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ImplyingImplications
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Last Week Tonight has an episode on food delivery apps. They talk about how these apps don't seem to help anyone. The customer pays more than before, the restaurant loses money, the delivery drivers lose money, and the app loses money.
The general idea seems to be that venture capitalists believe they can change the way the system works so that everyone eventually relies on an app to order food. Once ordering food without using an app becomes impossible, they can charge whatever they want and make a killing.
I said bond but I didn't mean to imply it actually binds people. If two people work at the same place they also have a bond, but that doesn't mean they get along. Unlike coworkers, family can't really become not family, but again it doesn't mean they get along.
The only reason OP wants to talk to someone who shares none of their interests is because that someone is family. There is no reason they'd talk otherwise. I was trying to say they need to have a reason to talk besides being related.
I recently got into a mutually uncivil argument
This is probably the test I see moderators fail the most. I've seen so many instances of users getting into flame wars and then a mod comes in only to remove/ban one side.
If one user says "I love Trump! Fuck everyone who doesn't!" and then someone responds "Fuck you! You're a fucking idiot if you love Trump!" and only the first comment gets removed for being uncivil, I think less of the mod. The mod didn't apply the rules fairly. They just removed the comment they didn't agree with.
I use that example because, if the mod removed the second comment but left the first, then people would be posting the modlog to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com as an example of terrible moderation. I think even users can be biased towards moderator actions they agree with even if they're not fair.
Good on you for recognizing the difference and trying your best, but some people are just different. If you met a guy like your son somewhere else in your life, would you hang out with them? Probably not. The bond keeping you and your son together is that you're family.
I don't dislike my parents, but the only reason I talk to them is because they regularly invite me over for supper. If they didn't do that we'd probably never talk. That seems to scare the hell out of them, so regular suppers is what they've decided on. I have a friend who is really into board games. His parents decided they'd have regular game nights where they get together to play one of his board games.
Your son will eventually become independent and you'll need to have a reason to keep in touch. He's probably not going to take up woodworking so you'll have to find some other reason to get together.
Side note! I'm an anime k-pop guy and my father is a woodworking police officer. We don't see current events or politics the same way, but we don't argue! I'm not afraid to express my true thoughts to my father because I know he's not going to get upset. If you do want to talk about your son's interests with him, then do so with an open mind. Maybe he likes these things because he sees the world differently than you and he might not want to express himself if he's worried you'll argue.
Oh it's meant to be "time and a half". Took me a while!
Time to leave!
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The "update" is from a month ago. Pocketpair shared the patents they are accused of infringing and the payments Nintendo wants.
The patents are for "throwing an object in 3D space to capture a target" (throwing a pokeball) and "moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered" (entering a battle) the payment requested is 10 million yen or 64,000 USD. A paltry sum for a billion dollar company suing over a game that made tens of millions.
The patents were awarded to Nintendo after Palword had already released a trailer for their game showing gameplay. Pocketpair also released an earlier game called Craftopia which is Palworld but the pals are just straight up animals. It has the same systems Palworld does but didn't sell very well.
A newer update is that Palworld has since released a patch that modified how their capture and summon system works, likely in an attempt to make Nintendo happy.
Edit: there are actually 3 patents. The third one is for the player character being able to ride on another character.