So the first two seem to deal with throwing a capture item at a creature (wild pokemon) and/or releasing a character's own creature to fight it (essentially first seen in Legends Arceus, tossing a ball at a pokemon to aggro it and then fighting it with your pokemon). The third one is, as others have said, Mount transitions (at least in pokemon, also first seen in Legends Arceus if you only count ride pokemon; if vehicles are included I believe the first would be Sword/Shield). Though if vehicles are included Nintendo would have a hard time fighting that one. Vehicle transformation, especially in racing games, has been around forever.

IIRC Mozilla doubled down on their v2 support when Chrome announced the shift to v3. But then the Chrome monopoly judgment came down and with it a lot of speculation on Google dropping their funding of Mozilla, so maybe Mozilla could be changing its tune to either protect or find a replacement for that funding? Nothing of substance is happening yet, it's still all speculation, but I do hope nothing like that does happen.

Of the games I can think of, probably Super Mario Land.

Those accursed birds outside the window... they have mocked me for the last time!

To clarify, instead of intent a better word may be knowledge. If the supplier knows that the user is going to use the tool for harm but gives the tool to the user anyway, then the supplier shares culpability. If the supplier does not (reasonably) know, either through invincible ignorance (the supplier could not reasonably know) or the user's deception (lying to the supplier), then the supplier is not culpable.

A smooth release, which the KDE devs should be legit very proud of... except for your own flagship system, Neon. What happened there?!?!?

Full disclosure, I'm a Neon user who updated to a black screen and had to spend hours digging up fixes, and I'm the one who reported the issue with Discover on Neon that still isn't fixed.

EDIT: Also, when running pkcon yesterday to install all the updates, it hit a fatal error after a few seconds due to the updates not installing in the proper order so one package ran into a dependency problem because another hadn't updated yet. Ran update again, only that package that was the cause of the dependency problem showed up to update. After that, running pkcon, apt and checking in Muon, nothjng comes up. So I have no idea whether everything actually updated. And I can't find the list of packages that were in the update anywhere to check.

That's really the issue. The creatures in the game, as I've seen pointed out in various places, are much closer in design to actual pokemon designs than in other poke-clone games, with some looking so close they might as well just be a regional form. I don't even know any of the pals' names but I can somewhat clearly recall seeing one that's basically "Luxray at home". I know the maker of the game has said he doesn't really value originality, but there's a difference between being unoriginal and straight-up plagiarism.

This has to have been in the planning/development stages for a while. What we may not know is whether they were planning on launching now anyway or whether they moved their plans up after the editor was fired.

There was a track maker add-on to F-Zero X for the N64 DD that only released in Japan. One cool thing they could do is put F-Zero X on the Switch N64 Online with that track maker added and if possible with online play and/or the ability to share tracks. That would be awesome.

Along with a brand new entry in the series, please. 😁

To me it sounds like an idea most people would say is a good idea because people like choice on principle, but the vast majority of people will then just use Chrome anyway.

If it is F-Zero, and it is true that Nintendo showed off their new hardware at Gamescom, I wouldn't be surprised if the new F-Zero game is a launch title for the new console. F-Zero would make a good title to show off improved graphical and processing power, especially if the new console is supposed to keep up with the Xbox Series/PS5.

As far as use cases where immutable distros would be more or less convenient, it appears to me that due to the security and reproducibility factors, immutable distros are better for server or enterprise environments where updates need to be rolled out quickly and smoothly, which are most actual Linux systems out there and where Linux companies make their money (hence why they seem like the hot new thing right now), and for desktops where people are primarily concerned with not wanting to "break" anything. But a classical distro, IMO, would be better for folks like me who do want the control to change or customize things down to the core parts of the OS. As far as I'm aware, you don't have much freedom to tinker with an immutable distro until it's wiped away with the next update.