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Behind the Faked Revolution Video

Posted by Zonk on from the i-want-to-believe dept.

1up.com has an interview with the guy who faked the beautiful Nintendo On video prior to this year's E3. The faked video raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark. From the article: "The Nintendo community is famously excitable when dealing with leaks and rumors - the uproar over recent comments insinuating Revolution's downloadable classics would be free sent shockwaves - and this instance was really no different. Still, there were plenty of skeptics and cynics. To many, the presence of the esteemed Virtual Boy, the company's infamous portable blunder from the mid 90s, tipped the scales. 'The Virtual Boy isn't something Nintendo should ever use to promote a new revolutionary product,' said Jeffery Van Camp, editorial coordinator at Nintendo fan site N-Sider. Even the visionary behind Nintendo On admits 'Nintendo would never make another reference to a console that didn't comply with their expectations, but in this case, it wouldn't be a mistake, but a correction.'"

74 comments

  1. it wasnt bad... by teksno · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i never thought it was real... but after learning that it was for sure a fake, its nice to know that some people have that much time on their hands are they dont write spyware...

    in all reality though it just speaks to the fanatical type of fans that nintendo has. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!

    1. Re:it wasnt bad... by gameboyhippo · · Score: 1

      Time? He said it only took a week to make.

    2. Re:it wasnt bad... by teksno · · Score: 1

      yeah but it was a week solid.... with little sleep and it left him sick....

      i dont know about you, but i dont have that much time on my hands. after work, school and other obligations like going to the gym (my god a geek that goes to the gym!!!!) and trying to work on my car, girlfriend and bar hopping... i have very little time. infact i have very little time after work alone.

    3. Re:it wasnt bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It was a good commercial for his work so the effort might have been worth it.

    4. Re:it wasnt bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you sure you're a geek?

      I mean, we're defined just as much by the things we don't do as the things we do.

    5. Re:it wasnt bad... by teksno · · Score: 1

      does running a beowolf cluster at home out of 6 dell pcs that i picked up in a ebay lot make me one? cause i think so...

    6. Re:it wasnt bad... by yammosk · · Score: 1

      my god a geek that goes to the gym!!!!

      What you think are revolutionary? Hate to break it to you... but the girlfriend thing, now that's something to talk about!

    7. Re:it wasnt bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      6 dell pcs that i picked up in a ebay lot

      Hmmm.. Dells.

      Well, the Beowolf cluster passes, but everything else doesnt add up!

      bonus points for posting on slashdot.

    8. Re:it wasnt bad... by Parham · · Score: 1

      Exactly... it was done at the perfect time to show off his work to the world. I for one believed it for a few hours before I did my research. I only believed it because it seemed so realistic and authentic. He's really talented, and while he created a good fake, he's created a better even entry in his CV.

    9. Re:it wasnt bad... by cloudofstrife · · Score: 1
      No, it wasn't bad at all. It was rather skilled. Except for hte idiocy of having a console where you actually walk around to control the movement of the character (dangerous as someone mentioned), it might have had me fooled.

      It shouldn't be too hard to make a console that has a headset that can do 3D with today's computers. The images would have to be lower-res to compensate for the fact that the console would be rendering two images at the same time, but it would be much more interesting visually.

      If Nintendo hasn't hired this guy yet, why haven't all of the other game companies rushed to get him? He has major skills!

  2. Let this be a lesson to all aspiring artists. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Save for a brief glimpse at a city for Metal Gear, however, all was lost in the hard drive crash. Had the scenes been completed, however, Solid Snake would have been seen hopping into Metal Gear Ray, going head-to-head against an all-new menace, Metal Gear Mantis. "It is better not to think about the loss now," he says."

    There are two kinds of computer users (or sysadmins). Those that backup religiously, and those that have never had a hard-drive crash.

    RAID1 is pretty cheap when you can get 2 200GB HDs for about 300$ CDN.

    1. Re:Let this be a lesson to all aspiring artists. by grumbel · · Score: 1

      ### RAID1 is pretty cheap when you can get 2 200GB HDs for about 300$ CDN. ...and it won't help you at all if you accidently 'rm -rf /'.

    2. Re:Let this be a lesson to all aspiring artists. by timftbf · · Score: 1

      Totally. RAID is RAID, it helps you with bad hardware (and speed, and size, depending on your config). Backups are backups, they do help with bad hardware too, but more importantly they help you with user error or bad software.

      The number of people who mix the two up is sometimes quite scary.

      TTFN,
      Tim.

  3. Wake up, Nintendo! by Nomihn0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hire this guy and redesign your console to meet expectations. The research done for this video was meticulous. Nintendo's patents showed so much promise. But the original Mario Brothers in high(er)-definition? I don't see that as a "revolution" in anything other than deceptive marketing. NintendON, while unbelievable, restored my confidence in Nintendo as an innovative company.

    Oh well. Dreams die hard.

    1. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by FLAGGR · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Good virtual reality is not compuationally possible, especially not for the consumer market. The ability to download games is *not* the revolutionary feature of the erm, Revolution, as confirmed by Nintendo. (It is in fact the controller)

    2. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by tepples · · Score: 1

      Good virtual reality is not compuationally possible

      True, the "environment capture" of the fake video isn't feasible yet. But a headset with a gun-shaped controller, where player movement is on the gun and turning the camera is on a gyro attached to the head (along with a triangulated position reference to the console), is probably feasible, right?

    3. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by FLAGGR · · Score: 1

      Yeah. There are alot of rumours related to that too (Nintendo loves gyros)

    4. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      " But the original Mario Brothers in high(er)-definition? I don't see that as a "revolution" in anything other than deceptive marketing."

      Seeing as how Nintendo hasn't stated what the 'revolution' is, how can you call the marketing deceptive?

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    5. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by superpulpsicle · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Man! That video was bad ASS! After watching that, I said I don't give a fuck if it's fake. I want a revolution now!

      Music was fantastic. It wasn't lame like every other real nintendo Ad. It had style, pumps you up, it wasn't targeted toward 5 year olds. This deceptive marketing needs to be done more often. I was sold, and nintendo marketing need to sit in a classroom and learn from this artist.

    6. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because gyros have worked so well for Nintendo in the past

    7. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by Blibblob · · Score: 1

      Nintendo Revolution, Revolutionizing this fast paced industry by rereleasing the NES. A pretty NES.

    8. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by cgenman · · Score: 2, Interesting

      A headset with a gun-shaped controller, where player movement is on the gun and turning the camera is on a gyro attached to the head (along with a triangulated position reference to the console), is probably feasible, right?

      Feasible, but laggy and expensive. Taking 20 MS for a character to respond to your input is basically imperceptable on a television, because, well, the rest of the world is whizzing by normally. But taking 20ms to updated a head-mounted VR system is nauseating, as the world drags behind where the world is supposed to be.

      Likewise, the tech is pretty expensive. 640x480, when attached to your eyes is basically the highest grade consumer glasses you can get for a reasonable amount of money and yet is still really, really pixelated. For fully immersive VR with believeable resolution, the necessary pixel densities go way up.

      So yes, possible. But not good enough to ship yet.

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    9. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow. *blinks*. I'm sorry. It's just so strange to actually hear about someone who would buy something based on the ad for it. Every person I know goes and does their research before making a purchase of more than $30.

      Then again, I've always felt like half of what Sony and Microsoft were selling with the PSx and Xbox was a corporate pat-on-the-back for buying a "real man's" console.

      I suppose it's okay to skimp on the quality as long as you make it up to the buyer psycologically.

    10. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      Yes.

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    11. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by kyojin+the+clown · · Score: 1
      there is a GODDAMN GREAT arcade game which uses motion sensors and a standard light gun to calculate your position in this way. i think its called police 24/7, and has a sequel, and it is the best fun its possible to have in an arcade, although it kills your ankles and thighs after about ten minutes.

      be nice if you could do it at home, but you would need (1) huge screen and (1) giant sensor array cage box thing.

    12. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by bleaknik · · Score: 1

      This kids' videos are impressive. He's put a lot of work into them, and I must say he's talented with 3D Studio.

      His capability as a designer, however, still has something to be lacking. The NintendOn seemed clunky and unattractive, and I don't see it transcending beyond his concepts. I personally would be fascinated to try this device out, but I'm not seeing a threshold for this apparatus (yet).

      I do not understand why you believe the revolution to be "deceptive". Nintendo has not claimed any more of this system than is realistically deliverable: Wi-Fi, Downloadable Content, Backwards Comptatibility, and a New Controller Design. Also, N has commented it will only be 2-3 times more powerful than the GC. According to Moore's Law, this is a little slow but accurate (comparing this to Sony and Microsoft who are claiming much larger, unrealistic numbers). I'm not seeing anything deceptive here. N has not told us anything about what makes it "Revolutionary", but I've learned from the past that they usually deliver.

      I think we all have fantastic imaginations that often take us to the stars and beyond. I guess that's why videos like this emerge, and why nerds like us gobble them up.

      /shrug.

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    13. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The game's called "Police 911". I know. Played it on the boardwalk at an arcade, groaned and moaned while traveling the rest of the boardwalk.

      The sensors they used for it, in addition to the graphics, were really impressive, making it almost realistic. I know of this one and its sequel. There was also another sensory game that was a boxing game. I passed on that one.

    14. Re:Wake up, Nintendo! by Riddlefox · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Not sure about your 20ms number. My thesis involved using a helmet mounted display. When I was doing research, I found (as you might imagine) tons of research on what an acceptable latency is.

      The lowest maximum acceptable lag that I found was 20ms (ie 0-20ms is acceptable without making people sick). Other researchers found values between 40ms - 300ms! I think 300ms would be pretty bad, personally.

      My thesis project only updated once a second (it used GPS data, which came out of the receiver at the rate of 1HZ), though, so the maximum latency was 1000ms. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad. Of course, my display wasn't a totally immersive VR type system - it was more augmented reality - but none of my test subjects got sick. I'm not sure what the difference would've been if they could not reference the real world, or if the update rate between screen refreshes was different (say, the view updated 60 times a second, but with a 1 second delay between user movement and that movement being reflected on the screen).

  4. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    My gay what?

  5. How far? by BandwidthHog · · Score: 5, Funny

    raised quite a ruckus on message boards from here to fark

    Wait, wait... from here all the way to FARK?

    That far? Really?

    Wow.

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    1. Re:How far? by KDR_11k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    2. Re:How far? by DaveM753 · · Score: 1

      Yeah...that's WAY the fark out there.

  6. More interesting the reaction of the gaming forums by CyricZ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More interesting to me was the reaction at the gaming forums. Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally, at the GameFAQs forums when this fakery was made available. Users were banned outright for suggesting (rightfully so) that the video was a complete forgery, according to my grandson who posts there. But I think that just shows the complete intolerance and stupidity of many of the online gaming forums. They are so closed-minded that they refuse to actually investigate leaks such as this to verify their truthfulness. Instead they'd rather punish those respectable users who do take the trouble to inspect and analyze every such leak that comes their way.

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  7. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Best response ever.

  8. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, its pretty much like that only there. GameFAQs is known for the many whiny emo users that go there.

  9. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by CyricZ · · Score: 1

    Ah, that is interesting! I do not use such forums myself, but I do discuss such matters with my grandson. He said that the same problem happened at the GameSpot forums, but I think he also said that they were run by the GameFAQs people?

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  10. Music? by GrassMunk · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know the names of the songs used in the Nintendo ON video? I really like it and want to know what its called.

    1. Re:Music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The one where the camera pulls away and the millions of castles appear on the screen is the theme song for the Bowser levels in Mario64.

    2. Re:Music? by GrassMunk · · Score: 1

      That one i know, but im really curious what the other song is, the rock/instrumental, sounds awesome.

  11. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's a shared subset of moderators and certain message boards (and, they are both owned by cnet), but, the boards are run by separate people.

  12. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by CyricZ · · Score: 1

    Either way, it sounds like the shittiest set of forums for online discussion. Even Stalin would look up to their hatred for free speech, it would seem.

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  13. Doesn't match by Popageorgio · · Score: 1

    my exclusive video of a night greenlighting the town.

  14. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by djSpinMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    Indeed, all hell broke loose, literally

    Really? Literally?

    "That word... I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya

  15. Frickin' Hilareous by xmas2003 · · Score: 1, Funny

    As the person who pulled off the Christmas Lights/Webcam Hoax let me just say Well Done Pablo Belmonte - the world needs more levity like this! ;-)

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  16. Fun, But.... by miyako · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thinking about the Revolution is fun, but it also somewhat annoys me because everytime I see a Revolution story I spend hours trying to ponder what the revolutionary feature is going to be.
    I understand Nintendo's fears that the other companies might try to rip off their ideas, but wouldn't patenting the hell out of everything be just as effective without driving all their potential customers absolutely insane?
    Ah well, I guess it probably drums up some excitement. It doesn't really matter to me, I decided I'd be buing a Revolution as soon as I heard about it playing classic games. I'll probably get a PS3 too, but I doubt I'll get an XBOX360 though, if the current generation of games are any indication (and they very well might not be), XBOX seems to get the more mainstream games, which basically seems to me to be nothing but a crapstorm of FPS and Sports games, neither of wich I can stand.

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    1. Re:Fun, But.... by bitwiseNomad · · Score: 1

      Patents have not been effective at protecting Nintendo's stuff in the past. Believe it or not, they actually have a patent on the D-pad that has been used in their controllers since the NES days. But wait, you may say. Sony's controller has a D-pad, too! How can that be?

      The answer is that Sony got around Nintendo's patent by having each of their direction buttons be separate entities on the controller (ever notice how the direction buttons on the Playstation controller are not connected?) As I understand it, having them be separate buttons lets them get around Nintendo's patent.

      Personally, I think it's pretty asanine that someone could hold a patent on the D-pad, but around the time of the NES, it was a fairly new idea. It just goes to show that Sony is sleazy enough to be able to ignore patented ideas. I fully understand why Nintendo isn't revealing anything about their magic controller, because it's about 100 to 1 odds that Sony and Microsoft would rip it off one way or another, patents be damned.

      Intellectual property is only worth respecting if it's yours, it seems.

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    2. Re:Fun, But.... by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

      Never mind the rumble pak, which Sony copied but implemented slightly differently (unknowingly hitting another patent owned by another company in the process). Or the analog stick on the controller, which Sony added to their controller and never fully integrated leaving us with many PS2 games using the dpad only and the left analog stick in an awkward position.

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    3. Re:Fun, But.... by lion2 · · Score: 1

      The dpad buttons on the PS are not separate entities. They may look like it, but underneath they are all connected. Press down on one of that buttons and you will see the others move.

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    4. Re:Fun, But.... by apoc06 · · Score: 1

      no, whats even funnier is that nintendo knows that they will be ripped off. they are playing it up to build excitement. they know their consumers. they know that nintendo fans like the mystery and love the fact that they are keeping tabs on their plans. thats why they are nintendo fans and havent jumped ship yet; because they dislike sony and MS' way of overexaggerating everything.

      if nintendo comes up with something/ anything truly revolutionary, then it will obviously revolutionize all consoles from then forward. if its a big enough hit sony will find a way to incorporate it into the ps3, and ms will incorporate it into the 360. look at the analog stick. look at the d-pad. look at controller vibration. look at the trigger buttons. they found a way to incorporate those things into the other systems. either by modelling something after it [the d-pad] or just buying the rights to license it into their machines like MS did with their controller vibration tech.

    5. Re:Fun, But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      uh huh, and after all this "innovation" Nintendo still manages to come third in the console wars...honestly, what the hell is there to be fanatic about where Nintendo is concerned? Is this simply a matter of rooting for the underdog, a sort of Chicago Cubs situation in the gaming world?

  17. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by CyricZ · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it did. There was flaming, censorship and hatred of the truth galore, much like that of Hell or Stalin's Soviet Union.

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  18. Overriding factor in this story by tod_miller · · Score: 1

    The web page linked has some embedded audio, couldn't turn it off. How can I listen to my music, and read this article at the same time?

    How can someone be such an insensitive clod.

    I guess I should read it in lynx. Pah.

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    1. Re:Overriding factor in this story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The idiocracy of slashdot readers never fails me. Why didn't you hit STOP on the video that was playing? Did you happen to notice the article was discussing the video?

      Oh but wait! An opportunity to drop the name of a web browser you have probably used twice your life! What you should really do is download the file in lynx, then read it in pico. Then you would really have my respect.

    2. Re:Overriding factor in this story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      dude your music sucks anyway.

      whatever it is you listen to.

    3. Re:Overriding factor in this story by earthbound+kid · · Score: 1

      Pico? Pfff. Real men use emacs.

      Also, since I said that, you know I'm a total geek, so you have to like me now. Please?

  19. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 1

    metaphorically? figuratively? literally?

  20. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell only literally breaks loose when a bunch of demons roam the Earth torturing and killing humans and preparing for the end of the world. Contrary to popular belief there demons are not Americans and not currently roaming the Earth

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  21. Amazing, and pretty unbelievable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you look at the Legend of Zelda video found in the article, it is dated as being created in 1999. That means our self-taught friend Pablo Belmonte was only 17 when he created it, which is near unbelievable in its own right. Considering that this was back in 1999, he must of had some expensive hardware, especially for a teenage hobbyist, to render everything found in that video. It all seems a little suspicious to me.

    1. Re:Amazing, and pretty unbelievable... by apoc06 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      you must not have read the warez manifesto.

      apparently people feel that it is ok to bootleg software for learning purposes. basically they do stuff like this with it: pet projects until they get good enough with the technology to the point where they can land a job in the field. then they will be able to get their employers to spring the cash for a real valid license. i wonder if anyone has checked mister belmonte's shelves for license agreements?

      but seriously, at 24 i understand your doubt that he would have the disposable income to buy a highend video editing package and 3d modelling software. but then again if you look hard enough, you can find free and education editions of most of the major software packages. http://www.alias.com/glb/eng/products-services/pro duct_details.jsp?productId=1900003

      now back to the topic...

  22. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "according to my grandson who posts there."

    I hope I am not alone among Slashdotters when I say "your what?" :)

  23. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by toad3k · · Score: 1

    gamefaqs mods rip posts out at the drop of a hat for stupid reasons. You are better off reading their stuff and commenting elsewhere.

  24. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Forkenhoppen · · Score: 1

    You mean.. Brimstone wasn't a documentary?

  25. Forgotten or Ignored? by U.Va.+Gamer · · Score: 1
    1UP won't even let me list Virtual Boy games in my collection.

    /Mario Tennis and Wario Land were pretty good...
    //Kept the comment short so you wouldn't get a headache

  26. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by CyricZ · · Score: 1

    I heard that they hire 14 year olds to be moderators there. It's no wonder the place is supposedly such a shithole! 14 year olds have barely grown pubic hair, let alone developed the mental maturity necessary of somebody who holds power over others.

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  27. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Please can you explain who this Inigo Montoya is and why I've suddently seen him quoted three times today?

  28. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Then again, it's mostly 14 year olds and younger who are attracted to games for Nintendo anyway. No surprise there.

  29. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by InsideTheAsylum · · Score: 1

    For a long time user of GameFAQs with numerous accounts banned (like.. 14?.. Long live proxies and Tor), I can say that is a fairly accurate observation. The worst thing, the mods can't take a joke either.

  30. It's most likely a touch-pad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "but it also somewhat annoys me because everytime I see a Revolution story I spend hours trying to ponder what the revolutionary feature is going to be."

    Don't waste too much time. It's not going to be something that initially blows your socks off, but once you experience it, you will wonder how you got by without it. That's my opinion...

    For example when the N64 was coming, Nintendo made alot of noise about how "a 3D world requires a 3D controller" and the N64 controller would be revolutionary for 3D games.

    Well it ended up being an analog joystick. That's nothing new, considering even the Apple II used analog joysticks, but the IMPLEMENTATION, and the design so you could use your thumb was unlike any controller ever seen for a console. And as we all know, Sony took the idea and ran. But initially, people thought, "big deal". Today, try playing a game without one...

    This time, it's likely to be what everyone speculates it to be... a touchscreen, for fast navigation or perhaps FPS controls (Have you ever played an FPS on a console? It's easy to move with an analog stick, but it's hard to aim with the 2nd analog stick. So a touchscreen is actually a brilliant solution. You could aim so much more precisely...)

  31. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He was a character in the movie "The Princess Bride".

  32. Re:More interesting the reaction of the gaming for by CyricZ · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking about writing an article about the horrors that go on there. Their forums sound worse than pedophilia. Is it true that moderators will themselves be the worst trolls there? I heard from my grandson that just recently one of them said it was ok for other people to attack another user, and any attacks against him or her were not moderated. That strikes me as a very bad thing to do at an online forum. If that is true, then they must not have any standards there whatsoever.

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  33. Controler! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch- bool.html&r=9&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=nintendo& OS=nintendo&RS=nintendo/ And it's from a trustable(ish) source: The US Patent and Trademark Office, which got it from Nintendo itself. No more need to create random videos or pics....