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@tomie this one isn't even a copyright issue, it's a fucking PATENT issue which is even worse. it is ridiculous that companies can patent game mechanics and then nobody else can use them, like that fucking namco loading screen minigame thing.
@tomie nintendo needs to fucking die honestly. agghhh i love their games but holy shit they are an absolutely wretched company.
@beardalaxy Atari should've patented "move pixels with a controller" and killed videogames right on the spot
copyrights, patents, trademarks, whatever, abolish them all 💀
@beardalaxy @tomie Yeah I thought this was already a settled thing, like wasn't there a Mario ripoff that Nintendo sued for and the courts said you can't copyright gameplay mechanics, therefore anyone can make a platformer? I guess the patent is just another level deeper and Nintendo is feeling like it's time to try again...
@arc @tomie i've never heard of that, but it wouldn't surprise me.
apparently the patent that they filed for pokemon catching mechanics was filed AFTER palworld came out too, so who knows what's going on there. the palworld devs don't even know what patent their being sued over though, we're just assuming. wild.
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The N is for Nintendo.
@tomie
I was talking about this with my sis recently, and we realized, that the copyright law goes right against the way our creative brain works.
Before modern lawfare, we used to work with myths. There was a myth of Loki. Someone made a character, another person re-told his story, and another. Each person improving the story unconceously, each making the character better and better. And now, Marvel owns one true Loki, and fuck you if tou ever want to re-tell his story.
That's just retarded...
@LukeAlmighty Disney built itself on public domain characters and then fucked copyright laws inside out to squat them and some more
they're still flagging that first Mickey Mouse cartoon which went public domain recently, on YT
@tomie
Yeah, I forgot about just how insane that part is too.
@tomie
100%
This is just bullshit