“arbitrary definitions of words”

Well, the game is less than mediocre and sold so poorly that Target had it 40% off two weeks after release. Guess nobody cares about the Avatar IP.

Dude, YOU were the guy saying the Avatar (blue people) game was going to sell gangbusters because people love the IP. That statement aged like milk.

On top of what Nilus said, they’re selling the game in America, therefore American copyright law applies to those sales. For sales that take place in Japan, Japanese copyright law applies.

Just changing the genre is not parody. There’s a reason Pooh: Blood and Honey couldn’t be released until the original A.A. Milne stories entered the public domain.

Have you ever seen a real wolf? Because they don’t have that neck thing.

AI is just a fancy way to say “procedurally generated”, and we’ve had various forms of procedurally generated dungeons for decades. GPT models are just procedurally generated content that’s better at images and text.

Different teeth, different eye shape.

It’s not two cats with glowing eyes and sharp teeth. It’s two cats with perfectly identical jagged lines for teeth and the same color yellow eyes.

The original claim was about cultural impact, and also about whether or not the game deserved to be nominated for awards. Not sales. Sales weren’t relevant to the original conversation.

If the gameplay in the trailer is not indicative of the gameplay for the first 15 hours, then the trailer is lying.

The Avatar movies are a great analogy. Everyone watched them, nobody cares about them. Seriously, go ask your coworkers for the name of a character from Avatar. You’ll get a dozen Zukos before a single person from the blue people movie.

Genocide doesn’t have to mean killed. The UN’s definition of genocide includes:

In the real world you don’t usually get into conversations about whether or not trans people are humans with rights. People who take the “no” position need to be good propagandists, like JKR, or they come across sounding like monsters.

You could argue that, but unlike my position, there is no evidence to support your claim.

I understand what’s going on, therefore I say those words with sincerity.

1. You’re entitled to an opinion, even an extreme outlier like yours.

Yeah, sad that we can’t hate genocidal monsters without her simps coming out of the woodwork to defend her.

“None of that data suggests the game is mediocre”

I have much better games in my backlog, and none of those games have fascist baggage.