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Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Nintendo wasn't "inspired" by shit. They made an ice cream cone a Pokémon. Keys on a ring? Pokémon. 8 varieties of elemental flavored dog? Check. Oh hey cool look a 2d image on a computer oh wait it's actually a Pokémon. Dog? Cat? Snake? Bird? Horse? All Pokémon. IMO nothing in Pokémon is actually "inspired", only ripped off.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

Im casually suggesting they were "inspired" by other artists work. Many of the Red/Blue era were rip offs.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you forgot rock.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There's Rock, Rock With Arms, and Big Rock Snake

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

They made Goth Mommy GF into a pokemon with "Gothita"

How many sentient clouds are also pokemon? Or that one that's literally just a balloon?

I swear pokemon ran out of creativity by gen 3 - and I'm not even a pokemon fan.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a silly thing to say.

Is Mickey Mouse uncreative because it's just a mouse? Is Yogi Bear uncreative because it's just a bear?

Is Sherlock Holmes uncreative because it's just a British guy? Especially if giving things magical abilities doesn't count, then vampires, zombies, magicians, pretty much the entirety of fantasy is just "ripping off" humans. You think Tolkien was a good writer? You fool- the Ents are just trees, how boring! Gandald is just an old human, frodo is just a short dude!

So what does that leave that is original? Should all of our ficitiln need entirely new ideas? Do our writers need to invent new qwarks and new rules for how they interact, so that fictional universes can have different elements where we can imagine life forms without carbon that interact? Would it still be derivative to you if we keep the strong nuclear force the same in this fictional universe?

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Inspiration is taking your peanut butter and putting it in my chocolate. You can't just take the chocolate slap some eyes on it, and call it chocomon. Make it do cool shit like turn into a giant angel or trex or some shit like a properly inspired pocket monster. Or make a funny little blue slime guy and give him apocalypse level magic spells or something. Yeah That sounds good.