Ninterror Tactics (The Jimquisition)

[@twilightvulpine]

There is violent crime that doesn't get punishment half as draconian as that. Absolutely ridiculous.

[@Planag7]

Blame the system that supports that sorry A lot of people are seeming to forget that the system is made to punish private individuals who violate private companies. literally had a couple shot at in Florida for going to the wrong house trying to deliver groceries and because nobody was hurt and the cop was white in the guy was white they got away with it. I wonder what the couple looked like?? Hmmmm

[@GmodPlusWoW]

This sentencing was a crime. Those that carried it out need to be punished far worse than the righteous liberator.

[@TheDiner50]

@Lavinia Whateley na na na. Property is not protected more than people. Is your house or whatever in the way for a millionaire? Amazon? Whatever? Watch as property is not at all protected. It is humans or rather rich * that hide behind a company name that are protected by the state and legal system that get priorities. Property priorities are just some few people being prioritized. Or maybe better said influencing outcomes.

[@RayneOfSalt]

@@TheDiner50 Rich people's property is protected more than anything else.

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Hey, remember when MPAA president Jack Valenti was comparing *the VCR* to a home-invading rapist? That wasn't a plea for help. That was a justification for retributive corporate violence.

[@VulpineDemon]

Nintendo is so family-friendly they'll send your whole family to prison.

[@OmegaVideoGameGod]

Did you know Nintendo actually had mafia ties?

[@Zastier]

the reason Nintendo annoys me is because if not for the hacking community, there would be a huge library of Wii exclusive games that would be forever gone now.

[@broshmosh]

I agree, though the thing is companies these days prefer it that way. If they can't make money on their own property, they don't believe anybody else should be able to get it at all. The only reason they can't go after used game sales is due to market freeom - which happens to be the only thing that holds higher sway than copyright money. If not for that, they totally would try to curtail second-hand market too.

[@naikigutierrez4279]

@@broshmoshNot that they haven’t tried. Remember that window of time in the very late 2000s/early 2010s where some games would lock core parts of the game as DLC and include a voucher for it inside new copies, so that if you bought the game used, you had to pay extra to actually get the entire game?

[@colin3ds1]

The hacking community hates this guy They are celebrating

[@spence6195]

Nintendo don't care about videogame preservation, they only care about selling overpriced weak consoles and last generation videogames

[@theelusivepyroshark5119]

@@colin3ds1 Ah yes, THE hacking community

[@AKAOtter]

Pirating Nintendo games just went from morally acceptable to morally advisable

[@Tidus5005]

No one hates Nintendo fans more than Nintendo.

[@goldsnake90]

And no one hates Nintendo more than some Nintendo fans.

[@rikustorm13]

Correct

[@gManGabe]

You can especially feel the hate when nintendo releases a broken shitware of a game and everyone still knowingly buys it and write good things about it. Real firebrands, those haters.

[@jxwong_3982]

Perhaps it’s simply more apt to say that there are different Nintendo fans with different approaches to the company in general, although that’s true for all video game companies, I guess. Most Nintendo consumers are casual fans who don’t follow the Nintendo news but are into the brand and will gladly purchase it and actually enjoy it anyways, because of the sheer amount of mainstream penetration their brand has achieved. Among more dedicated fans there’s more of a split. There’s those who have grown to love their games but utterly despise their horrible corporate practices and wish they’d change, criticising the company to this end. There’s the others for whom a longtime love of Nintendo (in some cases since their impressionable childhood years) has integrated their love for the brand deep into the core of their personalities, so they take every criticism of the company as a personal attack and will more willingly fight to defend Nintendo’s poor decisions online. I can understand how both types of fan attitude arise and can sympathise with the second but am more in agreement with the first type. I simply wish Nintendo would make better and more ethical decisions even more than I want them to make incredible hit games, since it’s not enough that they’re respected for what they do now, I want them to be actually worthy of the respect and loyalty they receive. It’s not looking likely that they’ll ever own up and turn themselves around at any rate though…

[@thegreygoblin5165]

Indeed

[@Victor-X]

I would like to nominate "Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Nintendo's Games (The Jimquisition)" for the "Most Well-Aged Video On the Internet" award.

[@Oddtish]

Deep cut

[@darthlazurus4382]

Its my hope that Gary Bowser can appeal this. The judge's own quote would be evident that he did not get a fair sentence.

[@fieryrebirth]

Boy are you naive.

[@darthlazurus4382]

@Magnanimous Ire Hardly. Notice I said HOPE. I ken the world is shite place that is dominated by evil bastards but one can still hope that good things happen and point out weakness in the problem.

[@fieryrebirth]

@@darthlazurus4382 CEOs, especially American CEOs are never your friend. Period.

[@darthlazurus4382]

@Magnanimous Ire I'm more than aware of that. I'm not certain how that ties into this current subject. You going tae remind me next that Landlords are parasites? Because I'm more than aware of that as well.

[@mattwo7]

@@darthlazurus4382 ...Why did you suddenly break into transcribed Scottish English? I'm _pretty sure_ no one actually writes like that.

[@Set666Abominae]

True justice isn’t prison for people who pirating games, or eternal debt. True justice is Commander Stephanie Sterling beating the ever loving shit out of video game company CEOs for the enjoyment of the masses.

[@ElliWoelfin]

I wanna see them chokeslam Kotick >:(

[@PhoenixFireZero]

Why stop at the video game execs?

[@steveharrison76]

Is absolutely watch that.

[@g0mikese]

I hear they are great at choke slams.

[@TheNimanator]

@@PhoenixFireZeroCan we throw abusive creative directors into the mix?

[@Ryusuta]

Nintendo's message isn't even an anti-piracy one anymore. Their message is - verbatim - "We can do whatever we want to you." And because people still uncritically love them and hate when people talk about this stuff, it's looking like that is exactly what is happening...

[@isaiahkern9434]

It's more so a complicated feelings scenario. The fans generally revere the developers of these games. While dealing with shitty management when it comes to anything customer facing. They WANT to enjoy these games. They SEE the developers effort put in. (Usually) But it's just marred by extremely shitty garbage management and treatment of customers and draconian practices. Which they could used to ignore. But it's increasingly harder to do so

[@Planag7]

That's not what it is at all. He was selling stolen goods. There was a group of people who have been pretty coordinated at least stealing from a local Walmart with the truck so that they don't guard because hiring security is too hard. They can do whatever they want insurance has the corporation covered. Where they screwed up is turning around and selling a van load of oil and other things that they stole from Walmart earlier that week on the side of the road... That's where you screw up. Take, but don't get stupid

[@legion999]

I only love their games now, my love for nintendo is long dead

[@spence6195]

I honestly just want to destroy my Switch and curse Nintendo, but I'm not that irrational so I will just stop buying their first party games

[@RamoneKemono]

@@Planag7 how does that boot taste?

[@gp-1542]

This wasn’t just a punishment *this person was made a example of to others* So others will remember what happens if you tried to pirate them

[@tuffy135ify]

It's also called a "deterrent"

[@uberculex]

Worth mentioning, he was selling access to this pirated copy. This was not a person, this was a business.

[@LurkingLarper]

Makes one wonder if it helps their case or makes it worse, because I don't exactly feel afraid....

[@wokeupinapanic]

@@tuffy135ify it’s been pretty well proven that harsher punishments do not lessen crimes. At all. One silly example is the daycare experiment. A study was done at a daycare where, like all daycares, parents would sometimes not be able to pick their kids up on time. They would be very apologetic and sincere about their actions and do their best to make it a one-time issue, etcetera. In an attempt to curb the issue even further, the daycare implemented a fine. Any child not picked up within ~15 min after the daycare closed would result in a fine, something like $50. A mass influx of late pickups began to occur, and it severely increased the issue. People were no longer apologetic, and were often outright mean about it. They’ve paid their extra fine, so they expect continued services. How many people have you met that have been like “gee I really want to go on a shooting spree, but this state has the death penalty, and that’s really deterring me from doing that”??? Should punishments exist? Absolutely. Do they act as a deterrent? Not even a little bit.

[@darklighter66]

That is literally what the judice system is supposed to do

[@mse90]

I had a weird bad dream that we were living in a dystopian society where a guy was sentenced with prison and a lifetime of partial free labor to pay back a corporation for a crime where no one really got hurt (least of all the corporation that didn't really didn't get affected at all). Oh wait...

[@EnvoyOfRot]

I hope we both wake up soon from this nightmare

[@Nibelhiem86]

You hear people say that sometimes sentencing is being done to make an example, but it’s never for anything that matters.

[@ElliWoelfin]

It's also been proven to not work, which makes it so much shittier

[@and_or946]

You sadly left out the detail where Bowsers prison sentence was during Covid and he couldn't even get a safe vaccination option there

[@jxwong_3982]

Not denying that Nintendo and the justice system went way too hard on Bowser for his offences, but that bit sounds like more of a problem with the US prison system than with Nintendo or their stance on IP protection. And as bad as the latter may be, I’m sure the former is absolutely brimming with plenty more issues to criticise.

[@the_panos]

​@@jxwong_3982the option was actually available for him to serve his sentence under house arrest due to his health issues, as it was for every case during the extreme part of covid (including for murderers), however Nintendo insisted they would not tolerate it and convinced the judge. This is on record.

[@anglerfish4161]

...Dude, were they actually trying to kill the guy for piracy??

[@jxwong_3982]

@@the_panos Interesting, do you have a link to the document where this was mentioned? I'd like to take a look at it, if true. Really disappointing but unfortunately not really surprising news for Nintendo if this happens to be accurate. And it does still seem like a flaw with the sentencing and prison system if a company is allowed to overstep their boundariess and influence how prison authorities handle their inmates to this extent.

[@ninavale.]

Y'know I wish these corporations punished sexual harassment and actual honest to god pedophlies that lurk in their communities with same severity they do to piriting their product.

[@senseisleepyhead]

💯

[@shis1988]

This. All they did to the Smash communities was take their tournaments away. Nobody went to jail, as per usual, for s*xual misconduct.

[@unluckyone1655]

Right?

[@zoddsonofthor5576]

for them the sexual nature of the crimes wasn't the crime, for Nintendo the crime was getting caught

[@EnvoyOfRot]

They just refer you to HR and your rapist gets moved to a different department in the same company

[@peterclarke7240]

The truly ridiculous thing about this is that punishments, even Life in Prison or the Death Penalty, do not deter crimes. The only things that deter crimes are to making them more difficult to commit, or by reducing the need of people to commit them in the first place. So the only "message" Nintendo is sending out to pirates is for them to be better pirates. It's not a warning, it's a challenge.

[@mjc0961]

Nintendo would stop way more piracy by selling their old games at reasonable prices, and having discounts and sales for their new games every once in a while, than they do with these lawsuits. Piracy is a service problem and Nintendo's service suuuuuuucks. If they let me play the Virtual Console games I bought on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS on the Switch, I'd play them on the Switch. But they don't, so I'll otherwise obtain copies of these games and play them on emulators.

[@onlywithbuts1781]

That is spot on yea, the fact that they are doing their best to be as exclusive as possible just proves the point further. So many companies are making it impossible to get their products, sometimes completely pulling them off the stores and then do this ridiculous punishment when someone wants to share it. Making profit off of something that is not originally created by the person is naturally not good, but if Nintendo wouldn't be so exclusive, perhaps there wouldn't be a need for anyone pirating it.

[@mekannatarry1929]

You're right, in principle; but remember that the point is to punish those that can't afford to recover, not to learn from mistakes. The system is working as intended wholeheartedly.

[@Deform-2024]

Bloody insane, imagine getting eternal debt from making a tool that pirates games. Illegal or not, the punishment is massively disproportionate.

[@MrCriistiano]

It definitely says something about America's justice system.

[@DanCsChannel]

Not saying the punishment was just but that’s not what he did

[@Dr170]

Let alone a shitty sequel to a shitty game

[@ladyaceina]

this was not over pirating 1 game the dude was SELLINg a tool to make it so you can pirate every switch game

[@dudemetslagroom8065]

@gridsleep Tbh i would have preferred that over THIS type of punishment. Horrific

[@SnakeMan448]

There's something horribly dystopian about an immensely wealthy company coming down hard on little people who cannot possibly threaten their bottom line.

[@empanada223]

It may be dystopian, but it is oh so familiar...

[@FakieStreams]

I believe the saying is "if the punishment for a crime is a fine then that law doesn't exist for those that can afford it." but yeah.

[@Roxor128]

Which is precisely why fines should be defined in terms of the offender's net worth!

[@Nagatem]

Of course, Nintendo hates leaks. I mean their main mascot is literally a plumber.

[@reptilianstudios8994]

If any crime should get you a slap on the wrist, it's piracy* *Media piracy, not piracy piracy

[@icewolf6062]

It’s scary how many people blindly defend Nintendo. Like dang. Nintendo has a freaking cult when it comes to their fans.

[@shabado0]

I will never blindly defend the company and these stances and tactics are grossly draconian and behind the times, AND globally they participate in the same ugly game that most public companies of their size do involving taking advantage of contract workers… But I can separate that from the objective fact that they employ some of the most talented artists, programmers, and designers on the planet. Furthermore they take some pretty decent steps in retaining and rewarding their talent through things like recent across the board salary increases that exceeded inflation in Japan. Finally they do also care deeply about the craft and will allocate the time and capital to projects until they are released at a standard that is consistently above par. This often means pushing games outside of initially projected fiscal years and telling shareholders to F off because it’s not about them and they don’t understand. They care about game design and quality, which is something I try to hold on to while I am very critical of many of their administrative and litigious practices

[@spence6195]

Nintendo fans are deranged

[@badflamer]

@@shabado0 jesus christ. i have never heard so much neoliberal apologia. "no but you don;t get it, they're actually really nice slave masters to the peopel directly underneath them, and they have a really good eye for getting only the best wage slaves to craft the nostalgia that will hold you captive whenever you try to criticize their murderous business practices" to seriously think that a COMPANY 'cares' about games, instead of just having hired people who care about games for suckers like you to mistake as the actual corproate soul of the enterprise... what complete and total lack of material analysis does to a motherfucker, i guess.

[@jlev1028]

You can say that about any media corporation.

[@icewolf6062]

@@jlev1028 you’re not wrong. Just seems like Nintendo’s are even more zealous than most.

[@Onuffry]

The Nintendo management should stop LARPing Arasaka. They use a campaign of terror, targeting the work and earnings of creators who promote their games and subjecting them to indentured servitude, just like the corpos in Cyberpunk

[@thevgmlover]

... I wonder if this is why we might never see Cyperpunk come to a Nintendo platform? If Nintendo knows any better, they will not allow this comparison to be spread out.

[@onlywithbuts1781]

Very true!

[@Dragonshade64]

@@thevgmlover They have Final Fantasy 7 on the Switch, so it's likely that they'll miss the irony with Cyberpunk as well.

[@jxwong_3982]

Well, the Cyberpunk anime is on Netflix, which itself has its fair share of issues. So I think it’s fair to say that publishers and media providers are on the whole blind to the messages that the media they’re offering presents, lol. Not too surprising when they see media different from the way we see it. To consumers, media is an art form and valuable entertainment to be enjoyed, with various elements that carry meaning, purpose, depth. To publishers and providers, its primary value lies simply in its nature as a product on offer, its monetary worth as property to be invested in. That mindset, in particular, can help to explain so many of Nintendo’s staunchly protectionist, anti-consumer or out-of-touch decisions regarding their IP.

[@jxwong_3982]

Well, we have Pokémon instead. More corporate-friendly messaging, equally immersive and compelling wish-fulfilling fantasies for a younger and more innocent consumer base or one that’s less sensitive to their missteps, and now the same number of glitches and performance errors on release, with a lower chance of eventually being fixed :)

[@EyesOfByes]

Imagine if MrBeast decided to stream Zelda multiplayer, just to mess with Nintendo and see if they'd dare take down Google's golden boy

[@spiraljumper74]

MrBeast doesn’t have the balls to do it but it would be entertaining.

[@Planag7]

They would, they've done bigger people. Y'all don't understand that Nintendo really doesn't care outside of Japan.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

@@Planag7 Nintendo is located in fucking nightvale dude. Their actions are a mystery and a frustration regardless of where you’re from.

[@ameliamohsin8430]

But what if Elon Musk do it?

[@technopoptart]

@@ameliamohsin8430 then a nintendo rep will be sent out to give him a blowwie while he streams

[@vexorian]

There are lies being spread about Gary Bowser, because that's what nintendo apologists are like now. There's a ridiculous claim that Bowser made 'ransomware'. But for starters, the verdict had nothing to do with that, so it's still an unfair trial. And when you dig a bit for the ransomware claim, you find that it is just because someone bricked their modded switch when trying to reverse-engineer Bowser's mod. And yes, it happened to only one person. This is just the level of dishonesty involved here.

[@spiraljumper74]

Nintendo stans have always been feral.

[@spence6195]

Nintendo bootlickers are something else

[@Miss-Alexis]

I heard about the ransomware thing, wasn't sure if it was true. But even if it was, this is still an extreme punishment. Accusing Bowser of ransomware to justify Nintendo's downright tyrannical attacks is a pretty limp excuse because it misses the point entirely

[@CoolMagmar]

Even if the ransomware story was true if justice was real he should paying his victims not Nintendo

[@mjc0961]

@@CoolMagmar Exactly. Anything bad Bowser did to other modders or to customers doesn't justify Nintendo. Bowser is paying Nintendo for the rest of his life, not the other modders and customers who were allegedly wronged.

[@Andrew_TS]

This is just a return to form for Nintendo. More like Yamauchi's way of running things than Iwata's.

[@Good_Horsey]

That his last name is Bowser almost makes this sound like the most complex native ad, or a psyop of some sort.

[@Churono]

Nintendo has warned us for so long about the threat of King Koopa...little did we know, they would be responsible for his villain origin story.

[@cmdraftbrn]

you got a browser running nintendo.

[@jxwong_3982]

It’s certainly been pretty convenient for them on the whole. The name being Bowser takes the edge of the whole situation, makes it a little less serious. Even Reggie, the fun and charismatic former president of Nintendo of America, made a post on Twitter sharing the article covering Bowser’s arrest accompanied by a joke poking fun at his successor (also named Bowser) and asking for the CEO position back. That whole “haha, a guy named Bowser got arrested for Nintendo crimes, how fitting!” factor makes it easier to downplay the severity of what he went through and the horrid debt he’s accrued that will likely just follow him for the rest of his life.

[@VelvetMetrolink]

The Cornflake Homunculus would make a hell of a tag-team partner. Just sayin...

[@FutureDeep]

Nobody wants to get in the ring with Cornflake Homunculus.

[@kassemir]

The fact that a judge can say on the record that they're literally "setting an example". I'm sorry, but that judge should loose their title, immediately, so disgusting.

[@Wiimeiser]

Unfortunately, corporations and CEOs have all the power. Elon Musk _will_ become POTUS despite being ineligible due to being born in South Africa.

[@anna-flora999]

​@@WiimeiserI never understand that argument because by that logic, every US president in the first 35 years of the country is illegitimate

[@MrNeodylliphan]

"Gary Bowser was sentenced to 40 months, over two years!" I'm no mathematician, but...

[@Churono]

Well, technically right

[@spence6195]

3 years and 4 months

[@aguiar6636]

I caught myself being curious about the homunculus' face orifice... That's enough internet for today.

[@phoenixtoothill]

Oh, I can fix the curiosity! It’s teeth are about 3” back from the… mouth …opening? Hole? Whatever it is, they’re the first feature that isn’t a void lined with slowly darkening flakenflesh. It gnashes its teeth occasionally but I’m not sure what if anything it’s trying to convey other than misery. Annoying tbh, it sort of echoes, and not only does it drink all the milk, it’s like listening to the gurgle of a nearly empty bath drain the entire time. 0/10, not a good housemate

[@UlshaRS]

Time for you to touch grass, all the grass.

[@Roadent1241]

It's for the cereal, obviously.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@UlshaRS Does smoking it count?

[@mdbattlefrog1913]

I'm an old, old fan but just hit the bell. Your content is real, contrary to what some people who claim "it has nothing to do with the gender thing" like to say. It's a fucking shame people don't take things seriously because all they actually want is entertainment at any cost, no matter what the cost is. We're a doomed species.

[@Feasco]

what point are you trying to make here exactly with this meandering essay

[@firehazard1792]

Dang, I was going to disagree that we were a doomed species, but then some called a tight four sentences a "meandering essay." Maybe we are a doomed species...

[@Sharie_mabari]

Wall-E is looking more likely every day

[@Feasco]

@@firehazard1792 yeah no dog, at no point does this drivel ever come to a single recognisable point

[@empanada223]

@@Feasco _Two_ sentences is 'meandering'? Come on now!

[@FalkaRiannon]

Hasbro are doing the same thing currently. Someone "leaked" the new Magic the Gathering set and they sent a private goon squad to intimidate him and force him to take down his video and take away the cards he showed off. (I wonder where the people who used to be Zynga executives might have learned those tactics 🤔)

[@sylvannight6153]

Yea, they sent the Pinkertons at them. Talk about overkill.

[@GallowglassVT]

I dunno what's worse: the fact that a man has been imprisoned for something so banal and will now have to pay back the billionaire games company who will likely never need that money, or the fact that people will actually DEFEND the verdict (while defending AI art and voice replication because they don't wanna commission an actual artist or VA to create their hentai).

[@raven.4815]

People defending corporations love to shoot themselves in the foot, without even knowing it. Also, I'd like to see how the idiots that call everyone who doesn't praise AI a "ludite" will do in 15-30 years... when AI take over their jobs, would they still be calling everyone a "ludite"? Or praising soulless AI art?

[@kalackninja]

i think those are two different topics dog

[@U-Flame]

Not that his sentence was fair, but I wouldn't call his actions banal. His software wasn't just piracy, it included malware that bricked devices if it detected a competitor. The guy actively tried to monopolize open source software that was freely available, to try to profit off it at the expense of the modding community. He wasn't just harming a corporation, he was actively harming the otherwise actually banal modding community as a whole.

[@GallowglassVT]

@@kalackninja I dunno about that. I mean, they'll defend Nintendo taking someone to task for acts of piracy or modding, but the moment they need to spend money on art for themselves, they'll do what they can to buck out of paying, especially if it's porn. Two sides of the same coin.

[@GallowglassVT]

@@U-Flame I hadn't heard about that tbh. Either way, the sentence outweighs the crime and as said in the video, it has more to do with revenge or sending a message than it does with any notion of "justice."

[@spence6195]

Nintendo's cruelty make Ganondorf look like a saint

[@autobotstarscream765]

Ganondorf: Uses necromancy in an attempt to bring back Iwata and make Nintendo great again...

[@jamesrule1338]

Affording a dead boy basement in this Economy? Patreon is going well for you.

[@ParkBarrington360]

I miss bumfuck alley. It was scenic and matched the cynical vibes of everything Sterling says. It's fun for me to watch other people rage at the games industry.

[@ShinGallon]

I've said for years that Nintendo is the video game equivalent of Disney (presenting wholesome family-fun persona while being ruthless capitalist monsters) and they just keep proving me right.

[@MindinViolet]

Very true. Both companies present a charming, family-friendly front, while actually being pretty nasty.

[@BladeoftheImmortal2005]

Facebook gets to pay you $1.00 for stealing your data. This dude gets to be in eternal debt

[@j3ttmaverick]

Apparently, Rik actually used the money from this BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL series of commercials to buy a house, and called it 'Nintendo House'

[@Juliett-A]

And as always, the scope of the problem extends far beyond nintendo when every other game publisher will inevitably do the same. How about we stop streaming and recording nintendo games. If they want to take their ball and go home then we should let them.

[@dovedozen]

Could you imagine?? No more Mario 64 hacks in my feed of VODs from people I generally like watching. NO more paying attention to Nintendo Directs. I would never have to look at a new Pokemon game again. Eventually maybe enough youngish parents would forget to buy the hot new Switch games for their kids that somewhere, in obscurity, businessmen would experience the consequences of their actions... paradise.

[@leetri]

@@dovedozen That is literally never, ever going to happen. People still play Blizzard games despite them literally bullying someone into suicide. Nintendo going after someone who broke the law isn't gonna make people "wake up" and stop playing their games.

[@dovedozen]

@@leetri I am aware that paradise does not exist, thank u

[@HowlingGuild]

lol ain't nobody going to give up the revenue and clout they generate by utilizing Nintendo IP's.

[@spence6195]

I bought 3 Nintendo 1st party games on the Switch in 4 years, I only got them because they were 30% off otherwise I won't give Nintendo any money, I hate them that much

[@fluffywolfo3663]

I was like “have they made an episode on this yet?” after watching cr1t1kal’s video, then I saw this and I was all like “the balance has been restored”

[@mantasa0000]

If there's any time to stand against nintendo before they warp the internet in terrible ways- it's now, but most people will forget all this because yay new zelda

[@jxwong_3982]

Well, there have been plenty of incidents like this previously that at best raised a bit of a stink with Nintendo for a couple weeks before it was eventually allowed to slide back into the mire of Old News. This is hardly the first time they’ve gone after leaks with force, not the first time they have subpoenaed Discord to send someone a lawsuit for leaks, not the first time they’ve come down too hard on piracy providers and hackers, not the first time they’ve hit someone with vastly disproportionate damages in court for IP infringement, not the first time they’ve taken down KZbin content with little reason or consistency all because they didn’t like what was shown. And in the end, their good publicity tends to outweigh the negative bits, because the good publicity and brand loyalty they harness is simply just that good. I’m confident it’s because most Nintendo fans, being members of a more casual gamer crowd which Nintendo specifically markets to, don’t care to follow their news/discourse as much as more involved fans are and are less aware of their scummy decisions, and among that second group of more hardcore fans, there’s a subset who’s so involved that they’ll willingly defend what Nintendo does anyways, because they have spent so much time with Nintendo IP that attachment to the brand has been hardwired into their identities. In the end, those of us who don’t forget Nintendo’s abuses but want them to get better as fans for our sake as well as theirs simply have nothing to do about it but speak up, write in, do all we can in the hopes that we might at least reach them somehow. And personally, after having done the latter for a while, I might well just lose interest in following Nintendo soon when there’s far less upsetting things to do with my time.

[@matthewbankey5547]

Japanese companies in general have no chill when it comes to this kind of thing, see anime companies when it comes to anime KZbin channels, but even then Nintendo’s actions are so extreme it’s ridiculous.

[@Novoxis]

Those Rik Mayal ads were hilarious. The Nigel Mansell racing game one always had me smiling.

[@Gamer1990100]

Yet fanboys keep defending them

[@jxwong_3982]

The kind of appeal and brand loyalty Nintendo has now is the result of a decades-long campaign of constant marketing to turn people into staunchly committed devotees who’ve internalised Nintendo fandom into every aspect of their being, down to the core of their identities, from years of what might be considered emotional conditioning through widespread exposure to Nintendo IPs (and preferably from a tender and impressionable childhood age-after all, Nintendo games are a hit with the kids!) that’s led many of the most devoted Nintendo fans to the way they are online. As for the more casual majority of their consumer base, Nintendo’s unique and successful targeting of casual audiences and the general public has, incidentally, granted them access and recognition among a valuable audience that is going to follow gaming discussion and news a lot less and isn’t aware enough to detect and call out Nintendo’s mistakes. Intentional on Nintendo’s part or not, it’s worth considering. And this is something many other gaming companies fail to achieve as effectively due to appealing to more “hardcore” gamers. It’s pretty sad being a fan of Nintendo that actually wants to see them improve, for our sake as well as their own. It’s something that benefits everyone yet many Nintendo fans online are content to take their status quo as being a positive whatever it is and defend their poor choices instead when that has a far lower chance of accomplishing any real change, and collectively pushing this antiquated company look at its flaws and work on fixing them already seems like an impossible task. Having been pretty emotionally invested in Nintendo for a while, I can understand how those devotedly defensive fans have come to think that way and sympathise with it, I just don’t think it’s the most beneficial way to approach a company you like and want to see perform well (ethically, even more so than just financially) when they mess up.

[@LordRaxyn]

At this point they must have harmed enough people with copyright abuse to make it worthwhile to do a class action law suit, kinda surprised that hasn't happened yet.

[@sam7559]

The issue would be at each copyright "abuse" is within their rights to do so. Nintendo isn't strict, other companies are lenient

[@HowlingGuild]

Because they'd lose. A lawyer made a video on the Point Crow situation and it's pretty clear that Nintendo is legally in the right.

[@michaelferrum708]

There is no legal reprocussion for copyright abuse. There should be, but there isn't.

[@sam7559]

@@michaelferrum708 what abuse? Multiplayer mods do not fall under fair use and thus Nintendo was within their right to go after pointcrow.

[@jlev1028]

​@@sam7559That's really the defense you're going with, shill?

[@antonyduhamel1166]

I hope Gary takes this lesson to heart and starts making hacks for free. If you're not profiting, it's not a crime.

[@sophitiaofhyrule]

Nintendo will still punish you even if you don't profit from hacks and mods, that's how insane they are

[@athleticgravy1]

Before today I wasn't even aware Rik Mayall was in an ad for the only Zelda game I've ever actually liked.

[@thelaughingrouge]

I'll go one step further, not only is it morally correct to pirate Nintendo, it's your civic duty.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

They're rich enough to do something as petty as this. If you makes them only slightly less rich, you're counteracting their reign of terror.

[@Cyryvy]

Here-here!

[@HowlingGuild]

Y'all say this every time you get mad and it very clearly never amounts to much.

[@oneearrabbit]

😂🤡 It’s your civic duty to vote. It’s your civic duty to fight for equal rights. It is no one’s civic duty to pirate from a video game company that you could just as easily ignore.

[@pakapata]

​@@oneearrabbit dont fuckin care, going to pirate it anyway. If they dont like it its their problem, not mine

[@Xsetsu]

The eternal debt is just an unbelievable punishment. That amount of money just does not fit the crime. Also the attack on streamers and KZbinrs is awful. Nintendo getting payback all those years ago for not getting a cut of rentals I guess.

[@marybdrake1472]

Such tactics may have short term success, but in the long term they backfire. Often very harshly.

[@HowlingGuild]

lol no they don't. Nintendo has always been like this and they've been overwhelming successful. The truth is that most people don't care at all what they do to other people as long as the games they make are good.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

​@@HowlingGuild It doesn't backfire, but it doesn't succeed either. I the end, we'll go back to status quo as of nothing happened. They're just... casualties. A few sacrifices to makes Nintendo thinks they're in control.

[@FatherOfGray]

I don't like it, but Nintendo is literally too big to fail. Half of their consumer base could be Thanos snapped out of existence and they'll still be immensely successful by any sales metric. Nintendo can do whatever they want and they'll always get away with it.

[@spence6195]

I pray this really hurts Nintendo financially

[@michaelferrum708]

When does it start backfiring? Nintendo has been doing this stuff for 20+ years now.

[@shards-of-glass-man]

Heh, Ninterror, I'm yoinking that Glad to hear Cornflake Homunculus again

[@Inhaledcorn]

Remember how we have a thing in the groundwork of our laws about things about "Cruel and Unusual Punishments"?

[@pvtslade2921]

What gets me is that the people Ninterror are going after seem to be in the main, their biggest fans. All they're really guilty of is trying to improve and make accessible the games that they love, and likely spend a lot of money and time with Ninterror's actually available content. Imagine treating your fans like that. Also, feed your homonculus, Steph!

[@DiggingForFacts]

But that's kinda the point. Nintendo is a very traditional Japanese company, which means that what they want most of all is - like Konami - to bring as much of its IP under its own control: it needs to be run hierarchical and top-down in every aspect. It sees its IP as its rightful property and any revenue or attention it can generate are rightfully theirs. Remember, this is the company that filed legal action against a bunch of teenagers using images of pokémon on a locally made poster for a fan event they were organising. They have been treating fans like this for decades and know by now that this will never cost them more than they gain excercising authoritarian levels of control over their IP.

[@Roadent1241]

Yes, if they're not going to give me legal access to Hey You Pikachu because I can't live in America to play it on my friend's N64 (I'm Brit, I thought I just missed the game instead of realising at 12 that we never got it) then I'm going to fricken emulate it and look up complicated tutorials to find how to make the mic be registered. I just want to not be region and language locked!!

[@thezootbox]

Someone once said something I think abut regularly, which is that Nintendo hates the fact that they have people who care. They want to make toys, that they want to sell to children with as little need for interaction afterwards as possible. When you view it this way, it makes more sense. What we perceive as fandom, they perceive as a weird pack of fools who wont leave them alone to peddle action figures to 10 year olds. They don't want to preserve their artwork, release their music legally, foster community of any kind, or encourage people to interact with their product in any way but the one they want, for the same reason that the people who make speak n' spells don't want to return your emails about how they should dump its source code. I obviously disagree with this hard, and I think Nintendo are a pack of fools who will only drive themselves into the tar pits with the other dinosaurs if they never consider their actions, but I think this is part of how they view things.

[@DiggingForFacts]

@@thezootbox Is that why they got Rik Mayall, British 80's and 90's star of shows like "The Young Ones" and "Bottom" to do their commercial? I think if you look at Nintendo's marketing they are probably a bit more explicit in their material as presenting themselves to be for everyone. From gaming with your cihld/little brother to some rando in the laundrette. Compare and contrast that with My Little Pony, for which a certain group of fans exists that is not (explicitly) marketed to. Nintendo knows what products they sell and where its bread is buttered. I think this is probably more culturally related to being a large company in an ideologically and socially rather conservative nation that doesn't like people perceived as "upstarts". But I wonder if it's perhaps more a matter of if and how Japanese-specific IP and Copyright law plays a role in their behaviour.

[@crimsonkate8241]

As soon as you mentioned Key To The Kingdom I thought of the Cantankerous Gnome, how could one forget such an unforgettable gnome lol.

[@Ashurman666]

The most hilarious part about the whole Bowser situation is that, SX-OS, the OS that his team developed to enable Switch piracy, has been irrelevant in the scene for the longest time, even before he was found and arrested. Atmosphere is still running strong and it's not going to stop anytime soon, plus ryujinx is a fantastic emulator that can run just about any Switch game on a decent rig. Sure both of these are non profit other than the odd donation they get from time to time but still, this is not going to do anything to stop Switch piracy.

[@BrightAwake]

👀📝

[@Ashurman666]

@@BrightAwake If you have a mid range PC I heavily encourage you to give Ryujinx a try, it's SO GOOD.

[@anna-flora999]

I think that "non profit" part is a big reason for Nintendo feeling comfortable going after Bowser. Because honestly... When I heard Bowser is actively profiting off it, it also soured my sympathy for him. The punishment is still hugely inappropriate of course, but i can't say I'm fully on his side here, either

[@Ashurman666]

@@anna-flora999 Yeah but the thing is, the SX team wasn't just making software, they were making hardware as well, as in a dongle that would let you push payloads onto the switch to hack it portably without the need of a computer nearby and that's something they can't just give away for free. And yeah their dongle was copied and now there's hundreds of different ones though I think Nintendo has been trying to take them all down too

[@matenator13]

Doing a crime and serving time is one thing, subjecting an individual to a life long is straight up cruel.

[@kaimactrash]

The rest of this video is great too, I mean in your reporting, Nintendo are inhuman monsters, but I LOOOOOVE the new look for the lip make up as commander, absolutely adds to the character persona and your performance as them. 10/10

[@europademon]

I've missed the kornflakes humungulous.

[@armelior4610]

This Bowser guy got off lightly, he still has his kneecaps and fingers. The yakuzas must be getting soft... I don't know if it's worse that what happens to the character of the same name in the games, the last time I played a Mario game he kept falling into lava

[@shadowscribe]

What about laws against excessive punishment, you ask? If those laws actual meant what they promised to be about, punishments should reflect the amount of harm. Obviously they don't want that because super corporations couldn't touch ordinary people because the harm would be provably infinitesimal.

[@cassinipanini]

Nintendo and Konami in a pissing contest to be the most bitter vengeful company of all time

[@doncj1997]

So when are you gonna mention the fact Gary Bowser used ransomware in conjunction with the modded switched he sold? Oh wait..

[@SixCubitMan]

hi steph! i know Wizards of the Coast is outside of your usual area of expertise, but they recently sent out packs from an unannounced MTG expansion by accident, and sent fucking PINKERTONS (yes, those pinkertons) to intimidate the people who got them and retrieve the boxes. thought you might be interested in a game company sending out honest-to-god goons to carry out their bidding

[@snackplaylove]

It’s a bit messed up isn’t it - even though apparently the corpo scum were nice about it. Cant draft it so I’m not that fussed about the set - but it is odd they are picking on that nice guy that’s been playing since the 90s

[@SixCubitMan]

@@snackplaylove saying the corporate mouthpiece on the phone was nice is pretty generous. a less charitable view would be that the corpo on the phone played good cop after the implied threat of violence of pinkertons at the door. I also can't help but notice that they didn't offer any compensation for their illegally reclaimed goods in writing

[@mjc0961]

It would both not be the first time Steph has covered Wizards of the Coast, nor would it be the first time they covered a company sending goons to people's houses (Take Two did that a few years back) Point of me saying that is, it's not nearly outside of their area of expertise as you think to cover such things

[@StrazdasLT]

"These methods are fraudulent and constitute harassment." No, Jim. These methods constutute Perjury. People doing it should literally, according to the law, end up behind bars.

[@U-Flame]

I think there is an argument to be made about Team Xecuter's damage not to Nintendo, but to the modding community as a whole for monetizing piracy and using deliberate harmful viruses to discourage their competitors that were doing the same thing for free. Their actions in both selling piracy and earning the ire of Nintendo have greatly hampered otherwise harmless modding efforts as a result. That being said, I still agree that the retribution is disproportionate. I think he deserved to be taken down and stopped, but not to the extent that his entire life would be ruined by it. Paying back the thousands he earned seems fair. Being charged millions he didn't make isn't.

[@AB-fh9zh]

Wait, what if Gilson B Pontes is in fact Nintendo?

[@eVeNmOrEiNsAnItY]

Cornflake haemonculus is back again! We're in a new golden age of J Steph Sterling content. Also good video too!

[@PkGam]

Just returning to this to let everyone know that the ROM for Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom leaked on the internet somewhere. Even though I'm not interested in playing it myself because I really didn't like the weapon fragility system (Edit: and rain for that matter), I feel it's my moral duty to spread the word about this for those who are interested.

[@Overonator]

I think there were probably be tons of people who are going to love emulating Tears of a Kingdom when it's released on their Switch emulators and the emulator coders are going to working overtime to make that emulation best as possible. Who knows it's even possible that the emulation will result in a superior experience compared to the original hardware. Its' been known to happen when the emulators provide a higher resolution, better frame rate, than the original hardware provided your have a really good PC.

[@Herr_Damit]

Lol, the manta when she said "mantra".

[@dudemetslagroom8065]

wow...i completely missed this being a thing. that's beyond deplorable. I never cared to much for nintendo but it has now earned the spot on my "companies i will try not to support" list along with Blizzard

[@megagrey]

I could watch Steph bop to 90s gaming commercials all day.

[@tuffy135ify]

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. If you doing something that is technically illegal or at least unethical, KEEP IT QUIET! Argue all you want about changing things, but stay out of trouble in the mean time.

[@dovedozen]

YEP. Every time something like this happens it serves as a grim little awful reminder that WHILE THE RULES ARE SIMPLY INCORRECT, they're GONNA be enforced anytime we make it convenient for corporations & etc. to do so. Stealing from corporations is correct. Also, it is punishable as hell. We have GOT to hold both of these ideas in our minds at once.

[@galaxycamerata]

To quote Woolie Woolz: "Shut the fuck up about it."

[@BlackHearthguard]

Hey Steph, have you seen Gilson has an IMDB entry now?

[@morninggoblins]

If Commander Sterling has 100 fans, I am one of them. If Commander Sterling has 10 fans, I am one of them. If Commander Sterling has 1 fan, I am one of them. Good luck at the brunch!! Additionally what Nintendo is doing is unconscionable

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

It's funny that reads Nin-Terror but it can also read Nint-Error.

[@AikenDrum1715CE]

Came here for the horrifying cornflakes. Stayed for Judge Boss Nass. Thanks JSS.

[@seraphonica]

I'm shocked Steph referenced Command and Conquer with a star on her face without working a Cherdenko reference in. SPACE!

[@Bonsaipop]

i would also say it's pretty chill to steal from any chain store as well 💁

[@sam7559]

The victim doesn't change the morality of an act, if it's moral to do that it's moral to steal from you

[@jemolk8945]

@@sam7559 False. The consequences are what matters for the morality of an act, and the consequences of stealing from an individual are not even in the same ballpark as stealing from a multi-billion dollar corporation.

[@Smileyrat]

Not exactly. If I steal a copy of data, no one losses anything real. But if I steal enough gum, the employees of that store may lose their jobs becuse gum cost money to make and ship, unlike digitaly reproduced copies of code. That said, fuck [corperation] stores. Edit: in in brakets.

[@sam7559]

@@jemolk8945 yeah no I'm not a utilitarian, morality are rules and do not change because of good or bad outcomes. You killing someone doing CPR when they would've lived otherwise does not make you a murderer.

[@jemolk8945]

@@sam7559 Rules as morality is frankly ridiculous. What do you do when the rules clash, as they inevitably will? How do you judge good rules versus bad ones, if not by appealing to something more fundamental to morality than the rules themselves? What do you do when the rules reliably, in particular circumstances, produce outcomes that are, not to put too fine a point on it, _bad?_ Rules can never actually encompass the full extent of right action, because there will always be new circumstances, either. Rules are useful as a heuristic tool, but absolute trash as a foundation.

[@pixelsbykris5494]

May 12th.....Man, if I lived in the UK, I'd totally try to go see you in person, Commander. I could tell myself it's a day-early birthday present to myself. lol

[@wolvendarkpaw2260]

In Bowsers case, seems to me the punishment is effectively indentured servitude. Now if I'm not mistaken there is case law to make that illegal as a punishment in and of itself. Seems to me an appeal is more than a good idea on those grounds. Of course ianal.

[@Vamptonius]

But, with what money to pay a lawyer? Ninty has taken it all.

[@mjc0961]

I'm not a lawyer either, but being fined and having payments automatically deducted from any pay you make is pretty normal. If there was a way to make it illegal, it would have happened ages ago.

[@ncrtrooper7153]

I fucking love that you are living your dream as Commander Sterling.

[@Beardedvikingweirdo]

I have no idea why the cornflake humonculous makes me laugh so hard

[@FutureDeep]

The Cornflake Homunculus inflicts bouts of insanity in all those that look upon it.

[@Beardedvikingweirdo]

​@@FutureDeep this explains much

[@maninthemists2299]

14:34 That judge done fucked up. Bowser might be able to get that sentence reduced on appeal thanks to the judge saying the quiet part out loud.

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Gary deserves better. Gary. Deserves. Better

[@Planag7]

Lol. So do the idiots that store a pallet of oil from Walmart... Until they tried to sell it on the side of the road. Steal from the rich , but don't be stupid

[@sclarke6969]

I've been trying to remember what that board game was called for ages! Sterling to the rescue once more!

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

Me, hearing Keys To The Kingdom, wondering why the great James Stephanie Sterling would be bringing up one of my favorite book series: oh shit is Garth Nix about to get ripped a new one? Me, hearing its a game: OH GOD THERE'S A GAME AND I DIDN'T KNOW??? Me, seeing its a tabletop game and has nothing to do with the fantasy series: aweee.... Well hey, yay fan gifts!

[@senseisleepyhead]

Garth Nix! Sabriel was mindblowing to me as a kid with all the fascinating takes on Death. 💟

I was so sure this week's Jimquisition would be about this topic!!

[@sopranophantomista]

You're just living in those wrestling callouts and I'm here for it. I'm here for your happiness.

[@nicklarocco4178]

At least they didn't send Pinkertons to a youtuber's house to threaten them.

[@kupokinzyt]

omg i love your channel so much, have been watching you for years. you make absolutely the best content and the cereal monster turned my day around haha. keep it up steph.

[@Roadent1241]

~whispers~ Cornflake Humunculus. Heck of a name, innit? Probably can't spell it right either XD

[@CornishCreamtea07]

I'm surprised Mario hasn't tried that tactic on the other Bowser, he won't be kidnapping Princess any more after that.

[@ann18o96]

That picture of a mant(r)a cought me off guard and I laughed at it much more than I should have.

[@castoputa]

If there was any justice he would be able to counter sue and win a percentage of their lifetime earnings.

[@Chasardous]

We got a glance into the title creation artistic process 👍

[@eirianllanelywn5464]

I wish Nintendo would actually figure out, like every other company has, that people making videos for your game is literally just free advertisement and takes away nothing from you. At this point it's been so long that they've had tthis hostile approach to streamers that I'm thinking they know and just don't actually care.

[@monkeyking9863]

i hate the people say "we pirate nintendo game because they dont let us buy them" because they are the first group to cry "oh the game is too expensive" if the game is ever sold again. pirate games if you want (i got plenty my self) just stop acting like your doing it for some higher good, you aint fooling anyone

[@roycrownguard]

Thank you so much for putting subtitles into your videos!! My first language isn't English and I often have a bit of a hard time on those older TV ads because of the sound quality lmao

[@Ju.UwU.Ish.]

Things I wouldn’t know without you, Steph

[@SeaToSkyImages]

Nintendo is the Singapore Government of the video game industry.

[@solblackguy]

They're videogame Disney