Smithicus

Smithicus

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Re: You Can Finally Repair Weapons In Zelda: BOTW And TOTK On Switch 2 (Sort Of)

Smithicus

is it just me or is this not all just kind of annoying? squeezing more money out of these two games on the premise of some app talking to you through your phone is just grossly corporate. all so you can do pointless things like find more koroks, which are just map filler to begin with. Couldnt they have made a DLC for TotK or something to create some meaningful content that would have been genuinely exciting? its just a tech overload with the walkthrough now connected to the game and directing you around the place. this is not the joy of gaming tbh but more like metaverse stuff or st.

Re: Sony Does What Nintendon't By Removing A Bunch Of 'eSlop' Titles

Smithicus

need a stronger move against slop and shovelware spamming the stores. low effort churned out trash that will only become more pervasive with AI emerging and doing a lot of the work. there was once a concept of a CURATED store with a STANDARD. Nintendo and as well as Sony should return to that and block the junk.

Re: Lexar Is Apparently Releasing A Switch 2 'microSD Express' Card

Smithicus

@HugoGED i dont anyone except OCD maniacs will carry over their entire library. Every gamer will have games on their Switch 1 thye know fine well they are either never gonna play, didnt like, or wont play. so a case of just redownloading your top switch games. arrying over an entire library would just be a kind of fetish thing where you have it there just for the sake of it.

Re: Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation

Smithicus

@cedarhyped another case of misrepresenting what i said. if you look through the rest of the thread you will see the issue is more Nintendo going into a politically topical and charged area - something Nintendo typically avoid. But its quite possible as others have said that way too much is being read into the caharcetr anyway, thus further making it more politically charged than need be

Re: Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation

Smithicus

@Gaymer90 i would be weary of promoting Nintendo as a champion of human rights, or any corporation for that matter. You can read about Nintendos use of practical slave labour going way bak in places like China, for which they have kopped a lot of flak. and then there is how they go after tiny people with copyright threats for nonsense stuff. i dont think thats really the issue here, but i appreciate you agree with me on at least one thing

Re: Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation

Smithicus

@AJWolfTill well, i agree with you, but thats just where we are, and the initial response to the inclusion of the character with uncensored dialogue itself found itself very quickly in a political context. This is the whole thing of things getting labeled 'woke' and what not. And that was my original point about their will prob be less risk in this direction because of the 'political sensitivity' (which is already happening). I was basically trying to make an obviously true statement but for some reason it is contentious.

Re: Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation

Smithicus

@Vexx234 the comments on these things are very sensitive in terms of what gets removed, so i am doing my best to remain as neutral as possible so that the discussion can remain live. As for me personally, i am not invested. I currently study philosophy academically, i sit in applied ethics classes.i watch arguments bak and forth, and l like to observe the rationale and merit of each argument. There are people that will literally not allow this kind of perspective however, the kind that say 'dont sit on the fence take a side'. it is a form of intolerance for people that are just trying to figure things out and weighing arguments that cross centuries. so please dont tell others what to do and how to conduct their discussion as long as their are being considerate and fair

Re: Nintendo Bags GLAAD Nomination For Paper Mario's Trans Representation

Smithicus

@Dogorilla i am not here to fight or anything, beause i am not invested either way, but i wouldnt call the people that complain about wokenness a vocal minority. where i am and the people i see, nearly all are complaining about it. It feels kinda cliche now, but i feel they are actually the vocal majority tbh. Of course these experiences are largely determined by the places we live and the circles we live in. I am around a working class people in a 'proletariat' area, and they i notice are nearly all against woke. Middle-classes and urban areas seem more sympathetic to it. But as a whole, i would defintiely say its on the back foot and its more majority against it than for it. As such i expect to see games/media take less risk with this stuff