willis936

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[–] willis936@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Two-wheel style car, or motorcycle? Sir, this is clearly a tomato pie.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that'd do it.

I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Palworld didn't plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.

Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.

More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

By Freaky Friday rules you would just be giving them another identity to send in affirming reports.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It's working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google's best efforts. It's a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world's richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world's richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

They're smart to balance their checkbooks on the way out. They never let any opportunity to consume go to waste.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was many years ago. The itching didn't happen immediately. Good advice to not take medical advice in social media comments.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It depends what you mean by support. They made the Steam Link for 3 years and have not made it for 5 years.

[–] willis936@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

>see headline

"Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?"

>reads first line of article

"Oh it's for AI. Gross."

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