Ninterror Tactics (The Jimquisition) 

Blame the system that supports that sorry A lot of people are seeming to forget that the system is made to punish private individuals who violate private companies. literally had a couple shot at in Florida for going to the wrong house trying to deliver groceries and because nobody was hurt and the cop was white in the guy was white they got away with it. I wonder what the couple looked like?? Hmmmm

This sentencing was a crime. Those that carried it out need to be punished far worse than the righteous liberator.

@Lavinia Whateley na na na. Property is not protected more than people. Is your house or whatever in the way for a millionaire? Amazon? Whatever? Watch as property is not at all protected. It is humans or rather rich * that hide behind a company name that are protected by the state and legal system that get priorities. Property priorities are just some few people being prioritized. Or maybe better said influencing outcomes.

@@TheDiner50 Rich people's property is protected more than anything else.

Hey, remember when MPAA president Jack Valenti was comparing *the VCR* to a home-invading rapist? That wasn't a plea for help. That was a justification for retributive corporate violence.

And no one hates Nintendo more than some Nintendo fans.

Correct

You can especially feel the hate when nintendo releases a broken shitware of a game and everyone still knowingly buys it and write good things about it. Real firebrands, those haters.

Perhaps it’s simply more apt to say that there are different Nintendo fans with different approaches to the company in general, although that’s true for all video game companies, I guess. Most Nintendo consumers are casual fans who don’t follow the Nintendo news but are into the brand and will gladly purchase it and actually enjoy it anyways, because of the sheer amount of mainstream penetration their brand has achieved. Among more dedicated fans there’s more of a split. There’s those who have grown to love their games but utterly despise their horrible corporate practices and wish they’d change, criticising the company to this end. There’s the others for whom a longtime love of Nintendo (in some cases since their impressionable childhood years) has integrated their love for the brand deep into the core of their personalities, so they take every criticism of the company as a personal attack and will more willingly fight to defend Nintendo’s poor decisions online. I can understand how both types of fan attitude arise and can sympathise with the second but am more in agreement with the first type. I simply wish Nintendo would make better and more ethical decisions even more than I want them to make incredible hit games, since it’s not enough that they’re respected for what they do now, I want them to be actually worthy of the respect and loyalty they receive. It’s not looking likely that they’ll ever own up and turn themselves around at any rate though…

Indeed

Did you know Nintendo actually had mafia ties?

It definitely says something about America's justice system.

Not saying the punishment was just but that’s not what he did

Let alone a shitty sequel to a shitty game

this was not over pirating 1 game the dude was SELLINg a tool to make it so you can pirate every switch game

@gridsleep Tbh i would have preferred that over THIS type of punishment. Horrific

Nintendo has warned us for so long about the threat of King Koopa...little did we know, they would be responsible for his villain origin story.

you got a browser running nintendo.

It’s certainly been pretty convenient for them on the whole. The name being Bowser takes the edge of the whole situation, makes it a little less serious. Even Reggie, the fun and charismatic former president of Nintendo of America, made a post on Twitter sharing the article covering Bowser’s arrest accompanied by a joke poking fun at his successor (also named Bowser) and asking for the CEO position back. That whole “haha, a guy named Bowser got arrested for Nintendo crimes, how fitting!” factor makes it easier to downplay the severity of what he went through and the horrid debt he’s accrued that will likely just follow him for the rest of his life.

Yea, they sent the Pinkertons at them. Talk about overkill.

Unfortunately, corporations and CEOs have all the power. Elon Musk _will_ become POTUS despite being ineligible due to being born in South Africa.

​@@WiimeiserI never understand that argument because by that logic, every US president in the first 35 years of the country is illegitimate

Could you imagine?? No more Mario 64 hacks in my feed of VODs from people I generally like watching. NO more paying attention to Nintendo Directs. I would never have to look at a new Pokemon game again. Eventually maybe enough youngish parents would forget to buy the hot new Switch games for their kids that somewhere, in obscurity, businessmen would experience the consequences of their actions... paradise.

@@dovedozen That is literally never, ever going to happen. People still play Blizzard games despite them literally bullying someone into suicide. Nintendo going after someone who broke the law isn't gonna make people "wake up" and stop playing their games.

@@leetri I am aware that paradise does not exist, thank u

lol ain't nobody going to give up the revenue and clout they generate by utilizing Nintendo IP's.

I bought 3 Nintendo 1st party games on the Switch in 4 years, I only got them because they were 30% off otherwise I won't give Nintendo any money, I hate them that much

Well, technically right

3 years and 4 months

Nintendo will still punish you even if you don't profit from hacks and mods, that's how insane they are

Well, there have been plenty of incidents like this previously that at best raised a bit of a stink with Nintendo for a couple weeks before it was eventually allowed to slide back into the mire of Old News. This is hardly the first time they’ve gone after leaks with force, not the first time they have subpoenaed Discord to send someone a lawsuit for leaks, not the first time they’ve come down too hard on piracy providers and hackers, not the first time they’ve hit someone with vastly disproportionate damages in court for IP infringement, not the first time they’ve taken down RU-vid content with little reason or consistency all because they didn’t like what was shown. And in the end, their good publicity tends to outweigh the negative bits, because the good publicity and brand loyalty they harness is simply just that good. I’m confident it’s because most Nintendo fans, being members of a more casual gamer crowd which Nintendo specifically markets to, don’t care to follow their news/discourse as much as more involved fans are and are less aware of their scummy decisions, and among that second group of more hardcore fans, there’s a subset who’s so involved that they’ll willingly defend what Nintendo does anyways, because they have spent so much time with Nintendo IP that attachment to the brand has been hardwired into their identities. In the end, those of us who don’t forget Nintendo’s abuses but want them to get better as fans for our sake as well as theirs simply have nothing to do about it but speak up, write in, do all we can in the hopes that we might at least reach them somehow. And personally, after having done the latter for a while, I might well just lose interest in following Nintendo soon when there’s far less upsetting things to do with my time.

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@@BrightAwake If you have a mid range PC I heavily encourage you to give Ryujinx a try, it's SO GOOD.

I think that "non profit" part is a big reason for Nintendo feeling comfortable going after Bowser. Because honestly... When I heard Bowser is actively profiting off it, it also soured my sympathy for him. The punishment is still hugely inappropriate of course, but i can't say I'm fully on his side here, either

@@anna-flora999 Yeah but the thing is, the SX team wasn't just making software, they were making hardware as well, as in a dongle that would let you push payloads onto the switch to hack it portably without the need of a computer nearby and that's something they can't just give away for free. And yeah their dongle was copied and now there's hundreds of different ones though I think Nintendo has been trying to take them all down too

But that's kinda the point. Nintendo is a very traditional Japanese company, which means that what they want most of all is - like Konami - to bring as much of its IP under its own control: it needs to be run hierarchical and top-down in every aspect. It sees its IP as its rightful property and any revenue or attention it can generate are rightfully theirs. Remember, this is the company that filed legal action against a bunch of teenagers using images of pokémon on a locally made poster for a fan event they were organising. They have been treating fans like this for decades and know by now that this will never cost them more than they gain excercising authoritarian levels of control over their IP.

Yes, if they're not going to give me legal access to Hey You Pikachu because I can't live in America to play it on my friend's N64 (I'm Brit, I thought I just missed the game instead of realising at 12 that we never got it) then I'm going to fricken emulate it and look up complicated tutorials to find how to make the mic be registered. I just want to not be region and language locked!!

Someone once said something I think abut regularly, which is that Nintendo hates the fact that they have people who care. They want to make toys, that they want to sell to children with as little need for interaction afterwards as possible. When you view it this way, it makes more sense. What we perceive as fandom, they perceive as a weird pack of fools who wont leave them alone to peddle action figures to 10 year olds. They don't want to preserve their artwork, release their music legally, foster community of any kind, or encourage people to interact with their product in any way but the one they want, for the same reason that the people who make speak n' spells don't want to return your emails about how they should dump its source code. I obviously disagree with this hard, and I think Nintendo are a pack of fools who will only drive themselves into the tar pits with the other dinosaurs if they never consider their actions, but I think this is part of how they view things.

@@thezootbox Is that why they got Rik Mayall, British 80's and 90's star of shows like "The Young Ones" and "Bottom" to do their commercial? I think if you look at Nintendo's marketing they are probably a bit more explicit in their material as presenting themselves to be for everyone. From gaming with your cihld/little brother to some rando in the laundrette. Compare and contrast that with My Little Pony, for which a certain group of fans exists that is not (explicitly) marketed to. Nintendo knows what products they sell and where its bread is buttered. I think this is probably more culturally related to being a large company in an ideologically and socially rather conservative nation that doesn't like people perceived as "upstarts". But I wonder if it's perhaps more a matter of if and how Japanese-specific IP and Copyright law plays a role in their behaviour.

Very true. Both companies present a charming, family-friendly front, while actually being pretty nasty.

The victim doesn't change the morality of an act, if it's moral to do that it's moral to steal from you

@@sam7559 False. The consequences are what matters for the morality of an act, and the consequences of stealing from an individual are not even in the same ballpark as stealing from a multi-billion dollar corporation.

Not exactly. If I steal a copy of data, no one losses anything real. But if I steal enough gum, the employees of that store may lose their jobs becuse gum cost money to make and ship, unlike digitaly reproduced copies of code. That said, fuck [corperation] stores. Edit: in in brakets.

@@jemolk8945 yeah no I'm not a utilitarian, morality are rules and do not change because of good or bad outcomes. You killing someone doing CPR when they would've lived otherwise does not make you a murderer.

@@sam7559 Rules as morality is frankly ridiculous. What do you do when the rules clash, as they inevitably will? How do you judge good rules versus bad ones, if not by appealing to something more fundamental to morality than the rules themselves? What do you do when the rules reliably, in particular circumstances, produce outcomes that are, not to put too fine a point on it, _bad?_ Rules can never actually encompass the full extent of right action, because there will always be new circumstances, either. Rules are useful as a heuristic tool, but absolute trash as a foundation.

Ooh, thanks for the info about Moon Channel! 👀

Moon's take reads a little too much like bad apologia, explicitly denying that the problem is with corporations and instead insisting that it's solely an issue with the law. (Notably ignoring who it is that lobbies for and shapes such draconian legislation.) Seems like a lot of bias from the day job creeping in throughout the video, despite some claim of contrary sentiments. Also a little odd that there was no pointing out that any "EULAs" referenced are nonsense; they ultimately don't mean _anything_ legally.

But, with what money to pay a lawyer? Ninty has taken it all.

I'm not a lawyer either, but being fined and having payments automatically deducted from any pay you make is pretty normal. If there was a way to make it illegal, it would have happened ages ago.

Lol. So do the idiots that store a pallet of oil from Walmart... Until they tried to sell it on the side of the road. Steal from the rich , but don't be stupid

Don't miss out on great game from Nintendo Japan cause of what Nintendo of America did to this guy

​@@shawnamiller191 You don't need to give Nintendo money -- and yes, Nintendo of America is still Nintendo regardless of how you try to rationalize it -- to play a single game at launch. There are other games, millions of them in fact. There are plenty of open-world Fantasy RPGs of either easily comparable, or sufficiently moddable as to become easily comparable, quality that aren't made by Nint*ndo. And that's even ignoring the option of just buying secondhand or something.

Ahw man,... after watching this through... would be a shame if a certain ocean dweller would do the dirty deed and "calibrate" hybrid-handheld consoles for friends and families because it is okay to pirate from Nintendo. Say no to Ninterror.

You don't survive for over one hundred years without it.

Not surprised, dismayed.

You mean the Yakuza. I don't think Japanese mobsters want to be associated with Italian organized crime.

@@jlev1028 Is Yakuza organised or are they just not bothered about being neat and tidy and keeping things in their places?

"Good morning, 47."

I hope people pirate the game en mass

I agree, though the thing is companies these days prefer it that way. If they can't make money on their own property, they don't believe anybody else should be able to get it at all. The only reason they can't go after used game sales is due to market freeom - which happens to be the only thing that holds higher sway than copyright money. If not for that, they totally would try to curtail second-hand market too.

@@broshmoshNot that they haven’t tried. Remember that window of time in the very late 2000s/early 2010s where some games would lock core parts of the game as DLC and include a voucher for it inside new copies, so that if you bought the game used, you had to pay extra to actually get the entire game?

The hacking community hates this guy They are celebrating

Nintendo don't care about videogame preservation, they only care about selling overpriced weak consoles and last generation videogames

@@colin3ds1 Ah yes, THE hacking community

I wanna see them chokeslam Kotick >:(

Why stop at the video game execs?

Is absolutely watch that.

I hear they are great at choke slams.

@@PhoenixFireZeroCan we throw abusive creative directors into the mix?

Boy are you naive.

@Magnanimous Ire Hardly. Notice I said HOPE. I ken the world is shite place that is dominated by evil bastards but one can still hope that good things happen and point out weakness in the problem.

@@darthlazurus4382 CEOs, especially American CEOs are never your friend. Period.

@Magnanimous Ire I'm more than aware of that. I'm not certain how that ties into this current subject. You going tae remind me next that Landlords are parasites? Because I'm more than aware of that as well.

@@darthlazurus4382 ...Why did you suddenly break into transcribed Scottish English? I'm _pretty sure_ no one actually writes like that.

Deep cut

It's more so a complicated feelings scenario. The fans generally revere the developers of these games. While dealing with shitty management when it comes to anything customer facing. They WANT to enjoy these games. They SEE the developers effort put in. (Usually) But it's just marred by extremely shitty garbage management and treatment of customers and draconian practices. Which they could used to ignore. But it's increasingly harder to do so

That's not what it is at all. He was selling stolen goods. There was a group of people who have been pretty coordinated at least stealing from a local Walmart with the truck so that they don't guard because hiring security is too hard. They can do whatever they want insurance has the corporation covered. Where they screwed up is turning around and selling a van load of oil and other things that they stole from Walmart earlier that week on the side of the road... That's where you screw up. Take, but don't get stupid

I only love their games now, my love for nintendo is long dead

I honestly just want to destroy my Switch and curse Nintendo, but I'm not that irrational so I will just stop buying their first party games

@@Planag7 how does that boot taste?

It's also called a "deterrent"

Worth mentioning, he was selling access to this pirated copy. This was not a person, this was a business.

Makes one wonder if it helps their case or makes it worse, because I don't exactly feel afraid....

@@tuffy135ify it’s been pretty well proven that harsher punishments do not lessen crimes. At all. One silly example is the daycare experiment. A study was done at a daycare where, like all daycares, parents would sometimes not be able to pick their kids up on time. They would be very apologetic and sincere about their actions and do their best to make it a one-time issue, etcetera. In an attempt to curb the issue even further, the daycare implemented a fine. Any child not picked up within ~15 min after the daycare closed would result in a fine, something like $50. A mass influx of late pickups began to occur, and it severely increased the issue. People were no longer apologetic, and were often outright mean about it. They’ve paid their extra fine, so they expect continued services. How many people have you met that have been like “gee I really want to go on a shooting spree, but this state has the death penalty, and that’s really deterring me from doing that”??? Should punishments exist? Absolutely. Do they act as a deterrent? Not even a little bit.

That is literally what the judice system is supposed to do

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This. All they did to the Smash communities was take their tournaments away. Nobody went to jail, as per usual, for s*xual misconduct.

Right?

for them the sexual nature of the crimes wasn't the crime, for Nintendo the crime was getting caught

They just refer you to HR and your rapist gets moved to a different department in the same company

I hope we both wake up soon from this nightmare

Not denying that Nintendo and the justice system went way too hard on Bowser for his offences, but that bit sounds like more of a problem with the US prison system than with Nintendo or their stance on IP protection. And as bad as the latter may be, I’m sure the former is absolutely brimming with plenty more issues to criticise.

​@@jxwong_3982the option was actually available for him to serve his sentence under house arrest due to his health issues, as it was for every case during the extreme part of covid (including for murderers), however Nintendo insisted they would not tolerate it and convinced the judge. This is on record.

...Dude, were they actually trying to kill the guy for piracy??

@@the_panos Interesting, do you have a link to the document where this was mentioned? I'd like to take a look at it, if true. Really disappointing but unfortunately not really surprising news for Nintendo if this happens to be accurate. And it does still seem like a flaw with the sentencing and prison system if a company is allowed to overstep their boundariess and influence how prison authorities handle their inmates to this extent.

I will never blindly defend the company and these stances and tactics are grossly draconian and behind the times, AND globally they participate in the same ugly game that most public companies of their size do involving taking advantage of contract workers… But I can separate that from the objective fact that they employ some of the most talented artists, programmers, and designers on the planet. Furthermore they take some pretty decent steps in retaining and rewarding their talent through things like recent across the board salary increases that exceeded inflation in Japan. Finally they do also care deeply about the craft and will allocate the time and capital to projects until they are released at a standard that is consistently above par. This often means pushing games outside of initially projected fiscal years and telling shareholders to F off because it’s not about them and they don’t understand. They care about game design and quality, which is something I try to hold on to while I am very critical of many of their administrative and litigious practices

Nintendo fans are deranged

@@shabado0 jesus christ. i have never heard so much neoliberal apologia. "no but you don;t get it, they're actually really nice slave masters to the peopel directly underneath them, and they have a really good eye for getting only the best wage slaves to craft the nostalgia that will hold you captive whenever you try to criticize their murderous business practices" to seriously think that a COMPANY 'cares' about games, instead of just having hired people who care about games for suckers like you to mistake as the actual corproate soul of the enterprise... what complete and total lack of material analysis does to a motherfucker, i guess.

You can say that about any media corporation.

@@jlev1028 you’re not wrong. Just seems like Nintendo’s are even more zealous than most.

It's also been proven to not work, which makes it so much shittier

It may be dystopian, but it is oh so familiar...

The kind of appeal and brand loyalty Nintendo has now is the result of a decades-long campaign of constant marketing to turn people into staunchly committed devotees who’ve internalised Nintendo fandom into every aspect of their being, down to the core of their identities, from years of what might be considered emotional conditioning through widespread exposure to Nintendo IPs (and preferably from a tender and impressionable childhood age-after all, Nintendo games are a hit with the kids!) that’s led many of the most devoted Nintendo fans to the way they are online. As for the more casual majority of their consumer base, Nintendo’s unique and successful targeting of casual audiences and the general public has, incidentally, granted them access and recognition among a valuable audience that is going to follow gaming discussion and news a lot less and isn’t aware enough to detect and call out Nintendo’s mistakes. Intentional on Nintendo’s part or not, it’s worth considering. And this is something many other gaming companies fail to achieve as effectively due to appealing to more “hardcore” gamers. It’s pretty sad being a fan of Nintendo that actually wants to see them improve, for our sake as well as their own. It’s something that benefits everyone yet many Nintendo fans online are content to take their status quo as being a positive whatever it is and defend their poor choices instead when that has a far lower chance of accomplishing any real change, and collectively pushing this antiquated company look at its flaws and work on fixing them already seems like an impossible task. Having been pretty emotionally invested in Nintendo for a while, I can understand how those devotedly defensive fans have come to think that way and sympathise with it, I just don’t think it’s the most beneficial way to approach a company you like and want to see perform well (ethically, even more so than just financially) when they mess up.

MrBeast doesn’t have the balls to do it but it would be entertaining.

They would, they've done bigger people. Y'all don't understand that Nintendo really doesn't care outside of Japan.

@@Planag7 Nintendo is located in fucking nightvale dude. Their actions are a mystery and a frustration regardless of where you’re from.

But what if Elon Musk do it?

@@ameliamohsin8430 then a nintendo rep will be sent out to give him a blowwie while he streams

Nintendo would stop way more piracy by selling their old games at reasonable prices, and having discounts and sales for their new games every once in a while, than they do with these lawsuits. Piracy is a service problem and Nintendo's service suuuuuuucks. If they let me play the Virtual Console games I bought on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS on the Switch, I'd play them on the Switch. But they don't, so I'll otherwise obtain copies of these games and play them on emulators.

That is spot on yea, the fact that they are doing their best to be as exclusive as possible just proves the point further. So many companies are making it impossible to get their products, sometimes completely pulling them off the stores and then do this ridiculous punishment when someone wants to share it. Making profit off of something that is not originally created by the person is naturally not good, but if Nintendo wouldn't be so exclusive, perhaps there wouldn't be a need for anyone pirating it.

You're right, in principle; but remember that the point is to punish those that can't afford to recover, not to learn from mistakes. The system is working as intended wholeheartedly.

Which is precisely why fines should be defined in terms of the offender's net worth!

I miss bumfuck alley. It was scenic and matched the cynical vibes of everything Sterling says. It's fun for me to watch other people rage at the games industry.

Nobody wants to get in the ring with Cornflake Homunculus.

what point are you trying to make here exactly with this meandering essay

Dang, I was going to disagree that we were a doomed species, but then some called a tight four sentences a "meandering essay." Maybe we are a doomed species...

Wall-E is looking more likely every day

@@firehazard1792 yeah no dog, at no point does this drivel ever come to a single recognisable point

@@Feasco _Two_ sentences is 'meandering'? Come on now!

... I wonder if this is why we might never see Cyperpunk come to a Nintendo platform? If Nintendo knows any better, they will not allow this comparison to be spread out.

Very true!

@@thevgmlover They have Final Fantasy 7 on the Switch, so it's likely that they'll miss the irony with Cyberpunk as well.

Well, the Cyberpunk anime is on Netflix, which itself has its fair share of issues. So I think it’s fair to say that publishers and media providers are on the whole blind to the messages that the media they’re offering presents, lol. Not too surprising when they see media different from the way we see it. To consumers, media is an art form and valuable entertainment to be enjoyed, with various elements that carry meaning, purpose, depth. To publishers and providers, its primary value lies simply in its nature as a product on offer, its monetary worth as property to be invested in. That mindset, in particular, can help to explain so many of Nintendo’s staunchly protectionist, anti-consumer or out-of-touch decisions regarding their IP.

Well, we have Pokémon instead. More corporate-friendly messaging, equally immersive and compelling wish-fulfilling fantasies for a younger and more innocent consumer base or one that’s less sensitive to their missteps, and now the same number of glitches and performance errors on release, with a lower chance of eventually being fixed :)

Nintendo stans have always been feral.

Nintendo bootlickers are something else

I heard about the ransomware thing, wasn't sure if it was true. But even if it was, this is still an extreme punishment. Accusing Bowser of ransomware to justify Nintendo's downright tyrannical attacks is a pretty limp excuse because it misses the point entirely

Even if the ransomware story was true if justice was real he should paying his victims not Nintendo

@@TheDoomBlueShell Exactly. Anything bad Bowser did to other modders or to customers doesn't justify Nintendo. Bowser is paying Nintendo for the rest of his life, not the other modders and customers who were allegedly wronged.

Oh, I can fix the curiosity! It’s teeth are about 3” back from the… mouth …opening? Hole? Whatever it is, they’re the first feature that isn’t a void lined with slowly darkening flakenflesh. It gnashes its teeth occasionally but I’m not sure what if anything it’s trying to convey other than misery. Annoying tbh, it sort of echoes, and not only does it drink all the milk, it’s like listening to the gurgle of a nearly empty bath drain the entire time. 0/10, not a good housemate

Time for you to touch grass, all the grass.

It's for the cereal, obviously.

@@UlshaRS Does smoking it count?

Ganondorf: Uses necromancy in an attempt to bring back Iwata and make Nintendo great again...

The issue would be at each copyright "abuse" is within their rights to do so. Nintendo isn't strict, other companies are lenient

Because they'd lose. A lawyer made a video on the Point Crow situation and it's pretty clear that Nintendo is legally in the right.

There is no legal reprocussion for copyright abuse. There should be, but there isn't.

@@michaelferrum708 what abuse? Multiplayer mods do not fall under fair use and thus Nintendo was within their right to go after pointcrow.

​@@sam7559That's really the defense you're going with, shill?

People defending corporations love to shoot themselves in the foot, without even knowing it. Also, I'd like to see how the idiots that call everyone who doesn't praise AI a "ludite" will do in 15-30 years... when AI take over their jobs, would they still be calling everyone a "ludite"? Or praising soulless AI art?

i think those are two different topics dog

Not that his sentence was fair, but I wouldn't call his actions banal. His software wasn't just piracy, it included malware that bricked devices if it detected a competitor. The guy actively tried to monopolize open source software that was freely available, to try to profit off it at the expense of the modding community. He wasn't just harming a corporation, he was actively harming the otherwise actually banal modding community as a whole.

@@kalackninja I dunno about that. I mean, they'll defend Nintendo taking someone to task for acts of piracy or modding, but the moment they need to spend money on art for themselves, they'll do what they can to buck out of paying, especially if it's porn. Two sides of the same coin.

@@U-Flame I hadn't heard about that tbh. Either way, the sentence outweighs the crime and as said in the video, it has more to do with revenge or sending a message than it does with any notion of "justice."

It’s a bit messed up isn’t it - even though apparently the corpo scum were nice about it. Cant draft it so I’m not that fussed about the set - but it is odd they are picking on that nice guy that’s been playing since the 90s

@@snackplaylove saying the corporate mouthpiece on the phone was nice is pretty generous. a less charitable view would be that the corpo on the phone played good cop after the implied threat of violence of pinkertons at the door. I also can't help but notice that they didn't offer any compensation for their illegally reclaimed goods in writing

It would both not be the first time Steph has covered Wizards of the Coast, nor would it be the first time they covered a company sending goons to people's houses (Take Two did that a few years back) Point of me saying that is, it's not nearly outside of their area of expertise as you think to cover such things

They're rich enough to do something as petty as this. If you makes them only slightly less rich, you're counteracting their reign of terror.

Here-here!

Y'all say this every time you get mad and it very clearly never amounts to much.

😂🤡 It’s your civic duty to vote. It’s your civic duty to fight for equal rights. It is no one’s civic duty to pirate from a video game company that you could just as easily ignore.

​@@oneearrabbit dont fuckin care, going to pirate it anyway. If they dont like it its their problem, not mine

lol no they don't. Nintendo has always been like this and they've been overwhelming successful. The truth is that most people don't care at all what they do to other people as long as the games they make are good.

​@@HowlingGuild It doesn't backfire, but it doesn't succeed either. I the end, we'll go back to status quo as of nothing happened. They're just... casualties. A few sacrifices to makes Nintendo thinks they're in control.

I don't like it, but Nintendo is literally too big to fail. Half of their consumer base could be Thanos snapped out of existence and they'll still be immensely successful by any sales metric. Nintendo can do whatever they want and they'll always get away with it.

I pray this really hurts Nintendo financially

When does it start backfiring? Nintendo has been doing this stuff for 20+ years now.

Well, they've been comparing Mario to Mickey for decades now so it was inevitable they decided to emulate Disney's worst impulses.

@@originalscreenname44 Nintendo is about thirty four years older than the Disney company, even though it didn’t make video games up until the 80s. For much of its life, it was a card game and toy manufacturer.