15th April 2003, 6:15 PM
Um, what?
Look, when it comes to urban legends, I don't accuse people of lying, just being misinformed. That's how they spread, not because people lie to each other, but because they think they are telling a true story.
Look, no need to make a big deal of this, I just have my doubts about this story. It's a matter of occam's razor. Which is the more plausible explanation? Is it that someone at Nintendo sold a mostly finished translated ROM to someone, or that a group of people just translated it and a story got out? Since the former is the more unbelievable of the two, the burden of proof is on those claiming it's so, not me. As I said, I don't out and out think it DIDN'T happen, I just don't actually believe this yet. Proove it, and I will believe it. It very well could have happened, but being someone who happens to visit an urgan legends message board where people discuss and often disproove stories just like this one (regardless of how many reputable sites may have fallen for it before), it just smells a tad fishy is all. Don't take it personally, I'm not trying to offend anyone by just not believing it. I'm not calling anyone stupid or a liar, so don't take it that way. There's no need to make such a big deal about this. I just made the comment that it seems hard to believe, so leave me to that statement.
Look, when it comes to urban legends, I don't accuse people of lying, just being misinformed. That's how they spread, not because people lie to each other, but because they think they are telling a true story.
Look, no need to make a big deal of this, I just have my doubts about this story. It's a matter of occam's razor. Which is the more plausible explanation? Is it that someone at Nintendo sold a mostly finished translated ROM to someone, or that a group of people just translated it and a story got out? Since the former is the more unbelievable of the two, the burden of proof is on those claiming it's so, not me. As I said, I don't out and out think it DIDN'T happen, I just don't actually believe this yet. Proove it, and I will believe it. It very well could have happened, but being someone who happens to visit an urgan legends message board where people discuss and often disproove stories just like this one (regardless of how many reputable sites may have fallen for it before), it just smells a tad fishy is all. Don't take it personally, I'm not trying to offend anyone by just not believing it. I'm not calling anyone stupid or a liar, so don't take it that way. There's no need to make such a big deal about this. I just made the comment that it seems hard to believe, so leave me to that statement.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)