@HalBailman That would be great. I'd also like to buy only the switch tablet, without joy-cons or dock or anything esle. Just give me the tablet for the price of a switch lite! I already have a dock and enough joy cons. Only thing I am interested in is the OLED screen. Come on Nintendo!
@YoungLink64 I am absolutely fine with that. It's not like you get all the accessories or packaging for free you know? You pay for everything in the box, including the box itself. So for me, it's actually more customer friendly, not to force me to pay for crap I don't need nor want. I already have all the cables I need for the dock, why should I have to pay for more? And for those who need the accessories, they can always buy them individually. Yes, you have to think for yourself what you need, that might be a challenge for some customers.
At this point it's pure speculation if Nintendo really shut down the stream because of the free Melee stuff, albeit a reasonable one. To be fair, it's the only thing Nintendo could have done in this situation.
Ppl., it's as easy as that. Nintendo is a company that protects it's IPs, as they are legally obliged to. Copyright, like any other right, is a right you have to defend in order to keep it's value. Period. If you want support from Nintendo, and that is the essential point here, you need to literally play by their rules. That is not unreasonable, that is just normal. Nintendo will never support promoting piracy, because it is against their business interest and against their values. And that is exactly what the whole "free melee" movement is all about.
You can't seriously expect Nintendo to promote a movement that outright calls for pirating their games. What's wrong with you.
bought them last time they were on sale together with the snes one. Like them so far. They also work with mario 35 and are my prefered way to play! Also, you can pair them with 8bitdo receivers and then use them on the nes classic, a real nes/famicom or your pc/pi.
@sikthvash "[...] the point of the add was to be funny and sell the game / IP."
You are right of course. The point of the ad is to sell. And they achieved their goal, by being controversial they made themselves known. Before the ad was featured due to it's controversial nature, I never heard neither of the game, nor the company behind it. I should have written "the message of the ad" or sth. similar. But I lack a proper word I guess ...
"if you don't condone what they did, why did you write an essay in the first place?"
Condone is not equal to endorse. I condone it in the sense that I accept its existence. I do not approve of the ad nor do I defend it nor do I endorse any behavior shown in the ad.
I think it's a really stupid and badly animated ad. But I do not take offense. You decide for yourself whether you get offended or not. Offense is taken not given.
I mean, this ad shouldn't even be a thing. We make it a thing! And by making it a thing, we play into the hands of the people making these stupid ads. We endorse this kind of advertising by advertising it ourselves pretending social justice agendas. It's so ironic it's funny in itself.
And that's the whole point of my "essay". Don't take fiction seriously, don't let yourself be offended by every stupid thing you encounter. Don't take ads as a manual or blueprint for real life.
"It just seems like a dig at those who oppose this?"
You are right. You shouldn't oppose it, because there is nothing to oppose. It's a freaking stupid ad! By making it controversial and playing the social justice card you do exactly what you try to oppose, legitimize that kind of advertisement. They knew exactly what they were doing and it played in their favor.
I honestly think the world would be better off, if people would be more relaxed with those kind of things. If nobody cared or talked about that crap in the first place, most people wouldn't even have seen that stupid thing.
And seriously, no sane person in the world would say it is okay to slap the butts of strange women because a crappy animated ad did show it. And if people are really that insane to believe this is an endorsement or this does in any way legitimize that kind of behavior, we need to have a discussion about our educational system.
I am not defending the ad, just like I am not endorsing anything shown there. If you really read and understood my posts you would know. But of course you only read "snowflake" and get triggered immediately, which btw. was completely intentional
It's kinda funny and sad at the same time how many people really do not get the point of the ad at all.
"You must not endorse inappropriate behavior" they say.
"The point of this ad is to make you laugh about sexual assault" they 'analyze'.
Seriously, do you really do not get the ad?
Terry is depicted as a complete idiot. Right from the very first frame he is shown, he very clearly behaves completely inappropriate and like a total moron. It is clear right from the start that he is the bad guy.
And after the booty slapping, of course he comically falls from his bike, because he is an idiot.
And the women literally stand up for themselves. Not only figuratively, they literally stand up to confront him. The imagery could not be any clearer.
What do you ppl. need? Subtitles explaining the scene for you?
Is it sexist? Only if you think the depiction of one single individual man is representative of all men, but not against women, but against men, who are portrayed as complete idiots. The women in this ad are portrayed as strong and confident who refuse to be victimized.
Does it "endorse" inappropriate behavior"? Showing sth. is not endorsement, just like discussing sth. is not endorsement. Nobody endorses anything in this ad. The point made here very clearly is: only stupid idiot morons treat women like objects.
Then again, this is a badly animated ad with clearly unrealistic fictional characters. Should you take that whole thing seriously? Of course you shouldn't!
Seriously, if you can't distinguish between fiction and real life, between endorsement and presentation, between personal and group identity, between image and imagery, you should really be more careful what you consume and for your own sanity really step up your game. Go read some books instead of watching stupid ads on the internet. Especially in good classic literature no single line can be taken literally, it really can teach you something.
We are at a point in time where every login to the internet should require a "BEWARE: NO SNOWFLAKE AREA" warning sign ;D
That's offensive! Because showing strong women standing up for themselves and defending against an assailant must not be done! Women have to be shown as weak and victims, how else can you justify "progressive" PC cancel culture? With PC back to the dark ages everybody!
The amount of ignorance regarding hard- /software and Operating Systems in this comment section is just ... wow
I wonder why Nintendo wouldn't just release all these GC and Wii ports in the west. Ppl. woud go crazy about them, especially LoZTP (yeah Mario as well..).
Yes, the nvidia shield is basically the blueprint for the switch, with the switch having a slightly customized, optimized chip and more RAM. But basically, they share the same Tegra X1 SoC. Also, the shield 2017 is basically exactly the same as the 2015 edition, only with a smaller footprint and case.
Regarding operating systems. It's funny claiming that ppl. who think "playing on Linux is superior to Windows" are Linux Fanboys and regarding "Android a superior system" (for Gaming I assume).
Problem is, ppl. do generally not understand what an Operating System is. An OS is said to be many things, but in it's core, it is only the first layer of abstraction of the hardware and manages the hardware resources. That's called the kernel and that's it. You don't see an OS, you don't use an OS.
Now what Systems like Windows, Android, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux do, is they add libraries and Interfaces (also user interfaces) on top of a Kernel, to give Users and Devs the possibility to interact with the Hardware and actually do stuff. But that stuff is not the OS. It's auxiliary and complements the OS to provide sth. usable.
In case of Android, the actual operating system IS Linux. Android uses the Linux 4 kernel line for hardware abstraction and management. Android itself then adds an optimized Java Virtual Machine called Dalvik and brings with it all the required Java libraries to interact with all the stuff you find in mobile devices, like touch screens, sensors, gsm modules, and so on. But still, all hardware drivers are written for and integrated in the underlying Linux kernel. So on top of the kernel, Android adds another layer of hardware abstraction in form of the Dalvik Virtual Machine. Code is not directly compiled for the underlying hardware, but for the VM, and then interpreted by the VM to run on the actual hardware. The obvious advantage is, that you do not need to write your apps for a specific phone, but for the Dalvik Virtual Machine. Since Dalvik runs on top of Linux, only Linux has to be ported to the actual hardware. However, regarding performance, especially gaming performance, that's the worst thing you could possibly do. For gaming and other high performance applications, what you want is direct and exclusive hardware access.
This is also one of the reasons why Android has an extremely noticeable input lag when using controllers (on top of the also always present bluetooth lag). And this is the reason, why generally, dedicated gaming consoles have much better gaming performance than general purposes devices (with equal hardware specs), because Games can be optimized for the specific hardware and usually have access to all hardware resources exclusively.
When ppl are talking about Linux, what they really mean is a specific GNU/Linux distribution. Again, Linux is just the Kernel. You don't use Linux. You use a GNU/Linux distribution, that adds all the stuff you expect a usable system to have. In its core however, Linux is much more efficient in hardware management, than Windows is. The reason why Windows is "better for gaming" is not because it technically is the better system. It's because it's the more popular Desktop system. So Game Devs and also GPU driver devs put more effort into optimizing performance for Windows. But if you have a game engine and GPU drivers that are optimized for Linux, Games often perform better on Linux than on Windows on the same physical machine. Valve is well aware of that fact and that is also one reason why they are pushing Steam OS and Proton. Even with Proton, which is an additional Emulation Layer, some Windows Games perform better on Linux, given that you have a supported GPU with optimized Linux drivers.
The switch OS is a dedicated Gaming OS, and of course better suited for Gaming than Android. But afaik, the GC and Wii ports on the shield are actually not ported to Android. I think they are using a special direct-to-metal engine. So they should be able to bring them to the switch with minimal effort and quite possibly better performance.
And so it begins. Today, it's accidental bans, tomorrow accidental shooting, next week accidental death sentence, next month accidental nuclear strike.
AI is gonna kill us all, because humans are incredible idiots who have no idea what they are doing.
Day one buy for me too, still love and play the original on wiiu and 3ds. There were some things I missed, though, and I hope this sequel will bring. Here my hopes/wishes for MM2:
() compatibility with Mario Maker 1 (import / play all levels)
() world building, that is I would really like to be able to connect stages and to play them in sequence, true Mario style (like 1-1, then 1-2 and so on, that way one ups would actually matter ...)
() more playable characters and multiplayer mayhem, at least locally (ideally even online, but I think that's too much to ask for)! You know, like New Super Marion Bros Wii(U)(Deluxe).
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Re: Hideki Kamiya Really Wants You To Play Bayonetta 1 & 2 Before The Third Game
sure thing! let me just get a physical copy of both games on switch and then ... oh wait ...
Re: Nintendo's Switch OLED Dock Can Be Purchased Separately
@HalBailman That would be great. I'd also like to buy only the switch tablet, without joy-cons or dock or anything esle. Just give me the tablet for the price of a switch lite! I already have a dock and enough joy cons. Only thing I am interested in is the OLED screen. Come on Nintendo!
Re: Nintendo's Switch OLED Dock Can Be Purchased Separately
@YoungLink64 I am absolutely fine with that. It's not like you get all the accessories or packaging for free you know? You pay for everything in the box, including the box itself. So for me, it's actually more customer friendly, not to force me to pay for crap I don't need nor want. I already have all the cables I need for the dock, why should I have to pay for more? And for those who need the accessories, they can always buy them individually. Yes, you have to think for yourself what you need, that might be a challenge for some customers.
Re: Nintendo Cancels Splatoon 2 NA Open Livestream, "Free Melee" Believed To Have Played A Part
At this point it's pure speculation if Nintendo really shut down the stream because of the free Melee stuff, albeit a reasonable one. To be fair, it's the only thing Nintendo could have done in this situation.
Ppl., it's as easy as that. Nintendo is a company that protects it's IPs, as they are legally obliged to. Copyright, like any other right, is a right you have to defend in order to keep it's value. Period. If you want support from Nintendo, and that is the essential point here, you need to literally play by their rules. That is not unreasonable, that is just normal. Nintendo will never support promoting piracy, because it is against their business interest and against their values. And that is exactly what the whole "free melee" movement is all about.
You can't seriously expect Nintendo to promote a movement that outright calls for pirating their games. What's wrong with you.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Members Can Now Get 50% Off The Switch NES Controllers (Europe)
bought them last time they were on sale together with the snes one. Like them so far. They also work with mario 35 and are my prefered way to play! Also, you can pair them with 8bitdo receivers and then use them on the nes classic, a real nes/famicom or your pc/pi.
Re: SNK Apologises For "Offensive Ad" Featuring Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard
@sikthvash "[...] the point of the add was to be funny and sell the game / IP."
You are right of course. The point of the ad is to sell. And they achieved their goal, by being controversial they made themselves known. Before the ad was featured due to it's controversial nature, I never heard neither of the game, nor the company behind it. I should have written "the message of the ad" or sth. similar. But I lack a proper word I guess ...
"if you don't condone what they did, why did you write an essay in the first place?"
Condone is not equal to endorse. I condone it in the sense that I accept its existence. I do not approve of the ad nor do I defend it nor do I endorse any behavior shown in the ad.
I think it's a really stupid and badly animated ad. But I do not take offense. You decide for yourself whether you get offended or not. Offense is taken not given.
I mean, this ad shouldn't even be a thing. We make it a thing! And by making it a thing, we play into the hands of the people making these stupid ads. We endorse this kind of advertising by advertising it ourselves pretending social justice agendas. It's so ironic it's funny in itself.
And that's the whole point of my "essay". Don't take fiction seriously, don't let yourself be offended by every stupid thing you encounter. Don't take ads as a manual or blueprint for real life.
"It just seems like a dig at those who oppose this?"
You are right. You shouldn't oppose it, because there is nothing to oppose. It's a freaking stupid ad! By making it controversial and playing the social justice card you do exactly what you try to oppose, legitimize that kind of advertisement. They knew exactly what they were doing and it played in their favor.
I honestly think the world would be better off, if people would be more relaxed with those kind of things. If nobody cared or talked about that crap in the first place, most people wouldn't even have seen that stupid thing.
And seriously, no sane person in the world would say it is okay to slap the butts of strange women because a crappy animated ad did show it. And if people are really that insane to believe this is an endorsement or this does in any way legitimize that kind of behavior, we need to have a discussion about our educational system.
Re: SNK Apologises For "Offensive Ad" Featuring Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard
@sikthvash @Kirby_Girl
I am not defending the ad, just like I am not endorsing anything shown there. If you really read and understood my posts you would know. But of course you only read "snowflake" and get triggered immediately, which btw. was completely intentional
Re: SNK Apologises For "Offensive Ad" Featuring Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard
It's kinda funny and sad at the same time how many people really do not get the point of the ad at all.
"You must not endorse inappropriate behavior" they say.
"The point of this ad is to make you laugh about sexual assault" they 'analyze'.
Seriously, do you really do not get the ad?
Terry is depicted as a complete idiot. Right from the very first frame he is shown, he very clearly behaves completely inappropriate and like a total moron. It is clear right from the start that he is the bad guy.
And after the booty slapping, of course he comically falls from his bike, because he is an idiot.
And the women literally stand up for themselves. Not only figuratively, they literally stand up to confront him. The imagery could not be any clearer.
What do you ppl. need? Subtitles explaining the scene for you?
Is it sexist? Only if you think the depiction of one single individual man is representative of all men, but not against women, but against men, who are portrayed as complete idiots. The women in this ad are portrayed as strong and confident who refuse to be victimized.
Does it "endorse" inappropriate behavior"? Showing sth. is not endorsement, just like discussing sth. is not endorsement. Nobody endorses anything in this ad. The point made here very clearly is: only stupid idiot morons treat women like objects.
Then again, this is a badly animated ad with clearly unrealistic fictional characters. Should you take that whole thing seriously? Of course you shouldn't!
Seriously, if you can't distinguish between fiction and real life, between endorsement and presentation, between personal and group identity, between image and imagery, you should really be more careful what you consume and for your own sanity really step up your game. Go read some books instead of watching stupid ads on the internet. Especially in good classic literature no single line can be taken literally, it really can teach you something.
We are at a point in time where every login to the internet should require a "BEWARE: NO SNOWFLAKE AREA" warning sign ;D
Re: SNK Apologises For "Offensive Ad" Featuring Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard
That's offensive! Because showing strong women standing up for themselves and defending against an assailant must not be done! Women have to be shown as weak and victims, how else can you justify "progressive" PC cancel culture?
With PC back to the dark ages everybody!
Re: Wii's Donkey Kong Country Returns Is Now Playable At 1080p And 60fps On Nvidia Shield
The amount of ignorance regarding hard- /software and Operating Systems in this comment section is just ... wow
I wonder why Nintendo wouldn't just release all these GC and Wii ports in the west. Ppl. woud go crazy about them, especially LoZTP (yeah Mario as well..).
Yes, the nvidia shield is basically the blueprint for the switch, with the switch having a slightly customized, optimized chip and more RAM. But basically, they share the same Tegra X1 SoC. Also, the shield 2017 is basically exactly the same as the 2015 edition, only with a smaller footprint and case.
Regarding operating systems. It's funny claiming that ppl. who think "playing on Linux is superior to Windows" are Linux Fanboys and regarding "Android a superior system" (for Gaming I assume).
Problem is, ppl. do generally not understand what an Operating System is. An OS is said to be many things, but in it's core, it is only the first layer of abstraction of the hardware and manages the hardware resources. That's called the kernel and that's it. You don't see an OS, you don't use an OS.
Now what Systems like Windows, Android, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux do, is they add libraries and Interfaces (also user interfaces) on top of a Kernel, to give Users and Devs the possibility to interact with the Hardware and actually do stuff. But that stuff is not the OS. It's auxiliary and complements the OS to provide sth. usable.
In case of Android, the actual operating system IS Linux. Android uses the Linux 4 kernel line for hardware abstraction and management. Android itself then adds an optimized Java Virtual Machine called Dalvik and brings with it all the required Java libraries to interact with all the stuff you find in mobile devices, like touch screens, sensors, gsm modules, and so on. But still, all hardware drivers are written for and integrated in the underlying Linux kernel. So on top of the kernel, Android adds another layer of hardware abstraction in form of the Dalvik Virtual Machine. Code is not directly compiled for the underlying hardware, but for the VM, and then interpreted by the VM to run on the actual hardware. The obvious advantage is, that you do not need to write your apps for a specific phone, but for the Dalvik Virtual Machine. Since Dalvik runs on top of Linux, only Linux has to be ported to the actual hardware. However, regarding performance, especially gaming performance, that's the worst thing you could possibly do. For gaming and other high performance applications, what you want is direct and exclusive hardware access.
This is also one of the reasons why Android has an extremely noticeable input lag when using controllers (on top of the also always present bluetooth lag). And this is the reason, why generally, dedicated gaming consoles have much better gaming performance than general purposes devices (with equal hardware specs), because Games can be optimized for the specific hardware and usually have access to all hardware resources exclusively.
When ppl are talking about Linux, what they really mean is a specific GNU/Linux distribution. Again, Linux is just the Kernel. You don't use Linux. You use a GNU/Linux distribution, that adds all the stuff you expect a usable system to have. In its core however, Linux is much more efficient in hardware management, than Windows is. The reason why Windows is "better for gaming" is not because it technically is the better system. It's because it's the more popular Desktop system. So Game Devs and also GPU driver devs put more effort into optimizing performance for Windows. But if you have a game engine and GPU drivers that are optimized for Linux, Games often perform better on Linux than on Windows on the same physical machine. Valve is well aware of that fact and that is also one reason why they are pushing Steam OS and Proton. Even with Proton, which is an additional Emulation Layer, some Windows Games perform better on Linux, given that you have a supported GPU with optimized Linux drivers.
The switch OS is a dedicated Gaming OS, and of course better suited for Gaming than Android. But afaik, the GC and Wii ports on the shield are actually not ported to Android. I think they are using a special direct-to-metal engine. So they should be able to bring them to the switch with minimal effort and quite possibly better performance.
Make that happen Nintendo!
Re: Confusion Reigns After Mistake Leaves Popular Pokemon GO YouTubers Banned
And so it begins. Today, it's accidental bans, tomorrow accidental shooting, next week accidental death sentence, next month accidental nuclear strike.
AI is gonna kill us all, because humans are incredible idiots who have no idea what they are doing.
Re: Guide: What's New In Super Mario Maker 2 For Nintendo Switch?
Day one buy for me too, still love and play the original on wiiu and 3ds. There were some things I missed, though, and I hope this sequel will bring. Here my hopes/wishes for MM2:
() compatibility with Mario Maker 1 (import / play all levels)
() world building, that is I would really like to be able to connect stages and to play them in sequence, true Mario style (like 1-1, then 1-2 and so on, that way one ups would actually matter ...)
() more playable characters and multiplayer mayhem, at least locally (ideally even online, but I think that's too much to ask for)! You know, like New Super Marion Bros Wii(U)(Deluxe).
Re: A World Exclusive Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu And Eevee Trailer Will Air This Weekend
Wait, what? WORLD Exclusive? Awwww man, was looking forward to new Pokemon information. Guess no trailer in space ...