Random: New Pokémon Snap Player Builds Their Own Gyro Camera Controller

This thing is so cool, imagine if something like this was packaged with the game in the same way the pokeball was packaged with Let's Go!

@Vermiand Because 'their' has always existed as a word meaning something that belongs to someone? Pick up a dictionary.

He looks as if he’s about to snap when playing Pokemon Snap with the attachment that may snap anytime

As DIY as this looks, it's a pretty neat idea, one I kinda wish we got officially (and might've if this were in the Wii/Wii U days).

@JellyPop cause it is a collective pronoun and has always been used while addressing to a group of people, not just one man.

I still think the Wii U would've been better for pokemon snap.

Pretty neat, to say the least

@Vermiand collective pronouns are used interchangeably with singular pronouns here in the UK, moreso in certain regions.

"Let us know if you're going to the pub later"
"They're going to get away with it!"
"Their controller is cool"

@Vermiand, "their" or "they" has had a singular form for centuries. It's been commonly used for unspecified antecedents, which is exactly what a "player" is in this case.

Calm down from calling someone stupid for using English as it's been used for centuries.

I don't even speak English, but look...
The story is about a person that made a pokemon snap themed controller, but since it is the internet, the comments are revolving around pronouns, because apparently even pronouns has politics in them nowadays.

And hey look: I used "THEM". Will you try to kill me now?

@Vermiand,

Not sure why this would be stupid, even if you were right, which you are not.

@abdias,

He is complaining about something without understanding it in the first place, no politics involved at all, he has got the wrong end of the stick and is reading into things far too much.

I still think it's a shame that Nintendo just screw over the chance to make it compatible with LABO VR Camera.. this games smells LABO VR Camera, and would be immersive as hell..

@Vermiand Did you just learn to speak English today? I was not aware of "their" being used as a specific gender-identification term until a couple months ago.

And I've been speaking English for multiple decades, to put it at that.

@KingMike I've been studying English for two decades already, and this "thing" appeared just two or three years ago because some human beings who don't recognize biology decided to get offended as their point of view towards their gender doesn't coincide with the real deal. That should be their problem. I do not want to ruin my grammar knowledge because of these people.

@johnvboy what I understand is that you destroy your own language just to not harm feelings of someone you don't even know.

@Vermiand,

Not sure what you are getting at, the article is very simple, not so sure why you had to make a point about the person being male, or why it is even an issue in the first place.

That's pretty cool.

I definitely need to get back into the game, my oldest son really enjoys playing New Pokemon Snap.

@ralphdibny That's interesting about UK usage, I'd never heard about that before. In the US, "back in my day" kids were reprimanded and verbally assaulted by teachers over and over until they learned never EVER to use collective pronouns in general. "They in general" with a line through it was a recurring theme on chalk boards. No matter where politics goes, I will forever use "his/hers" regardless of politically accepted contexts because it was drilled and drilled and drilled that anything else is pure failure, from a young age. By the time I was done elementary school, I don't care if it's a freaking toaster, it has a gender and it will be named thus.

@NEStalgia I'd say it's more of a Northern thing but it's probably just more of a commoner thing over here. I definitely use "us" to refer to myself occasionally even though I'm from the South.

I believe teachers did reprimand us for not speaking properly. I remember a lot of contention over the word/contraction "ain't" and also my pronunciation of water which sounds more like "wa'er". But at the end of the day, there's the constructed world that pedants would like you to believe is correct and there is the real world which actually exists.

With regards to your second point which is a minefield that I won't want to expand on too much. I would say that those you refer to actually exist in the real world and I'm quite happy to refer to people in whichever way they like to be referred. It's no real skin off my nose to do so.

I still think it was a mistake for Nintendo not to release a New Pokemon Snap Labo camera accessory, possibly bundling it with a more expensive special edition version of the game itself. I think it would have sold quite well - I would have probably bought it TBH.

@ralphdibny Depends how brainwashed you are at how young an age by the pedants. If they get you young enough and fiercely enough, that's how you end up unable to write forum posts without text walls. The grammar will be as taught, darnit!

@NEStalgia lol, apologies for the text wall. I wanted to respond to your first point but felt like I had to address your second point in order to do so. Otherwise you would have just had a text er, 2 paragraphs to read!

@ralphdibny lol, I was referring to myself as the text waller, actually

@NEStalgia oh right fair enough 😅. Too bad my teachers didn't drill better comprehension skills into my brain!

I see all these very talented people making these incredible devices and it reminds me of how little I do these days. So here's some jokes...

How does Mario clean his windows?
With a Squigi.

Why do all the toads watch TV on Christmas day?
Because of the Queens Peach.

Why did some Nintendo fans like bad guys?
Because they Doug Bowser.

Samus spilt blackcurrant on her suit creating a Metroid Stainia.

@NEStalgia Must've been your teachers or your region or something. I grew up in the US as well and never heard of collective pronouns being an offensive thing.
I've even heard it accepted to refer to a group of people of mixed genders with masculine pronouns, though maybe that would quite as accepted today, I admit.
But I still don't see how it would feasible to address a large group while acknowledging every person's gender.

The worst reprimanding I heard some kid get was in high school when the teacher told the student "we do not refer to a member of this faculty as 'the dude'".