@Clyde_Radcliffe Well part of this is that people in same sex relationships can be treated equally to opposite sex married people (in Japan, where there is no same sex marriage currently)... that part is going to improve the lives of those people at least.
@Zochmenos It should be obvious that the majority of workers are not "small business owners" or otherwise self employed... becoming either requires either a significant amount of capital to begin with, or a lot of luck... for every Twitch Streamer who makes it big, thousands get nowhere. The majority of workers are coerced, with threat of starvation and homelessness into labouring for the benefit of some rich person they'll never even meet who hordes vast sums of wealth while the actual workers are paid little, have to constantly worry about how they will afford food and bills and rent because they can't afford their own homes so what little money they do earn is mostly stolen by landlords, and because of this they are forced to continue doing things they don't want to and are unable to pursue their own interests. No amount of pointing out exceptions will change this reality, this hierarchical inequality is inherent to the capitalist system, capitalists can gain nothing without exploiting and stealing from others.
@Zochmenos No, it's completely different to what happens in this system, which is hierarchical and has people not able to own and control their own labour, people paid minimum wage struggling to pay bills and having no rights over what they produce, while bosses and ceos get rich from doing basically nothing but steal from their workers.
@Zochmenos One solution would be for individuals or small groups to be able to have a form of copyrights, while not allowing any for corporations (who ideally would cease to exist anyway), or rather, rights only for people who directly work on a thing. For branding things would change to more localised production rather than being dominated by global brands.
Those are some ideas for improvements within the current system but my preference is also for the profit motive to be completely eliminated, which would remove the incentive for exploitation completely.
@Zochmenos Getting rid of corporate copyright would give artists more control and freedom over what they make... so one obvious thing is that we'd no longer see high quality projects being forced to end because of cease and desist notices, and more artists would be encouraged to do what they want without fear of that. Another benefit would be that companies would no longer being able to take the rights of things made by their workers.... under the current system if someone designs a character while at a company then leaves, they can't even use their own character anymore, because it's owned by a company who really had nothing to do with its actual creation. Eliminating copyright gets rid of this problem, an artists work could no longer be taken away from them like that. Another thing is that not being under the control of corporations would allow artists to follow their own creative vision and make what they want, rather than what a company thinks is "marketable", so a lot more interesting and varied things would be made as a result.
@Zochmenos I'm a commie, I want to get rid of the capitalist system and replace it with a system that actually benefits everyone rather than one designed for the profit of a few...
@JuiceMan_V My stance is that people should stop defending companies citing that they have a right to do this, and actually criticise when they do bad things.
@fafonio no, played it more than once and I literally don't care what media or blogs think. my opinion is my own and I didn't like it, didn't like the gameplay, controls, having to redo the same missions to unlock more, having characters locked behind gacha with threat of missing them.
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Re: Sony's Censors Strike As Switch Gets '20 Ladies' While PS4 Gets '20 Bunnies'
Why is the art style of the bunnies so much better lol
Re: Poll: What's A Fair Price For The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack?
No increase is not "free", we're already paying for the subscription fee.
Re: Best Metroid Games Of All Time
Always preferred the 2Ds
Re: Nintendo Underlines Its Commitment To Diversity And Inclusivity
@Clyde_Radcliffe Well part of this is that people in same sex relationships can be treated equally to opposite sex married people (in Japan, where there is no same sex marriage currently)... that part is going to improve the lives of those people at least.
Re: Surprise! A Hatsune Miku Picross Game Is Out Now On The Switch eShop
@TantXL Yeah because she made it when she was visiting Sweden
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos It should be obvious that the majority of workers are not "small business owners" or otherwise self employed... becoming either requires either a significant amount of capital to begin with, or a lot of luck... for every Twitch Streamer who makes it big, thousands get nowhere.
The majority of workers are coerced, with threat of starvation and homelessness into labouring for the benefit of some rich person they'll never even meet who hordes vast sums of wealth while the actual workers are paid little, have to constantly worry about how they will afford food and bills and rent because they can't afford their own homes so what little money they do earn is mostly stolen by landlords, and because of this they are forced to continue doing things they don't want to and are unable to pursue their own interests.
No amount of pointing out exceptions will change this reality, this hierarchical inequality is inherent to the capitalist system, capitalists can gain nothing without exploiting and stealing from others.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos No, it's completely different to what happens in this system, which is hierarchical and has people not able to own and control their own labour, people paid minimum wage struggling to pay bills and having no rights over what they produce, while bosses and ceos get rich from doing basically nothing but steal from their workers.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos One solution would be for individuals or small groups to be able to have a form of copyrights, while not allowing any for corporations (who ideally would cease to exist anyway), or rather, rights only for people who directly work on a thing. For branding things would change to more localised production rather than being dominated by global brands.
Those are some ideas for improvements within the current system but my preference is also for the profit motive to be completely eliminated, which would remove the incentive for exploitation completely.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos Getting rid of corporate copyright would give artists more control and freedom over what they make... so
one obvious thing is that we'd no longer see high quality projects being forced to end because of cease and desist notices, and more artists would be encouraged to do what they want without fear of that.
Another benefit would be that companies would no longer being able to take the rights of things made by their workers.... under the current system if someone designs a character while at a company then leaves, they can't even use their own character anymore, because it's owned by a company who really had nothing to do with its actual creation. Eliminating copyright gets rid of this problem, an artists work could no longer be taken away from them like that.
Another thing is that not being under the control of corporations would allow artists to follow their own creative vision and make what they want, rather than what a company thinks is "marketable", so a lot more interesting and varied things would be made as a result.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos I'm a commie, I want to get rid of the capitalist system and replace it with a system that actually benefits everyone rather than one designed for the profit of a few...
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@JuiceMan_V My stance is that people should stop defending companies citing that they have a right to do this, and actually criticise when they do bad things.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Toy_Link That is bad faith, I can't opt out of capitalism. I do want to see it destroyed however.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Zochmenos Which part?
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@JuiceMan_V Support no companies.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@JuiceMan_V Trademarks should also not exist.
Re: Custom-Made Etika Joy-Con Which Raised $10k For Charity Fell Foul Of Copyright Claim, Creator Reveals
@Grot That's a reason that people don't have to accept. This kind of emotionless capitalist attitude needs to be fought against.
Re: Bomberman, Travis Touchdown, Creeper And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@Zorox88 None of the mii costumes are in the fighter pass, they are seperate
Re: Mini Review: Poopdie - Chapter One - Like Poop, Butts And PewDiePie? Then You're In Luck!
I love Binding of Isaac however this is just gross lol
Re: Visual Novel Strawberry Vinegar Serves "Cute Comedy" On Switch This Week
@Dakotastomp I didn't say it isn't
Re: Visual Novel Strawberry Vinegar Serves "Cute Comedy" On Switch This Week
I have played this on pc and it's a wholesome and hilarious comedy, I strongly recommend it
Re: Visual Novel Strawberry Vinegar Serves "Cute Comedy" On Switch This Week
There is romantic content but it's age appropriate lol
Re: Feature: Every Nintendo Switch Online NES Game Ranked
Kirby's Adventure is the best NES game and would be higher if more people had played it
Re: Nintendo Is Developing New Mobile Games, But Isn't Ready To Announce Anything Just Yet
Please make actual rewarding games instead of horrible gacha exploitation
Re: Harvest Moon: One World Announced For Nintendo Switch
natsume is trash
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #42 - Pikmin 2
Europe this time, followed by Na, Japanese one is a bit plain
Re: Review: SuperMash - A Fun Genre Mashup Idea Let Down By Poor Execution
Disappointing but not really surprising tbh
Re: Sonic Ditches Mario In His Very Own Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Release
@Moon probably safer to change it to 2022 tbh
Re: Why Does Nintendo Use Friend Codes Instead Of Screen Names? Leaked Documents Reveal All
So I can just have any name I want cause the friend code is separate, if I was on xbox I'd have to be MayNyan5tu235ygebfvdj or something
Re: Have You Seen The Size Of This Animal Crossing: New Horizons Strategy Guide?
Absolute unit 0_0
will be outdated fast though ._.
Re: Video: 19 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In May
Miku, Super Mash, and then probably Xenoblade and Wonderful 101
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #40 - Mega Man
I like the cute Japanese one
Re: Random: Accurate Portrayal Of Famous Statues Send Animal Crossing Fans Wild
are you all like 12 years old
Re: UK News Outlet Calls Animal Crossing's Nature Day "A Farce", Says It "Teaches Kids Toxic Lessons"
is the Independent a tabloid now, geez
Re: Bank Of Nook Reduces The Interest Rate In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
We should riot
Re: Rumour: Pokémon Yellow Datamine Unearths Potentially Scrapped Pokémon Pink Version
@Trikeboy outdated sexist assumptions
Re: Monster-Battling "Love Letter" Kindred Fates Reaches Its Switch Stretch Goal On Kickstarter
@Heavyarms55 They can still be worthy entries in the genre, there's space for Pokémon and other monster games to co exist
Re: Nintendo Expands The Switch Online SNES And NES Library With Four More Games
very whelming line up but ok
Re: Looks Like Netflix's Resident Evil Series Won't Be Set In Raccoon City
Is it live action or animated? (my interest depends entirely on it being animated...
Re: Sakurai Understands There Are Too Many Fire Emblem Reps In Smash, Says It's Time To "Move On"
I love Byleth please add more Fire Emblem characters
Re: Latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons Merch Confirms New And Returning Characters
Isn't that Joan, the turnip lady?
Re: Fire Emblem's Byleth Confirmed As Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's 5th DLC Fighter
@Edelgard The only thing better would be you, Edel-sama
Re: Hey Nintendo, Can We Please Have Famicom Wars?
You can literally just make a jp account and download it for free and play
Re: Nintendo Expands The Switch Online SNES And NES Service With Six Classic Games
JP famicom app is getting Famicom Wars (the first game in the Advance Wars series)
Re: Random: So, Someone Made A Portable SNES Out Of... A SNES
THat would be so heavy and uncomfortable to use xD
Re: Video: Oh Boy, Sonic's Movie Redesign Is Revealed In Brand New Trailer
I'm surprised by how much better this is
Re: Poll: Which Starter Pokémon Is The Best? Choose Your Favourite Grass-Type Starter
Chikorita is <3
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #15 - Super Mario Bros.
NA cover is trash
Japan great, Europe also really good
Re: New Study Says External Issues Are More Likely To Blame For Gaming Addiction, Not Gaming Itself
Thing that was obvious from the start
Re: Mario Kart Tour Adds 14 New Characters And Classic Courses, Including Rainbow Road
@fafonio no, played it more than once and I literally don't care what media or blogs think. my opinion is my own and I didn't like it, didn't like the gameplay, controls, having to redo the same missions to unlock more, having characters locked behind gacha with threat of missing them.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Adds 14 New Characters And Classic Courses, Including Rainbow Road
@fafonio bad game with bad monetisation