I bet you feel really smart posting this

The wailing and gnashing of teeth in defense of a multi-billion dollar company is really embarrassing.

if IP law protected creators then it would be good, but it doesn’t, so I don’t. how many stories do you need about a creator being denied their own creative work because their publisher owns the IP before you see that.

the exception proves the rule

They also pop into the fresh atomic ruins of Hiroshima, in a scene that rivals X-Men: Apocalypse’s field trip to Auschwitz in the arena of questionably tasteful historical revisionism.

you are welcome! you should get a pi :)

artists are not corporations and the laws protecting IP largely protect corporations not artists.

reason number #2093 why IP law is horseshit and should be disregarded early and often. it has no internal consistency in the first place!

Emulators are legal for archival purposes, and like you said, Nintendo seems to be removing options for legally repurchasing games and making archival impossible in other methods. They are making it impossible to not emulate.

Honestly, I get the convenience factor and the...possible...multiplayer, but building a Retropie is only $50, is pretty easy, and will last you years

I refuse to be clear if I can help it. Whats the fun in that? :^)

I would kill for more bland games like Uncharted when the modern AAA landscape is all live-service dogwater or attempts to entice children into gambling

I’d rather some schmuck take taxpayer money to buy himself a expensive piece of cardboard then a big company take taxpayer money it to pay their executive’s bonuses. I mean, it’s not only very funny, it’s alsoless offensive.

Scamming the government is good actually.

it’s so stupid. anyone who really cares about the abuses of blizzard will have dropped their products like a hot potato.

You shouldn’t buy these, you should pirate these and mod them. HTH everyone :)

lol that rules. fuck em up guys

No gaming website should have a commenting section. I would know, I’m in them.

And courts used to punish homosexuals with prison sentences and women couldn’t vote. Legal reality isn’t immutable. We should take steps to circumvent the corporate control of everything as much as possible.