Norgur @ Norgur @kbin.social

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Apple can be so laughably pathetic at times

IDK how US law is in this case but in Germany, all of this would evolve around the question if the game could be mistaken for a pokemon game die to those designs. It doesn't matter how similar stuff looks as long as it's not really plagiarism and obviously copied. So as long as they do not make it look like a pokemon game or use the pokeball or similar aesthetics, they wouldn't risk being sued or could harm Game Freak in return. They could challenge the registered trademarks etc. which could horrendously backfire, so large corporations usually avoid going after other large corporations and try to hash stuff like this out in backrooms. Lego for example is infamous for going after small shops that import Chinese brick makers but very decidedly not going after Hasbro, Lidl and Amazon, because those companies have the means to fight Lego's claims one by one which could lead to design rights being deleted by courts.

We keep thinking about such IP lawsuits as "all or nothing" affairs because YouTube with their strike system and similar systems by other companies make it seem that way. Yet that's not the case.

In this instance, Game Freak and Nintendo probably cannot go after palworld as a whole but battle around and then have them change singular Pal designs. That's a super expensive thing to do and takes ages. So they'll only do that if they risk loosing the claim to some brand ownership or other.

Blood for the blood god!

I should found xxxistan.

Yeah... Letting money be involved on the modder's side is just stupid. Taking legal action is so much easier when there is money changing hands...

Why would Germany of all places ban a shop selling Che Guevara merch?

Had the issue with the ignore flag missing literally a week ago. I mounted the HDD to troubleshoot it, ended up kicking the bucket, couldn't read any partitions from it anymore, but I had the Partuuid in fstab. Had to plug the main drive of the system into another one to fix fstab....

That's what she wants you to believe. Besides: do we know that Hello Kitty is using she/her?

UwU Monster

Really fun thing to play around with, although it requires some practice to do cool stuff with it.

He does. The GOP just had a special aide who will coax him out of there with slices of pizza. Each time he defends trump, he'll get a whole pizza just for himself. Can't blame the guy really. What else is he going to do when all his friends leave him to go play ninja with that stupid bearded rat?

I don't think you trust

Baldur's Piece, the adventures of Luffy the mindflayer

"prefering" steam is completely understandable. Boycotting a game and being disappointed and angry because it's not on steam isn't. To me at least. Regarding steam link: if you have an Nvidia graphics card, check out Moonlight!

It's so unbelievably pointless! Why the fuck should I care about the damn launcher?

I never understood this one. All of those platforms, be it steam, epic,. Ubisofts defunct thing or EAs even more defunct thing, are embedded browsers with a more or less obnoxious skin we all use almost exclusively to click "buy now". All of them are overloaded with crappy, half-baked "features" nobody gives a flying toss about.

So why the heck do so many people spend the limited energy they have available to live their lives on "boycotts" and endless rants about how a game not on steam is basically unplayable for some reason.

If this game would bring you joy (which I doubt since it's Ubisoft we are talking about, but that's another matter), why deny yourself that joy because the launcher you interact with for literally less than a minute is shittier than your usual one?

If the launcher itself was of any importance to you, you'd use playnite or something and just be done with it all.

Don't whip this up to some exclusivity debate. It's not. Imagine if this was some tangible product. Would you really not buy the thing you'd really like to have just because it's sold at a store where the shelves are crap? Because that's essentially what you're doing.

Well, you knew what you were getting yourself into, didn't you?

Almost as if we have this overwhelming programming to keep our children alive at all costs... curious that.