

I think you could say that about most car components. I’m not sure how a controller would be uniquely bad. 

I am confused why this is bad

I mean this is what people wanted when they said they wanted free to play game with cosmetic purchases only. They don’t get to keep making their free to play game free to play unless they can hook whales and there’s no gameplay being locked behind any of these purchases so the complaint is purely that you don’t get to…

Piss is a swear word bud

Folks complain about it because they’re deeply obsessed with it. You can’t take a lot of that stuff at face value, like all the hong kong stuff and then later the sexual assault stuff was taken up by dudes who would not care in any other context specifically as a means to air their beef with the games they’re…

They specifically did not palette swap the models in this remake, every faction has a different look to them whereas in the original they were straight palette swaps. Real confusing comment you have here. 

Yes, it does make the products stolen. The contracts are specifically about who owns property and who has a license to transfer ownership of that property. If you transfer ownership outside the boundaries of that contract, the property is stolen, removed from its rightful owner without permission.

You understand that…

Right, they should have sent the police who also have a history of intimidation tactics and the full legal authority to murder you on the spot.

The dealer very explicitly did not sell it lawfully, as the legal contract between the dealer and wotc specified a certain date when it was lawfully to be sold. Until such a date the product is still the sole property of wotc in the care of the dealer. That’s how licensing contracts and street dates work.

Yeah they decided to do like an “epilogue” to their big story climax so this set should have like cards that indicate the aftermath of all the invasion stuff rather than spoiling it in the main set. I think it’s kinda dumb but also.... kinda cool.

I mean looking back at the recent history of MTG there’s been a pretty steady stream of leaks and thefts at all parts of the production chain (printing, shipping, distribution), since both leaks and thefts are pretty lucrative these days. It’s most likely they contracted with the pinkertons to close these internal…

I mean the evidence that it was stolen is that it was in the possession of someone not authorized or licensed to have it well before the date where the contracts allowed their sale. Just because they personally didn’t sneak into wotc headquarters doesn’t render wotc property rights invalid.

It’s more like shopping for your private investigators from walmart.

Sounds like the pinkertons escalated what should have just been a routine investigation into how those products got there. Which is why you shouldn’t hire pinkertons.

I mean, any depth they add to mario or its characters would have to be depth that they create whole cloth for this film. Out of all the big name franchises I think Mario has had the least amount of character about him, and the extended cast of mario also similarly bereft. I doubt nintendo is interested in ceding that…

You think our benchmark nation I-O tables are accurate?? 

Field Programmable Gate Array, basically a hardware level emulation technology where you can reprogram logic gates in such a way as to match the original logic gates on the original devices. “Field Programmable” because the original logic gates were essentially baked in at the time they were made. I believe the…