Considering how many companies are forcing into their TOSs forced arbitration and waving the right to class action lawsuit, of course this kind of shit was going to happen.
Some like it, others don't. It's more important that consumers have options rather than absolutely everyone being forced to agree on one way being best.
this philosophy applies to many things, not just controller layout.
I do have a personal website, but i'm using github to host it. My current works makes heavy use of generative ai, so I haven't shared it around lemmy due to overwhelming negative opinion regarding ai content.
Such style. Such creativity. Personality in design! It's like looking back into a lost age from when things were allowed to be fun. None of this 'advertiser safe minimalism'.
memes aside, this argument is batshit insane. You can watch an anime without having read the manga. You can like derivative works without having consumed the source material. It's ok. let people like things
I recently learned that my dad used to be a landlord. Problem was, he has a sense of morals, ethics, and empathy. Tennants would be unable to pay rent for one reason or another, but he wouldn't evict them because he understood that sometimes shits hard. Eventually, he had to sell all his properties to a less scrupulous landlord.
I feel conflicted with the knowledge that I could have had a better childhood if my dad was a worse person.
This is the kind of shit that makes me want to pirate nintendo's games purely for the principle of the matter.
I have several reasons for not buying nintendo's games, from their piss-poor customer service, to threatening content creators with litigation, to actually litigating indie competitors, to cease-and-desisting fanmade mods and games, and generally treating their most dedicated fans like shit.
If it were possible to legally buy nintendo games and directly download them to my pc to play on whatever emulator I wanted, even if nintendo offered zero support for it, that might be enough to convince me to be a paying customer again. But no, nintendo has to do shit like this instead. fuck nintendo.
EDIT: I'd like to add on to the part about the cease and desisting of fanmade things, Nintendo likes to do that when they're planning on announcing their own game that these fan projects would be competition for. Project M was killed shortly before Ultimate's announcement. AM2R was killed shortly before nintendo's own Metroid 2 remake was announced. Pokemon Uranium was killed shortly before, well, one of the pokemon games was announced, I couldn't tell you which one since I stopped caring after gen 3. I'm sure there's more that I don't remember off the top of my head.
The Guardian Legend, for the nes, played on my pc using fceux because my preferred controller is a keyboard.
if I'm feeling bad, it makes me feel ok.