Those are two different situations.

There isn’t enough paying for shit that’s gonna make a mod run in an unmodified console. You can find people who have bought every single Pokémon game ever, and they still want to play romhacks and randomizers and such.

There’s something to be said about how willing people are to pay and whether they admit it or why. But sounds more like you don’t want to believe there’s any other reason to do it.

A lot of people resort to emulation simply so they can play mods too.

Some Switch games could definitely take advantage of more power too

Emoji kinda function as the new punctuation in the internet era.

Whatever one might think aesthetically, they do a lot to indicate the tone of a message.

Of course, but this is what makes me wonder, if there was anything truly objectionable happening, wouldn’t they have been taken down already? It’s not like this was a surprise release.

Absolutely. It’s not like they are incapable of decent original design. Daedream is cute and Depresso is funny as hell.

Yeah, I agree. But being evocative of an idea is not illegal, unless the design is near indistinguishable or if they used files from Pokémon in the production of the Pals. Say, how many Superman copies are there? There are multiple stories out there whose main idea is “What if Superman was bad.”

Meanwhile I see people going “Anubis is just Lucario” and I wonder why they think the Pokémon Company owns the idea of every single upright canid. It doesn’t even have spikes or anything.

In this case it would probably be fought in Japan because both The Pokémon Company and Palworld’s developer Pocketpair are from Japan.

Which would be fine, frankly. With all the money Palworld got, they can aford to redesign some creatures. The number of them that actually look like imitations in practice is much smaller than critics make it to be.

The only Mario series that gets more than rare 33% discounts

Seems to me like the Wonder Seeds might make it much more replayable than NSMB because every stage will have unique variations you can engage with on top of the typical run.

Which, come to think of it, seems like it’s applying some ideas of the 3D Marios into a 2D one. Replaying stages with unique missions and gameplay twists is a staple of 3D Mario since 64.

The jailbreaking community saves the day once again

It definitely should. No digital work can endure a century before it’s completely lost. The copyright length we have today is a death sentence for a large chunk of our culture.

For all their flaws, Valve and Minecraft show it can be done. You can have both a monetizable live service and user hostable servers.

They probably already do.

Kbin is pretty nice, but sometimes it feels like it is… a bit too nice? Clean UI, better uptime, but also seems a little bit more closed. Makes me feel a little paranoid. Is there a corporation running it?

Very patient for sure

A variety of fandom and franchise-based communities, some artistic communities, some more specific sub-communities like Patient Gamers which exists but it’s pretty slow.

Redditor-level rudeness sure showed up quickly though

Eh, remains to be seen. The pacing of the internet today is very different.

No one is asking you, specifically, to do it.

Then don’t get on my case for not liking the lack of content, geez!