 Hey everyone. So uh, wasn't planning to do a video today. I was actually in the middle of doing some college homework but I needed to take a break and while I was on my little break from homework I noticed something happened at Kotaku. This was posted yesterday and I somehow missed it but Kotaku essentially made a massive oopsie and I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo has officially blacklisted the outlet. Now what we're about to talk about can seem controversial in some regards but it's only controversial in so much of the argument for and against piracy but I think we're all in pretty good agreement even those of you out there that massively enjoy emulation that advertising piracy of a brand new released game in this case Metroid Dread is not something any professional outlet which Kotaku pertorts to be they pretend to be one anyways should be doing obviously if some random youtuber does it whatever this is a professional outlet though an actual business that's owned by other corporate entities so this is rather baffling but we're going to get into this article after I remind you we are actually giving away three copies of Metroid Dread all you need to do for now is subscribe to the channel we actually have a few other things later this month to kind of flesh out that giveaway but for now just be subscribed because hey when any of our giveaways whether on live stream or otherwise you have to be subscribed anyways and you know what I I assume you're enjoying this video you're still here right right all right so the article was written by Zach Zouisen so Z W I E Z E N and currently the title is Metroid Dread is already running on switch emulators the issue you're going to find now is that they have since edited the article and gone in and got rid of all of the offending content even though it seemed to be the entire point of the piece the original title was well Metroid Dread is already running great on switch emulators remember the new title is Metroid Dread is already running on switch emulators they got rid of the word great but here's the thing they got rid of a lot more so there's an entire Reddit thread on this over on the official Nintendo switch reddit I will link to that down below and to the original kataku article but here's what it says um this person on the switch reddit said I think this deserves a discussion because I would not be surprised if kataku ends up being blacklisted by Nintendo from this and their past months have been constant clickbait anyways kataku has been clickbait for a long time I'm not one to sit here and complain too much about clickbait we all know that whether you're a youtuber whether you are a journalist maybe not even for places like CNN or Fox News or wherever the heck you are uh clickbait is just kind of part of the industry at this point whether we like it or not um as an example on YouTube I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't used clickbait titles or thumbnails or anything in the past or won't again in the future because hello this is YouTube and you gotta get people's eyes on your video before you worry about you know anything else so getting the eyeballs there and then hopefully the content keeps them here and keeps you guys engaged and wanting to subscribe moving on uh it says the article in question is titled Metroid Reddit is already running great on switch emulators considering the game was at the time of writing less than 24 hours old literally came out less than 24 hours you know basically the article came out like five o'clock yesterday it was less than 24 hours Metroid Reddit was on the market for less than 24 hours officially insane um the opening paragraph originally started out like this hey real quick if you are a Nintendo lawyer or employee just like don't read this it was a silly mistake ignore this blog you can go now okay everyone else Kotaku let this come to the front page of their website this had to be approved by a team of editors and that's the opening line already admitting that this is an article that's gonna piss off Nintendo moving on uh they could have been a bad attempt at being edgy but then the article goes unequivocally full pirate mode released yesterday and developed by mercury steam Metroid Dread is the awaited 2d return of the Metroid series you can read our full review here but the short answer it's a solid game more than solid but another here or there uh with some nice looking visuals and surprisingly tricky boss fights it is a switch exclusive as you might expect but all you need is a switch emulator and a decently powerful pc and you can play Dread on your computer right now and it looks great this is factually wrong the only way to legally emulate switch is to install a custom firmware on a launch model switch precisely from March 17 to early summer 18 and use it to rip a cartridge on pc writing all you need is a decently powerful pc is directly telling the viewer to download a pirated ROM which is a fact literally a fact um you cannot uh talk about things like this on a website without literally saying that you know without saying that you need to go do something illegal i want to know the article never told users to go download ROMs what it did basically say go download ROMs by saying that's all you need when really you actually need a launch model switch a version one switch you also need custom firmware you also need to obviously own the game so you can rip it this is the only legal way remember this game was less than 24 hours old when they put this article out there and they were already telling people to go pirate it kataku was advertising pirating metroid Dread on the front page of their website let that sink into your eyes as braids a major news outlet a major publication that gets review copies of games including metroid dread was publicly telling people to pirate metroid dread what moving on so the worst is yet to come this is a bit of the controversial part here i don't think it's too controversial to say yet you shouldn't be telling people to pirate the game um as the article closes with the following paragraph if you want to play the rest of the metroid franchise and don't want to shell out large amounts of money on old consoles and games your best bet is emulation as is often the case nintendo like most game publishers is really bad about maintaining access to their past games outside of a few big sellers thank god for pirates emulators modders and hackers so look look i'm not going to take issue necessarily with emulating old games pirating old games nintendo has done a poor job making these games accessible and to a certain um degree i can understand why some people are going to view it as morally fine not legally fine morally fine okay i'm not going to sit here and argue about that that is obviously up to everyone's personal desires and their own morals and where they draw the line on what's okay and what's not okay i will say though that saying thank god for pirates emulators modders and hackers after writing an entire article that was specifically aimed at advertising that people should be pirating metroid dread no this ain't it chief look i don't care if you personally have pirated metroid dread more power to you what am i going to do come to your house slap you on the risk call the cops on you inform the nintendo police you know get the the nintendo ninjas to show what am i gonna do you're gonna do what you're gonna do i can't control what any of my viewers do you guys are your own people and you guys might be totally okay with this i know people that have openly said on my twitter that they were playing metroid dread a week ago it hadn't even come out yet and no they didn't get one of those copies that fell off a truck and shipped to them early they were playing it on pc so look people pirate things it is what it is i'm not going to sit here and judge you for it but this is a professional outlet this is an outlet that you need credentials to even be hired by you are a professional journalist supposedly and i understand we can all laugh at kataku together this kataku continues to do kataku things and yeah even the guy the one of the guys that had a little bit of moral high standard there uh in stefan titillo who used to be the editor-in-chief left and now works somewhere else because there's been a whole mess with the site going on sale and being sold through multiple companies so obviously the quality of the journalism is probably at an all-time low and this article exemplifies that now look imagine if this was a front page piece on ign kataku for whatever we want to say still has a really large audience it's significantly larger than the amount of people are going to actually watch this video kataku for whatever it's worth still has value in this industry i understand if you don't personally value them but enough people do that they keep going to their website to visit them check out the reviews comment on their articles like the article share them etc etc obviously the really crappy stuff like this will get shared but even the good stuff gets shared the bottom line is no matter what happens kataku is still relevant now i'm obviously going to put kataku on blast and this is in the first time i have put traditional journalism on blast and no this isn't me touting youtubers over them i'm not saying trust me more than you trust them no no don't do that i will say what's interesting about youtubers like say this youtube channel versus an outlet like that is i'm responsible for everything whereas at kataku there's actually a team of people including a team of editors that have to approve things before they appear on the front page of kataku so this went through a team of editors to even appear in the first place at least on my channel if i put out a bad video if i put out some misinformation like calling hdmi cables 1.4 2.0 2.1 that's not really how speeds of hdmi cables are determined um there's just it's like standard high speed ultra high speed etc they're based on the speed capabilities which aren't really based on the level of hdmi hdmi 1.4 2.0 2.1 etc all of 1.3 actually before 1.0 all that's determined by the actual port and the chip behind the port so yes i'm okay i make mistakes i'm not stupid yeah okay i didn't have to break my switch oh that i made a mistake i should have just went and bought a heat gun i should have took it to i don't know maybe my local mall where they do screen repairs and just paid the guy to remove the screen for me i get it there's a whole bunch of things that could and i don't claim to be an expert yeah i said that really long chip on the one board was the 64 gigs of memory i didn't really even look at it turns out the 64 gigs was still on that board by the way it was just on the other side of the board and that really long tin that looks like a chip was just a piece of padding okay i get it i make mistakes it didn't really change the whole point of what i was saying the memory module was still on that board it was just on the back side but it doesn't matter i make mistakes i'm not perfect all right i'm not but at least i'm comparable to myself i approve of all my videos i edit all my videos i record all my videos i make 90 of the thumbnails on my channel everything that happens goes through me and even if i hire somebody else to edit my video hire somebody else to make a thumbnail i still approve of the final product before it goes up so i'm accountable to myself and you guys always keep me accountable even or not as much as people might think i focus too much on the haters one thing that's nice about the haters is they do keep you accountable okay they don't let anything get by they don't let any mistake slip through the cracks as an example um i recently did actually just yesterday did a video on accessories for nintendo switch and talked about this uh extra grip accessory from sculling company and said yeah it's not really any different than using the nintendo one except apparently it is um it can charge your joy com while you're playing which lets your joy com last a lot longer that is a fundamental difference and it's actually cheaper than the original joy con grip it is a big mistake i made in the video and i will say this um it's not anywhere on the box sculling company probably should do a better job advertising on the box so i am not going to blame them though i should have close more closely examined the product and noticed oh yeah there is a usbc charging port on the top hidden right between where the two halves of the plastic come together i should have noticed that and i didn't it's a mistake i made in a bunch of you guys called me out for that in the comments it's fine what's nice about me as a youtuber anyways is that hey i'm accountable to myself and you guys hold me accountable on kataku i don't even know who to blame do i blame the original writer who was claiming this was a blog post heck this could have been a fan writing this i have no idea do i blame them i don't even know if this person works for kataku but it's still got to appear on the front page of kataku so what editor do i blame who did this go through i don't know that's what sucks about some of these big websites is we don't know who to blame as an example we could yell at philip musin which we certainly did about his plagiarism but who were the exact people that approved of that review and other things he plagiarized going live we don't know we can go look at the staff list and start assuming oh this is the editor or this is the senior editor or this and that this person's the chief we can we can just try to guess but we don't know who exactly okayed it or if anybody did at least at my youtube channel the buck stops with me i'm responsible for everything that happens on this channel so i'll say that is one fundamental difference between youtubers typically obviously there's some youtubers that are rather big and have a whole team of people and it's like the accountability usually still falls back on somebody isn't that with linus tech tips if there's a mistake in any of their content ultimately linus is the one that is the most responsible for allowing that content to exist hiring someone who maybe didn't fit the job whatever the case might be although they have a pretty good vetting process before they make any of their hires full-time and make them publicly know still kataku i want to say do better but i'm not so sure you care this has gotten you more attention than probably anything you put up your metroid dread review probably has less views than this article does where you were openly telling people to pirate metroid dread so if nintendo black lets see you can't blame them heck was the person who reviewed your game did he even play a legal copy of metroid dread or did nintendo even send you one or did you just pirate it i guess we'll never know anyways folks i am with enter over jance from this enterprise thank you so much for tutoring and hopefully you enjoyed this late sunday night video i'm actually watching a little bit of a sunday night football uh kind of hoping for the chiefs to win i have their head coach that's right one of my fantasy teams is head coaches and i have the chief's head coach in i'm not looking good right now but anyways thank you guys you guys are amazing and i will catch you tomorrow for our normal monday night live stream and yes we will have a typical news video and maybe something else tomorrow i'm still playing some metroid dread stuff right now so i'm not sure what day my final impressions of that will come out but eventually eventually