If you have witnessed content disappearing from the web, it is safe to assume that censortech has taken over the rule of internet law. From copyright law to anti-spam policies, censortech has forced regulators to remove content that are deemed unacceptable, and people such as Izabella Kaminska and Rana Foroohar have warned us that this dystopian future has arrived.
Speaking of Rana Foroohar, you might want to read her book "Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Principles - and All of Us" for good reasons. The Google of 2020 is not like the Google of 2004, when it used to be the friendly neighborhood search engine when I first encountered it. How times have changed, and not for the better.
For all we know, Big Tech companies have been bending the knee to rogue dictatorships who have zero tolerance for democracy, and the coming Beast dictatorship of Revelation 13, which was described in Revelation 17:8 as "the beast that was, and is not, and yet it is." This Beast, and rival dictators will be frenemies who will try to defeat Jesus on his Second Coming, but will utterly fail hard, with the Beast condemned to the Lake of Fire, and the dictators perishing horribly.
It's sad to see democracy perish in darkness. Especially when democracy in 2020 is suffering the same tragic fate that brought China's Han Dynasty to an end 1800 years ago. Between belligerent governments that are forcing big tech companies to silence the truth, especially effective countermeasures against epidemics, and the free world currently being a divided house, democracy as a form of governance is officially going the way of the Han Dynasty.
Apparently, the Han Dynasty collapse happened due to corruption, natural disasters and epidemics. The same thing is happening to democracy in the present age, especially with the current pandemic. Eventually, ideologies that dislike democracy will rule various parts of the world, resulting in a rivalry between said ideologies that could possibly end the world as we know it.
Let's be honest. There are interactive games for the DVD Player, and a large number of Japanese DVD Player games exist, but most of them contain "Not Safe For Work" content, especially the box art, and are unsuitable for anyone under 18. However, not all interactive games for the DVD Player that are unsuitable for people under 18 come from Japan. Tender Loving Care was believed to be the only DVD Player game that is unsuitable for people under 18 that did not come from Japan.
Despite Sony's policies that forbid "Not Safe For Work" content from any game programmed for the PlayStation 2, the DVD Player included in the PlayStation 2 and the Original XBox consoles were compatible with some DVD games, and some of these games with "Not Safe For Work" content are also on the list, which poses a problem for regulations governing console gaming.
If censorship has a legitimate reason to exist, it has to be due to the existence of "Not Safe For Work" content, including video game box art.
There have been many conspiracy theories about the rivalry between Galeem and Dharkon, including potential plot twists. But one plot twist could connect Ralph Breaks The Internet's insecurity virus with Dharkon. Given that the insecurity virus in Ralph Breaks The Internet looks like Dharkon, it's possible that the insecurity virus that copied Ralph's insecurities is a cousin of Dharkon, which could only mean one thing: Dharkon is the Dark Net.
Galeem's version of the bad ending is basically the campaign mode's opening cinematic but worse. For all we know, the true death toll from Galeem's massacre could amount to billions. Even non-video game properties and elements such as Yu-Gi-Oh, which happens to have Konami cameos and elements due to being partly owned by Konami, and the Pokemon anime, which was based on the Pokemon games, were possibly not spared from Galeem's massacre. And the less said about the Archie Comics and IDW Sonic The Hedgehog comics, the better.
According to Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario does not kill people, which explains why Bowser survived all of his defeats, including those that should have killed him off for good. So it makes sense that Mario drops dead in despair, darkness and complete silence just by seeing Galeem getting crucified by Dharkon. Even the most sinister characters such as Ganondorf, Ridley and the Team Galactic criminal syndicate would have all died in darkness as a result of Dharkon's version of the bad ending, and if Professor Oak's grandson Gary/Blue saw Dharkon kill Galeem, he would be finally joining his parents in the grave just by seeing Galeem getting crucified by Dharkon. That's right. Even the characters that made us unduly upset in the past dying in a very terrible way will make you regret hating them.
If you think Waluigi died in darkness because he did not get promoted to a playable character, that is not true. The real reason Waluigi dies in darkness would be due to him seeing Dharkon impale Galeem. To show everybody dropping dead as a result of Dharkon's victory over Galeem would not only require a lot of work put into cinematic editing, but it would turn Super Smash Bros Ultimate into Nintendo's first M-rated title just by having many characters drop dead in despair, including the ones that we totally dislike.
As for the Dark Net, do not visit that forbidden place at all. It's full of viruses, and many of them are written by cyber-criminals who are more vile than the official villains. If Dharkon is really the Dark Net, then it makes sense for Mario to die in despair and complete silence, as the Dark Net is the most forbidden place in cyberspace.
Sad as it is, both Galeem's and Dharkon's versions of the bad ending are required for 100% completion of the campaign. Talk about being sadistic...
Super Smash Bros Ultimate © Nintendo.
Author's Note: This comic was conceived in response to Sony announcing the PlayStation 4 on the 20th of February, 2013. Time constraints mean that by the time this comic was completed, the PlayStation 4 was already available on retail for several years, while the PlayStation 3 is no longer in production. Now that Sony announced the PlayStation 5, this comic will be for commemorating Sony's PlayStation 5 announcement as well as the 25th anniversary of the original Sony PlayStation in all regions outside Japan.
For those wondering why Klonoa is the character saying his farewells to the PlayStation consoles in this comic, that's because the Klonoa series began on the PlayStation, and Klonoa was a prominent Namco character during the PlayStation 2 era. The dates in the first two panels are references to the discontinuation of the production of the PS1 in 2006 and the PS2 on the 4th of January, 2013. As for Klonoa frowning on the PS3 in the last two panels, it's not because the PS3 has no Klonoa titles, but the PS4 is not backwards compatible with its predecessors. Note that Klonoa is holding a PS3 Slim in the last two panels, and the date on the third panel is a reference to the day the PS4 was announced.
The PlayStation 5 will be backward compatible with most PS4 titles, but it will not be backward compatible with any game from the PS1, PS2 or PS3. Therefore, expect Klonoa to shun the PS5 for being backward compatible with the PS4 only, and totally leaving out the PS3, PS2 and PS1.
