Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@DefHalan Good luck.

@NintendoFan64: Thanks. It is a pretty long shot, but it would be awesome lol.

Hey, what's with that gun article today? Don't you guys think it's out of place on a site like this.

Huh, I'd guess that since it was moded to look like a Nintendo product, it's relevant to the site that covers Nintendo stuff.

I don't know. It just felt sort of off.

@-Red-: Just put it next to the "thank god they nuked Hiroshima instead of Kyoto to save our games", "why we can't say smeg on Nintendo systems" and "Links suggests Sex" articles that appeared on here.

Also a slow news day/week.

@Dankykong: lol

@-Red-: I think it has to do with the fact that the gun is in bad taste. Even though it's not Nintendo-endorsed nor was it made by the big N, it still carries the Nintendo logo and the design of the original Zapper. Thus in theory it could become bad press for Nintendo.

I think the article is justified from this perspective.

@Nego: That's true.

This is also very true.

@Nego: Yeah because someone will believe Nintendo "finally made a toy I can get behind"

@Dankykong: That's not what I meant. The Zapper gun is actually the sort of thing Nintendo should react to, even though they can't pull it down nor can they stop people from manufacturing them. If they ignore it, they are silently saying it's okay for people to have real guns with Nintendo logos on them. At least that's the way it may very well get perceived.

@Nego: I kinda feel like if Nintendo addresses it, they just shine a spotlight on it. Ignoring it keeps the as far away from the product as possible.

You said it's not what you meant and then said exactly what I implied you meant again. "it may very well get perceived". You'd have to be a moron to think Nintendo is actually associated with the guns, and I doubt there are many gun fans who are also Nintendo fans, who'd do this on a large enough scale for it to be a problem.
Also it's not like this is the first nasty thing that has had Nintendo's name printed on it. There are pictures of drugs all over the internet with Super Mario graphics or various Nintendo logos stamped on it and nobody is going "oh my god Nintendo needs to address it and shut it down" because nobody is asking if Nintendo is making those drugs, because nobody is assuming Nintendo has anything to do with it. Same with this...

Just read the article. It looks cool.

BTW, Nintendo can't/won't do anything about it. Other than people's personal/political views on guns clouding their judgement, this isn't any different from let's say the Man at Arms series on YouTube, where they have a professional blacksmith make real swords in the image of swords from pop-culture (and regarding Nintendo, they've made a Master Sword, a Falchion, and some sword from Majora's Mask. Heck, they've even made a Hylian shield).

Same can be said about Pokemon, since they also did Honedge.
(and you know how the Pokemon company is, lol)

Now if someone made either of the main sets of Bayonetta's guns...

Ugh, they cut the blade out rather than forge one. My grandfather would be turning in his grave

Granted, I know nothing of blacksmithing, but I've watched enough episodes to know the amount of effort they put into each blade varies from episode to episode.

I don't know if they've done anything the traditional way, but it seems like you can tell which properties they themselves are fans of.

For some reason that "this man saved Nintendo from the nukes" article from this website, got reposted to this news app I look at, and it has 14 dislikes, which is unusual because I rarely see any likes or dislikes on anything haha. But there's no comments so I'm suspicious.

Nope. I never said someone would think Nintendo made it.