TL;DR: Keep downvoting constructive criticism comments and keep fanboying everything Nintendo has to offer all you want, who cares? But it's obviously hypocritical to both do that and then act surprised or upset when Nintendo does a corporate anti-consumer decision. Just expect it, since you support it.
Let's be honest: Nintendo fans are gonna keep being in a continuous loop of putting the wooden stick on the bike while they're riding it and acting surprised when the bike falls and they get injured.
Everyone, including me, loves Nintendo's consoles and games, great experiences! I love my Switch 2, bought a lot of games for it.
Keep downvoting constructive criticism comments and keep fanboying everything Nintendo has to offer all you want, who cares?
But it's obviously hypocritical to both do that and then act surprised or upset when Nintendo does a corporate anti-consumer decision.
That's literally the reason why it cranked up in the 2020's. These companies have realized they can do anything and the only people fighting will be vocal minority hobos who have no life.
There IS an exception. Basically, if something sells poorly/bad (which is rare due to fanboyism) something good will happen.
But that's basically it. The golden rule in 2020's for these corporations' eyes is: If your making good money, why look at criticism? And if you think of a bad anti-consumer decision that benefits the corp, add it. Everyone will argue who cares? It's just games, there's way bigger issues in life and people are gonna buy it anyway
"Well, the Mario Galaxy movie has a major flaw in [X]."
It made a billion both times. Why are they going to change this winning formula for them? Why look at criticism?
"Well, the Nintendo Switch 1/2 has a major flaw in [X]."
In Nintendo's eyes, Switch 1/2 is selling well, therefore there's no need to look at any criticism for said systems. And any decision that benefits them but harms the consumer won't do shit because of the golden rule obviously.
That is all. Bye.
Why is nothing changing about future Mario movies? Well...
"I walked in, paid, watched it with a smile on my face, and left. That's all I can say."
That's essentially millions of people.
Thus... The movie gets a billion each time.
The Mario Galaxy movie was like that cos the first one made a billion and the audience score was high. And the Galaxy movie made a billion and the audience score was high.
When a movie makes a billion and the audience likes it, there isnt really much criticism that matters sadly
"Well, I think you should do this".
It made a billion both times. Why are they going to change this winning formula for them?
What incentive do they have to look at any criticism? Keep everything the exact same, they think.
I'm certainly tired of seeing this "defense" everywhere:
"It's a remake but it was the right move. you have an entire generation of people that only knew this series from smash bros, this might as well be a brand new game to the people nintendo's marketing it towards so its a safe way to gauge interest."
Honestly they should've done an approach somewhat similar (but not as bad) as Mega Man. Do a legacy collection remaster of all the past Star Fox games (1993 through 2016) in a single physical cartridge, followed by a brand new Star Fox game a few months later.
Why do the HE1 boost games specifically have way better boosting and better art direction than HE2 boost games
HE2 boost games have better platforming physics and great level design, but there definitely is a downgrade man
Here's what I'm seeing as a supposed take:
The whole "autistic people should just control their meltdowns" discourse reminds me of the "People with Tourette syndrome should just control what they say". People do not understand disorders and why they are labelled as such. Why do people with disorders act in ways that are a result of their disorder?" Like, no shit you can't 100% avoid any and all triggers. Any normal person can have a breakdown after a bad day. I don't think that should define them!
Okay, maybe, yeah, I'm not saying these people can't occassionally have a meltdown maybe like three times per year or so, but being a full grown adult and still consistently screaming and throwing a tantrum over small things every week while other people are in that said room, without even going outside or somewhere where nobody can hear you? Maybe if there was a good excuse attached to it i'd atleast somewhat buy it, but most of the time, it's attached with a poor as hell excuse or a small excuse.
"Autism" alone doesn't support said argument. I know autism is a spectrum and I'm in the quiet spectrum, but I'm very autistic and going through shit that's way worse than most people in this thread, quite literally the worst of my life. I simply stay quiet besides talking to adults I trust about said situation.
I think SEGA's plan was to have announcements to entice people to donate and watch, because they don't want people to leave after the announcements, but the said people who would leave, were never gonna support and donate the stream in the first place, therefore that's a bad argument.
I'm glad that kids in st Jude are getting the support they deserve. However, imagine if Nintendo Directs were locked behind a 4 hour livestream and subtle announcements were between okay-ish game sessions and music with fans. It would be interesting for kids with tons of free time, but adults who just wanna watch a blind reaction in 40 minutes and then go to work? Sucks for them, they'll just skip the livestream and check the Nintendo channel and spoil themselves.
That is why they just had the direct first and then had a treehouse as a secondary stream AFTER the announcements.
Idk why SEGA didn't do something similar. Sonic Central and then the birthday Livestream right after.
I overall don't really care though, since the announcements weren't some masterpiece or something, peace.
All I know is that there's performance and quality mode
Let's get this out of the way: I don't use discord anymore, I heavily dislike using it.
Also please note that I don't want an opinionated comment or debate comment on what you think is bad or good, that is irrelevant, take that argument elsewhere. This is no stupid questions, so I only want factual comments or comments that contribute to the question or idea.
Now then...
Despite AI overall being trash and having stopped using them a year ago, Character AI and Janitor AI have insanely good user interfaces compared to some human roleplaying sites, which have shit user interfaces, and of course, the long set-ups are agonizing, specifically with strangers. I only like doing set-ups with long-term online friends, which, they aren't interested in most of my RP ideas, so they are out of the question too. Cherami.chat? Been there, looks like shit UI-wise.
I also think Roblox is obviously pretty bad now, but it quite literally is the definition of instantaneous human roleplaying. Really any roleplay game, but let's use Storybook Roleplay for instance. Hit play, pick a character, teleport to the map, walk up to someone, and you can instantly start roleplaying with them. No set up needed. It's pretty contemptful... But only on my PC. on my phone? I don't wanna boot up a whole game engine on my phone that's very laggy and bad controlling on said phone, JUST to do a roleplay.
VRChat? Ehh, no, because, again, I'm talking about stuff I wanna run on my smartphone.
What's my idea of a good hypothetical roleplaying site/app? You simply enter the site, sign in, make your user a character with a persona about said character. You enter and see tons of characters as humans with online/offline symbols next to them. Essentially... The name of the character, a large PFP, and a mini-description. Characters are shown in 4-rows, infinite columns via scrolling. You click on a character if they are online, and start roleplaying with them instantly, (via a human)
In short, the idea quite literally just Character AI / Janitor AI, but behind the character is an actual human with a offline/online symbol, not an AI LLM.
The stupid question is... Is this possible? Did this happen?
The biggest reason why Nintendo hates emulation is literally just because it enables piracy eating into profits. If there was a way to verify games were purchased legally, it wouldn't be an issue; which I wouldn't mind at all. If Nintendo supported a rom dump verification program akin to registering your game and it was like a dollar to do each title or something, I would pay money every time. I genuinely don't understand why these companies don't just have programs like that to empower open source groups, who then can also assist emulation of older titles on their platforms. Literally everyone wins.