Warning: Pirating Tears of The Kingdom Could Lead To Reggie Fils-Aime Ratioing You
We had previously warned you that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had leaked. At the time, we only knew that people needed to worry about seeing spoilers. However, we didn’t know at the time the risk that it could take for the leakers themselves.
Former Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime went after one such leaker, bragging about getting a copy of the game up and running on their Nintendo Switch console. Reggie went out of his way to screenshot the interaction, which was timely as the leaker already deleted their tweet.
Visual of original tweet. pic.twitter.com/IqeTSYI227
Reggie quoted Liam Neeson in Taken, referencing the “I will find you and kill you” meme, just falling short of using that actual line. The meme can be traced online to as early as 2012, four years after the movie Taken itself was released. For those of you who don’t understand the meme, as explained by Know Your Meme, it’s used as a popular reaction meme, “as a punchline dealing with various pet peeves that people face in everyday life and social media.”
For all of the talk about how scary it is to deal with Nintendo’s lawyers, or their proverbial Nintendo ninjas, none of that seems to be as terrifying as the prospect of someone like Reggie Fils-Aime putting you on blast online.
As these tweets point out, what happens when someone as high profile as Reggie goes up on your radar is the entire internet has a laugh at your expense. As of this writing, the account has already deactivated.
THE REGGIE BLAST STRIKES AGAIN https://t.co/DFZL6HlJ6v pic.twitter.com/9fznKZDbkT
Reggie still works for Nintendo under the table as a fixer. These leakers are dead the moment he figures out how discord works. https://t.co/Cazpx3ive9
Bro was definitely leader of
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