wtfNo matter the arguments in here, someone at Nintendo is really dense to be making any -gate joke within a video game, and especially from them, at the time being. Regardless of intent.
regardless of how people read this, the fact remains that Nintendo is completely tone-deaf. It shows that no one at Nintendo is watching or are informed enough to care irrespective of what thing they tried to reference.
regardless of how people read this, the fact remains that Nintendo is completely tone-deaf. It shows that no one at Nintendo is watching or are informed enough to care irrespective of what thing they tried to reference.
Has there ever been a Watergate related joke like this in gaming? As in where the character says "-gate".
Nintendo themselves have used a similar pun before. In Mario Party 8 (released in 2007), if you pair Mario and Toad together the team is called "Fungi Fun Guys".
#FiveGuys was the hashtag they used before #GamerGate
There's zero fucking coincidence the translator used a Five Guys and -Gate joke together like that.
"Cut it out with referencing political scandals known all around the globe guys, social media drama with -gate has been around'.
Nintendo is so out of touch.
or they figured that enough people knew watergate to make the distinction
I wouldn't have caught it. All the evidence here could very clearly be referencing Watergate as well.
Some people are still missing the core part of "FIVE GUYS".
With Watergate, they were never known as "Five guys", it was "Five burglars".
A core part of the GamerGate controversy was specifically "Five Guys" usage, it was used in the hashtag, it was a hashtag itself, if you even google "gamergate five guys" or "zoe quinn five guys" you will find tons of evidence of this.
Yes the the five fun guys etc is a fungi pun. We get it, that doesn't change anything. I'll refer to that in a bit
Why do some people think the person doing this for Nintendo would use "Five Fun Guys" when it was "Five burglars", when GamerGate controversy had specifically "Five Guys", which is much, much, much, MUCH, less obscure to gamers than trying to use "Five burglars" and trying to turn that into a pun just because the "five burglars" were men and thus "guys".
This was taking advantage of the parallels of the two, but what really makes this obvious that it was hinting towards GamerGate and Quinn is the "Five Fun Guys". I'm sorry but trying to say that is a reference to Watergate is perhaps one of the most obscure references you can get when "FIVE GUYS" regarding GAMERGATE that more gamers would know about is MUCH LESS OBSCURE than when "five burglars" were used in Watergate which were "guys". That is an insane leap to try and make a pun and say Watergate was its context, the pun was made in context of "five guys" in relation to GamerGate. Come on.
regardless of how people read this, the fact remains that Nintendo is completely tone-deaf. It shows that no one at Nintendo is watching or are informed enough to care.
That's probably something added by the localisation team that wasn't in the original version so you're a bit reaching here.
Hey, cannot be helped if Zoe Quinn never heard of Watergate before today and thinks that the -gate suffix was made for her.That's quite a nasty comment to be honest.
The Five Guys part is obscure- I knew a bunch about it but not that.Jeez this thread is horrible. Let's make something clear no-one is saying gamergate invented the -gate suffix, accusing people of this is showing your own stupidity for not reading the thread.
#fiveguys was the twitter handle of gamergate before they became gamergate, coupled with the gate suffix joined with the ruined career, all adds up to an incredibly unlikely coincidence.
Tbh I'm disappointed in Nintendo.
I don't want to believe this was intentional. It seems impossible that anyone at Treehouse could do something so unbelievably tasteless. But I don't know how else to interpret this. It's too spot on. The only thing that even gives me pause is my own incredulity.
Actually it's definitely Watergate.
Didn't that have something to do with 5 guys in it?
I think Zoe needs to realise she isn't the centre of the universe.
Nah people would still think it's a super hidden veiled joke simply because they're five of them and the word guy.doesn't even need to go that far.
just drop the number in the text.
"The Fun Guys" makes as much sense as "The five fun guys"
The five toads were pulling a con, a theft through their game the way the 5 watergate thieves were. The scene unto itself, the motivation of the toads, and what they said all parallel Watergate, they don't parallel gamergate.Some people are still missing the core part of "FIVE GUYS".
With Watergate, they were never known as "Five guys", it was "Five burglars".
A core part of the GamerGate controversy was specifically "Five Guys" usage, it was used in the hashtag, it was a hashtag itself, if you even google "gamergate five guys" or "zoe quinn five guys" you will find tons of evidence of this.
Yes the the five fun guys etc is a fungi pun. We get it, that doesn't change anything. I'll refer to that in a bit
Why do some people think the person doing this for Nintendo would use "Five Fun Guys" when it was "Five burglars", when GamerGate controversy had specifically "Five Guys", which is much, much, much, MUCH, less obscure to gamers than trying to use "Five burglars" and trying to turn that into a pun just because the "five burglars" were men and thus "guys".
This was taking advantage of the parallels of the two, but what really makes this obvious that it was hinting towards GamerGate and Quinn is the "Five Fun Guys". I'm sorry but trying to say that is a reference to Watergate is perhaps one of the most obscure references you can get when "FIVE GUYS" regarding GAMERGATE that more gamers would know about is MUCH LESS OBSCURE than when "five burglars" were used in Watergate which were "guys". That is an insane leap to try and make a pun and say Watergate was its context, the pun was made in context of "five guys" in relation to GamerGate. Come on.
Ask a non american about watergate, and they would told you about Deepthorat, the 2 Washington Post journalist,... but not the 5 guys who were arrested.
Hell, I watched All the President's Men and never made the connection.
Ask a dude about GamerGate and they'll know that the "Five Guys" thing is basically what started it all.
Nintendo being "ultra conservative" is exactly the reason I'd expect them to make a pro-GG statement like this.
Everyone knows about it, I was querying whether it had been taught in most other countries at a universal level though. I'd surmise from this thread that the answer is generally not.
Yep. The ease with which you can misinterpret the joke is the main issue.
She thought.... How can I make myself relevant again?
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To be fair, those people aren't mushrooms
Genuine question: Has she mentioned whether she came across this screenshot or took it herself while playing?
Didn't Nicholas Cage steal it with like one other person?did you all know that a squad of five guys led by president nixon stole the constitution from the watergate hotel
Gamergate is not the only gate lmao
Some of Nintendo sure isn't a fan of women in video games.
I would be cool with her mistake if she just tapped out and went "I'm sorry, I fucked up", but she's not. She's being a real asshole about this, not accepting anything but her own truth. Just read her twitter.