A combination of things:

First, misinformation travels at light speed thanks to the lack of control in social media and internet.

Then, we have a generational crisis that is causing a strong lack of confidence in the actual political class because they are seen as incapable of resolving our generation issues.

Add to this that there is the perception of a strong migration problem (pushed by the far right).

The far right capitalizes on all of the above.

Also, it is treated like a cult by its followers because they thrive in environments where the intelligence is not required (it’s actually encouraged to not be intelligent and critical thinker).

The far right is also known to be populist, and they don’t need to be held accountable for their lies because their followers act as a cult.

If you sum this all up, you get our situation: young people voting fascism even more than boomers (look at Germany’s last election).

It really is scary.

I do have as many too at work.

I use one VM for each iteration of my automation software. Our factory has machines ranging from the 90s to present day, and they use different software environments to be programmed. In order to minimize the risk of data loss, we have one virtual machine with every software environment, that way if one gets corrupted, the damage is contained. It also makes them easier to export to new computers when we need to replace ours.

Yes, but don’t worry. This time we’ll do the right thing:

Ignore the facts strong enough so we forget that it’s happening by tomorrow.

Not just Ladas, SMART Ladas. I didn’t even know they made smart Ladas.

You clearly don’t do conspiracy well, do you?

It’s common knowledge that 5G is not for cancer. It’s for the mind controlling chips we all got installed with our COVID shot! Duh!!

/s (just in case)

I still can read the text, needs more jpg

I’m not a lawyer, so my knowledge is limited, but from what I understand, you can only make a claim for a patent infringement in the country where the company responsible for the infringement is located.

So they have this patent in Japan, but if I make a Pokémon-like game but I’m from, say, France, where this patent doesn’t exist, Nintendo can only suck it up and cope, because they don’t have a patent for this in France.

Greed. Simple as that. They only care for money. And they used to get a pass because they made good games. Not anymore.

That’s probably true in normal countries. Japanese patent office is… Less than normal if these things can happen.

My email is whatever shit protonpass comes up with when I generate a random alias. Phone number is 3334445566 Name is: lol no Gender is undisclosed DoB is January 1st of the first year I can select. Otherwise, 1900 And income is 1.

There, free WiFi.

Emulation exists despite Nintendo trying their best at every chance they have to destroy it. Not thanks to them.

And fan games exist only until Nintendo decides they have to be shut down. Which is frequently.

For the Nintendo future games? Well, what can I say? Again, it’s a video game company. And as Palworld and others are showing, many others can do what Nintendo does in better ways. We won’t have another mario if they close? There will be someone making a new platformer as good. There won’t be a new Pokemon? We already have better alternatives.

But if they disappear, games like Palworld will have a chance without having to risk being sued over all this crap.

Edit: Nintendo is the one hoarding these patents that then they can weaponize against competition, so yeah, if they disappear, competition will get better because they won’t have to be worried about being sued for things as dumb as putting a confirmation window after resuming a game from sleep.

But with Nintendo disappearing, how does that benefit anyone? If you don’t like Nintendo games, you can already just not play them. People buying them buy them because they like them. Them disappearing doesn’t help people who do like Nintendo games, and it doesn’t help people who don’t like Nintendo games.

They have killed tons of fan games just because they have enough money to throw at lawyers so people won’t even try to fight them.

They kill competition with these practices.

They are against emulation and game conservation while actively screwing consumers who try to legally play their games…

And the list goes on and on. They are a bad company that happens to make some good games. Those few good games are not enough to redeem them for the rest of what they do.

Edit: typo

First, they are not overprotective with their games. They are suing for patent infringement over bullshit because in Japan they own patents for things as stupid as “riding a creature in a game”. And this is what’s happening here. They are hampering progress because they want to be the only one in the monster catching genre. They can vigorously fuck off.

If Nintendo disappears, someone else will come. So many companies died and nothing happened. It’s a videogame, they’re not making life-saving devices.

If someone buys a Pokémon game now they are rarely uninformed, they are rewarding a company for their shitty behaviour. It’s not the first Pokémon and it’s not the first time Nintendo acts shitty. But their fanatics will keep defending the company no matter what. At that point, what else can you expect? It’s like buying an EA game and then crying because it’s full of micro transactions and useless dlcs, etc.

Also, yeah, if you’re uninformed and get scammed over stuff that’s been happening for years, it’s all on you. Fool me once and all that.

You’re wrong. There’s one reason (whether it’s logical or not, I’m not discussing it):

The US supports one but not the other one.

Edit: Seeing the downvotes, the message might have been misunderstood: what I’m saying is that if we’re treating them differently it is only because the US supports Israel so Netanyahu the nazi gets a free pass.

Nintendo even owns a patent for “riding a creature” in a game. That is such a broad concept that a normal parent system shouldn’t allow because of how broad it is. It’s just dumb. And Nintendo is taking advantage of it.

Edit: temtem is not Japanese, and any other patent office in the world will laugh at Nintendo if they tried to make a claim in their countries, but since Palworld is Japanese as Nintendo, they can make the claim there.

And still, Nintendo can’t sue for copyright (or doesn’t want to) which is interesting, because if it was such an evident rip off as everything says and the case was so clear, why wouldn’t they go that way?

There’s inspiration in the monsters, but what else? Is Pokémon an open world with survival mechanics? Can Pokémon carry weapons?

The problem is still the fact that Nintendo has these patents. That is the issue here. I wouldn’t argue if they made a copyright claim, but they are doing a scummy thing and they are setting a precedent that’s dangerous. Basically they’re telling a new player in Japanese business “hey, we’re the big fish, we own the place, you don’t have business here, go away”.

From the article:

They [Colopl] have, I think, almost 2,000 [employees], nobody but knows them outside Japan but they had a famous mobile game called White Cat Project, not copying Mario, not copying Pokémon, not copying Zelda, nothing at all. Nintendo brought forward six patents […]

One of the patents was for a confirmation screen after sleep mode. […]

And they had five other ones, including one for isometric, pseudo, 3D games, when the character is hidden behind the tree, the game forms a shadow, so you have a kind of sense for where the character is, even though you don’t see the character clearly. Nintendo has a patent on that, […]

Yeah, they are abusing the patent system. And yes, they potentially have a case against basically any game. This is what we should be talking about.

Eye department is tired, dissolve.

Yeah but that’s not the point.

The point is Nintendo being able to parent troll any threat they see because the Japanese patent system is so dumb and rotten that they are allowed to patent something as stupid as a confirmation window to resume a game.

That is the real problem here. Nintendo is being shitty and has a dangerous capability to literally kill any game they don’t like.

That’s all that matters. They can (and will, let’s not pretend they are a charity) sue potentially any competitors because of this. Nintendo is not a good company and doesn’t act in good will. They want money, and they will do whatever to get more. Shutting down a fan game by simply saying “I have more money than you so even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you can’t afford defending against me” or patent trolling any game that has even a simple confirmation window.

Actually that’s what they are going after. That’s why they are filing a patent infringement and not a copyright infringement cause.