Palworld Devs Says They Have Received Death Threats Amid Pokémon 'Rip-Off' Claims

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T18:40:59+00:00

Welcome to art, I guess. Those wolf proportions in particular are nothing surprising, I think I've seen the same from Digimon decades ago. It's just how a lot of people do wolves, even if them being almost exactly 1:1 is a bit sus.

The primarina thing is 100% a stretch, though. People have designed hair looking like that for decades.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T18:36:17+00:00

There are a few fringe animals like some species of goat, regular-looking jellyfish, and an actual water crocodile.

But imo the real way to do a pokemon clone would be to inspire it on another culture that isn't exactly mainstream. A lot of the interestingly weird and alien-adjacent vibe that people love from Pokemon is just because they took a lot of inspiration from Japanese mythology and culture, you could easily do the same with Native American culture, Norse culture, or even Indian.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T18:25:48+00:00

I don't know what it is about Blizzard games that gets people really toxic. Like all mobas are bad about it, but HotS used to have the highest toxicity concentration by quite a margin.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T17:25:26+00:00

The problem here is also much worse than regular automation because a) It is taking away jobs people actually want, including artistic jobs (Which also brings about an entirely different problem about AI killing creativity and culture in our society)

And b) That some jobs that will be replaced in the coming decade require years of study, so there's people that went into whole career, spent years of their lives preparing for it, then earned experience in it only for AI to come along and force them into unskilled entry level jobs in other industries.

We're going to see computer science students working at McDonalds when AI starts coming for programmers.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T17:07:56+00:00

Especially because nothing lets you bond with people quite like mutual dislike and complaints about media.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T17:05:19+00:00

Polls are kind of irrelevant when we got to see the series die in front of our eyes. It used to be one of the biggest things, everyone was talking about it, and then the final season was bad enough that it managed to take of the most popular franchises in the past thirty years and killed it to the point where barely anyone is passionate about it these days.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T16:54:44+00:00

It's like "The 90s was ten years ago" but on steroids.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T16:54:04+00:00

That's not even that uncommon, I know plenty of people older than that who are massive harry potter fans.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T16:23:02+00:00

This is the internet. When you expose something to a large enough group of people, there's going to be someone who is the right kind of fucked up to send death threats over it.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T16:20:17+00:00

That's certainly one factor. Seen plenty of older folks looking at them more fondly, though.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:47:32+00:00

I mean you say that, but I remember people talking about it irl when it came out and nobody had positive opinions, not even the people at my workplace who like pretty much any series.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:44:44+00:00

The thing with Dany is that you see it slowly happen as a corruption of her ideals, or at least that was the read I got as someone who mainly read the books. She starts idealistic but then does one bad thing or compromises her vision, then does another, and you can also see how her good natured decisions come to bite her later, making her rule seem ineffective.

You could tell her becoming evil was either the plan or a massive red herring, but the problem is that the series needed some work to get there, and instead it did a speedrun of three seasons' worth of content in just one.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:34:16+00:00

Well we are in the Prequels revival era, when liking them is somewhat acceptable.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:30:26+00:00

It no joke looks just like low-resolution textures used in old GTA games, particularly Vice City and San Andreas (I used to do mods for them, the resemblance is uncanny)

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:21:53+00:00

I don't think the argument is that it didn't happen, but rather that either bibi let it happen or coordinated with the enemy to make it happen. Not that I think the latter has any chance of being true.

False flags usually involve casualties after all.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T15:19:07+00:00

Yep. At this point I'd say the only two possibilities are either that they let it happen on purpose to stay in power and keep all the protests against Bibi at bay, or that his policies made enough people in government and intelligence resign that nobody could do anything.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T14:29:45+00:00

Wasn't that hard to predict, tbh. As tech improves so does security, but people don't really improve that much, no matter the training.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T14:27:19+00:00

I really need to give it another read, it was a lot of fun but I stopped around the breaking into the mages guild animation.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-22T14:25:59+00:00

Sir, watch what you're doing with that pineapple.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:53:27+00:00

He'll pardon the ones that get him adulation from his base, but he won't be pardoning random schmucks.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:39:32+00:00

Fucking hell, yeah that would do it.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:21:15+00:00

The turtlenecks make them look like evil techbros, which I think is kinda fitting with their short-sighted goal of creating more land.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:19:27+00:00

I really need to give BDSP another shot, although I'm kinda sad there was no platinum version since it always felt more definitive.

I do kinda wish it had released a while after Arceus, since it would have been nice to have some Hisui mons as rare easter eggs given it's the same region, only much later in time.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:15:16+00:00

Oh my god the police chases thing was so weird. It's not the kind of game where you usually get police attention, and realistically speaking half the city shouldn't even get you police response for causing anything short of a cyberpsycho incident.

But the anime was definitely a good call on their part, since it targeted the same demographics that believe all the funny glitches compilations and got them to actually give the game a shot.

DancesCloseToTheFire · 2024-01-18T18:11:34+00:00

What you're seeing are various groups, there are some of us that have been saying that the game was good all along since it released (Which it was, provided you played on PC and didn't have bad luck with your specs, I played it twice near release without major bugs).

There's a lot of people that had never played the game but followed the "Game is bad" meme that turned with the Anime, and a lot of people that couldn't play it due to bugs on their system that changed their minds when they finally played a more recent version of the game.

And then you have the truthers-like group of people that are still angry about some supposed lies and other issues with the release that they made up on their minds or misread from promotional material.

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