They weren’t too much, actually.

Having never heard of Seasons 52, I looked them up - they’re all across the US, like not confined to a single region of the country (though the majority are in Florida), but there are only 44 of them according to their website (https://www.seasons52.com/locations/all-locations). So there’s definitely something fishy…

The scaling part is essentially meaningless.

These cookies all suck. 

Trademark /= copyright.

Stop referencing trademark law in a discussion about copyright.

You’re a 3D artist and you don’t understand how scaling an object works? I hope your employer doesn’t see this post.

Mofo, I used god-damn LightWave to learn 3D modeling in the 90s and have been using Maya for over 20 years. At no point in the ENTIRE HISTORY of 3D modeling has scaling been a destructive transformation OR been considered editing. You are a “3D artist” as much as a dude who watched one 10-min video of C++ on YouTube…

*sigh*

The people in this comment section claiming Japanese copyright law doesn’t protect parody are really uninformed. No a wikipedia page is not a thorough source on Japanese parody law works.

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

any number of export/import processes will change the scaling. it does not count in the least.

1. “Zooming in” in 3d space is a description of a camera movement. You’re talking about scaling the model.

Tell me you didn’t read the article without actually telling me you didn’t read the article. 

“Not sure if this modder realizes it, but rescaling the models absolutely counts as editing them.”

The scales of the models being near identical was the most damning evidence of plagiarism against Palworld

On the left is Pikachu from Pokemon Yellow. On the right is my 100% original creation, Longmouse. If you try to modify the right image to make it line up with the left, you’re really muddying the waters

If you spent even 20 minutes in a 3D editing tool, hell even a vector based 2D editing tool, you wouldn’t be half this misinformed and stupid.

I think I just contracted malaria from reading this comment

Oh. *This* is your angle on the whole thing? Lawl.