It's not like you can run, or hide. If Nintendo decides to come after you, you're dead. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
I think huffing paint predates the ice bucket challenge by quite some time.
Take off the nostalgia goggles, there never was a "good old time". People have always sucked.