after what happened with yuzu emu, im done...
EDIT: This post is a joke! It was posted in /c/memes, of course it is going to be a meme! If you consider this news, please re-evaluate your choice of sources.
At the same time, I think it says something about Nintendo that some actually believed this...
I can't believe there's people in here that don't understand that this is a joke.
The fact it's almost believable is both real and a serious problem.
It's so close to reality that I'll forgive it :P
LOL oh come on. I loved Yuzu a lot, and what they did to Bowser is fucked, but this is not all close to anything Nintendo has done.
Not even a good joke either, it's like Facebook tier memeing
And I can't believe that there are people like you who still underestimate how gullible people can be.
Despite understanding that it's a joke, i don't think that it's a meme This is just a picture of text joke
This is just a picture of text joke
I think you just described every "meme" I've ever seen.
And everyone clapped
The CEO's name -- Albert Einstein.
I saw a lot of cool Nintendo Lego creations recently at a convention. Nothing had Nintendo names. Instead of Goomba, it was named "angry mushroom" and stuff like that.
Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child's tombstone.
Fuck these corporations.
Worked in retail awhile back. Kept having glass shit fall off displays and ends. It wasn't TOO often, just enough to be an annoyance. They were stacking glass product on top of one another. I explained why this was a problem; they didn't care. Some time later I came back to the bosses with an argument:
This is how much we're charging for the product.
This is how much I make per hour.
Cleanup of said broken product takes X time.
This is how much I make in that time, or Y.
Which means a single broken product that breaks costs you Z, multiplied by the number of times it happens, plus the cost of the product itself.
This was what got their attention. These people usually aren't human, they're sociopaths. Remember that.
Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.
This is one of those situations where it's better to ask forgiveness than permission. Even the most cold-hearted corporate ghoul is going to understand the cost/benefit of going after that family isn't remotely worth it.
Yeah, the lawyers are going to say "no". But even if they're stupid enough to sue: some suit that isn't a moron is going to tell them to drop it during the ensuing PR nightmare, and the family will be swimming in donations.
I'm gonna need a source on this one.
Looks like a joke to me
On the memes community?
If people continue to post jokes here then where will I get my news??
On the shitpost one obviosly . Are you dumb ?
But if that's for news, where do I get my HQ jemes?
On the world news one. God these idiots nowadays .
That's the neat part, you don't!
Meme before I've had my coffee? It's more likely than you think.
Yeah, fuck Nintendo but this is very obviously bullshit unless they actually made and sold a product.
Very obviously a joke. Cardboard, people! :)
No, just love the meme.
Nah don't boycott Nintendo's shit; steal it.
How to steal something you can't own? Instructions unclear /s
It's simple, steal another copy.
Already ha... oh uh, I mean nope, I sure wouldn't do that, ossifer law! :-P
Per Snopes:
What's True
A child in Venezuela made a cardboard Nintendo Gameboy to play a home-made version of Super Mario Bros.
What's False
However, Nintendo did not send a cease-and-desist letter to this child, nor did the company sue his family for $200 million.
A picture with some text is not a news source. Boycott Nintendo for good reasons.
This is a joke referencing Nintendo suing an emulator developer. It should not be considered news. The money amount is even the same.
This meme's older than the latest yuzu thing. I'm pretty sure I saw it on reddit, and I haven't been there in months. Nintendo's been like this forever.
It is, but this one is a reference to Yuzu, you can tell by the money. Previously it was $200 million, where as Yuzu settled for $2.5m
Oops, I'm slow on the uptake. Thanks.
So that's how Nintendo keeps the price of their games so low! They have a secondary revenue stream!
/s
If you want to boycott this company don't give them ads, don't have their logo reach the front page
I hope the ChatGPT and its siblings bring about the end of copyright. Unfortunately it's more likely we'll pervert the idea of personhood yet again and claim these things are people same as was done with corporations.
Happily an anarchist but also an artist, and I'm wondering why a complete lack of copyright would be a good thing.
Scenario A: I make a cool thing, it catches on, corpos with gajillions of dollars legally make tons of money off of it and leave me unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite me doing all the actual work.
Scenario B: I make a cool thing, it catches on. It gets ripped off by everyone freely, and I'm left unable to pay rent and taking zero credit despite doing all the hard work. In fact, everyone who feels like it claims it as their own. I have zero recourse. This is all legal.
Scenario C: I'm a scuzzbag, so I copy-paste everyone else's hard work onto various merch without their permission, pirate their software, make lots of money, cheat them out of the fruits of their labor. Except it's all legal woo!
Scenario D: ChatGPT and its ilk have front-loaded all the theft, so now ripping off artists is transparently accessible to anyone who wants to pop in some "prompts" and claim they're so creative. Hard-working artists are mocked as obsolete because their efforts were scraped and stolen. They struggle to pay rent and take no credit.
I hate copyright abuse (i.e Disney) as much as everyone else, but I also feel like the champions of "abolish copyright" want everything for free because they don't make anything themselves, and creative efforts are just that: effort.
All of the scenarios occur today. Every single one of them.
You do see that, right?
Artistry predates copyright law.
I know the 'I bought the games beforehand!' crowd will come out of of the woodwork real quick here, but they are of course trying to stop software that's mainly used for piracy. At least wait until their stuff is off the shelves before you emulate it to 'perserve' it. There is no need to be this salty about it.
What are you on about?!
This is a joke about a cardboard switch.
OP commented about Yuzu alongside the image, it's part of the reactionary 'Nintendo = bad' memes
This meme is not new calling it reactionary is funny. Speaking of funny, Nintendo has previously employed private investigators to investigate and stalk modders so they could sue them better. This is an old meme for a old problem.
A) He didn't pirate anything. Just drew a picture of a game on a piece of cardboard.
B) It didn't actually happen anyway.
Hmm, not sure if this is a real story. It might be.
Clearly the father made a lot of money off that social media post. Nintendo is only trying to protect its IP!
I get my Nintendo fix via Super Tux and Super Tux Cart