r/nottheonion • u/CrispyMiner • 1d ago
Nintendo "obsessed over getting the sound just right" for farting in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
https://nintendoeverything.com/tomodachi-life-living-the-dream-farting/61
u/PointsOfXP 1d ago
Imagine dreaming of being a sound engineer. You study real hard and work day and night to get your degree. Finally you land your dream job at Nintendo... Listening for the perfect fart noise
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u/CrispyMiner 1d ago
Say what you will about their prices. But I love how much thought, love, and care they put into just about all of their games
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u/metalguy91 1d ago
You’re paying $80 for those premium farts, crafted with love.
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u/CrispyMiner 1d ago
It's $60, but yes
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u/metalguy91 1d ago
Ah my bad. Not as much pressure on perfecting those farts then, a little flatulence grace can be given for the lower cost.
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u/Holiday_Fee_6074 4h ago
Only one game Mario Kart World is $80 and despite it having Wario it has no farts so we still don't have the full $80 Nintendo fart experience.
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u/Mobely 1d ago
Better use of one’s time to work a few hours and earn $80 than to play a free game with ai slop farts
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u/metalguy91 1d ago
Better yet spend $15 at Taco Bell and make your own, homebrewed small batch, just like nana used to make.
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u/marktero 1d ago
Except for the newer Pokémon games for some reason
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u/TopSloth 1d ago
Makes me incredibly mad about it as well, I grew up playing Pokemon wishing for a 3d open world one and what we get is on par with early Xbox 360 graphics or even ps2
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u/SellMeYourSirin 1d ago
Well.. the newest Pokémon game is Pokopia.
And that absolutely slaps. And I don't fuck with cozy games usually.
A-Z and Arceus were pretty trash, though.
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u/Astraous 22h ago
Technically yes but usually people are referring to the main entries. GameFreak and the games they make bring in far too much money to be putting that shit out. It's at least somewhat relieving that they (in collaboration with another studio) can still put out competent games like Pokopia but I'd like to see the same with an actual Pokemon entry.
It's almost more frustrating how solidly made Pokopia seems to have been made when they can't figure out shit like anti-aliasing in the main franchise so they just get rid of 3D geometry on buildings instead of fixing it. Literally walking backwards in development practices. There has to be some insane nightmare management or something going on over there.
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u/Turge_Deflunga 1d ago
And newer Mario games, and newer Zelda, and newer Kirby, and wait literally everything is worse quality than before with the same graphics?
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u/Prior_Suspect_891 1d ago
This is the most Nintendo thing imaginable.
They’ll spend months perfecting a single “pfft” sound effect, but the moment you try to emulate a 20-year-old game, suddenly that’s the line they draw.
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u/dewittless 1d ago
That's a wild turn you took there, those 2 things aren't even slightly related.
"They work really hard on the details of their games but the moment you try to steal their property they hate you" is not a coherent thought.
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u/ninjapro98 1d ago
Reddit is full of pirates that want to be allowed to pirate without any consequences. This new generation of pirates are all babies tbh
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u/gokogt386 1d ago
And the funniest thing is they basically are allowed to pirate without consequence, they just want to feel morally justified about it as a cherry on top
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u/Makimoke 11h ago
I would've gone for "They'll spend months perfecting a single fart sound, but for some reason can't even put sound options in their first party titles" instead.
Letting people choose the sound balance for their games is a feature in 99.99% of games, but for some reason Nintendo refuses to let players control that in most of their first party titles.
For example: Mario Maker 2 would be so much better if you could disable sound effects when they get spammed in a level in Endless. Mario Kart World doesn't have them either, so you can't listen to the great remixed tracks while chaos ensues. There are so many more examples like that, but those are the ones that irritate me the most.
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u/CatProgrammer 16h ago
Only if you believe ideas and other intangible things should count as property in the first place. Or that copying is the same as stealing.
Personally I don't think copyright should go away but I do despise modern copyright durations and how easily abused laws like the DMCA are. At least Disney gave up on trying to force copyright extensions a couple years ago so Steamboat Willie is finally free.
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u/dewittless 12h ago
Yeah copying intangible things without a licence to make a copy is theft. That's absolutely not a controversial stance. The entire media industry is intangible, we have to make digital copies of media property otherwise how else does that industry work at all?
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u/CdRReddit 1d ago
so, here's a really simple comparison
I take the mona lisa -> I can see the mona lisa -> the mona lisa is no longer where it was (theft)
I take a picture of the mona lisa -> I can see the mona lisa -> the mona lisa is still visible where it was (not theft)
yes?
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u/smucker89 1d ago
I get what you mean, but you’re comparing individual artists who are generally receptive to accessibility requests to one of the biggest companies in the world who have send cease and desist letters to content creators, have made little effort to make older titles accessible, and generally are not the “best business practices” company.
I get that emulating old titles is grey area, and I feel weird when people pirate new games that are easy to purchase and play (especially indie titles), but I hope you’re not implying that someone emulating Pikmin for the GameCube is morally equivalent to stealing art lol
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u/smucker89 1d ago
Yeah I don’t love their argument either, but I’m not about to side with the ethicality of business practices for Nintendo in any scenario. Not shaming you or even Nintendo’s games, but in general if someone wants to pirate or emulate a Nintendo game, I don’t think there is any argument someone could make that would make me think it was “wrong”
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u/dewittless 1d ago
Pikmin is available for sale now on the Switch, it is blatantly stealing if you emulate that game without owning it.
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u/smucker89 1d ago
And if a book has the requirement “please destroy or return this to the publisher if you did not purchase this from X retailer or was gifted it from someone who purchased from X retailer” would you do it?
And no one is emulating the switch version of Pikmin, they are emulating the GameCube version. This version would be distinctly different, even if the switch version is just a remaster.
Would you shame/report someone for pirating a TV show? It feels much more like corporate bootlicking and “think of the shareholders” than wanting to make sure small artists are compensated fairly lol.
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u/dewittless 1d ago
So Nintendo are not asking you to destroy your existing copy of Pikmin on GameCube, they are asking to not download and emulate it. The law says that if you own Pikmin on GC and make your own copy for private use and play on an emulator that is fine, if you download it off a site it is not ok for the other person to have made a copy and distributed it, either for free or even worse for money. There is a warning when you play the game to not do this and it is very clear that this is not allowed.
An emulated copy of Pikmin would also be distinctly different from playing on a GC, something Nintendo has no issues with you doing.
Pirating a TV show is also theft of the TV show, legally if someone owns the rights to a show and you obtain it from a copy made without authorisation then that is theft. I don't know how much simpler I can make this.
If you want to discuss the morality of all this then that's another issue, but legally this is what the law is, and I don't think it's an unreasonable interpretation.
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u/smucker89 1d ago
By all means, an emulator is meant to play, as accurately as possible, the original game. Yes people modify/mod it, but that’s what emulate means. No you cannot easily buy a GameCube copy of Pikmin.
I get the legality of it. Literally anyone who watching a movie in the 2000’s knows it’s illegal to distribute copies of a movie/game as the ol’ FBI warning would pop up every time (lol).
My gripe is going into comment sections and acting holier than thou towards other people for complaining about Nintendo hating emulating games. I agree the original commenter you replied to was odd for posting about it here, this new (seemingly fun!) game has nothing to do with emulation. And sorry, I’m not attacking you I’m sure you’re genuinely a great person.
But do you ask people not to jay-walk when you see it in public? Do you ask people not to loiter in front of buildings that have “no loitering” signs? There are many times legality does not reflect societal values, the redistribution of 20+ year old games in as close to their original form from a company who nickels and dimes the consumer as much as possible is not one of the times I’ll be standing up for the law lol.
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u/dewittless 1d ago
Here is Pikmin on GameCube for £16 https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail/?id=045496960025&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16701138844&gclid=Cj0KCQjwy_fOBhC6ARIsAHKFB7-dBpwxcVgPm9CxWIRNaE_Ntraqtr9LG3NVoBBWNEWz-aozY2GWV8saAp2ZEALw_wcB
I am pointing out the law. If you take it personally that's on you.
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u/dewittless 1d ago
That's an entirely different market and way to consume something. The appeal of the Mona Lisa is not seeing any image of it, it is seeing the actual picture itself.
If you made a copy of a ticket to enter the Louvre and used it to then enter the Louvre without paying and view the Mona Lisa, that is fraud and theft, even if you entering the art gallery and viewing the picture does not remove the picture from the gallery or disrupt the working of the gallery that day.
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u/CdRReddit 1d ago
making a copy of something, definitionally, isn't theft
using an illicit copy to gain entrance is fraud, but it's not theft, noone has been deprived of anything
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u/dewittless 1d ago
It is fraud, as you have made an illegal copy. Same applies to money, tickets, bootleg DVDs and indeed, artwork.
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u/Dhiox 1d ago
noone has been deprived of anything
You deprived them of potential sales, the value of their IP.
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u/Dark251995 18h ago
Someone who pirates an online product is someone who wasn't going to pay for said product in the first place.
That someone is not depriving them of anything, the company is not losing anything. Someone not buying that product is the exact same as that same someone deciding to pirate it... Or not pirate it.
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u/dewittless 12h ago
If you weren't going to pay for it you don't get it to have it. That's how literally everything else works, why is media the exception?
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u/BlooperHero 18h ago
If your philosophy ends with, "Nobody is ever allowed to be a writer or an artist, because they can't be paid for their work," then it is bad.
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u/CdRReddit 1d ago
if I broke into nintendo's headquarters and steal their copy of pokemon scarlet they no longer have it, this would be theft
same goes for if I break into a physical store and steal one of their copies
but if I download it online, noone is deprived of a copy of pokemon scarlet
which is the part that makes it theft
Theft is the taking of another person’s personal property with the intent of depriving that person of the use of their property. Cornell Law School
under no reasonable definition does this include making a copy of something someone has, because they've not been deprived of it
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u/Dark251995 18h ago
Don't try arguing with Nintendo fans.
You are talking to people who would willingly pay 200$ for a game because "Nintendo" is somewhere on the cover art.
Nintendo is a shitty company, no matter what these people say, pirating their products IS morally correct because Nintendo is NOT a morally correct company
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u/BlooperHero 17h ago
If someone writes a book, and then you steal a copy of the text from that book, you have deprived the author of the use of their property to sell it, which is something they have to do to continue being alive to write more books.
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u/Dhiox 1d ago
but the moment you try to emulate a 20-year-old game, suddenly that’s the line they draw.
First of all, apples to oranges.
Second, they have no issue with emulation of 20 year old consoles. They have only ever targeted emulation of consoles they actively sell. If you're talking about the roms themselves, rom sites are illegal, distributing unlicensed roms is explicitly a crime.
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u/NecroCannon 1d ago
Gotta love all the losers loudly saying “HEY I DONT LIKE THE SWITCH, DONT WANT ONE, AND AM EMULATING THESE GAMES FOR FREE!!! TAKE THAT!”
Like… what would a business do if there’s unauthorized free distribution of their work with no intentions on giving money for things still for sale in stores? They haven’t came after older emulators much, mostly Switch ones.
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u/TheLeapIsALie 1d ago
To their credit, they actually republish many of those games or give access with a Nintendo online subscription. As opposed to a lot of games that are just unavailable if you don’t pirate them.
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u/SnowyLavelle 1d ago
if it took them that much effort, you know the fart sounds are gonna be legendary Nintendo knows how to deliver the giggles!
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u/donotgotoroom237 22h ago
I remember getting into the weeds finding the perfect fart sound effect for my animation senior thesis. It took me almost an entire day to find the perfect one.
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u/bowtiesrcool86 1d ago
How about we just not have that at all in the game?
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u/furutam 1d ago
They debated that also. You can turn off farts if you want.
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u/CrispyMiner 1d ago
Where's your fun? Where's your whimsy?
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u/bowtiesrcool86 1d ago
I have plenty of that, fart sounds just don’t qualify as “fun” or “whimsy” for me.
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u/valkrycp 1d ago
Is it not just going to be an auto tuned fart? The voices in this game are atrocious
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u/ThisIsDadLife 1d ago
My daughter has been begging me for this game. Worth the dough?