I don't even care about the free speech argument. Ban the racists, great. All I'm saying, is that Cthulhu is not happy Signal is #1 in the app store right now. Big tech/brother/whatever will never be your friend. The zeitgeist wants to eat you. The drone in your window will see you downloading that decentralized OS (I hope that's just poetry).
I'm sure if this person just enjoyed tinkering on the hardware in their office and not spreading code for intellectual property they don't own, we wouldn't be here.
Basically they hooked gizmos to peoples' brain and found if they force people to read emotional words, their brain indeed feels some impact... cool. Thanks for that, great read.
Devil's advocate, hear me out: Nintendo backlash is always dramatic. Zelda is my favorite franchise, so I've always followed this news. They are a large company primarily making recreational video games accessible for families and children. Whatever their mission statement is, it's simply not to cater to hardcore gaming. It's not part of their blood and the ecosystem they foster. Personally, sometimes I don't even think it's 100% for monetary reasons, they probably subconsciously think adults being overly obsessed with their kids properties is perverse. This twitter user has a filtered pokemon avatar (copyrighted) and said "[Nintendo] plan[s] your "death" and your next life probably." because some Japenese person made a legal flow chart. That seems wildly dramatic to me... some context too, I recently watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cSCLceDAjM by a famous youtuber I also felt was dramatic.
Seeing some of the comments here being ethical concerns too for basically stalking people for legal advantage. OK, that's certainly overkill. But I'm fine with them using some legal force. I just watched "feels good man", and seeing Pepe the Frog's image morph through a decade is a wild experience. I'm not claiming that hacking a gameboy is the same thing, but I really think it's fine to protect your intellectual property however you see fit. Sorry, but just make your own game systems.
I personally am not concerned about murder or shock, but I think it's worth saying what many people think. Many games containing violence are probably made in poor taste. For example, it would be a red flag for me when meeting someone if their favourite video game studio is Rockstar Games and that's all they like to play. It'd be like saying their favourite TV genre is reality TV and they're proud to watch it constantly. It's OK once in a while, but I hope they often expand their horizons. Rockstar's modern games certainly have some value, but relative to many other games they feel like technically-impressive immature time sinks. My snooty point aside, violent video games seem not to correlate with aggression, but I suspect they at least correlate with some annoying personality traits. Some artistic masterpieces worth consuming contain a lot of violence, I just don't think that's the norm, so it's easy for outsiders to lump "violent games" together as a threat.
