Clasm

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[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They were always sacrificial pawns. The administration has been salivating over one of them getting killed so that they can invoke Artical 2 and call for martial law.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Text has been a little sluggish with my tests. Might be due to influx of users, though.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 29 points 7 months ago

Just spit balling here, but they probably tune the AI for different thresholds between return and rent out so that they can rake in the damage fees for things that "weren't there" during the first AI scan.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

Dual-casting 2nd tier lightning could stun-lock Alduin!

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

The last few Amber alerts I've gotten required an app Formerly known as Twitter account to get any additional details...

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

Before YouTube's switch to "your going to watch 6 ads before the video starts, and you are going to like it," schtick, I always enjoyed getting to skip the ad before they managed to tell me what the product even was.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

You are correct, I missed that it was still under speculation.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

Pocketpair has a pretty good case against Nintendo here, I think, because other games have used these things before.

I know it was never actually released, but Scalebound had a mechanic that would have allowed a player to tell their dragon to perform a task, albeit, usually destructively.

Guild Wars 2 Added a mechanic years ago that let players traverse water and land by automatically a switching between mounts.

'Releasing' a creature into a 3d environment has been done by every minion-mancer class in an MMO since the dawn of the genre.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

~~Looks like it's over the game mechanics of 'releasing a creature into a 3d environment and having it perform a contextual task' & 'having a rideable mount switch to a different rideable mount depending on terrain'~~

~~I don't think either of these would work in the US, because you can't protect game mechanics here, but I'm not sure about Japan's take.~~

Edit: I missed that this was still under speculation at the time of the post:

https://bulbagarden.net/threads/nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-jointly-file-lawsuit-for-patent-infringement-against-palworld-creator-pocketpair-inc-in-the-tokyo-district-court.303354/

Based on searching of Japanese patent databases, initial speculation is that these may include (but is not necessarily limited to) patents relating to game mechanics and gameplay features from Pokémon: Legends Arceus, and may include patents such as one for throwing and using Poké Balls in a 3D space (JP,2023-092953,A); and one for automatically switching between ride Pokémon as a player transitions between different terrain, such as between air and the ground (JP,2023-092954,A).

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

It doesn't need to be an animated visual to be distracting or NSFW...

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a lot of faith that the ads would be SFW, let alone not distracting.

[–] Clasm@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 years ago

Not only that, but then they go and blow half of their budget on adverts instead of R&D.

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