Yeah I agree, I feel like physical media has been dead for awhile outside of the ability to put a bunch of plastic cases on a shelf. The discs almost never contain the full game and you are still dependent on the digital license in most cases. So its just a more expensive way to buy the same product, with all the plastic waste physical media entails

I think the (long abandoned) pokemon bootleg cruelty aspect just didn't sit right with some people, despite the fact you probably have more opportunity to care for the Pals than Pokémon offers their creatures.

Pocketpair is not only taking Nintendo on in the courts but have a goated working culture with far more time off available than other Japanese studios, and fully flexible policies. Despite the crass product they developed, I think they are a pretty respectful studio.

To be fair, they seemed to have identified the limited novelty of the edge and have leaned away from that idea over the course of development.

me when I use the potara earrings with my racist uncle

the moot-/pol/-epstein conspiracy finna make me disassociate

this type of stuff makes me mad but just emboldens me more. like if you hate what im all about im probably doing something right mr billionaire grim reaper ceo

Tf man, wildest twist. Has me even angrier, all that damage and (presumably) loss of life to kidnap a world leader. Americans are going to use the fact they were so 'precise' and 'just went after the president' to justify forgetting about it all and leaving Venezuela to rot.

The US is such an evil country, and sometimes I can only hope history remembers it as a racist warmonger country responsible for so much suffering.

your tesla steers into a group of children crossing the street b/c its grok-based brain deduced it was a woke mob of protestors attempting to box you in. you try to apply the brakes but grok has a prompt hardcoded in urging it to not shy away from politically incorrect actions. seven children are instantly killed and another two are splattered across your windshield. your tesla dings that its time to replace the wiper fluid.

elon retweets the news story weeks later with a one word reply. another twitter user asks grok if its true. grok replies by questioning the veracity of the holocaust

Oh, sweet, cause-and-effect in my assassination narratives.

history repeats itself