Nintendo’s upcoming return to its quirky life-simulation franchise is already sparking debate — and not because of gameplay. During its most recent Direct presentation, the company confirmed that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream will include same-sex romantic relationships and a nonbinary gender option for Miis, a move that immediately reignited long-standing fan skepticism over whether Nintendo has finally caved to activist pressure.
The Tomodachi Nonbinary change is being framed by legacy gaming outlets as a modern update designed to expand representation, but longtime players are asking a different question: why now — and why these specific additions?
For many fans, the answer lies not in innovation, but in unresolved backlash that began with the original Tomodachi Life release in 2014.
What’s New in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream?
Nintendo’s new Switch entry introduces several structural changes to how identity and relationships function within the Tomodachi Life framework. For the first time in the series, players will be able to enable same-sex romantic relationships between Miis. The character creation system has also been expanded to include a nonbinary gender option for Tomodachi Life.
Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream romance options menu – YouTube, Nintendo of America
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These changes go beyond cosmetic customization. Relationship compatibility, social interactions, and in-game events are all affected, fundamentally altering how Miis form connections within the game’s world.
What the Original Tomodachi Life Didn’t Allow
When Tomodachi Life originally launched on the Nintendo 3DS, Miis were locked into a strictly binary gender framework, and romantic relationships were limited exclusively to opposite-sex pairings. At the time, Nintendo stated that this was just how the game’s systems had been designed and implemented.
That explanation failed to satisfy critics.
Miis can be identified as nonbinary in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.
Nonbinary friends stay WINNING. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/XpwWHRj4tx
— Zelda Universe (@ZeldaUniverse) January 29, 2026
Online campaigns, petitions, and sustained pressure accused Nintendo of intentionally excluding certain players. The backlash became significant enough that Nintendo eventually issued a public apology addressing the controversy.
“We apologize for disappointing many people by failing to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life,” Nintendo said back in 2014. “Unfortunately, it’s not possible for us to change this game’s design, and such a significant development change can’t be accomplished with a post-ship patch. At Nintendo, dedication has always meant going beyond the games to promote a sense of community, and to share a spirit of fun and joy. We are committed to advancing our longtime company values of fun and entertainment for everyone. We pledge that if we create a next installment in the Tomodachi series, we will strive to design a game-play experience from the ground up that is more inclusive, and better represents all players.”
Rather than modifying the existing game, Nintendo pledged to consider broader inclusivity if the franchise ever returned in a future installment.
A Promise Deferred for More Than a Decade
For years, that promise remained unresolved. Tomodachi Life went dormant, and Nintendo avoided revisiting the franchise altogether. Now, more than a decade later, Living the Dream appears to fulfill those original activist demands almost point-for-point.
A screenshot from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream – YouTube, Nintendo of America
For critics, this timing is impossible to ignore. The additions are not emerging organically from player demand in the present day, but instead reflect a checklist of issues raised during a highly politicized cultural moment years earlier.
Why Some Nintendo Fans Are Wary
Nintendo has long been viewed as a company that prioritizes gameplay, accessibility, and broad appeal over cultural signaling. For many longtime fans, the concern isn’t the existence of new options, but the precedent they represent — and whether those choices are now being driven by ideology and activism rather than design philosophy.
That skepticism has only intensified following recent public messaging from Devon Pritchard, the President and COO of Nintendo of America. In a recent speech, Pritchard leaned heavily into the language of inclusivity and creative participation, emphasizing that “every dream matters” and that games should reflect a broad range of identities and experiences.
Devon Pritchard talking at an event for Nintendo of America – YouTube, Geeks + Gamers
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While Nintendo has not directly linked that rhetoric to Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, the timing has not gone unnoticed. For critics, the Tomodachi nonbinary update now reads less like an organic evolution of a quirky life-simulation series and more like the fulfillment of long-standing activist demands that Nintendo once publicly acknowledged — and deferred.
Once creative decisions are perceived as being shaped by external pressure rather than internal vision, trust becomes harder to maintain — particularly for a publisher that built its reputation on staying above cultural and political battles.
A Design Choice With a Long Memory
The Tomodachi nonbinary update didn’t happen in a vacuum. The features now being implemented were demanded publicly more than a decade ago, acknowledged by Nintendo at the time, and quietly deferred — until now.
A Nintendo Mii of Yoshiaki Koizumi in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream – YouTube, Nintendo of America
As Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream approaches release, fans will be watching closely to see whether this marks a one-off concession tied to a long-standing controversy, or the beginning of a broader shift in how Nintendo approaches game design moving forward.
How do you feeling about Nintendo adding same-sex romance and nonbinary gender options to Tomodachi Life? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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Dumb. Why give into pressure from a remarkably small group of people?
They aren’t “listening!” to these mentally ill sodomites, they are being FORCED by the JEWISH investors at BlackRock (who are literally the ones who came with all the “DEI/ESG” propaganda terms in the first place, which are actually codewords to push crypto-Jewish agendas) to shove this disgusting and degenerate cancer sodomy on every corner of Earth just like pretty much any company or else (((Larry Fink))) – the Jewish CEO of the Jewish company BlackRock – won’t give them shekels for spiting gamers and normal human beings.
HOW do you think that almost ALL companies on Earth have almost the same exact mindset and that is:
“wAhMeN eMpOwErMeNt!” (a codeword for misandry)
“nO rAcIsM!” (a codeword for anti-white and anti-Asian racism. “Anti-Asian” except Indian niggers of course)
“sExUaL oRiEnTaTiOn!” (a codeword to push and normalize disgusting sodomite degeneracy and slowly depopulate the human race in the long run)
But surprisingly, (((they))) have no such thing called “diversity of religion” or “diversity of thought” even though that’s the literal definition of their very own false Jewish “dIvErSiTy!!!” lol.
And now pushing AI on every corner of Earth to genocide the human race under the codeword of “uNlEaShInG yOuR iMaGiNaTiOn!!!”
Just HOW IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE that almost ALL companies have THE SAME EXACT mindset (and that is “listening” to THESE SPECIFIC minorities in particular and not maybe some other minorities or probably some other stuff)? It’s NOT a (((Cohencidence))) that they ALL have THE SAME EXACT mindset, it’s a deliberate agenda-pushing, and that is the JEWISH agenda because they’re ALL controlled by Jews. Are you koshervatives FINALLY beginning to see the bigger picture now?!
And to those who spew that we’re “just filthy antisemitic conspiracy theorists!” merely for speaking the truth; OK, we’re “just filthy antisemitic conspiracy theorists!”, enjoy your Jewish genocide funded by YOUR VERY OWN tax dollars then.
On one hand I say “Whatever, let the freaks be freaks in the game.” On the other hand I say “their success, even if it was a decade ago, is just going to embolden the mob and help normalize deviancy and fetishes.”
I’m undecided.
I do take issue with the article’s assertion that it was a different time and culture has moved on from this topic. Uh, no. “mah representation!!” is even more prevalent now than 2014 and the mob is more violent than ever. If the game didn’t include the option they could have a bunch of mentally ill nerds storming Nintendo’s Redmond campus.
Strange, last I heard that many of the koshervatives here STILL have Jewtendo (the greediest and most despicable game company and TOTALLY wasn’t censoring even the tiniest mentions of male and female words in their lazy, half-assed (((demasturds))) that nobody on the face of the Earth even asked for them in the first place like Pikmin 1+2, Paper Mario TTYD, etc) on their white list companies and even bought their garbage and overpriced soy Switch 2 on launch.
SPOILERS FOR YOU KOSHERVATIVES STILL LIVING UNDER A ROCK: Jewtendo – the so-called “Japanese” (in-name only) company – already declared that they fully support faggot “marriage” in 2022 despite it being illegal in Japan EVEN FOUR YEARS LATER in 2026.
Stop letting fake nostalgias of the past delude you and learn to accept reality and grow up; the Nintendo of the past that everyone loved and grew up with is no more, it’s just a shadow of its former self (reminder, “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”). Learn to accept this fact and grow up or else end up sucking it up to the same company ripping every single cent from your wallets over their trash products that are actually worth $0 just like the Switch 2 tour.
“White listed company” lol. Enjoy your garbage and overpriced soy Switch 2 that plays *worse* than a $100 mobile phone, that’s what you deserve for having rock bottom standards to delude yourselves that you are “enjoying” their modern garbage games and immediately throwing your money at the screen whenever you see a name of one of their IPs.
Man. You is on a roll here.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing at all.
I would say the same to you.
Do you not understand when you’ve lost an audience
Credibility?
You’re less than white noise.
I ain’t your “message”, I’m attacking your delivery.
You drown the post board. Find clarity. Brevity is your friend.
Look up the definition of concise.
Maybe then, you’ll find your audience.
‘Till then, all the best to you and yours.
Then stay deluded and have fun watching these ugly, mentally deranged cross-dressing pedo homo drag queens (funded by the Jewish globohomo agenda-pushers that you worship and adore) grooming, mutilating and indoctrinating your children into the tranny agenda (which the world’s first tranny “surgery” was made a by a German JEW named (((Magnus Hirschfeld))) who got his nationality revoked – rightfully so – for unleashing the-then unprecedented Jewish Satanism that is the idea of “transgender”), silly goy.
Call me a silly goy? I don’t watch any trash. iger and his predecessor, from the same are certainly the enemy.
But there’s not need to bloviate and pump out three hundred paragraphs to make a point you pathetic goyim.
You’re doing God’s work, keep up the energy and momentum.
He makes me look like a good shabbos goy by comparison.
Thanks! I will FOREVER speak the truth!
I do not care if some koshervatives and simple-minded “normal” fags on the internet mass downvote me unless I suck it up to their favorite infantophiles in exchange for some imaginary points on the internet. The downvote/upvote ratio does not necessarily mean that you are “losing the argument”, and the biggest proof of that is the AIDS and Monkeypox cesspool of the internet that is REEEEEEEddit, which, surprise surprise, that cancer shithole of a site and almost ALL soycial media sites like Elon Muskstein’s Twatter are supervised by (((Jonathan Greenblatt))), the CEO of ADL, the Jewish so-called “civil rights advocacy group!” that is behind SO MANY of the Jewish censorship of free speech around the world that was founded to defend the “honor” of a Jewish pedophile named (((Leo Frank))) after he got lynched for strangling and murdering a 13-year-old girl named Mary Phagan.
It doesn’t stop just in soycial media, they also censor us even beyond soycial media, just like how Jew Be Soft & EA collaborated with them in 2021 to supposedly “fight hate!” And just a couple of years ago they also tried to coerce Valve into censoring “hAtEfUl gAmEs!!!” just because these so-called “hAtEfUl gAmEs!!!” and by “hAtEfUl gAmEs!!!” they specifically mentioned “hOmOpHoBiC, tRaNsPhObIc aNd aNtI-SeMeNtIc cOnTeNt!!!” that constitute less than %0.1 of all Steam games, and just over these they attempted to censor Steam as well.
That’s the definition of “fReEdOm oF sPeEcH!!!” according to the Jewish where you attempt to censor an entire platform that isn’t yours supposedly as “hAtE!!!” just because of the less than %0.1 of its content doesn’t align with your mentally deranged Jewish tranny artificial religion LOL!
And the Jewish censorship doesn’t stop just in the ADL, because when the ADL doesn’t control some other soycial media sites like (((Fartbook))), they’re controlled by (((Mark Fuckerberg))), which (((Mark Fuckerberg)))’s Meta is the parent company of all of WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, so the JEW named (((Mark Fuckerberg))) alone controls all of these platforms as well.
What is the definition of “hAtE!” according to the Jewish dictionary? Not being a 1:1 carbon copy of JuDEIsm.
Here, I’ll just remind you of the ACTUAL meaning of words that have been long lost thanks to Jews who brainwashed the retarded normies for over a decade now:
Sane human being dictionary: “Evidence”
Jewish dictionary: “cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrY!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary – Revisionist/Truth seeker
Jewish dictionary – Holocaust denier
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Jewish dictionary: Christian Zionists – “True Christians”
Sane human being dictionary: Deluded fools blinded by their own ignorance
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Jewish dictionary: Jews – “The Chosen People”
Sane human being dictionary: The children of Satan
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Sane human being dictionary: “Jews control the world”
Jewish dictionary: “hAtE sPeEcH!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary: “Terrorism”
Jewish dictionary: “aCcIdEnT!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary: “Genocide”
Jewish dictionary: “sElF-dEfEnCe!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary: “Israel is getting away with terrorism and murder”
Jewish dictionary: “iSrAeL hAs tEh rIgHt tO dEfEnD iTsElF!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary: pathetic lies, literally propaganda
Jewish dictionary: manipulative news – “official sources & expert opinions”
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Jewish dictionary: homosexuality and tranny abominations – “bAsIc hUmAn rIgHts”
Sane human being dictionary definition: mental illness and Satanic behavior.
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Sane human being dictionary: “Common sense”
Jewish dictionary: “nAzIsM!!!”
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Sane human being dictionary: “Antisatanism”
Jewish dictionary: “aNtIsEmItIsM!!!”
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Pretty cool differences in dictionaries, don’t you think?!
And to all the koshervatives who STILL haven’t woke up to these lies; you really think that I, Sane Person right here, wasn’t once upon a time pro-(((AmeriKKKa)))? Yeah, I admit I actually was like that, in fact, I even used to say “AMERICA!” loudly back then.
Yeah, that was all the way back in 2012 on my then-innocent and completely apolitical self and when the truth wasn’t as apparent as it is today, and it was merely over gaming and not politics at all. Nowadays the truth is more than clear, and the current tranny (((AmeriKKKunt))), as well as the entire (((Western))) gayming industry can go fuck itself right in its asshole and may it crashes and burns today before tomorrow.
In other words, I was from “AMERICA #1!!!” to “(((AmeriKKKa))) the Great Satan and world’s #1 terrorist”
So calm down koshervatives, there’s nothing wrong with switching sides after being fed up with lies for your whole lives. As long as you now know the truth, what matters is that you side with the truth, not siding with evil merely over your “fEwInGs!!!” and delusions.
Too much time on your hands.
Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
I hate the rothschild’s and their tribe to.
Perhaps you should get a hobby.
Try dating.
Watch sports.
Plant an herb garden.
Take up cooking.
Definitely stay away from Alan King, Milton Berle, and Don Rickles.
You’re a pathetic punk. You seem to be a one-trick pony, way up there on your soap box. I assume you have no customer-facing skills. No soft skills. Are you even employed gainfully?
“Are you even employed gainfully?”
I am not working at a traditional job at the moment, and so are nearly 10% of the entire country’s citizens that these statistics only keep increasing every annual quarter until they’re aiming for it reach 100% unemployment thanks to our racist, arrogant, selfish, kike-loving, money-worshipping soyboy current head of state that no sane person ever likes who:
1. Introduced 15% VAT on every single thing you buy (when previously before him we had no such thing called “tax” ANYWHERE in our history whether it’s an annual tax or a VAT)
2. Favors and employs wahmen, Apefricans and Indian street shitting monkeys over you – a competent and highly motivated light-skinned man with over +130 IQ as tested by myself – who just came out from their famines and could barely even know how to read the alphabet and even discriminates against HIS citizens in favor of these wahmen, Apefricans and Indian street shitting monkeys just like the racist, misandrist, Jew-loving POS he is that Jews want everyone to be just the same (what a very good goy!)
3. Actively dumbs down his citizens to the point that thinking that having Taxis equals rocket science, so if you actually have normal standards like a normal human being, he will dumb you down to his less-than-shit standards (Thank God I have a brain to rationally think for myself and not lower my standards to that asshole’s barbaric, backward and uncivilized stone age Jewish double standards and secretly acknowledge how much of a fucking POS he is unlike the monkeys and sheeple here)
4. Wholeheartedly welcomed pink-haired trannies into the country when previously these pieces of shits used to be dealt with the right way, and that is literally death
Though I have other sources of income other than the shitty traditional jobs here that are literally slave labors where you work ~10 hours for below average income that our current kike-loving soyboy wants me and everyone to work at. So I got that going for me which is nice.
Yay, see how peaceful and wonderful kike-loving goyim really are and how they “improve” countries once they assume power? Absolutely magnificent!
Yes, I hate my country nowadays thanks to the aforementioned retard above after I previously used to love it so much to the point that I never ever travelled outside it even once, and if it wasn’t for me being occupied with archiving everything I want before the eventual shut down of the internet, I would’ve literally escaped it by now, a first for me in over +25 years being here.
“I assume you have no customer-facing skills. No soft skills.”
I’ll have you know that wherever I go, whether it’s a grocery store, a restaurant, a barber shop, pharmacy, taxi driver, etc., everyone smiles at me because of how I started smiling at them as soon as I enter and immediately making friendly relationships with them and they even give me special treatments and discounts specifically for me for being so nice with them.
P.S. just 2 days ago on Jan. 28 I went to a game store to buy a used PSP Go, it originally costed $133, but the salesman discounted it to $119 specifically for me for being such a nice guy. I’m a masculine man with +130 IQ who goes outside almost every single day and not a 35-year-old Reddit addict drag queen who doesn’t even know how to hold a controller you know.
Again…. With the prose.
You completely lost me within a handful of words. No idea what the body of your novel contains.
I’m not interested in reading a lengthy preamble.
You’re young. You need to refine your craft. Brevity and poignancy will be your best friends in the future.
Let’s end this back and forth. I’d rather not get nasty.
“You completely lost me within a handful of words.”
Wait, when did you even start realizing the truth for you to be “lost” to begin with?
When Jews slowly, slowly spoon feed you goyim masses their propaganda over the course of +25 years that now equals mountains of lies through their weapons of mass deception that they call the (((AmeriKKKunt))) “news” propaganda channels to the point that you retards now think that saying “2 genders” is “hAtE sPeEcH!!!”, of course the explanation to debunk these lies takes long.
You don’t expect someone to change from weighing ~110 KG like a fat (((AmeriKKKunt))) to weigh ~60 KG like a normal person does in just a day and night, do you?
P.S. it’s so funny how you effeminate soylent koshervative pussies who have lipsticks on your desks upvote other koshveratives solely because these comments conform to your dreams and illusions even when they’re nothing short of lies.
Stay ignorant and have fun watching Jews airstrike your (((AmeriKKKunt))) children and leaving their severed heads on (((AmeriKKKunt))) streets, FAGGOTS 🖕🖕🖕
Will (((Donald Kikesucking Trump))) and his soy supporters take actions against this propaganda that is indoctrinating children to accept and normalize the despicable Jewish sodomite degeneracy agenda? Of course they won’t, they’re just gonna sit and whine about it on the internet and then simply let it slide through without taking any actions against it to prevent its cancerous Jewish sodomite agenda from spreading further (just as always), but if it was a pro-Palestine game like Fursan al-Aqsa that merely DARES to oppose their false Jewish (((narrative))), you’d have the entire Western Jewish media flipping their shit over it and slandering it as a “terrorist propaganda!”
“Terrorist propaganda!” -said the koshervative soyboy who plays Call of Doodie, Battlefailed, Six Gays in Fallujah day and night which are literal U.S. terrorist propagandas disguising as “entertainment products!” just like Jewllywood movies (the latter which is even specifically named after a literal U.S. war crime where they used banned weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorus on Iraqi civilians and whitewashes it to brainwash the koshervative kiddies into the “aMeRiKkKa #1 fUk yEaH!!!” Jewish narrative).
So much for the so-called “bAsEd hOmOpHoBe!!!” soyboy that is (((Donald Kikesucking Trump))) where his (((AmeriKKKa))) is still the very same “bAsEd hOmOpHoBe aNd fReE sPeEcH (((AmeriKKKa)))!!!” where you literally get sent to jail for saying something as extremely simple and harmless as “2 genders”, letting faggots freely groom and mutilate children in his (((AmeriKKKa))) without doing anything about it, and yet sending the police to raid your home for simply criticizing the infantophile capital and terrorist “state” of Pissrael.
How do you be an ACTUAL based anti-faggot? By throwing them off the fucking roof, which of course, the soyboy that is (((Donald Kikesucking Trump))) and his soyboy supporters are just too much of effeminate soylent pussies to do that.
Hilarious, burning literal trillions into the too the literal worst genocide of the 21st century where most people being ruthlessly killed and exterminated are women and children by the enemies of all of creation is supposedly “sElF-dEfEnSe!!!” but executing a convicted pedo homo child rapist is apparently too much for these effeminate soylent koshervative pussies.
PSA: just a friendly reminder to you koshervatives; remember when your favorite soyboy that is (((Donald Kikesucking Trump))) said that he will recognize that there are only 2 genders after becoming president again? What happened?
Oh wait, that’s right, they were merely lies just so he could promote himself for president, you brain dead koshervative dummies believed him, and the end result is that Jews STILL imprison you for saying “2 genders” in his very own “bAsEd hOmOpHoBe aNd fReE sPeEcH (((AmeriKKKa)))!!!”
Such silly and gullible goyim who just suck it up and believe whatever lies their favorite kikesucker spews 🤣🤣🤣
I’m just hoping I live long enough to see the full immolation of this rapidly declining society. If not, then I hope there is a Heaven so I can view it from a distance.
Saying “nonbinary” is admitting there IS a Binary (Male and Female). So these Woke Făggots are attacking the other Woke Făggots without realizing it!!!!!!
Also it’s funny that Nintendo tricked people into being against Western Retărdation, and now you all got Rig Pulled.
I predict Sony, Steam, and Microsoft will soon become less and less Woke while Nintendo gets more and more Woke.
Concord and Highgaurd alone prove Woke loses Money, and Shareholders are now aware. The Trailer for DarkHaven, from people who made Diablo 1+2, had a Female in Bikini Armor for a reason, and the Game isn’t even close to coming out. Also Code Vein 2 has so many massive Tïts is beautiful.
It’s a Scale. As one falls, another rises………..
Oh Gaytendo, is this the end of a relationship that I started with you in 1988? It might be.
Gross. Needless to say this goes on my blacklist. It’s good to see the evil woke face of Nintendo of America.
Unbelievable that these freaks will refuse to conform to society but expect everyone else to conform to their made up bullshit. How did these dysgenics get so much validation, and why do they act like they’re so oppressed despite everything coddling to their feelings.
Tired of all the people inventing some made up gender to make up for the fact that they have no personality of their own.
You can thank your rabbis who will literally ban your 20-year-old account that had tens if not hundreds of thousands of $$$ simply for speaking the truth for getting us to the point where we are in today, and the Jewish censorship will only get worse by the second.
“How did these dysgenics get so much validation, and why do they act like they’re so oppressed despite everything coddling to their feelings.”
You can thank your favorite soyboy (((Donald Kikesucking Trump))) for giving absolute full power to the very (((“people”))) who validated them, actively acting like they’re “oPpReSsEd!!!” (when they are actually the oppressors) and will send you to jail simply for speaking the truth and exposing them.
(((AmeriKKKunt))) “fReEdOm oF sPeEcH!!!” my ass.
What the hell happened to the ghost? L W Ghost.
I’m no poseur. I’m just an asshole who works, and chirps here, every once-and-a-bit.
He has… ghosted you.
Very good. Apparently so.
“Nintendo has long been viewed as a company that prioritizes gameplay, accessibility, and broad appeal over cultural signaling.”
lol, since when? 40 years ago? when they aren’t bending over for the loud minority, nintendo is implementing garbage gimmicks and fads into their waste of time consoles.