It certainly feels a lot like reinventing the wheel. Although I can’t think of specific server software that works in a similar fashion, I wouldn’t be surprised if those have existed since, dunno, 2008

This is literally one of the most common scenarios in Brazil. The city of Sao Paulo alone had over 103k cell phones stolen in 2023, almost every week on the news there’s a story about someone being forced at gunpoint to make a bank transfer before the criminals flee with the cellphone. In other situations, the victim is taken to a bank agency and the cash is drawn to the daily limit from a ATM (lightning kidnapping as it’s called here)

Be thankful this kind of shit doesn’t happen where you live

Doesn’t your bank need 2 sets of creds to log in? Mine does.

That’s irrelevant when the mugger is holding a gun at you and telling you to input the passwords.

Here’s a better idea: how about NOT making phones such stupidly high value items where thieves can access your bank account, make an instant loan and steal that, too?

Woops, there goes another F18

Starfighter? Very arcadey ship flying game

Feels like a double negative, so back to being straight, I guess

You could’ve seen it if you played Fire Red/Leaf Green ;)

I despise them because they’re shallow as fuck, “content” that requires zero brain to enjoy (I do enjoy some of that shit on occasion, but not in the form of short videos, I prefer the lazy approach of putting something on and not having to move a finger for 10+ minutes).
Another thing that makes me hate that kind of video is that it’s a breeding ground for “reacts”, as if the longer form of that wasn’t already a piece of shit. Neither of these problems are exclusive to YT, they’re just following on Tiktok, like Instagram did

More importantly, you can search text to get straight to the point you need. Doing that in video or audio is not possible, you have to memorize timestamps

Also missing from the list is the horny bugger. It doesn’t matter who or what it is, if it’s near them, they’ll try to seduce it

I think that’d fall into #8, biggest explosions

I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

A lot of people in those offices really don’t understand the technical mumbo jumbo that can be summed up as “doing something that already exists, but on a computer”

Like scanning a document on a printer and immediately sending it as email. That was patented

I roll to seduce the assassin. If that fails, I’ll barrel roll instead

You have been afflicted with insomnia

Coming from a 'murican, it’s safer to assume they can’t name a single country when given a map

I won’t, unless I can buy one 2nd hand AND there’s a way to jailbreak it

That VGC site has a pretty good sum up of Palworld: cynical and souless, but nonetheless a pretty fun game to play, and I fully agree. Pretty much every design up to version 0.3 was fully copied from pokemon. The more recent patch that added the big island on the south has more original-looking monster designs, though others are still pretty obvious ripoffs.

Additionally, the game involves using handheld ball devices thrown at wild world-roaming creatures you capture after cutting down their health by some amount to increase the catch percentage and different “grade” balls have increased chance for capture.

They did that on Craftopia, too, only it was to catch animals rather than monsters.

There is also a nefarious organization competing with you for capturing these wild creatures like Team Rocket.

Not really. There is a criminal syndicate, a bunch of violent hypocritical hippies, a corrupt police and some Borderlands style psychos, none “competing” with you, they just want you dead. I think only the syndicate would “count as team rocket”, but they’re up for all crimes.

This feels like taking advantage of grey area in the realm of visual IP similarity to shut down someone making their gameplay design mechanics look antiquated by comparison.

Palworld became a target at first because of that visual similarity but, as much as the pals obviously resemble pokemons, they’re visually different enough to be considered original and a case on those grounds alone would go nowhere. Which is why Nintendo shifted from IP to Patent bullshit.

As described in the patent, yes. You press one button, you start riding said mount. If it’s glider mount, it automatically changes to the stag once you touch the ground OR to the fish if you fall to the water.

Palworld never had this “automatic change from one mount to another”, at best it was the glider pals that you didn’t have to manually summon in order to glide and went away once you touched the ground or water. I’ve skimmed the patent a few times, but I don’t recall it having a case for going from creature-assisted-gliding to back on foot