Announcement Video

Man, this hurts. The reason why it’s “technically not a graduation” and she “will remain an affiliate” are not that clear, but I hope she has a bright future ahead. She deserves it.

I still think if copyright laws weren’t so oppressive, 50 years would be fair (And still a huge improvement from the current situation).

Maybe have it in tiers or something? First 10 years: full copyright - until 30: similar products allowed, but no blatant reproduction - until 50: reproduction allowed as long as it’s not for-profit - post 50: public domain?

If we’re talking PvP, battling has constantly evolved through new abilities, even without gimmicks the way the game is played changed a lot through the years.

In single player they also changed a lot of stuff since gen 4, although the positive changes were mostly in gen 5/6 and the later ones like wild areas and the switch to “””open world””” were… not as well received.

However Pokemon came out in 96, that’s 28 years. There’s been very little innovation in their games since.

First, not really, there’s been a LOT of innovation in Pokémon, as much as people want to deny it.

And second, 28 years is really not that much. We’re not in the Disney realm of copyright-hogging, I think 50 years is a fair amount of time. The issue is that it’s often way too broad: it should protect only extremely blatant copies (i.e. the guy who literally rereleased Pokémon Yellow as a mobile game), not concepts or general mechanics. Palworld has a completely different gameplay from any Pokémon game so far, and (most of) the creatures are distinct enough. That should suffice to make it rightfully exist (maybe removing the 4/5 Pals that are absolute ripoffs, sure).

It’s the studio Nintendo chose as lead developer for BDSP.

I can’t think of a single first-party Nintendo game that’s released riddled with bugs in recent memory

Literally Pokémon. SwSh, SV and BDSP are all a bug-ridden mess. You will probably find more bugs playing SV for an hour than in all gen 3-6 games together.

Although yeah, it’s a (huge) anomaly and the rest of the first-party games are extremely polished. It just sucks to be a Pokémon fan in the 2020s.

Is this what they call “Crowfunding”?

The lesson in question, for anyone interested

Ouro Kronii from hololive English -Promise- showed her versatility in a cover of “Bocca de la Belita”

~~FOR GOD’S SAKE, IT’S “BOCCA DELLA VERITÀ”, ITALIAN ISN’T THAT HARD~~ …ahem, I mean… nevermind

Anyway, damn, I’m even more jealous after reading the setlist. Now that they have an US division, the bluray will be a bit cheaper, right…?

Pain EU

Hopefully everything goes smoothly with the USA division and they go through with it, something hinting at Europe was in the (very future) roadmap iirc.

(Plus I think shipping from the US has less taxes than from Japan? Might be just copium though)

The whole interview was… kinda weird? Lots of one-liners as answers, although the other, longer ones were definitely interesting.

…also did I hear TCG?! It’s probably not gonna take off outside Japan like WS but I’m not gonna turn down more card goodies anyway. Those are usually affordable even in Europe, luckily.

We could provide the licensed merch for the fans, so they could wear it to the anime conventions and show their support. We want to make it happen more frequently so it’s easier for them to get their hands on it.

For fans in Europe too, right…? 👀