RODEN'S PROFILE

author=Mirak
Thinking that i'm getting weary of human babies. I'm at that age where everybody in my circle of friends is having babies and I've had to approach babies way more than i usually do, and it's tiring.

They're quite possibly some of the most horrid creatures on the planet.
No baby creature is as ugly and screechy. This is meme garbage but it has some truth in it.

It's true, Human babies are disgusting. Really unpleasant.

Animal babies are precious though. Too many Humans, not enough animals.

Corfaisus

Gourd_Clae
It makes me wonder how fetishes are formed though. Or, are people born with fetishes? Is it a mix of both?

Well, going by my previous face melting statement, I think people are born with a predisposition to fetishes. Something in their brain chemistry gives them away.

This is what I always assumed. Just personally speaking I can't think of any other reason.

I don't have a job at the moment, but before I came to college I used to be a Scaffolder at both Syncrude and Husky Sunrise, contracted by Kiewit and Saipem respectively.

Punk_Kricket
With over two million downloads, good luck to Nintendo getting people to stop playing it.

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To me, Nintendo has made themselves look like angry children over the fact fans would take their characters and make viable titles that were contenders to their own. They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but apparently not to Nintendo.

People need to stop spinning such emotional narratives about why things like this happen. Like, honestly, I've seen claims that Nintendo hates their fans, hates creativity, abuses people, doesn't care about their own IP, want to see themselves go down the shitter, etc. It's nuts. The goal isn't to "get people to stop playing it" or "remove it from the internet forever", the goal is to say "we legally protected our trademark".

It's a business decision. There's a new Pokemon game coming out this year and a new Metroid game coming out tomorrow. With US copyright law in the sorry state that it is it's not at all surprising that Nintendo's lawyers would DMCA this stuff:

Toaster_Team
As for throwing a tantrum, I think you're seeing this as more an emotional reaction than it really is. I doubt those types of decisions are based on knee-jerk emotional response but rather from bureaucratic legal protocol. If you use the IP without their permission, you get taken down, that's it really. Corporation are not moved by emotion, they're moved by gain/potential of gain.

Frankly a friend of mine said it best in the Slack a few days back: this is a win win scenario. The games are released, they're still being worked on, and Nintendo gets to legally say they protected their IP. I don't feel bad that they can't host it on their own sites or whatever anymore, since that's what happens when you distribute stolen stuff, you use torrents and the like.