LouisaFerre

LouisaFerre

My deathbed will be a futon.

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Re: Popular YouTube Channel 'Did You Know Gaming' Receives Copyright Strike For Heroes Of Hyrule Video

LouisaFerre

Gotta protect their brand! After all, imagine if a video documenting a piece of video game history in a way that clearly falls within fair use doctrine was allowed to stay visible to the public. Think about what that would do to their brand! Clearly people thought that video was an Official Nintendo© Product™. We wouldn't want anyone to harm Nintendo's image more than they themselves do by constantly having negative headlines written about them for doing stuff like this! But hey, it's Nintendo! Their malicious, baseless copyright trolling will be forgiven because, hey, that's just how they are! A little quirky and old fashioned. You know, I'm actually glad Nintendo burned my house down, I wanted to move anyway!

Re: A Bioshock Movie Is In The Works At Netflix

LouisaFerre

@Snatcher Depends on what you mean by that, I suppose. Infinite depicts many horrible acts of racism and basically says that race-based discrimination is bad. It implies that the U.S. was founded on racist ideals and would not be a superpower today if it didn't benefit from slave labor. Bioshock 1 was a bit different and is basically about how the idea of a stateless society is an impractical pipe dream and would inevitably result in chaos and neo-feudalism. I never played 2 because it was made by an outside studio without the involvement of the original creators and is generally considered to be painfully average. The image they included in their tweet seems to imply that they're only (or at least primarily) adapting the first game, so if they were faithful to the source material it would likely be overtly political but more focused on economic issues/the role of government than, for lack of a better term, "social issues".

Re: A Bioshock Movie Is In The Works At Netflix

LouisaFerre

@Snatcher They're very political games. The thesis statement of the first game is basically "libertarianism is dumb". Infinite's message is a bit less focused but "the U.S. became and remains an imperial power due to its willingness to be unfathomably cruel to people" is a major theme.