[bigyabai]

I'm just covering my ass. Life is good right now and I don't want to meet any Nintendo ninjas, even for insinuated infractions.

It's not so much a condemnation of HN, but the way IP is in the US. The only website I want hosting my comments on Nintendo modding is my own.

[jraph]

I doubt a star will make Nintendo lawyers go "ow nose, they didn't spell out emulator in full, we can't attack them! Damn those star armors!". I don't think it changes anything technically.

The only thing this kind of censoring does is countering basic censor bots I think, and somehow making swear words publishable in the US.

[stavros]

The asterisk would make it so they can't just search for "Nintendo emulator" online and find their comment.

Until I typed this, I guess...

[jraph]

Few results include "Nintendo emulator". Did you mean "Nintendo emul*tor"?

[bigyabai]

Look; if you want to risk your chipper little lifestyle explaining the various ways to run New Horizons, be my guest. I've insinuated enough already, anyone who cares about the discussion on-grounds wouldn't have anything else to ask.

[jraph]

My point is that you don't take any more risk if you write emulator instead of emul*tor. You already took the risk explaining what you explained. One character swap doesn't change anything to this.

I'm insisting because if you care about not being sued, the stars are not an adequate defense despite what you seem to believe it is, and false sense of security is dangerous.

Not that I think that what you wrote here is remotely likely to cause you troubles, but it won't protect you the day you actually document something illegal.

To rub it in:

> I'm covering my ass

No, not at all, and it's important that you realize this.

But you do you.

[0points]

That's hilarious.

That modder who had to pay 2M sold drm circumvention kits for the Switch. That's a pretty clear case.

You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.

[bigyabai]

Okay, lol. Special snowflake it is.

All I'll say is that I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail. Never saw that happen with Cheat Engine.

[0points]

> I've seen people arrested for discussing Switch emulation in-detail.

Nope, that didn't happen.

Nobody got arrested for discussing emulation.

[rl3]

>You pretending that saying "emulator" on a forum qualifies just makes you a extra special snowflake.

Says the person going out of their way to attack another person over a single-character asterisk substitution.

Seems fairly understandable to not want to piss off rabid lawyers, however remote the chances of angering them may be.