This is the same answer always given by every sell-out right before they sell out their users/customers, and it always collapses into a silent capitulation to enshittification not long thereafter.
To customers/users of a product or service, IPO should mean only one thing: Last call; FLEE NOW!
I've prepared for you a comprehensive list, here:
Other people can make shit that's like other shit. Nearly all creative media of modern origin is mixtures and rearrangements of at least the ideas behind other works. You're reading like an old man yelling at a cloud.
Should Sonic The Hedgehog not exist? it's clearly a platformer trying to rip off Mario. Should the Spyro or Rayman have never been allowed to happen? Clearly they were just trying to rip off SM64.
Your complaint is that someone who isn't the Pokémon company made a game about capturing animals and making them fight for you. And that someone who isn't Nintendo made a game where you can climb and glide. And, I assume, someone who isn't Mojang made a game about survival and crafting mechanics? Did you complain when Fortnite "stole" the entire battle royale formula from PUBG? Or Apex Legends? Did you complain when Overwatch "stole" TF/TF2 from Valve? Or when Quake "stole" DOOM? Do you think none of these should have been made?
You're misunderstanding people's lack of caring about the "stealing" (lmao) for a lack of understanding.
If Nintendo and The Pokémon Company don't want to deal with this kind of direct competition, they should pull their heads out of their asses and start delivering meaningfully good Pokémon games instead of the series of recent corner-cutting yearly trainwrecks. A demand has created a supply. Cope.
EDIT: Wow nevermind lmao. I see the rest of your emotional thrashing in the rest of this thread. You're just mad something looks like something you like, but is different in ways you don't like. You think this somehow devalues your choices and preferences and "emotional bonds" with your Pokémon. Not true. You think others enjoying something you don't like makes you "wrong". Not true. I think your value system is damaged and you're defensive as fuck. Try ignoring this game exists, you'll feel better. And you know, if you're right, I guess it'll be gone soon, right?
you don't see a tool being too simple for the problem at hand to be a problem in tool selection? that's also crazy.
It's win/win for him. Either he shows how he can't be controlled which riles up his supporters, or he can turn consequences around as evidence of the "corrupt Biden deep state" or something and get massive fundraising income and maybe convince some of his followers to launch terrorist attacks. This judge is having to weigh possible domestic terror retaliation against keeping his courtroom orderly.
no... no! Don't remind me of Outlaw Star!
I'll need to watch it again! It's been so very long. It is such a core part of my aesthetic & genre preferences since I first saw it as a teenager, but I haven't seen it in a good while.
They let me avoid human interaction if I choose
I used to like them for this at least, but now my local store has someone come talk to you and do the whole "did you find everything OK?" and loyalty card conversation while the other machines in the background need their attention and people are getting impatient. if you have headphones in they'll literally just keep trying and wait until you remove them to say "yep, nope, no thank you, don't need the pamphlet, thanks, nope, yep all good".
I avoid them entirely now, there's no value and only drawbacks. I'll wait in the long human checker line as long as I need. the human doesn't stop scanning randomly half way through the slow scan, bag, wait loop and start emitting loud alarm noises for an employee to come over (sometime in the next 10 minutes) and be forced to review a video of your whole self-checkout process titled "CHECK THOROUGHLY FOR THEFT" before they can unlock the machine and stop the alarm.
I'll be fine. I have a waterproof phone and waterproof earbuds.
the cutest character on ST:D is also the cutest character on the fediverse. who'd have thought!
wish I could pair a PS5 controller.
You can! I use a Mayflash Magic-NS for this. I got a few and plugged them into a USB hub on my dock and my friends have been able to use their own comfortable controllers they use for their pc games on my switch. been a big hit for smash bros. ps4/ps5 controllers support gyro inputs fine too. you can even configure it to switch button orders/layouts and stuff for you so you don't get xbox/nintendo xyab/yxba glyph/button conflicts, if you need. big fan of them overall. they work on other systems and controllers too, you can pair joycons to your PC with it (shows up as Xbox controller), they're like universal "controller language" translators.
holy shit, get some perspective. how about you reign in the corporate greed, unionize, and demand more than a paltry 8 dollars an hour for your labor instead of crying about the people beneath you who have the gall to purchase meat at the grocery store like you "real" people? seems like trying to elevate everyone in your poverty-stricken county is the easier solution than trying to push the faces of the poorest of you into the mud a little bit harder. what would you have them eat, cheese its and popcorn? perhaps ebt should only allow for the purchase of loaves of white bread and paper towels? perhaps we should just kill ebt recipients, right?
it is. you're correct.
us Americans, we seem to like to swerve deftly around many such useful civil universalities.
things you'd assume are vital to a peaceful, comfortable, safe people are often things that seem to baffle us.
i think this repeated swerving should disabuse anyone of any notion of the USA being a civilized nation, but somehow people keep classifying us as better than we are. lived here my whole life... not sure how someone could make that mistake, honestly. not unless they were really rich, I guess.