Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with Nintendo?

In the past couple of years Nintendo's little porcelain gaming machine has become the single biggest platform of the generation, and by no small margin, so it continues to baffle me that they do not support the games which they need to enure a stable and long term power base within the gaming sphere.

Titles with genuine depth and originality, of which Nintendo should itself ensure a proper level of market saturation for, are being ignored. Even workers at gaming stores were unaware of the existance of MadWorld the day of it's release, Sega had a hand in this issue, but where was Nintendo? Why have they not come in and helped make sure that everyone knows about games like this?

As the holders to the keys of the kingdom of Wii, why does Nintendo not guarantee titles with this kind of potential a serious television marketing budget? Nintendo continues to make obscene profits, yet it does nothing to secure it's long term viability as a platform.

Titles which have serious potential in the North American and European markets, which have already been releases inside Japan, are being ignored. Reggie Fils-Aime, the head of NOA, has on several occasions responded to this criticism by simply brushing them off, as if the titles are worthless and noone would play them, titles like Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, and Disaster: Day of Crisis, which both are under Nintendo's publishing control, will never come to North American, because despite the amazingly large sums Nintendo is bringing in, it is unwilling to support anything that isn't entirely focused on it's new, "family," image.

This concept has clearly worked rather well for them, with their Wii Sports title, a tech demo that grew too big for it's britches, being one of the most popular titles the world has ever seen. But it has also been a horrible choice for gaming, because it has put Nintendo into a mindset that things like Wii Music and Wii Fit are the direction in which they should focus, and Wii Music has been the single biggest mistake Nintendo has made since the Virtual Boy.

I seriously question the future of Nintendo if it continues to allow the timid people it currently has in it's lead positions to run the company's assets.

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars, a Capcom title with serious potential as a fighting game will not have all it's cast from the Japanese version in North America... If I had any control in the North American branch of Nintendo, the instant I heard that I would have looked into how Nintendo could help ensure that Capcom could secure the rights to use these characters, and I would make damned sure that you could not watch Power Rangers, Naruto, Bleach or Megaman without knowing that Tatsunoko vs Capcom was coming.

And where was Nintendo when Winter was looking for a publisher, does Nintendo not have money enough to throw at a survival horror game? Are they uninterested in the genre? With Nintendo's backing, and quality control, Wii would have a Silent Hill style game out and being enjoyed by now. But no, Nintendo is interested in WiiFit Plus and Wii Sports Resort.

It's such a shame that Nintendo seems to be under the control of cowards.

In a discussion, generalities are treated as absolutes.

Internet Rule 3: In a discussion, generalities are treated as absolutes.

The third rule of the Internet is for some harder to wrap their minds around than that of the first two, while the initial pair of rules cover the concept of self-centredness of users, the tertiary and it's kin are more related to the self-righteousness and hubris of users.  A link to the source material: Internet Rule 1 through 39  Which I have not linked in the prior rule-specific posts because I figure linking it every time isn't needed, but maybe someone reading this may not have started from post zero.

This is true of all places, be they real, online or metaphysical, but because interactions between users on the Internet are often delayed, the responses made by users inevitably jump to conclusions without considering the words used by their honoured co-discusser fully.  One would think the opposite would be true, in a locationless void where a discussion can take the better part of a month to complete, one would come to expect an absolutely engrossed and fine-tuned coalescing of thought every time a user makes a comment.

Should a user state, "women suck at sports," it is very obviously a generalization, and in a face-to-face talk, some may take offence to this statement, indicating several easily regonised examples of women so far beyond the abilities of the average man, as to make the statement not simply invalid, but silly.  In online discussions, the same may be attempted when a flawed generalisation is made, but does not always work, these attempts to correct a piece of faulty logic tend to be steamrolled over, ignored outright, or accepted without question.  Admittedly, this example is not so easily held up in a serious debate, but not all users treat a discussion with an equal level of commitment.

There are innumerable examples of flawed generalisations being used as centre points in arguments, but for this I shall make a singular example available, drawn at random from a Google search.  "White Men Don't Find Asian Women Hot," well, it's hard to put this to a perfect rest, since I don't have a study group, but we'll give it a whirl.  The argument:

The type of Asian women that white men consider hot are the Asian women who bleach their hair (like white women)to a reddish blonde or dark ash blonde color, get boob enhancements (usually), get eyelid surgery (to resemble white eyes), other surgeries (like nose, cheekbones - to mimic whites), and wear lots of makeup (Hollywood). Also, Asian women resort to fake eyelashes to make their sparse lashes seem fuller like some Mediterranean women with lots of hairy lashes.
Of course, white women do these enhancements, too, but they don't try to change their ethnicity like Asians do.
More natural-looking Asian women really aren't considered hot by white men. It's only the Asian women who try to look white that are regarded as hot, but at that point, it's merely the copying of the white image or the pursuit of the white image that white men find so hot.

Now, I find this unusual, because I myself find such things unsettling.  Women who look unnatural tend to give me the heebidy-jeebidies, because they look unreal, perhaps even surreal.  So, who can I call upon in this instance, at least to help fight this unusual perspective?  The Internet of course, Rate This Asian . Com, you're our new study group.  A shame you don't restrict your voters to only white men ages 18 to 45.

We look to the site's, "The Top 25 Hottest Women," to see what appears to be the most attractive 25 asian women this study group is being shown.  This site includes any women from Indian to Japanese, and anything you may find in between.

18 of the women popular in the top 25 have dark hair, 6 do not have a pronounced epicanthic fold around the eyes, 5 do not have b-cup sized breasts, 5 have pale skin, 2 have brownish skin, 1 golden pale, the rest are lightly tanned.  Nothing this poster seems to have stated, if we assume our study group to be white men, is actually holding water.  These people are pretty much just attracted to young asian women with athletic body types.  So no overwhelming hair colour issue exists within our group, and they seem to like women who seem to be east-asian, who look, "squinty-eyed," with lightly browned skinned, instead of darker skinned asians, such as Dravidians or snow white like Geisha dolls.

This does reflect the person's posting about the potential, "whitification," if I can call it that, of beauty, but the points in their argument, which they stated as fact, were in truth over reaching statements without real numbers to back them, there is a range of what appear to be preferred traits in asian women, and while some of those women look more european than others, it is not an absolute truth.

So Hawk, the original poster was, based on this flawed study group, not entirely right, and instead simply over generalised the way asian women are being judged, in this case, by small selection of random people from what can be assumed is a mostly english speaking base, since the entire website RateThisAsian.Com is in english.

I really wish I could have used a better source, but http://www.rankmyphotos.com/ and http://www.hotornot.com/ were awful websites I could not stand using, and I could find no better alternative.

Here ends my look at Internet rule number 3.

Intellectual property ends upon entrance to the Internet.

Internet Rule 1: Intellectual property ends upon entrance to the Internet.

This is rule one when dealing with the Internet, remember it, if you have a good idea and you make it known, you only had a good idea, because it is no longer yours.  Anything anyone finds anywhere will be taken as being somehow magically public domain, and you as the creator no longer have control over the content you created, whatever it may be, no matter what medium used.  This is contrary to most law, but is an unstoppable effect omnipresent within the Internet.

If I make a drawing of an original character, whose beauty can only be described as insurpassable, both the character and the original drawing will quickly be duplicated and spread throughout the Internet, with many people citing it's source, but significantly more claiming original authorship and even more simply posting it with no claims or citations.

You give up your control of your work by, "sharing," it with the world, because there are alway people with less talent who wish they had it, who will poach your work.  So remember to either keep it private, or accept that it is not going to stay in yours.

This is also true of other media now, for indeed, the Internet is a pit of despair which consumes all around it, Television, Radio, Records, Films, Games, News Papers and more all are prey to the ravenous beast which is known as the Internet.  Media is regularly converted into digital form for the purpose of propagation, fans of programmes regularly digitize their favourites in order to help increase the popularity of them by ensuring easy access to clips and even full series.  An example is a site like Anime Crazy, which using websites such as Veoh share streaming flash versions of their favourite cartoons, translated by fans and uploaded by fans to increase their own numbers.

Remember this rule when visiting a site such as DeviantArt, where artists are allowed to share their work publically, pirates abound and are simply waiting for something they want.  These pirates exist on the Internet and will take the works they find there outside, back into the real world, and claim them for themself, profitting from your efforts.  Even something as small as your logo or mascot can and will be duplicated by unlawful and distasteful people, such as has been done by Naughty Vend, where they took a copy of a twenty year old BSD mascot.

Here ends rule 1 of the Internet.