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Shilling hardware with affiliate links?
by 1337p337 14y ago
Shilling hardware with affiliate links?
- prezjordan 14y agoI'll be honest, that's exactly how I saw this article - and I usually keep an open mind to things.
- krichman 14y agoThis guy seems like a douche. If anyone dares to complain that their mail app is being discontinued (http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/21/entitlement-and-acquisition/ http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/21/entitlement-and-acquisitio...) they get criticised, but making copies and circumventing copy protection on Gamecube and Wii disks is fine.
- icebraining 14y agoI don't get your post. Are you saying the two positions are inconsistent? How?
- DanBC 14y agoBut this is at least the way affiliate links should be done. A nice, clear, easy to understand article with some information.
- slashdotdash 14y agoIndicating that these were affiliate links might have been appropriate, nevertheless the article has provided useful content for me. I have a neglected Nintendo 64 collecting dust in my loft. Being able to play the games I own on an emulator using the original controllers would be well worth the cost of the recommended USB adapter. It didn't even occur to me that I might be able to do this before now.
- 1337p337 14y agoI was a bit more annoyed that it seems to have been written and submitted just to drive traffic through the affiliate links. I do agree, though, that the USB adapters are nice. I have a couple of PSX adapters and an SNES adapter. The Japanese console manufacturers seem to do a much better job with input devices than the PC-oriented crowd over here. (Although that could just be personal bias; I did almost all my gaming on consoles and in arcades before the first time I tried plugging something made by Gravis into my MIDI port.)