I don’t want to kinkshame freaks who like eldritch abominations. I wanna kinkshame pdf file creeps.

I miss the days when the justice system replied to the statement “this might hurt our business” with “too bad”. (In the case when sony lost to that PS emulator)

I’m not the person to clear up this legal grey area. I just think that AI porn often has these incredibly young faces which makes the enjoyers of that porn extra creepy.

Most AI porn images looks quite underage to me, to be completely frank. :/

What exactly am I “pulling out of my ass”?

Nobody said it’s a person

You’re talking about Nintendo as if it’s a person with phrases like your bullet point 2.

I’m not defending anyone. I’m describing how a corporation is likely to react in capitalism. I don’t condone any of this: I don’t condone copyright laws, I don’t condone legal threats, I don’t condone capitalism. I just try to describe how systems behave without trying to get morality involved by claiming a company is (or is run by) an or several assholes.

I also don’t condone nuclear weapons when I describe the strategy of deterrence by mutually assured destruction.

To be clear: I agree that both weed and emulation is a victimless “crime” and shouldn’t be prosecuted. However, I don’t think corporate lawyers and judges agree with us on this point.

Edit: also, Nintendo usually gets what they want by threatening to go to court without actually doing so. So the actual legality doesn’t actually matter too much. Certainly doesn’t when it comes to Switch emulators shutting down.

Outlets reporting on how Metroid Dread was running on emulators pre-release and describing how to pirate it makes Nintendo pursue actions to prevent that shit. They can’t prevent their games leaking, so they attack the emulators.

Is this so much harder to believe than Nintendo having a personal grudge?

Nintendo isn’t a person. It’s a corporation. When their most important game of the year is leaked and spread on the web one week before release, they are kind of pressured to conduct legal action.

Doesn’t make it wrong.

Certainly not. But with Vimm’s lair you could argue that it’s definetly illegal, while emulation is generally considered legal.

Unpopular opinion: These leaks are probably the reason for Nintendo being so ruthless on emulators.

The first gen switch is really easy to hack. Once someone in the supply-line gets their hands on a cartridge, it’s already online.

What’s wrong with trying to prevent companies scrag your data? How is that antithetical to piracy?

It’s not?

woosh

The fascist movement that keeps referencing the Matrix as an allegory for their fascist uprising doesn’t get trans allegories? I’m shocked!

Til Elden Ring is trans.

Ah, yes… “accurate” claims like

• the third best selling console of all time behind the ps2 and the ds is dependant on “collectors”
• that Breath of the wild was an old game when the switch released
• that Nintendo didn’t “do risks”
• “All of the Switch’s popularity is because of third party games”, when the 24 best selling switch games are all published by Nintendo.

Give me a break

Ah, yes. The good ol’ “do your research sheeple” bit. Gotta love it. You’ve already claimed so much BS, why shouldsI take anything you say at face value?

Also: lol. Do you think that the technology in the Dual Sense’s triggers is new? o.O

Do you actually even own a switch, if you’re so desperate to dunk on Nintendo?

Surely. You won’t fail to supply any data to back up your ludicrous claims this time, will you?

Building a very basic system with cheap, bad, off the shelf components is not expensive.

Sorry, you have no idea about hardware development. Just because Hardware is cheap doesn’t mean that R&D is cheap.

Do you think that development hardware drives R&D costs? No, paying engineers does. Do you think that Sony or Microsoft develop their own chips? Again: nope: They use AMD Microarchitectures (Sony won’t make the mistake of the PS3 again).

You know what costs R&D? Developing controllers does. And guess who reinvents their controllers every generation! Not just hd rumble, like the dual sense: Video streaming, HD rumble, IR technology, etc.

And Nintendo tripled their R&D budget from 2003 to 2007 twice:

In 2003, Nintendo declared that $34 million was spent on R&D. This figure steadily climbed to $103 million in 2006 and the following year bumped dramatically to $370 million.

Source

Any more bullshit for me to debunk?