It’s a solid business model: People pirate roms, because they can’t buy them.

If Nintendo would sell their old ass games as roms, we wouldn’t have the problem of them suing emulators into oblivion.

Don’t forget the propaganda.

It does have grifters trying to “crack a code” in the bible. This “prophecy” is based on one of those grifters’ prophecy.

Palestinians are considered free game for German police.

Most likely a pro-palestine protest in Berlin.

This is Germany. He doesn’t have a badge… also: if the victim files a criminal complaint, she’ll get a counter complaint from him and will most likely get prosecuted.

Too bad the server at least needs the player input data.

I’d also like to see more imagery of Jesus smashing up the temple rather than him calmly sitting under a tree.

If your kid starts yelling and screaming, smack em. If they cry, smack em again.

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I don’t want to kinkshame freaks who like eldritch abominations. I wanna kinkshame pdf file creeps.

I don’t have a comprehensive definition of “weird”. But having “concerts” and election propaganda in a multiplayer shooter isn’t weird to you?

Yes, it is still weird. Wewve just gotten used to it.

The weirdness of that stuff is the reason people don’t like fortnite.

I miss the days when the justice system replied to the statement “this might hurt our business” with “too bad”. (In the case when sony lost to that PS emulator)

I’m not the person to clear up this legal grey area. I just think that AI porn often has these incredibly young faces which makes the enjoyers of that porn extra creepy.

Most AI porn images looks quite underage to me, to be completely frank. :/

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What exactly am I “pulling out of my ass”?

Nobody said it’s a person

You’re talking about Nintendo as if it’s a person with phrases like your bullet point 2.

I’m not defending anyone. I’m describing how a corporation is likely to react in capitalism. I don’t condone any of this: I don’t condone copyright laws, I don’t condone legal threats, I don’t condone capitalism. I just try to describe how systems behave without trying to get morality involved by claiming a company is (or is run by) an or several assholes.

I also don’t condone nuclear weapons when I describe the strategy of deterrence by mutually assured destruction.

To be clear: I agree that both weed and emulation is a victimless “crime” and shouldn’t be prosecuted. However, I don’t think corporate lawyers and judges agree with us on this point.

Edit: also, Nintendo usually gets what they want by threatening to go to court without actually doing so. So the actual legality doesn’t actually matter too much. Certainly doesn’t when it comes to Switch emulators shutting down.

Outlets reporting on how Metroid Dread was running on emulators pre-release and describing how to pirate it makes Nintendo pursue actions to prevent that shit. They can’t prevent their games leaking, so they attack the emulators.

Is this so much harder to believe than Nintendo having a personal grudge?