kurmudgeon

I blame it on him for just being a completely weird fucking asshole.

South African “author” defends…

You’re missing the point. If the game was officially available on PC, released by Nintendo, then this individual would have no reason to do a tool to port it. Game accessibility is one of the biggest reasons people pirate.

Not necessarily. Take for example, Gabe Newell’s stance on this.

Newell rejected the industry assumption that people pirate games simply because they refuse to pay. Instead, he noted that many pirates are regular consumers—such as people with expensive gaming PCs and internet plans—who turn to illegal downloads because the official options are inconvenient.

Then Nintendo should also go after Anthropic and OpenAI. They’re making money off the AI tools used to create the port that allows this to happen.

The problem is that you can’t just sue toolmakers. All this 14 year old did is created a tool that allows you to make a PC port. He used an AI tool to do this. If you could sue toolmakers, then you could sue Intel for creating a CPU that is used to generate a PC port of the game. A CPU is just another tool afterall.

The donations being received are for the development of a tool. That tool doesn’t pirate anything, doesn’t circumvent anything, doesn’t infringe on any Nintendo properties in and of itself. It doesn’t hack any Nintendo hardware. It doesn’t share copyrighted information.

Nintendo would have a very hard time trying to bring a lawsuit and have legal standing for this issue.

The best thing Nintendo could do is to start officially supporting PC. If they had done this from the beginning, many people would gladly pay for the ability to play the game on PC. I would. Take it from Gabe Newell:

Newell rejected the industry assumption that people pirate games simply because they refuse to pay. Instead, he noted that many pirates are regular consumers—such as people with expensive gaming PCs and internet plans—who turn to illegal downloads because the official options are inconvenient.

For what? They’re not emulating the game. They’re not providing game files in any capacity. It’s a tool to recompile a ROM. There’s nothing Nintendo can do about it or they would have done it already.

For those of you who feel sorry for Nintendo with this situation, I blamed Nintendo. It’s come to the point where they have to realize that PC is a viable platform that they need to utilize instead of avoiding it. When they avoid it and don’t do an official release, this is what they get. Your games on PC are inevitable now with or without you. It’s a reality. Adopt.

They also use it to hurt the people in their tribe. They don’t give a fuck as long as they can make it dollar.

So as we’ve seen for the past 2 years, there is absolutely zero accountability in the Republican party whatsoever. And even after getting their asses completely fucking handed to them, they still don’t have any capacity for accountability, even personal self accountability to the extent that they would rather blame the people who put them in their position of power to begin with, than to incorporate and impose the will of those people.

What do you expect though when a party who bases their beliefs and ideals on a 2,000-year-old textbook and are not capable of any rational thought of any kind on their own? A shameless party with egos so massive, they’re unwilling to accept reality in any form or fashion, especially if it gets in the way of their ability to make a dollar.

It’s almost like Trump picked a weekend Fox News anchor to run the entire military. Oh, wait…

I don’t have any experience with AOC monitors, and I’m not sure if this will help much, but I recently upgraded to a new MSI monitor and I’m extremely impressed with the build quality and the overall experience with the monitor.

I was between a Samsung Odyssey G9 or an MSI 491CQPX. After hearing many of the horror stories about the Samsung quality issues, I decided to go with the MSI which has the exact same panel. Man, am I glad that I did. This monitor is amazing. While this is a high-end monitor from MSI, it’s led me to believe that MSI probably has good build quality across the board.

They’re just a bunch of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathers, incapable of irrational thought, filled with ignorance, bigotry and hatred. They are the product of a Republican world where their mothers couldn’t get the abortions they needed, so instead they were raised in very bad circumstances with a very poor education, probably brought up on religion instead, no real proper guidance or positive influence, probably impoverished, probably by parents who were brought up in similar circumstances, who were also unfit parents to perpetuate the Republican dream - bigoted, uneducated and completely controllable supporters, aka “tools”.

One thing that I find really interesting here is that most of these people aren’t even white. A high percentage of these ICE agents, especially in the southern border states, have a high rate of being Latino, who follow other Latinos who spew their bigotry, ignorance and hatred towards their own people: Enrique Torrio, Nick Fuentes, etc. To use their own words against them, those don’t sound like very American names.

Good, now she can start doing porn. I have a feeling this is where it’s all leading any way.

This is what happens when a party lets a president run rampant with no controls or checks in place. They made their bed and now they can sleep in it.

And once again, all tech leaders give a shit about his money. They’re willing to destroy the planet, eat up all the energy, pollute all the water, it doesn’t matter, as long as they can make their fucking money.

Of course he deleted those posts. The only thing Elon cares about is acquiring more money. The richest guy in the world just doesn’t have enough god damn money. So some dumbass posts of his cost him $120 Billion, gotta take those down.

I hope this asshole gets pancreatic cancer.

Great. What’s the best alternative? Boost has been a pretty damn good pre-paid option for me where I live and even when traveling into Canada. Can’t beat the cheap price. But as soon as Elon gets involved with Boost in any way I’m fucking out. I want nothing to do with that cocksucker.

I looked at U.S. Mobile, but that seems way too complicated, having to manage which carrier you’re piggybacking off of yourself - who has time for that? Not to mention the cheesy names they have for the 3 carriers who’s networks they utilize (dark star, warp and lightspeed).

Is StraighTalk really the only other option for cheap $25 prepaid with good network coverage?

Or affordable housing or justice against rich pedophiles.

So the federal government is money laundering. Great.

Which is a very ignorant way of voting. They might as well vote based on whether or not they’re going to win the lottery.