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[KillerIsJed]

Just happened to come across article while searching for opinions on the whole Tomodachi Life situation. It is about a 9 year old boy who lives in NYC and his reaction to the controversy. The author talks about their son's life and environment abit before showing this email they sent to Nintendo:

My son's comments to Nintendo about gays by mole333

My son (age 9) loves Nintendo. He particularly loves Pokémon and Mario. The Nintendo store is one of his favorite places to go. However, when I showed him that Nintendo is discriminating against gays in Tomodachi Life he was very disappointed and says he doesn't want to go to the Nintendo store for awhile. His comment was, "But gay people can be awesome, just like the rest of us."

I think you should reconsider your policy. It is needlessly foolish and discriminatory.

Isn't that just adorable?

Also, if you'd like to write an email to Nintendo to express yourself, click here.

 

[Riki]

So his father is telling him lies at such an early age?
Discriminating against gays...
This is getting out of hand.

 

[PorygonVandal]

Sometimes I wonder if the bug was patched from the beginning would we have this kind of ruckus

 

[Deband]

idc

 

[Zee-Row]

I don't think Nintendo has anything against gays and lesbians , they just have this habit to not reacting to anything that happens with their games or business in general. They just stick to whatever plan they have.

 

[Marvel]

Ninty gonna Ninty.

 

[Jeff Vader]

Something tells me Nintendo has lost all control of this.

 

[Orcastar]

Sometimes I wonder if the bug was patched from the beginning would we have this kind of ruckus

What bug?

 

[OldKingDoran]

oh no.

 

[Red Rudolph]

"The rest of us"? I take offense to that!

 

[gngf123]

However, when I showed him that Nintendo is discriminating against gays

Of course the kid will react that way when the source is so heavily loaded.

It would be great if gay marriage was in Tomodachi Life but I think to suggest Nintendo is discriminating is taking things a couple of steps too far.

 

[Speevy]

People should stop buying the Wii U in protest.

 

[Waluigilicious]

Discriminating?! Oh my god.

 

[chickdigger802]

im still confused, what does discrimination have to do with anything with tomadatchi life? It's just an Acid simulator.

You don't even have control over who your miis bang right?

 

[Pastry]

Something tells me Nintendo has lost all control of this.

There was an article on the front page of CNN yesterday, it's well out of their hands.

 

[MrChocolate]

So, a developer makes a design choice that doesn't appeal to certain demographic, and suddenly it's the devil incarnated.
Well, to be fair.... it happens a lot with EA *shrugs*

 

[LordJim]

I would love to see how the whole situation was explained to the kid.

 

[PorygonVandal]

What bug?

The one that patched "gay marriage"

 

[Mesoian]

...this is gonna get worse before it gets better...

Correct me if i'm wrong, this whole thing started because someone saw the japanese game being played and couldn't tell that a male mii had been given the female character type, and misconstrued the game as having gay relationships, when it actually didn't (at least as far as the coding is concerned) and was upset when Nintendo didn't change the code for a domestic release?

I don't...understand, why this is a problem.

Or no, I understand why people want this, kind of, I don't understand why Tomodachi Life is the jump off point people want to use for this sort of activist activity. Is it because, at the end of the day, it's just a quirky thing Nintendo put out that doesn't really matter and thus it's a low impact target if things don't go their way?

I don't understand how Tomodachi Life became the line in the sand for having same sex relationships in video games.

Like, telling your child that Nintendo discriminates gays because of this situation is literally insane. There are so many problems with that, and yet, here we are.

 

[fernoca]

Sometimes I wonder if the bug was patched from the beginning would we have this kind of ruckus

The bug that was patched had nothing to do with same-sex marriage, which was the original idea behind #miiquality.

 

[Somnid]

So games that don't feature gay marriage are now "discrimination."

 

[Riki]

What bug?

The glitch that made the game think male characters were female and allowed two men to get married. It also corrupted your save.
But hey, it's really just evil Nintendo hating gays, right?

 

[JazzmanZ]

I see Gaf is hellbent on poisoning Tomodachi collection discussion as much as possible because of one aspect that isn't included

 

[Ishida]

Discriminating against gays? That's a load of bullshit.

Damn, the Internet age sure is super sensitive.

 

[ScOULaris]

So games that don't feature gay marriage are now "discrimination."

Yep. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Of course the kid will react that way when the source is so heavily loaded.

It would be great if gay marriage was in Tomodachi Life but I think to suggest Nintendo is discriminating is taking things a couple of steps too far.

yeah, seriously. this is getting ridiculous

 

[Shiina]

Discriminating against gays? That's a load of bullshit.

Damn, the Internet age sure is super sensitive.

Generation Offended.

 

[Wario64]

Next week Nintendo will just announce that it's cancelling the localization

 

[gngf123]

Sometimes I wonder if the bug was patched from the beginning would we have this kind of ruckus

Instead we would have had a ruckus over having a game where dudes can get pregnant and it being impossible to save, and how Nintendo would refuse to patch it.

It was all part of the same bug.

 

[Riki]

Next week Nintendo will just announce that it's cancelling the localization

I'm just waiting for this.
Nintendo gives us this game and all it causes is headaches for them.
Goodbye quirky games!

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Just happened to come across article while searching for opinions on the whole Tomodachi Life situation. It is about a 9 year old boy who lives in NYC and his reaction to the controversy. The author talks about their son's life and environment abit before showing this email they sent to Nintendo:

My son's comments to Nintendo about gays by mole333


Isn't that just adorable?

Also, if you'd like to write an email to Nintendo to express yourself, click here.

I think it is wrong to use his son to further his views like that. It reminds me of Kony 2012 video where the guy begins telling his 4 year old about Kony and all that. It's a much more complex and naunced situation, and using the innocence of kids just doesn't jive with me, even if I completely understand that gays want there to be an option for them.


But that is how I feel about it, I am not gay nor do I own a 3DS, so I might not understand what I am talking about. I just think that it's hard to expect Nintendo to do something about this with the way Gay Marriage is in Japan.

 

[PorygonVandal]

The bug that was patched had nothing to do with same-sex marriage, which was the original idea behind #miiquality.

The one that patched "gay marriage"

I'm not being sarcastic, please explain me then what's going on

 

[Jeff Vader]

Next week Nintendo will just announce that it's cancelling the localization

You joke now but if it happens I'll personally blame you for all the ills in the world

 

[Mesoian]

Next week Nintendo will just announce that it's cancelling the localization

Right? Wash their hands of the whole deal.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Next week Nintendo will just announce that it's cancelling the localization

I sadly can see this happening.

 

[rrc1594]

Nintendo better do something fast. This is no just go away, and the media will go a long way with this for Headlines.

On subject Nintendo should just do it.

 

[foxtrot3d]

So games that don't feature gay marriage are now "discrimination."

Damn. Then I've been discriminated against for years when games choose not to have any black characters in them, or even allow you the option to create one.

I too agree, this shit has gotten out of hand. I've been biting my tongue through all these threads not saying a word because I don't care but this thread does it, everyone needs to chill down.

 

[Otakumegane]

What they fixed was a gamebreaking save delete bug not a "gay" bug.

My god.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Although the OP's post is relevant and absolutely thread-worthy, so far every reply has been the same argument in the existing #Miiquality and Tomodachi Life controversy threads.