In fact, the lack of digital storage is why, to name an infamous example, the only recordings of most episodes of the original Doctor Who show are from the private collections of viewers: the BBC, lacking both funding and storage space, were forced to record new content over episodes with no backup.

I hate it when luddites pine for the days of my childhood and early adulthood where the storage, transfer, and use of every single type of media was so damn impractical compared to now.

It’s like wanting to go back to horses and walking being the only forms of land transportation because some trains are loud 🤦

Por que no los dos? 🤷

And even if they did, his take doesn’t even make sense 🤦

Not a damn thing.

Only if you count suicides. The countries that don’t have guns still have suicides, so banning guns would not prevent those deaths.

That’s like if I was to say “only if you count fast cars. The countries that don’t have as many fast cars still have accidents, so speed limits should be universally abolished.”

Not in the United States they don’t.

Emulators on the other hand are purpose build to circumvent anti piracy measures

No, emulators are purpose built to allow you to play a game on another platform. That’s literally what they’re for.

Whether the game is legally purchased, pirated, shareware or abandonware is completely irrelevant to the purpose and function of an emulator.

Personally I have used emulators to play old Commodore 64/Amiga games from my childhood, ditto DOS games and one of the old Pokémon games to see what the fuss was about.

None of those games were available for purchase anywhere aka it was all abandonware and not piracy. I do my piracy with torrents of games meant for the PC like most people.

Btw, as someone pointed out elsewhere on this post, there’s another good reason to use an emulator even for games available to purchase for the intended system: expensive peripherals that break and can’t be fixed. Unlike some vastly superior ones made for playing on the PC.

If anyone or anything is facilitating piracy of Nintendo games on an enormous scale, it’s the asinine anti-consumer policies of Nintendo themselves.

Why don’t people sue gun manufacturers every time somebody is murdered?

Because gun makers lobbied congress to make it specifically illegal to do so. Even though unscrupulous practices by said gun lobby is responsible for probably hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

Or vehicle manufacturers each time an accident happens?

They get sued for accidents caused by defects quite often.

Why don’t they sue PC manufacturers for producing the hardware that led to the emulator?

This one is perfectly analogous to the Nintendo tomfoolery, though.

Suing Yuzu for piracy seems incredibly fucking stupid and nonsensical, but I’m sure the Neanderthals in the courtroom will side with Nintendo.

Happened with Mega and countless torrent sites so yeah, you’re probably right 😮‍💨

Free Media Heck Yeah is glorious. Incidentally, that’s where I originally found movie-web myself!

What a bizarre stock photo choice too! Someone had a lot of fun with that 😄

You’re very welcome 🙂

And back in the GTA 4 days, I very much did. Several, in fact.

I have just the song for this effect

Idunno, probably? 🤷

Clowns don’t entertain people, it’s people that kill clowns?

I had no idea. Next you’re going to tell me that indie MOVIES exist, or some such nonsense.

What’s the difference between the Scottish and the English?

I’m speaking specifically about the breakfasts, mind you, not the people 😁

A full English is the best breakfast there is, so at least you still have that…

With that headline, I thought it was going to be about Simon Cowell or the CEO of one of the 3 corporations that own the rights to all music…