Though Nintendo’s not going after Pocketpair because lamballs look uncomfortably similar to wooloos, we do know the company is famously litigious in protecting its brand.

So no one really knows what exactly Nintendo is accusing them of yet.

Here’s an older video by an attorney that did a deep dive on Palworld and its legality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3ATH556NU (Warning: long video).

Edit - Update:

A patent lawyer Was able to narrow down which patent that they could allege was infringed by looking at the combined patents between Nintendo and The Pokémon Company (since they filed a joint lawsuit). There are 28 possibilites and they are claiming that multiple patents have been infringed. https://gamerant.com/nintendo-pokemon-palworld-pocketpair-lawsuit-which-patent/

One likely candidate is a patent that was filed (and requested that the review process be expedited) in July of 2024 that’s “primarily centered on creature-catching mechanics”.

When you can get ticketed for speeding while your car is on the back of a tow truck:
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11008328/photo-towing-van-speeding-ticket-evidence/

Or a red light traffic ticket when your car was stolen:
https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-red-light-ticket-camera-illinois-car-stolen-theft/11677595/

And the police/courts won’t help you because it’s a problem from the private company running the cameras… I think we can see where some sort of AI backed camera network is headed.

A bandaid to fix this might be to setup an easy way for someone to dispute the charge. For every day that it takes the company to review the dispute, they would need to pay back the accused the same amount that they are charging them (with a minimum of paying them back twice the amount of the fine).

Even then, I’d rather cameras not be used in this way at all.

Direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkXpJCoY9c

but the Tank Simulator also looked great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXGwaJBB_J0

Flappy Bird wasn’t the first to even implement a game like this.

I remember playing a very similar game with a helicopter and another one with a worm long before that app released for phones.

Flappy Bird is just the game of this type that ended up going viral in its time.

But the previous flight model seemed to work fine?
What were the issues you noticed with it?

I see “TOS point and click” and can only think of “Terms of Service point and click”… what does this actually stand for?

The other side? TOp Side? It’s definitely not “Thoracic outlet syndrome”…

edit: The Old School?

Well, they’ve continued to churn out features and develop the game, so people keep supporting them.

There are definitely ups and downs, but overall they’ve made a lot of progress in the past few years.

A small group of players have been able to use jump gates to jump over to the Pyro system and back. That’s supposed to be released to everyone by the end of the year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was just a PTU release, with it finally going live a few months later.

Released last year, and going to be shut down by January 18, 2025

Looks like a free to play MMO with microtransactions and a season pass. No refunds will be given out.

It’s not the best example for the Stop Killing Games movement, but it at least highlights the trend of studios that are releasing games and then dropping all support soon after.

It would be great if studios started planning for an end of life transition where players could spin up their own servers, or at least allow some sort of offline mode so that the game doesn’t just become completely unplayable.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Yeah, the way I’m thinking about it is like RabbitMQ, but customized to work with their server meshing and the replication layer.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/

And at this point, from any newcomers/outsiders looking in, I think there’s a relevant xkcd for Average Familiarity with this subject.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

This article doesn’t go into it, but Louis Rossmann pointed out that their profit margin has tanked recently.

https://odysee.com/how-intel’s-oxidation-scandal-screws

At the end of 2021 it was 25.1% for the year.
At the end of 2022 it was 12.7%
At the end of 2023 it was 3.1%

Even ignoring the downward trend, at a margin like 3%, a small swing in the market, a small mistake in inventory ordering, or replacing a bunch of CPUs that had an oxidation issue during the manufacturing process will push them over the edge into losing money instead of making money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs

Not saying this to defend Intel, just pointing out a major reason as to why they are scrambling to cut down on costs.

edit: formatting

Yeah, a decision to modify copyright so that it affects training data as well would devastate open source models and set us back a bit.

There are many that want to push LLMs back, especially journalists, so seeing articles like this are to be expected.

edit: a word.

No problem it’s a very new term, they’ve only mentioned it in a few places. I just dug up a previous comment that I had posted about this a month ago:

For those wondering what RMQ (Replication Message Queue) is. They explained a bit more in a previous motd update:

This RMQ Test from the core tech group will replace the current NMQ system in preparation for Server Meshing and will be much more robust against networking bottlenecks. This test will not be with meshing enabled but will focus on single shards.

The last test with it was pretty brutal (lots of crashing, imagine groundhog day where you only get a few minutes before you wake up again) so it looks like they’re trying to iron those out before switching on server meshing with it. Hopefully we’ll see much smoother gameplay with this enabled once they work out those issues.

All ice cream (and related desserts) will get harder as they get colder.

It feels like you’re comparing ice cream/desserts that are completely frozen to ice cream/desserts that are partially frozen, which is not what this post is about…

Although if the ice cream does get slightly liquidy before re-freezing, it will be much harder than it was before. This is why one of the most important factors when making ice cream is to continually mix up the ice cream while it freezes.

I think the going saying at this point is “2 more years”.

They’ve definitely continued to pump out more features over the years. And some players have finally gotten to test out jump points to the next system “Pyro”… But I could easily see them continuing to develop this game for another 3-5 years before we see it in beta.

Star Citizen is another game that has implemented this level of detail, you just can’t smash the screens, yet…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsYrQ0uPKc

“Stealth” is a useful tool for visiting Reddit. It’s available on F-Droid. https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth

Otherwise using old.reddit with a browser has been a decent fallback.

What do you mean by outdated? Most captchas are there to help them train their next ML model. Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/2228/

From the article:

[Ubisoft Quebec] started working on Shadows in 2020. That means when it arrives in November it will have been in development for four years, which is longer than normal.

You can’t be serious.

Here’s a rough translation to english using Whisper. I’m assuming “rock-climbers” should be “excavators”:

[00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000] Here they are, fortifications are being built all over the Kursk region.
[00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.000] The rock-climbers are working.
[00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.000] A huge, endless line of anti-tank weapons.
[00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.000] There, further, is the Ukrainian.
[00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:13.000] Well, more precisely, the enemy.
[00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.000] Because not only the Ukrainian.
[00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.000] Here.