He was busy getting back at Dr Ivo Robotnik for pissing on the moon and cussing him out afterwards.

There’s literally an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise where humans discover alien replicator technology for the very first time

Which is also the episode that they blow up the alien space dock station because it abducted a main cast member… Well it’s less offensive to your intelligence (or otherwise) than the actual red alert origin episode (why they say “go to tactical alert” rather than red or yellow alert…), seriously why did we need an episode’s B plot (that later invades the A plot) dedicated to the phrase “go to red alert”?

Not looking forward to it because I know for sure it’s not going to reach the bare minimum of CTR’s greatness in the genre. Like imho the only game that has managed to surpass CTR in kart racers just happens to be CTR:NF.

If you think that’s bad, the local crank where I work a couple days ago went on and on about a video of a long line of Walmart semis traveling down the highway like it was a suspicious thing, and not that the video was probably recorded near a walmart distribution center…

Sounds exactly like how in music “R&B” is just the record label’s way of saying ‘black people music’.

Sorta, there’s also another group of people that have a vested interest in making taxes as painful as possible. The Republican Party, because they want taxes to have such a negative association with them so that it’s easier to sell their platform of tax cuts, budget cuts, ect. ect.

The thing is that the federal IRS, and most (if not all) state level tax offices already know how much you owe in part because banks and employers are legally required to send your total money income info onwards to the IRS and such. So we could absolutely do away with the system we have in favor of system where the government sends you a bill and you check the government’s work rather than the current system of the government checking your work while knowing full well what the answer actually is. But we don’t adopt it because the tax prep businesses will cry about jobs being lost, and a lot of politicians don’t want that technicality hanging over their head so we’re stuck with the dogshit ass system we got.

As we’ve seen with this Palworld lawsuit

Okay stop it right there, there’s a lot (and I do mean a lot) of moving pieces that is going into that lawsuit. The major thing is that the narrative that everyone i’ve talked to seems to have latched onto and not know anything about it is that they think it’s a big company is bullying a small indie dev, however that isn’t even remotely true because Pocketpair had officially in July 2024 (so it likely had been in the works for months, or up to a year beforehand) entered into a partnership with Sony, the same kind of relationship that Gamefreak entered with Nintendo back in the day when creating Pokemon. And as a short history lesson, Nintendo and Sony don’t like eachother, and if you want to know why look into the original Playstation, the CD based SNES one, and ultimately why the Philips CDi came into existence.

Yes I am insinuating that the lawsuit is happening purely because of Pocketpair making a bit of a faustian bargain with Sony, and there’s plenty of reasons to point to that being the reason. Like did you know that the damages that Nintendo is demanding from Pocketpair for allegedly violating patents is 10 million yen (and halting distribution, but that part is very normal for court cases in general), roughly $65,000 USD? Yes actual chump change for Sony, and also very low for what you’d think a patent lawsuit would bring in. Not to mention that patent lawsuits are inherently very risky endeavors to begin with, considering that right now it looks like both Nintendo and Sony are playing a game a chicken, and daring the other to blink first there’s only a couple results that ends up happening. Nintendo wins, and forces Sony+Pocketpair to seriously reconsider how they market and merchandise the Palworld IP going forward, while also likely more clearly defining Nintendo’s patents. Nintendo loses, yet has their patent affirmed, and more clearly defined. Nintendo loses, and has their patent invalidated. In all three results, they still get to make Sony bleed for doing from what Nintendo’s pov is, a blatant encroachment of territory by Sony.

The closest thing I can think of something like this happening in the past was when Sega sued Radical over alleged patent infringement in The Simpsons: Road Rage, except there it felt more like it was simply because Simpsons Road Rage was so much just a Crazy Taxi copy paste job with a Simpsons coat of paint dumped all over it.

Since early ygo is all about 4 star cards with good atk power

I was thinking “that doesn’t sound like goat format to me” then you mentioned Summoned Skull then it hit me that you’re probably in a format predating Jinzo, the Monarchs, Chaos Sorc, and BLS.

Ah yes, time for my depression to start kicking in yet again, reminding myself that I know full well that the likelyhood of me ever finding anyone that would ever tolerate me may as well be 0%…

So to explain why this lawsuit is happening, we need to talk about Pocketpair’s partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and SMEJ’s subsidiary, Aniplex. And also some major context on the relationship between Nintendo and Sony (hint: they don’t like eachother at all)

Pocketpair essentially entered into a relationship with Sony, about the same kind that Gamefreak did with Nintendo way back then. At that point this is no longer the smol bean indie dev getting bullied by a big company, this is now a big company trying to take a piece out of another rival with the lawsuit being the retaliatory strike. Now as for why Sony and Nintendo don’t like eachother, this has a lot to do with the original playstation, the cd based SNES, that one. So if Nintendo never backed out of that deal (and went to go work with Philips which brought the CDi into existence), Nintendo wouldn’t be the household name it is today.

Why is this important to know? Because after that moment Sony resents Nintendo for not becoming their prize, and Nintendo resents Sony for attempting a hostile takeover action against them. Fast forward to today, and with Palworld, Sony is effectively being handed a way to get back at an old rival on a silver plater, and they’re taking the shot at knocking Nintendo down a peg. For Nintendo, they have to answer what is in organized crime terms, a blatant encroachment of their territory by Sony, and it just so happens the only avenue to do so is a patent lawsuit. Which are notoriously known for being very long, messy, and insanely risky propositions, like to the point that nobody wants to actually do them. So for Nintendo to go for a patent lawsuit against Pocketpair, they are viewing the risk of invalidating their own patent as significantly less than the damage that Sony can do to them if unanswered.

This is what the entire lawsuit is about, it’s not Nintendo vs. Pocketpair, it’s actually Nintendo vs. Sony in this lawsuit.

They lack the identity and focus of older games.

My entire thoughts on MW5:Mercs and Clans. After stumbling onto the flash in the pan that is a 9-10/10 pvp game (that happens to be stuck behindthe most meh/10 developer imo) in MWO, PGI went and spent two games trying to do everything they can to distance themselves from MWO.

You must be referring to The Clans, so this is the point that I’ll say that everyone in-universe thinks that the reason why the galaxy went to shit after the Space Roman Empire fell (the original Star League) was because the Space Roman Empire fell. And everyone (namely the 5 main houses) to some degree is fighting eachother over the “right” to be the First Lord. So the Clans think this to such an extreme degree that they think the entire problem can be solved by going in, conquering Terra, and reforming The Star League, which right now is what the current era going into right now with the ilClan era.

The Clans are kinda the descendants of the original Star League, namely the military arm of it (the SLDF).

Hey now, I enjoyed my little 30 minute drive to and from work when I was working at a factory, now granted I live in a rural area, and worked night shift so it was all just 2 lane roads, and barely anyone else on the roads (besides the long line of people going to work going opposite where I was going in the mornings)

Battletech, no not HBS BT, the actual TT wargame. It has all sorts of rules for all kinds of terrain, including stuff that is effectively impossible to keep track of outside of having a computer do it (obligatory Megamek plug here).