It's not a parody. The developers have gone on record that it's not a parody. Also, they're releasing a Hollow Knight clone that- you might have guessed this one- has a base builder next quarter. Where is the parody there? Where was the parody in Craftopia?
The idea that Palworld is parody is just make believe. It's literally just bullshitting lmfao, I played Palworld and the game isn't some derivative piece aimed at dissecting the concepts of Pokemon. It's just Ark with a Pokemon mod + some Rimworld.
Acting like people shitting on Hogwarts was a bad thing is funny to me, you're just making it even harder for me to care about what you're saying.
None of this makes sense. For one, fanart is not plagiarism, it's actually the opposite of what Pocket Pair did. Plagiarism is not taking a character and redrawing it and advertising it as a redraw of said character, it's changing the character 10% and claiming it's your original work. Which is implied when you publish a work, for any smartass that will say "teehee well they didn't say 'we did it all!' in some article".
I do not care about the well-being of Game Freak, The Pokemon Company, or Nintendo. I do not care about the bad faith interpretation that being against Palworld is jumping at some legal defense or something.
"virtue signalling" "Look at Hogwarts again" starting to get a pretty good look at the certified "Palworld Defender".
me when I'm just saying shit
I also think it's funny that your proof that fan artists don't take issue with plagiarism is your said-to-be fan artist group who all got mad at fanartists publicly saying it's bad. Like, even in that scenario, you are admitting quite a few fanartists think it's bad.
And no, that doesn't keep things ambiguous, some people are just wrong.
I think it's funny that some people like you just claim to be like "ooh stop trying to protect the companies" while you are gesturing wildly at Hogwarts too, you are very much "for the love of God don't criticize the companies!!!" lmfaooo.
I didn't say it's parody to Pokémon. I said it's satirising the
whole Mon genre and tropes, which Pokémon happens to monopolise, be it affectionately or deconstructively (it's looking like both as there are consequences if you do indulge in those things). They don't need explicit confirmation to say they are deconstructing the whole premise of a trope, Puella Magica Madoka didn't need to point out they satirised magical girl genre. Those that take these at face value are showing that their Mon virtue that Pokémon has instilled so much is being challenged. And no, I didn't use the parody argument as excuse to the copying (the law system is different to begin with), I'm using it to
attack those virtues that sent people with torches and pitchforks.
Right now, I see that people took the AI accusations without enough proof. This has become tribalistic toxicity that I should've expected but somehow didn't. With how past debates like this spanning
decades ago with Digimon and so on, I say, you all cried wolf too much. These people
never learnt, and has the gall to append actual issue this time.
My art friends don't really care about it, while I chose to wait if there's interesting development in legality as it does intrigue me. But at least we know to have our place and not grandstanding without actual moral ground. Something others forgot to check in this insanity.
I said those two points because first, it's counterproductive to what you claim you fight for, and second, you look foolish that someone in OI server had to drop the term "sheeple" to me (I'm not EN native btw).
Whether it's "wrong" or not are to be decided in the court. I have studied thesis writing (and wrote two, even) and learnt about plagiarism and I think this legally looks not as cut and dry as it seems, but I'll wait for the court. Unlike
many other people apparently.
And yes, you said shit. Steam requires them to disclose any use of AI in their games, particularly genAI. The most oft-quoted "evidence" to this is the CEO showing amazement at BuzzFeed using Midjourney to make fakemons. Nevermind that tweet is 6 months
after the first trailer. I hate "AI" Art (it's not even intelligent) and can go to ramble about all these things that would be so off-topic, but this is why I said those, as these people
made up things or not ascertain closer just to piss on.
If you are only going to throw "Palworld Defender" as insult, we are not going to see in same grounds. This is why fandoms can't have nice things. I feel so ashamed I'm drawing my basic kawaii scraps for this fandom when it's so toxic the Psychic Z Move "Light That Burns The Sky" can't remove it.
Also anyone who says it's just art style copying should just look at some of the models and comparisons artists made on Twitter. It's not. It's blatant theft in some cases.
It gets even better now that the one making first comparison accusing PW for that "blatant theft" is
outed for having scaled the models manually to fit it.
