Not for sharing with Luigi, apparently.

Mario can’t die.

It reminded me when I used to go to Vampire: The masquerad LARPS. Which is an type of roleplay that can in bring out the asshole in you. But regardless of how much of an asshole your character was, if someone felt you went over the line you always apologized and backed down.

Not really. This is a game, which apparently provides the means to do this kind of stuff. And he does have an audience that likes his act.

Israel is an apartheid ethnostate, and if our Jewish identity relies on it staying as such existing (it doesn’t and don’t let Israel continue to coopt your identity), it should fall with it.

Does the definition of “country” mean that much to you that you really want to be a dick about this? That land was administrated by the British and much of what was subsequently stolen used to be owned, acre by acre, by Palestinian families. It *was* known as ‘Palestine’. The Israeli government didn’t discover the…

Israel is an apartheid state and a colonial state imposed on Palestinians, it has no right to exist.

*smash your way through the cervix

I would say “What a dick”, but back when UO went from Beta to Release, Lord British had an huge in-game event and me and a few other people worked together for our master assassin to assassinate him mid-speech.

The whole point of preserving games is lost if you keep it a secret--why didn’t you tell the world, eh!?

More like that alleged motive is incomprehensible in the context of archival efforts.

What exactly is the point of archiving games unless you share them? Is this so Japanese collectors can maintain value and sell their collections before ultimately sharing the ROMs, or what?

I don’t get why they only want a few people to have access to these games. Not that I will play any of them but bravo to the guy that was willing to share.

“Collectors” who hoard pieces of art and culture purely to deprive other people of access to them at no cost to themselves don’t deserve any sympathy.

If they truly were preservationists, wouldnt it be better for the games to be freely disseminated across the world than for them to be inside some guys apartment where there’s a chance they’ll be lost forever because of a computer crash or natural disaster?

Meh, seems like it’s a power trip for these collectors as opposed to honoring the original author. In the end I really don’t care that much about it, but yeah self-importance is a heck of a drug.

“For the most part, Japanese archivists don’t widely share their material, I believe out of respect to the original authors. This isn’t ‘wrong,’ it’s just a different approach, and one that I think we ought to empathize with and maybe even learn from.”

So, a thought experiment.

The year 2981. Game history has been nearly forgotten. A team of daring crooks must break into the Museum of Pre-War Artifacts to steal the mysterious item known only as “Persona 5". These outlaws call themselves THE PHANTOM THIEVES...

...but they have no idea why.

So I’m the future are we gonna have people robbing game collectors for obscure Japanese rpgs instead of robbing art galleries for paintings? I can get behind that.