I never played the original Holiday Island, but there is a solid spiritual successor in early access called Summer Islands.

A screenshot of one of my island archipelagos:

Wow, this is kind of thing that can make one reevaluate what methods are most appropriate when dealing with corruption and oligarchs.

If your opinion is identical to the corporate sourced PR copytext (not to mention the condescending style - "everyone knows"), then yes it is de facto PR work.

I will never understand when people engage in volunteer (i.e. unpaid) PR work for some random company.

Criticizing a company for lazy patent trolling (a patent for riding a mount?) is not engaging in "hate crimes against video games".

Nintendo is welcome to release good products on multiple platforms (Palworld runs on PC) to compete with Palworld. Crazy idea, I know!

One would think I should patent the concept of releasing good games to compete with other companies, but out of the goodness of my heart I will release this unique idea into the public domain.

Cheers!

Interesting. Yes, that is a bit more specific.

I personally do not support game design patents because that's not how gaming works (and people who file such game design patents know this).

What are the other two patents like if you don't mind me asking? Aiming in particular seems openly malicious (as do mounts to be honest).

From the translation of the claims, they appear to describe Pokémon-style activities, with ‘191 focused on the act of throwing a ball at characters in a field, ‘117 tied to aiming, and ‘390 on riding characters.

If this is indeed the case, the lawsuit is clearly illegitimate (in the real sense, can't speak for legal nuances). Not surprising.

Do you want to conduct an experiment to further our collective knowledge?

I promise to send you letters if you end up in the gulag.

Whatever the topic, it's best to avoid the opinions of videogame streamers/youtubers on matters outside of videogames.

I somehow doubt Hoyt has ever lived in Israel/Palestine, speaks Hebrew or Arabic or has ever read the Talmud, Bible or Quaran (even partially, but in a serious manner; one that provides some context on the "styling" of Abrahamic religious texts).

I haven't seen much of Hoyt's content, but the few clips I've seen seemed very low effort. If you can't even be bothered to make good content around videogames, you should definitely avoid narcissistic outbursts on serious matters.

They are not paying directly. As per the article you can get additional PTO days in the future, albeit only after Squadron 42 is released (whenever that's going to happen) and if you are still with the company.

A pretty sketchy approach.

The graphics from Simcity 4 (even Simcity 3000) hold up very well today.

I think it's the mixture of a high quality creative direction and immense detail.

Bt this point, it is reasonable to assume that Star Citizen is a self-enrichment scheme for the founder's, Chris Roberts, family.