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I have not played Palworld but I love that it has exposed the greed and capitalist rot of the company that makes Pokemon. Seriously, the "old guard" video game giants like GameFreak, Valve, etc. are putting out lazy content and sucking up billions from micro-transactions, lazy retreads, and subscriptions. It's just funny to see capitalists be bad at capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Isn't the Palword dev an NFT and AI stan that stole most of the models?

You do not have to hand it to them. Picking one souless company over the other just because they're the 'little guy' isn't praxis. It's just marketing.

Anyway, there are better indie monster collectors that deserve more support. Check out Cassette Beasts, Monster Sanctuary and Coromon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've seen the AI claim several times, but I've not seen someone backing up the claim. Do you have a source?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That doesn't back that up at all. That's griping about NFTs which do suck ass but half of the traditional publishers also got real weird about crypto shit and then similarly dropped it like a hot potato when the bubble popped.

I haven't seen anyone be able to back up AI use at all, and everyone I've seen trying to say there are stolen models actually shows the exact opposite when they extract models and show them being similar but the polygons being in fact different.

Similar model doesn't mean stolen model. It means someone tried to replicate it manually, which means it isn't just copied and pasted.

I'm not here to stan for the edgelord ripoff game, but virtually all of the complaints against it have been vibes-based at best and Reddit Detective witch-hunt harassment of anyone tangentially involved at worst.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Cassette Beasts

Ooo this looks cool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’ve seen real artists get caught up in AI witch-hunts so many times now I’ve lost count.

Not much is more demoralizing than a twitter horde calling your legitimately made art fake.

More of a general principle than Palworld specific though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Okay but is Coromon actually good or am I gonna feel ripped off like I did with Nexomon?