It's times like these where I whole heartedly disagree with Trump (including over Net Neutrality and climate change), and let it remind me that he is quite an idiot in spite of his good intentions. That and people are using the same ol' garbage "video games cause X" arguments, of which I've noted time and again isn't true. And yes I should I am quite supportive of Trump since IMO well he is slightly more desirable than Clinton was in 2016 and I hope for the best (and he sort is trying) but I should stop here and of course not let that stop you from hearing me out, since well I don't care if you hate Trump or not (and of course I've made a resolution to keep politics at a minimum for the sake of not just my mental health but also my safety).
So anyway, the point is, the gaming "journalists" and of course the "wonderful" Ms. Sarkeesian, who have made some truly wonderus "commentaries" on video games for like over 6 years now are speaking out against the US president by simply "defending" games, as if they did in spite of the contrary.
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Like wow, can they sink any lower; it's bad enough that they claim that games these days make you sexist violent Neo-Nazi Alt Righter (or pehaps that should be Paleo-Nazis? heh I digress) s--tlords who want to start a Fourth Reich and make people have respect for ISIS (because reasons??) and now they simply change their tune into thinking that's no so because someone who is obviously on the rightwing spectrum says something that agrees with their prior viewpoints. I mean at least Trump is consistent in being anti-video games back in 2012 with that one tweet about games making kids "monsters" and he's saying that stupid nonsense now. And I say, just stick with building walls, draining swamps, fighting fake news, and of course giving people lots o' jobs, I don't care if people yell at you for them (though their more screwier "arguments" can go to the shredder). However, I will direct much of my anger towards the gaming "press" and their ilk and crackpots like Sarkeesian in this case. Why? because they're the ones that are in on trying to make games to be a force of evil and yet they are supposed to be for gaming and are gamers too. I shake my head at this blatant hypocrisy and I say to them: f--k off and f--k your "opposing" views on Trump blaming games for the recent shooting in that Florida high school. Sure his view is s--t and but don't expect us gamers to come to your side when you turn around and disagree with him not out of caring about the gaming hobby but as a political ploy, to push agendas; that and declaring us the gaming community to be either "dead" or "evil" when trying to cover a certain controversy that sparked what might as well be the Afghan-Soviet War of gaming culture.
Hell in fact, I'll let Kizuna-chan speak for me:
And of course the Pop Team gals:
Hmm, this is the second time I got near dropping f-bombs here (and both touched the line and had middle fingers on full display), but I have too since well nobody needs to mess with gaming, not from some politicans (regardless of how well-intentioned they are) to scummy ideologues that think games need to be "PC" to supposedly evolve.
Speaking of which Trump is to meet up with the video game developers, of which would hopefully enlighten him on how gaming isn't some malevolent factor in recent tragedies, but then again he's about 72 years as of this post and my mother told me about how old people are hard to change. Oh and things are getting pretty hairy, with students of some other school in Florida disposing some of their games they consider violent, like wow, I guess suckers are born every minute (just like the people who bought the "PS4s" and downloaded Metal Slug Attack). I mean wouldn't that reinforce the false claim that video games cause violence and s--t? Talk about gullible.
But hey at least the age limit to buy guns has been raised from 18 to 21 in Dick's and Wal-Mart, and I'm like why now after like a couple other shootings in recent years? I just don't get society sometimes, especially since people need to look into the mentally ill aspect of committing shootings, of which the guy clearly was not right in the head in doing so.
(for today's post I will be linking to USA today of which thankfully is low on politics so I won't bother archiving them; that and I must stress that I'm a bit late but it's still relevant as of this post)
...When will this trend of some psycho dude/person/pisano going to some [insert place here] and proceeding to shoot innocent people with firearms for [insert reasons here] end? I mean good lord, you think like by now we have a bunch of systems in place to prevent such a thing after oh say the Aurora theater shooting or hell all the way back to Columbine but no it appears to be a frequent occurrence in this ever so troublesome 2010's (which is already bad enough for a variety of reasons but I won't elaborate on for the sake of my health). Well this shooting in particular just happens on Valentine's Day (which if you ask me is an alright holiday, quite indifferent to it actually but sadly that's not the main topic), in some high school in Florida and I heard about this from my grandma when she picked me up from work (though granted it was inevitable given that YouTube would let me know about this tragedy with its breaking news feed, of which I have my concerns about it but that's another topic for another time).
And right on schedule the crazies are coming out of the woodwork, starting with the typical conservative dudes who are "anti-violent vidya gaemz" because somehow an entertainment medium is responsible for such tragedies. And once again I call BS on it, given how as a fact, video games themselves do not cause violence (nor sexism)...ever. That and I also find it funny that the Mast guy is like "concerned" about the "desensitizing of violence" that movies and games push yet he himself fought in Afghanistan and lost his legs there, like as if they're responsible for the suffering he went though, go figure. Though my mom is like sort of in agreement with that Kentucky governor guy (why?), but I guess she might be referring to the kid playing games not suited to his age getting the wrong ideas, so if anything it's the mental condition and the parents who are to blame for the kid acting bad. And in this case, well the young man behind the Parkland shooting is clearly messed up in the head and he has himself to blame (and funny enough chose to run away and not commit suicide), meaning the cause is related to mental illness, of which should be a big consideration when investigating horrid behavior. I mean he blatantly stated he wanted to cause damage for the sake of it (unironically) and that alone to tell everyone something is wrong with him. And speaking of mentally ill, people are blaming guns because "guns kill people" (which is half true mainly because people kill people"), and implying that somehow the current US president and the NRA are responsible for this. I just...I just...wow, that is some serious conjecture and almost like they're scapegoating the two, as if they can control who can shoot and can't.
At this rate, it wouldn't be long before the leftwing SJWs come out to add their "informative" and "though-provoking" views on this tragedies, I can only cringe at what they have to say (not that I want them silenced mind you). And I think I might need to concentrate on something positive before I go crazy from all of this, like trying to beat Rayman 1 on the PS1.
They did it, they finally done it....and I'll tell you what....it's a good thing.
Yep, I hoped this was coming and they did it: Capcom is officially coming out with a new Rockman game that's officially a new game and not some release of sorts, Rockman 11 in particular. By the look of things, it looks like a sign that Capcom is truly turning over a new leaf after a string of very questionable decisions since this decade began and committed the equivalent of the Armenian genocide of gaming that is cancelling the anticipated Rockman Legends 3 game that rightly angered the Rockman fanbase for a good 6 years and counting. Speaking of which, with the 11th game coming out, Capcom outta owe the fanbase (and Legends fans like me) a favor and restart development of Legends 3 as an apology along with making the equivalent of the N Sane Trilogy for the first two Legends games (though I suppose a release of them on the current systems outside of PSN might suffice but that's another story for another time). That and maybe making a new kind of Rockman for another genre for curiosity's sake but again another story for another time.
Speaking of which, I'm quite surprised that the upcoming game is going to be in a 2.5D style instead of being sprite based in general, either in the classic 8 bit or in 16bit, but at least they look MUCH better than the artstyle of Mighty No. 9 of which that game was a bizzare bust so to say. And of course plays in the style of the last 10 Rockman games but I'm pretty sure there's plenty of room for new stuff to come along; that and it's a good thing I'm planning on playing the first Rockman game for the NES.
I don't know about you but I'm starting to have more respect for Capcom than I have for SNK, at least Capcom is doing the right thing. SNK on the other hand has yet to convince me that they're truly brining some badly needed umph to their non-fighter IPs, especially one concerning a certain Super Vehicle but I digress.
I thought I never would see this happening in real life but here it is: Full Metal Panic is getting a video game, specifically a strategy RPG of sorts. Like hot damn, one of my dreams is becoming true right in front of my eyes as I'm typing this.
Now to understand why I'm happy about this, you have to know that I am a big fan of the Full Metal Panic franchise since I watched the first few episodes on Hulu (at a time before they decided it was a "great" idea to be paid subscription only recently and outsource the free part to Yahoo TV for some idiotic, Lickboot-ite reason). I mean I'm quite impressed with a show that combines military sensibilities with cliché anime high school highjinks and that alone is gold in my book, though I'm not much of a mecha person (I prefer the types like the Level Armors from Metal Slug) but I digress. And it seems like FMP is making a comeback 12 years after that disappointing mediocrity that was Second Raid, like seriously that show disappointed in many ways despite its return to the military related intrigue and stuff after the lighthearted high jinks of Fumoffu (though that season alone is enjoyable in its right); though I am aware of the manga adaptations and the light novels continuing after Second Raid but I never read them as of now. In addition, not only are we FMP fans getting a video game adaptation of which I longed for some five years now, but also a new season for the TV anime series, called Invisible Victory; like it better have the voice actors from the previous season reprise their roles or I ain't gonna be happy.
Anyway, I'll do a little analysis of the teaser being shown on the article in question and I'll post my predictions just afterwards. So we get some exposition lines as we see some tire tracks in the snow, surprisingly voiced in English with Japanese subtitles (it's as if Bandai-Namco knew that the FMP series has fans in the English speaking West), then we cut to some snapshots from the show with the two main protagonists, and then we see the gameplay and it looks alright. I mean this is a beta of sorts and hopefully not the final product; it'd be stupid of Bamco to so but moving on. So what we see so far is something that allows you to freely roam around the battlefield as long as its in some circular limit and that it looks like a turned based RPG of sorts and I'm fine with that given that I excel at turn based stuff than real time ones. That and you have the ability to use firearm and melee weapons since that's how it is in the show, though I wonder if the game allows you to master the Landadrive thing that Sosuke struggled with in Second Raid? That'd be something. That and the armslaves (the robots the characters use to fight with) are chibi looking for some reason. And from what I know, the game is being made by the same folks behind the Super Robot Wars series of which funnily enough featured FMP in it and I have never played the SRW franchise in particular. Already the game is promising yet it looks like it needs polish before we see a full trailer in the future.
Given that the show had featured some good share of stuff happening in the high school the protagonists go to (especially in Fumoffu), my good guess is that at least a third of the game is spent doing stuff in high school, just like how it is in the Persona games, and that it can have an effect on the missions Sosuke undertakes outside of high school. Though come to think of it, that Fumoffu suit, the one where it looks like some yellow bearish creature with a green bowler hat, should be a usuable armslave just for s--ts and giggles; it'd make some great let's play material and Pew Die Pie better utilize it if he's gonna play the game in the future (and p--- off the haters from places like the Wall Street Journal for the mudslinging they did early this year) but I'm getting ahead of myself. Another good possibility is the addition of new characters specifically for the game in question and hopefully more interesting than most of the ones from Second Raid, though it'd be pretty odd for the antagonists from both the first and third seasons to show up as some sort of bonus boss fights or somethin'. With all of that said, I'm looking forward to what this FMP video game that I have long clamored for, though admittedly in my own head, will bring us when more details arrive in the future.
My only big concern is the platform of choice right now, the PS4, of which I said time and time again, I'll never invest in unless Sony throws in disc based backwards compatibility with PS1 and 2 games but sadly they're too stupid and greedy to do so, rather making us wrongly rebuy them on PSN and this Gaikai garbage but that's another story for another time. And of course, no Vita, because again Sony is too stupid to care for that underrated and awesome device and unwisely gave up on it in the West (sometimes making me wondering why I bothered getting it in the first place last year) but again I digress. Hopefully there might be a chance for a PC release, albeit on Steam but that's okay, better there for me than not given that I have a Steam account (though I prefer to buy them digitally now since I'm not bothering getting physical PC disks since they require Steam stuff and I do not wish to contribute to perpetuating this stupidity but that's another story for another time). Oh yeah and it might have DLC (or rather will possibly have) because EVERY game's GOTTA have it for some reason...can't they just not and leave it up to the developers to give their games some or not yet it should be MANDATORY for ALL games to have a complete edition with ALL the DLC by now (otherwise the developers should stop making games, nuff said); but hopefully the best case scenario is that they're like add on post launch content and not like horse armor and s--t.
But anyway, the fact that we FMP fans are getting a video game and a fourth season is a sign that good times are ahead for the franchise in question and that's a good sign in my book; that and it was something I just woke up too before making this post so better wake up to good news than bad I guess.
In light of the uproar about the marketing campaign behind Wolfenstein: Shadow of the Colossus and the misrepresentation of the uproar by the mainstream media to be some neo-Nazi shenanigans and Micah Curtis's somewhat understandable response, I'd figure I put my two cents on this issue and let me warn you this can get political but I have to say it.
Now before continuing, I must stress that I am clearly against Nazism and its ilk (talking about the Nazi Party, the SS, the Waffen-SS, and some likeminded Wehrmacht fellows), like 100% against them and that I'm perfectly okay with killing them in video games since well they are what that guy from South Park said, "very very bad people" (paraphrasing here but you get the idea). Even if they have some good ideas like opposing capitalism and communism (and pro-animal rights), it doesn't matter since those small bits of good will never outweigh their bad ideas and their actions since they believed that solving the problems of mankind was to either exterminate and/or enslave those that are "racially" inferior; small wonder why they are rightly considered the slime of humanity and often considered the villain by default. Though I'm not too gung ho on the Nazi-killing business these days since it's been done before and that I have other equally evil targets to go after than a common dead, evil horse; I mean they are the ultimate generic villain to use in pop culture (though at least it's justified mind you given what they are and did) that at least almost no one in the world can get offended at (compared to say Communists but that's another story for another time) and rightly so. In addition, I'm fine with this more darker and mature direction the new Wolfenstein series takes in that they remind us that the Nazis aren't just some people with different uniforms on the different side of the conflict but really bad people just as they are in real life (though they lack a lot of interesting contraptions in their arsenals), though to be honest they are somewhat more relatable (or rather barely) than demons but it doesn't matter at this point. Same can be said of vice versa, but it again it doesn't matter, they are acceptable targets after all and that's that.
Now to this marketing controversy; and as you know, a recent tweet said, "Make America Nazi-Free Again" and of course the internet is in an uproar; outsiders may look at this as a sign of "rising Neo/AlterRighter/Nazism" and get upset or at least groan but a closer look reveals that the community has a problem with just the marketing, not the fact that you fight Nazis. I mean the gaming community is pretty much A-Okay on that and rightly so; it's just that headline that clearly copies Trump's campaign slogan of which actually originated from Regan's old 1980 campaign slogan (making wonder if we should make him "evil" because of that phrase). And to be fair it's somewhat understandable to be not comfy with that phrase of "make something great/something again", far too often it's been used to mock Trump and/or equate villains in fiction with him because the mainstream media says so. Thought at least Mr. Curtis on reddit argues that the phrase is part of pop culture now and the least people can do is use it in a neutral and maybe positive way and I think he has a good point; it'd make me more comfier to see it used less to spite Trump. As for my view on the marketing line about "making America Nazi-free again", I just wish they gotten a better line since that one would end up dating itself, like "Take Back America from Nazi Tyranny" or "Free USA/Smash the Reich" or something like that.
Edit: In hindsight, I think the marking line in question is probably the least offensive the idiotic twitter handler spouted given the game's objective of freeing the USA from Nazi tyranny.
But of course I need to get into the bigger scope of things regarding the politics going on as of this writing; see, this admittedly unnecessary freak out over this tweet is a symptom of this idiotic tying in current politics in the US to the dystopian setting of the game by the mainstream media and their sympathizers, especially the likes of Polygon and their ilk as well as the leftist attempts to label anyone to the right of far-left as a "Nazi", thus ending up diluting the meaning of the term and taking Godwin's Law to the extreme. And as you can see, it really isn't helping, considering how VASTLY different the Trump Administration (for all of its flaws...especially that d--k Paj) and an ACTUAL Nazi occupation of the USA are, and it isn't just Wolfenstein getting unnecessarily politicized (at least in the marketing section), Man in the High Castle and A Handmaid's Tale are getting this too and it needs to stop. All this does is show how immature the media are when it comes to handling current politics, making me take them very less seriously to the point of mocking them (there's a good reason I made two maps making fun of this idea of Trump causing a MITHC situation though and I'm not bothering to upload them to AH.com ever) but thankfully I'm too smart to waste my time with these idiots, especially their followers who retweet whatever garbage tries to tie Trump to X and watch stupid late night "comedies" bashing him nonstop (of which make me question their statuses as "adults" if they're over the age of consent); hell, I rather deal with people who retweet stuff about Metal Slug Ass-tack and make stupid videos about something something MSA crank-artichoke deck of cards stuff over anything politics related but I digress. However, I have one thing to say to all of you mainstream "news" sites (both gaming and non-gaming) and the people believing the idiotic narrative of [insert dystopic work of fiction] being "comparable" to Trump and the USA: go f--k yourselves! Please, take your dumb, kiddy grade fantasies of today's USA being something something dystopic and shove them up your asses and put a spin on them.
Now I usually don't say stuff like that but I must stress how little patience I have for this politics nonsense, especially when we should be more concerned with stuff like ISIS, radical Islamic terrorism, alt-left antics, figuring out the motive of the Las Vegas shooter, and when the hell will SNK (the company) make something non-KOF and non-mobile? Those are more important than trying to "relate" how Trump being president is to something truly bad like actual Nazi Germans taking over and messing up the U.S. of A.
Since SNK came out with a new character as part of the update for that piece of ass Metal Slug Attack game (of which maybe I should just keep calling it "Metal Slug Ass-tack"...and I'll get to my gripe with SNK shilling it later on), and that plenty of people are getting frustrated about the "waifus" that the game is getting recently, I'd figure I'd put my two cents into this issue. And let me tell you as a bit of a spoiler, they aren't the main problem but a symptom of a bigger problem...
Now before I begin, let us go back to the time the first update for MSA came out, the one that had some new characters come out. Mind you I have long advocated for having new charas ever since I was a teenager falling in love with the franchise in the 2000's (long before that asscrap digital ghetto came out). Why you may ask? because to quote one of the MS designers, "it...would be good to [expand] the [Metal Slug universe] by focusing on other characters living [there] or creating more about the background and motivation of [the] main characters" and indeed having more new characters or at least more into the backstories of established ones would be one good way to bring depth into the mythos of a franchise that just hasn't done much since its inception. Seeing the newbies in question appear in Ass-tack made me somewhat bittersweet in that at least the game of which I detested had a few redeeming qualities, along with having Another Story of which I'll consider that the "campaign" mode of the game (and I'll get to that later on). However since then, the new characters have gotten disproportionately more and more female and more fanservicey as hell; not that I find that combination bad but it is a problem when the recent these days are almost entirely just that and no new male ones just recolors of previous units (and that something thousand Taro guy). Granted the gals in question have interesting backstories and whatnot, especially Shizuka and her taste in sweets, Jin the swordswoman having connections to her and Yoshino, both of which are part of the enemy factions, Destrade, the Zarya looking gal having a kind of "parental" relationship with Allen, and Dragunov's relations with her COs but the fact that they show more skin than necessary can be somewhat annoying to see even for someone like me. Yet part of why this is so can be summed up in one sentence: sex sells. And I'm pretty sure you know that already, I mean what else there can be for someone who are sexually attracted to women to get behind when it comes to the "waifus"? I wouldn't mind them in such a state if their "stripperrific" selves are like an alternate costume that can be somewhat more powerful yet fun to use (and troll players in PVP battles), yet that's not the case. In fact, it's safe to say that the waifus are also part of SNK Moneymore's strategy of unwisely continuing to prop up this not so decent game along with using microtransactions.
I make no secret I despise this game, since while it feels like it can be pretty decent at times (with the mechanics being actually alright despite being simple looking), it's infested with this gacha microtransaction nonsense that a lot of mobile games have for the reason of greed...and hurts the game, big time. I mean, I couldn't beat the first Another Story campaign (the one where you take the side of the PF squad and fight against the Martians) at all without having to either grind or buy stuff for a more tougher and appropriate unit with real money, same goes for a couple of battles outside of AS and that the grinding part throughout the game feels off and artificially tedious, especially with the fact that it would take a long time to get many of your units to higher levels, more stars, and better "frames".
It's not like Metal Gear 7/Solid 5: the Phantom Pain where (while it has microtransactions, it only thankfully applies to multiplayer and presumably not as intrusive) at least you can grind to get more items and equipment to take on more difficult assignments and get more enjoyment from replaying previous missions, all without the bullcrap that are "sorties", "medals", and "cranks". All those (as of this writing) 177 hours of game play took nothing but brains, guts, hands, controller, skill, and in some cases a strategy book from Piggyback and luck. In MSA, I didn't even pay one cent, NOT one CENT, for anything, and while I have plenty of units to my knowledge (mainly through cranks), I have to spend a lot of MSPs on leveling them up and that I have yet to get more powerful units and more stuff to upgrade them, all while accounting for frames which make a difference despite having two units be at the same level when at different frames and those star things which again effect the battle. I'm pretty sure other people can explain this better but to sum this all up, all those frames and stars needlessly complicate the game and I could have beaten not only more stages but also a few AS campaigns; same goes for improving my experience if we have like a kind of system to buy units without this multiple currency type nonsense and crank s--t. And I know some may argue that the microtransactions are "merely optional" and that I can just grind my way through the game; but I just can't since it would take a long ass time for me to get my units strong and considering that I have many games to play (and replay for some), it's not worth my time and that again the game is rigged to entice you to get the mircotransactions just to win battles. There's a quote from ReviewTechUSA about this kind of stupidity, "spending money to beat a video game or have an advantage in a video game isn't playing it" and indeed it defeats the purpose of playing games to enjoy them, I play games for the sake of it and not to worry about spending my hard earned money on stuff I rather grind to get (I know that you have to spend money in an arcade game but that doesn't count) ingame.
Here's a good video by Yong Yea that highlights how this microtransaction garbage can ruin an otherwise decent game:
Now granted it might not have anything to do with MSA, but I can't help but connect it to my experiences with said game. As for me, I gave up on the game (quite rightly I add) after almost a month of pondering whether or not to keep playing it and decided it wasn't worth it. Sadly a lot of players still stuck with playing this crap but hey that's their decision, a stupid one IMO. The least they can do is point out the Lickboot-ite s--t SNK pulls off on Reddit, but again it won't change the fact that SNK basically got away with this (let's face it) scam and will continue to keep milking it for the foreseeable future, much to the detriment of the franchise's dignity (and no the newbies and the Another Story mode just won't save the game IMO, the damage is already done). It doesn't matter if the game was alright before said waifus came, what matters is that it's on mobile, has microtransactions, and is rigged to get you to use them to get ahead in the game. I mean I can accept that it reuses much of the sprites from previous games along with the soundtrack (thought the SFX are messed up for some reason), but one that has the kind of stuff that takes longer than usual to get plenty of strong units (and leveling them) and a form of limiting your turns via "sorties" when you can just not have them is quite a deal breaker for me.
And honestly I don't want this damn game existing anymore and I have frankly had it, like enough is enough. At this point I just want it shut down, SOON. Like maybe at the end of the year soon; why? because SNK ain't going to fix it anytime and it's getting on my nerves. Some of you may say that I can just "ignore" it but I can't, it's the only thing in the franchise that's being kept relevant and frequently infesting not only the MS wiki but also my Google searches. Also I don't want an MS8, just nope; trying to be like the arcade games (the way MS7 and XX did) didn't work then and it wouldn't work now and people who advocate for them are frankly IMO naïve and misguided. At this point a reboot of the franchise is necessary IMO, one that would ditch being sprite based and maybe arcade like but not a lot of people are going to like that but I don't give a damn.
But anyway, to sum this all up, the waifus being sometimes stripperific can be somewhat odd, at least are somewhat interesting to have in the lore of the franchise's mythos, they are unfortunately part of SNK's ways to get suckers into playing Ass-tack and frankly, I can see through it and I would suggest you do too.
Update: While I have put up the quote about the characters from one of the Nazca staff, I should also mention that the franchise already has its share of "waifus" long before Ass-tack came out.
I just couldn't believe it when I heard of this a few days ago but thankfully Rich of ReviewtechUSA reminded me along with one of the posters on Main Event TV's facebook of this kind of shocking event: for the first time in history, Nintendo has just lost a lawsuit against some nobody company called iLife over some discontinued hardware that the company in question "claims" that Nintendo stole from (granted the hardware in question is the awesome Wii but I digress). In an ideal world no one would bother with the garbage false as hell "lawsuit" that iLife cooked up just to get more money for money's sake but alas that isn't so, as life can often not be fair. Someway, somehow the judge in some Texan court took stupid pills this morning and declared that Nintendo is the "culprit" and must pay up this con artist company for supposed "wrongdoings", that or he must be really retarded.
Either way, I can safely say that iLife can go f--k themselves for this kind of idiocy and getting away with it; Nintendo has no right to uphold their "appeal" thing and should just give those iLife Lickbootites the middle finger by not giving up the court issue. It's times like these where I wish I had some way of donating my money to something like a patreon equivalent to Nintendo to help them out financially (along with many other youtubers who have a lot of patreon accounts but I have no idea how to do so as of this post) but the whole patreon/gofundamee/something starter thing is another story for another time. But still I just can't belive that these d-----bag moneybags can pull off something like this; they have to like bribed the judge behind close doors or something, there's just no other way they could succeed in this.
But ranting about how much those iLife goons can take it up their asses wouldn't be any help but the least I (and maybe you) can do is keep up on any developments on this "Nintendo v. iLife" situation in the near future. Hopefully Nintendo can fight back against those pr--ks given that Nintendo is a multi-million dollar company with a lot of financial resources and supporters like myself (though granted they recently done some stupid decisions but that doesn't matter right now) to help them out.
