[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 3 points 57 minutes ago

Now you're speaking my language, come and shake my hand... actually, nevermind.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Ruby is adorable.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

There are many reasons we are screwed as a species. There's pretty much nothing I can do about it, unfortunately.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 25 points 2 hours ago

Whenever this discussion happens in my country, where the death penalty has been abolished, I always point them to cases like this. They argue "But we will be better". Historically we have not been better, and we are only getting worse.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Fun fact: If you've said "Fuck you whale", you don't need to say "fuck you dolphin" as all dolphins are whales anyway. It would be like saying "Fuck you, Great apes (Hominidae) and fuck you human"

But you can say it if you want, it's just superfluous, but many of life's pleasures are.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 23 points 2 hours ago

The character that Gordon Ramsey puts on for Americans is so wild. Certainly he's to the point and frank whenever he appears on British TV, but he's far from this raging aggressive personality he has on American TV.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

I would suggest that the camera man moves.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not sure how it works in Japan, but in many nations you have to file for a patent before or pretty soon after you release your product / service. In the US I think there's a 1 year grace period. It's a pretty common sense thing that stops whole businesses springing up and then being shut down by patent creation just like we are seeing here.

There are many games out there now that involve catching monsters and making them fight for you, Nintendo would be shutting down 100s, if not 1000s of developers if they wanted to go ahead with this and have it be taken seriously.

Anyone that has played Palworld will tell you that it much more resembles ARK than it does any Pokémon game or experience anyway.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 24 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Half of Pokémon are heavily inspired by artist's (who are not affiliated with Nintendo) illustrations of popular Yokai (Japanese mythological creatures). The rest are simply animals with very generic additions. "It's a cow but bipedal" "It's a kangaroo but with horns" "It's a pigeon but... actually yeah it's just a pigeon. No difference."

How can you copyright/patent that? It's hardly original.

I say this as someone who grew up loving Pokémon.

Egg_Egg

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