Pokémon Release Day

A new set of Pokémon games is being released today, which means that my corner of the internet is filled with people talking about how bad the games are, and how bad Nintendo is, and how it’s always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games.

And they’re right. Nintendo is a horrible corporation. It’s true and people should say it. I personally hate Nintendo and have made my share of memes about pirating their games.

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I’m aware that university libraries are not without problems, but I think giant institutions with incredible amounts of funding should bear a portion of the burden of creating and maintaining digital archives. This is something I advocated for at my former university, but I made no progress for complicated reasons I don’t want to get into here. I can’t do anything at my current university because the library system is still mostly shut down due to the pandemic, but I absolutely intend to start advocating for the creation of a digital game archive here once it’s possible to do so.

In the meantime, I am just going to ignore the internet and play my stupid Pokémon game in peace.