rotsharp

ROTSHARP, mirror-ape ogre

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peach eating vagus nerve cultist of the house of tool ape

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HarmonyFriends
@HarmonyFriends

I think about this a lot. The exact wording "baked into my soul" showed up a lot especially early on into discovering this about myself, where there was a lot of feeling like that being a pocket monster was a failure of anti-corporatism on my part. And, well, it isn't exactly like I've found a way to convert it into praxis in the years since. But I at least look at it as my own small act of theft — "if you shoved this stuff into my soul, goddamn will you prevent me from taking it with me". I don't know if that's enough for me to be a good person or whatever, but it is what it is.

It's always moral to pirate Nintendo games.

fae-iii
@fae-iii

I can barely remember life pre-pokemon, I do remember just about living in it for most of my developmental years. It still feels kinda embarrassing to me, but I still really wish I were almost any pokemon instead of a human.

Nintendo's constant treachery against it's IP's most loyal fans is endlessly frustrating and my being a fan of a lot of their IP is something I've come to resent quite a bit. Like, how do we fight back?

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ash-wing
@ash-wing

we've also had this struggle, having Ponies On The Brain/Soul, and one thing that helped us to think about is that creatures like us evolved alongside storytelling and perception and Being, being inexorably entangled with the creatures and songs and stories that share our strange dreamy rainy world with us. we have always been forming our identities based on who is springing into our perceptions around us

and these corporations have weaponized this and perverted it, probably one of the oldest things, to look at a creature and Feel You Are That, into something to make money from. they are playing with ontological fire and trying to keep it leashed but they do not actually hold a leash on the flame, they just have paperwork that says they do. the prairie fire laughs.

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joyeuse
@joyeuse

I appreciate the incisive detournement (as that is, after all, what I’ve been getting at) of Nintendo’s copyright here. You should be in jail, you fucking pirate - Nintendo, maybe even others, could lose all their hard-fought Globally-Relevant Intellectual Property if people like you don’t stop.

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