Remember when Flappy Bird first came out ho Nguyen got slammed by Western games media in a very cliche racist way for 'stealing' Mario assets? Seems particularly ironic now.

I’m being interviewed at RMIT in 30 min. Come along! It’ll cover my entire career, LoG’s history, even our unannounced title I was game directing for 3 years. Plenty of chatter in there about my design and leadership philosophies, and take on the industry too.

What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.

Rigging thousands of mobile devices anyone could buy to explode is the move of a cartoon fucking villain. It’s literally the plot of a goddamn pulp movie. This horror show of a death machine masquerading as a country needs to be stopped

Shameful dehumanisation from “our” ABC News. The othering and dehumanisation of the “Arab” by mainstream media is complicity 101!

Give me the orange vita

The cognitive dissonance it is taking people to look at Israel's terrorist attack in Lebanon and say 'that's not terrorism' is truly astounding. Israel is a genocidal, terrorist state.

what's terrifying me is how this is a totally reasonable concern. if baby monitors started exploding, a bunch of zionist journalists would say "it's so clever and insightful that israel anticipated terrorists would turn to using baby monitoring devices to communicate"

My hot take is you should be as mad about this as you are about Nintendo going after emulator creators.

I think it is bad that large game companies are allowed to patent mechanics and genres and vibes. Being able to make derivatives of other works is good and important, and there's no way Palworld causes any actual damage to Nintendo's brand.

Making a game where a carpenter is more scared of quicksand than poison gas and getting sued by Nintendo.

I would like the half dozen followers who also play EDF6 to appreciate this combo where I did 806,747 damage.

I would wager this is one of the patents in question. It was published in August and submitted by Nintendo and the Pokemon Company: patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/52/11/65/fbce8…

"when the character is hidden behind the tree, the game forms a shadow, so you have a kind of sense for where the character is, even though you don't see the character clearly. Nintendo has a patent on that" 404media.co/cold-blooded-b…

not loving palworld’s chances here

There really is no ethical way to use AI. Even if it wasn't built on a foundation of intellectual theft. Even if it did actually produce anything of value.

Remember when Nintendo patented "the character moves when they stand on a moving platform"? press-start.com.au/news/nintendo/…