honestly, unizionation. it might not sound like anything. hell, it might not always result in job protection, but a unified workforce is a scary workforce. that’s why corporations are always union busting; they don’t want workers to engage in collective action. the moment workers realize they actually hold the means…

the destruction of Capitalism

Capital gains taxes that punish the fiduciary responsibility of quarterly dividends.
Companies lay off to make their earnings seem better in the short term = share $ go up or dividends go up. Disincentivize the behavior.

This is quite a rambling manifesto. Who took it out of the grays?

Microsoft has laid me off more than once. Have I ever gotten severance?

We’re already up to like half the number of layoffs for all of 2023. What an absolutely brutal industry. 

“bankrumpt" is my new favorite word

This sounds even worse when you consider that, for US employees, no state requires severence payment to begin with. 

Spencer noted that this was a “painful decision” for Microsoft as a whole, clarifying that the company will “provide our full support to those who are impacted during the transition, including severance benefits informed by local employment laws.”

This is 100% Nintendo implicitly telling all their fans that have been whining to them about the game to shut up. The only time Nintendo sits on their hands is when they have a literal gold mine of a video game, not when it comes to taking legal action.

Okay man, calm down. All we’re saying is if Palworld really did use official Pokemon assets in their games, then a lawsuit is justified.

This whole argument is unhinged.  And these articles don't do anything but facilitate it, knowingly. 

I’m hopefull that all the kids who bought Palworld, see just how rogue and awful Pokemon has become.

Look at how they don’t even name Palworld in their statements. Clearly they aren’t 100% on going to court over possibly finding some infringing material. So they make a vague statement about an unnamed game so they can avoid being counter-sued for slander. Meanwhile they will CONTINUE to investigate Palworld (because…

Sorry but a wikipedia page is not a legitimate source for understanding something as complex as copyright law.

How are you distinguishing between a meme and a merited success at this stage, though? You don’t know what this game’s long term sales are like, it hasn’t been out long enough. It seems like you could make this same argument right after any high profile game launch if you happen to dislike the game.

Exactly. Can’t believe all the knee jerk reactions to about this that basically are “But think of Nintendo!”

So horribly exploitive, using your platform and power to help people see or give people water. Just the worst.

There’s clearly a deliberate attempt to make players see these monsters and associate them with Pokemon, and a lot of the designs have obvious similarities - even moreso than other Pokemon-likes. But claiming one creature is clearly a rip-off of another because of one or two design similarities - plant dinosaurs with…

Not speaking specifically to Palworld, I find kind of funny that in a post-AI world, you really can’t make a parody off an IP without being accused of using AI. If the purpose is to riff off of Pokemon, than essentially you’d want to invoke Pokemon as much as you can while skirting copywrite.