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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This sig has been enciphered with a one-time pad. It could say almost anything.
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.
... 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.
Aha! It's all actually a part of the evil ploy! They want to know his address so they can dispatch black-clad agents to abduct him for nefarious purposes! Don't fall for it guys! Run away! Run
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NO CARRIER
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
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.
Just to really throw them off, I would ask for an original Nintendo system.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. -- Kosh Naranek
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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.
...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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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]
So, where can I get a nakedness-sensitive spider of my own? :)
Damn.. and I thought I was going to get laid!
I know it screws up the schemas of the slashdot crowd, but there's really not this global conspiracy to screw you personally.
Well, really, there is, it is just that Nintendo is playing a smaller part than originally thought. hehe
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.)
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.
The Pretzel failed.