N64 1:1 (exterior) looking bootlegs are now a thing

[Daria]

Aussie - We never agree I know that and I'd rather the triads have the money. They're both greasy tactics, just a different type. I'd rather support someone making a cheap quality copycat when it comes to games. I don't much care who or what made it, and that goes into anything. I don't care if some little chinese kid is sewing my shoes together for 10cents an hour or if it's some local doing it for $10/hr as that's getting into whiny political agendas which I ignore. I'd rather if the price was low enough, and the thing was sold accurately as a copy, pay to the modern game maker (even if it's as you speculate the chinese mafia) than someone with a legit game trying to hose me out of hundreds. I'd rather give the money to someone making a product than a scalper trying to squeeze an inflated cost out of a good they have as they're producing nothing.

I was going to ask if you would seriously support an organization that murders people (http://time.com/10445/hong-kong-tria...lower-profile/) just to spite some predatory resellers. But after reading that quote, I guess you would. What an incredibly selfish, and ignorant thing to say. Advocating the suffering an exploitation of - anyone - just to save a few bucks on classic games is pretty damn low. That attitude is equally as disgusting, if not worse, then those of the people you complain about at NA.

Disclaimer: I don't know that bootleg carts are the product of the Triads, I never thought about it before, but apparently they do have ties to widescale film bootleging so it would make sense. Aussie's theory isn't at all far-fetched. That said I'm purely responding to the notion, even if you don't believe her, that it's irrelevant.