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visual mirage
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The most recent seems to be the "Super Mario" supermarket, while the next is about them attacking Pocketpair.

rustic basin
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new mega pokemon reveled

visual mirage
radiant hawk
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I remember this

visual mirage
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What good is it for a yearly release cycle that is buggy, unpolished, and outright lacks what the fans want?

radiant hawk
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Bowser's canonical penis

radiant hawk
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It's every 3 years

visual mirage
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Honestly, I miss the GB/GBC Gen 2 and the "Card Flip" game (it was a slow, but actually very easy, way to earn coins on the legit hardware)... the remake's "Voltorb Flip" doesn't even come close.

radiant hawk
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As for buggy and unpolished, that's Game Freak. The games have always had buggy stuff, especially after the jump to 3D.

visual mirage
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They are being pushed by Nintendo for the frequent releases.

radiant hawk
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No, Nintendo handles the legal side of things. Game Freak handles Game development, and TPCI handles merch, PR, etc. Pokemon is owned by 3 entities that each play a different role.

visual mirage
radiant hawk
visual mirage
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... Honest question, why does it seem like you are trying to defend Nintendo?

radiant hawk
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TPCI handles the mobile game stuff too

radiant hawk
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Game Freak makes the mainline games (Except for BDSP, which they gave to ILCA, a 3D design company). The spinoff games are made by different developers such as Creatures Inc, Bandai Namco, and Spike Chunsoft

visual mirage
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For main-line games, has any game ever come remotely close to what Emerald's Battle Frontier was?

radiant hawk
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Platinum's battle Frontier

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But most games have done only the Battle Tower or similar concepts. Scarlet and Violet are the first games in the series since the Battle Tower's introduction in Crystal to not have some kind of Battle Tower.

radiant hawk
visual mirage
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Understandable.

keen fern
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aw man
they were typing for 5 minutes, i was waiting for that message 💔

visual mirage
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I doubt I was typing that long.

keen fern
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no, not you
sheep

visual mirage
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Some of it was Alt+Tab between this and YouTube for the links & titles.

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Oh

peak folio
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Take those typing notifications with a grain of salt.

humble parrot
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Sometimes, my cat moves to cuddle with me and puts his paws on the keyboard

peak folio
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If you’re ever in the same room as someone while it’s saying that, it does not stop and start in real time. croajirokek

keen fern
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i know it lingers for a bit but...

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over five minutes... it better be good

radiant hawk
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Every single facility in Emerald boiled down to random chance. The Battle Pike is LITERALLY random and even the hints you DO get are completely unreliable and can lie to you, often meaning you lose because you got poisoned by some guy and can't heal it. The Battle Arena is confusing and requires an insane guide to understand, which isn't in the game, plus the frontier tycoon has a SHEDINJA. The Battle Palace is literally just zero fun because your Pokemon just select random moves and sometimes even decide to not do anything. The Battle Pyramid is just bumbling around in a randomized dark cave without Flash. Battle Dome is fine but it can sometimes feel cheap due to the way it's coded

keen fern
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it was not good

night plume
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If my cat hits the keyboard, I send it to whatever chat they typed in

peak folio
teal iron
radiant hawk
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Meanwhile, in Platinum, the Battle Arcade allowed some degree of control by having you stop a grid that can affect wither you or your opponent positively or negatively. It also had the Battle Castle, where you could pay to affect the battle, at the exchange that you can't heal between battles without paying. The little girl in the Battle Castle actually ends up on Unova's Elite 4 btw. Then there's the Battle Hall, where you you bring one single Pokemon with you and you get to choose your type matchups for 10 battles. The goal of the Battle Hall is to keep playing with the same Pokemon over and over to get a high win streak.

tranquil obsidian
peak folio
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But I’m guessing it’s related to the patent nonsense.

jaunty kraken
worthy onyx
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https://youtu.be/NH3oDBhOVuw?si=hToFyDplLOnhlcUd

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Doctor Disaster
ABSURD: Nintendo secures ANOTHER patent to use against Palworld. Th...

Lots of games use summoned creatures to fight battles for the player, but Nintendo seems to think they should own the patent for it due to Pokemon, and they are going to use this as another weapon to attack Palworld.

Video Games Chronicle article: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-now-has-a-us-patent-on-summoning-characters-and-...

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sacred mango
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fire medic art ❤️‍🔥

olive olive
peak folio
teal iron
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I don't even like Charizard, I HATE Charizard, and I think he deserves better

mental summit
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No he fucking doesn’t he’s gotten a major cameo in every generation since x and y

teal iron
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Being AI generated is a torment he does not deserve

radiant hawk
cyan cliff
olive olive
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I think you can get a second season out of it to show Harry's actual death, we also haven't seen young Captain Matthews or Doakes yet, also Deb police training stuff like that

cyan cliff
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Yeah early versions of those characters would be good to see.

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But as for Harry's death, I think the reveal that he knew who the not-yet Ice Truck Killer was adds questions that I think are better off unanswered, and left to fan speculation.

gusty marten
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So in a nutshell, Nintendo are so desperate they try to extend lawsuit longer to drown Pocketpair in legal fees, those scumbag :/

peak folio
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I don’t think desperate is the word.

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It’s literally patent trilling.

bronze mesa
jaunty kraken
bronze mesa
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I have been demoted from secondary character to background character in the official Palworld™️ Server dot com. D will find greener pastures.

rustic basin
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E

bronze mesa
sacred mango
jaunty kraken
mental summit
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Come on man, you know Celesdir needs the D!

copper inlet
sick flame
covert swallow
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But my birthday is coming tho

maiden narwhal
prime agate
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Ah, yes... Another day of a typical Nintendo. Nothing surprising that they wish to keep going with the lawsuits.

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I feel like this 'summoning' patent isn't only targetting Palworld, but it's also targetting other games that involves summoning to fight others for you.

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And I mean we're talking about games like: Terraria, Elder Scrolls games, HeXen, HeXen 2, etc.

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Literally anything that involves summoning creatures.

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And this, is a huge problem.

simple aurora
simple aurora
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Okay, this is curious. Even a lawyer is mystified this is allowed.

slender pilot
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yeah...Atlus and Sega might want a word with Nintendo for this. The megami tensei series started in 1987, the summoning to fight for you way out dates Pokemon.

tawny sage
thorny owl
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They can't use it in the lawsuit. Also they have no grounds to use it period. Not only because final fantasy uses this mechanic but also Dragon Quest, Digimon, Persona, D&D, World of Warcraft, Hell even GW2 I'd argue, uses a version of this mechanic.

And technically Magic the gathering has been doing a version of this for years. Since you, the player, you play as a caster in the game and the whole point is to summon monsters (and people) to fight for you.

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So it boggles my mind as to how Nintendo ever managed to acquire this patent

tawny sage
thorny owl
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Yep

prime agate
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Hey, guys. You know what I realized? In Left 4 Dead 2, using a bile summons a mob horde to attack specific things.

thorny owl
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Ratchet and clank has the minion glove in the first game

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Also the little bots in the second game too

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The Yu-Gi-Oh games also have a version of this both digitally and virtually

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The dungeon games also have you summon creatures that attack your enemies.

tawny sage
thorny owl
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Wrath unleashed for PS2 had you summon creatures to fight for you but that was a pretty obscure game I think

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And also Capcom had Chaos legion.

Like I'm sure if I spent enough time thinking about this, the list would grow exponentially. To the point where I don't know if I could ever take Nintendo seriously for ever trying to claim patent infringement for this one.

solid sun
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why are you listing my ps2 shelf inventory right now

teal iron
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playing the "name that game which infringes upon patent" game

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all games infringe on patents, because I patented video games in 1932

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And I've lobbied the governments of every country to extend the patent indefinitely

solid sun
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what came first, chess or shogi?

daring yoke
daring yoke
cobalt briar
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saw news on the Nintendo patent exbarrel

sacred mango
humble parrot
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Good morning

daring yoke
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I've always viewed usage of watercolor as risky coz once u fck up u can't redo it without potentially breaking the paper.

solid sun
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that's why there is a full stack of new sheets of paper, not just one.

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you can try again and again

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also majority of anime have had their background drawn in water color through the majority of the mid twothousands

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it's only recently that they started to explore digital

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if you look at the first season of Digimon for example, backgrounds are all in water color, which gives them their distinct look.

maiden narwhal
peak folio
snow bay
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So I'm seeing the whole BS that Nintendo got granted in the US and it makes me wonder. Is that gonna affect things like say summoning Atronaches in Skyrim? Cause so far it kinda seems like it and if that's the case, oh boi, I'm not only gonna have to start doubling down on blocking Nintendo content from my house (like I was already doing) but going beyond that....

unborn mauve
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Its gona infect all summening system...

peak folio
unborn mauve
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If, it pass

peak folio
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How they’re even getting these granted is extremely sus.

snow bay
peak folio
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I’d like to see somebody sue them to the point of discovery, but that’s not going to happen.

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Because there’s no reason they should be getting any of these granted in the first place.

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But this is just… extremely shady.

snow thistle
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Guys what is the hip new twitter url to make videos embed properly...

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fx and fixtwitter aren't working

peak folio
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fixupx or fixvx .com

snow bay
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Alright so it doesn't have power on already existing creations but what if for example a new game or IP tries to have some kind of summoning thing like for example you having a game that has sorcery system and can summon say a succubus or dragon?

snow thistle
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Neither of those worked

peak folio
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Huh.. Fan_flushed

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Lemmie find a random video

snow thistle
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Yeah you know what it is

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It's Slack

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Slack just won't do it anymore

peak folio
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Ohhhh

snow thistle
peak folio
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Yeah these ones are for discord. I think you need different ones for Slack

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It might also just be disabled by company policy

simple aurora
simple aurora
oak aurora
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The issue with this patent is it went full nuclear, other companies could ignore nintendo and it being grumpy at an indie game, but like a kid throwing a tantrum, they kept throwing things and broke something thats got everyone in trouble. Once the bigger companies figure this out larger lawyers than pocket pairs are going for them, cause that affects more than they have any right to claim.

snow bay
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NGL gotta start making movements for having companies like Nintendo to cease business in Europe if they go on paths like this

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Cause at least here the systems care, even if a tiny bit more about the consumer than Japan or the US it seems

simple aurora
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Can't believe I'm saying corporate greed of one company can counter another corporate greed. But anyway I digress.

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But yeah if a big company decided to sue Nintendo for a patent mechanic they didn't create and own and they did their extensive research, they're in big trouble.

oak aurora
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I mean this nicely, one of the big new limited jobs coming next year for ffxiv is beast master where most likey you are going to capture beasts and have them fight other beasts after summoning them

simple aurora
verbal thunder
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I think this new game is gonna inlvove some slavic/Irish/Scottish flokore

snow bay
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Tho doesn't the US systems prevent you using new patents on previously made crap? Like the patent was just granted they couldn't use it for Palworld I think

verbal thunder
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Ehy em, Bucky, can we have a Channel for PPP games?

peak folio
snow bay
fathom vigil
snow thistle
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The news channel is almost exclusively for PPP

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we'll never post news about Palworld or Craftopia in there

peak folio
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I think they want one where people can chat about it.

snow thistle
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Please drop the news ping if you don't want to know cat_cry
As it says in the role screen.

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Oh...hmm... thinking_lamball

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Maybe...I'm not sure it would be very active though realistically speaking. They are just small little games.

snow bay
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BTW, hi Bucky. How's things going? :3

snow thistle
peak folio
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Tsuppasaiyajin

simple aurora
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There should be a Pal version of this Elmo gif. Splatterina_Heart

snow bay
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Bucky be like
"This is just fine"
Meanwhile the internet is on fire
XD

simple aurora
woeful urchin
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I’m pretty sure Fir recently played Normal Fishing in his fishing ranking video. i didn’t realize pocketpair was dev

prime agate
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You guys should go fishing.

nova badge
woeful urchin
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ah rip can’t use external emoji here

peak folio
snow thistle
woeful urchin
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ohhh

snow bay
simple aurora
simple aurora
snow thistle
simple aurora
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Pray for more successes. We needed them more than ever now. mono_over9000

rare coral
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Thank you king.

peak folio
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PPP, more like Pocket Prettymuchevery Penny

daring yoke
peak folio
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inb4 everyone in here sides with Nintendo to spite Thor after he posted this take.

leaden nova
limpid vessel
peak folio
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he’s right a lot more often than that

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I hardly agree with everything he says but I’m not some psycho who thinks he should die over one cringe thing or whatever.

glad needle
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We want Nintendo destroyed!

snow bay
peak folio
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Now I’ve done it.

mental summit
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We don’t gotta go so far as destroy, we really just want them to stop getting in everybody’s business and the rest will sort itself out

glad needle
night plume
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If you were to make an Audrey 2, what method would you take to construct it?

prime agate
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Zero chance that I would side with this, 'New Era of Nintendo'.

Nintendo died long time ago after Satoru Iwata's passing.

sick flame
prime agate
# prime agate Zero chance that I would side with this, 'New Era of Nintendo'. Nintendo died l...

Comparing to present day Nintendo, and the man of legend himself: He cared very much towards his fans and brought love to the previous Nintendo's community that the current Nintendo would not. He created games that felt more enjoyable and brought inspirations to others. But now today's Nintendo... They would rather much line up pockets of money from all of the lawsuits they create and line up all the carcasses in their own paths of destruction.

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And of course, the new era nintendo's brainless muppets that supports their ideals.

cosmic sierra
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once someone brings up DnD having summoning LONG before this Nintendo crap

echo panther
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I mean, I’d like to see companies like Microsoft (WoW) and Square ENIX, who are bigger than them go at them at this point. Since then have had mechanics like this long before them.

cosmic sierra
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elder scrolls croajirokek

hearty sonnet
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Yeah I'm scrolling

leaden nova
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MS/Sqenix/Fromsoft joint lawsuit Chillet_hee

cosmic sierra
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even hasbro can join in

prime agate
hearty sonnet
rare coral
humble parrot
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Unless it's a molotov

hearty sonnet
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Yeah make Molotovs

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I wouldn't mind a Molotov Launcher

rare coral
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Vodka is pretty flammable with unattended fires.

hearty sonnet
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Mix with honey or syrup & you've got yourself some urban napalm

rare coral
hearty sonnet
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I mean mix with Honey or Syrup for a tasty fun treat!

rare coral
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Something glows in this chat and it ain't the shrimp.

hearty sonnet
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60 years ago, Glowing Shrimp would've been a hot commodity, because people were really dumb back then

solid sun
hearty sonnet
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I love using charcoal hehe

lunar cedar
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Very off topic, but when I was like 13? I had this loooonnng ass comic called Glitchmon. I was a fan of glitches and the mon game (back b4 they were aholes). It was being created a bit b4 gen 7 was released. It's- god. Its so cringy. And yet I have such a fondness for it. Funnily enough, it had a few things like capturing humans and wacky hijinks. I just wonder how different it would be if I had learned of Palworld earlier / If Palworld came out earlier cuz I know I'd be just as obsessed as I am now. Honestly, I wish I had time/energy to make a Palworld comic with the same level of love, creativity, and cringe I had when I was that young

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Like I really wanna know what the hell kind of craziness my mind could come up with regarding a Palworld comic. What new fun characters I'd make. Like a lot of me wants to do it, but man- I don't even know where I'd start. Maybe just doodling pals on paper. If I ever start something, for sure I'll share it. I just miss those wacky adventures

zinc depot
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Why glow

sick flame
hearty sonnet
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Nuke Shrimp

humble parrot
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If you make it with Walmart shirmp, it'd glow in the dark too!

sick flame
zinc depot
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Radium shrimp

hearty sonnet
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Polonium Pistol Shrimp

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The final boss of the ocean

zinc depot
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Delivered by putin

tropic stream
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Oh neat, that news announcement. I played the beta Normal Fishing from their itch.io, it's nice to see that they have a publisher and are moving towards a full release

visual mirage
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I knew something was wrong, but I never knew it was this bad with their history... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RVHmmbEg8Q

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Scott's Stash
"Nintendo Isn't the Same These Days!"

Soulless, greedy Nintendo. They aren't the same as my favorite gaming company when I was a kid: Soulless, greedy Nintendo!

Edited by Sam Essig

Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ScottTheWoz
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottTheWoz/
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topics: online, games, prices, remakes / remasters / rereleases.

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uhh... why politics?

night plume
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That looks like a bot scam

north thicket
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<@&505995738564526080> scam once again in multiple channels it seems

visual mirage
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Agreed at scam

night plume
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It did catch me off guard bc I can believe he made a crypto casino, but I know full well he isn't going to give me money xD

prime agate
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Yep, a bot.

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Abolish this machine immediately.

visual mirage
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Many scams are using fear and / or urgency as tactics.

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I've even seen one on television like yesterday (IIRC)

long shard
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hi guys

boreal crow
visual mirage
prime agate
visual mirage
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I saw the image on Twitter (Reddit?), but there was zero link to the actual article, so I have no idea if it is legit or not.

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I think big N is just trying to pick fights with its new patents it recently made in Japan.

zinc depot
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They hate palworld

hearty sonnet
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Hard to deny that TBH

prime agate
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Of course they hate us Pals...

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Well, we don't care how they feel.

visual mirage
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Funnily enough, The Pokémon Company does not handle any work of the video games, only the IP. What I mean is that they are, in basic terms, just lawyers.

tranquil obsidian
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we can't discuss the Centro stuff here but basically yeah

visual mirage
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Some people would use it as a "reason" to invalidate my arguments.... like how some people have used my gender identity to invalidate my Borderlands 2 "review".

tranquil obsidian
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basically we can't discuss stuff that was uncovered due to leaks

visual mirage
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Totally understandable.

zinc depot
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what's going on now?

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What's "centro"?

earnest peak
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Other than big N going nuclear im not sure

zinc depot
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Going schizo

earnest peak
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Who ever is approving the patents is obviously working for them at this point

night plume
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I will need to find a can of the correct size o.o

earnest peak
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Big N arent bullies they're straight up monsters

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Everything they have done is absolutely illogical they could have just let them be but no they refuse to take an L and just move along. Really dishonorable of them if you think about it

tranquil obsidian
# zinc depot What's "centro"?

they handle leaks, most notably the tera leak that happened a while back; as it's a leak and not official news, we aren't supposed to discuss it

earnest peak
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I hope the Japanese government sees the monstrosities big N is doing and flats out shuts them down

night plume
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🤔my painting skills suck, hopefully I can print a label to use

peak folio
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They’re not gonna shut down their pride and joy over stupid stuff.

copper inlet
earnest peak
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Are monopolies even legal in Japan?

tranquil obsidian
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they're not supposed to be

peak folio
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Japan loves Nintendo on every level. They are given far more than the benefit of a doubt.

visual mirage
# earnest peak Are monopolies even legal in Japan?
  • Nintendo is seen as the good guy by the public.
  • Whoever Nintendo attacks, the public believe it is always the fault of the victim.

I don't know how accurate this is, because I don't speak Japanese, nor do I live there.

peak folio
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Probably an oversimplification

earnest peak
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Sounds like communism practice oh wait it is.

peak folio
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But they definitely command the respect

earnest peak
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Respect is earned not commanded

peak folio
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It’s because of all the good they’ve done over the years

earnest peak
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What good? Suing anyone they can for the smallest of things, worse game qualities as they make more garbage and pricing games $70+ because they feel like its a good price and not because its actual value?

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I used to like the big N but now they have changed for the worse

peak folio
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You’ll either see it or you won’t.

peak folio
earnest peak
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They put more effort into lawsuits than make anything else

peak folio
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But yeah, even the old Switch still outsells everything over there.

earnest peak
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Big N is no more than an oversize infant crying

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They deserve every bit of disrespect for being a company of greed

peak folio
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Oh geez, Iwata’s ghost. cat_cry

pale tulip
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Random question is anyone really good at making discord servers like permissions bots and what not dm me if possible please, payment could be discussed, this is not a self promotion just genuinely need help

snow bay
snow bay
visual mirage
# snow bay From the people I know that live there seems to be the case. Even the non japane...

To defend yourself, here is an ideas to ask (you can choose to ignore this idea suggesting, as it isn't the best of advice anyways):

"When was the last time Nintendo publicly admitted they lost / goofed up, for how long did they keep that information public, do you have to look it up on your own, and how many times in total have they done this?"

One example I know of that they failed on this is the original Switch Joycons stick drift... you had to go out of your way to get a refund (like literally look it up on their website), and the window that they allowed meant that many people could not even get a refund due to being before the "small time window".

sacred mango
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man... mono_depressed

hearty sonnet
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I'd invite him in

sacred mango
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Real

visual mirage
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Just watched this video... seems true for many of the newer AAA games (luckily, Palworld lacks most of the hand-holding that the person talks about). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65k8VIyJlXQ

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Things I’ve noticed playing older games vs. newer games…

thx for watching!! - I’ve been pretty busy this past month but now that things are slowing down I plan on trying to be more consistent with my uploads, not only on this channel but also my gameplay channel as well soooo Ima try my best :P
Also… youtube butchers my audio quality by a LOT, it sounds so much worse when it’s uploaded… sorry ...

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visual mirage
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It is just a way to talk about something in hopes that at least one person realizes it, even if you still decide to leave.

peak folio
visual mirage
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I cannot grasp the concept as to why people hate Minecraft just for its visuals alone.

snow bay
peak folio
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Minecraft is basically the most successful game ever so it’s not that bad off.

visual mirage
teal iron
peak folio
teal iron
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Roblox isn't a game remember

visual mirage
teal iron
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Their lawyers are very particular about that

visual mirage
teal iron
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Therefore it is actually completely divorced from the gaming industry and should be excluded from it in all analyses or observations

peak folio
visual mirage
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Stuff like Core, Roblox, Rec Room, VRChat... they are not games on their own, but more of a hub for user-generated content.

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Sadly, I cannot see the appeal of Roblox after they tossed my report of a person botting out the window, even though I had legit video footage.

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(Not to mention that all the good clothing requires real life money in there)

peak folio
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let’s not discuss what other reports they throw out

visual mirage
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Reporting someone in-world is useless. Also, many of the tycoon games get spam bots that leave before you can even open the user list to report them.

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(Roblox only allows reporting a user who is currently in the same "room" as the person making the report).

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Yeah, as you can tell, it is quite a wild west... not even counting that it isn't even COPPA-compliant (they state it in their EULA thing, but most of us know it is not compliant).

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Rec Room's has it on the homepage itself at the bottom, next to the ESRB rating (at least for the USA English version of the page) https://recroom.com/

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Also a major difference between the two homepages:

  • Roblox uses a login page as its homepage.
  • Rec Room actually has a lot more of "what you can do".
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... I think I'm blabbering again...

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Though I still don't like how Roblox was hogging my SSD when it refused to let me choose where to install it (I would have put it on my HDD... and yes, I looked carefully at its installer but no such option existed at that time).

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On another negative for Roblox... if you play it quite frequently, there will be useless files and folder left over from previous versions of the "game".

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I think it is somewhere in C:\Program Files\Roblox ... you would eventually find a folder that housed many version-looking folder names.

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Hmm... if I knew back then, I would have tried to move it and manually symlink, but their anti-cheat might have noticed it if I did so.

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This gaming laptop has two built-in drives (an SSD and an HDD). I wanted to move several files over to the HDD from my desktop without figuring out which programs are possibly needing files over there.

silver pewter
# visual mirage Sadly, there are people who hate Minecraft due to its graphics, but still play s...

Well like, OG Vanilla Minecraft, like circa 2011 or whatever. Way before the Microsoft Coding rework whatever. The graphics were worse than N64. Like Sega Saturn or PS1 level. But the graphics weren't my biggest problem. Around 2015 or so, people started a notion that it had educational/creativity uses for children, and I vehemently disagree with that. Children should go learn Coding, CAD, pencil/paper drawing, painting, sewing, woodworking, whatever. Not wasting time with blocks for hundreds of hours.

visual mirage
silver pewter
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What???? Minecraft's release date was 2011. The same year that Battlefield 3 and Witcher 2 released.

visual mirage
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Minecraft was available before Release 1.0.

silver pewter
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Yes, yes, but as far as the "official release", that was 2011.

visual mirage
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The person who got me my first Java Edition account did so after I paid him (it was the day before Release 1.0, so I got a discount on that account).

silver pewter
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Besides, games like Oblivion was 2006.

visual mirage
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The number it gives after you attempt a guess is "how many letters are in their correct place?".

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Meaning, unlike Wordle / etc., it will never give a number for misplaced letters.

silver pewter
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Yeah, video games had a lot of great minigames in the 00's.

rare coral
silver pewter
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Some of my favorite minigames were the "shooting galleries" in Zelda OOT and MM.

visual mirage
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Gopher, not the animal, is a protocol that predates HTTP. I forgot if it predates FTP.

rare coral
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Neat shit. One thing you can credit covid for is that it gave a lot of people free time to try out new infrastructure ideas.

silver pewter
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Covid ruined collectables... video games, trading cards, everything went sky high from older adults getting back into their old hobbies.

rare coral
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I have kept a collection of sealed ETBs from Sword and Sheild Pokemon TCG.
I used to joke with a buddy that it was a better investment than the stock market.

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Patience > Scalping.

cyan cliff
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I understand that vintage synthesizers were all considerably cheaper before the pandemic.

drifting fjord
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Unfortunately education seems underfunded in many places so I doubt folks will use it to its fullest potential... I'd wager he's an outlier but I can't be 100% certain so don't take my word for it

silver pewter
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As a whole, I think the biggest problem with K-12 education, is that we're only teaching kids/teens to be ready for college. We aren't teaching them anything to be ready for a job, nor pay rent or get a mortgage, nor how to handle credit.

severe kraken
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Nintendo once again out with a patent..

Say goodbye to future Persona, Final Fantasy, etc games

I’m hoping I read it all wrong but the sun up was like:

For next 25 years, protected by patent, all games from this point:

  • Can’t summon sub characters (pets/companions/monsters)
  • Can’t toggle between character and sub characters during combat or paused frame feature to toggle during combat
  • can’t have a sub character that moves freely or follows player when no enemy or combat
  • player cannot control position and actions of a sub character
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If that’s all true, imagine how many games are going to be affected by that. Especially indie games being made.

sacred mango
silver pewter
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-shrugs- I'll be dead before I finish my already existing backlog of games. NES, SNES, Genesis, and so forth.

simple aurora
fallen girder
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I believe we can still counter a patent claim. Actually, a golden opportunity might happen.

lofty wind
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this probably wont go well

mortal bronze
simple aurora
mortal bronze
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Exactly my thought! What right do they have claiming ownership of something so dang vague???

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I might stick to indie titles for a while, Nintendo's been pising me off

simple aurora
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Remember, the people behind Nintendo aren't gamers like before.

mortal bronze
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Sadly

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I think this all started when Iwata passed

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At least that's how it seems to me

simple aurora
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They're the same kind of corpo nutjobs as AAA western companies.

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Gary Bowser is a corpo scumbag.

mortal bronze
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ugg

simple aurora
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Just like those in Ubisoft or Activision or that guy behind Borderlands 4.

signal spoke
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Nintendo is trying to monopolize the monster catching/battling genre.

simple aurora
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Especially since TPC didn't invent this genre.

signal spoke
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Same with Capcom. Nintendo owns a share of them.

signal spoke
simple aurora
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Fr if Nintendo was really found to be doing shady stuff to the law system, this would severely destroy their reputation.

severe kraken
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For 20 years, until or unless the patent changes or becomes void.

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Nintendo just basically said: Screw American developers.

simple aurora
severe kraken
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Yeah thats silly if you ask me cause I mean, how many games use that mechanic

simple aurora
simple aurora
severe kraken
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Pretty much any game where you can steal a horse....

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XD

simple aurora
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If the controversy regarding the Switch 2 dev kit isn't bad enough.

simple aurora
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And that's coming from Rockstar.

signal spoke
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I wouldn’t surprised if they use this case against them in other countries

simple aurora
simple aurora
signal spoke
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I’m pretty sure they are doing this because of the rise of monster capture and battling games coming out recently

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Aniimo and Guardians of the wild sky are some examples

simple aurora
severe kraken
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Which if you ask me

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Sounds illegal

simple aurora
signal spoke
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This is some kind of joke

severe kraken
simple aurora
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If a parent patent was approved in 2020, any top up patent approved in later years will instantly be considered tied to 2020.

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If you think this feels cheating, it is. But unfortunately that's how Japanese patents work. chikipisus

simple aurora
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Which even if it's allowed, it doesn't change the fact this doesn't look good on their case.

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Again, bizarre Japanese law practice.

severe kraken
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I'll never understand country's laws beyond my own. XD

simple aurora
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Which even lawyers were baffled at the new wording placed in the patent which made it even more vague than specific.

simple aurora
simple aurora
severe kraken
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I see. So sounds like sabotage from the start

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But now Im sad cause of this patent they did in US

teal iron
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It's really nothing to worry about, imo

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it simply will not hold up in court, if it even gets brought up (which it probably won't)

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Its worst crime is going to be wasting storage space in the patent office, probably

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maybe that's why they use so many pages to explain such a mind-numbingly simple concept

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to waste more space.

simple aurora
simple aurora
teal iron
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Who, exactly, is worth suing that can't fight that patent
Approved =/= 100% completely valid and unchallengeable

simple aurora
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Bring up other examples of this mechanic used before and the fact they didn't invent this mechanic when compared to the Nemesis system and they're suddenly in a bind.

teal iron
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Baffling that it was approved, but mark my words, its biggest impact is going to be generating a bunch of clickbait that feeds back into palworld media coverage which means more palworld sales which means pocketpair wins

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we take only Ws here

simple aurora
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Their silence isn't going to help much given how untrustworthy their business practice has been lately.

teal iron
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they announced a direct like 2 minutes after the media cycle started soooooo
Yeah...

simple aurora
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Like silencing people calling out their nonsense $80 price tag.

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And even not being transparent about that in their websites.

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People can be blinded by nostalgia, but not in this age.

signal spoke
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How are you so sure Nintendo is going to go full speed on this?

teal iron
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Japanese court =/= US Court

signal spoke
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That’s a not good reason but ok

teal iron
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My further reading suggests that this is a patent Palworld has already sidestepped, but I'm not really legally qualified to say for sure
But I believe "actual game dev on twitter" who explains things with words over "news article with stock pokemon picture"

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Yeah " actual game dev on twitter" isn't "lawyer with extensive background and inside knowledge" but it's closer to that than article that is financially incentivized to peddle panic

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The world would have a lot fewer problems if, when we saw any post or article that made us feel any strong emotion (besides like, happiness), we stopped and thought "am I potentially being misled, manipulated, or lied to for someone else's benefit"

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IGN, eurogamer, I don't know journalism sites, but they all explicitly get more revenue if they give you an incomplete picture that is arranged to look much more frustrating, hopeless, and terrible than the reality is

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-# and considering how many times those articles have been posted here the tactic's effectiveness is quite easy to quantify

simple aurora
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Either that or look at articles on comments from IP lawyers.

teal iron
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Nintendo has been filing patents since before video game was a word embedded in human culture and they will likely still be filing unhinged patents long after Palworld is a forgotten retro game spoken of the way we describe the original Donkey Kong
And games like Palworld will continue to exist, because the nightmare these articles are selling you simply isn't there

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You are being scared by a cloth on a string with eyes colored onto it so that IGN can make a quick buck of ad revenue

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Sorry if I sound dry or derisive, this topic kinda grinds my gears with how repetitive and circular it gets
Maybe I should not talk about it, but it feels like it's all anyone talks about anymore

severe kraken
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Well I hope it gets taken down cause I been working on a indie game for 5 months and hope one day to put out on steam or something (nothing big or special) but it consists of such mechanics this patent is covering that

(I’m not legally knowledged either entirely)

Not sure what may happen if by mere chance gets caught on their radar.

I mean I only bring it “the chance” cause Nintendo has a history being petty.

They went after a convenient store deli in the middle of who knows where called Super Mario’s Supermarket. 😂 no relation to Nintendo, the owner’s name was Mario.

teal iron
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-# and they lost

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also as I alluded to, my information says the patent is WAY more specific

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Patents read like Nintendo is claiming ownership of all of creation but in reality it's like
Even the tiniest deviation nulls the entire association

severe kraken
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Gotcha

teal iron
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Do your own research if you're gonna publish a game that might infringe and all that, but definitely don't read a journalist's published word as truth

severe kraken
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Noted. Thank you for insight.

gusty marten
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it is more worrying that even if N* lose, the patent they just got will use it against small dev in the future, i don't like this at all.

snow thistle
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Gonna set up the bot to remove all roles and channels from anyone who says the word "patent", and will only return roles and channels after the person has watched the entire bee movie backward.

teal iron
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please

fallen girder
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Who still remember kingdom hearts?

hearty sonnet
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Haha

severe kraken
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You least have to let us drink during that bee movie. No one in their right mind could do it sober.

teal iron
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You'd think that, as a bee, I would love the bee movie

simple aurora
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Bee Movie when Hornet Film walks in. harapeko

teal iron
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this is false
The bee movie uses generic commercial-grade anthropomorphic bees where it stops being a bee as soon as it reaches the generic cartoon face, which imo is a crime punishable by life in prison

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Yeah, I'm looking at you Cheerios
Into the gulag with you

simple aurora
severe kraken
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Better be Star Wars and Marvel Avengers in Kingdom Hearts 4 >:c

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Need that Keyblade Lightsaber and Infinity Gauntlet mode. 😂

midnight wolf
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Who winning Atm

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PP or Nintendoo

fallen girder
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I hope they see the Gmail and at least do some research. I'm just a nobody but at least I did something about it.

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Anyway thats all. Peace

verbal thunder
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Like a year or something

rare coral
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All I need now is a DAC for it.

simple aurora
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Oof. mono_korigori

maiden narwhal
kindred sleet
maiden narwhal
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He who knows nothing understands nothing.

I wanted to cosplay Ansem so bad when I was a teen cat_happy then I learned of the actual work and price of cosplaying…

kindred sleet
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💦

astral breach
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I will be at Japan during the distribution of the codes for the shiny -raidons. I only have Scarlet so at least I will get a Miraidon with my OT but the downside is... I wanted the shiny Koraidon. Will try to get a spare one and see if anyone can help by redeeming and giving it to me...

maiden narwhal
peak folio
simple aurora
humble parrot
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I'd smear the shit on the walls for that bs

peak folio
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||In the US people do that anyway for some reason||

night plume
zinc depot
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Never use public bathrooms

peak folio
zinc depot
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You don't know what was sitting on that seat

maiden narwhal
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That’s why you use a liner, or line the seat with 🧻

peak folio
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Fun fact, keyboards generally carry more bacteria than what’s often found on public toilets.

zinc depot
maiden narwhal
peak folio
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But yeah, ad-walling TP on this continent would backfire terribly.

maiden narwhal
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I carry flushable wipes with me when I go in public areas. And if there’s no liner, a wipe and tp on the seat will do just fine

peak folio
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You’d probably be fine either way tbh unless the place is real nasty.

teal iron
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I feel like ad walling tp is going to not work

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Like I could just mute my phone and look away

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It devalues ads

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Which means companies need more ads

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Which means they use them more aggressively

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Which devalues ads

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Until eventually even this message is an ad for the new Ford F-150 Ultra with 6000 horsepower and the pure strength you need to get the job done

peak folio
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Joke’s on you, they’re using eye tracking

teal iron
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Yeah those were words they use in car ads

peak folio
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I’d hope not

night plume
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Built Ford Tough.

teal iron
simple aurora
teal iron
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I'm guessing this is some attempt to address rampant toilet paper theft

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Or get clicks on social media over how dystopian society is becoming

peak folio
teal iron
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Or your government should be reformed

peak folio
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Stateside anyway

teal iron
peak folio
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People steal paper towels and toilet paper to bundle it up for warmth.

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It’s why there are often those locked electric dispensers that only give you a foot at a time.

teal iron
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0 Insulation
100 absorption
0 durability
Peeling off your frostbitten skin and wrapping it around you is probably a better strategy

peak folio
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Just the air gaps it creates is better than nothing, apparently.

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But it’s super sad either way.

teal iron
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Failure of society that anyone would ever consider that an option

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Even more so that it happens often enough that it's a problem

peak folio
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I have my doubts that China has anyone that desperate.

teal iron
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And messed up that our solution focuses on blocking access to the last resort instead of considering the root cause

peak folio
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I mean bathrooms still need these supplies to be available.

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The fact it’s a problem in the first place says a lot.

teal iron
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If it was just "you must insert coin to wipe" I would think differently but having you scan and watch an ad is so much more needlessly complicated

peak folio
teal iron
peak folio
teal iron
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Like
The thing Nintendo has on throwing balls
Doesn't someone have that for ads that track and require attention
Someone who evidently has made 0 use of it and essentially just used it to block any other company from implementing the concept

peak folio
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You’re gonna short circuit if you try to assume who owns what.

teal iron
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Well I've never seen the tech in practice despite so many devices having the hardware so

peak folio
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Rumble in controllers has various patents and there have been many suits around it.

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But everyone still has it.

teal iron
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Either this is the line of morality that advertisers have drawn or someone with a nasty legal arm owns the concept of demanding a viewer actually observe and acknowledge an advertisement

peak folio
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I believe Nintendo’s first implementation of it for Star Fox 64 was licensed from Immersion, but don’t quote me on that.

teal iron
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Because if it wasn't off the table it would be a thing

peak folio
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So don’t assume somebody can’t use eye tracking because somebody has a patent on one of the million implementations of it.

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That they could be licensing anyway.

teal iron
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The greedy goblins at YouTube would not let you watch videos in peace if they could force you to watch the ad

peak folio
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Last I heard YouTube’s algorithm is boosting videos that have enabled the most amount of ads.

teal iron
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On the off chance they did create skynet and are watching me, I make a point of refusing to look at any part of the screen except the skip timer, or consume any food or drink, while an ad is playing

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The pizza is for actual content, stinkwads

peak folio
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I used to use the Youtube TV app all the time, but haven’t touched it in a couple years because it’s basically unusable with all the ads that happened.

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I’m sure somebody has hacked TV apps to deal with this but I’m not so hooked to the display’s built in software.

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The instant it became less convenient than an attached device it’s instantly back to being a dumb TV.

teal iron
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I watch like video videos on my xbox

peak folio
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as opposed to audio videos

simple aurora
teal iron
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With adblock and an extension that lets me set custom loop period because apparently this isn't worthy of being a standard feature

peak folio
sick flame
peak folio
verbal thunder
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Guys

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Idk, I want switch 2 or maybe not because of Dangaronpa 4

peak folio
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So probably getting easier to get one.

verbal thunder
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I'm Italian, I don't think we have cotsco in italy

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Atleast french does, why our neighboring counrtys have cotsco but not us italians

peak folio
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okay yeah, no idea how supplied your region is.

jaunty kraken
minor dagger
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the new pokemon ZA stuff gets more hilariously fucked the more i hear about it

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https://fxbsky.app/profile/serebii.bsky.social/post/3lynizstknk2m
https://x.com/MandJTV_Michael/status/1966514698016223400?t=iyjwOkKpFK3SRSn7OkwVKg&s=19
https://x.com/OasisUno/status/1966519285724889399?t=PgcgQ6QzaYLUZTPWgyQboA&s=19

FxBluesky
🔁 52 ❤️ 165
Serebii.net (@serebii.bsky.social)

Serebii Update: Pokémon sent to Pokémon Legends: Z-A will no longer be able to be used in prior Pokémon games.

Pokémon from Legends Z-A will also not be able to be deposited in other Pokémon games

https://www.serebii.net

MandJTV (@MandJTV_Michael)

Can't make a reaction video rn but I can say this: this is outrageous. Kalos game Kalos starters can only mega if you do PvP?? And two of them you have to wait for new seasons??

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UNO Oasis (@OasisUno)

@MandJTV_Michael Yes this is ridiculous. I have online but I still can’t use delphox or chestnaught on launch??? That’s absurd

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naaaaah w... wym... i can't... get kalos megas thru ingame progression.... hahah...

jaunty kraken
jaunty kraken
ornate vault
night plume
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I don't understand a thing being said right now.

tropic stream
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Jesus h christ though, pre-ordering day 1 DLC for $30

mental summit
minor dagger
tropic stream
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For the full game, on Switch 2 that'll be $100. They found a way to sneak in $100 game son the Switch 2 lmaoooooooo

minor dagger
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you need to be involved with the ranked battles whatever that means

mental summit
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No wonder they’re sliding all their chips into patents

minor dagger
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yup, you cant get em thru ingame progression

minor dagger
humble parrot
mental summit
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Fair

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Yeah that was my b

minor dagger
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can I pelase talk shit about anti-consumerism stuff without bringing palworld legal stuff, i beg u 😭

tropic stream
mental summit
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Like when you’ve even got the diehard poketubers upset about it you know it’s bad

tropic stream
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There's gonna be more DLC too you just know, like they did with Scarlet/Violet

humble parrot
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The day 1 DLC is incomplete

peak folio
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They do it cause they know it’ll sell.

humble parrot
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Story content for the DLC will follow at a later date

tropic stream
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$30 pre-order for an incomplete DLC on an incomplete game lmaoooooooo

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back in the day that would've just been post-game content

humble parrot
minor dagger
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i am so glad to not do switch stuff nowadays

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like i deadass 100% mean this, it is more fulfilling to be a pokemon artist/commissioner/furry

ornate vault
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Bro
“Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character”

mental summit
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Not associating with Pokémon anymore was one of the best decisions of my life

minor dagger
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than it is to actually engage with their games

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maybe buying plushies? cuz at least with plushies its very straightforward

tropic stream
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I got Scarlet myself, but I think that might just well end up being the stepping off point for me. Between how horribly buggy it was (in single player, the people online insisting it was only with multiplayer stuff are wrong and I have months worth of proofs) and this insane greed going forward, I'm just going to stick with romhacks, thanks no thanks

peak folio
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The eshop versions of S/V and DLC have literally never gone on sale afaik

humble parrot
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This is the first post-Palworld pkm game. Will it sell well? Will it take a hit?

peak folio
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Even Mario goes on sale every few years

minor dagger
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dude

Its pokemon

you're insane if you think palworld is gonna put a dent on that

ornate vault
humble parrot
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It might, actually

minor dagger
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no it wont, this is delusional lmao

humble parrot
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People overestimate the size of cultists

mental summit
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I know we don’t like lawsuit talk, but I wonder if this is intentional so they can be like “see! It is impacting our sales!”

But I think it’ll still sell like hotcakes

tropic stream
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At this point. Charging 100 bucks for an incomplete game, no wonder Nintendo keeps throwing tantrums about patents, literally any creature collector game could come along and eat their lunch

humble parrot
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Let's just see what happens

minor dagger
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you wanna know whats on the top charts among gacha games with high production values on their games?

Fucking. TCG pocket.

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and that game is as comically as low effort and has such a laughably minimal QoL it's embarassing

humble parrot
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You wanna know what bottom charts? Pkm unite

tropic stream
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People saying it won't affec tthe franchise at all aren't thinking about how the target audience for these games are, you know. children, in a time with a shit economy where the parents will just buy some other game or tell their kids to go play roblox or something, videogame companies in general are killing off their future fanbase but it just keeps getting worse and worse.

peak folio
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The only thing that’ll stop the game from selling is a meteor.

humble parrot
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It will sell, but maybe not as much as s/v

tropic stream
humble parrot
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By how much, that is the question

mental summit
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It will definitely sell, shiny hunters bought the switch 2 for better FPS

The question is how much

tropic stream
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Belgium and the Netherlands iirc

humble parrot
minor dagger
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also from what i heard Unite is a fundamental misfire on the MOBA genre

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like it a game made by people who do not understand what makes MOBA engaging

tropic stream
humble parrot
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I played it, it was good

mental summit
humble parrot
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But the balance was dogshit

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And they made it too clear who they would buff to sell skins

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Which were expensive af

tropic stream
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Pokemon Cafe is similar too with it's gacha microtransactions

peak folio
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S/V sold substantially, it’s pretty much expected for a Legends game to sell less.

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It’ll still be massive.

tropic stream
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oh and that Pokemon Friends game recently too. $40 for the full game counting the dlc for that, on a mobile port lmao

minor dagger
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again

it's a lot more fun to look at furries draw those mons in the unite/cafe outfits than it is to play the games

humble parrot
mental summit
tropic stream
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iirc PLA sold worse than BDSP overall, but that's 2 versions of the same game pretty much

peak folio
tropic stream
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idk if that's changed since I last saw the sales figures though

mental summit
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Damn

jaunty kraken
tropic stream
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There were some funny threads on 4chan mocking PLA, an arguably better pokemon gaming experience, for selling worse than BDSP, at least at the time

minor dagger
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istg mega phox looks nicer on fanartist than their official model 😭

tropic stream
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A lot of the mega forms have been so bad lmao

north thicket
minor dagger
tropic stream
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about par for the course though ig, a lot of the ones from the 3ds era were pretty bad too

jaunty kraken
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Riding on a broomstick like a witch and the broomstick head being on fire is very fitting
Actual good design, fits the fire witch motif

peak folio
tropic stream
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Still is it seems by a little bit

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I heard BDSP was really popular in Japan

peak folio
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Okay BDSP is encroaching on the original mainlines, dang.

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Adjacent to Legends Arceus

tropic stream
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I'm surprised let's go sold so well given how much hate it gets from the community

peak folio
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And that data is from 2023

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Arceus might be well past it by now, but don’t know.

unborn mauve
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oh yeah we got news of poke today...

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i lost all interest when i saw a fking dlc when the game isn't even out.....

tough comet
unborn mauve
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like, they think the base is alr shit at this point to alr release a dlc...

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and bananza alr got one too...

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-# not to mention who the fuck wanted mega for raichu....what are we doing here?

peak folio
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I have yet to look at the direct myself, I do find pre-launch DLC to be insulting, even when companies plan ahead for these anyway.

mental summit
peak folio
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There was a time it would be a response to demand for more content and not some predestined thing.

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Let alone taking the money for it straight away.

tropic stream
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line must go up, even if it means the company burning down later

tough comet
peak folio
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There was one today

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Which I trust is where all the buzz is coming from.

simple aurora
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Does this looked like Minecraft?

night plume
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I thought Ditto was not able to take on human form, just faces?

simple aurora
simple aurora
jaunty kraken
tough comet
simple aurora
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Fail eye squint test. Mojang bring in lawyers. Chillet_hee

peak folio
north thicket
humble parrot
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Why release that health hazard

simple aurora
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That price...

tough comet
peak folio
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Or the google cardboard version for $25

humble parrot
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Kek

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$25 for cardboard

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I can get that for free just asking for it in the loading zone of a market

simple aurora
humble parrot
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They stole it and are reselling it, yes

simple aurora
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Not even royalty fee. Chillet_Mad

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Because of this, little Timmy can't go to school and submit his assignment. cat_cry

bronze mesa
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You now remember the Nintendo Labo.

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For me, it's Nintendo "me Labo™️ las manos" from their shitty games and practices.

simple aurora
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And because little Timmy can't submit his assignment, he failed his school subject and can't afford to pay school fee for next year. And his future is gone...cat_cry Chillet_Mad

tropic stream
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They made a big deal about NOT doing that going forward too lmfao

bronze mesa
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How come fan modders can do this but they refuse to do so?

tropic stream
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PKSM is nice, I've been using it for romhacks on my 3ds

jaunty kraken
tropic stream
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here's your gen 10 pokemon game

jaunty kraken
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Starting a new Gen with a spin-off is an interesting decision

peak folio
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Someone pointed that out a moment ago. I don’t know the reason as of yet.

jaunty kraken
mental summit
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10 generations baybee, the money train never stops

peak folio
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Or go back to Gen 1 when every other person was convinced it was gonna be a short term fad.

tropic stream
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I mean they basically ended up becoming the Disney of Japan, so it's not that far fetched imo

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Would've been interesting if some other franchise did it though, I think dragon quest had a monster tamer game at the time too

jaunty kraken
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"Guess what, we are now in Generation X of Pokémon and it's still the biggest franchise ever!"
"What the heck is Generation X?"

humble parrot
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Y

peak folio
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Gen 2 was already being teased by the time the anime started and that show was localized before the games.

bronze mesa
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Generation ZA

bronze mesa
peak folio
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And Mewtwo Strikes back was officially titled “Pokemon: The First Movie” in the US. 😆

peak folio
humble parrot
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It was Pokemon: The Movie here

bronze mesa
peak folio
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Yeah as far as the games went they had no idea it was going to blow up.

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Just went with what they could ship on time like anything else.

floral folio
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Because it the similarities to animal crossing and minecraft and harvest moon and cozy game 🙂 surely nintnedo can sue emself for animal crossing copy

peak folio
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It hurt itself in confusion

north thicket
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why would they sue themselves for animal crossing if its literally one of their IPs

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that makes no sense at all

peak folio
bronze mesa
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Watch Nintendo patent dating mechanics next. croajirokek

sacred mango
jaunty kraken
mental summit
jaunty kraken
peak folio
maiden narwhal
leaden nova
humble parrot
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It actively damaged eyes, caused headaches

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The posture to use it destroyed backs

peak folio
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It would be funny if they didn’t address any of that

bleak crater
novel sun
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Raichu is one of my favorite Pokemon, so Gamefreak showing its Megas with the paid DLC for the game that isn't even out yet feels like a slap in the face

unborn mauve
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cause they both look ass, beside doing a dlc with a game not even out, showing how the devs feel like base game is not enought?

bronze mesa
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Pikachu Libre is the only alternate form of the Pika line I need.

jaunty kraken
tropic stream
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lmao you need a paid online membership just to buy the device eventually, and to be able to play the games at all

zinc depot
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Hard pass

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Subscriptions can F off

sacred mango
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*paid online membership Anubis *

peak folio
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All the classics stuff is behind the subscription.

sacred mango
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-# I was never a big fan of the whole Nintendo online membership thing.

maiden narwhal
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Virtual Boy had like… 5 games? I’ll pass on the deep red tinted games croajirokek

hearty sonnet
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Migraine Simulator/Generator

jaunty kraken
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Which is actually more than I thought there were

peak folio
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We got virtual console Virtual Boy before Super Scope 6

humble parrot
sick flame
humble parrot
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Grok?

peak folio
sick flame
peak folio
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Ani wants you to help her with her corset

rustic basin
jaunty kraken
rustic basin
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they gave her a fucking beard why the hell would i like the design

hearty sonnet
jaunty kraken
mental summit
hearty sonnet
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Total sausage fest

mental summit
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This says a lot about starters

peak folio
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Starters be like that.

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Which probably means they have rat proportions.

mental summit
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Rat?

peak folio
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Among other things.

mental summit
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Rat

rustic basin
mental summit
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“The mainline games aren’t canon”

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I feel that

tranquil obsidian
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RAT!?

rustic basin
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partner eevee for example has a 50/50 ratio while the rest has a mostly male ratio

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why the hell whould they do that if the canon ratio is the mostly male one

mental summit
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You’re asking for logic

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From the Pokémon company

rustic basin
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additionally Azurill has a compleately diffrent ratio compared to the rest of its line

jaunty kraken
tranquil obsidian
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delete all genders, problem solved

peak folio
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Back to Gen 1

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except for nidoran

rustic basin
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all pokemon orignaly disigned to be rare have the same ratio

jaunty kraken
tranquil obsidian
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We've been back to gen 1 often enough why not

tranquil obsidian
mental summit
tranquil obsidian
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would also mean cryagonal can finally attract someone

peak folio
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Guardian pokemon

jaunty kraken
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They probably gave it Attract just to he funny or showcase what happens when a genderless Pokémon uses it

tranquil obsidian
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hey if i wanna seduce Stakataka that's my business

tranquil obsidian
bronze mesa
jaunty kraken
jaunty kraken
bronze mesa
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Be nise Raccoon guy...

mental summit
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I don’t even remember the name of this one tbh

bronze mesa
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Stonjourner.

jaunty kraken
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Something along the lines of Stonehenge... yeah Stonjourner

bronze mesa
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I remember it because its weird as hell. Looks straight out of Adventure Time. And has a weird ability that doesnt really synergize with it

jaunty kraken
jaunty kraken
bronze mesa
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also I saw a big raccoon the other night. not sure if i showed you

jaunty kraken
bronze mesa
jaunty kraken
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Thank you for showing me this picture Mr. D!

bronze mesa
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Unforgiven I must still remain, but always learning from my old mistakes

sacred mango
full mountain
cyan cliff
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I blame Pokemon for Spyro's failure in Japan.

sick flame
cyan cliff
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I hope Pocketpair decides to parody Pokemon's FOMO obsession.

sick flame
bronze mesa
humble parrot
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Damn, another Gunz player

sacred mango
sick flame
peak folio
sick flame
queen hornet
leaden nova
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pokEAmon

sick flame
tranquil obsidian
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in case you didnt think pokemon pvp attendance was low, theyre now making it mandatory for mega evos which will possibly end up meta, lol

sick flame
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canceled preorder

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for about $100 I can buy 3 palworld games

humble parrot
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And still have $10 left

sick flame
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and online

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because mega stones is locked on NSO

leaden nova
sick flame
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It will soon be that Nintendo and Game Freak's audience will drop out

peak folio
night plume
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I can buy some groceries with that $100 o.o

peak folio
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But then you eat it and it’s gone.

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Bad investment.

wheat moat
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at least you won't go hungry for the time being

sick flame
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https://x.com/JeremyTanMH/status/1966559185044193486

Jeremy Tan (@JeremyTanMH)

@NintendoAmerica Preorder cancelled. Already damned tired of 2 games of coop multiplay for content in Sword Shield and Scarlet Violet but now they're 'forcing' PVP of all things for content!? Gimme a break. I'm betting its just Nintendo forcing Online subscriptions sales for this crap. I'm out.

X ·
humble parrot
sick flame
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Nintendo likes to send lawsuits, but they also destroy fans

tranquil obsidian
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"how do we convince people to do PVP in game instead of showdown?"

night plume
rustic basin
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still stupid as shit fot them to lock content behind fomo competative

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the battle system is obveously going to be diffrent but still

sick flame
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DLC cost 30$

deep idol
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It sounds like they are getting stronger in the patent department, but weaker in the audience department. Now where have I heard this situation before?

rustic basin
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why the hell are they alreddy planing dlc thats stupid as shit

humble parrot
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Not even planning

sick flame
humble parrot
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It's day 1 DLC

sick flame
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30$ for pokeballs and outfits

peak folio
deep idol
onyx grotto
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Why do all of these DLCs come with so little of these pokeballs

tranquil obsidian
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its like how buying the season pass in S/V gave you some shirts

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i think the DLC comes later

humble parrot
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Purchasing early access DLC

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They promise they'll release the content in feb 28th, 2026

peak folio
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They figure if a non-trivial chunk of their fanbase are willing to buy two identical games each generation, they’ll be willing to spend the same on whatever expansion pass straight away.

humble parrot
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I'm not joking

bronze mesa
sick flame
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Imagine a DLC mega stones still locked in the online battle rewards XD

tranquil obsidian
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sometimes, when a game is finished but you dont want to move the devs over to another project in case they need to fix day 1 bugs, you keep a few of them on and making extra last minute content; it cant be added as base as it resets the register procedure

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then you add that content as extra post launch stuff, or as a DLC

bronze mesa
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People still buying these low effort games blows my mind. There's really nothing of value in these games man.

tranquil obsidian
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but literally selling that as day 1 DLC is definitely just greed =p

humble parrot
sick flame
tranquil obsidian
humble parrot
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This cope for day 1 DLC for a 1st party game, on a 1st party console

bronze mesa
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Boring dialogue, horrible graphics, TEXTURES ON BUILDINGS THAT DON'T WRAP PROPERLY, inconsistent FPS. I can go on but I don't have all day.

humble parrot
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It's just cut content put behind a price tag

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Cut from the base game to be sold separately

tranquil obsidian
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my guess is that the game was finished months ago, and got delayed to make a switch 2 version;
as such, youve got a bunch of bored devs who need to still have AZ knowledge when the game launches the fix bugs so you cant move them to another project

humble parrot
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Fix bugs?

tranquil obsidian
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they likely worked on DLC in advance but the game took so long to come out, they managed to basicaly finish the DLC already

humble parrot
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What game are you talking about

tranquil obsidian
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in their defence, they did fix the lumiose city bug

peak folio
humble parrot
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Kit, they are not a indie dev

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They didn't randomly decide what to do

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This was planned, years ago

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It's a schedule

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Not chance.

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If they made it, they made it, if not, they crunch and release anyways

tranquil obsidian
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yeah, thats why if it was a 2 year schedule, year 3 would be DLC
but then the game got delayed a year and now its releasing in year 3

humble parrot
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There's no "but we'll finish later"

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There is no delays

peak folio
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Nintendo finishes stuff later all the time.

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TPC though…

humble parrot
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Pokemon is not MP4 lmao

tranquil obsidian
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MP4 had other issues =p

peak folio
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Another cross gen game

humble parrot
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Dev hell + open world surely makes me nervous about it tbh

tranquil obsidian
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definitely suspicious that the metroid prime remaster was the first time nintendo used twin stick FPS controls almost exactly 20 years after the patent was made

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i wouldnt be surprised if that affected MP4 in some way (made with control scheme A, control scheme B became public and they switched to B)

sick flame
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Paywalling Mega Stones

humble parrot
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I have never heard of anything like that. I played tons of games in GC that used twin stick FPS controls

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Time Splitters, CoDs, MH

tranquil obsidian
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the first game to use it was Alien Ressurection by Argonaut Games who have.... an interesting history with nintendo

peak folio
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Original dualshock had twinstick games going with it.

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Halo was probably the first FPS that did it properly

humble parrot
peak folio
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Turok was close but the C-button on the N64 was odd

humble parrot
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Believe it or not, it was criticized and considered bad

tranquil obsidian
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are you using that one review that said "the control scheme sucked" and hes literally describing modern FPS? =p

sick flame
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Nintendo made a 60 min direct but they fell into their own hole

peak folio
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Nintendo will be fine.

humble parrot
peak folio
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Peak hubris takes years for it to impact them meaningfully

humble parrot
sick flame
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funny a DLC new stuff is lock for Switch 2 than just make update for Switch 1

tranquil obsidian
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yeah, it was "weird" cause it hadnt been done before, but it since became the staple of the genre.
however, for 20 years since that release, nintendo never released a game witht hat control scheme but everyone else could

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you could release a game on a nintendo system with it, nintendo themselves just couldnt

humble parrot
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Back in 2002 FPS hadn't even evolved a 2nd stick

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Halo wasn't even a thing, the biggest FPS were all in PC.

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The previous biggest FPS, was golden eye, and that console only had 1 stick

tranquil obsidian
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shows how much it revolutionised it huh

peak folio
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Halo was 2001, wasn’t it?

hearty sonnet
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Goldeneye 007 with one stick was brutal, but it's all we knew

tranquil obsidian
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all it took was someone figuring out a way to make FPS play smoother or more natural on console

humble parrot
tranquil obsidian
hearty sonnet
humble parrot
glad needle
peak folio
humble parrot
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The only thing they have is Metroid, and during the wii era, why the would they do a dual stick scheme

tranquil obsidian
hearty sonnet
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Oddjob is a cheat man

humble parrot
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Sorry, but you're making no sense

tranquil obsidian
hearty sonnet
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All Jaws

peak folio
humble parrot
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Yeah, but everyone went for the motion gimmick

glad needle
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What is with gamers and acting like Homelander in their games?

humble parrot
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Which was the highlight of the console

peak folio
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The waggle era was a weird time.

hearty sonnet
glad needle
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Wont catch me acting like this in Palworld

hearty sonnet
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Lovlander

glad needle
hearty sonnet
glad needle
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Ive never even learned how to use the meat cleaver

peak folio
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🆕🅱️

humble parrot
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Old B when

tranquil obsidian
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🇧 🅱️

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🐝

teal iron
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Even when MOTION SUCKS it's still better than stick

humble parrot
tranquil obsidian
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nintendo should patent that

peak folio
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Any motion that was 1:1 wasn’t actually bad.