xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@coolboymew @indigo @coyote It just goes to show that Nintendo would go out of their way to stop piracy and homebrew even on their obsolete consoles.

@coolboymew @indigo @coyote I heard Nintendo tried to update the Wii U a while back just to stop piracy even though they were supposed to be done with updates on that system.

@ChristiJunior @ArdanianRight @ethot @mystik @thestrongest If only Trump was smart enough to use decentralized alternatives like the Fedi we could see decentralization become mainstream.

@coolboymew @indigo @coyote
I heard that they had some very strict file size limit, but that was understandable given the limited amount of internal storage the Wii had, so it's no big surprise that most of it was shovelware trash, but it was really cool to see Nintendo opening up to indies years before the whole indie craze happened in the early 2010s.

>I used to pirate Wiiware games for the heck of it
Oh yeah. I also regret not modding it, but it was my family's console and I didn't want to brick it. The Wii seemed to have one of the most vibrant homebrew scenes, maybe besides the PSP, DS, and Dreamcast.

@coolboymew @indigo @coyote
>The Wii truly was the last bastion of mid-tier games made by big devs. The console has a shitload of fantastic gems like this that was generally ignored by the big press back then during the dumb AAA gold rush
Too bad most of it was buried under a mountain of shovelware, but that's a guarantee for any insanely popular console. However, I think the Wii was more egregious since it has the motion control gimmick, so every no-name casual dev was throwing everything they can at it just to see what would stick.

I agree that the Wii was the last bastion of mid-tier gaming though. It probably helps that it was on a technical level of the sixth generation of consoles (the last good console generation), and despite being the first Nintendo console with a somewhat in-depth online, it wasn't a victim of the cancers that came with it like microtransactions.

My biggest regret with the system was not buying anything off the Wii Shop Channel because the VC was never good since. Plus, there are clearly some hidden gems on WiiWare that are never brought up.

@coolboymew They really don't have this? This should be a no-brainer.

@ChristiJunior @judgedread I'm Catholic and I fucking hate the Pope with a passion. He's the reason I stopped going to church. I wish more Catholics would speak out on this, but even before Pope Francis there were still members of my church (including clergy) who were open to things like civil unions for gays or even full blown gay marriage.

But to be fair, the Catholic church has never actually favored capitalism. The economic ideology that is favored by most Catholic clergy is sort of a third-position system called Distributism which favors small family owned businesses and views both capitalism and socialism as inefficient.

@thestrongest @ChristiJunior @matana
>Maybe keeping him away from the internet will help too
That's actually not a bad idea given that people like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerburg openly admit to raising their children tech free.

@ChristiJunior @kiilas They want people to stop normalizing being able-bodied/neurotypical. Soon, you will be socially required to ask for disabilities when meeting people just like how they are pushing this pronoun bullshit.

@NeikoCat https://openbazaar.org/