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what do you do when your favorite game
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gets a terrible update you complain
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right you vent you post online you try
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to be heard well in the case of Mario
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Kart World doing that will get you
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banned yeah banned for being too
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negative the backlash to this latest
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update has gotten so massive so chaotic
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that the subreddit for Mario Kart World
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which is home to over 17,000 fans
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basically told it community to shut up
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and move on and honestly that's a huge
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problem so here is the mod post says
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"Negativity post regarding the recent
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update are now banned the mod team have
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decided on this due to a flood of
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ranting and loweffort post about the
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update that made three lap tracks harder
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to select online we get it the update
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sucks." And we agree wow they they
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actually agree on this we've also
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unfortunately received messages from
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users that have left the subreddit
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over the toxic nature and rudeness of
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people in the comments from post
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regarding this topic so typical Nintendo
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fanboys you can't say anything bad about
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the Big N they left over that over
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criticism oh my gosh anyways continue on
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says "We don't want you to feel like
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you're being silenced or censored either
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so if you have any questions complaints
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or information regarding the 1.1.2
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update please discuss it in this thread
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rather than making a post about it this
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will help keep the subreddit tidier so
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basically they are locking any
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negativity or criticism about this
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update into a thread here's the thread
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the Mario Kart World 1.1.2
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update discussion thread and you can see
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they're saying uh that this is basically
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the place so that they can't feel that
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they're silenced right please discuss it
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here rather than posting about it since
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we've already had a flood of posts
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regarding this controversial update i
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get it you're a mod you don't want
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negativity to be around and all this
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stuff you can't say anything bad i don't
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understand why Reddit mods are always so
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censorship happy it's it's nuts in fact
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they got called out in a banger Reddit
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reply right here saying "I'm just going
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on the record censorship is not the
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way." And it's not it's a failure of the
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mods for not handling the situation
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correctly fortunately these niche
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subreddit isn't very relevant with many
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subreddits proving better quality of
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post while being more informative right
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they said "Note to any readers here pay
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attention to the upcoming firstp party
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Nintendo releases if you see a trademark
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made for a new title make the subreddit
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for it create the subreddit for it stop
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allowing these mods to collect power and
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abuse the public's goodwill moderation
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is not to be treated as a Pokemon card
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where you trade and swap positions and
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yet here we are mass bands are never the
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answer right and they said neither's
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harassment as the effective police
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officers of the subreddit it's your
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obligation to rise above the frenzy and
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behave correctly and sometimes that
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means taking one on the chin if you
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cannot do that then you are in the wrong
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position step down immediately what you
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guys do is not difficult in any way
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shape or form many of you moderate for
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the wrong reasons in fact the majority
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of you do i mean this is a huge call out
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a lot of people that are Reddit mod
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Discord mods they get power hungry they
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said what the moderation staff is
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showing us is pure laziness
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i mean I banger response there guys this
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Reddit keep an eye on it cuz it's it's
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it's on fire right now so here's the
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setup guys we talked about it the latest
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Mario Kart World update version 1.1.2
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seemed small in the patch notes one
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minor line buried in the log said that
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they tweaked how random tracks are
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selected during online play but what it
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really did though was make intermission
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tracks show up way more often these
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tracks are short onelap connections they
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were never popular in fact most players
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intentionally picked random to avoid
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them and they wanted real races right
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actual threelap competition but after
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this update good luck you're going to be
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stuck on short boring connector roads
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way more often in fact most of the time
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we've already talked about this in the
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updates from the last couple videos
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we've had where the Metacritic for this
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game is getting reviewbombed as we speak
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people aren't happy with this and that
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alone was enough to start this firestorm
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like I said this this update where it
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seems like Nintendo kind of wants to
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streamline and modernize stuff just to I
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guess no longer have choice for players
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choice is too much right reddit threads
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are exploding right now though instead
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of Nintendo stepping in with a fix or
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even just a response the Mario Kart
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World subreddit moderators took matters
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into their own hands like I just showed
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you guys and by take manners into their
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own hands they are literally banning
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people for criticizing the game too much
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and we've seen this in the past with
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Ubisoft subreddits for Assassin's Creed
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Shadows and other games this never ends
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well this always causes a huge backlash
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for the games and even if it's not the
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actual video game studios fault and it's
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some subreddit mod that's going rogue on
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behalf of the whole subreddit that they
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have emergency powers over it's never a
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good look okay the moderator that we
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just showed these screenshots from
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the post that they made saying that they
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would put a stop to all the loweffort
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ranting i mean loweffort dude come on
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you're literally going to be putting a
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blanket statement over all criticism
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according to him the subreddit just
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became too flooded with negative posts
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and complaints and and users are leaving
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because the space had become toxic why
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is it always the little weeb Nintendo
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people that get all oh we're just too
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toxic right the solution that this
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Michael guy had was to delete the
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complaints ban the ranting keep it clean
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and just to keep up appearances right
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they created that mega thread where
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where you're allowed we're allowing you
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to vent right how generous how generous
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of you Michael in the subreddit now look
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I get it guys if you're a mod and you
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see the same post 200 times in a week
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sure it's exhausting but when that many
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players are upset that's not spam all
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right it's a signal it's it means
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something in the game is genuinely
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broken instead of listening to it
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they're muting it on Reddit this is
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Mario Kart World the launch game for the
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Switch 2 this is what they gave us okay
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and they made this update and after a
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single misstep on it right the only
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online community that is on the Switch 2
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at this point is punishing people and
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now after this update which was a
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misstep because it's made a lot of
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people mad the only online community for
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this game the subreddit for Mario Kart
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World is punishing people for speaking
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up let that sink in they're punishing
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people for speaking up and that's not
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cool let's be honest okay players aren't
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just mad that Nintendo made this update
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that made it to where intermission
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tracks were more common they're mad
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because Nintendo made a decision that
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nobody asked for that nobody likes and
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now apparently nobody wants to fix and
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nobody wants to hear about it and you
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have subreddit mods acting like this is
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your fault for not liking it the right
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way and and again it's always the
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subreddit or Discord mods right it
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always happens this is something that
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we've covered in the past there was a
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whole hoopla about the Lords of the
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Fallen subreddit where they came out and
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actually banned the CEO from it the
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software studio that made that game this
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whole entire thing with the Mario Kart
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World subreddit really reflects a
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growing problem in gaming there's this
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weird push to treat criticism like
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toxicity you see it everywhere uh if you
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make a video talking about a public
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figure or a video game you're just being
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toxic and negative right you know that
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idea to say that if you complain you're
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part of the problem feedback is what
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keeps games alive guys it's what pushes
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devs to actually fix things and evolve
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and learn from their mistakes if players
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can't talk about what's wrong with Mario
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Kart World or what they don't like with
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Mario Kart World on its own subreddit
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where where can they talk about it
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the the official subreddit is a main
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place for a community to talk about this
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stuff and before you say "Oh well you're
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just salty and you're just crying." Look
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at what the fans are actually asking for
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we went over the Metacritic people are
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asking for this update to change they
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want proper threelap races they want a
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real Grand Prix they want the freedom to
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race their friends on full tracks not
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these filler intermission stages and
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that's not whining to give your take
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about it to give your opinion about it
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that's completely valid feedback but
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again the majority of these Nintendo
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fanboys out there they're like "Why are
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you crying you You guys need to pull the
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Nintendo out of your ass." All
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right and realize some of the stuff that
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they do is a misstep and it's perfectly
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fine for you to like it and for me not
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to and we can have a difference of
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opinion and and still be cool right why
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Why live in this world where you're not
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allowed to complain where you're not
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allowed to give an opinion at something
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and I'm not alone in this again there's
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people getting banned there's people
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posting everywhere about it tweeting
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about it you know maybe there was a lot
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of posts on the subreddit saying a lot
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of the same thing but maybe that's
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because a lot of people agree on it
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that's not spam that's a clear message
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so if Nintendo doesn't respond to this
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and the community isn't allowed to talk
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on the subreddit how are things supposed
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to improve for this game could somebody
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answer that how are we supposed to get
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Nintendo our feedback that that's going
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to be next to impossible mario Kart
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World has the potential to be one of the
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best online racers on the Switch too and
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it opened up great it had a great launch
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i was enjoying it i'm playing it like
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almost every other day but this update
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this update just basically
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put a wrench in all that it It ruined a
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lot of people's enjoyment of this game
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and the silencing of people that
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followed shortly after that's what
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pushes players away guys so let me ask
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you this do you think the mods made the
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right call banning these people and then
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putting them into their own little
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thread or is this just another example
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of censoring criticism when it's
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inconvenient drop your thoughts in the
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comments down below because I want to
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