8 mo. ago • 94%

boycott Nintendo products

after what happened with yuzu emu, im done...

EDIT: This post is a joke! It was posted in /c/memes, of course it is going to be a meme! If you consider this news, please re-evaluate your choice of sources.

At the same time, I think it says something about Nintendo that some actually believed this...

93 comments

I can't believe there's people in here that don't understand that this is a joke.

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- The fact it's almost believable is both real and a serious problem.
  
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- It's so close to reality that I'll forgive it :P
  
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  LOL oh come on. I loved Yuzu a lot, and what they did to Bowser is fucked, but this is not all close to anything Nintendo has done.
  
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- And I can't believe that there are people like you who still underestimate how gullible people can be.
  
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- ...joke?
  
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- You know sometimes jokes fall flat
  
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- Not even a good joke either, it's like Facebook tier memeing
  
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- Despite understanding that it's a joke, i don't think that it's a meme This is just a picture of text joke
  
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  This is just a picture of text joke
  
  I think you just described every "meme" I've ever seen.
  
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  You've been banned from /memes
  
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And everyone clapped

The CEO's name -- Albert Einstein.

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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.

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- 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 in that time, 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.
  
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  A * B * C = X
  
  If X is less than the cost of a recall, they don’t do one.
  
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  I think boss was just lazy to think about it in this case and you gave him no other choice thou 😅
  
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- 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.
  
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  “This Spider Man thing really paid off, Honey!”
  
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  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
  
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- 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.
  
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Such a feel good story

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Nah don't boycott Nintendo's shit; steal it.

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- How to steal something you can't own? Instructions unclear /s
  
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  YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A SWITCH
  
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  It's simple, steal another copy.
  
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  *make an unauthorized copy of it
  
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- Already ha... oh uh, I mean nope, I sure wouldn't do that, ossifer law! :-P
  
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- 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
  
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  still buying Nintendo hardware.
  
  Steal that too, and if you wanna move the posts again consider emulation.
  
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So that's how Nintendo keeps the price of their games so low! They have a secondary revenue stream!

/s

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I'm gonna need a source on this one.

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- Looks like a joke to me
  
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  On the memes community?
  
  If people continue to post jokes here then where will I get my news??
  
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  Meme before I've had my coffee? It's more likely than you think.
  
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- No, just love the meme.
  
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- Yeah, fuck Nintendo but this is very obviously bullshit unless they actually made and sold a product.
  
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  Very obviously a joke. Cardboard, people! :)
  
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  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.
  
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- Nah this happened to my buddy Eric the other day
  
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- The source got pulled off Github already.
  
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- Yeah this originally a copypasta about a boy from Venezuela named Paco Gutierrez
  
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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.

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- It's a meme
  
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  Yeah my bad, went right over my head.
  
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- This is a joke referencing Nintendo suing an emulator developer. It should not be considered news. The money amount is even the same.
  
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  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.
  
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  Oops, I'm slow on the uptake. Thanks.
  
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If you want to boycott this company don't give them ads, don't have their logo reach the front page

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I hope the ChatGPT and its siblings bring about the end of copyright. Unfortunately it's more likely we'll pervert the idea of personhood yet again and claim these things are people same as was done with corporations.

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- Happily an anarchist but also an artist, and I'm wondering why a complete lack of copyright would be a good thing.
  
  Scenario A: I make a cool thing, it catches on, corpos with gajillions of dollars legally make tons of money off of it and leave me unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite me doing all the actual work.
  
  Scenario B: I make a cool thing, it catches on. It gets ripped off by everyone freely, and I'm left unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite doing all the hard work. In fact, everyone who feels like it claims it as their own. I have zero recourse. This is all legal.
  
  Scenario C: I'm a scuzzbag, so I copy-paste everyone else's hard work onto various merch without their permission, pirate their software, make lots of money, cheat them out of the fruits of their labor. Except it's all legal woo!
  
  Scenario D: ChatGPT and its ilk have front-loaded all the theft, so now ripping off artists is transparently accessible to anyone who wants to pop in some "prompts" and claim they're so creative. Hard-working artists are mocked as obsolete because their efforts were scraped and stolen. They struggle to pay rent and take no credit.
  
  I hate copyright abuse (i.e Disney) as much as everyone else, but I also feel like the champions of "abolish copyright" want everything for free because they don't make anything themselves, and creative efforts are just that: effort.
  
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  All of the scenarios occur today. Every single one of them.
  
  You do see that, right?
  
  Artistry predates copyright law.
  
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  Boooo
  
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Clearly the father made a lot of money off that social media post. Nintendo is only trying to protect its IP!

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I get my Nintendo fix via Super Tux and Super Tux Cart

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Paco Gutierrez, age 9

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I'm going to tell this story to my kid so he believes it and then I can have him stop buying video games.

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Hmm, not sure if this is a real story. It might be.

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This made me laugh out loud. Good on ya.

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My laugh turned heads on the Metro. 🤣👍

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- Insensitive bastard!
  
  To pay his debt this kid cuts out and sells hundreds of cardboard Disney characters every day! He has blisters so awful that he can now never play a switch even if he had one.
  
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@gianni

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I strongly suggest that tere needs to be some enforcement by the mods on which formatting should be used for memes. @cypherpunks@lemmy.ml @cyclohexane@lemmy.ml

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I don't have to boycott since their products already suck.

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(x) doubt

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Spreads desinformation and calls it a joke when called out

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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.

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- What are you on about?!
  
  This is a joke about a cardboard switch.
  
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  OP commented about Yuzu alongside the image, it's part of the reactionary 'Nintendo = bad' memes
  
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- 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.
  
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- Fuck all this “ethics” BS, I steal because it’s fun 😤
  
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  Playing the games can be fun, but getting them to work can be a pain sometimes. Although it's satisfying when you've been struggling to get one to work and finally figure it out...wait, is that why people like the Dark Souls games?
  
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- Uh excuse me ma'am, you're in a meme post right now.
  
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- Stopping software mainly used for piracy has equated to the inability to do what you like with what you rightfully purchase
  
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