My long, post detailing why it was wrong, and thoroughly idiotic for them to do the 9-day unlock. I'm going to say that they've not only looked at the general perception which was largely negative and rightfully so, as well as my very long, attention directing post that gave, by far, the best explanation as to why it was wrong, presented indisputably, and say that they heard my voice as well as others. So i'm going to happily take part of the credit as to why they did this.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. And everyone can thank me, and everyone else who stood their ground and complained as to why Nintendo saw common sense.
So, I thought to myself "If I scroll down to see the comments, are a bunch of snotty people just going to start ignorantly, jealously and self-righteously insulting these people for being more well known and talented?"
And yes. Already three of you did.
SpaceJump, Moon, and asbel, you're all pathetic, miserable and hateful little imbeciles. Shame on all three of you. Go sit in the corner, you miserable, worthless, whiny trolls. Shame on you. Shame. These people in this video are all, and will always be far better than you. They deserve far more respect than any of you cretins ever will.
@MadAdam81 "Possiby the lowest rated game on Wii U" Correction... the lowest rated game that HASN'T COME OUT, YET. But yeah ok, I guess everyone can just keep making their premature judgements. That's cool.
Amiiboo are unbelievably stupid, anyway. They're nothing but a cheap scam. Crappy, poorly made, overpriced, glorified Happy Meal toys that essentially hide bare bones, DLC game features that should be part of the games themselves, behind paywalls of cheap, junky toys, intended to boost Nintendo's profits from easily mislead and gullible fanboys who will buy whatever cheap crap is shoved in their face even when it's this scummy and blatant as this, while intentionally hindering both production and availability to manufacture desire and drive up the market value for what is basically in-game locked DLC. Amiibo are not just stupid, but they are also disgusting, underhanded and everything that is wrong with not just Nintendo's business model (manufacturing demand with pre-planned shortages for cheap toys and in-game locked paywall features, and scamming gullible children out of their parents money), but also the industry itself with it's disgustingly gross in-game DLC paywall locked crap. The kind of thing everyone hates and despises companies like Capcom and EA for, but give Nintendo a free pass for.... some incomprehensible reason, mostly vaguely related to Nintendo's brainwashed fanboy kool-aid drinkers.
Finally, there is a way to take Nintendo's cheap scam, show it for what it is, and put the rightful ability to get the most out of their own games without cheap DLC-paywall scams, into the hands of the consumer where it belongs.
This is only a good thing. I hope Nintendo's stupid Amiiboo sales have their bottom fall out because of this. Then Nintendo would be forced to stop putting their market strategy on dime-store Happy Meal toys and paywall game features and start putting their effort back on completed, quality games again.
"unfortunate" dismissal? Pretty sure, I and many others have detailed exactly why he got precisely what he deserved. He directly violated Nintendo's policies on unauthorized interviews and appearances, was very condescending, confrontational and unprofessional in his tone and with his comments that reflected VERY badly on Nintendo as a corporate identity, His appearence was a direct slap in the face to Nintendo, a black mark on their company that embarassed them, and was done knowing full well that doing so directly violated his own conditions and terms that he AGREED to uphold as part of their staff. The termination was completely justified, brought entirely on himself and was 100% both his own fault AND the only possible action Nintendo could have taken for what he did knowingly. Anyone expressing any amount of sympathy for him is a fool.
He got exactly what he deserved and brought it entirely upon himself.
His comments were incredibly obnoxious, whiny, confrontational, arrogant, unprofessional and very, VERY stupid. His interview damaged Nintendo's reputation even further than it already has been for a while now, and what he did was incredibly stupid. He spoke for the company in a whiny, self-righteous way and made Nintendo's clueless, self-absorbed arrogance as a company even more plainly clear than it's been and made it and himself both look bad in a PR capacity by speaking out in a COMPLETELY unauthorized way without the company's approval, embarrassing them both publicly.
I have absolutely no sympathy for this man, and any problems he has brought entirely on himself in this matter, in every single possible way. He's a fool and he deserves this shame, entirely.
This limit is horrible, disgusting, pathetic, incredibly stupid, utterly unnecessary, absolutely nonsensical, unjustifiably insulting and perfectly representative about everything that is wrong with Nintendo as a company, and the #1 indication as to how perfectly incompetent and disrespectful to their consumers they truly are. And how incompetent they think their consumers are. ...which, judging by the more disturbingly cultist, over-justifying, denial-stricken comments here, I would almost think Nintendo might just have something with that general assessment.
As far as i'm concerned, what's even worse than the inclusion of this ridiculously nonsensical limit are the even more nonsensical and brainwashed justifications from the kool-aid drinking Nintendo cult fanboys in this comment section and other places for the fact that Nintendo is not only treating you like you are a remedial toddler, or the fact that you're perfectly happy with being treated like a remedial toddler, and that you APPRECIATE the insult.
Seriously. They are figuratively shoving crap in your face here for no good reason, telling you to eat it, you do so and are actually saying "Thank you sir, may I have another", while saying "What's your problem??" to everyone who is looking at you funny. I... don't even, people. I don't even.
I just love how the INSANE justifications are ranging to everything from the typical "wah wah you're a crybaby, it doesn't bother ME", to "uhh.. no, no guys it's totally ok that Nintedno treats us all like a bunch of stupid 5-year olds because... we ARE stupid 5 year olds, guys. Having more than a few options is SOOO confusing. I mean I can't even figure out how to set the time on a watch, let alone figure out what to do with my life if I had MORE THAN 10 BUTTONS TO PRESS." ...said with the creepy smiling of a Stepford Wife the whole time.
Like, really people? Really? ....really? That's the kinds of justifications you're going with? Either the Nintendo Fanboy equivalent of "If u dun leik 'murica u can jes get owwwwt!!" and "Oh it's true, we are so borderline retarded that we can't be trusted to be given more credit to operate anything more involved than a Fisher-Price playpen."
REALLY??? REALLLLLY? ......REALLLYYY?????
SO, ok, no. There are many problems with this. MANY. PROBLEMS. And i'm going to illuminate them all right now, so this discussion ends, once and for all.
So, imagine that you are given a rudimentary board game that isn't very taxing or challenging to learn, based on it's clean, easy to grasp interface just by looking it over. Now imagine that you are given a set of instructions. NOW, imagine that this board game is checkers.
So, if you had never played checkers a day in your life, a game that an 8-year could easily learn in 10 minutes if he was so inclined. You take the board out of the package and you look at all of the checker pieces. Red and Black pieces. A red and black checkerboard. Now imagine that you go to look up the instructions to see how the game is played.....
The instruction book has a SINGLE SENTENCE UNCOVERED that reads "Take the pieces out of the box" and the ENTIRE REST of the small pamphlet is blotted out by THICK, BLACK MARKER over all the words that render the instructions, what little there are, unreadable.
At the bottom there is an asterisk and a small instruction along with a bottle of solvent that reads "5 minutes after removing the contents, take a brush and wipe the solvent over the next two sentences of the instructions ONLY." So you do.
The next two sentences are now readable. And they say "place the red checkers on one side of the board. Now wait one entire day to brush the solvent over the next two sentence of these instructions."
This is... incredibly stupid and immensely counter-productive, but you decide to be a complete idiot today and follow these instructions. After all, you must take it slow so you do not hurt yourself.
24 hours later, you return to the board with the red checker pieces and the instructions that clearly think you are an idiot with all this time on your hands to play checkers for the first time. You uncover the next two sentences as if you are deciphering the Voynich Manuscript or carefully doing advanced calculus. They read "Place the black checker pieces on the opposite side of the board for the other player. Now please wait 24 hours to brush the solvent on the next two sentences."
You suppress a groan of immense frustration, before remembering that these checker instructions apparently think you must major in a 4 year course of how not to run with scissors before you can be trusted with them, and therefore labor under the continued delusion that you have absolutely nothing better to do within a 48 hour span of time than learn how to set up a checker board one f---ing step at a time, one entire f---king day at a time.
You come BACK to the board after 24 more hours, provided that you haven't managed to choke in a combination of your own saliva and rainwater staring up at rainclouds for an extended amount of time, and process enough long-term memory to remember what the board is, why it's there, or what you were trying to do yesterday.
You wipe two more sentences away with the solvent to unblock the highly top secret for-your-eyes-only papers that instruct you on the over-complicated task of learning the basic board set up for a game of goddamn checkers, and are greeted with "Players take turn moving a pieces diagonally on the board, to jump the opponents pieces. Please refer to the enclosed 3-hour audio book that explains how this is accomplished and wait 24 more hours before proceeding to uncover the next two sentences"
24 hours later, the next step tells you how to jump. 24 more hours later, the next step details what a "jump" is. 24 hours later, you are instructed how to "double jump". And so on with the concept of kinging. And so on. And so on.
9 days later, you have now learned how to play checkers. And you have now done so over the course of this incredibly overly long period of time, in the single most time-wasting, brain-dead, simperingly aggravating, nonsensical, convoluted, idiotically unnecessary way imaginable. ...and you think this is not only perfectly ok, and sensible but even PROUD of doing it this way.
....no. Just... no.
just no.
You think this makes you right and justifies the utterly STUPID process, all because the checkers instructions did not think you were capable of reading more than two sentences PER DAY, NOR comprehending them, unless the process was dragged out to the insufferably, unjustifiably insulting length of the tiniest nugget of basic information possible, after a period of 24 HOURS, each and every time... AND YOU AGREE BY THE END, that you WERE this stupid, and therefore.... NEEDED IT.
And it accomplished this by DEMANDING that you use blotted out instructions printed on half a page, and uncovering every sentence ON this NONSENSICAL time limit of one per 24 HOURS by uncovering each two sentences METHODICALLY using solvent to REVEAL EACH SENTENCE.....
WHEN YOU COULD JUST UNCOVER ALL OF THE SENTENCES, SPEND A GRAND TOTAL OF 10 MINUTES TO READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER AND CONTEMPLATE THE SIMPLE TASK OF LEARNING THE MOST BASIC RULES OF CHECKERS. It could take you 10 minutes. 10 minutes of 2nd grader comprehension skills, but you happily, and willingly, went along with these incoherently arbitrary limits demanded of you for NO EXPLAINABLE OR JUSTIFIABLE REASON OVER A PERIOD OF NINE........ LONG..... DAYS...... with a FRIGGIN' BOTTLE OF SOLVENT ON SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN WITH SIMPLE STEPS..... Because it asked you to.
And you think you had to. And you enjoyed this. And you were completely ok with this. ...AND you appreciated it.
...because apparently this is what the level of human beings has come down to. We've come down to the level of being taught a task through methods over a period of 9 days that even a chimpanzee would find insulting, when the most he is asked to do is walk over and grab a banana on a string. I doubt it would take a chimpanzee 9 days to figure out a process akin to this, but you people are so certain in the fact that, if you were NOT taught in this method, you never would have been able to figure the process out through any amount of stimulus, internal OR external unless 9 days was taken dragging the process out for no explainable reason whatsoever, other than the fact that you think you couldn't manage that level of banality, unless you were guided to do it in this exact manner.
And that you're grateful for it and that you're honestly justifying THIS with the argument that sounds basically like you're saying:
"anyone who thinks they're smarter than a chimpanzee needs to get over themselves, because nine days to figure out what buttons do instead of actually just HITTING those buttons or being trusted to do it themselves, is just being a whiner. I'll gladly have crap shoved into my face, have over a week straight of my time wasted for no reason at all, and be treated like a sub-human and love it, Anyone who wouldn't is a being a crybaby, right? I mean come on, right? What a bunch of whiners. OH NO WHERE IS MY BANANA MUST TAKE 9 DAYS TO FIND BANANA I AM SO GOOD AND BETTER CUZ I AM NINTENDO FAN I THEY THINK I AM STUPID SO I AM STUPID OOH OOH EEE EE AHH AHH"
But yeah. That's your justification, eh? THAT's your self-righteous shutdown to EVERYONE who dare complain, huh? That's what you think makes you people better than me. That's what puts people like me below people like you? Because you're so deathly afraid of your own infinite ignorance, and such things like the ability to find out what buttons actually do in a level editor by hitting those buttons which scare you to death to the point that you need a 9-day warming up period on how to use Super Mario Maker or else you'd pee yourself?
Yeah, it's not that i'm "whining". It's that you're all stupid. Impossibly stupid. Irredeemably stupid. And you're deathly afraid of that ignorance to the point that you'd just hold it up as a shield to deflect your stupidity back on everyone else who is actually daring to have the gall to say that they think they should have been trusted not to have to wait 9 days to figure out tasks that a chimpanzee at worst, or a second grader at best could learn through trial and error in less than 10 minutes.
Or that it's somehow a COMPLETELY ALIEN CONCEPT to think that ANY OF US just miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight be a teensy bit.. ABOVE THAT LEVEL, and thus feel insulted that NINTENDO THINKS ANYONE IS. Or that even despite that they think this, that somehow locking it behind a NINE DAMN DAY WALL, is, in ANY CONCEIVABLE WAY conducive to a learning curve, that again, a small child could discover in 10 minutes without having the method or the instructions forcibly locked off for them. And that the idea that this could be considered to be somehow insulting, is somehow ALIEN to you.
But no. Somehow, It's my problem. Somehow, It's my fault. Somehow this is MY failing... that I have a discernible IQ. It's my fault that i'm not below the development potential of a very dumb primate. It's my fault that over an ENTIRE week of a forced insult for a game I will have paid FULL PRICE FOR to TAKE HOME AND PLAY is being locked off because Nintendo thinks that I am literally retarded and treats me as such. OH, OK THEN.
And apparently is it entirely my fault, and it makes me a whiner that I carry the burden of graduating to the level of functional human being with the potential to discover trial and error in less than 10 minutes, ALL BECAUSE FROM THE SOUND OF IT, SO MANY OF YOU ARE LEGITIMATELY PROUD THAT YOU ARE NOT. And it makes it all ok.
Because oh, Nintendo, thy be my lord and savior. Thy Nintendo are the ultimate in the universe, they do nothing wrong. They are the vessel and I am their stupid monkey.
Am I a good little Nintendo cultist yet? Am I good enough to deserve the blessing of Super Mario Maker and their 9-day limit from the game's basic features? Am I humble enough for their almighty divinity yet? Because apparently i'm not allowed to EVER criticize the great and glorious Nintendo for their asinine, insultingly stupid crap that assumes I am as stupid as all their own brainwashed masses are humbled to think they are, in order to deserve their insulting condescension without question, or at least without being told by kool-aid drinking chimps that it's my fault for having a brain and that Nintendo's arrogance in being treated like I don't is MY fault for being too smart. And by "Smart", i'm not even saying it has to pass a mensa requirement. I mean just being able to wake up in the morning without forgetting how to breathe until 9 days pass.
Again, i'm compelled to ask.... REALLY??? That's the qualification of being a good Nintendo fan? That's the qualification for "deserving" Super Mario Maker? That's the qualification for being able to discern for myself how to learn what a button does or how to follow a basic interface without 9-day training wheels? And THAT'S the qualification for not being told that the problem is somehow mine for not being as stupid as all of you both think you are, and ACTUALLY seem to be?
Yeah, no.
Nintendo's incompetence, arrogance, failure at recognizing this kind of crap for what it is and for being entirely their problem is NOT my fault. It's their fault. And it's all of your faults for continuing to put up with it, having their crap shoveled in your mouth with a smile and washing it down with your kool-aid while telling everyone else to be quiet and shun all the non-believers and heretics in your little club.
But just keep telling yourselves that. Keep putting up with their incompetence and their disrespect of you as consumers over and over again. Keep it up. Keep making stupid excuses for your just rewards. I'm sure they'll forcefeed you their holy White Tanooki Suit sooner or later., if you keep trying too hard. Then you can live forever, be invincible and think you're never wrong.
Or at least you'll think that.
You always think that.
You're wrong. All of you. Deluded. And very stupid, too. And you don't have the right to get offended by me calling you stupid, either. Apparently you admit it yourself.
Or is it just that you think that after 9 days you'll have learned enough to be on the same level? ....I wouldn't count on that, guys. I just wouldn't. Word to the wise. From me to all of you.
While I COMPLETELY agree with absolutely everything he says, and I completely agree that he is right, and that gamers are pretty much a whiny and entitled lot who are far more ignorant about the industry and it's realities than they think they are when they throw tantrums about what they want without any thought of the risks involved....
....I have to say. I do not appreciate his tone and the condescending use of language. It makes him come off as butthurt, indignant, a little angry, over-defensive, and unprofessional. It hurts the point he's trying to make even as I completely agree with it, and all the confrontational use of terms like "look at you people" and a generally snotty and indignant tone that suggests he's "had it with all of these stupid fans". in a way that suggests he's angry and fed up.
When you're responding to the criticisms of the larger entitled and selfish internet communities. all this is going to do is spark a confrontation, and make people far less inclined to listen to him, even if he's right. The internet does not let these things go and already tend to over-romantize the idea of playing the persecuted victim of the evil company even on it's best days, and this isn't going to help it. I gurantee the lrger internet is going to take these comments and his tone as a direct insult, and push back harder with indignant memes, confrontational tweets, death threats and a target painted on his back by the dumber majority of reactionary fan communities.
In short even if I think he is absolutely right, and I do, this man just made himself the next Adam Orth. I sincerely hope he's prepared to be rocketed into new hate-target meme status. :/
The entitlement of Nintendo fans is still very real.
Can't ever be happy about anything they ever add to Smash or anything ever given. Whenever that gap between their whiny, selfish "gimmie gimmie gimmmie" expectations and the reality of those expectations not matching up with their narrow-minded, entitled feeling of being owed everything, instead of ever appreciating it, that gap can't ever gotten over by building any kind of bridge to get over the river they cry without some kind of whiny justification of "IT WASN'T WHAT IIII WANT.", like every 8-year old throwing a tantrum on Christmas morning with all these other presents around them.
It continues to be gross and sickening. Every single bit of content that happens to not fullfill the selfish pandering of each and every person has to be viewed as "a slap in the face" or held up as some kind of disgusting crybaby bullcrap about how "Nintendo doesn't love me", and "They're trying to hurt us.", without any sense of self-examination or concept of the irony of how this sounds.
Gamers always tend to not ever be able to build a bridge to get over the river of their own tears, and just jumps in on purpose to drown in it, seeing themselves as some kind of martyr of first-world problems, but with Nintendo fans, it seems to be always about 3 times worse, every time.
Everything has to be a slap in the face to you. Everything has to be some kind of paranoid plot against you and your hopes and dreams. Everything has to be seen by you as some kind of personal attack against you by Sakurai or some other name that you hold up as an effigy to burn or publicly insult just becuase what you want specifically isn't handed to you on a golden platter, no matter whatever else you're given. It's never enough. Nintendo fans are not just some of the biggest spoiled brats in all of eternity, but the most self-rightous about it, too.
OH NO SAKURAI EXPLAINS A LEGITIMATE REASON WHY RIDLEY WAS NOT IN SMASH. NINTENDO ARE BAD AND SAKURAI IS TRYING TO HURT ME, THEY ARE SLAPPING ME IN THE FACE I MUST CRY NOW WHILE I ENJOY EVERYTHING ELSE I WAS GIVEN AND IGNORE ALL OF IT.
WHY DIDN'T I GET THIS? WHY WASN'T THIS GIVEN TO ME? WHY IS THIS NOT IN? I WANTED IT SO I INSTANTLY DESERVE IT, NEED IT, AND IT SHOULD HAPPEN.
THIS IS NOT THE METROID GAME I LIKE. SO I MUST MAKE A PETITION TO CANCEL A GAME BECAUSE I CANNOT ABIDE BY IT'S EXISTENCE, AND JUST LET IT BE DEVELOPED FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD BUY IT THAT ISN'T ME. THESE DEVELOPERS SHOULD NOT HAVE A JOB BECAUSE I DID NOT GET THE CANDY CANE I WANTED TODAY. NOTICE ME, NINTENDO-SEMPAI. I AM THROWING A HORRIBLE, ENTITLED LITTLE FIT FOR YOUR ATTENTION SO YOU WILL GIVE ME EVERYTHING I WANTED, AND SCREW EVERYONE ELSE.
OH MY GOD HOW DARE THEY PUT KING K ROOL IN AS A MII FIGHTER, CLEARLY SAKURAI DID THIS JUST TO HURT MY FEELINGS. THIS IS A SLAP IN THE FACE BECUASE EVERYTHING SHOULD BE PRECICELY MY WAY ALL THE TIME. I WILL NOW THROW A SNOTTY LITTLE FIT AND LIST OFF EVERY CHARACTER I DON'T LIKE TO CRY ABOUT THE ONE THING I'M NOT GETTING.
And so on and so on and so on.
And these people still throw all these screaming, whiny, flailing tantrums with no clue how brattish and horrible, and selfish they sound whether it's individually, or 40 times worse when entitled petitions demanding things you were never promised, guaranteed, pop up to snivel and cry and take everything as some kind of personal offense to your well-being.
I sincerely hope one day, some of you people that constantly act like this, decide to grow up and acquire some level of self-reflection.
But seriously, while this certainly looks stupid and uninteresting to me and i'm generally of the same opinion as many others, this is the kind of "very Japanese" kind of "innovation" that clearly is a case of cultural differences. I can see the Japanese thinking this is interesting.
But here in America, no one cares. And neither do I. So hopefully Nintendo is going to at least be self-aware enough to know this is another of those things they shouldn't ever bring out of the east.
Americans don't care about your bizarre "innovations", Nintendo. We want to play video games.
What I'm about to say is going to make a lot of people angry. However, that's fine because much like other things i've said, it places logic above knee-jerk gut reactions, and therefore is going to be more valid. So i've absolutely no doubt that what i'm about to say is the right thing to say, and is only common sense that I say it flat-out, blunt, to the point, and with no regrets:
September 11th, 2001, was nearly 14 years ago. People need to get over it.
Yes, I just said that. Do you think i'm being insensitive? Do you think i'm being rude? Do you think i'm being disrespectful? Do you think that i'm dishorning it? Well, too bad. Because it's right. That statement is right. It was 14 years ago, get over it.
It was a terrible thing. THEN. It was the largest and most massive tragedy to happen in the United States. THEN.
But there is a thing called the grieving process. The most disrespectful thing to do when it comes to the memory of 9/11 is to continue to let it fester in you and ruin the date and your entire life by it. People lose loved ones. I HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. And the grieving process is something that everyone goes through. But HEALTHY, FUNCTIONING people get over their grief in time.
Before 2001, September 11 was a day just like any other. And I have a news flash for people. September 11th, is STILL just another day. It wasn't "just" another day THAT year, but the following year, it was. Sure the harm that the ATTACKS THEMSELVES still lingered in the public consciousness still hurt, and it hurt for years. But as time has gone on, well over an entire decade PAST that, it's time to move on.
But September 11th is just a day like any other. I'm going to be very brutally honest here, and again, I don't care what feelings this hurts, because this is a dose of reality that needs to be understood... Remember the attacks themselves? Understandable, if not a little clingy to the past instead of moving on from it, but still somewhat understandable.
Etching the DAY into your public consciousness as some kind of "holy day" to sit around and feel sorry about yourself for, every single time that date HAPPENS to roll around every 365 days, for over 14 years consecutively? It's obsessively dangerous and more than a little disturbed. Getting buttwrecked about ANYTHING happening on the precious holy 9/11 every single year is not only incredibly stupid, it's woefully counterproductive, especially when other normal things happen on a day in which nothing is happening, and was 14 friggin' years ago.
If some dog somewhere in the United States happens to take a crap on the ground in a public park on 9/11 in 2013, when you aren't around to see it, does that "Ruin" your precious holy day of 9/11 remembrance? No, of course not. That's stupid.
If a random couple in their own home decides to kiss each other on the day in 2011, is that "disrespectful" to 9/11 because they dare to be happy about their relationship on 9/11? No, of course not. That's stupid.
If somewhere out in the middle of Alaska, someone happens to accidentally drop a sandwich on the ground and then pick it up and throw it in the trash on that day in 2014, does that "disrespect" 9/11 by the act of this one person who did this completely unrelated thing? No, of course not. THAT'S STUPID.
If someone goes into a Taco Bell which happens to be open on that day, in 2009, orders a Bean Burrito, then eats it while heading home from work, and then decides to watch a movie he bought from a store, does that "destroy the solemness of 9/11?" NO. IT DOES NOT. BECAUSE THAT IS VERY STUPID.
So you may have realized that every single one of those things were completely unrelated to the actual topic at hand, had nothing to do with anything, and seemed like weird, random, everyday, uncontrollable, isolated, meaningless occurrences taking place just because they happened to happen on the same day, despite having nothing in common with terrorists, bombings, buildings or planes. So what's the point? Where am I going with all of this random, disconnected nonsense?
Well, be sure to pay close attention to the one defining similarity between those random occurrences and this final example:
What if Nintendo happened to just release a video game featuring Super Mario in 2015, and someone bought it, took it and brought it home, and played it. Does this random video game being randomly released for random people to buy and play, somehow encroach on the deep sovereignty of the 9/11 attacks? NO. OF. COURSE. NOT. BECAUSE. ....and be sure to follow me on this one. ...THAT. WOULD. BE. .......STUPID.
So, I really don't know how much more plain I can make this. But just in case, here's a recap. Dogs making dump in a park has nothing to do with 9/11. A kissing couple has nothing to do with 9/11. Alaska has nothing to do with 9/11. Sandwiches have nothing to do with 9/11. Taco Bell has nothing to do with 9/11. And Super Mario Maker has nothing to do with 9/11. Each and every single one of these things can theoretically happen on the date that just happens to occupy the eleventh day of the 9th month of the year. BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THEY SHARE NO COMMON THREAD WITH ANYTHING THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE 14 YEARS AGO.
When terrorists hijacked a plane and flew them into the side of the world trade center killing many people, that was a terrible, horrible, unspeakable thing. THAT HAPPENED TO FALL ON A RANDOM DAY.
I'm not unsympathetic to the people that lived through this, or even the people of New York City that dealt with the things that happened and a certain extent of it's aftermath, but not only is it ridiculous to hold onto this grief for over 14 years, whether or not that's still an issue, holding every random thing that happens on that same day accountable 14 years later for everything that DARES happens on it, is honestly pretty stupid.
And just as unrelated as all those things I mentioned above are to the actual 9/11 attacks , so too is the idiocy of continuing to let it ruin everything in your life for you and cause you to become so miserable and whiny for every random and unrelated reason, that you wouldn't be satisfied until you singlehandedly put the entire WORLD in time-frozen stasis until the 24 hours of this damn day every year ends, so that nothing happens to defile this precious day of wallowing in your self-righteousness, in order to protect it from ANYTHING randomly happening on it at all.
To get so selfishly and irrationally upset about a Mario game coming out on this day, is just as dumb as getting outraged and irrationally upset about the fact that millions of people are also going to take a pee in their bathroom that day at some point, and to claim that "uritating on 9/11 is not cool, brah". Despite the fact that not only will probably everyone ELSE go to the bathroom at some point, but also, so will you, very likely. Or breathe. Or eat food. Or use your eyes to see. All of which, I suppose are to be equally considered to be offensive.
How dare Nintendo release Super Mario Maker on Sept 11? How dare you take a pee on Sept 11? How dare you walk your dog on Sept 11? How dare you breathe on Sept 11th? This is the kind of Social Justice Warrior stupidity of our culture today that permeates it. This kind of ludicrousness. And the complaints about Nintendo releasing this game are every bit as stupid and perfectly equivalent to this kind of whiny stupidity as any of the dumb examples I cooked up.
It's not just well past time to get over this thing. It's at least 10 years past time to get over this. And holding this same day every year as the "how dare you do anything on this day" crap, is every bit as eye rolling and ridiculous as the people who still think that a black cat crossing your path or breaking a mirror or walking under a ladder is actually going to bring you bad luck all day. It's superstitious nonsense that everyone else goes along with, despite how stupid it is to still be going along with it, just because everyone else does and everyone else regards it as a thing even when it shouldn't be, anymore.
It's just a day. It's just the 11th day. It's just a Mario game. And it's just a September. Stop being so dumb. Get over it. Get over yourself, too.
"Further improvements to overall security to help combat modification and piracy, and other minor adjustments have been made to keep people from altering the hardware to finding possible exploits for the system to run any unsigned code or homebrew."
Salty over a divorce or not, this woman is stupid.
She could have gotten $250 easy. Why would you sell Earthbound cheap for ANY reason? Very idiotic. He clearly didn't marry her for her brains to begin with. I can see why he valued video games over her. Earthbound is worth more than her, any day.
@OddworldCrash Or...... y'know....... maybe he is just a regular human being who is actually excited for a video game that he thinks looks really cool. I mean, what are the odds of that? That's NEVER happened before.
Oops. I'm excited for the game, too. I must be mentally unstable. I know someone who is really excited to see a Pixar movie. Another person who wants to see the new Dragonball Z movie in the theater. And other friends that were excited for Arkham Knight, and all of them must have been "mentally unstable" for getting excited about something they want.
Who knew that hype was a mental disorder? Well, congratulations, Dr. OddworldCrash PhD. Another brilliant diagnosis. You are a credit to the medical profession that you clearly belong to. I suppose next is the informed statement that vaccinations cause autism? I guess if looking forward to a video game = mentally unstable, that logic can't be far behind.
Not by playing my "Godwin's Law" card in attack mode, sending your logic card to the graveyard, or something childish, like this is some game of Yu-Gi-Oh.
By actually explaining the situation and backing up my point with a definitive statement based on the situation, and not giving myself a burger king crown and declaring I won by default. Take notes.
And by the way, my point still stands. And i'm still right. Just so we're perfectly clear.
If you're fine with what Nintendo is doing here, you're inherently bowing to a fascist line of thinking, where all bans are final, no appeals, no trials, no logic, no research, all accounts are banned, whether guilty or innocent. too bad, live with it, whether you did anything right or wrong, sucks to be you, goodbye forever.
Nintendo is refusing to fix any problem or take any steps aside from imposing a marshal law state and doing nothing else. Nintendo's logic is inherently unfair and wrong here, and you're willfully ignorant if you support it.
The amount of people who actually think this is ok, that Nintendo actually really looks into the problems, and that all of the bans are fair and justified is ludicrous.
But yeah, it's really disgusting how so many people think that "Don't like it, don't do anything wrong", is a valid response. That's horribly ignorant and completely looking the other way, instead of considering the real problem for longer than 5 seconds.
What about the people that didn't do anything wrong and get banned anyway? What about the people who were falsely reported by someone else in order to abuse the system? Let me reminds you this is the SAME COMPANY that bans you in Smash Bros for targeting a single player.
And you're defending them for this?
You people are stupid. Intentionally, willfully, obstinately stupid.
Ok, a LOT of people don't seem to be understanding what's going on here.
No, Iwata did NOT apologize. Everyone took it as one due to assumption on their part, but his words never were an apology at all.
The thing is.. the Japanese don't "do" apologies like this. This is a very clear-cut of cultural difference on a basic level, that people are interpreting with their western expectations of apologies they think they're owed. In Japan, when heavily criticized, even if they don't agree, it's considered the polite thing to acknowledge the critisism and say "We hear what you're saying and we understand you're not happy." NOT "We're sorry and we're going to bend over backwards to make it right for you because we agree with you."
This was a move, from the very start to "save face" in a Japanese business way, that doesn't translate over because Americans are naturally entitled and feel that any acknowledgement is somehow validation of an apology they believe they're owed or that Nintendo is taking any fault.
And quite frankly, they're not obligated to, nor SHOULD have to apologize to ANYONE. People are getting stupidly up in arms about not receiving something they were never promised in the first place, and in return, the Japanese thing to do is to try and quell anger by saying "We hear that you're angry. We're sorry that you are.".
Quite frankly, I think everyone needs to get over themselves in this matter, and Nintendo is pretty much in the right here. They're issuing a "please understand" statement and everyone is continuing to act so entitled about it that they somehow believe that Iwata is "apologizing" for not giving entitled fanboys something they were never promised to begin with, despite the fact that this is NEVER what he said and no whining about how it's "backpedaling" or something when it's very clearly not. People read the apologize into it, and then getting whiny when, again, their selfish assumptions aren't being catered to on a silver platter.
This is the worst kind of entitlement compounded by shoving words in their mouth they never even said. People need to be ashamed for their part in both creating this drama and misreading the response. Nintendo is essentially telling you to "calm your t*ts." Maybe it's time to sit down and do that.
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Re: Miyamoto: Star Fox Zero Has Been Delayed "I am very sorry"
Nope.-Morpheel
Re: Super Mario Maker Patch Speeds Up Tool Delivery
I'm going to take credit for this.
My long, post detailing why it was wrong, and thoroughly idiotic for them to do the 9-day unlock. I'm going to say that they've not only looked at the general perception which was largely negative and rightfully so, as well as my very long, attention directing post that gave, by far, the best explanation as to why it was wrong, presented indisputably, and say that they heard my voice as well as others. So i'm going to happily take part of the credit as to why they did this.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. And everyone can thank me, and everyone else who stood their ground and complained as to why Nintendo saw common sense.
You're all very, very welcome.
Re: Nintendo Recruits YouTube Celebrities for Its Super Mario Maker 'Super Creator Challenge'
So, I thought to myself "If I scroll down to see the comments, are a bunch of snotty people just going to start ignorantly, jealously and self-righteously insulting these people for being more well known and talented?"
And yes. Already three of you did.
SpaceJump, Moon, and asbel, you're all pathetic, miserable and hateful little imbeciles. Shame on all three of you. Go sit in the corner, you miserable, worthless, whiny trolls. Shame on you. Shame. These people in this video are all, and will always be far better than you. They deserve far more respect than any of you cretins ever will.
Re: Production Of Shovel Knight amiibo Is Being Handled Entirely By Yacht Club Games
Oh boy. Another crappy Happy Meal toy hiding equally crappy paywall DLC that stupid and easily led people want for some bizarrely stupid reason.
great.
forgive me if my withhold my enthusiasm.
cough cough*fanboysarestupidandwillbuyanythingevenifitsucksaslongasit'smarketedhardenough*cough
Re: Review: Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Virtual Console / NES)
@LordTendoboy You are pretty much wrong on all counts.
Re: Review: Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Virtual Console / NES)
@Rarewarefan7495 HVGN's review was horrible and so is yours. This game is greatness.
Re: Rumour: XSEED Less Than Happy With Nintendo's About-Face On Publishing Devil's Third
@MadAdam81 "Possiby the lowest rated game on Wii U" Correction... the lowest rated game that HASN'T COME OUT, YET. But yeah ok, I guess everyone can just keep making their premature judgements. That's cool.
Re: Freedom Planet Release Bound by Bug
The release of the single worst Sonic The Hedghehog fanfiction ever made has been cancelled for Wii U indefinitely.
Yeah, I think i'll live.
And by "live" I mean, "I am going to throw a party"
Re: The Piracy of amiibo Now Seems Possible With the 'amiiqo' Device
Awesome.
Amiiboo are unbelievably stupid, anyway. They're nothing but a cheap scam. Crappy, poorly made, overpriced, glorified Happy Meal toys that essentially hide bare bones, DLC game features that should be part of the games themselves, behind paywalls of cheap, junky toys, intended to boost Nintendo's profits from easily mislead and gullible fanboys who will buy whatever cheap crap is shoved in their face even when it's this scummy and blatant as this, while intentionally hindering both production and availability to manufacture desire and drive up the market value for what is basically in-game locked DLC.
Amiibo are not just stupid, but they are also disgusting, underhanded and everything that is wrong with not just Nintendo's business model (manufacturing demand with pre-planned shortages for cheap toys and in-game locked paywall features, and scamming gullible children out of their parents money), but also the industry itself with it's disgustingly gross in-game DLC paywall locked crap. The kind of thing everyone hates and despises companies like Capcom and EA for, but give Nintendo a free pass for.... some incomprehensible reason, mostly vaguely related to Nintendo's brainwashed fanboy kool-aid drinkers.
Finally, there is a way to take Nintendo's cheap scam, show it for what it is, and put the rightful ability to get the most out of their own games without cheap DLC-paywall scams, into the hands of the consumer where it belongs.
This is only a good thing. I hope Nintendo's stupid Amiiboo sales have their bottom fall out because of this. Then Nintendo would be forced to stop putting their market strategy on dime-store Happy Meal toys and paywall game features and start putting their effort back on completed, quality games again.
Re: Nintendo Life Weekly: Super Mario Maker New Features
"unfortunate" dismissal?
Pretty sure, I and many others have detailed exactly why he got precisely what he deserved.
He directly violated Nintendo's policies on unauthorized interviews and appearances, was very condescending, confrontational and unprofessional in his tone and with his comments that reflected VERY badly on Nintendo as a corporate identity, His appearence was a direct slap in the face to Nintendo, a black mark on their company that embarassed them, and was done knowing full well that doing so directly violated his own conditions and terms that he AGREED to uphold as part of their staff.
The termination was completely justified, brought entirely on himself and was 100% both his own fault AND the only possible action Nintendo could have taken for what he did knowingly.
Anyone expressing any amount of sympathy for him is a fool.
Re: Chris Prangar, Nintendo Treehouse Staffer Who Recently Spoke About His Work, Confirms He's Been Fired
He got exactly what he deserved and brought it entirely upon himself.
His comments were incredibly obnoxious, whiny, confrontational, arrogant, unprofessional and very, VERY stupid. His interview damaged Nintendo's reputation even further than it already has been for a while now, and what he did was incredibly stupid. He spoke for the company in a whiny, self-righteous way and made Nintendo's clueless, self-absorbed arrogance as a company even more plainly clear than it's been and made it and himself both look bad in a PR capacity by speaking out in a COMPLETELY unauthorized way without the company's approval, embarrassing them both publicly.
I have absolutely no sympathy for this man, and any problems he has brought entirely on himself in this matter, in every single possible way. He's a fool and he deserves this shame, entirely.
Re: Nintendo's Awesome Super Mario Maker Overview Announces New Features
@Yorumi is absolutely right.
This limit is horrible, disgusting, pathetic, incredibly stupid, utterly unnecessary, absolutely nonsensical, unjustifiably insulting and perfectly representative about everything that is wrong with Nintendo as a company, and the #1 indication as to how perfectly incompetent and disrespectful to their consumers they truly are. And how incompetent they think their consumers are. ...which, judging by the more disturbingly cultist, over-justifying, denial-stricken comments here, I would almost think Nintendo might just have something with that general assessment.
As far as i'm concerned, what's even worse than the inclusion of this ridiculously nonsensical limit are the even more nonsensical and brainwashed justifications from the kool-aid drinking Nintendo cult fanboys in this comment section and other places for the fact that Nintendo is not only treating you like you are a remedial toddler, or the fact that you're perfectly happy with being treated like a remedial toddler, and that you APPRECIATE the insult.
Seriously. They are figuratively shoving crap in your face here for no good reason, telling you to eat it, you do so and are actually saying "Thank you sir, may I have another", while saying "What's your problem??" to everyone who is looking at you funny. I... don't even, people. I don't even.
I just love how the INSANE justifications are ranging to everything from the typical "wah wah you're a crybaby, it doesn't bother ME", to "uhh.. no, no guys it's totally ok that Nintedno treats us all like a bunch of stupid 5-year olds because... we ARE stupid 5 year olds, guys. Having more than a few options is SOOO confusing. I mean I can't even figure out how to set the time on a watch, let alone figure out what to do with my life if I had MORE THAN 10 BUTTONS TO PRESS." ...said with the creepy smiling of a Stepford Wife the whole time.
Like, really people? Really? ....really? That's the kinds of justifications you're going with? Either the Nintendo Fanboy equivalent of "If u dun leik 'murica u can jes get owwwwt!!" and "Oh it's true, we are so borderline retarded that we can't be trusted to be given more credit to operate anything more involved than a Fisher-Price playpen."
REALLY??? REALLLLLY?
......REALLLYYY?????
SO, ok, no. There are many problems with this. MANY. PROBLEMS. And i'm going to illuminate them all right now, so this discussion ends, once and for all.
So, imagine that you are given a rudimentary board game that isn't very taxing or challenging to learn, based on it's clean, easy to grasp interface just by looking it over. Now imagine that you are given a set of instructions. NOW, imagine that this board game is checkers.
So, if you had never played checkers a day in your life, a game that an 8-year could easily learn in 10 minutes if he was so inclined. You take the board out of the package and you look at all of the checker pieces. Red and Black pieces. A red and black checkerboard. Now imagine that you go to look up the instructions to see how the game is played.....
The instruction book has a SINGLE SENTENCE UNCOVERED that reads "Take the pieces out of the box" and the ENTIRE REST of the small pamphlet is blotted out by THICK, BLACK MARKER over all the words that render the instructions, what little there are, unreadable.
At the bottom there is an asterisk and a small instruction along with a bottle of solvent that reads "5 minutes after removing the contents, take a brush and wipe the solvent over the next two sentences of the instructions ONLY." So you do.
The next two sentences are now readable. And they say "place the red checkers on one side of the board. Now wait one entire day to brush the solvent over the next two sentence of these instructions."
This is... incredibly stupid and immensely counter-productive, but you decide to be a complete idiot today and follow these instructions. After all, you must take it slow so you do not hurt yourself.
24 hours later, you return to the board with the red checker pieces and the instructions that clearly think you are an idiot with all this time on your hands to play checkers for the first time. You uncover the next two sentences as if you are deciphering the Voynich Manuscript or carefully doing advanced calculus. They read "Place the black checker pieces on the opposite side of the board for the other player. Now please wait 24 hours to brush the solvent on the next two sentences."
You suppress a groan of immense frustration, before remembering that these checker instructions apparently think you must major in a 4 year course of how not to run with scissors before you can be trusted with them, and therefore labor under the continued delusion that you have absolutely nothing better to do within a 48 hour span of time than learn how to set up a checker board one f---ing step at a time, one entire f---king day at a time.
You come BACK to the board after 24 more hours, provided that you haven't managed to choke in a combination of your own saliva and rainwater staring up at rainclouds for an extended amount of time, and process enough long-term memory to remember what the board is, why it's there, or what you were trying to do yesterday.
You wipe two more sentences away with the solvent to unblock the highly top secret for-your-eyes-only papers that instruct you on the over-complicated task of learning the basic board set up for a game of goddamn checkers, and are greeted with "Players take turn moving a pieces diagonally on the board, to jump the opponents pieces. Please refer to the enclosed 3-hour audio book that explains how this is accomplished and wait 24 more hours before proceeding to uncover the next two sentences"
24 hours later, the next step tells you how to jump. 24 more hours later, the next step details what a "jump" is. 24 hours later, you are instructed how to "double jump". And so on with the concept of kinging. And so on. And so on.
9 days later, you have now learned how to play checkers. And you have now done so over the course of this incredibly overly long period of time, in the single most time-wasting, brain-dead, simperingly aggravating, nonsensical, convoluted, idiotically unnecessary way imaginable. ...and you think this is not only perfectly ok, and sensible but even PROUD of doing it this way.
....no. Just... no.
just no.
You think this makes you right and justifies the utterly STUPID process, all because the checkers instructions did not think you were capable of reading more than two sentences PER DAY, NOR comprehending them, unless the process was dragged out to the insufferably, unjustifiably insulting length of the tiniest nugget of basic information possible, after a period of 24 HOURS, each and every time... AND YOU AGREE BY THE END, that you WERE this stupid, and therefore.... NEEDED IT.
And it accomplished this by DEMANDING that you use blotted out instructions printed on half a page, and uncovering every sentence ON this NONSENSICAL time limit of one per 24 HOURS by uncovering each two sentences METHODICALLY using solvent to REVEAL EACH SENTENCE.....
WHEN YOU COULD JUST UNCOVER ALL OF THE SENTENCES, SPEND A GRAND TOTAL OF 10 MINUTES TO READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS IN ORDER AND CONTEMPLATE THE SIMPLE TASK OF LEARNING THE MOST BASIC RULES OF CHECKERS. It could take you 10 minutes. 10 minutes of 2nd grader comprehension skills, but you happily, and willingly, went along with these incoherently arbitrary limits demanded of you for NO EXPLAINABLE OR JUSTIFIABLE REASON OVER A PERIOD OF NINE........ LONG..... DAYS...... with a FRIGGIN' BOTTLE OF SOLVENT ON SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN WITH SIMPLE STEPS..... Because it asked you to.
And you think you had to. And you enjoyed this. And you were completely ok with this. ...AND you appreciated it.
...because apparently this is what the level of human beings has come down to. We've come down to the level of being taught a task through methods over a period of 9 days that even a chimpanzee would find insulting, when the most he is asked to do is walk over and grab a banana on a string. I doubt it would take a chimpanzee 9 days to figure out a process akin to this, but you people are so certain in the fact that, if you were NOT taught in this method, you never would have been able to figure the process out through any amount of stimulus, internal OR external unless 9 days was taken dragging the process out for no explainable reason whatsoever, other than the fact that you think you couldn't manage that level of banality, unless you were guided to do it in this exact manner.
And that you're grateful for it and that you're honestly justifying THIS with the argument that sounds basically like you're saying:
"anyone who thinks they're smarter than a chimpanzee needs to get over themselves, because nine days to figure out what buttons do instead of actually just HITTING those buttons or being trusted to do it themselves, is just being a whiner. I'll gladly have crap shoved into my face, have over a week straight of my time wasted for no reason at all, and be treated like a sub-human and love it, Anyone who wouldn't is a being a crybaby, right? I mean come on, right? What a bunch of whiners. OH NO WHERE IS MY BANANA MUST TAKE 9 DAYS TO FIND BANANA I AM SO GOOD AND BETTER CUZ I AM NINTENDO FAN I THEY THINK I AM STUPID SO I AM STUPID OOH OOH EEE EE AHH AHH"
But yeah. That's your justification, eh? THAT's your self-righteous shutdown to EVERYONE who dare complain, huh? That's what you think makes you people better than me. That's what puts people like me below people like you? Because you're so deathly afraid of your own infinite ignorance, and such things like the ability to find out what buttons actually do in a level editor by hitting those buttons which scare you to death to the point that you need a 9-day warming up period on how to use Super Mario Maker or else you'd pee yourself?
Yeah, it's not that i'm "whining". It's that you're all stupid. Impossibly stupid. Irredeemably stupid. And you're deathly afraid of that ignorance to the point that you'd just hold it up as a shield to deflect your stupidity back on everyone else who is actually daring to have the gall to say that they think they should have been trusted not to have to wait 9 days to figure out tasks that a chimpanzee at worst, or a second grader at best could learn through trial and error in less than 10 minutes.
Or that it's somehow a COMPLETELY ALIEN CONCEPT to think that ANY OF US just miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight be a teensy bit.. ABOVE THAT LEVEL, and thus feel insulted that NINTENDO THINKS ANYONE IS. Or that even despite that they think this, that somehow locking it behind a NINE DAMN DAY WALL, is, in ANY CONCEIVABLE WAY conducive to a learning curve, that again, a small child could discover in 10 minutes without having the method or the instructions forcibly locked off for them. And that the idea that this could be considered to be somehow insulting, is somehow ALIEN to you.
But no. Somehow, It's my problem. Somehow, It's my fault. Somehow this is MY failing... that I have a discernible IQ. It's my fault that i'm not below the development potential of a very dumb primate. It's my fault that over an ENTIRE week of a forced insult for a game I will have paid FULL PRICE FOR to TAKE HOME AND PLAY is being locked off because Nintendo thinks that I am literally retarded and treats me as such. OH, OK THEN.
And apparently is it entirely my fault, and it makes me a whiner that I carry the burden of graduating to the level of functional human being with the potential to discover trial and error in less than 10 minutes, ALL BECAUSE FROM THE SOUND OF IT, SO MANY OF YOU ARE LEGITIMATELY PROUD THAT YOU ARE NOT. And it makes it all ok.
Because oh, Nintendo, thy be my lord and savior. Thy Nintendo are the ultimate in the universe, they do nothing wrong. They are the vessel and I am their stupid monkey.
Am I a good little Nintendo cultist yet? Am I good enough to deserve the blessing of Super Mario Maker and their 9-day limit from the game's basic features? Am I humble enough for their almighty divinity yet? Because apparently i'm not allowed to EVER criticize the great and glorious Nintendo for their asinine, insultingly stupid crap that assumes I am as stupid as all their own brainwashed masses are humbled to think they are, in order to deserve their insulting condescension without question, or at least without being told by kool-aid drinking chimps that it's my fault for having a brain and that Nintendo's arrogance in being treated like I don't is MY fault for being too smart. And by "Smart", i'm not even saying it has to pass a mensa requirement. I mean just being able to wake up in the morning without forgetting how to breathe until 9 days pass.
Again, i'm compelled to ask.... REALLY??? That's the qualification of being a good Nintendo fan? That's the qualification for "deserving" Super Mario Maker? That's the qualification for being able to discern for myself how to learn what a button does or how to follow a basic interface without 9-day training wheels? And THAT'S the qualification for not being told that the problem is somehow mine for not being as stupid as all of you both think you are, and ACTUALLY seem to be?
Yeah, no.
Nintendo's incompetence, arrogance, failure at recognizing this kind of crap for what it is and for being entirely their problem is NOT my fault. It's their fault. And it's all of your faults for continuing to put up with it, having their crap shoveled in your mouth with a smile and washing it down with your kool-aid while telling everyone else to be quiet and shun all the non-believers and heretics in your little club.
But just keep telling yourselves that. Keep putting up with their incompetence and their disrespect of you as consumers over and over again. Keep it up. Keep making stupid excuses for your just rewards. I'm sure they'll forcefeed you their holy White Tanooki Suit sooner or later., if you keep trying too hard. Then you can live forever, be invincible and think you're never wrong.
Or at least you'll think that.
You always think that.
You're wrong. All of you. Deluded. And very stupid, too. And you don't have the right to get offended by me calling you stupid, either. Apparently you admit it yourself.
Or is it just that you think that after 9 days you'll have learned enough to be on the same level? ....I wouldn't count on that, guys. I just wouldn't. Word to the wise. From me to all of you.
Re: SNK Playmore's New Chinese Owners Aim To "Do A Marvel" With Its Famous Franchises
Yes, because the Chinese have a very long history of quality.
Seriously though, I dread this and it scares the jeepers out of me.
Re: Chris Pranger From Nintendo Treehouse Discusses Harsh Realities Of Localisation
While I COMPLETELY agree with absolutely everything he says, and I completely agree that he is right, and that gamers are pretty much a whiny and entitled lot who are far more ignorant about the industry and it's realities than they think they are when they throw tantrums about what they want without any thought of the risks involved....
....I have to say. I do not appreciate his tone and the condescending use of language. It makes him come off as butthurt, indignant, a little angry, over-defensive, and unprofessional. It hurts the point he's trying to make even as I completely agree with it, and all the confrontational use of terms like "look at you people" and a generally snotty and indignant tone that suggests he's "had it with all of these stupid fans". in a way that suggests he's angry and fed up.
When you're responding to the criticisms of the larger entitled and selfish internet communities. all this is going to do is spark a confrontation, and make people far less inclined to listen to him, even if he's right. The internet does not let these things go and already tend to over-romantize the idea of playing the persecuted victim of the evil company even on it's best days, and this isn't going to help it. I gurantee the lrger internet is going to take these comments and his tone as a direct insult, and push back harder with indignant memes, confrontational tweets, death threats and a target painted on his back by the dumber majority of reactionary fan communities.
In short even if I think he is absolutely right, and I do, this man just made himself the next Adam Orth. I sincerely hope he's prepared to be rocketed into new hate-target meme status. :/
Re: Super Smash Bros. Is Getting A Massive Update On July 31st
The entitlement of Nintendo fans is still very real.
Can't ever be happy about anything they ever add to Smash or anything ever given. Whenever that gap between their whiny, selfish "gimmie gimmie gimmmie" expectations and the reality of those expectations not matching up with their narrow-minded, entitled feeling of being owed everything, instead of ever appreciating it, that gap can't ever gotten over by building any kind of bridge to get over the river they cry without some kind of whiny justification of "IT WASN'T WHAT IIII WANT.", like every 8-year old throwing a tantrum on Christmas morning with all these other presents around them.
It continues to be gross and sickening. Every single bit of content that happens to not fullfill the selfish pandering of each and every person has to be viewed as "a slap in the face" or held up as some kind of disgusting crybaby bullcrap about how "Nintendo doesn't love me", and "They're trying to hurt us.", without any sense of self-examination or concept of the irony of how this sounds.
Gamers always tend to not ever be able to build a bridge to get over the river of their own tears, and just jumps in on purpose to drown in it, seeing themselves as some kind of martyr of first-world problems, but with Nintendo fans, it seems to be always about 3 times worse, every time.
Everything has to be a slap in the face to you. Everything has to be some kind of paranoid plot against you and your hopes and dreams. Everything has to be seen by you as some kind of personal attack against you by Sakurai or some other name that you hold up as an effigy to burn or publicly insult just becuase what you want specifically isn't handed to you on a golden platter, no matter whatever else you're given. It's never enough. Nintendo fans are not just some of the biggest spoiled brats in all of eternity, but the most self-rightous about it, too.
OH NO SAKURAI EXPLAINS A LEGITIMATE REASON WHY RIDLEY WAS NOT IN SMASH. NINTENDO ARE BAD AND SAKURAI IS TRYING TO HURT ME, THEY ARE SLAPPING ME IN THE FACE I MUST CRY NOW WHILE I ENJOY EVERYTHING ELSE I WAS GIVEN AND IGNORE ALL OF IT.
WHY DIDN'T I GET THIS? WHY WASN'T THIS GIVEN TO ME? WHY IS THIS NOT IN? I WANTED IT SO I INSTANTLY DESERVE IT, NEED IT, AND IT SHOULD HAPPEN.
THIS IS NOT THE METROID GAME I LIKE. SO I MUST MAKE A PETITION TO CANCEL A GAME BECAUSE I CANNOT ABIDE BY IT'S EXISTENCE, AND JUST LET IT BE DEVELOPED FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD BUY IT THAT ISN'T ME. THESE DEVELOPERS SHOULD NOT HAVE A JOB BECAUSE I DID NOT GET THE CANDY CANE I WANTED TODAY. NOTICE ME, NINTENDO-SEMPAI. I AM THROWING A HORRIBLE, ENTITLED LITTLE FIT FOR YOUR ATTENTION SO YOU WILL GIVE ME EVERYTHING I WANTED, AND SCREW EVERYONE ELSE.
OH MY GOD HOW DARE THEY PUT KING K ROOL IN AS A MII FIGHTER, CLEARLY SAKURAI DID THIS JUST TO HURT MY FEELINGS. THIS IS A SLAP IN THE FACE BECUASE EVERYTHING SHOULD BE PRECICELY MY WAY ALL THE TIME. I WILL NOW THROW A SNOTTY LITTLE FIT AND LIST OFF EVERY CHARACTER I DON'T LIKE TO CRY ABOUT THE ONE THING I'M NOT GETTING.
And so on and so on and so on.
And these people still throw all these screaming, whiny, flailing tantrums with no clue how brattish and horrible, and selfish they sound whether it's individually, or 40 times worse when entitled petitions demanding things you were never promised, guaranteed, pop up to snivel and cry and take everything as some kind of personal offense to your well-being.
I sincerely hope one day, some of you people that constantly act like this, decide to grow up and acquire some level of self-reflection.
Re: Nintendo Quality Of Life Patent Applications Appear Online
those video games tho.
But seriously, while this certainly looks stupid and uninteresting to me and i'm generally of the same opinion as many others, this is the kind of "very Japanese" kind of "innovation" that clearly is a case of cultural differences. I can see the Japanese thinking this is interesting.
But here in America, no one cares. And neither do I. So hopefully Nintendo is going to at least be self-aware enough to know this is another of those things they shouldn't ever bring out of the east.
Americans don't care about your bizarre "innovations", Nintendo. We want to play video games.
Re: Nintendo Cancels Camp Miiverse in Honour of Satoru Iwata
What I'm about to say is going to make a lot of people angry. However, that's fine because much like other things i've said, it places logic above knee-jerk gut reactions, and therefore is going to be more valid. So i've absolutely no doubt that what i'm about to say is the right thing to say, and is only common sense that I say it flat-out, blunt, to the point, and with no regrets:
September 11th, 2001, was nearly 14 years ago. People need to get over it.
Yes, I just said that. Do you think i'm being insensitive? Do you think i'm being rude? Do you think i'm being disrespectful? Do you think that i'm dishorning it? Well, too bad. Because it's right. That statement is right. It was 14 years ago, get over it.
It was a terrible thing. THEN. It was the largest and most massive tragedy to happen in the United States. THEN.
But there is a thing called the grieving process. The most disrespectful thing to do when it comes to the memory of 9/11 is to continue to let it fester in you and ruin the date and your entire life by it. People lose loved ones. I HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. And the grieving process is something that everyone goes through. But HEALTHY, FUNCTIONING people get over their grief in time.
Before 2001, September 11 was a day just like any other. And I have a news flash for people. September 11th, is STILL just another day. It wasn't "just" another day THAT year, but the following year, it was. Sure the harm that the ATTACKS THEMSELVES still lingered in the public consciousness still hurt, and it hurt for years. But as time has gone on, well over an entire decade PAST that, it's time to move on.
But September 11th is just a day like any other. I'm going to be very brutally honest here, and again, I don't care what feelings this hurts, because this is a dose of reality that needs to be understood... Remember the attacks themselves? Understandable, if not a little clingy to the past instead of moving on from it, but still somewhat understandable.
Etching the DAY into your public consciousness as some kind of "holy day" to sit around and feel sorry about yourself for, every single time that date HAPPENS to roll around every 365 days, for over 14 years consecutively? It's obsessively dangerous and more than a little disturbed. Getting buttwrecked about ANYTHING happening on the precious holy 9/11 every single year is not only incredibly stupid, it's woefully counterproductive, especially when other normal things happen on a day in which nothing is happening, and was 14 friggin' years ago.
If some dog somewhere in the United States happens to take a crap on the ground in a public park on 9/11 in 2013, when you aren't around to see it, does that "Ruin" your precious holy day of 9/11 remembrance? No, of course not. That's stupid.
If a random couple in their own home decides to kiss each other on the day in 2011, is that "disrespectful" to 9/11 because they dare to be happy about their relationship on 9/11? No, of course not. That's stupid.
If somewhere out in the middle of Alaska, someone happens to accidentally drop a sandwich on the ground and then pick it up and throw it in the trash on that day in 2014, does that "disrespect" 9/11 by the act of this one person who did this completely unrelated thing? No, of course not. THAT'S STUPID.
If someone goes into a Taco Bell which happens to be open on that day, in 2009, orders a Bean Burrito, then eats it while heading home from work, and then decides to watch a movie he bought from a store, does that "destroy the solemness of 9/11?" NO. IT DOES NOT. BECAUSE THAT IS VERY STUPID.
So you may have realized that every single one of those things were completely unrelated to the actual topic at hand, had nothing to do with anything, and seemed like weird, random, everyday, uncontrollable, isolated, meaningless occurrences taking place just because they happened to happen on the same day, despite having nothing in common with terrorists, bombings, buildings or planes. So what's the point? Where am I going with all of this random, disconnected nonsense?
Well, be sure to pay close attention to the one defining similarity between those random occurrences and this final example:
What if Nintendo happened to just release a video game featuring Super Mario in 2015, and someone bought it, took it and brought it home, and played it. Does this random video game being randomly released for random people to buy and play, somehow encroach on the deep sovereignty of the 9/11 attacks? NO. OF. COURSE. NOT. BECAUSE. ....and be sure to follow me on this one. ...THAT. WOULD. BE. .......STUPID.
So, I really don't know how much more plain I can make this. But just in case, here's a recap. Dogs making dump in a park has nothing to do with 9/11. A kissing couple has nothing to do with 9/11. Alaska has nothing to do with 9/11. Sandwiches have nothing to do with 9/11. Taco Bell has nothing to do with 9/11. And Super Mario Maker has nothing to do with 9/11. Each and every single one of these things can theoretically happen on the date that just happens to occupy the eleventh day of the 9th month of the year. BUT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THEY SHARE NO COMMON THREAD WITH ANYTHING THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE 14 YEARS AGO.
When terrorists hijacked a plane and flew them into the side of the world trade center killing many people, that was a terrible, horrible, unspeakable thing. THAT HAPPENED TO FALL ON A RANDOM DAY.
I'm not unsympathetic to the people that lived through this, or even the people of New York City that dealt with the things that happened and a certain extent of it's aftermath, but not only is it ridiculous to hold onto this grief for over 14 years, whether or not that's still an issue, holding every random thing that happens on that same day accountable 14 years later for everything that DARES happens on it, is honestly pretty stupid.
And just as unrelated as all those things I mentioned above are to the actual 9/11 attacks , so too is the idiocy of continuing to let it ruin everything in your life for you and cause you to become so miserable and whiny for every random and unrelated reason, that you wouldn't be satisfied until you singlehandedly put the entire WORLD in time-frozen stasis until the 24 hours of this damn day every year ends, so that nothing happens to defile this precious day of wallowing in your self-righteousness, in order to protect it from ANYTHING randomly happening on it at all.
To get so selfishly and irrationally upset about a Mario game coming out on this day, is just as dumb as getting outraged and irrationally upset about the fact that millions of people are also going to take a pee in their bathroom that day at some point, and to claim that "uritating on 9/11 is not cool, brah". Despite the fact that not only will probably everyone ELSE go to the bathroom at some point, but also, so will you, very likely. Or breathe. Or eat food. Or use your eyes to see. All of which, I suppose are to be equally considered to be offensive.
How dare Nintendo release Super Mario Maker on Sept 11? How dare you take a pee on Sept 11? How dare you walk your dog on Sept 11? How dare you breathe on Sept 11th? This is the kind of Social Justice Warrior stupidity of our culture today that permeates it. This kind of ludicrousness. And the complaints about Nintendo releasing this game are every bit as stupid and perfectly equivalent to this kind of whiny stupidity as any of the dumb examples I cooked up.
It's not just well past time to get over this thing. It's at least 10 years past time to get over this. And holding this same day every year as the "how dare you do anything on this day" crap, is every bit as eye rolling and ridiculous as the people who still think that a black cat crossing your path or breaking a mirror or walking under a ladder is actually going to bring you bad luck all day. It's superstitious nonsense that everyone else goes along with, despite how stupid it is to still be going along with it, just because everyone else does and everyone else regards it as a thing even when it shouldn't be, anymore.
It's just a day. It's just the 11th day. It's just a Mario game. And it's just a September. Stop being so dumb. Get over it. Get over yourself, too.
Re: 3DS System Update, to Version 9.9.2-26, Ramps Up Precious Stability
Here's a literal translation from Nintendoese:
"Further improvements to overall security to help combat modification and piracy, and other minor adjustments have been made to keep people from altering the hardware to finding possible exploits for the system to run any unsigned code or homebrew."
Re: Zeldamotion's Link To The Past Animated Series Takes to Kickstarter for Support
I give this less than 2 days before Nintendo kills this dead.
Re: Weirdness: Revenge is a Dish Best Sold on eBay, as This EarthBound Sale Shows
Salty over a divorce or not, this woman is stupid.
She could have gotten $250 easy. Why would you sell Earthbound cheap for ANY reason? Very idiotic. He clearly didn't marry her for her brains to begin with. I can see why he valued video games over her. Earthbound is worth more than her, any day.
Re: Video: This News Anchor Sure Is Excited About Super Mario Maker
@OddworldCrash Or...... y'know....... maybe he is just a regular human being who is actually excited for a video game that he thinks looks really cool. I mean, what are the odds of that? That's NEVER happened before.
Oops. I'm excited for the game, too. I must be mentally unstable. I know someone who is really excited to see a Pixar movie. Another person who wants to see the new Dragonball Z movie in the theater. And other friends that were excited for Arkham Knight, and all of them must have been "mentally unstable" for getting excited about something they want.
Who knew that hype was a mental disorder? Well, congratulations, Dr. OddworldCrash PhD. Another brilliant diagnosis. You are a credit to the medical profession that you clearly belong to. I suppose next is the informed statement that vaccinations cause autism? I guess if looking forward to a video game = mentally unstable, that logic can't be far behind.
Re: Video: Here's a Brief, and Entertaining, History of Donkey Kong
@TripleGamer3K And I just want to tell you that you are completely wrong.
Re: Nintendo Gets Tough With Miiverse Bans, and Some Users Aren't Exactly Pleased
And that is how I "win" an "argument".
Not by playing my "Godwin's Law" card in attack mode, sending your logic card to the graveyard, or something childish, like this is some game of Yu-Gi-Oh.
By actually explaining the situation and backing up my point with a definitive statement based on the situation, and not giving myself a burger king crown and declaring I won by default. Take notes.
Re: Nintendo Gets Tough With Miiverse Bans, and Some Users Aren't Exactly Pleased
And by the way, my point still stands. And i'm still right. Just so we're perfectly clear.
If you're fine with what Nintendo is doing here, you're inherently bowing to a fascist line of thinking, where all bans are final, no appeals, no trials, no logic, no research, all accounts are banned, whether guilty or innocent. too bad, live with it, whether you did anything right or wrong, sucks to be you, goodbye forever.
Nintendo is refusing to fix any problem or take any steps aside from imposing a marshal law state and doing nothing else. Nintendo's logic is inherently unfair and wrong here, and you're willfully ignorant if you support it.
The metaphor I used was apt.
Re: Nintendo Gets Tough With Miiverse Bans, and Some Users Aren't Exactly Pleased
Tone it down please-Morpheel
Re: Nintendo Gets Tough With Miiverse Bans, and Some Users Aren't Exactly Pleased
The amount of people who actually think this is ok, that Nintendo actually really looks into the problems, and that all of the bans are fair and justified is ludicrous.
But yeah, it's really disgusting how so many people think that "Don't like it, don't do anything wrong", is a valid response. That's horribly ignorant and completely looking the other way, instead of considering the real problem for longer than 5 seconds.
What about the people that didn't do anything wrong and get banned anyway? What about the people who were falsely reported by someone else in order to abuse the system? Let me reminds you this is the SAME COMPANY that bans you in Smash Bros for targeting a single player.
And you're defending them for this?
You people are stupid. Intentionally, willfully, obstinately stupid.
Re: Nintendo Gets Tough With Miiverse Bans, and Some Users Aren't Exactly Pleased
@gspro15198 You would have fit in perfectly during 1940's Berlin.
Re: Satoru Iwata Didn't Apologise For Nintendo's E3 Digital Event, Says Reggie Fils-Aime
*clear cut case
Re: Satoru Iwata Didn't Apologise For Nintendo's E3 Digital Event, Says Reggie Fils-Aime
Ok, a LOT of people don't seem to be understanding what's going on here.
No, Iwata did NOT apologize. Everyone took it as one due to assumption on their part, but his words never were an apology at all.
The thing is.. the Japanese don't "do" apologies like this. This is a very clear-cut of cultural difference on a basic level, that people are interpreting with their western expectations of apologies they think they're owed. In Japan, when heavily criticized, even if they don't agree, it's considered the polite thing to acknowledge the critisism and say "We hear what you're saying and we understand you're not happy." NOT "We're sorry and we're going to bend over backwards to make it right for you because we agree with you."
This was a move, from the very start to "save face" in a Japanese business way, that doesn't translate over because Americans are naturally entitled and feel that any acknowledgement is somehow validation of an apology they believe they're owed or that Nintendo is taking any fault.
And quite frankly, they're not obligated to, nor SHOULD have to apologize to ANYONE. People are getting stupidly up in arms about not receiving something they were never promised in the first place, and in return, the Japanese thing to do is to try and quell anger by saying "We hear that you're angry. We're sorry that you are.".
Quite frankly, I think everyone needs to get over themselves in this matter, and Nintendo is pretty much in the right here. They're issuing a "please understand" statement and everyone is continuing to act so entitled about it that they somehow believe that Iwata is "apologizing" for not giving entitled fanboys something they were never promised to begin with, despite the fact that this is NEVER what he said and no whining about how it's "backpedaling" or something when it's very clearly not. People read the apologize into it, and then getting whiny when, again, their selfish assumptions aren't being catered to on a silver platter.
This is the worst kind of entitlement compounded by shoving words in their mouth they never even said. People need to be ashamed for their part in both creating this drama and misreading the response. Nintendo is essentially telling you to "calm your t*ts." Maybe it's time to sit down and do that.