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Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls
As a follow up to the unfortunate incident on Wednesday, thanks to emfra (and others) who pointed out that BoingBoing has Nintendo's Apology Letter to the SuicideGirls site up. They even went so far as to offer up a free game system and game to the site owner. So alls well that end's well...but not before Penny Arcade had a chance to comment.
OMFG have you seen the Suicide Girls 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the chicks you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the Deppressed Goth Chick comes out and gets a piercing the mosh pit is on fire and DGC is like fuck this im jumping and SHE JUMPS INTO THE MOSH PIT with angels singing and she lands on the bad guys and that annoying goth lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! MARYLIN MANSON IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special SUICIDE GIRLS PC disk that comes with the intarweb.
Some of us are behind firewalls at work :)
Sounds like Nintendo did the right thing after messing up. Time to forgive and forget.
:)
Oh wait.. this is Slashdot
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This was a stealth marketing ploy on the part of Nintendo.
"Hey, hot goth chicks like Nintendo games, how can we publicize this fact? I know, let's send them a nasty letter from our lawyers and 200,000 geeks will start to associate hot goth chicks with Nintendo."
And you all fell for it.
and checking out the suicide girls website...
I'd like to know why Nintendo's Lawyers are looking at goth-porn. That would seem far more damaging than a goth-porn site mentioning they like Nintendo games.
but what do I know.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Nintendo apologizes to Suicide Girls!
Nintendo sent the email below to the good people at Suicide Girls. Background here and here.
Hello,
We would like to apologize to you and to those who frequent the suicidegirls.com website for inadvertently contacting you about a fan posting on the website.
We know that many of our fans are old enough to make their own choice about what they want to view on the Internet. We value the support of our fans and we respect their decisions. The letter was sent as part of an ongoing Nintendo program to aggressively protect our younger consumers from the hundreds of sexually-explicit sites each year that use Nintendo properties to attract children. We are proud of our efforts in this area. Unfortunately, the site posting identified in our letter was targeted by mistake.
As a gesture of goodwill, we would like to offer you (and RuneLateralus) a free Nintendo video game system and game of your choice. (...)
In addition, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with contact information for RuneLateralus, or have him contact us directly, so that we may apologize to him. We would be glad to send him a game and system of his choice through you as well, since we do not have his contact information.
Sincerely,
Christie Hamilton
Nintendo of America Inc.
Consumer Service Department
I like to dress up as a woman in public and tip custard over my head. Then I come home and play Mario 64 for 3 hours, I really need some professional psychiatric help.
Yours faithfully,
A.Nutter
Dear Nutter,
Yes you do need help. Mario 64 is crap.
Yours faithfully,
Your shrink
But "Obviously wearing tinfoil hat" isn't one of the mod options.
I think they've handled this in a most professional, and logical manner. Something that cannot be said for most large entertainment companies these days.
-phixxr
ungggghhhh
Hoochie Coochie Man
Fri, October 29 2004 - 4:30 AM
by: Tycho
I'd say it's better than even odds you've seen the story, either at VE or Slashdot. The long and short of it is that someone said they liked a couple Nintendo games in their SuicideGirls profile - and, in a parody of the reasonable universe, lawyers bared their teeth. I have a hunch we're talking about some kind of perverted spider application, an automated process with a bottomless appetite for filth, but it's funny to think tracking down meaningless infractions like this is some guy's fucking job.
I guess I should say a few things in advance of this discussion. SuicideGirls is a site where, among other things, girls take off their clothes. I'm not saying you should go there or not go there. They've asked to advertise here before, and while I don't have any great qualm with titillating media I didn't know if it was the best match for the site. It may be that my scheme for rating pornography has been damaged by the Internet, but the site is actually pretty tasteful compared to other sites I have subscribed to, many of which are filmed in barns.
Now, with the caveat out of the way, I am not without reason: I can understand why Nintendo as a corporate entity might not want their juggernaut brands associated with teen coochie. And indeed, if we were talking about photosets with explicit connections to their brands I would be less likely to ridicule them for it. I can even envision a scenario where a girl might have a Mario tattoo or something, and they might have something legitimate to say in that case, but honestly now I'm just indulging some kind of fantasy.
At this point, I don't care if it was a spider or some asshole at a terminal somewhere. When we did our Strawberry Shortcake comic, I was able to come to terms with the fact that there was an interpretation of my country's laws that prohibited what we had done. I didn't like it, but I could connect the dots and we relented. This, on the other hand, is merely stupid and evil. For better or worse, their company is built on these ancient, perennial brands that sprout up again on each new system. The reason it works is only partially because they tend to make excellent games - they deal gently with those classics, modernizing what they need, and somehow manage to retain a sense of wonder. But Nintendo's success hinges on the fact that their characters have become cultural icons - and being cultural icons means that we as gamers take an ownership in those franchises. They're a part of our language and, if you're the sort of person who reads Penny arcade, your culture.
It's not legal ownership, no - but we're heavily invested in those characters. Which I guess is a crime.
Update: Or, maybe it's not. Someone at Nintendo figured out this was stupid - BoingBoing has the letter they sent out.
(CW)TB out.
That's great -- my sister-in-law actually is a trademark attorney, and once spent her days doing nothing but writing C&D letters... I immediately sent the link to the PA strip to her.
penny-arcade + porn = ?
Does anyone else need to moderate the reposted letter? I can post it here again in case any of the many above posts have the moderation maxed out at +5. Normally I don't repost articles, but there seems to be large demand (or at least supply) for this one. Please advise.
I was wondering why Penny Arcade was running like crap. I figured I'd check the overnight Slashdot stories and come back later. Seeing the top story answered that question.
/. suicidegirls . . . . .
Oh well, time to go help
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
What, slashdotting wasn't enough, so now we're including their e-mail address so we can mailbomb them too? I mean, I know we're a secret socity trying to destroy the Internet one website at a time... But come ON! That's just EVIL.
~D
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yerh but now they have been /.'ed .. which in its self seems odd, i would of pined there being enough /.'ers reading penny arcade to reduce the overall hit rate.
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I hope Nintendo's apologies don't come too late.
You know, these emotionally labile personalities (suicide girls) take these things to heart...
Don't do it! Life is so beautiful!
I don't need a signature.
It was a loser but at least give them credit for recognizing it and trying to make amends. Short term it's ugly either way, but this will limit the long term damage. There's no story now.
Good job, Nintendo. Bite the bullet, apologize, move on.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
"In addition, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with contact information for RuneLateralus, or have him contact us directly, so that we may apologize to him."
This makes me nervous. There might not be a boogieman behind every tree, but I bet there's an Ashcroft listening on every phoneline.
I think it's funny that everyone now tries to use RIAA tactics for this stuff, but i think its even more funny that it totally backfired. Nintendo just advertised to 2 million plus of thier target audience they they are a bunch of sh*t heads! I guess this is the point in time where it pays to have a acronymmed name so you can lash out with impunity where people would never know that there was coalition of the evil behind it!
SCO or Microsoft is one thing but /.ing hot goth chick sites..man thats just low.
Soon as I hit that SG site I was like "Why did I go to this site again?" MMMMMMMM Goth chicks.
Maybe I am just a little paranoid on a Friday morning but I wonder if they just want the site to give up the RuneLateralus's contact info so they can serve him directly.
The nintendo apology link goes to a site that carries pornographic ads. WTF is wrong with the editors and the MORON who submitted the story! Put a warning there at least.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
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Nope, legal version of friendly fire is when you get your favourite suicidegirl pregnant.
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From Behind your computer!
Bleh. It was probably some minor functionary overstepping their bounds who caused all this trouble. You'd might as well decide Walmart was evil because of a bad experience with a cashier. (Well, you'd be right about Walmart being evil, but for the wrong purposes)
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
Maybe SG and RuneLateralus can wrangle a couple GBDS's out of this mess.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
Luckily, all those years of playing Duck Hunt paid off and we were able to shoot that balloon down. Ha!...hoisted by your own petard Nintendo!
btw, anyone ever notice how much Nintendo stuff (clothing, stickers) is on the shelves at Hot Topic? They don't seem to mind alt.culture when there's a buck in it.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
... all the traffic this little incident has caused? SuicideGirls has now been slashdotted TWICE within a week :)
Today the State Bar Association moved to disbar Attorney Christie Hamilton for conduct unbecoming of an attorney.
A spokesman for the Bar Association was quoted as saying, "Apologize?! If lawyers start giving apologies for simply doing their jobs, our entire legal system will collapse as everyone will simply get along rather than continue pointless and expensive litigation."
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Nintendo hasn't given up in persuing them. They are asking for contact information so that they can raid their houses and still all their Nintendo merchandise! BEWARE. NINTENDO WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND TEAR OUT YOUR SOUL.
It's the sound of a million /.'ers uploading their porn collections to their websites and namechecking every Nintendo franchise ever.
:)
I can't think of a better way to get free consoles. Terabytes of pr0n is *way* better than any pyramid scheme
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Dear Nintendo:
/s/
This law offices represent SuicideGirls. Ever since your letter of apology, they have experience a dangerous swing of confidence and self-respect. As a result, they can no longer see themselves as 'SuicideGirls' and prefer the term 'MildlyDespondentWomen'.
We are asking for a settlement of one billion dollars for emotional non-stress, lack of pain and suffering, and character assassination.
And a pony. a Shetland Pony.
Dewey, Cheetham & Howe
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
Nintendo has always seemed sensible legally to me. I'm not saying they are alturistic or anything, but you just don't hear of them being evil, like one hears of Sony or Microsoft being evil.
From the letter, I can understand why they did what they did, after all, didn't zelda.com used to be (still is?) a porn site? For most kids, Nintendo is their first introduction to games, and it wouldn't be good for a kid to google for "pikachu" only to find out that some porn site had managed to come up high on the results list.
Somewhat off topic, but it seems to me that a lot of their newer games are targetting older gamers.
The recent entries to the zelda and metroid series seem to have been targetted at older players, mostly by virtue of their difficulty.
Famous Last Words: "hmm...wikipedia says it's edible"
Reading the letter, i have to say that i like nintendo more as a company. Rarely do we see anyone thesedays admint a mistake apologize and then offer a jesture of goodwill to make amends. I think it was a really classy move on the part of Nintendo. I have alwasy liked their systems and games. It is nice to see that there are some reasonable people working there. I think nintnedo handeled this really well and in the end, people will either simply forget about it or bring it up when defneding nintendo instead of the other way around.
Kudos.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Of course, the best thing would be to avoid situations like this in general, you would think people would pay more attention to what was going on when sending out C&D letters.
But, they did the right thing and fessed up to their mistake, something companies rarely do anymore. Way to go Nintendo.
Yes, this replay is only on-topic to the off-topic post above it. I've already stated my point of view on this, that Nintendo seems to have realized their mistake, have apologized, and are making amends. I personally think the original claim they made was a bit ridiculous (just mentioning the names of two games you like?) but I could see them not wanting their brand names associated with a porn site in search engine results. I suspect it was an automated system that picked them up and a relatively minor functionary who decided to send out the official letter. Nonetheless, Nintendo did the right thing in promptly apologizing and making amends.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
So will Nintendo finally pull their collective heads out their asses and start working on delivering products people want, instead of trying to stop people from actually enjoying them?
Yes.
I cant say much, but Nintendo is going through some of the most dramatic changes Ive ever seen. The company is really turning itself around. While N wont be abandoning their roots (zelda, metroid, mario, fzero, etc) expect to see a new rush of more mature content, but with the quality nintendo gameplay we all love.
Wait till you see whats in store with the next console. Its phenomenal, and is going to totally blindside MS and Sony.
Just to really throw them off, I would ask for an original Nintendo system.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. -- Kosh Naranek
Define recent, because last I checked, a bunch of kings through history weren't exactly concerned with "enriching" society.
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I don't think Nintendo had the problem with the alt.culture so much as the nudity. Of course, if Nintendo had a buck in nudity...
If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
Some spidering program saw Girls in the title, Nintendo game names in the body, and nakedness, and auto-activated the lawyers.
Nice of them to admit they were wrong, tho.
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And your right-wing propaganda is based on what exactly?
Jesus buddy, don't you know you should close your office door BEFORE getting off?
Now excuse me while I violate myself while looking for trademark violations at SuicideGirls.
How long will it be before "www.slut-teens.com" puts up some lawyer bait on their site to get some of that sweet sweet free publicity?
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
To me, this just smacks of yet another "infringement spider" that trawls the web looking for mentions of a companiy's trademarks with little or no human intervention. There was a /. story akin to this relating to Linux Australia not long ago where an MPAA bot mis-identified a tarball that happened to have the same name as an obscure movie.
Automated Attorneys(tm) - Infringement Idiocy in a Digital Age
It was a mistake, and they recognized it and fessed up. That in and of itself takes balls, and I salute Nintendo for it. I think the rest of us should calm down about it. I understand the desire to knee-jerk and think the man is out to get us, but I think the truth, in this case, is a little more mundane.
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-Marilyn Manson
Why stop there? I'm setting up a website with some pornstars and references to the following:
..etc
Subaru
REI
Nintendo
Sony
Dell
Bank of America Loan Dept.
Of course it could backfire and I'd end up instead getting an apology letter from a pornstar with an offer for free...you know.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
is imaginging poor Christie Hamilton, a member of the Consumer Service Department, specificly offering a free console to the online identity "RuneLateralus". She didn't even try to pretend it was a real name by putting a space between the two words!
"Is that Rune or Ms. Lateralus? Ohh....ooook...."
You almost get the feeling that if Christie had asked what level her half-elven ranger was, she wouldn't have to stop and think before answering...
It seems stupid that Nintendo would send the site webmaster a video console in exchange for making a legal mistake, so this all seems fishy to me. Furthermore, slashdot has posted numerous stories with direct links to SG in the past. Naturally, they allow enough time in between stories to make the scheme less obvious.
This would make a good Slashdot poll.
"Does SG pay Slashdot for this advertisement?"
o Yes
o Probably
o CowboyNeal gets free nookie
Nintendo Says 'Touching Is Good' in Sexed-Up DS Ads
Tell me again that the hot goth chicks connection isn't intentional.
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50% Troll
20% Insightful
10% Interesting
So... what are the other 20%?
Cool...
I like the following Sony Playstation games:
Grand Theft Auto, Ratchet and Clank, Tony Hawk's Underground 2
I like the following Microsoft XBox games:
Halo, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mortal Kombat: Deception
I like the following Nintendo games:
Mario Kart Double Dash, Metriod, Pikmin
Ok, now it's just a matter of time before I get my free games and game system.
Neato!! But I do you two better. Since I have Dynamic DNS, I also use a NO-IP.COM account to always now where my machine is. Next, I run XVNC to the server to get my IM fix as well.
...namechecks of the Suicide Girls appeared all over Nintendo's global website. Nintendo are hoping SG will sue, and then retract and offer free samples of their products by way of condolence.
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So will all of Slashdot's advertisers be getting this 2 FP story treatment? Maybe some of revenue sharing?
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
I say the Suicide Girls should punish Sony and / or their lawyers.
I suggest a spanking.
[queue scene of Monty Python's Castle Anthrax, but with less 'innocent' looking girls]
That and the alt culture at Hot Topic is about as tame as it can get. That store screams PG-13 - which is ok by NoA.
If the Suicide Girls were selling nintendos on their site NoA would likely have a problem with it. That site is just a bit more sexual than the alt culture you experience at Hot Topic.
[Homer voice]
uuuuuuhhhhh.....Suuuiiiiccciiiidddeee Giirrrllllssssss...*drool*
[/Homer voice]
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
While I see your point, I'd hardly call Hot Topic "alternate culture."
Nintendo sends C&D nastygram to SG for use of various names of their games, where an SG member mentioned being a fan of said games
Coverage on Slashdot, Penny-Arcade, etc on this debacle
Nintendo goes "oh sh*t" at the negetive PR, fully owns up, and offers free (Nintendo brand) gaming system of choice to some of those involved at SG.
SO basically, SG comes up with a whole crapload of attention, extra site traffic, and some free gaming systems. Now, since the site didn't get nuked I'm assuming that a full slashdotting didn't happen. If at least some of the visitors end up signing up - offsetting the bandwidth cost - they benefit not only from the free systems but also from the free publicity/extra signups.
Heck, I sent me GF a link to this, she was looking up some girls' on SG and found their profiles rather cool, wanted to sign up herself. I'd say that I score this one:
SG:+2 (traffic/signups/game systems)
Nintendo+1: or 0 (no harm no fowl, but perhaps bonus points for owning up where few would)
Idiot IP lawers:-1 (for doing the right job in the wrong place).
It hardly implies that he lives in some "subjective reality."
At my work I can send out traffic over 80 but my firewall blocks the incoming traffic. I tried this "solution" before and no go. It is a smart idea, just sucks that it doesn't work here... :(
Take the tinfoil hat off. First, it was a fuckup. That's clear, they admitted it, end of story. Second, "what they want" in this case is for pedophiles to stop using Nintendo to screw up kids. I think I'm on board there. Third, there's no case for indifference because they did everything they could to fix the fuckup.
I know it screws up the schemas of the slashdot crowd, but there's really not this global conspiracy to screw you personally.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Penny Arcade truely sucks. I appreciate their comics, but their over the top rants and raves are stupid. They should just shut the hell up with their higher than holy attitude. How can they say that san andreas sucks?
are Metroid and Mario and Zelda! Can I have a free Nintendo system now??
:)
This is assuming that Slashdot shows up in their obscenity filter, which it should with all the trolls around here
Anywhere but Slashdot, I mean.
Well, if they didn't have a Cease and Desist from Nintendo before, I'm damn sure they'll get one now. How about we don't report on that?
Honestly, the adage about replacing people with very small shell scripts has never been more apt. Would it be possible to write an 'editor' script for Slashdot that performed worse than the 'editors' who currently draw a salary for 'doing' that 'job'?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
If the token of a Nintendo doesn't seem like much, just wait to see how many h0rny g33ky slashdotters sign up for memberships now. Horray for slashdotting pr0n.
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I guess we need to have a new section for /butt!!!
Back when Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company from his grandfather (originally a manufacturer of Hanafuda playing cards, popular with the Yakuza), he wanted to diversify the business... he invested in a whole bunch of things, including electronic games... but one of them was hour long love hotels, in Japan..
Car talk is also taped there.
Damn.. and I thought I was going to get laid!
You could probably get unrestricted web access for the price of a green laser pointer.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-Piercing/
There's even a tool for automating the process.
Interesting. How does the firewall block the incoming traffic without blocking content from "real" sites? It must be snooping within the HTTP packets.
That's another good reason to use port 443 and not port 80 - because firewalls can't see within the SSL connections anyway. But beware the man-in-the-middle attack!
Is it me, or are those comics just perpetually not-funny?
For me, it's right here where Nintendo demonstrates its sincerity and general non-evilness in this regard. Kudos to them.
Don't trust them Suicide Girls!
It's just a ruse so that they can get RuneLateralus's home address and sue him directly...
DON'T DO IT!
(I'm joking, but if it were the RIAA or SCO instead of Nintendo, I wouldn't be.)
That is right-wing? I must be very far out of the loop.
Nice of Nintendo to do this, but they should be careful when throwing out letters like this. This is serious buisiness, not, must I say it... a game.
My guess as to what happened is that they were looking for sites which advertise wares/porn/spam etc via meta tags so that searches for that game will bring them up in the top 10 on google and other engines. They probably came up with a list of porn and other sites, searched google for them and lists of their games and that is how these letters were generated, based on which of these sites used that. It was apparently Nintendo's attempt to deal with link spammers, which I'm sure most of us also despise. Hopefully this will case them to re-think their approach. I would like as much as anyone to see these link spammers cut down, but this approach here is too likely to finger innocents like these girls.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
"'what they want' in this case is for pedophiles to stop using Nintendo to screw up kids."
I don't think people who post their crappy fanart of Samus Aran taking it in the rear access hatch are pedophiles. I also don't think that porn-sites which use Nintendo brands to google-spoof are particularly likely to be pedophilic.
In fact, I can't think of very many applications of pedophilia to the combination of Nintendo and sex at all. Earthbound porn, maybe.... very few Nintendo characters are children.
In the fan art arena and Nintendo brands specifically, there's basically just the younger version of the Zelda character set.
In the story arena I guess you could write about how most of us have discovered another use for the Rumble Pack....
The children in this case would be innocent bystanders, but not victims of internet pedophiles.
There's no need to smear people with a stupid fetish for fan porn with our society's worst label.
Can they pick the new Xbox 2 or PSP?
That's the thing where it is the legal responsibility of the company to make money for its stockholders.
Subversion of that responsibility in favor of your personal prejudices is not only unethical, but often actionable.
If a man is not a liberal by the time he is twenty years old, he has no heart. If a man is not a conservative by the time he is forty years old, he has no brain.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
What kind of business letter starts with "Hello,"?
No contact information provided for the SG owner to contact customer service with the system of his choice
Most people scan in their letters as JPGs or PDFs, not retype them
Attorneys usually send e-mails to supplement a cease and decist letter sent via mail. SG says they only got an e-mail.
I could go on, but I think it's apparent now that SG did stage this.
It wasn't an evil plan by Nintendo. /.-SG install party/mixer.
It was SG!
What porn site wouldn't like a little free advertising on a major geek site?
Hey, maybe we could form a frat and they could be our little sisters.
Come to the
Cue the root & box jokes.
Now, where's that freebsd chick?
So Nintendo's robolawyer was denied by a website of tough chicks who don't take any shit (except in their consensual photosets ;). What does Nintendo care that their robopology SW cranked out another email, while the rest of their automated assault on fair use is crawling across the Net, finding more compliance among the not-so-ornery?
--
make install -not war
If you google on Nintendo, on the very top of the page you now get:
News results for nintendo - View today's top stories
Wireless Nintendo - Japan Today - 18 hours ago
Nintendo Ads Target Teenagers, Young Men - Forbes - Oct 28, 2004
Nintendo sues porn user for listing Zelda as an interest - The Inquirer - Oct 28, 2004
So by sending that letter to SuicideGirls they have ensured Nintendo being associated with suicidegirls.com, at least on Google!
"Begging the question" is just a name for that particular logical fallacy, aka circular logic. That does not mean that people saying, "which begs the question..." are using it incorrectly when they are not talking about circular logic.
Kind of like how I could say, "You are a dick." But then, later, if I said, "Suck my dick!" you would not be correct if you said, "Hey, you're using the term 'dick' incorrectly, because it's used to describe me!"
Get it?
No intellectual snobbery from you anymore plz kthx.
"I'm Spart....er I mean I'm RuneLateralus"
I am so going to put pr0n on my site and claim that I love Zelda so I can get a free Gamecube.
click me
Check eBay, they're going for about $50. I bought one years ago and am collecting the games. The thing's damn cool, but it makes your eyes burn.
Nintendo is actually run by reasonably nice people!
A megacorporation being nice is like the seventh sign. I'm packing my bags and getting the fuck out of Dodge.
Well we're running Checkpoint firewall here. I don't have admin on my network so I can't really snoop around without getting "spoken to" if you know what I mean. Other than port 80, most all other ports are closed tight. :(
try the google cache.
Nintendo insulted me by implying that pr0n sites are bad....can I have a Game Cube and Super Mario Brothers now?
Just like cigarette ads aren't intended to target kids either...
I only need to download many ARCADE ROMs of third parties ;D
.nes .smc ; do
for i in zelda willow imperium monopoly hotel bank bankrupt queen prince quest warrior knight magic mystic wizard wizardry zeus adventure heroes mana mistery dracula charmed enchanted dragon dungeon ; do
for j in
AMULE --search "*$i$j*" | xargs AMULE --download
done
done
XMAMETOR --play --random
Nintento: fuck you!!!
They want to send a system to each of them so they know where to send the summons....
Bugfix: "*$i*$j*" .nes .smc .gba .gb .n64
Bugfix:
AMULE: it's "A porn eMULator of internEt"
XMAMETOR: it's "seX to MAMming upto pornETOR".
that is why i really like this gaming company even though their targets are mostly kids... way to go nintendo!
Garibaldi: I'm more of a "an eye for an eye" kind of guy.
Delenn: So you support a system that will leave everyone blind?
Garibaldi: Not everyone, just the bad guys.
Are you saying I can scorn you all I like and you won't yet mad?
Yay!
fish and pipes
I think you missed my point. Scorn away, though.
Sorry, got diarrhoea today. Too much exertion could stain my undies. I'll try to get some scorning in tomorrow, assuming my lower intestines are done wringing themselves out.
fish and pipes
2) I am grown up, and as such, can recognize humor.
3) If a little comment on /. gets you that worked up, you need a vacation. Take your family to the islands and chill for a while before you give yourself a heart attack.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."