Having played Palworld a bit, some of the monsters are distinct from Pokemon, but some of them are incredibly obvious clones.
But like, looking back at some of the knock-off toys I remember seeing in the 80s and early 90s? It definitely seems like copyright has gotten more robust in its attempted overreach.
I feel like listening to your gut is a big component of this. There have been times when I notice that the way someone talks bothers me for a reason I can't put my finger on and I decide to give them the benefit of the doubt, assuming I'm being shallow or unreasonable, but then a few months or even years later their behavior lines up with my initial discomfort and I realize I had spotted something being off from the start. Sometimes it's better to listen to the general feeling you're getting from the less verbal and analytical parts of yourself than to wait until you have a real explanation.
Of course, there may be people who are just anxious or a little eccentric and that's what you're spotting, but usually it's worth at least sniffing it out from a distance rather than fully ignoring those feelings until you can articulate the reason for them.
Mushrooms are pretty loud talkers, tbh. Just gotta listen to the right ones. 😂
This is the problem with spending millions of dollars on games and focusing on profitability over actual quality or expression. Video games are fundamentally an art medium. You can choose to make some uninspired cash grabbing trash, and can even make a whole company built around that and make profit. But are you going to make a great game that way? Probably not.
You'd be better off with half a dozen people with passion and a comparatively minuscule budget. You might have to scale back from ultra realistic graphics and massive explorable areas with dozens of voice actors, but I don't really think that makes games any better anyway. A little 2d rpg with really basic pixel graphics can put a big project to shame if it's made with passion and emotion.
It seems like a pretty good survival strategy for a species to routinely produce a number of different sorts of constituent organisms in order to have the tools ready to be more adaptable to varying circumstances. Considering how much humans specialize their routine behaviors and the way in which we work together both consciously and through larger interconnected systems, it isn't surprising to see a variety of strategies to process information, make decisions, and communicate with one another. Thinking outside the status quo creates opportunities that can independently either succeed or fail of their own applicability and ability to be executed. If everyone is looking for the same things, they're likely to miss a lot. Even if many of those arrangements don't produce the desired result, they can be a valuable exploration for new resources and strategies.
It seems an extremely dire mistake in these circumstances to label one particular mode of thought the ideal and reject all contradiction as dysfunctional or useless.
Given the responses in this thread, it seems that the same bias exists even in ostensibly leftist spaces. Yikes.
Y'all need to get out more.
Using someone else's IP, such as claiming that something you're distributing is an episode of their show, most certainly qualifies for a valid DMCA takedown notice.
I literally don't set up my voicemail, and I typically don't listen to recorded audio that gets messaged to me. Texting is functional and doesn't leave me some anxiety-provoking message that I have to sit through and digest without saying anything. If a conversation needs to happen in voice, text to say that and see if it's a good time.
Wild that people just ring a personal phone number unprompted in 2024 without that being an established routine.
That said, I also remember when it wasn't at all weird to show up to someone's house and knock on their door. Things have really changed.
Moving blankets are a wonderful solution. Hang them over your windows and enjoy the quiet. Get thick ones. Uhaul has good ones.
I've had pretty decent luck with Notesnook. I wish they'd give it the capability to open multiple windows, but at least it hasn't lost me any writing like Notion and Obsidian did.
Too much hand wringing. We do better when we're not tiptoeing around our own words and actions terrified to sneeze.
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn't seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Honestly, if there were tight restrictions on how the footage is used and what cases it's allowed to be turned over for, these are probably less dangerous than actual armed human beings running around. Robots don't have a sense of egotism unless they're programmed to, and hopefully wouldn't be armed.
Knowing the kind of tech bros that seem to typically start companies like this, though? I could see it being an incredibly intrusive form of data mining. Seems like yet another case of technology that could be really helpful in the right hands, but a mess of enshittification in the hands of money-grubbing cap capitalists.