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@tough comet
i haven't shown you this yet
It probably won’t be any more offensive than the dark controllers that show oils really well.
its easier to hide dust etc on a dark controller though
Hard disagree

Dirt, sure
Ofc matte black is much better than anything both glossy and dark
forwarding this to umbreon fans
@rustic basin
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I don’t see anything
https://x.com/lettuce_retas/status/1970912945426354440?t=njpIw30zeJ01bOSTcoIWXQ&s=19
@teal iron @novel sun @odd mesa
Doug Bowser retiring from Nintendo at the end of 2025, being replaced by Devon Pritchard https://t.co/VGTwwayXl5
Thank you
But yet here’s the important question, is Devon Pritchard a gamer or is she also a Scrooge businesswoman who only cares about profits?
Marketing, Sales and Comms director, working in NoA since 2006
Hopefully the former
Things can't get any worse, right?
i really hope not
YAY
Hopefully things won’t be worse, when Devon Pritchard replaces Doug Bowser.
But then again, who knows what kind of person Devon Pritchard is going to be.
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"Longtime Nintendo Executive: Pritchard has been with Nintendo of America for nearly 20 years, holding senior roles in marketing, business affairs, and publisher relations."
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"Strategic Contributions to growth: Under Pritchard's leadership, Nintendo expanded its global reach, including partnerships for AI infrastructure in Europe and collaborations with companies like Disney, Foxconn, and TSMC"
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She will assume her new role effective Jan 1st of next year
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She was mentored by Bowser and credits him as a fantastic mentor
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Focus on Innovation: Pritchard's vision emphasizes Nintendo's mission of "creating smiles," with a commitment to evolving the brand through characters and worlds that appeal to everyone.
Taken from an article on the Hindustan Times, a few pieces of info about Pritchard. Take this for what you will.
She's also got a Linkedin profile
Seems like a buncha gobbly kook
Businesswise she's probably a good pick for COO and president of Nintendo of America, if this article is accurate about her track record and experience. Two decades is a lot of time with a company.
All the other articles I was looking at were more emphasizing Bowser's retirement
Didn't have much on Pritchard, sorry 😔
What made Reggie so awesome was that he hasn’t been afraid of Iwata or Miyamoto. 
That is quite true
Reggie and Iwata were definitely the best years of Nintendo
I made some Hawaiian fried rice and accidentally gave myself some first-degree burns when I dumped the spam into the pan and splashed the oil.
Rinse off with cold water and put a lil burn cream on it. Egg whites help too for fresh ones
yeah I got some cream for it.
Also don't pop the blisters if any form from it, those are helpful for the healing process 
I have a scar on my right knee from a bad second degree burn I got at work
My dumbass did pop that blister
I got cold water on it fast enough that most of it is very mild. No blistering. Just redness.
The blistering usually takes a little bit to start showing up
Hopefully you don't gotta deal with that tho 🙏
Probably won't.
Fast reactions are the best for burns though, so good on you for getting cold water on it and stuff. Hope ya recover soon
I've been burned plenty of times, it do be suckin
If they tell you grass is green, they’re lying!
"If he says snow is white, HE'S LYIN"
- Mimir, talking about Odin
Who pee'd on the snow
Pee-kachu
@eternal flume Hello Hello
@eternal flume I can't somehow.
its says "You do not have permission"
I can, but i can't type there idk why @eternal flume

I dunno xd
Peak
More like my new Tombstone Launcher
Yeah lol
Imagine someone is next to your burning car trying to help you out
And then their legs just disappear because your car shit out the batteries
advanced toaster.
Buttered with the blood of pedestrians
you called?
guys i got a scary scream costume that has non realistic gore
it comes with a plastic heart
with fake blood that you can squeeze in the mask
i love those kind of masks
I’m thinking I’ll make another pal stuff animal. I’m trying to think of one of my favorite pals to make next
@nimble solar why did you send a friend request?
So basically for the first time ever they have a Squishitto, wonder who came up with that.
An yes I removed the D of Ditto and put it after the h in squish, mainly for a comical reason.
package reads : Squish,Stretch,& Twist me! 
Reject it, it's a scam bot
I did
Gucci work.
Nintendo changing ceos so suddenly, I wonder why
They really looked at how NoA was doing and went "we definitely need a tried-and-true guy there ASAP" lol
Frankly though it seems like NoA is kinda just a marketing branch most of the time, though. Most of the actual notable decisions are made by the parent company
"Mentored by Bowser..."
Won't be surprised if it's from all the negative press from this year.
That’s one half of the problem down
"Strategic Contributions to growth: Under Pritchard's leadership, Nintendo expanded its global reach, including partnerships for AI infrastructure in Europe and collaborations with companies like Disney, Foxconn, and TSMC"
Man, that's a lot of red flags in one paragraph
Considering the switch just uses an Nvidia Tegra I'm a bit skeptical of their partnership with Taiwan Semiconductors.
Yeah but aren't those chips made with semiconductors made by TSMC
Unless said partnership is making a whole bunch of older mobile GPU overstock vanish. 
The fact the steamdeck's only hardware revision has been an oled screen and a better battery, it's kinda nuts how it still crushes the switch 2
For the record the Steamdeck has the equivalent of a GTX 1050
Vulcan is just that good, whoever wrote it is a timelord 
What is interesting is that Nvidia's bespoke GPU for the switch 2 has "AI cores"
I assume for fake frames and upscaling.
It makes me wonder if Shit and Shingle and Scarlet and Violet run at 60 FPS due to frame gen instead of better rasterization.
I'm sure the twitter freaks would've already made 6000 petabytes of rants if that were the case
Imagine if another business owner were to reach out to Doug Bowser at some point, and they ended up getting the reason why Doug is “retiring” from Nintendo but get a consented okay from Doug Bowser to have the communication recorded and uploaded to Youtube.
I like to imagine that Mario does want to Join but Nintendo is that strict parent that won't let their child socialize.
Quoting Adverse (@Adverse56)
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Welcome aboard Rock
Sucks to have Nintendo as your parents. 
I’m glad that Nintendo isn’t my parents, cause otherwise they’d be getting the birdie finger every day and being told that they’re completely insane and out of control for what they’re doing to PocketPair.
Worse, they would be like the mother from the movie Carrie.
My mother would have some absolutely-not-family friendly words for them
Same reaction even if they’re a mother figure (females being mother, males being father), either type of figure would be receiving the birdie finger and told “Hey you’re being completely insane and unreasonably out of control by being petty and bullies via frivolous patent infringement lawsuits against PocketPair, an you guys need to know when to back the fuck down before the Nintendo company sinks like the Titanic did after hitting a iceberg.”.
If my mom had lived to enjoy Palworld, and seen what Nintendo is doing now, she’d only be a little bit nicer than me
If my mom knew about how barbaric Nintendo is being right now, and she an my stepdad both eventually knew that I was defensive of a company from tyrannical petty bullies they would be like “Damn (name), you keep defending the company you’re defending from whoever the tyrannical petty bullies are.”.
Teach moms that if they're to choose between Palworld and Pokemon for their kids, remind them of how TPC is being run by Nintendo's shady business practice.
Especially with their pricing and logic behind it.
My mom openly despised any game that was obsessively kid friendly
I may have grown up a Nintendo boy, but if Nintendo’s bullshit ends up causing me to be a Sony boy, a Sega boy, a Xbox boy and a PocketPair boy the rest of my life after this bullshit ends then so be it I will.
I grew up a PC gamer, so
I grew up a console player then eventually a PC player, so at times I tend to switch between console and PC.
I dont play on any device that some corpo can brick remotely if I step out of line
I own anything I buy
Same with me, in fact even if I knew that Nintendo could unreasonably brick consoles without a legitimate and legal reason with proof to do so, I still wouldn’t do something worthy of the bricking.
The folks that worry about “remote bricking” are the ones doing sus things that would lead to it
Yeah imo that's a very powerful generational move.
What's worse than teaching a generation of kids the kind of scummy businesspeople working behind cute nostalgia bait.
Well the problem is some of these sus things are as harmless as buying a third party dock because of Nintendo's exorbitant price.
Me when I load The Virus That Kills Nintendo on my Nintendo and it has a self defense mechanism
Same.
The dock comes with the system...
As in if there's a need for replacement.
Not sure how a dock would mess with software 
That's literally why people buy stuff. To own, not loan.
I was paranoid about it but every credible source I've read says that you basically have to do something legitimately super illegal in order to trip the system
No company should ever get to tell to you what you can do with your personal property
If they wish to reduce piracy how about they disincentivise it by making the legitimate route the better route... or having a legitimate route at all
Plus some have had their console bricked over breaking Nintendo game's LUA... hopefully I don't have to explain to you why breaking a game's rules should NOT have an effect on your console, only on the game
You mean like free speech?
I mean… warranty exists. You could disassemble your PS5 for repairs or whatever the case may be and void the warranty, but it is what it is
Google telling everyone they can't install apps except through the app store:

The bare minimum is not tampering with or installing non-Nintendo software into it. It’s SUPER easy to not do this, I promise 
"contacting support resolved the issue without incident"
The other, completely legal option is, buy a PC and install Linux on it. Bam, you now own your gaming system and are a free gamer
I mean it’s a good reason to do so, if a cause is given to do so.
That’s also an option, but not an obligation. I have a laptop, but I much prefer console/handheld gaming.
One thing I’m not doing is suggesting folks only use console, or ridiculing pc gamers for not using or owning a console
On the other hand, there is no problem introducing children to indie alternatives
Me watching YouTube on my Xbox series X console right now
That too.
Because consoles are inferior to PC, duh, specially in the most recent years were all but Nintendo consoles no longer have exclusive games, which was the one reason to play on console
I see no problem letting mine play Palworld
Biggest complaint about the switch 2?
Doesn't natively run the YouTube app and Google is too busy firing everyone who isn't in an AI field to fix it from their end
For now though I’m still gonna purchase an play other Nintendo Switch games for content purposes, but if Nintendo ends up giving a severely bad reason to never purchase an play a single game of theirs ever again then me ditching their games permanently will depend on their actions that cause it.
Ive already never bought a Nintendo product because they won’t release games for PC
The Nintendo Switch that I have right now, I didn’t purchase myself so it doesn’t count as being bought by me but was from but it was a Christmas gift from my stepsister.
I think I accidentally gave my friend a reason to not play this game ever again. I told him that they added a way to change pal’s gender, and I guess he didn’t really like that.
Yea I dont blame him
I mean, it is a dark option that you could choose, but you’ll have to the same as you don’t have to butcher your pals
Or make them work in inhumane conditions
I have still never butchered pals in this game
Still, it’s option for some people again as a mechanic you do not have to use
I use it when the game incorrectly places the wrong symbol next to my pal that I already came up with 57 pages of lore for
It’s not like the game not already comes with a whole bunch of other inhumane options that you could choose to play the game is gonna make you feel crappy about it, but you still can choose it as a option because some people view the game just as a game
Optional things are optional
I think replacing the item icon with the counterpart potion from terraria has an effect on my feelings about it
Yeah they have strong bases in America and Japan but not much in Europe, so this is a bit of an oddball move to me too.
Could be something for a future project of theirs that we don't know about
Maybe it's just padding for the shareholders
Wait, can you change the gender of I forgot how to spell its name but pink lizard
You talking about Lovander, or a Axolotl?
Lovander
Every pal can be changed on the surgery table
It be so funny if you had a friend that loves that pal you just feel the room with males just the mess with them
Ah, well then you’re welcome for the spelling but just know that if you forget the name of it again later on in the future then just think of it this way:
Lov - e = Lov
Salamander - Salam = ander
Lov + ander = Lovander
Just remember it's the pal that goes in the woodchipper
Oh shit! You're here!
Lavender 💜🪻 (use your imagination)
Or another way of Lovander, here’s another example that represents Lovander: Sassy pink Salazzle.
Gooday
But you're correct, that Pal goes to the butchering machine
Nah, the butcher needs not waste time with this thing
Doesn't even have good drops
Actually, what if you use Lovander as bait to feesh
It has like a 1% chance to drop a cake and can also drop some potions
It might actually repel the feesh
In my unconditional genocide of Lovander kind I've never had a single one drop anything like that
They didn't even had the decency to give you a good drop...
Top tier: bugs
Bottom tier: L*vander
I'll need to step up my efforts
I need PocketPair to do the vehicle update where we can build WWI tanks manned entirely by Cattivas
Good idea!
(No joke, being able to make WWI tanks and man then with pals would go so hard)
Could be, yeah
AI in software is always jangling keys to woa investors
Basically
Maybe they plan to use it to automate some business stuff or localization work?
Moth u say?
Oh no ...
I have my live reaction on my pc as a MP3 file...
(Uncanny cat emoji)
Morning
In the safe it goes
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Oh....oh fuck......ima need a sec
Take your time 
Looks interesting. Software kickstarters though… 😬
Some good games came from Kickstarter
Sea of Stars, namely! Such a great game. I supported a few over the years
Yeah, and Hollow Knight.
But the risk is astronomical compared to everything else. 
Things can suck even after the kickstarter is fully funded and the product is out. The only one I regret is the Dark Souls board game
Most of the time they just never ship. Even the grossly overfunded ones.
Delays suck too, yeah. Luckily never experienced something not shipping at all, personally
Star Citizen with GTA VI budget
The nice thing about that project though was it got the industry out of stagnation.
But they keep remastering the game repeatedly before it’s even a game. 
News was posted here but not sure if an image of Devon was included previously.
https://fixupx.com/geoffkeighley/status/1971325082447511687
-# Also, Geoff… Bowser isn’t dead, why do you do this?
Here’s the important question that everyone needs to ask, is Devon Pritchard a gamer girl or is she another Corporate Scrooge that only cares about profits like the CEO of NoJ?
@geoffkeighley Jesus you made it look like she won the position via a fight to the death 🥲😂
I don’t suspect this will fundamentally change Nintendo’s course
stahp
It probably won’t, but if Devon is a more reasonable person who knows about innovation and parody, then hopefully Devon won’t be like the CEO of NoJ and care only about the profits.
You should be looking at Shibata for that anyway.
Will there now be a Devon or Pritchard villain in an upcoming Mario game?
Mal Asking the real questions
Vedon the bad space pirate… or somethin. Idk
Wait, who’s Shibata again?
Of course Miyamoto is definitely into gaming and is indisputably a legend, but he’s apparently the grumpiest one of the lot. 😅
Umm, by Devon or Pritchard you’re talking about the same person.
Satoru Shibata is taking the CEO position for NoA.
While Devon will be President
If I understand correctly
Idk which name they will choose for the character
||I'm making a "Bowser" is in game and in company joke.||
My typing today is atrocious o.o
It wasn’t that super long ago Doug Bowser took that position, but it was funny at the time because of his name.
Bc of that, I think it should be tradition that every head of the company becomes a villain in a Mario game >.>
Ohhh so Satoru Shibata is going to be NoA’s new CEO while Devon Pritchard will be the NoA President.
I might have to double check that, but yes.
Often people wear both hats so it can be a bit confusing
Nah the only person who should be a villain in a Mario game, the CEO of NoJ.
Even Bowser trembles in the presence of Furukawa and his battalion.
He’ll have a Gannon style transformation and turn into Furufuru.
At least Satoru Shibata seems like a gamer dude, so NoA should be fine with a gamer CEO.
Yes
We need gamers as CEOs not just plain soulless businessmen
The last option, literally the “nuclear option,” involves detonating up to two 100-kiloton nuclear devices
jfc
iirc Fat Man was 20 kilotons
Like, if the asteroid is that bad, it could make sense, if it hits the moon and changes its trajectory it could affect the gravitational pull of earth or other problems
An asteroid hitting the moon would shower us in debris and probably ruin everything
They have done tests to see how nuclear debris/radiation/etc reacts in space right?
I don't want this done and risk right outside (yes I know there is a lot of distance but it is still practically right outside) there is nuclear radiation trying to eat our atmosphere o.o
It would be way too late if they launched it within EMP range.
Like we have time to double check trajectories and calculations and everything before we do it, if we do, but looking at every possible outcome is important
Hopefully other nations don’t freak out in the event of this nuclear option. 😆
“The US just launched two nukes! Unload everything!”
I would hope this is a collaborative effort o.o
Like this would probably be a thing announced to other nations like “everybody, there’s this giant asteroid heading to us, and I don’t think anybody here wants to deal with all that debris hitting the oceans, just let us launch 2 nukes up there, and nobody do anything”
Launching nukes at the moon would make it uninhabitable for decades.
“Our target is outside of the Kuiper Belt so please don’t panic”
The moon isn’t exactly habitable for decades anyway
I don't want them to destroy the most photographed object on earth.
You misunderstand
my copilot said it's 7 days until my 19th birthday
Given the success of the DART mission, hopefully they won’t need the nukes.
They’re gonna maybe hit an asteroid that might hit the moon
Nobody wants to blow up the moon
Great, now Gohan can’t transform.
In Piccolo's defense, that was not a "want" xD it was a believed necessity
Nevermind what that’s going to do to tides and menstrual cycles.
Indeed, so at least the Americans including myself won’t have to worry about Satoru Shivata unlike the Japanese players who have to worry about the NoJ’s CEO.
Cause that’s exactly how that works.
For clarification if anyone asks what NoJ is fully, NoJ is Nintendo of Japan initialed.
NoE has been run from japan since the cartel got shut down anyway
That’s something I didn’t know about.
Technically speaking there’s no such thing as “Nintendo of Japan”
Over there it’s just “Nintendo.” 
They run everything
An let me guess, NoE is Nintendo of Europe?
@prime agate
Like how they’re frivolously trying to run Palworld into the dirt, where it doesn’t belong?
In my country there is no Nintendo, only disciplinary
Proving the point that you still have to worry about what they’re doing in Japan.
actually happened, look it up =p
I'll blow up the Moon...
Honestly, Nintendo over there needs to get their heads out of their own asses and stop acting like tyrannical Scrooges or even like a spoiled little brat whose throwing a tantrum just because they’re not getting their way or even what they want.
Or better yet, they need to stop being both.
Tell us how you really feel. 
But yeah, I’m not impressed with that petty nonsense either, but Pocketpair isn’t letting them walk all over them so no need to worry that much.
10 years? It took one try for Pocketpair to execute well with Lamball.

Simisear surfing is not what I think of when I think of flame wheel
Also consider that Flame Wheel can be used by many Fire types and it’s the same animation on each of them, surely
This is a pretty minimal animation, but I suppose when you’re starving crumbs seem like cake

If this was good animations he would’ve at least been spinning when doing that
Which Lamball can. 
What amazing expectations of Pokemon.
If shills are to play Palworld level scope...
Yeah they might not handle the info overload. 
I would rather see Nintendo act like a bunch of reasonable mature adults who see having competition as being a good thing that Pokémon desperately needs, instead of seeing Palworld like an enemy that needs to be stopped or like a easily predictable rival to beat.
That would require them to actually change DRASTICALLY at the highest levels
The simple fact that they never approach Pocketpair at all in the three years or so since the game was announced before dropping the suit is also extremely telling.
It seems shortsighted that they wouldn't have at least developed some kind of internal counter-strategy or competitor IP in the years since Pocketpair announced the game, especially given the success of other monster-taming games. Do you think this lawsuit is more about protecting their brand image or genuinely feeling threatened by the gameplay similarities?
well tbf if you told anyone on this planet that the random creature taming game with random gun violence made by a bunch of nobodies who haven't even finished their flagship game was going to sell 30,000,000 copies, you would've been laughed at
to have taken palworld seriously at all up until mere months before launch would be a ludicrous proposition
Nintendo had more important things going on, like designing a more expensive version of one of their best selling consoles ever
Other monster taming games up to that point were hardly of note, so their “success” probably never concerned Nintendo.
TPC’s statement specifically addressed all the inquiries they were getting since Palworld launched. That directly tells that their fans were overwhelmingly inundating them with demands to sue Palworld.
Nintendo then submitted three new patents after all of that and somehow fastracked it to file a suit against Pocketpair.
This isn’t about defending IP, not for one second.
The talk about new patents and a 'fast-tracked' lawsuit is where the real business war is happening. The suit probably isn't about Palworld as much as it is about setting a legal precedent for the monster-taming genre moving forward. If they can successfully sue (or even just get a settlement) over a 'creature with a gun' game, it puts a massive chilling effect on any other ambitious competitors who want to try a new take on their core formula.
-# seems a little odd to file a lawsuit just because the same people who bash you around the clock on twitter begged and cried for it
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they got butthurt cos a nobody was outselling them, and they were out of touch.
There’s definitely an argument to be made that they’re trying to set a precedent, yes… potentially to fan demand.
I'm guessing they're worried that if they let Pocketpair get away with it, some other schmuck might start making a better MARIO game and then there goes the whole company
and they took the huge fan request as a green light that "yeah we can get away with it PR-wise"
PR win.
They definitely aren't doing anything just because people asked, that's literally the opposite of Nintendo's entire business mantra
What a Exactly. If they succeed in setting a high legal bar, it means any developer who wants to make a monster-taming game now has to seriously consider: 'Is my game too good or too similar to Pokémon for Nintendo to ignore?' The precedent could effectively stifle innovation in the genre for years, which ironically is what many fans were hoping Palworld would inspire Nintendo to do.
Nintendo sells you a game and then tells you to get out of their sight and only come back if you want to pay more money for another product
That's the core difference: Nintendo sells a product; Palworld sells an ecosystem. With Palworld, you buy a foundation, and the constant updates, bug fixes, and new content (even if basic right now) make it feel like an evolving service. With Nintendo, a $60-$70 game is a complete experience, and then it's done. You have to buy the next $60 game. That model is starting to feel increasingly stingy compared to the long-term value other developers offer.
Precisely the reason Pocketpair can’t just take the settlement (nevermind the injunction).
Yea. Because the lawsuit isn't just seeking damages (a fine that Pocketpair could easily pay with their $70+ million in sales). The real threat is the injunction. An injunction would legally force them to stop selling and developing Palworld in the relevant jurisdiction (likely Japan, but it sets a global precedent). Taking a settlement usually means agreeing to the injunction or making such fundamental changes that the core appeal of the game is destroyed. Pocketpair is fighting for its company's flagship product and, frankly, its survival.
And it's all a little ironic because Nintendo will probably only benefit from a healthy ecosystem of "competitors"
cheap indie games like palworld act as a gateway into the harder, more expensive drugs Creature Collectors like Pokemon
material*
They’re fighting for the whole damn industry.
You've hit on the irony: Nintendo is sacrificing a healthy, competitive ecosystem to protect a perceived monopoly. Competition in gaming usually forces incumbents to innovate—to improve graphics, add features, and fix long-standing performance issues. Palworld's success just proved the demand for a survival-focused, open-world, more complex monster-taming game is huge.
And most people who won't buy pokemon aren't doing so because of alternatives, they're not doing so for other reasons
If Nintendo wins, it would validate their right to essentially "own" these fundamental gameplay loops. This would create a massive "chilling effect" where any developer, big or small, thinking of making a game involving creature collecting, taming, or open-world mechanics would have to fear a lawsuit from a corporate giant.
Eliminating Palworld does not boost sales, and ignoring "ignoring" palworld probably helps them, in a certain way
On the large scale
That a key tho distinction. The reason people aren't buying the latest Pokémon games isn't because they're playing a $60 rival game instead—it's often because they are increasingly dissatisfied with the product quality itself.
I mean the next pokemon game is probably to see an underwhelming sales turnout for a LOT of reasons, one of which is Palworld
ALthough to what degree Palworld "stole" sales and to what degree the lawsuit turned people away is definitely of some debate
I kinda hope it does extremely well because then TPC/Nintendo won't really have any damages to speak of
Can't say they stole sales if your next game is the best selling ever
Or does japanese law not even compute that into rulings
Palworld became a runaway success (millions of players) by delivering a "Pokémon game" with modern, requested features: a true open world, survival mechanics, and deeper combat/crafting. This set a new bar for what a monster-collecting game could be.
I still say the motivation is basically just being the lawfare bully while looking like the “good guys” to their sheep.
I don't buy that simply because Nintendo and Pokemon are the king and queen of "We will never give people things they ask for"
The legal strategy is seen by critics as an attempt to define the boundaries of monster-collecting games so broadly that any new entrant with popular, modern features (like a true open world, riding mechanics, or crafting) can be intimidated or sued out of existence.
And yet they still sell like absolute crazy.
I mean that doesn't mean Nintendo gives them what they ask for, it just means they give an acceptable deal on their products
The arguments in court are so absurd though….
It just doesn't seem to me like what their fans say on social media ever factors into their decision making
Makes no difference
It’s not what they say on social media, it was what their fans directly sent to them.
TPC literally acknowledged that much.
Kyran you need to understand that I am a woman fully prepared to argue that email and even regular mail is social media
…
Pocketpair's defense against Nintendo's patent infringement claims is to use the legal concept of "prior art." Prior art is proof that the "invention" claimed in a patent already existed in the public domain before the patent was filed. If prior art exists, the patent should be invalid.
Support tickets be social media too, I guess. 
You can also accept settlements and file countersuits. Under bribery and black mail pretenses
That’s how patents work generally. That’s why Nintendo’s claims are whack.
I think it's insane that we're calling any of the things nintendo has claimed ownership as "technology"
Most corporate lawsuits, including those in the gaming industry, end in a settlement out of court. This is usually done to save on legal fees, avoid a public trial, and eliminate the risk of an unpredictable jury verdict. A settlement means both parties agree to terms (often a payment and/or changes to the product) and the lawsuit is dropped.
If there is a more liberal and stretched definition of a word as the definition of technology used in these patent claims I have no seen it
Does anyone here even know when Nintendo came to be. Without using Google.
I don’t know if “discovery” is a thing in Japan but that would be a huge motivation for a countersuit if it was.
When? No, but I know they started as a toy company or something
Every contract has a loophole. Clause and addendum
It was in the late 1800s
Like seriously this lawsuit existing calls into question the entire validity of patents as a concept
Nintendo came to be in feudal Japan.
Patents are supposed to be very specific legal documents that describe a novel, non-obvious invention or process. They generally don't grant ownership over broad, abstract ideas or well-established mechanics.
Made hannafude cards
It was so fun to join @PocketpairGames TGS after party! Thank you @Bucky_cm for the invitation, and thank you friends all over the world enjoying the party with me! I hope you all like the gig at this time. They've done a amazing job!
︀︀I can't wait the next time!
Quoting Tatsuya Yano 矢野達也 (@Boundnotes)
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ポケットペア @PocketpairJapan さん主催のTGSアフターパーティーにお呼ばれしてましたー!
︀︀サプライズでPalworldの音楽をバンド演奏していただけてびっくり!(めっちゃ盛り上がってて感動しました)
︀︀あと、個人的に大好きなデンキワークスさん捕まえてTシャツ撮らせてもらいました。 @denkiworks
Wait no I do remember that yeah they made cards (which could count as or something)
Nintendo became a company when samurai still roamed and served lords
Words cannot how much I would like to hit every lawmaker who has ever had an opportunity to revise patent law and decided not to with a folding chair
Where did you read this?
From factual information
A loophole is not necessarily an error; it's an ambiguity or a gap in the legal text that allows a party to exploit the contract or law for a purpose not intended by its creators.
“Trust me bro”
Fact checked by real japanese patriots
Go look yourself. If you have the intelligence to query a search correctly. You will find i am correct
They started with cards, yea, but not in feudal Japan.
I educated you. The burden of proof now falls on you. Since you doubt the knowledge.
Yeah that’s on you to back up the claim, yeah I remember cards, but I don’t remember anything about feudal Japan
Wow that was fast
Late 1800s, yes
Its on the one who doubts.
You've been misinformed on how debating is done.
And I have a plugin that disables the AI popup so this is real actual data
No if I say aliens are real and you doubt it that’s on me to prove it
You’re a dumbass
False. Its on me to educate myself.
You’ve been misinformed on a lot of things, evidently.

Then educate yourself on debate please
Kyran going in for the kill lmao
Saying its another's job to provide you with information on which you can educate yourself with. Is just lazy. And not how it factually works. Thats usually a sign of a regressive intellect and limited understanding
“I’m right because I say so, learn to debate.”
Hehe funny
This guy trolling. 
Anyways
What I say is true until disproven by someone else
what's next, Prima is cute?
Come on, tell us something we don't know, dragon
bucky in the scene
Person I dont need your validation nor compliments to be correct.
Reality doesnt work that way
Another troll. shiiiiiieeeeeet
well about that
it's even funnier when I posted proof they were wrong like 30 seconds after they imposed the "facts" and they haven't responded to it
it took me longer to prepare the image for posting via embed link than it did to make the search query
which by the way, I am very good at
Typing in a search box is like my specialty, I could be an AI
And i meant meiji era. Not feudal. Just realized my typo

hating urself i see?
Brainrot. Cant be understood
I'm sorry, I can't answer that question right now.
BAHAHAHHAHAHA
But yes. They became a company in the meiji era. By making hannafude. Or flower cards
oh god, the AI have take down prima!
I am making fun of AI by saying that simply being able to type into a search box and repeat correlating information makes me a suitable replacement
My point being Nintendo has been allowed to exist for far to long. They have become a tyrant
I have a lot more personality, too
Some people follow me exclusively for my personality
They call my personality "huge" and-
I have been advised by my legal counsel that I should stop talking
cutest?
Once Human × TGS 2025 Day 2: Another mysterious guest from Palworld!
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@peak folio
The chillet is too big to hug
Costco confirms they’ve stopped selling Xbox consoles in the US and UK
"We don’t have any plans going forward to carry an Xbox console."
Costco is the world’s third largest retailer behind Walmart and Amazon
See more: https://t.co/U4dKSBq6Pk
🫡
Good business move
ポケットペア @PocketpairJapan さん主催のTGSアフターパーティーにお呼ばれしてましたー!
︀︀サプライズでPalworldの音楽をバンド演奏していただけてびっくり!(めっちゃ盛り上がってて感動しました)
︀︀あと、個人的に大好きなデンキワークスさん捕まえてTシャツ撮らせてもらいました。 @denkiworks
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Guessing the volume really fell off despite being a game console
Could also be all of those phone and computer salespeople that don't let you shop that section >.>
Don’t get me started
In literally any store these days if someone asks me what carrier I’m on I just flat out tell them I’m not answering that question.
Looking at Xbox, minding own business.
"Do you need a new phone? Or service is better! We have perks."
-minds own business-
"I am sure we have the deal for you!"
-attempting to mind own business-
"Step over here and we'll get you signed up and out the door with a new phone!
-resigns to go to a different store even if it is more expensive-
Even if you want a new phone the process is worse than buying a new car.
I think I made my friend not want to play palworld again,
I mentioned they added the ability to change pals, gender, and that was a turn off for them
Devon is a talent and should do incredibly well. I look forward to this generation of NOA. Congrats to @thetruebowser for the past 6+ years.
They aren't selling
Shoutout by Reggie, better be good.
And yeah, I don’t think MS is interested in moving Xbox units anymore
Reggie have 64 yo, Bowser 60 yo
Its a breakdown of community and family and friends based gaming
Reggie still the goat
The video game home console was once something new and special
Kids would bond and play Nintendo or Sega console games together
Not so much anymore
Sega had one really successful console.
Megadrive
Same with Xbox in an odd way.
We used to plan ahead as to who's house we were bringing games to xD
And if you forgot your controller, you used the crappy one we all had tucked away somewhere
Some madcatz POS
I remember when some of the madcatz controllers wiped saves o.o
Nintendo almost made me forget that system launches are always supply constrained.
But is it like better than the steam deck
Like I’m really only going to get a handheld if my medical issues continue and I can’t sit down at my computer for extended periods of time
And I think palfarm/others might be the only real games I’d try to play on a system like that
There is no obligation to buy any particular device
🥷
Bloody 3rd party shite
Memory sticks too, useless
I don't want a memory stick, I want the whole memory tree
@long shard
scalpers eating good when they went there to resell tcg and got extra things to resell for free
this made me think
︀︀what'd he actually do
Quoting DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)
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Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser will retire on December 31
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︀︀He will be succeeded by Devon Pritchard
1.78 million views?
“Man retires at 60”
“No way he got got for sure!”
Cute birdo
@lavish hemlock & @lost ravine So yes I’m working on something too just like PocketPair is with Palworld & Palfarm, however it’s not the same graphic style as Palworld or Palfarm, here is a preview of what I’m working on:
https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMTM5NTIzMy84MTMwOTkwLmpwZw==/original/CQJoI5.jpg.
🤔 What do you mean by that?
You walk the same way and have the same high visual
Like Hades for example, and many other games, pokemon 1 to 5 gen too
Idk if in hades you can rotate visual
its not. Its faster, but not by much, burns though battery, and its heavy as hell
the steam deck is still your best option unless you have a lot of games off steam and dont want to do any setup
Something that's just oh so nice about america is that because everyone is (or at least assumed to be) incapable of reading labels or differentiating cheese visually, every type of processed cheese here is presented in its own unique way so it's very easy to tell them all apart
@jaunty kraken The End.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhceHdpkcI
This is how I always imagined the official ending of Half Life would be like. Full of emotional connection, bonding and loss, but satisfaction. A beautiful composition!
Thanks for watching, Soupscripe for more!
For other New and Stuff:
https://bsky.app/profile/doctorlalve.bsky.social
Music used:
- Pokemon B n' W ~ Emotional
- Bloodborne ~ So...
absolute insanity, i love it 
Sony is calling the PlayStation 5 generation of consoles its most successful to date after reaching a milestone of $136 billion so far, just under five years into its lifespan. https://t.co/10KID9pGaw
It should be emphasized that these revenue figures encompass sales across the entire G&NS business during the time periods in question. So, that huge $136 billion in sales during the PS5 generation will include money Sony continues to make from PS4 hardware and software.
and PC port sales*
Oooookkk
Probably not as big a contributor as you might think.
i mean, helldivers has almost 600,000 reviews on steam alone
(palworld is 140k for comparison)
so if theyre including PC ports, theyve likely made a fair chunk there
Helldivers is bigger on Steam than on PlayStation, but that’s the exception and definitely not the rule.
Sony stumbled onto that one which is the funniest part.
yeah and thats because of a bug as far as i know
Meanwhile Concord was showered in love and accessories and had an episode on Secret Level…
But yeah, Sony’s best work are their single player games and the PC crowd doesn’t seem to care for it like their console players do.
got this in my mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze0Rk-m0w2A&list=RDze0Rk-m0w2A&start_radio=1
-# and i just can't stop crying for some reason....?
Hollow Knight Original Soundtrack 24 - "Sealed Vessel" theme & music by Christopher Larkin.
FULL Hollow Knight & DLC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOldskd2VbL7_t-NE9p6rEboq_v0AHko
FULL Hollow Knight Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOldskd2VbKCFNaN2kRCGbFVZaKPpeZ-
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Maybe they should have just stuck with the “connect to our wifi for mystery gift” system they did in the DS era.
Consider:
Cheapest shiny legendary pokemon code
Or
Entirety of Palworld and hollow knight
That makes it sound like a scam. 
Also just saw off topic memes, I guess Palworld is earthbound
the Cheapest shiny legendary pokemon code
ill wait untill a few years and then sell it for 500 buckos
(P sure you need internet connection anyways lmao)
Link doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional.
https://github.com/BryanHaley/Shipwright/releases
#halflife #bhop #zelda
Ah, Gordon Freeman.
it even has the comically fast speed that Gordon Freeman had in HL1, banger mod
Pocketpair needs to satirize this FOMO nonsense.
Get your lucky Jetragons at Gamestop*
-# *While supplies last
3 GameStop's around here ran out to scalpers for a "free" distribution
Sell life size plushies of every pal
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1274000247835721779/1421290703060734133/qv3jd22d21ud1.png?ex=68d87f9d&is=68d72e1d&hm=9ab3e1742738f1511a40525f7b5a89f674656dbdaaa4ee288a42b7fe9f8a74c3&
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1274000247835721779/1421290703832485898/so-proud-of-my-giant-nox-v0-vijaqz5d1e3f1.png?ex=68d87f9e&is=68d72e1e&hm=d774b38bb8cada7c1899a1d92eb131d956b2e73fbda11f6ede29cac69bf2d011&
@dim sable
😄 Nox Shaped!
Big and fluffy
His pet fish had a buoyancy problem that kept it from swimming upright.
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︀︀So he built it a mobility device

So does anyone know what a Pitch Deck means?
context?
Flower Gumoss is a rare spawn. Your best bet is to hang out around its habitats - the lower level zones. You can see this in the palpedia if you click on the habitat tab; Gumoss spawns in quite a few locations
Someone said it only spawns at dusk and dawn and I was curious if it’s true
Seems like it isn’t shame
Time of day doesn't really impact the flower gumoss spawn, no
Just a random chance 🙂
I've literally encountered them at noon in-game haha
It’s saying something about a link of some kind, but is being known as a Pitch Deck.
E
That's why giving away codes for exclusive items in events shouldn't exist
I want Poketpair to satirize this Fear Of Missing Out nonsense. Where's my fellow FOMOphobes?
"Cattiva Aqua is not real."
https://x.com/catsbeingweirds/status/1971681183659352265?t=d_oMgYsbHy1Hc3KfpUt2GA&s=19
it's that guy from that one show, that I didn't watch.
Wtf, they didn't do the in-game special event thing? They had this shit figured out in 2004, huhh?
Underrated comedy. 
https://fixupx.com/Filmogayphy/status/1971319896886870247?t=1PRvLwe63ma7USmF6FZlJA&s=19
Here's something i've been wondering about the new ROG Xbox Ally...
What happens if i already have a regular ROG Ally (the Extreme Z1 version)? Do i wanna crave for this Xbox one, or should i just ignore all the advertisement's temptations, and just be happy with my current ROG Ally?
https://x.com/pom_pona/status/1971545297072640250?t=XeCjHSkSIUXle_Y-WuPOzQ&s=19
@teal iron Popplio in there!
@odd mesa @novel sun
POPPLIO YAY
They are asking for this much nowadays? I admit I did paid for codes in the past but most I did pay was like 1-2 dollars on ebay
And that was around Gen 6-7, I think. Not sure if it was Volcanion or Zeraora though
But I agree, they really should stop this stupidity of physical store distributions.
It's almost like they haven't learned anything from that McDonalds' Happy Meal fiasco
You have no idea how much I want Cattiva Aqua to be a thing.
That Smash Bros mod with Cattiva made me want it even more lol
oh i know which one you're tlaking about
Pocketpair if Palworld in Gmod: 
Nintendo if Pokemon in Gmod: 
Palworld x Counter Strike 1.6
Half-Life 3 (it will have Pals as guest characters)
https://x.com/sleepy_sealion/status/1971887693404819891?t=gz9lYHSLBg_Byg4X0RZZaw&s=19
https://x.com/sleepy_sealion/status/1575158492096258049?t=Aso0x7P6Q_S5tyEDeqwIRQ&s=19
https://x.com/sleepy_sealion/status/1968290374373523583?t=Llc8-6J6qN9M18F52ckO6w&s=19
@teal iron have some more Popplio!
@odd mesa @novel sun
YEAH


It’s funny how clown evolves into mermaid
Morning
the betrayal
Primarina is probably the best upgrade in all of existence
From honk honk to

Well it is literally the best thing in all of existence so naturally yeah it would be the best upgrade possible for any given other thing
play the honky tonk
literally more than a week on this
Yes.
bro is on the grind
It's crazy how we kept the vc alive for this long.
If I remember correctly, a lot of mermaid stories were sailors mistaking a seal with seaweed as a finned maiden.
From honk honk to another type
The numbers speak for themself
This is so freaking sad…
you know mega mira looks actually kinda cool in the art
but they aren't gonna let you ride one, are they?
Because you can only ride the one you recieved at the start of the game
These are supposed to be free, not some engagement farming skins.
They should never do scratch offs again. 😆
You know I thought they were handing out an unlimited number but only 1 per person or something
I suppose I should clarify I thought they were using like a digital code or something reproducable
Not in the US
Elsewhere no idea.
How did they have this figured out for Mew but then screw it up now? 
Or you could just check for stream that does 24/24 shiny /shiny lock trade...
They are
Not sure if that’s a time saver
You can also just inject it giving it your player information. it's not hard to do either. could make it pokemon center event save and trade/gift it but they do these shit events knowing full well FOMO gets the better of people.
“Just cheat, ez”
it's not cheating
it's what the gift code does
injects the mon and gives it your player information
that's it.
it's just whether you used a tool or you went out of your way to get a gift code card.
If the promotion convinces a mass of Nintendo fans to modify their game files via systems they’ve made abundantly clear that they do not approve of, that promotion failed. 
if gamefreak and pokemon company release a limited event that they know full well trigger FOMO in a massive audience, they failed.
Not just once, twice, ten, or twenty times has this happened. It's literally every event for those games.

I was gonna say, people who run those pokemon gen services are gonna be eating tonight
and GOOD FOR THEM
Better they eat than the scalpers
These are scalping events, yes
...yeah I know most of them operate for free so they aren't actually getting anything really...
Yeah, they invited the scalpers by doing the TCG thing the same say so it’s no surprise the took the scratchoffs too.
Usually the game distributions don’t use scratch offs so why they did it now is a mystery.
I’m sure gamestop posted about the event, I bet the comments are gonna be fun.
The scalping drives the price up, makes them seem more 'valuable'
lmao, they’re ones to talk rn. 
Okay there it is…
https://fixvx.com/gamestop/status/1971352887659028581
Comments are not kind…
It grabs the headline 'X thing sold out super fast' which makes it look like a desirable product with massive demand which makes investors happy
"free" when you spent 15. so it's 15 for the card.
They are two separate promotions
i get that, im just saying for that first one.
They evidently ran out of both at most stores even before the lines went through.
I'm pretty sure the miraidon thing was to get people to show up for the card
imagine the people that operating the business getting in on the scalping business.
which might explain why they opted for a physical item
Walk out with two cool pieces of cardstock
I mean, they did that here, with food
Basic foods, milk, flour, etc
I do not understand why gamefreak/nintendo/pokemon company couldn't just do an online event. connect, download the event mon. everyone gets it. no need for FOMO or scalping.
That is assuming they are not partaking in it
Normally you’d just connect to gamestop’s wifi with your game and line to their bot that gives you the thing so there isn’t a quantity limitation. They could also generate codes on a receipt.
Sure its long, cause ur not alone in those live so....
Scratch offs… wtf is that? 
The other part of the scalping goes for the supplier selling the stuff off-site for the inflated scalper price
Yes, that also happened here with the basic foodstuffs
The idea of having stores distribute free content like shiny Koraidons or w/e is to get people into the partner stores. Doesn’t really work when it’s hopelessly supply constrained because that a lot of people who wont bother making the trip for almost the entire promotion period.
It all benefits the corps, not the customer
p much
Not at all.
People would queue on stores whenever news of a food shipment spread
but yeah if it didn't get scalped in 30 seconds it would benefit the corporation a lot more
Business much rather have demand spread out.
They made deals with the store people to get the food first
They want people in the store, buying pokemon stuff, to get that Yveltal
The miraidon and koraidon are bait to get people in the door who might otherwise not care
And then they sold it off-site, at ridiculous prices
So apparently there’s a page on the pokemon support website where you can choose “character distribution event-problem obtaining code” and you can state what GameStop(s) you went to and weren’t able to obtain the code. https://t.co/qxmifrnQn8
Okay that’s hilarious
if there's no miraidon and koraidon, there's no bait and only the usual obsessed nerds will show up
and if the news is that they got scalped off in like 10 seconds, you might a few people to show up extra super early for the next event, but a lot of them might just not bother, assuming future promotions will meet the same fate
People would go to try to get the food, but had to queue after the scalpers
and like
the shinies are free for the customer
And only got whatever scraps were left, if any
It was like this on every major food supplier for like 10 years
ngl those scalpers should be shot in the foot and made to limp home with only the most basic treatment to prevent the wound from becoming fatal
It only stopped when the economy became dollarized and the food's prices were liberated
*limp to prison where they will never see the light of day again
What is this supposed to do
They probably have a filter for these so they are auto deleted and they don't get them in their main inbox 
Could be for data collection
Pokemon has a huge and very loud fan base. The fact that these remarkably specific* categories are built in sure is something.
What data, the sender's?
That’s a given.
The store will already report when it ran out
They won’t have a number on how many they couldn’t serve.
They won't have it with that either
They’ll know if it’s a problem
I think this is more about the codes not working if anything
There should be a palworld mobile app like pokemon go that would be cool
Mobile game already in the works, hopefully it isn’t like PokéGo
That would be “Code Redemption Issue”
Auto reply like “sorry for your loss, or congrats”
6 more days until my birthday
It's to prevent cluttering other topics and for the auto reply
shiny miraidon and koraidon are so hard to get that it’s a real shiny hunt now
Oh no

I'm imagining hardcore Pokemon fans like sneaking around in the woods with rifles trying to track down whatever foul beast goes around scalping shiny tickets
You literally can’t be a casual Pokémon fan anymore
Everything is getting grabbed up by scalpers
I hope this trend eventually passes
if you're above the age of 16 and enjoy psychological drama anime, Takopi is really darn good.
What can Pocketpair do to satirize the FOMO distribution events in Palworld?
there's no Fomo events in palworld as I know
to satirize others, not that which it already has (because it doesnt have any)
so long as people continue to buy feeding their shitty lifestyle, it'll never end.
Sad but true
I know for their newly released, sitting cuties plushy’s, on the website they had a limit of two per person per doll
but not limit of 2 per card number.
Stores getting like 50 shiny tickets seems a little silly, they should each get a case of like a thousand. 😆
people will just make additional accounts and use bots to buy up the stock.
Or just go back to superior distribution methods
superior being ?
if it's online, bots and scalpers get highly sought after products immediately
if it's in-person scalpers get highly sought after products in bulk immediately, ignoring limits and inciting riots.
I’ve made several mentions of things they’ve done in the past that did not have this problem.
And yes, all in person.
I saw a tweet of someone saying some 35,000 people or something already pulled the shines off of his bot, but be careful when you collect pokemon like that.
It’s always a moving target as to which ones will get you banned if you try to use them online.
Special Chikipi Gild distribution. Better hurry because this event ends never!
There were some Palworld skins from last year that were from Twitch, but they eventually just gave them to everybody.
Especially not with Nintendo’s pricing for everything
You can it's just you get screwed a lot more
just say if you're a broke boy, so we can make fun of you.
but the indie space of gaming got your back
RIP screen door
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Being compared to Pokimane...
Awful optics
Whats palia
just found out that my bag of rice has weevils
Now you have a bag of weevils hehe
I like weevils so I wouldn't even mind that much
They have silly little heads
Funny.
At first I thought it was ants. THANK GOD it's just weevils.
I doubt. When I was researching about jobs on Japan (planning on making the move and immigrate) one of the many offers was a job related to... Selling Pokémon cards.
Memory is fuzzy but they were specifically looking for people who were familiar with the franchise enough to figure out which cards were valuable and stuff.
Pokémon is world's highest grossing franchise. A money making machine
So... Sadly not a trend. Scalping will only get worse, specially with Nintendo/TPCi's boneheaded decisions
Uhhhhg isn't this the stupid IDIOT that throws Yugi's Exodia cards off the boat in the first episode?
And speaking of Japan I did spot some of the shiny codes being sold on Yahoo auctions
What is the business purpose of mystery gifts and distributions?
Guess I'm totally not getting it once I go there on October even if it will be still within the time frame for the distribution 
They give them away for free.
Yeah, his name is Weevil. 
What a little shit
Supposedly, making people go to stores would make somehow check the store out. And then buy their stuff
So it's more for Gamestop's benefit.
All involved stores actually
It ain't boneheaded. TPC and its distributors sell directly to scalpers out the back door with secret links and whatnot on Pokémon Center.
Its malicious
Its just like the GPU market lol.
I've never thought about that possibility but... It makes sense.
Not putting past them doing that
You missed the team rocket ETB drama
(by the way, nice seeing a fellow Chesnaught enjoyer. Chespin is my favorite pokémon)
What was the story?
Secret link for a known scalper was leaked.
Made a bunch of collectors rage quit.
I'm just here with a handful of sealed ETBs I'm sitting on until a rainy day in comparison.
I don't even try due to local game stores scalping really hard
Maybe I am using wrong search terms but not finding much more on the story on google. Got any link with more info? Would love to read more about that story. Specially for future reference.
It's mostly blown up on tiktok.
A lot of news is trapped on the platform in a similar way to how a lot of information is trapped in discord.
Oh, Tiktok, the one plataform I don't use much...
I have a network of zoomers to verify for me 
I posted a funny meme with a guy and a lion, got muted
Bot moderator is whacko
What does it make
Oh a caramel flan
I screenshotted it
Wat
Bot blocks chicken recipe
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DBZ DLC.
"Well, new adventures await, buddy!"
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Can there be a “palfarm” suggestions box? Because I have a list of ideas to share and I’m sure many others would like to as well. 🙂
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don't suppose anyone here has a spare shiny koraidon/miraidon code?
aperently they got scelped
i didnt manage to get one
Nintendo not going to cater to the suffering of fans from the scalpers as long they got the money.
This is the same company that tells you to stick to Switch 1 if you can't afford a Switch 2.
And then raising the price of Switch 1 to be close to Switch 2.

don't want to ask this in general...
is there possibility the throwing sphere to spawn pal coming back? and gliding with pal coming back too?, just coming back to palword and notice my hangyu doesn't get summoned anyome when i glide
Both features were removed as a precautionary measure considering the ongoing court battle between Nintendo and Pocketpair. What were formerly the gliding pals, they now have passive buffs to gliding.
If all goes well and the lawsuit ends on a good note, it's a possibility that those features could return, I think. Right now we will not get them back anytime soon
Although it's going to be sad that it may not revert back in full release.
It would be, yeah. For now, we will simply have to wait and see
Since you're on steam I will mention there is a mod that restores the gliding mechanic to pretty much exactly how it was before, minus sound effects
If I end up having to mod what was removed and 1 doesn’t have the sound effects, I actually wouldn’t mind that but then again not everyone is going to be like me when it comes to that and that’s okay too cause not everyone has to.
The SFX are pretty forgettable
And in my opinion
The generic "flap" sound Celaray and I assume Galeclaw make is annoying
It's very high on my list of things I sincerely hope they plan on changing
🤔 Is it like that for all of them?
I don't know if killamari uses it
But this "flap" sound is used for basically every winged or wing-analogued creature for movement and it is easily one of the most unpleasant SFX I've had the displeasure of hearing
Damn, that neck Is uncannyly long or its just me?
What's that
A chickipi

I just like the first sentence of this headline. 🤦
"This Nintendo patent was apparently granted without a patent examiner looking at a single game"
The sound bytes for world of warcraft murlocs are worse
Mwarrrrrgurgle, flaff, arflaff
Patent examiner's brain when approving Nintendo patents.
Plausible with bribery, but not sure about threatened.
What's a company going to do for getting butthurt by the patent office?
You never know
Cry to the judge like the world's worst privileged Karen?
Remember, both Boeing whistleblowers are dead
That was nothing special, plane company
That's not the same as not granting a patent and nothing exposed of Nintendo inner workings.
Its a testament to how far some will go
We'll see, unless otherwise proven.
Right now seems like it's just clueless idiots in the office.
Won't be surprised if even unqualified if they're this incompetent.
After Nintendo getting so many other patents rejected only for this one to fly by is sus af.
to be fair if you want stuff approved, make sure the approver is ignorant of specifics
There are real reasons things happen but the more you emotionally ramble, the less anyone wants to talk to you lol
You're not the only one with this suspicion too.
Morning
never
that cant be true
this is though
the most cursed and distracting and annoying design ever
for one of the keys your not gonna use for the most part
This is long outdated
I mean, we got grillet but Is more pinkey than red
https://x.com/sleepy_sealion/status/1714626622429544557?t=5_rgOaa4PaLJ-6DY6Gbv_Q&s=19
https://x.com/_0bon_/status/1972287725593342162?t=6LK6XzbKINmOn7qyHFDBLg&s=19
@teal iron Primarina AND Flygon
@copper inlet @icy yoke @lofty wind
@north thicket Primarina! (Fairy type)
@novel sun @odd mesa cool creatures
true
YAY
Always finding the best art 
It's just art with Flygon (that alone makes it the best art)
it could be better (have primarina)
*very cool creatures
REY DAU
https://x.com/UmearaMY/status/1972285320835355050?t=KpBgTpqtvRkPjMwbbM-E9w&s=19
@north thicket Mienshao!
The patents that passed in the USA are apparently valid... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGgOGTT6kk
Nintendo's two new patents appear on the surface to be overbroad, and dangerous. On the one hand, you have patent '387, which purports to patent mounts! And on the other, you have patent '397, which patents automatic battling! Could it be true that the US Patent and Trademark Office has just handed Nintendo the keys to the entire gaming industry...
Youtube 
Moon Channel, is ran by a single lawyer who makes his videos in his free time, and he does so, and I quote, "for fun".
Don't worry, while he isn't perfect, he knows quite a lot of the legal system, and knows how to "dumb it down" for the gaming audience.
Heck, he even enjoys the Fallout franchise of video games.
He even has a few videos comparing Fallout to reality.
How Realistic is Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues? The Horrors of American Science!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOowTMKll0s
And another, which I'd probably recommend watching first:
How Geopolitically Realistic is Fallout's Great War?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Nhpu9mqyg
...
Finally, I'll end out with this one, which is one of his very old videos:
How to Handle Toxicity in Gaming and Be Non-Toxic Yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7F-hxca-Pw
I glanced at this video for a bit, it seems like a whole lot of padding that takes away from the vagueness that CAN be applied to the patent, which every other lawyer is worried about, it seems incredibly bias in assuming Nintendo will play fair and not stretch any definitions of the patents
Agreed. But knowing Pocketpair is fighting back in a court system worse than the USA, a lot of game companies (and indie devs) will know that they can fight back too.
I got some soursop juice at the dollar store. I didn't expect the pulp.
also expected it to be a lot more sour
DOES THIS MEAN BUCKY SAW SAKURAI
I’m conflicted, because on one hand, even though I’m not associating with Nintendo anymore, you have to respect the passion sakurai puts into all his projects. On the other hand, sakurai is currently still pretty close with Nintendo, like is he even allowed to speak to bucky or will that be seen as disrespectful in Japanese culture or some shit that gets sakurai cancelled in Japan
I didn’t run into him, no. TGS is massive.
At a glance it’s pretty hard to recognize people in masks too.
Dat gif name
Saving this gif for my mod friends
I bet they've already seen it, or a version of it 😆
I mean it can take me like 10 or 20 minutes to find one...
Well, two because I usually go for a breeding pair (basically attempting to speedrun getting the best base pals, grizzbolt can make both of them)
I was able to get braloha, faleris aqua, splatterina and knocklem before day 10 using this strat, all generation 2 (bred from wild captures or merchant purchases, neither parent hatched)
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@teal iron bee in here!
YEA
look it's not Super Mario World
So...now that EA has sold 100% of the company to that Saudi investor group, can I buy the rights to Dungeon Keeper, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Army of Two off them?
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Quoting Wario64 (@Wario64)
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EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250929186526/en/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-Acquired-by-PIF-Silver-Lake-and-Affinity-Partners-for-%2455-Billion
In before headlines post a Pocketpair’s interest in EA IP after they intend to go private.
Give Bucky Army of Two!!!
I want more Army of Two!
They left Devil's Cartel on a cliff hanger!!!!
hey. Where do I get the "Early Access Pre-Alpha Acess befor Alpha exists" for Palfarm? XD
Looks more inspired by classic Mega Man and Kirby games than SMW
By subscribing to the cult of Dumud.
Yeah, after watching a bit more yea, but the graphics gave off those vibes.
Morning
ehmmm no xD I already subscribed the cult of the lamb 😄
Leave the flock!
Join the Flop!
EA being bought out by a Saudi investment group is exactly the kind of thing I’d expect from such a soulless company
Bucky can you guys buy the rights to crash bandicoot they deserve so much better
That’s a loaded statement. 
There were reports for a hot minute that they were looking to go private. Now something finally happened.
I have got a jar of dirt! I have got a jar of dirt! And guess what it's inside of it! XD
Sand?

Every time I hear of a company being bought out by an investment group it’s usually a bad thing, or a sign of soulless business practices to come
:p
For EA to willingly sell off their company to a FOREIGN investment group, that’s some serious soullessness
Like they didn’t even care at all
That’s how I view it anyway
Probably because the ones you hear about are always billions
Who buyed?
EA selling their company to human rights violation land investors is pretty much par for the course, probably
Lmfao
I wonder what the geniuses over at "we have people assassinated regularly" country will come up with to make the company "profitable"
probably still better than being public
I mean
I think EA and ubisoft have been trying for YEARS to seee who can be the worst, ever
So yeah I'm sure anyone with any interest in something other than that would be better
Nintendo already won that contest
EA CEOs on their way to literally make things up about how their newest anti-consumer practice is actually going to be very profitable instead of delivering the most mediocre returns ever seen
"You see by punching babies we are doing an advanced business practice that will actually make us billions" -Executive who is going to later report maybe tens of millions in profits this quarter
EA managed to be ranked among the top most hated companies of any kind for a good while (at a certain point they were the most hated) which is impressive for a game company.
So we’ll see what going private does.
Don't really care much tbh
All the franchises and series that I had any interest in have already been killed by EA
So they can rot in saudi sands all they want
Desiccate, to be more precise
I think their censorship of video games that don’t align with their religious beliefs will hit different
This is probably the second company buying in Saudi Arabia
Could be the case.
Wait, that’s a thing over there?!
just surprised they didn’t get absorbed into Tencent
sorry not sorry
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