"Jesse's Auditorium"

Man, if you'd told me before an hour or so ago (it's currently almost 4am) that I'd be into watching videos of some dude listening to and reacting to video game music for games he (claims to have) never played before, I'd have told you "No, not really, but that does sound kind of interesting. Let me look into that."

And then we'd be here, now.

(I see in the Youtube sidebar that this is A Thing™ that apparently lots of other people do as well, which is a rabbit hole into which I am not properly equipped to dive, at the moment. I don't even have the wherewithal at the current time to even embed a shit ton of this guy's videos, much less anything else. Probably should go to bed now, for real.)

(EDIT) This isn't my first introduction into "React Andy"-type streams, because I've seen all of the slop streams of Woolie and Reggie, but the "entire video reacting to just one (or two or three) song(s)" is a new wrinkle. (/EDIT)

"Nintendo is shedding its veneer of kindness and embracing a new reputation: Vigorous legal bully"

"Nintendo is speedrunning the Disney playbook. We all know where that goes."

If, by "is speedrunning," one means "has been, for the past 20-30 years or so, slowly following," then sure. As is pointed out in several of the comments under the article, and which is pretty clear to anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention over the past three decades or so, Nintendo's aggressively litigious nature is nothing new.

As far as "passion projects" or "fan games" that specifically use Mario or Link or Samus or Kirby or any Pokemon or whatever go, well... Yeah, if you've got a Youtube channel or Twitter account (or whatever the kids are using these days after Twitter died and became 卐 I mean X) and you're actively publicizing your thing, or, worse, you've got a publicly available Kickstarter or Patreon or SubscribeStar page or something, directly making money off of the thing (not that not making money off the thing will save you), then that's just begging to get C&D'd at best or outright sued at worst, and I can't truthfully say I have any sympathy for you in that case, either. If I have heard about your thing (and, more likely these days, even if I haven't heard about your thing), then you can be damn sure Nintendo has heard about your thing, too, and their lawyer-ninjas are probably sharpening their swords and donning the black pajamas already.

And I'm just like whatever. If Nintendo wants to continue to chip away at and tarnish their own reputation with this shit, that's entirely their prerogative. They obviously don't care about that, or they wouldn't be doing the shit in the first place. In the vast majority of these cases, what they're doing is not "protecting" anything. The only effect it's having is to make people hate Nintendo more and more. And Nintendo seems to be fine with that. Go figure.

As for me, personally, I haven't (legitimately) played a Nintendo game in over 10 years now, and I doubt that'll be changing any time soon, though that's less an issue with Nintendo and its excessive lawsuits, in particular, and more just that I haven't been much interested in any consoles lately, Nintendo or otherwise. That said, if I ever did get back into consoles again, I'd probably start with the Switch/Switch 2, if only to be able to play the Zelda and Metroid games that have come out on those, none of which I've touched yet (legitimately or otherwise). I'm in no great hurry to do so, though.

"The GOP vs. Your Right/Ability To Vote – SOME MORE NEWS"

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"Hi. The GOP really wants to win elections, and they're trying to make that happen by removing people from voter rolls, making it harder to vote, and contesting the results if they lose."

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As I've said, many times before, if Donald Trump loses, it will be despite all the cheating (on his behalf, obviously), not because of it.

I am wholly in favor of collectively describing all of this putrid dogshit with the new verb "gop" or "gopping." They really are trying to gop the election this year.

(EDIT) And yeah, the GQP going out of their way to try to prevent convicted felons from voting... ...while literally letting one run for POTUS at the top of their ticket... ...it's just... ... ... what. (/EDIT)

(No Katy [outside of ads, which I skip], no Warmbo [aside from the merch-shilling at the end], and no finger puppets [anywhere] in this one. This time, thankfully, it was just Cody talking into the camera for 50 minutes, with the occasional film clip of GQP dumbfucks saying GQP dumbfuck things, to spice things up. And all was right with the universe.)

"Republicans in Congress call out hurricane misinformation coming from within their own party"

Republicans calling out Trumpublicans in other words.

Also this is yet another case where I feel the need to emphasize the difference between "misinformation" and "disinformation."

All of this shit is starting out as deliberate disinformation.

Perpetual dumbass Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming people are controlling the weather? Disinformation. (Then again, I don't know... maybe MTG really is a big enough moron to actually believe that people can control the weather, in which case it would indeed be "misinformation," at least in the context of her saying it. *shrug* But whatever source she's getting her claims from is most certainly disinformation.)

Pathological liar Donald Trump saying FEMA money meant for hurricane victims is instead being used on immigrants? Disinformation.

Sure, all this dumbfuckery might be later spread as misinformation, by people who don't know any better and who aren't (just) doing so maliciously, but it's absolutely starting life as disinformation, which is absolutely being spread maliciously by those doing so.

At least Mitt Romney used the correct word, for what it's worth.