Next step: Nintendo sues all sites that dare write its name

Call the 3D printers, we need a bigger benchy!

Yours is one of the most well deserved downvotes. Dude got paralyzed, literally cannot walk or stand anymore, received the exoskeleton (which was paid for in full by a fundraiser back in 2015) and the company simply decided “nah, we don’t touch anything older than 5 years”, knowing full well that this is NOT a disposable device and that Michael would need it for the rest of his life.

Keep in mind Lifewalk, the company behind the exoskeleton, didn’t even try to come up with a public bullshit reason to deny maintenance to a device that they knew full well would be used for the rest of the person’s life, or upsell a newer model.

One shit update is all it takes, just ask CrowdStrike and Microsoft

I know for sure that palworld does not promote good sleeping habits in any shape or form, at least not to my addicted ass

The game during loading screen isn’t a “game mechanic” per se, which is why I think it was patented back then. Completely ass backwards that it could be patented, but there’s that.

As for the overhead arrow for navigation, I wasn’t aware of that one. Was that from EA? I think it can be argued that’s not a “game mechanic” either, because it’s not “an essential component of the game”

It’s pretty much the same thing, but with a longer grind towards the final levels. Legendary bosses (jetragon, frostallion, centaur knights) were bumped to lvl 55, there’s a couple of “alien” pals from semi random, timed events (meteorites), and a “final” dungeon as an offshore oil rig, which is filled with max level syndicate goons that can kill you really fast, but there are many places you can stay where their AI will effectively break. The game crashing while you’re there is a much, much worse enemy

Of course they do! It’s those weird white boxes that nerdy nerds nerd about with numbers and shit

While Microsoft is not a target right now, if that patent for ground-flying mounts is used (which I doubt it will, given it’s too recent and widely used by older games), Palworld can just point at World of Warcraft Burning Crusade as prior art and it suddenly becomes MS vs Nintendo.

“Multiple patents”

Specifies none

Off to a great start, I see. I know that actual game mechanics cannot be patented or copyrighted (the same principle applies to non digital games), so I’m really curious to what these patents are.

And then you have Capcom, who put fucking denuvo years AFTER a game’s release

What really annoys me is the endless stream of scam, “earn money fast with 1 simple trick” ads

It’s literally a scam every single time and trying to report those fall into deaf ears (or blind algorithms) because hey, they’re paying to be shown, why should any high ranking executive care? “Oh, I can’t be held responsible, sorry!”

The next step after programmer socks

Gimme a fucking keyboard instead of extra screen size

Crazy Shinobi Taxi, where you have drive a taxi to take passengers to their destinations, all while doing impossible acrobatic stunts that fire shurikens and kunais at nearby enemy ninja taxi drivers

Should fan translations and cultural restoration be encouraged for classic video games?

Yes, especially when official translations are shoddy and/or remove/censor stuff from the original

How do you feel about restoring original content, possibly dealing with sensitive issues, that was removed in Western releases of SNES games?

For most games, it’s only “sensitive” because a loud bunch of idiots screams too loudly without even understanding where/how/why things are being used. It’s also important to remember that the 80s had a full blown satanic panic in the main western market (USA), which only started to wane in the 90s

The migration that happened from xitter being blocked in Brazil is a good example of a bandwagon effect, or “people go where people are”. If xitter wasn’t taken down, neither bluesky nor threads would’ve received such a big and immediate influx.

Also worth noting is that the vast majority went for those 2, bluesky more so than threads, instead of any mastodon instance because those 2 are the mainstream alternatives

Yeah, because all censorship is evil /s

How do we get “normies” to adopt the Fediverse?

We don’t. Normies take one look at anything that isn’t mainstream and pinch their noses. A significant portion of them can barely make a search on the internet, they get lost at the idea of “websites” and are likely heavily biased against people who aren’t using what “everyone is using”

Anedoctal experience: back when I was using dating apps, I’ve had a fair share of girls that stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

Something something history repeats itself as farce or something

For context: Intel was founded by people who thought Fairchild Semiconductors wasn’t receiving the necessary funding or respect from the owning company.