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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Steam Family Sharing and MIGSwitch scaring Nintendo into adding pro-consumer features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's pro-consunwr about this? Before I could play Splatoon 3 with my son with one DL game, but it seems like they're not letting me do that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they're taking the old method away, but rather adding an extra option for multi-device game sharing. At least I hope they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

But I don't see how it's an added feature (I'm probably not smart enough to understand) because it looks like sharing is only for families, which is something we can already do. It seems more restrictive than anything. But hopefully we'll be able to keep the old method as well because I can't afford to buy multiple copies of the same game to play with my kids haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh, the flashcarts. I don't think it's scaring Nintendo into doing anything:) With Nintendo legally trying to kill emulators it's the other way around unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Migswitch isn't an emulator though. And they're still selling them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a flashcart (that's what I said in the first sentence). And I'm not surprised they're still selling them if they're in Russia (same if they were in China). I wouldn't buy this shit anyway.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was actually made by a U.S. resident. He picked the Russia theme before a lot of the recent political garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Political garbage" they have attacked another country, unprovoked and without declaring a war, and it wasn't the first time they did it even in recent years. Identifying with Russia/Soviet Union is not something that people should be proud of/making jokes. It was a regime that consumed more lives than 3rd Reich and seems to live on in Russia now.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm generally in agreement with you but you're being a royal Karen right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, I live in a country where Russia has done a lot of harm throughout the history, and you live in a country where people think it doesn't affect them and isolationism works (hint: it didn't 80 years ago, it won't now).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What you are saying is true, but it negates nothing I've said, and you dont need to go on a manhunt after me because i used poor word choice. I'm on Ukraine's side, but its sad that I even have to explain that to you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not going on a manhunt after you. All I'm saying is that Russian/Soviet symbols should be shunned (or at least not be glorified in any way) just like the Nazi ones because it's pretty much the same. If I have a choice I will not support anything made by Russians, because there's a chance it will support their homeland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think you dont understand the cultural nuances going on here. I am personally not a fan of it, but here in the United States before the war started and Russia became universally hated, Russia was seen as "generic bad guy." Most americans, myself included, are woefully undereducated on what actually happened throughout Russian history and in Russian culture, so we take what little we see projected over here and internalize it with some creative liberties.

There is a lot of romanticizing of when the people of Russia rose up to overthrow "the bourgeoisie," as we have a soft spot for symbols of freedom, the gaining of freedom, and "sticking it to The Man."

The scene of the hammer being thrown at a TV to smash "The Man" talking was used in a(n in)famous Apple ad back in the 1980s:

Using a Cyrillic block-lettering style font but with English letters and a red background was even used by AMD with a tagline of "Radeon Rebellion":

It was historically not abnormal for Americans to steal this imagery for marketing purposes. It's literally what we do 'best.' We take the flavor of other cultures and use them to meet whatever end we are trying to accomplish. Now, that's not to say that if someone launched a new product today that it would be accepted. Anyone doing that now would likely be crucified, or at least their product would fail.

But with the MIGSwitch, it was created before the recent atrocities, and the Russian symbolism is still borrowing/stealing from that "overthrow The Man" symbolism and not the "fuck you we take what we want, fuck the livelihood of your people" symbolism. In this case, Nintendo is "the bourgeoisie" with their draconian abuse of the law and their army of lawyers, and the MIGSwitch is "seizing the means of production," so to speak. At least, that's how the marketing is posturing itself.

Should the creator rework the brand image? Probably, absolutely. Are they going to put in the extra effort to do so when the product itself is already likely to get them blasted from space by Nintendo's low orbital ion canon? Highly unlikely. The product fab line is already made and is printing him money. It always comes down to money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In believe I do understand the shallow way you (as a nation - no offence here) see other cultures. That's why I'm saying all that. Because most of the western cultures don't remember the attrocities they've been commiting during WW2, just because they switched sides. They were literally allied with Nazis until they've attacked them;) Since then they were re-writing history (trying to erase evidence of atrocities that were even worse than what Nazis we're doing) just because they've ended up on the side that was victorious. I was under the impression that while during Cold War they were the villains to you (and the best you'd be able to say about them would be "commies", worst would be "Evil Empire") when it fell down most of the world somehow thought they can be treated as partners and talked to. But their mentality never changed, and now after they went to be full Soviet Union mode all we (people from the countries formerly behind iron curtain) can tell is "we told you so". They should never be glorified - even for "liberation from Nazis" (they were worse), negotiated with (anything they get will encourage them to run their schemes again). They should be isolated (in all possible ways) and cut off from any external income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sure, again you are probably right that they should be shut down and isolated.

But does it help you emotionally or logically in any way to understand that in the past when an American ignorantly made something like that, or when another American saw something like that, they aren't thinking "long live Putin, we love mother Russia" but instead probably the exact opposite? Like a weird anti-Russia Russian propaganda campaign.

I imagine it probably feels a little twisted for you to see it that way, but consider it for a bit before responding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Sure. By the way, about the stuff you've referenced before - while the AMD's crap seems to be referencing October Revolution/Red October (I can't really understand why would it resonate well with western cultures, but oh well), the Apple ad seems to be referencing Orwell, not Russia. Big Brother does not have to be communist, and it may happen in any totalitarian country - even in the US eventually if stuff continues to go downhill. The best remedy is to have people know history and understand it - something we can't really count on anywhere, not just in the US.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Giving back what they artificially restricted by the simple nature of everything being bytes that can be copied freely and easily. Much generous, such wow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do other consoles allow this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Steam has a family mode that's comparable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I've asked about the consoles for a reason. PC market has usually have been more open, and if you're praising Steam, check out gog.com

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder if this closes the loophole of having two copies of the same digital game (buyer's primary system, buyer's account on a second system) running simultaneously. My spouse and I have been playing MK8 like that for years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I have heard that this is in addition to the old system, not a replacement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah, everyone giving it kudos doesn't realize its actually even more restrictive than the previous setup.

Before you could:

  • Have two consoles playing the same game (as long as both had wifi access).
  • Have two consoles share a library when not in physical proximity.
  • No time limit on sharing.

Admittedly you could only share games one way with that, so it really only worked for two people. So families with more than two switched are about the only ones this would benefit (maybe a group of friends in close proximity).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this seems like a really cool function and will definitely help the transition to Switch 2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's really cool that we'll be able to share digital games with family members!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's great. I was a bit worried Nintendo won't allow easily sharing games between both system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only have one Switch - was there no way to get a digital purchase from one Switch in your household onto another already? It would be neat if you could share a game with your friend instead just a family member, but that's probably too much to ask.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Purchased games are playable on your primary switch (by any account on the device), and any switch that you're logged in to (after it phones home to verify the account has purchased the game).