In the last 24 hours I’ve had a great time playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on my laptop, feeling pleased about my 800+ games on Steam and the fact that I’m not having my life ruined by Shigeru Miyamoto’s lawyers. This is what people get wrong about boycotts and the defeatist refrain, “no ethical consumption under capitalism.” It ignores that, on the example of Nintendo, I have not purchased any of their systems since the New 2DS XL. No Switch, definitely no Switch 2. And in leveraging that opportunity cost I have instead directed my resources to one of their competitors, which has had immediate benefits for my own personal life.

It’s not about what you want to kill, it’s about what you want to grow. I am helping to support the increased use of Linux by using Linux, paying for products that have Linux, and naturally advertising for Linux as a result of that being a part of my life. I don’t care how successful Nintendo is, because I am already free from their enshittification.

What planet do you live on? Who do you think burned someone??? Lmao.

You made a whiny edit saying that people would downvote you because your comment “wasn’t popular”. I pointed out, using the exact words that you wrote, which rude and condescending statements that you made would likely cause people to think that your comment is not worth listening to.

You said that I am “wrong” despite having copy and pasted your text.

You feel “burned” when I pointed out that I copy and pasted it???

Definitely, pirated content should be free or not exist at all.

Nah, I’m pirating their shit if it’s worth playing. Less and less of it qualifies now anyway. Knowing how much they rabidly hate piracy of their stuff makes it all the more satisfying!

The idiot said they were going to be downvoted when they obviously weren’t going to be. You clearly think you burned me. And this time too.

i CopY paStEd Ur TeXt!!!1

Okay cool you have a lot of time on your hands to comb through people’s comment histories.

Could you then explain:

I think it’s better to boycott Nintendo outright, rather than pirate their games. Piracy is still promotion, it still benefits them, and anyone going out of their way to facilitate Nintendo piracy is clearly putting themselves at great risk. Even video content creators who are doing nothing illegal are at risk of legal battles they often can’t afford.

what you then meant by this?

’Cause last time I recall in history, when fascist corporations exists, there’s literally only one remedy for boycotting them.

Your linux plight is honestly hearsay to this conversation, and I support it, as an anarchist. But Nintendo has already C&D MANY linux projects. How many more linux projects do you want to see C&D?

okay, I did pull that number out of my ass, but my point still stands, Nintendo will not learn their lesson by a few thousand people on the internet claiming to boycott them. I guess it would take maybe a million lost customers, but I doubt that will ever happen because the bulk of Nintendo sales go to people who only care about the games, not the company.

Even if it’s a small amount of people, it still matters. Even if boycotts can’t be made big enough to force a company to change, the change that does occur for the people boycotting changes their own lives. Things don’t happen in a vacuum, there is opportunity cost. Nintendo might still be bullying the rest of their customers, but the boycotters themselves are already free. They’re already using alternatives, supporting those alternatives, and the growth that can happen from that support can potentially mean the world to who is being supported.

I could be playing a Zelda game, but I won’t. And because of that, one way I’ve scratched that itch is by buying indie games with a similar style like Blossom Tales and Anodyne. Indie devs can use all the support they can get, so every customer counts.

It also has me looking into open-source alternatives like the Zquest engine and Solarus engine - both of which seem pretty cool.

And of course as I said earlier it means more of my time, energy, and money go toward Steam, and Valve is doing great work driving increasing popularity and technical capability of Linux, and largely doing it in the right way by substantially supporting open-source software like Proton.

One or few people don’t make much of a difference in the short term, but they are always the first ones necessary to get network effects going. I mean come on, we’re having this discussion on lemmy.

They never sell their games outside their own consoles, and mobile market… And games never go on sale. Lego party finally came to PC to compete with Mario party.

Even if its legally a crime I don’t think its morally correct to punish someone this badly for a nonviolent crime. Our FBI cares more about Piracy than releasing Epstein Files. Sure they were stupid but its still insane.

Reverse engineer the Switch 2 and give away schematics to a DIY version.

Well yeah the law isn’t controlled by the morally correct. This guy got a warning from nintendo and decided to continue making money off their product illegally. Is it excessive? Yes. Is he a moron? Also yes.

And they don’t want to do anything for themselves. It’s why AI is gaining ground, everyone is too lazy to do anything for themselves, and that includes finding good games and hacking their own roms.

Comment history? It’s your comments in this thread. I read the thread. Lol.

I just love when people come back days later multiple times to try and revive an argument /s

Sorry, I was busy having a life for a couple of days and then I responded to your comment because it was so egregiously silly and illogical. I hope that you didn’t lose too much sleep over it while you waited for me to respond.

I love when someone is just speaking nonsense and doesn’t even try to defend the crap they were saying and just starts replying with off topic complaints.

If you’re so busy you could miss me with the belated jabs.