• misk@piefed.socialOP
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        19 hours ago

        Wouldn’t you want to skip Nintendo games so that they stop being culturally relevant? I often hear that piracy is good for media creators in the long run.

        • stray@pawb.social
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          17 hours ago

          There are way, way too many people who have never heard of Nintendo’s problems and/or don’t care for it to make any difference. They’re culturally relevant, and there’s nothing you or I can do about it.

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              11 hours ago

              Abstaining from entertainment to no actual end drains valuable mental energy that could be going into constructive solutions.

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                11 hours ago

                That might be true if there weren’t literally a million other games to play instead.

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                  8 hours ago

                  If you really want to do something, and you’re watching everyone else enjoy it on social media, that takes willpower. You only have so much willpower, so why not use it on something that actually helps someone, like not eating meat or child shave chocolate or whatever?

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                    8 hours ago

                    But you realise you could swap the Nintendo games with child slave chocolate and this discussion would have played out just the same. What makes one boycott more likely to succeed than another? That’s setting aside the fact that you’re assuming everybody will have the same set of social values as you.

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          18 hours ago

          Nah, keeping their old catalog relevant just twists the knife in them more. Like pouring a whole bottle of hydrogen peroxide on the wound.

          Is it petty? Sure. But Nintendo cannot out-petty me.

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            12 hours ago

            Um. Hydrogen peroxide would clean the wound and, presumably with said volume, also irrigate it pretty effectively, so…

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          18 hours ago

          i mean it’s not your refusal to play pokémon schmirtle & thromble that will plunge nintendo to obscurity

          at that point, if the game interests you, may as well pirate it

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            17 hours ago

            Sounds like an argument for pirating if you feel like it, regardless of everything else. Can’t say I agree with this one even if there are good reasons to pirate in plenty of cases.

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              12 hours ago

              It’s because of upstanding pirates like yourself that the rest of us can plunder at whim. Thank you for your service ratio. 🙇🏼‍♂️🏴‍☠️

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          19 hours ago

          Aye, if th’ games were released on PC, matey.

          As long as the treasure be land-locked to their hardware jails, they’ve yet to see a cent out of me, or me crew!