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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1. They sue and go after emulation projects/ROM sites for modern content just as much as Microsoft and Sony do, MS/Sony just get a pass for some reason. Probably because people try to pirate current-gen content less for them, but they do the exact same thing every time it happens. Also, it must be said that several times that emu/ROM sites were shut down and Nintendo was blamed it turned out it wasn’t actually Nintendo. Same thing with that whole streaming copystrike issue- turns out it was some random company taking down gameplay videos, not Nintendo.

  2. Sony already does this too, yet again they pretty much universally get a pass for making you permanently lose almost all (if not all) your stuff if you let your sub lapse. Even if you resub, you don’t get it back.

  3. In my opinion this is just a bad faith argument. Of course they’re not putting their games on PC, they would cannibalize their own sales. Trying to pretend that you should boycott Nintendo for not actively destroying their own economic model is certainly A Take.

  4. Entirely fair. My understanding is that they’re getting better at this, but after the shitshow that was brawl that’s a low fucking bar. I could point out that smash bros isn’t actually Nintendo (it was HAL, then Sora, then Bandai) but like… lets be real here, it’s Sakurai running the show, and Sakurai basically is working for Nintendo even if he isn’t employed there lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So what are those reasons, that make you think people should boycott Nintendo and not other companies, then?

  Because I suspect most of them are not as legitimate as you might be thinking, and now I’m curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also just a substantial number of people that were just astroturfers, I think.

  There’s been a LOT of crazy attacks on the switch 2 to try to ‘justify’ a boycott. I think my two favorite was that the gamechat button noise when you hit is actually saying saying a slur, or maybe that the rumble turns off after a while not to protect your hands from the rumble (which has been found to be bad for you), but because Nintendo cheaped out on a rumble motor that overheated too easily.

  The switch 2 joycons don’t have a rumble motor. Like, it’s a whole thing they’re super proud of, because it’s so precise they just use the rumble really fast to play music instead of having a speaker.

  Honestly, the whole idea of trying to boycott nintendo has pretty much always been over astroturfed bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to "Reformat" a Hardrive the American way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t drink “soda” and shoot guns, you should damn well know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you’re overreacting.

  It sounds to me like you’re hoping this is a “good enough” excuse to not have to drive, and unfortunately, you very likely live in an area where that is not an optional skill set.

  Look up learned helplessness- and then decide if you want that to be you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that none of those characters had their stories wrapped up.

  Geralt’s story was wrapped up in Witcher 3. That was the whole point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is still that most people, even most journalists or politicians, don’t have those protections. Fact is, a lot of top politicians and journalists don’t have those protections which is literally why we have politicians getting arrested for protesting against the El Salvador prisons and then going after comey.

  And leave personal attacks out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazingly enough, there are more people in the world than the rich, famous, or powerful. Most people do not have that “wealth of powerful advocates.”

  Those people also deserve the rights you’re so callously ignoring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If comey can be investigated by the secret service for an Instagram tweet what is stopping elon from taking hold of politicians/reporters accounts and making posts that will get them investigated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, because this administration is SO good about providing people with due process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that you DIDN’T make a choice, because you were colluded against. Why so much focus on honoring your agreement, when they aren’t honoring their agreements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the part where, because of federal interest in schooling loans (because the government wants a well-educated population, typically), you have a captive market with colluding loan companies that abuse said federal interest to jack up education prices and interest rates. In other words, you don’t have an option but to accept the ‘terms’ of the predatory loans unless you don’t go to college… except the federal government wants you to go to college.

  So student loan forgiveness is basically the federal government yanking the collusion back and going “no, they pay off the loan and a REASONABLE AMOUNT OF DEBT, and the rest of the absurdity you’re trying to shovel gets canceled because it should have never been tried in the first place.”

  And then conservatives whine and cry about their tax money going to 'paying off student loans" because conservatives are idiots that can’t comprehend why a rich person would lie to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare insults dropped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is… Is that norm Abrams?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just keep moving those goalposts, kiddo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it’s located at letmegooglethat.com/?q=Nintendo+lawsuit+against+p…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting down votes from astroturfers, idiots, and kids who can’t handle attacks on their precious favoritist little game, but you’re right, palworld has zero leg to stand on here and they’re lucky their company even still exists with the sheer scale of blatant theft going on. But DAE Nintendo bad hurr hurr?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very nice and cute that you’re skeptical, but they’re literally doing the same thing, except with a goal of weakening America instead generating more money.

  Your skepticism doesn’t matter- it’s an attack on you, stop excusing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s got doom. The frame rate is fairly useless, much like the rest of the device it seems.

  Latency is terrible (as in 1-2 seconds to respond to a single key press even in a text editor, let alone doom) and the screen is limited to, iirc, 1 million refreshes total before dying. At roughly fives hours of use per day with a refresh once/second, you’re looking at 55 days before the screen burns out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Series S is $299 here, unless you’re getting used. PS5 digital is hardly apples to oranges, considering the Switch 2 isn’t offering a cartridgeless version.

  I also like your arguement about the switch 2 somehow being lesser because it’s going to get scalped, very pointedly ignoring the PS5-shaped scalper elephant in the window. I guess I spoke too soon in the other post- you didn’t manage to delete all examples of cutting Sony and MS a break, you’ve got one right here!

  As for the price, sony and microsoft charge $70 for a standard edition game, but also often incomplete and requiring extra money from ‘DLC’ or ‘premium/deluxe’ editions to actually be properly playable/have the baseline plot/lore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t, because you went and deleted it lmaooooo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason I think it’s astroturfing is because there’s a lot of people who are critical of Nintendo, while simultaneously giving Sony and Microsoft a free pass for doing the exact same thing, or even just making things up outright to bash Nintendo, like your claims that it’s ‘hardware that is long in the tooth at launch.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then what exactly are you expecting? The market for new consoles is currently: Switch 2: $449 Xbox Series S: $299, four years old, less powerful than the switch 2 Xbox Series X: $499, four years old, more expensive, same resolution/fps, more powerful (tflops) than switch 2, 15.7x the size PS5: $499, five years old, more expensive, same resolution, more fps, more powerful than switch 2 but less than series x (tflops), 24x the size

  The switch 2 was positioned, and announced, as a portable console capable of similar power levels as one console generation ago, and it overdelivered- the common comparison is that it’s more powerful than a PS4. For a handheld, that is absurdly good, and the price is certainly in line with the rest of the market. The literal only outlier is the Series S, which it’s supposedly more powerful than.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … It’s using modern hardware, with specs that are entirely reasonable for being a handheld. The fuck are you expecting, a ps6 that you stick in your pocket for $200?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I just have to wonder if it’s not astroturfing, or the results of astroturfing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao outrageously priced. It’s higher than it was, yes, but I remember the PS3 announcement.

  Now THAT was outrageously priced!

  $950 for the 60gb model after inflation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not being silly, and it is wrong. Just because ICE is bending over backwards to drag people into this shit doesn’t make it right, and you shouldn’t fall for their gaslighting and normalization. It’s wrong, and you should feel confident in calling out how fucking absurd this shit is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please choose one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thje problem is more that they tend to get WAY MORE hate for way less stuff.

  Like, blizzard literally had a woman commit suicide because she thought she was going to be used as a sex slave. Yet Nintendo gets more shit than blizzard does, because Nintendo doesn’t want you pirating their games.

  Like, bruh, priorities. I know it’s not a zero sum game, but god damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For better or worse, yes. (Probably worse, but this is the world we have to deal with…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they’ve done that at the malls near me as well. Surprise surprise, 3 of them have closed down and the fourth is a ghost town.

  Basically every store in the place is some kind of crystals-and-juju or retirement-scam place, along with somehow a ton of phone case booths?

  When I was a kid (might be dating myself here) there was music shops, arcades, bookstores, food, all kinds of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A good point, but I’ll note that most socialization for kids these days doesn’t necessarily happen at a singular friend’s house- it’s typically in a private chat/channel/group/etc online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am, admittedly, basing some of this off other posts the guy has made in this… err, thread? Post? Not sure what the lemmy vocab is here, but I can quote it:

  And another part of it is I want them to have a clean break from the outside world, from friendship drama or clinginess, from school stuff, etc.

  I dunno about you man, but kids probably don’t need protected from friendships, even if they might have the occasional drama… and ‘the outside world’ comment just concerns me.