Back to the 50s with ye!

Futurism’s are particularly egregious. It exists to get clicks, and I mean in a way that clearly none of its writers give a single shit.

This headline and story in particular are okay enough, but in general, Futurism will take scraps and turn it into “[x person/business/industry our readerbase doesn’t like] is literally shitting its pants and DYING”.

Well, yes. If you didn’t know by now that impeding a federal investigation by destroying records is illegal, then I don’t know what to tell you. (Edit: That said, this was charged under a somewhat different statute. I was trying to answer specifically your question.)

The point in dispute here is that the search was an illegal violation of the Fourth Amendment in the first place, and consequently the wipe proceeding that cannot be prosecuted because the government had no legal right to access that information to begin with – that is, it was always defendent’s to do with whatever they wanted, and they were under no obligation to preserve records.

Edit: I will say I haven’t directly read the defense’s arguments, so there could be more nuance here/I could be outright wrong about the grounds of the argument thanks to the telephone game.

I’d assume based on the specific charge that the hitch the defense is arguing is based on the word:

for the purpose of preventing or impairing the Government’s lawful authority to take such property into its custody or control

If the Government has no lawful authority, then no crime, it’d seem.

If you know about this and continue to pay for it given viable alternatives, yes, you knowingly, willingly are. They wrote a whole spiel justifying it, so I’m going to point it out.

Flamman reports that [Berntsson’s] was the largest single private donation to any Swedish party in 2025, and on its own represented 72 percent of the [neo-Nazi] party’s income for the year.

Sorry, someone who’s knowingly funding the neo-Nazi party in Sweden – not because they have no other choice but because they don’t fucking care – doesn’t get a vote on what is and isn’t woke moralizing authoritarianism.

Fuck crypto shills. Fuck neo-Nazis. And fuck you, you whiny little Nazi-funding bitch.

“Reeee, a community vote that says we shouldn’t spend community-donated money hosting pump-and-dump projects that exist to put money in the hands of the wealthy far-right while destroying the environment is authoritarianism!!1 You should be forced to host my trash at your own expense; stop trying to control me, woke moralists! Stop caring about things and help me destroy the world!”

Is there no git hosting service left that isn’t pushing censorship and fascism? I think I should just start self-hosting at this point.

Aw, is someone sad that a nonprofit won’t spend their own money to host shitty pump-and-dump tools destroying the environment? Little pissbaby need a minute to compose themself?

Edit: By the way, speaking of fascism, OP…

Edit 2: Just want to say I find it immensely funny that the two people in this thread bitching about this democratic decision and calling it “fascist” and “authoritarian”, respectively, have posted an image of Germany captioned “The aggressor nation?” and knowingly, intentionally continue to fund neo-Nazis in Sweden.

It’s always projection from the “woke moralists!!” crowd.

It’s like the bizarro version of the Mormon story of the Lamanites.

HAHA BUT iFUNNY IS A CORPORATE PLATFORM

Live Quokka footage

AROO, always remember your brothers are battlin’ their own mf’in demons; treat 'em like you’d treat that hog and give 'em a CRANK when they need it!!

so it was REALLY unfortunate timing to do a fan remake

That’s true, but I don’t think it moves the needle in their favor at all; if anything, to me, it makes it worse.

It’s still just as much of a dick move (part of a broader pattern of dick moves around the time) that shows utter contempt for fans. A smart company would’ve leveraged AM2R to create hype, because it was pulling a Game Boy game from 1991 out of obscurity. Personally, it got me excited even as someone who wasn’t even a Metroid fan at the time, and I refused to buy Samus Returns solely because of what Nintendo did. It could’ve ridden AM2R’s coattails and gotten a purchase from me.

AM2R is hardly a market substitute for Samus Returns in a way that hurts Samus Returns more than it helps (given most fans dedicated and knowledgeable enough to play AM2R were probably also big enough fans to want Samus Returns regardless), and I’d bet anything that if they reached out to the AM2R team, Nintendo could’ve done something cool with them to amplify the hype while stepping on Samus Returns’ toes as little as possible.

Sega’s is oversimplified to the point someone who doesn’t already know the story would be misinformed. Christian Whitehead was employed at Sega before this for porting classic Sonic games (1, 2, and CD) using his Retro Engine, and they later let him and his team make Sonic Mania after he presented a prototype to Takashi Iizuka.

That is, Whitehead intended from the start to bring it to Sonic Team, whom he’d already worked for, as a prototype to have it officially produced and released. Sega had a lot of influence over the broader development, mainly the inclusion of classic levels. They didn’t just take a random fan game and slap a “SEGA” logo over it.

If anything, the image for Sega should be Sonic CD for iPhone, as he was just a fan at that time making a fan port. Sonic Mania is kind of a quasi-fan game, in the sense that Whitehead was a huge fan and did work at Sega in the first place because of his fan port proof of concept.

Edit: Also, here’s what Sega thinks of its fans in 2026.

Consider the magnitude of the passion instead of the direction, and it starts to make some sense. Not to this level, but consider that allosexuals often get sex very mixed up in the rest of their feelings; sexuality can see that passion and hijack it.

God bless Adam. He blew me away after he finally escaped from BuzzFeed. Not pure 10/10, but I thought for sure he was a hack; turns out he was really good and just pumping out empty garbage for a soulless job, which is understandable. (Edit: Exception is the Donut Day Loss parody; made while at BuzzFeed, and truly splendid.)

#2 is definitely a nod to PizzaCake. The “NSFW somehow”, the expression on red guy’s face, the way neither of them talk like humans having a heated argument through any forum, the tired pandering accusation, the utter calm smugness from one side and utter derangement from the other, and the character design (no hair or glasses, but lanky, green t-shirt, grey-blue jeans, and similar skin tone; could heavily use gradients for better effect).

Wildberries finally innovates instead of following Amazon’s lead.

I’m going to tell my kids that this was “Move Along Home”.

Wasn’t this originally a reaction to Grumpy Cat?

“France, Germany vow to compete in torment nexus market”