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   InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 23:01:06 JST InfiniteHench

   #Nintendo updated its account agreement policy to state that it can brick your device for unauthorized behavior

   Fuck Nintendo

   https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-reserves-the-right-to-brick-your-console-following-unauthorised-use-in-bid-to-prevent-piracy

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     InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:14:48 JST InfiniteHench

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou The article shows examples that this is new language, at least in terms of it's Switch account agreement

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:14:49 JST Nazo

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     @InfiniteHench Didn't it already say something to that effect in the past though? Or am I just remembering wrong? (Or maybe it was the 3DS that said it?)

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     InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:53 JST InfiniteHench

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou @hobbsc @scribblemacher I'm just not touching Nintendo stuff anymore. Yeah, we're all stuck under capitalism, but that company's crossed too many lines with anti-consumer practices for my taste

     Plenty of other great games and platforms for multiple lifetimes

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:54 JST Nazo

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     @hobbsc @scribblemacher @InfiniteHench I think more than anything else it's a scare tactic. And Nintendo has used those to very good effect many times.

     Did you know a lot of people think emulation is illegal? I kid you not. These companies actually have people believing that. That's how effective these tactics are at scale.

     Anyway, if they insert timebombs, people will find and block them over time. Just be patient before updating. Or use 90DNS for now.

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     hobbsc (hobbsc@social.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:55 JST hobbsc

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     @nazokiyoubinbou

     @scribblemacher @InfiniteHench

     I figured they might if they wanted to go after piracy ahead of their virtual console stuff

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:56 JST Nazo

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     @hobbsc @scribblemacher @InfiniteHench I think Nintendo has more or less disconnected the 3DS anyway?

     I can't see any reason at all they'd attack 3DS users at this point. That would be utterly pointless. I can understand attacking Switch CFW users because a lot of that carries over to stuff they're working on with the Switch 2 which they surely don't want to be exploited faster than necessary, but the 3DS they literally no longer profit from in any meaningful way. (Inb4 I said meaningful.)

     Plus they'll end up paying out for some bricked consoles too. They can misdetect, but also I'm not 100% sure they actually legally can brick. I think it's more of a hoping people will take it at face value kind of thing. (That works surprisingly often!)

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     hobbsc (hobbsc@social.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:57 JST hobbsc

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     @scribblemacher

     @nazokiyoubinbou @InfiniteHench

     hopefully this behaviour doesn't extend to the #3ds consoles. that scene would die pretty quickly if so.

     honestly I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't gone after myrient yet but piracy aside, the homebrew stuff is really nice

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     Scribblemacher (scribblemacher@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:19:58 JST Scribblemacher

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @InfiniteHench yeah, me too. I honestly assumed that this was already the case (that Nintendo could/would potentially brick a hacked system, either on purpose or unintentionally with a update or action that conflicts with custom firmware or whatever).

     To me, the real question will be what happens when the Switch is EoL and how much/little Nintendo tries to enforce this kind of thing.

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     InfiniteHench (infinitehench@mstdn.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:55:20 JST InfiniteHench

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou @hobbsc @scribblemacher Yeah. I'll just take the good elsewhere. Nintendo can still eat a big ol' ball of rusted nails as far as I'm concerned

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 04:55:21 JST Nazo

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     @InfiniteHench @hobbsc @scribblemacher I hate to tell you this, but they're all just as bad...

     Like SONY straight up taking a company down for selling stuff out of region without opening the packages and changing out the power plugs that came with them. Taking out emulators and stuff was no strange thing for them either. And not to mention the gaslighting over the PS3 YLODs.

     And Microsoft being Microsoft...

     Unfortunately, we have to take the bad with the good or take nothing at all in this respect.

     That said, 90DNS, patient waiting on updates, and a CFW go a long way.