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It’s a flashcart (that’s what I said in the first sentence). And I’m not surprised they’re still selling them if they’re in Russia (same if they were in China). I wouldn’t buy this shit anyway.
“Political garbage” they have attacked another country,
unprovoked and without declaring a war, and it wasn’t the first time they did it even in recent years. Identifying with Russia/Soviet Union is not something that people should be proud of/making jokes. It was a regime that consumed more lives than 3rd Reich and seems to live on in Russia now.
No, I live in a country where Russia has done a lot of harm throughout the history, and you live in a country where people think it doesn’t affect them and isolationism works (hint: it didn’t 80 years ago, it won’t now).
What you are saying is true, but it negates nothing I’ve said, and you dont need to go on a manhunt after me because i used poor word choice. I’m on Ukraine’s side, but its sad that I even have to explain that to you.
I’m not going on a manhunt after you. All I’m saying is that Russian/Soviet symbols should be shunned (or at least not be glorified in any way) just like the Nazi ones because it’s pretty much the same. If I have a choice I will not support anything made by Russians, because there’s a chance it will support their homeland.
I think you dont understand the cultural nuances going on here. I am personally not a fan of it, but here in the United States before the war started and Russia became universally hated, Russia was seen as “generic bad guy.” Most americans, myself included, are woefully undereducated on what actually happened throughout Russian history and in Russian culture, so we take what little we see projected over here and internalize it with some creative liberties.
There is a lot of romanticizing of when the people of Russia rose up to overthrow “the bourgeoisie,” as we have a soft spot for symbols of freedom, the gaining of freedom, and “sticking it to The Man.”
The scene of the hammer being thrown at a TV to smash “The Man” talking was used in a(n in)famous Apple ad back in the 1980s:
Using a Cyrillic block-lettering style font but with English letters and a red background was even used by AMD with a tagline of “Radeon Rebellion”:
It was historically not abnormal for Americans to steal this imagery for marketing purposes. It’s literally what we do ‘best.’ We take the flavor of other cultures and use them to meet whatever end we are trying to accomplish. Now, that’s not to say that if someone launched a new product today that it would be accepted. Anyone doing that now would likely be crucified, or at least their product would fail.
But with the MIGSwitch, it was created before the recent atrocities, and the Russian symbolism is still borrowing/stealing from that “overthrow The Man” symbolism and not the “fuck you we take what we want, fuck the livelihood of your people” symbolism. In this case, Nintendo is “the bourgeoisie” with their draconian abuse of the law and their army of lawyers, and the MIGSwitch is “seizing the means of production,” so to speak. At least, that’s how the marketing is posturing itself.
Should the creator rework the brand image? Probably, absolutely. Are they going to put in the extra effort to do so when the product itself is already likely to get them blasted from space by Nintendo’s low orbital ion canon? Highly unlikely. The product fab line is already made and is printing him money. It always comes down to money.
Migswitch isn’t an emulator though. And they’re still selling them.
It’s a flashcart (that’s what I said in the first sentence). And I’m not surprised they’re still selling them if they’re in Russia (same if they were in China). I wouldn’t buy this shit anyway.
Was actually made by a U.S. resident. He picked the Russia theme before a lot of the recent political garbage.
“Political garbage” they have attacked another country, unprovoked and without declaring a war, and it wasn’t the first time they did it even in recent years. Identifying with Russia/Soviet Union is not something that people should be proud of/making jokes. It was a regime that consumed more lives than 3rd Reich and seems to live on in Russia now.
I’m generally in agreement with you but you’re being a royal Karen right now.
No, I live in a country where Russia has done a lot of harm throughout the history, and you live in a country where people think it doesn’t affect them and isolationism works (hint: it didn’t 80 years ago, it won’t now).
What you are saying is true, but it negates nothing I’ve said, and you dont need to go on a manhunt after me because i used poor word choice. I’m on Ukraine’s side, but its sad that I even have to explain that to you.
I’m not going on a manhunt after you. All I’m saying is that Russian/Soviet symbols should be shunned (or at least not be glorified in any way) just like the Nazi ones because it’s pretty much the same. If I have a choice I will not support anything made by Russians, because there’s a chance it will support their homeland.
I think you dont understand the cultural nuances going on here. I am personally not a fan of it, but here in the United States before the war started and Russia became universally hated, Russia was seen as “generic bad guy.” Most americans, myself included, are woefully undereducated on what actually happened throughout Russian history and in Russian culture, so we take what little we see projected over here and internalize it with some creative liberties.
There is a lot of romanticizing of when the people of Russia rose up to overthrow “the bourgeoisie,” as we have a soft spot for symbols of freedom, the gaining of freedom, and “sticking it to The Man.”
The scene of the hammer being thrown at a TV to smash “The Man” talking was used in a(n in)famous Apple ad back in the 1980s:
Using a Cyrillic block-lettering style font but with English letters and a red background was even used by AMD with a tagline of “Radeon Rebellion”:
It was historically not abnormal for Americans to steal this imagery for marketing purposes. It’s literally what we do ‘best.’ We take the flavor of other cultures and use them to meet whatever end we are trying to accomplish. Now, that’s not to say that if someone launched a new product today that it would be accepted. Anyone doing that now would likely be crucified, or at least their product would fail.
But with the MIGSwitch, it was created before the recent atrocities, and the Russian symbolism is still borrowing/stealing from that “overthrow The Man” symbolism and not the “fuck you we take what we want, fuck the livelihood of your people” symbolism. In this case, Nintendo is “the bourgeoisie” with their draconian abuse of the law and their army of lawyers, and the MIGSwitch is “seizing the means of production,” so to speak. At least, that’s how the marketing is posturing itself.
Should the creator rework the brand image? Probably, absolutely. Are they going to put in the extra effort to do so when the product itself is already likely to get them blasted from space by Nintendo’s low orbital ion canon? Highly unlikely. The product fab line is already made and is printing him money. It always comes down to money.