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  • What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there’s this downvote feature.

    The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have… discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it’s annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can’t be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It’s like the equivalent of people just going like “lol no” and then walk away.

    Frankly it’s a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.


  • Man, I had recently spent a lot of time designing advertisement stuff around an established brand identity, that was pretty much going for a classy/luxury aesthetic. So I was basing all my designs around that identity. Made lots of variations, took many hours perfecting it.

    Then was told they didn’t like it. They wanted something entirely different that “screamed” budget and flashy colors and shapes.

    Got it just perfect on the second attempt after being briefed properly, but it did really hurt when my first attempt was shot down so easily.





  • Feel like you failed to read and grasp what I said.

    Never said I agreed with what they’re doing, I am not white knighting them. I frankly don’t give a shit what Nintendo does and doesn’t and what they’ll lose over it.

    I was just stating an observation from a business point of view.

    It’s also legal to own guns in some countries, doesn’t make it legal to use it to just shoot at anything, and it’s even more ridiculous to assume that everyone buying/owning guns has good intentions. There are many countries where owning a gun isn’t legal, as well as making copies of products you’ve bought, even for personal backup.

    And to believe that people use emulation exclusively for their own backups is insanely naive.


  • Emulation might be legal, but it’s software specifically designed to run illegal copies of the games.

    I dislike Nintendo, but I can’t blame them for taking down that kind of software development. They’re still selling many of their old games through their own store for their own emulators. They’re perhaps charging way too much for it and/or lock it behind a subscription wall, even if you ever bought the original copies. Absolute garbage business practice, but from the corporate point of view I can see why they go after emulators. Especially since it’s easier to take those down than trying to go after all digital emulator copies of the games (if not impossible).

    They’re probably gonna try and set an example to scare off others trying to make new emulators too.

    Edit: lol people really are shooting the messenger here.

    Also, the amount of excuses that people have to make backups of their already purchased games is very weak. You damn well know that a vast majority of people don’t use it for such reasons, the amount of people that still own original copies, and also have the hardware to even extract software for personal use must be like less than a percentage of the entire community using emulators. They’re just people pirating games they never paid for. It’s very naive to assume otherwise.