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Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers

www.eurogamer.net /palworld-developer-vows-to-fight-nintendo-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-fans-and-indie-developers

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Patents and video games huh? We can't ignore what John Carmack had to say about this:
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
--John Carmack
- More like he wouldn't be able to sell his solution to others, but yeah I think Patents on simple processes and mechanisms are dumb, especially certain software and firmware.
  
  Imagine if you had a hammer and decided to use it to hit a nail and then someone came along and said "I see you're using my method to build a house! Pay up!"
  Well, you can't patent something like that!
  Imagine you open up a game engine, any engine, and decide you need to point to an objective so you decide to use an arrow. A game company says "You're using our method to identify objectives! Pay up!" and that one is a unique mechanic?
  How long has humanity been using arrows to point to things? How can you patent it just because it's a digital arrow?
  
  Jfc this guy
  
  He's right.
  
  No, the very premise of that user's analogy is that he isn't profiting from it. If somebody invented hammering nails literally this year and a company came in selling it as a product without permission, then it would be comparable. It reads as if he failed to read my comment entirely but still replied with multiple paragraphs.
  The game development analogy is better, floating arrows about characters heads was actually patented, but it was widely criticized and it expired in 2019. Plus I already took offense to simple mechanisms and especially certain software and firmware solutions.
  
  A patient on hitting a nail with hammer is ridiculous if it's your framing or theirs.
  
  Countless buildings would never be built if you didnt invent hammer and nails, being paid royalties for a few years by large businesses who make use of it seems pretty fair.
  
  You have absolutely zero knowledge of history, I'm embarrassed for you.
  
  We're very clearly not talking about history, we're talking about the ridiculous hypothetical of if Hammering Nails to build Houses was patented today.
  I can understand why you'd think that was fucking silly, my original response to it was "jfc this guy"
  
  Yeah pretty much, that comment set the mood. I'm cool, I hope you are too.
  It is interesting as a thought experiment if very basic human improvements could have been shut out from other people using them.
  What if, for example, Plato was able to "copy right" his ideas. Or if any of the ideas from the Renaissance where prevented from being iterated on. Would we have the scientific method today?
  Edit: Electricity? Pfft have fun with only one person owning the right to use it for 175 years. Next to no improvements for almost two centuries.
  
  The ludicrousness is the point. "Capture a creature in a ball"... How close is that to Red Dead's lasso? Could Nintendo patent capturing a creature with a rope? Does anyone hold that patent yet? No, it would be silly to try to patent something like that - yet at one point I'm certain it was someone's "technique" while everyone else was jumping on the horses back like Breath of the Wild.
  
  This thread started with a general statement about patent laws with a glaring innacuracy that it applied to noncommercial applications and in perpetuity. That is what I argued against. I fully support PalWorld.
  If that were Nintendo's justification they would lose instantly. You can patent and/or claim intellectual property for very specific named designs, but you cannot do so for vague narrative concepts. Example: PokeBalls in various colorschemes is a go, but "a ball that capture creatures" is not good enough to patent.
  
  🪞
  
  Hey man, I'm future you. I here to give past me a warning. You keep looking like a complete fool and when you look for evidence to support your false claims, it turns out you were wrong the whole time, so you built a time machine to stop yourself. Anyway, the warning is to only use 1.11 Jiggawatts, as you miss the return time to stop yourself from looking foolish by about a day. Good luck!
  
  Hey, further future you, due to the nature of paradoxes your specific version doesn't exist as a result of this timeline; and thank fuck for that because you're a total loser.
  
  Is this lawsuit deadass about the game mechanics???
  I need to out my fucking reading glasses on.
  
  idk, but the user above me made a general statement about patent laws and I responded in kind.
- > The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
  Thats essentially what both an AI does and what ChatGBT does. Are you gonna defend that to?? Just dont take credit for shit someone else made, who cares if its Nintendo. I don't want my game sprites altered and then sold as though whoever altered them made them by hand
  I was mislead about what the lawsuit was about and Im retracting all my statements thank you :' )
  
  My cock is not inspired after reading this bad take.
  John Carmack is human intelligence and therefore more valuable than artificially generated drivel.
  -edit- I mistook inspecting for inspiring for your name. I'm leaving it.
  
  John Carmack is human intelligence
  [X] Doubt
  John Carmack is many things, but I have my doubts about whether human is one of them. At minimum, he's some kind of alien. Most days I lean more toward incognito archdevil of the plane of knowledge. I've heard someone accuse him of being God, or at least standing in for him on Wednesdays.
  
  At least on Wednesdays.
  
  Well I admit im wrong about everything so, may your cock be inspired by that(?)
  
  I present semi-chub. Carry on fellow meme warrior.
  
  I never said John is an AI. But there are steps Palworld coulda taken to avoid the inevitable. If anything its just sad they did nothing to prevent this. I can see why thousands of people like it a fuckton. But they did nothing to actually avoid this from happening.
  
  The whole game was intended from the very beginning to thumb their nose at Nintendo, just so happens that it got really popular and sold a ton of copies because it isn't difficult to make a better Pokémon game than The Pokémon Company does, even when the entire game in question is a shitpost.
  
  Im not about to sit here and tout the game that gives Lugia a gun as a game better than Pokemon, fuck no 😭😭😭
  I've changed my statements (see above) about the lawsuit but this game is DEADASS just a higher quality newgrounds game similar to "Mario with a gun/bazooka/truck"
  A shitpost is a better way to describe this. I simply refuse to look past the quirky, cartoony, 3d monsters HOLDING WHOLE ASS GLOCKS n RIFLES, to suspend my disbelief just enough to enjoy whatever this game has to offer. It hits these levels of Uncanniness with me that I severely dont like and bothers me for whatever reason.
  
  And that's fine, different strokes and all. I personally find it highly goddamn hilarious and enjoy playing it with my gaming group. I just think it's a little disingenuous to say "palworld devs did nothing to prevent this, sad" when the whole original concept was basically designed around parodying Pokémon. They knew what they were doing.
  
  Why didnt they just file under Parody law then??
  
  I respect your taking action on your comments admitting you were mistaken.
  
  Yea I dont wanna double down on some goofy shit if im wrong. Im a bit of a diagnosed spaz🥴 So being wrong about an opinion for me is a 50/50 and im not afraid to admit that

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