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Nintendo Apologizes to SuicideGirls

Posted by Zonk on from the doing-the-right-thing dept.

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.

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  1. Can someone repost? by Isca · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some of us are behind firewalls at work :)

  2. Nintendo by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like Nintendo did the right thing after messing up. Time to forgive and forget.

    Oh wait.. this is Slashdot :)

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  3. I said it before... by marktaw.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. well after RTFA by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:well after RTFA by frankthechicken · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe they were doing some research for a future Mario adventure, Princess Peach always seemed to me to like the darker side of life, what with her constant "kidnapping" by Bowser, and her penchant for chains, whilst being locked up in Bowser's "dungeon".

    2. Re:well after RTFA by dash2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cease and desist at once!!!! Yours, Nintendo.

  5. Dear Nintendo, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  6. E-mail address? by Dracolytch · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. I hope not too late... by koi88 · · Score: 5, Funny


    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!

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  8. This just in... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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  9. Response by LittleGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Nintendo:

    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. /s/
    Dewey, Cheetham & Howe

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  10. Nintendo game system of their choice? by Moloch666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just to really throw them off, I would ask for an original Nintendo system.

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