Yggstyle

On one hand … reverse engineering opportunity. On the other… I’d not like to be the guy tasked with disassembly.

I can’t tell you how much this was bothering me 🤣

I’ve got some bad news.

Jokes on them. They suck so badly I don’t fly anymore.

Funny how that works. ;)

Nintendo isn’t just the nestle of companies to users… they are the same or worse to their own.

I’ve seen people lose teams over errant comments about a novel idea for the IP they would love to see happen, or maybe even be developing as a passion project, purged for the notion that they were anything more than drones.

It’s a disgusting work culture taking advantage of bright eyed developers that grew up with fond memories of the brand. I genuinely love some of the IP and worlds made by the developers - but I will never, ever, spend a fucking penny on that company until it is changed.

mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *

It’s both.

Yes. Without question.

And some CEOs are FAR worse than others.

But rarely better than the worst person you know.

Look I don’t fault developers for kissing the ring. I know and have spoken with multiple devs at different Nintendo affiliated companies and they don’t enjoy it either but it lets them make the games they love for the people that they want to entertain.

I can’t say I support hating a full group of people because that’s not great either. “… except for the Amish but it’ll never get back to them” - John Pinette

I see Nintendo emulation / mod chipping / console hacking I support it. Toxic company deserves a return in kind for its abuse of its fanbase.

Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.

Mindblowing.

Did they walk back their recent less than well liked choice to get into the same pool as HP? They were my go-to recommendation for the longest time.

I had this as my take away too. I could personally give two shits about his or any others creators userbase / content - I think that if we want Linux adoption rates up it’s always welcome when it is talked about.

Let’s just nip the speculation in the bud here first: in a shock to maybe one person - he was not being “douchey.”

I won’t rehash what has already been said by others, nor what I have already responded to but I’d like to respond directly to this:

it’s a shame that it seems to be attracting the same crowd that made virtual interaction so unappealing in Reddit.

It’s you. You’re that crowd. You came into a thread with a non-constructive, do nothing, pedantic, petty, low effort, call-it-what-you-will shit comment… got called out on it: and are trying to blame literally everyone but yourself for your poor choice rather than gracefully taking your lumps and moving on. Ironically, OP made the far more high minded choice and did something that improved the post in general. Without complaint.

This isn’t reddit. You are correct. You are getting down voted because we don’t want reddit here either. Be the improvement you want to see or don’t let the door hit you on your way out.

Guy was going for a cheap shot and hoping to get a pat on the back for it I guess? The mental gymnastics he’s going through explaining himself is borderline legendary.

So let me get this straight:

It’s perfectly acceptable for you to make an assessment of a word and it’s meaning from a post not your own - but utterly incomprehensible that we might make a similar assessment of literally the same word from your post… in exactly the same way.

In what way are people misinterpreting you and being mean while, somehow, your actions which effectively are identical (inference not withstanding) - are justified and erm… kind?

It’s rare I will bust out a “my dude” this frequently… but: my dude do you own a mirror?

Almost verbatim what I was planning on saying. Just 0 awareness apparently. This one may be a lost cause, though.

I really don’t see how “lol” would mean that in this context but ok. Even with the context to me I was more like “idc” or “this isn’t important”. I mean, if they wanted to say “whoops”, they could’ve said “whoops”. […]

Semantics. Regardless of how you (or anyone else) read the first word: the following statement provided the appropriate result and explanation. The case was opened and closed. A positive outcome was achieved (accreditation of the author.)

Returning to my original assertion: what was the purpose of your statement? Your statement lacked context. If people misunderstood you (I don’t think they did) … one word doesn’t exactly leave things terribly clear does it? This isn’t a they (op) thing.

Regarding your statement about language: When I am in an area where I don’t speak the local language - I rely more heavily on context to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. I believe that to be fairly standard. This wasn’t, by my assessment, a situation where someone could be misinterpreted unless the remainder of their statement was disregarded. Could I be off base? Sure - but I genuinely doubt I am.

If it was a single word, in a vacuum - sure. But the literal following statement was “it was a cross post but I did the right thing and broke it to fix the problem” sorta applied some context to the prior word.

I read it as “ah shit, yeah, haha lemme get that” and it appears others did as well.

Context matters. So yeah - you can go on thinking you were slighted here over your “observation” with no context… or maybe take this as a “maybe process the whole statement before reacting” critique … which is what it was intended to be.

As opposed to, say, highlighting a single word as a reply implying some form of wrongdoing? Or is that less douchey because it’s like a double negative?