GTA Peace is kind of weirdly named for the content of the game. Maybe it’s meant to be ironic?

Having played Palworld a bit, some of the monsters are distinct from Pokemon, but some of them are incredibly obvious clones.

But like, looking back at some of the knock-off toys I remember seeing in the 80s and early 90s? It definitely seems like copyright has gotten more robust in its attempted overreach.

This is the problem with spending millions of dollars on games and focusing on profitability over actual quality or expression. Video games are fundamentally an art medium. You can choose to make some uninspired cash grabbing trash, and can even make a whole company built around that and make profit. But are you going to make a great game that way? Probably not.

You’d be better off with half a dozen people with passion and a comparatively minuscule budget. You might have to scale back from ultra realistic graphics and massive explorable areas with dozens of voice actors, but I don’t really think that makes games any better anyway. A little 2d rpg with really basic pixel graphics can put a big project to shame if it’s made with passion and emotion.

I kinda like it. It’s better for some shows than others, but like, look at Curb Your Enthusiasm. It would pop up every now and then, only to fade back into the aether for a few years, then come around again. It never felt forced, or like it wasn’t within its own continuity when it came back. Some time just passed, and that was alright. I feel the same way about Red Dwarf. It comes, it goes, it comes back again. We love it.

You can’t force it. It’s one thing if delays are because of studios or rights holders blocking creators from getting their work out, but if it’s part of the natural process? The process is the product, and sometimes good work needs time to percolate, or ferment, or whatever metaphor you want.

Don’t try!

It seems like a pretty good survival strategy for a species to routinely produce a number of different sorts of constituent organisms in order to have the tools ready to be more adaptable to varying circumstances. Considering how much humans specialize their routine behaviors and the way in which we work together both consciously and through larger interconnected systems, it isn’t surprising to see a variety of strategies to process information, make decisions, and communicate with one another. Thinking outside the status quo creates opportunities that can independently either succeed or fail of their own applicability and ability to be executed. If everyone is looking for the same things, they’re likely to miss a lot. Even if many of those arrangements don’t produce the desired result, they can be a valuable exploration for new resources and strategies.

It seems an extremely dire mistake in these circumstances to label one particular mode of thought the ideal and reject all contradiction as dysfunctional or useless.

Given the responses in this thread, it seems that the same bias exists even in ostensibly leftist spaces. Yikes.

Y’all need to get out more.

Using someone else’s IP, such as claiming that something you’re distributing is an episode of their show, most certainly qualifies for a valid DMCA takedown notice.

For the past few years I lived out in the suburbs where buying anything meant either driving around and doing a whole thing or ordering something online and getting it a day or two later. I ordered everything.

Now I’m back to living downtown in a small city, and I’ve literally used Amazon only once in the past three months, to buy something that isn’t available locally. It’s much nicer.

I feel like this would be much better suited as an article. Or like, at least with a synopsis. An hour is a long time to watch some guy sitting with his phone in his hand without at least having a preview of what he’s discussing.

Taking a quick look at some population density maps, it’s not hard to see why this might be the case. The US is very spread out in comparison to the world’s denser population centers, and even in comparison to Europe. Buses and trains connecting cities and towns not only have further to go, but the funding for them is more spread out. We’ve got pretty robust subway and bus systems in many of our metro areas, with New York and Boston being particularly notable, but if you want to leave the city you need a car. That means that we’re going to have to cater to that kind of transportation to a greater degree than a smaller country that can easily connect most of its populace with public transportation.

In a lot of the US, if you don’t have access to some sort of personal vehicle or a taxi service, you’re not going anywhere without a major hike. There are some cases where this could be improved, like extending commuter rails further, but it’s not a fix for everywhere.

Also, in the case of states with low population density they both lack the funding and the public support for increased public services like robust transportation. Some of these payee states that can’t cover the cost of their own roads anyway are skeptical of supporting public services, and their conservative legislature seems to like it that way.

We can definitely do better, but sometimes I feel like the folks who say we should just get rid of cars and all take public transport have never been out in the sticks.

I’ve had pretty decent luck with Notesnook. I wish they’d give it the capability to open multiple windows, but at least it hasn’t lost me any writing like Notion and Obsidian did.

Too much hand wringing. We do better when we’re not tiptoeing around our own words and actions terrified to sneeze.

Next they’ll call hiding in the woods ecoterrorism.

Rip 'em apart! Make them into 6 different companies with single letter names and force two sets of two to share their letter to fuck with their marketing!

Dino Land for Genesis was a lot of fun!

Honestly I mostly just know because I have a big stack of old Game Pros and Nintendo Powers from the 90s and I only ever remember seeing Game Informer in Barnes and Noble once those became a thing.

But you may still be right! xD

2006 is a bit late in the game. Game magazines as a relevant medium peaked in the 90s. By 2006 you have a pretty robust internet, what’s the point? Yeah, sure, if you stick them in every single B&N they’ll sell, but Game Pro and Nintendo Power were institutions in the 90s. If you wanted to know about games, that was the way.

Bummer. Game Informer was the leading game magazine when Game Pro and Nintendo Power were around, though? I think not. Game Informer was third fiddle at best.

Well yeah, that’s not what super hero movies are for. Honestly, having a Marvel movie in your top 20 is just a good argument for watching a lot more movies. They’re fun but they’re not profound or amazing or particularly artfully shot or anything.

For a Deadpool movie though? It’s perfect. It captures the chaos and reference-heavy nature of the Deadpool comics about as well as you could expect.

Ooohhh, that does look promising! Good to know there’s some kind of viable alternative!