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Husband and wife ordered to pay $12m to Nintendo for running ROM sites

An Arizona couple have been ordered to pay Nintendo a whopping $12.23m (£9.5m) in damages for running a pair of sites which offered pirated ROMs. Jacob…

Today in “Nintendo is a bunch of sweaty corporatist goons who want to be Disney so fucking badly but never will be”:

Nintendo creates artificial scarcity of its products, and the medium of digital games is especially susceptible to this. They make no effort to make any significant portion of their massive catalog of previous-generation games available and accessible to the public, at best only selecting piecemeal titles here and there restarting every console generation but now seems to have abandoned even that. And they release products like the NES and SNES Classic because they know this, they know their games are in such high demand because they don’t make them available on a wide scale. And when they do make these products, guess what? They’re sold in extraordinarily limited quantities and if you don’t act fast you can only buy them from scalpers. 

To think Nintendo is doing this any of this unintentionally is just closing your eyes to the facts. It’s obvious Nintendo tries to create a mystique around their products by holding them back, just like Disney used to do with its “Disney Vault” scheme of making old movies limited time purchases. 

Is it really strange people turn to ROMs and emulators for these games? If they’re not available, what else are people supposed to do if they want to play these games? Pay exorbitant multi-hundred dollar prices to get the original versions of the game used and scrape up money to try to find a functioning old console to play them? The money isn’t even going to Nintendo at that point. This holds especially pertinent for games on systems near the middle of Nintendo’s history like the N64 and Gamecube which have seen the least distribution since their original releases. Nintendo’s paltry system of remaking a handful of titles like Wind Waker and Twilight Princess and then selling them at or near current gen full price absolutely is not enough and is more abuse of the fact they hold such a tight control over the games in their catalog. 

And even putting aside games people want to play for fun, there’s the entirely separate issue of historical preservation! Taking down massive ROM sites and forcing the people running them to pay millions of dollars they can’t afford means less and less places old games are cataloged and preserved. Not just the big titles, but every little game that came out during that time period, disposable or high quality, popular or obscure–how will we ever study our own cultural history if we do not know it? There’s a much wider discussion to be had about digital preservation in general in the internet age but Nintendo is just obliterating huge swaths of their own history for short term financial gain. 

Twelve million dollars is just a tiny drop in the bucket for the multibillion dollar multinational corporation Nintendo but will almost certainly ruin the lives of this couple who engaged in defying shortsighted capitalist greed. Please stop thinking of this company as anything other than another than another soulless ball of wealth generation for a particular elite. Nintendo clearly employs many talented and creative artists who aren’t to blame for stuff like this but that shouldn’t distract from the complete lack of morality underpinning the institution as a whole. Fuck Nintendo.

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commission for https://twitter.com/SolidKoS

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the inhabitants of mobius from sonic spinball and the pretty cool airplane

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#is that antoine?

Nope, Muttski. The characters there are all from Sonic Spinball, no Antoine there.

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THE TIME r/Socialism BANNED CATGIRLS- AN OVERWORKED ARTICLE THAT COVERS OVER A DECADE OF STUFF TO…

(disclaimer: this article will touch on things such as 4chan, 8ch, Gamergate, politics, etc. I’ll try to make this as palatable to anyone…

I wrote a really long article supposedly about the time last year when r/Socialism banned catgirls, but that’s really an excuse to talk about board-tans and over a decade of random internet stuff

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After much deliberation, you and your spouse have decided to adopt a child. You find an agency, fill out the requisite paperwork, and after months of anxious waiting, you are finally cleared to bring your precious new infant son home. Things proceed quite well at first, but as the months go on, things get strange. Your child is developing motor skills beyond his age, crying louder than any baby you’ve ever heard, and after three months he’s begun to sprout hair all over his body. Turns out he’s monkey.

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HALLOWEEN

A 2018 4-page comic, awkwardly rushed to be done before the 31st and without much politics despite featuring characters from the now-defunct Political Ideology Catgirls webcomic such as Alunya or Rodina I hope you manage to enjoy it somehow!

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if your party isn’t this lit don’t even invite me 😤👌🔥🎉💯

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commission of blinx the time sweeper for professor badvibes over at discord

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commission for @sketch-armstrong of the character Paprika from his webcomic

and just the peacock since I like how it came out

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lime summer

years ago I came up with a mascot character for my now dead tumblr blog

felt like revisiting her

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a year ago or so I did a bunch of drawings of a mega man alternate universe where concepts from all branches merged down into a reimagined classic mega man branch

revisiting the concept today

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beat adaptor

tango adaptor