“Rules for thee, none for me” is a core tenet of Conservativism. Its why all the “sacred marriage traditional family’ guys go through multiple wives/cheat. It’s why anti-abortion politicians absolutely have a receipt for an abortion or two they needed their mistresses to get.  The restrictions are for YOU, not them.

Always love how these hypocrites always claim marriage as “sacred” and then shit all over the “sacredness” with the highest cases of infidelity and divorce, yup real sacred there guys. 

Naw, Nintendo knows exactly how 95%+ of their community functions. You know how many Nintendo customers care about the pro smash scene? <1%.

Not necessarily. There was a lot of allegations against all the highest PR players in the Smash community that involved pedophilia. Also the organization “VGBC” when pressed on it (granted by mostly just one well known YouTuber named Technicals) refused to acknowledge a ban on a player named “Nairo” who was confirmed…

Yet bafflingly Nintendo’s community will forever be by the big N's side as it can do no wrong. 🙄

If you read the whole SWT statement they go into a lot more detail. Basically, they were originally approached by Nintendo in November of last year, and have been going through a very slow back-and-forth over licensing since. Their contacts at Nintendo seemed receptive throughout the process, right up to the point…

Nintendo has never licensed events in the past, and has taken a hands off approach to competitive events until a year ago when they partnered with Panda Global and started hosting officially licensed competitions through that partnership.

Nintendo seemed willing to work with Smash World Tour initially. In the time…

I think you’re right that Nintendo definitely seems like the kind of company where there are well-meaning people trying to do what they think is right and then clueless folks from other departments (or higher up the ladder) make dumb decisions that shut that whole thing down. I’m not sure if you’ve listened to any of…

Yeah that was a bit eye catching when I read that.

Nintendo once again showing that they have no idea how their community actually functions.

Nintendo invited them to get a license and then they failed to get one? something doesn’t add up

Another one of these articles means it’s time for all the weirdos to log on and explain how Nintendo “has every right to protect their IP and who even cares about this old game anyway?”

Oh shit, they didn’t give it to me, either. I didn’t realize that every American had a god-given right to star in the Jack Black comedy Oh Hell No. Someone please alert the media, my rights have been violated.

You said what I wanted to, thanks.

Sadly, it comes down to probabilities and statistics, which is why most people don’t really understand.

Electing Donald Trump was the end of the American era. COVID just sealed the deal irrevocably.

I don’t think there’s any requirement for you to be nicer. You’ve suffered a terrible loss, and I’m sorry you went through that. The fact is, there are people who can’t get vaccinations for whatever reason, and people who are at greater risk even if they can; as a cancer survivor, I’m one of those. They’re all…

Exactly. It’s completely over. There’s no coming back from this, there’s no redemption. Fuck ‘em all.

A million dead.

“You can’t tell me what to do!”