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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
This kind of thinking certaintly won’t contribute to that changing.
Abstaining from entertainment to no actual end drains valuable mental energy that could be going into constructive solutions.
That might be true if there weren’t literally a million other games to play instead.
How does not playing a game drain more valuable mental energy than downloading, installing, and playing it?
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?
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.
We’re taking about pirating the games, not buying them. Not buying them is still voting with your wallet.
This is the message we were replying to
Got a better idea, or are you content doing fuck-all about it, too? 🤓
I’ve been vocally boycotting Nintendo for a few years.