unless they start to sell their products in California

Good thing it’s free software

Palworld weren’t forced to make those changes. They did it to avoid injunctions from stopping sales during the precedings.

Also, the majority of the cases are still ongoing. Both in the US and in Japan

And, somehow, fucking won.

No, they haven’t won a single patent case yet. And there’s still ball throwing in the game, but only for captures. The summoning via ball throwing was removed so that Nintendo couldn’t file an injuction against Pocketpair to stop their sales during the case.

If Pocketpair wins the court cases, they can undo the removals.

Don’t forget that these patents (or modifications of existing patents) were made after Palworld released.

Nintendo and their lawyers are scumbags

They also tried to patent riding monsters as well, which is insane seeing that horseriding had been a thing for millenia

Fuck off with this. If Palworld ripped off Pokemon, then Pokemon ripped off Dragon Quest

Quit licking corpo boots

Most pals are “legally distinct” monsters

Fuck off which this. Pokemon pulled the same shit when they copied Dragon Quest with the first games

Pokemon has that copyrighted or something.

Patented, which is even dumber

Nah, that’s something you just add in a post-credits clip. You don’t base half an episode on it

And 28 isn’t old enough to occupy “most devs”.

It’s not an issue if age, it’s an issue of reading comprehension

Ah, you’re one of the Linux gatekeepers. You’re not worth bothering with anymore. Tah tah

Unfortunately, a lot of dev studios tend to just build their games on the highest end systems they can and don’t bother checking for lower-end hardware. For a lot of systems, there’s plenty of programs that don’t run “good enough”. And sometimes I’ll even have issies with M$ applications on decent workstation hardware. Notes and Teams are frustratingly slow to work with sometimes

Ethanol is also used in food

It’s the alcohol in drinks, and that’s about it. Ethanol for fuel is not made in the same facilities as beer and whiskey. And as a whiskey fan, we probably shouldn’t encourage drinking anyways.

and as a disinfectant.

While it can be (vodka is great for keeping wool clean), it generally isn’t. You’re thinking of isopropanol (aka isopropyl alcohol), which evaporates later in the distillation process (eg the “tail”)

It’s valuable for reducing smog

And EV’s are even better at it. And public transportation.

Overall, we need to work towards on mass public transport, EV’s in smaller vehicles, and hydrogen fuels for larger vehicles. Ethanol could still be produced for the things that absolutely can’t work as an EV or fuel cell, but the scale we make it at is way larger than needed for that

In addition, the opportunity cost is that we’re not using that water and land to grow food creating secondary affects for the people that need to eat food.

Eh, the US is a net calorie exporter regarding food. We make enough to feed everyone.

A bigger problem is the additional land needed to grow the corn for ethanol. That demands expansion of agricultural land, which means destroying forests and wetlands which are extremely important for sustaining ecosystems.

You know how people are going on about ecological collapse and how the drop off in insect populations are the biggest warning sign? That’s caused by humans tearing down their ecosystems for farming and land development.

Also, the reason I didn’t include fertilizer and other fuel costs in pointing out that the ethanol itself is carbon-neutral is because the other parts of the process can potentially be changed to be carbon neutral as well. Not right now, but the tech is being worked on

More like Epic, Sony, and/or Microslop

Fuck off, bootlicker

Only if it’s 5e

The problem with ethanol that both of you seem unaware of is how energy intensive it is to create ethanol. It takes about 5 gallons of fuel to produce 4 gallons of ethanol.

Let me repeat that: when producing ethanol, you have to spend more fuel than you produce

which are shipped around the country to be burned, injecting carbon into the atmosphere.

While I broadly agree with your comment, this line is a stretch. The carbon released is only from transportation and fertilizer production. The carbon inside the ethanol itself is actually pulled from the environment, so that part is actually carbon neutral.

The big problem with ethanol production is that it takes 5 gallons of fuel to produce 4 gallons of ethanol. It’s literally just pissing away time, money, and resources just to subsidize farmers.