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It’s not a dilemma if supporting SNK means supporting Saudi human rights abuses. Just emulate the ROMs; dilemma solved.
I don’t think they give a shit about people emulating their old classic games, they have modern games.
Cartridge re-releases for the Neo Geo AES+ are $90, so clearly they’re trying to capture a market segment otherwise being served by emulation.
Ah true, I forgot about the console.
You also forget how many people are lazy and will pay for convenience with money, and their own information.
Don’t have to worry about moral dilemas when I can pirate all their games!
Download any emulator, download ROMs, enjoy. I understand that emulators were difficult to setup in the late 90s/early 2000s, but not anymore.
You have the right to boycott, and the right to buy
Zionist translation:
We will murder your boycott, buy our soft power
Boycotting a games system due to its parent company’s connections to a disliked regime¹ is simplistic, and imposes a ‘tyranny of virtue’² on others who wish to enjoy a perfectly legal³ product,” says video game historian and Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak. “Reading up on real-world history reveals a litany of sins, globally, none of which are ever addressed,” he adds. “America, for example, is a nation built on stolen land, made rich through the labour of stolen people. Should we therefore boycott everything created by the USA?⁴ Do you realise your mobile phone contains cobalt, which is mined using child labour?⁵ Or that Apple’s $2 billion acquisition of Israeli firm Q.ai now directly connects every iPhone to the genocide in Gaza?⁶ Or that large numbers of US politicians receive funding from AIPAC and thus are complicit in the Gaza genocide? Are you boycotting paying your taxes because of this?”⁷
¹ Genocide should be disliked, in any regime. Opportunistically avoiding calling al-Mamlaka al-ʿArabiyya as-Suʿūdiyya totalitarian² is tyrannical praxis.
² What’s your virtue again?
³ Perfectly “legal” warcrimes btw.
⁴ Yes.
⁵ And it should be abolished.
⁶ And are you implying we shouldn’t be boycotting espionage?
⁷ Nazis in America don’t pay taxes, what even is this argument‽I had no idea that the fucking Saudis own SNK. I guess it’s a good thing that there’s still no Metal Slug 8, because that’s the only thing I would have wanted from them anyway.
Would the more appropriate name be “SSK” as in “Shin Saudi Kikaku”, “New Saudi Project”?
