Oooh, thank you for reminding me that game exists. I still haven’t played it, and so many people have told me it’s good!

There are over 1,000 pokemon. I think it’s a Tolkien situation- where famously, you can’t write fantasy without using ingredients that Tolkien created, because if you do, obviously it’s from Tolkien, and if you didn’t, the reader is asking why not? That kinda deal.

If you set out to create a game involving collecting, or even looking at and cataloguing, a bunch of different fantasy creatures, you’re going to have some that are at least a little similar to pokemon. The electibuzz/grizzbolt example you gave is a fantastic one. You’re claiming it’s stolen, but that there is a cat creature with a single lightning bolt in it’s belly. Versus a… monkeything? Covered in them. My point here being, even if they didn’t steal (which, I’m sure they did, there are other, better examples) at a certain point you have to accept that with 1,000 pokemon, there’s going to be overlap, so you either need to just be up front about the stealing, or you need to spend 5x the amount of development time making sure none of your creatures have overlap.

Personally, Pokemon has been around for more than 25 years. Even if they released a million games a year, they shouldn’t get to gatekeep ‘all creature-collection simulators that you use balls for and that you can ride like a dragon.’ Fuck that. They got infinite money back on their initial investment, and they shouldn’t be allowed to just own the ideas. This is the kind of bullshit that makes me (a lifelong pokemon fan) want to never, ever, ever give them money again.

Yeah, but they’re also refugees. They probably have their own culture and lingo, and even if they didn’t, I support making them comfortable until they’re naturalized.

The subreddit for r/GenP was shut down, and their users were being directed here.

That’s what this post says anyway.

I hadn’t heard of genp until that post, but since they’re pirates, they’re welcome on dbzer0, the instance for pirates and anarchists.

I always tell people, similarly, “It’s over and it’s never coming back.”

I used to say, “today is over and it can’t hurt you anymore,” but that turned out to be a lie.

Love that energy! That’s kind of how I feel about the Elder Scrolls. I can’t get into it but I’m so glad there are people who do.

I screamed!

What great news!

That’s why I said it might have something to do with who you’re around.

This is so weird to me. Maybe it’s about who you are, or who you run with, but when I saw that Discord was about to go that way, I messaged my Pathfinder group and every single person there immediately hit me back with, “so where to next?”

I would download your car, not because I need one, but just to seed it.

I hear they just gave everyone on the Skyblivion mod team a copy of the remaster.

100%. This is the writing on the wall.

When I tell people Lemmy is like the old internet, I’m going to use this specific comment chain to demonstrate it.

Oh, hey, C-PTSD is one of mine! I’d start a community, but I have avoidance issues. (Ha!)

Seriously though I’d join a community somewhere and help where I can.

In November, the boyfriend and I went ahead and pulled the trigger on replacing both of our aging laptops (even though it was a bit earlier than I’d like- I just play a lot of Stardew Valley, I don’t really need anything fancy).

Thank goodness for that. I’m sad other people won’t have been as fortunate.

This’ll only work if they also buy everyone else who sells the solution, and shut them down.

There’s also this thing that happens where, as a whole, we’ll just act capriciously.

I don’t know if it’s true of younger gamers but my generation seems to really choose at random whether we like your product or want you to die in a fire. Any fishy behavior can tip that scale pretty quickly, and if we already recognize a brand, and it’s not one of our arbitrarily Chosen Few, then we might not even give you a chance. Just because we know the name, and that’s already a strike against you.

A fire? At a Sea Parks? It’s wrecking my head! If she had said that her parents drowned, I’d be the happiest man in the world!

“It just seems like a weird place to go on fire” was the best, I agree entirely!

Well good luck, she’s in Italy now.