Those suburbs are the problem. The solution is to let them die. Keeping them is an example of the sunken cost fallacy.

Walkable suburbs are possible. They’re a little more densely populated than American burbclaves, with mixed use buildings providing shopping, restaurants, and housing in suburban neighborhoods. The streets are designed for people and bikes first, cars third, and they’re centered around a mass transit hub like a subway…

There are lots of reasons: racism, the GI bill, letting the automotive industry have input into public policy, racism, minimum parking requirements...

If southerners don’t want to be depicted as slack-jawed morons, they should stop voting like slack-jawed morons.

“Everything is client authoritative”

First things first: I would never ask a syphilis-addled fascist for his opinion on anything. I don’t care about being objective, I care about being correct. A source can be biased and also correct.

“Because the execs are viewed as more important while workers (contract ones particularly) are seen as expendable?”

Funny how Pokemon launches with some performance bugs and years later it’s “fucking terrible”, but Cyberpunk launches with far worse bugs and all that game gets is some gentle ribbing.

Scarlet and Violet launched with the most sales of any single-platform game in history, and twice as many sales as Palworld managed in the first weekend.

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

Stop referencing trademark law in a discussion about copyright.

You’re talking about trademark law. This article is about *copyright* law. Completely different things.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the concept of copying, but if I start from scratch and make a 3D model that looks identical to a pokemon but has different geometry, that’s still a copy.

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

Even if they didn’t use the name Pooh, the movie is still a derivative work, and Disney’s lawyers would have eviscerated them in court. Being a parody isn’t a guaranteed defense against copyright infringement, especially when the infringing work is making money.

Pokemon is owned equally by Nintendo, GameFreak, and Creatures. However, Nintendo owns over 50% of GameFreak, meaning Nintendo controls 2/3 of Pokemon.

No, that’s reductive to the level of stupidity. “Copy” can have many different meanings. Some copies are infringing. Some copies are legally distinct enough to not be infringing.

“Pokemon aren’t meant to fight. Not like this.” - Nurse Joy

And in many instances, they do. What’s your point? Nobody is claiming they’re literally the same 3D model, just that a lot of the details are too close to be accidental.

There are different levels of copyright protection. If your creative works are copied, even if you haven’t registered that work, you can send a cease-and-desist, but you’re unlikely to get damages if you sue. Having it registered makes it much easier to sue and prove damages.