after what happened with yuzu emu, im done…
I’m going to tell this story to my kid so he believes it and then I can have him stop buying video games.
Such a feel good story
(x) doubt
So that’s how Nintendo keeps the price of their games so low! They have a secondary revenue stream!
/s
Nah don’t boycott Nintendo’s shit; steal it.
How to steal something you can’t own? Instructions unclear /s
*make an unauthorized copy of it
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A SWITCH
It’s simple, steal another copy.
You’re still buying Nintendo hardware.
Honestly, I stopped using Nintendo because of all the joycon issues, the fact they’ve been mainly just remaking the same games for 30 years and they screwed Wii u customers. You need to re buy the same games again.
On Wii u, not sure if this changed, but if you broke the main controller, you basically couldn’t replace it.
They have a better rep than Microsoft and Sony , but I’m not convinced they deserve it
No idea why anyone would buy anything except a steamdeck these days
still buying Nintendo hardware.
Steal that too, and if you wanna move the posts again consider emulation.
Already ha… oh uh, I mean nope, I sure wouldn’t do that, ossifer law! :-P
This reminds me of those old urban legends about Disney’s lawyers.
I saw a lot of cool Nintendo Lego creations recently at a convention. Nothing had Nintendo names. Instead of Goomba, it was named “angry mushroom” and stuff like that.
Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.
Fuck these corporations.
Worked in retail awhile back. Kept having glass shit fall off displays and ends. It wasn’t TOO often, just enough to be an annoyance. They were stacking glass product on top of one another. I explained why this was a problem; they didn’t care. Some time later I came back to the bosses with an argument:
This is how much we’re charging for the product.
This is how much I make per hour.
Cleanup of said broken product takes X time.
This is how much I make, or Y.
Which means a single broken product that breaks costs you Z, multiplied by the number of times it happens, plus the cost of the product itself.
This was what got their attention. These people usually aren’t human, they’re sociopaths. Remember that.
A * B * C = X
If X is less than the cost of a recall, they don’t do one.
What are the variables?
I think boss was just lazy to think about it in this case and you gave him no other choice thou 😅
Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.
This is one of those situations where it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. Even the most cold-hearted corporate ghoul is going to understand the cost/benefit of going after that family isn’t remotely worth it.
Yeah, the lawyers are going to say “no”. But even if they’re stupid enough to sue: some suit that isn’t a moron is going to tell them to drop it during the ensuing PR nightmare, and the family will be swimming in donations.
“This Spider Man thing really paid off, Honey!”
Well the reason it is like this, is because the lawyers that get to decide are “only doing their job” and can blame the policy. The ones responsible for policy are just slaves to the megacorp automaton machine that continues to not regard morals or ethics or laws in its hunger for profit. The one responsible for this mess is a machine where you can replace any or even all individuals and it will still continue to globally absorb value and eat anyone in its way. We nurture and cheer these machines on because they give us “profit” when in fact it gives only some profits to specific people that hoard it in Panama. I am very against these entities of destruction, but targeting any individual human is never going to help, and we probably can’t stop them without actually using politics. Except all available options in politics all want to and are praised for nurturing these entities because they bring illusory cash flow to the region
I’m in Thailand and knockoff Disney stuff (and Legos) are pretty normal. And it’s nice. The kids buying them have to deal with seeing their ads plastered all over town, so it’s nice there are versions they can buy. I just wish they were so shitty quality and the big companies markup wasn’t so fucking insane. Lego sets pretty regularly hit $200-$300 here. There literally is no Nintendo Thailand, so game prices are pretty random based on import fees that retailers can negotiate (or sneak through).
The nice thing is no one gives a shit about piracy. No risks really.
If you want to boycott this company don’t give them ads, don’t have their logo reach the front page
Per Snopes:
What’s True
A child in Venezuela made a cardboard Nintendo Gameboy to play a home-made version of Super Mario Bros.
What’s False
However, Nintendo did not send a cease-and-desist letter to this child, nor did the company sue his family for $200 million.
A picture with some text is not a news source. Boycott Nintendo for good reasons.
It’s a meme
Yeah my bad, went right over my head.
This is a joke referencing Nintendo suing an emulator developer. It should not be considered news. The money amount is even the same.
This meme’s older than the latest yuzu thing. I’m pretty sure I saw it on reddit, and I haven’t been there in months. Nintendo’s been like this forever.
It is, but this one is a reference to Yuzu, you can tell by the money. Previously it was $200 million, where as Yuzu settled for $2.5m
Oops, I’m slow on the uptake. Thanks.
Paco Gutierrez, age 9
My laugh turned heads on the Metro. 🤣👍
what a touching story!!
I know the ‘I bought the games beforehand!’ crowd will come out of of the woodwork real quick here, but they are of course trying to stop software that’s mainly used for piracy. At least wait until their stuff is off the shelves before you emulate it to ‘perserve’ it. There is no need to be this salty about it.
Fuck all this “ethics” BS, I steal because it’s fun 😤
A) He didn’t pirate anything. Just drew a picture of a game on a piece of cardboard.
B) It didn’t actually happen anyway.
What are you on about?!
This is a joke about a cardboard switch.
OP commented about Yuzu alongside the image, it’s part of the reactionary ‘Nintendo = bad’ memes
In nintendos defense, they’re perfectly fine taking away your ability to emulate 30 year old games they don’t give a shit about too, just for a little more money. Usually, companies rely on good will with their customers to survive, apparently nintendo doesn’t think they need that anymore.
Other than making games that people like, I’m struggling to think of things Nintendo has done to foster goodwill.
This meme is not new calling it reactionary is funny. Speaking of funny, Nintendo has previously employed private investigators to investigate and stalk modders so they could sue them better. This is an old meme for a old problem.
Uh excuse me ma’am, you’re in a meme post right now.
Stopping software mainly used for piracy has equated to the inability to do what you like with what you rightfully purchase
I’m gonna need a source on this one.
I think it’s super not real. So unreal it cycles back to real again. Poor thailand boy.
Yeah this originally a copypasta about a boy from Venezuela named Paco Gutierrez
Nah this happened to my buddy Eric the other day
Looks like a joke to me
Meme before I’ve had my coffee? It’s more likely than you think.
On the memes community?
If people continue to post jokes here then where will I get my news??
That’s never been done before, we’re part of history!
That’s the neat part, you don’t!
On the shitpost one obviosly . Are you dumb ?
I am!
But if that’s for news, where do I get my HQ jemes?
On the world news one. God these idiots nowadays .
No, just love the meme.
Yeah, fuck Nintendo but this is very obviously bullshit unless they actually made and sold a product.
Counterargument, Nintendo strikes nonprofit videos and tries to take down free and open source emulators such as Yuzu and Dolphin. The fact that this is so believable should give you an idea of the sort of shit Nintendo is known for.
Yuzu wasn’t completely free; that’s sort of what got them into hot water in the first place and the reason why Nintendo hasn’t also sued SNES9X into the dirt. Yuzu had a patreon with certain releases gated behind it. That’s what got them in trouble.
Well, we’ll see if Suyu lasts. Hopefully it was just the monetization.
Very obviously a joke. Cardboard, people! :)
The source got pulled off Github already.
