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Ah, so many clueless comments on the matter. Come on guys. This level of contempt is ludicrous.

Welp, with this I can conclude that gaming culture is mind-numbingly stupid. The snarky one-liner critics, the self-proclaimed "expert gamers" here in the comments... utterly toxic and pseudo-intellectual. But why?

The naivety in these comments is unreal.

Block any electromagnetic signal with a body of water and you'll get connection issues. Obviously the hand may get in the way sometimes. News flash: your body is mostly water. There's no real way to fix it, but there could be an update to allow the signal drops to be processed in a way that isn't so obvious. Interpolation maybe.

This happens with other Bluetooth controllers too. The joycons just happen to be small and susceptible to this over a distance.

Haha. And I recently had a debate with someone who thought "it's not our responsibility to preserve history"!

Archiving is good, and I commend those who do it.

@Kalmaro You repeat yourself yet again, and remain as stubborn as before. I think it would be best to just end it here. We can agree to disagree, but I do hope at some stage you see merit to views other than your own. Cya.

@Dr_Lugae I'm not claiming piracy is right, but perhaps what I said was a bit of a hyperbole. People like free stuff. It's a huge problem and a contentious area.

There's a whole lot of restriction going on with a lot of media, which makes people inclined to just download for free and well... Continue the practice. Once they taste it they don't want to stop. Nintendo has a right to control the usage of their games, but having restrictions like "no you can't have a backup" or lack of availability is a bit nonsense to orderly people who just want to play games they have on some other device. Region locking, DRM, inordinately higher prices in different regions, lack of availability are unfortunate motives for piracy. I'm mostly talking about downloading that would do little to deprive Nintendo financially.

@Kalmaro
I can see this exchange is going nowhere because you insist on being the righteous naive one, twisting my words, repeating yourself while dismissing what I've said, and claiming I'm some tyrant who's above the law. You DO have an opinion so stop denying it; it would also be helpful is you stopped using the words "fact" and "opinion", because you're not using them correctly. You don't offer "facts", just what the current law is. Why are you so uncritical of anything? What is it about the concept of change that's so difficult to grasp?

"none of us own the games!"
Why do we even own anything? What's the point? The gravity of what you say would be outrageous if it were universally true. Some freedom is warranted.

"If you want to try to twist the wordings of the law to fit your agenda I can't stop you"
My face is in my hands. I think the mistake here was taking you seriously. I'm highly doubtful you have a law degree, in fact I'm pretty much absolutely certain you don't, so please don't try lecturing me.

@Kalmaro Eat your words. I never said anything about rules? Preserving history is simply something that should be done, and is done by those who want to, no further explanation required. I think one needs to realise the difference between beneficial opinion and superficial opinion. You're going into semantics here.

Guess what: law is built on the majority of views people hold. "Killing is bad!", says everyone. So a law is made that says "killing is bad". Your view is that law is infallible. Mine is that it should undergo constant change, as it has been since conception, meaning it should differentiate between different circumstances of killing, and that this specific area of copyright is incomplete, hurting ALL parties in the long run. But you're too "opinionated" to get this. ;P

@Kalmaro
"it's just your opinion."
So it would follow, your opinion is as worthless as mine. There are some things worth saving, and those few with the power to prevent that shouldn't have a final say in it.

"That just sounds like you acting entitled."
And you sound incredibly uncritical of the law. I said that because it IS antiquated and it IS unfriendly because MANY disagree with these practices. Sure, they hold the rights to the games, but that shouldn't exempt them of criticism from withholding them + other questionable rules and saying "nuu u kent du thet1!" if someone tries a different avenue.

"Morality and law are in harmony this time."
Not exactly. Copyright law is kind of a mess to begin with, so there's not much harmony here. Look: I agree, stealing is wrong. What I don't agree with are these baffling control-freak practices. There are elements in this which are like forced jigsaw pieces that don't go together. Take the tyrannical YouTube control and cease-and-desist letters for innocent fan projects as better examples. Clear up the rules and make them rational. Tight restrictions are their call but it's nonsensical stuff like this that keep piracy at an all-time high.

@Kalmaro "unless you can prove that games have to be preserved"
Why would anyone argue against this? Preserve history. It's almost instinctual. I would hate for a great film or game to become completely unobtainable because some company Big Guys neglected to take care of it, saying "eh, it's not our problem!"

"Nintendo does not owe you"
Well they rely on gamers to make money, so some courtesy for their market would be appreciated (not that I'm much of a gamer anymore). Of course, they don't require it. They're a Big Business, I'm a consumer. But I'd refuse to put up with this kind of antiquated garbage; they don't hold power here.

"you do not own the game, you merely own the rights to play the copy you posses."
A principle many media companies have been exploiting as of late. And it's a stupid power struggle. Why are you even defending this?

"Whether you follow the law or not is another problem entirely but using faulty arguments will not help you."
You haven't given me any reasons to think otherwise. Have you studied the law, or at least understand how it works and where it comes from? It's a system that's meant to maintain the cohesion of society. It changes all the time, people influence it all the time, we have a right to peacefully resist, within the confines of current law, if we're unhappy. This ROM situation isn't likely to change, but I sure am not going to put up with it because "morality" and "law" are on opposite poles in this case.

@Savino Not saying I download and play ROMs, but perhaps I would be more inclined to follow these arbitrary laws if companies made an effort to actually preserve and offer all their retro products and treat them with respect. I remember reading an excerpt from some 2007 Nintendo presentation where they mentioned that within a few years, we'd have the ENTIRE retro library on virtual console. Did that ever happen? You tell me. If you want to make history obsolete, you don't need my money. Earthbound was a perfect example here. I'm not paying THOUSANDS for a legal copy because some stingy eBay seller loves scalping.

Is it so wrong to download if the media is no longer officially available? If the money you pay goes to the big bucks guys instead of the people who actually made the media? If you already own the media, or at some point did? And why do they make old games so freaking expensive? In Australia, NES classic costs $100. For a mere 30 old games. "Legally grey" my butt. The law is sovereign, but it's still a construct that changes and adapts. It handles the ROM situation miserably.

If there are people crazy enough to buy this kind of stuff, why not?

Annoying how unfairly criticised he was. You could very clearly hear the stress in his voice and that something was gravely wrong. Hope he wasn't reprimanded. :/

@the8thark Ah, sounds about right with the tacked on tax.

@Waninoko I'll cry for you ;_;

@japongt $400+ in AU. Economy is pathetic.

@Waninoko I vaguely remember the sketches, but yes, they sure were! Fantastic little group we had there. Still feel the burn from when it dissipated.

@Waninoko Were you by any chance one of the people at Rexhunter's "Croc Fan Forum"?

Brilliant early 3D platformer, I made some really great memories playing it. Still go through it occasionally, but but I'm so familiar with everything in it I can pretty much beat it 100% in one sitting.

@RadioHedgeFund A bit arrogant, wouldn't you think?

@FriedSquid It's literally there in the quote...

Sheesh, so sick of everyone here complaining about their petty issues with everything they have no legitimate reason to dislike. Just stop.

@Fiyaball Ah, so the ones I was talking about are the exception. Fair enough. About "illegal" releases though, not really bothered about that at all. If you can't get it anywhere nobody cares or should care.

It's always those narcissistic "private collectors" who get in the way of preserving history. Can't count how many times I've heard of them withhold rare stuff from the world. Just ugh, utterly infuriating. Very glad it went on to a more sympathetic collector. It's getting out, so fantastic!

It's "Słowikowski", an L with a stroke

@Donutman They're hardly "crappy".

"Solving The Mystery of the Super Smash Bros. Melee Lost Stage"

Oo, what could this be?? Sounds interesting...

"...Game Theorists..."

Nope.

Art and numbers? Not a great combination IMO. People get extremely pedantic about numerical scores, and I think this seriously hurts constructive criticism as a whole. With numbers, people don't read the review, they skip to the score and ignore the content. Rotten Tomatoes is an example. I absolutely hate it when people use an RT percentage as "evidence" that a movie is good. How shallow and simplistic.

It's a number. It holds little meaning, given that it's being projected onto a creative piece of media, and the connotation is different for everyone. I'd rather see a summation of how a reviewer enjoyed something or a descriptive scale, like GameXplain as someone pointed out. I appreciate it when labels are at least attached to numerical scores, like how My Anime List does it.

These new services sure feel flashy. I like that.

FLIPNOTE STUDIO!!! Finally! :'D

Looks cool, I'll save judgement for when I see more of this.

But why the endless hoard of generic toads everywhere? A special attribute of the Paper Mario games were the original characters. Visual style looks nice, but it seems so restricting that the only characters here are the bland, traditional Mario bunch. I bet Bowser will be the villain again too.

Honestly, I never understood the complaints about the controls. They're so simple to grasp and far more responsive than the N64 version, but that may be down to the way Mario moved. What's so "archaic" about a run button, anyway? Many games today use this system, even recent 3D Mario games.

Merry Christmas!!

An incredibly stupid patent. Glad it's expired!

Even if someone is rich... Why would they spend their money so frivolously? i dun geddit. There are better things to throw money at.

@allav866 ...That's not the point.

I still don't have a Wii U :c Would love to own it though.

Hehe, that was funny!

Oh boy, it's this channel again >_> Everything he does is incredibly pretentious.

This seems like such a frivolous and petty case. Just leave the guy alone, $4,000 is nothing - it's little more than pocket money to the company. The law is plain ridiculous sometimes.

Completely forgot about this Pachter guy. Oh well, back to obscurity with him.

What do you find to be the best thing about voice acting?

Hater's gonna hate. I really love the effort put into this! Looks really pretty

Sheesh, everyone is always so pessimistic when it comes to these adaptations. Gather the right people and you'll have yourself a winner of a movie, so let's just hope that happens. With many video game movies currently in the works, I think something good will come out of it. People try their best you know.

Arg, I'm always late for these things >_> The only thing I ever got out of Club Nintendo was that Yoshi plush, but I'm pretty satisfied with it.

Probably my most played DS game. I remember in Primary School, pretty much everyone had the game, and on bus trips to camps we'd play it all they way XD I remember winning every single race because of my mastery at snaking. Wore down my d-pad to having a glossy surface, but eh. I have fond memories of MKDS

Well, at least it's not that Game Theory tripe It was actually watchable. Good effort

Big props to the animators! This was fantastic

I'll miss the guy :/ He has a well deserved place in history. Thank you for writing these.

This is so touching :'/

Oh, this is just awful Such a sudden death too, but I guess his condition was just that serious. You will be remembered.

But... Jeremy San owns everything that was left of Argonaut when it liquefied, right? Then wouldn't any legal issues be resolved with just him?

@dereq What? I wouldn't buy it if it discriminated ANY of the groups you mention. The point stands.