Oh no! It says there might be early spoilers! Yikes!

Nothing for me to do but go download the ROM and play it early, then. I have no choice.

So, the ROM leaking early has…what to do with emulators?

At this point, I think it’s gone from “ethically okay” to “mandatory”.

It’s like downloading Metallica’s newest album. Sure, I might never listen to it, but it’s the principle.

Hey, instead of picking on that little kid, why don’t you go harass that huge bodybuilder guy with all the knives attached to his belt?

Nintendo’s argument is that their games are art, and being unable to control how they’re presented degrades the art. My eyes rolled across the room the first time I heard that.

Demonoid. They had a community that put together a lot of high-quality torrents.

If they haven’t released it, then they haven’t released it. I highly doubt somebody on Lemmy knows how to hack Julian Assange, and even if they did, this would be the wrong place to ask.

Don’t do illegal drugs, kids! You could get in trouble, because they’re illegal.

I assume emulator development will continue eventually. Who knows when that will be, though.

The thing that sucks is that I’m in the middle of a couple of games, so if something upgrades and Ryujinx isn’t compatible, I’m hosed.

Anything that releases in the last year or two of the Switch’s life is now at risk of being lost forever into Nintendo’s archives.

Somebody will archive it, for two reasons: 1) data hoarders and 2) hacked Switches.

This is the first time they’ve been suing emulator developers.

But…but…there might be spoilers!!

I think it’s so silly how every article about this talks about the danger of spoilers because the game leaked early. There are going to be spoilers galore once the game officially releases in a few days. What difference does it make?

Nope.

I’m not willing to carry around 300 cartridges

Where would you be carrying them?

I never understand somebody just simping for a corporation like that. You can be a fan of their stuff and dislike how they run the company. Being a Mario or Zelda fan doesn’t mean you have to stick up for terrible decisions made by suits.

Nintendo: great games, terrible company. So yeah, I play their shit, but I don’t give them any money.

It’s a website where you can buy music. I prefer having music in OGG or Opus format, and most of the time you can only get MP3. Bandcamp gives you the option to download your music in several formats, and one of them is OGG.

That’s starting to change, because I can find more file-sharers who are using FLAC as storage becomes cheaper. Then I can convert FLAC to Opus. However, Bandcamp also gives you the option to stream music from their app, and it’s nice to have access to so much music on my phone.

Yes. I find them on Bandcamp.

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Using the term “piracy”, instead of “filesharing”, was always pro-corporate framing. In his 2010 essay “Ending the War on Sharing”, Richard Stallman wrote:

When record companies make a fuss about the danger of “piracy”, they’re not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.