I remember that. If they’d start enforcing rowdy, usual suspects behavior like they did with wearing masks then, the world would be an infinitely better place. Don’t remind me with how ridiculous those mandates were, especially with today being the sixth anniversary of the George Floyd riots.
I'll never forget the moment that finally cemented it to me how performative, worthless, useless, overbearing and -- especially in hindsight, a blatant test to see what the public would tolerate before it finally pushed back and said "okay, enough, motherfuckers" -- the mask mandates were than the day I went to the airport (Orlando International, in my case) to the TSA office to do the in-person portion of "PreCheck" enrollment during the big mask mandate.
I'd parked, and gotten through the first tunnel from the main garage into the terminal when I realized: oh hell, I forgot to bring a fucking mask. I paused for a moment, remembered I didn't have one in my car either, and figured "eh, fuck it, let's see how far I get." Nobody said a word. I even walked up to one of the ticket counters and said "hey, can you point me towards the TSA office? Oh, and do you happen to have a spare mask I could talk you out of?" They were helpful with directions (I already knew where I was going, but it made for a less-demanding ice-breaker), but said (through their own masks) they couldn't spare one for me. Didn't scold me for forgetting either, though.
The TSA site had made it quite clear they were a "masks mandatory" office and there could be Strict Penalties™ for violations. But I walked into the office mask-free, sat down to wait for my appointment time (in classic government fashion, they were available and ready, nobody else was in the office being helped, but fuck you -- your appointment was 11:00am, it's 10:55am, so you're fucking waiting five minutes before we'll see you). Nobody stopped me.
I went through the motions (they just want your ID and signature in-person, and I think they took a photograph but I can't remember anymore). All went well. Nobody ever said a fucking word about a mask. Not the TSA or their in-office goons, not airport security, not the cops, not the employees, nothing.
It took the 30-minute drive back home to really sink in: "this whole thing is a fucking farce."
How are they not getting sued?
You know they don't have permission to make those.
This isn't China.
They probably just don't know she's out there. Standard procedure here is to make lots of noise about it on Twitter, tagging Nintendo on each reference to it, to "raise awareness." That's pretty much how the nintendorks sic the company on infringers (usually emulators, because nintendorks are goyslop-guzzling faggots who love the abuse and always beg for more).
You should totally do it though. The outrage will be hilarious even if they don't do anything because you're obviously just being racist and not insisting on niggers obeying the same laws we have to.
