Ah yes, time for my depression to start kicking in yet again, reminding myself that I know full well that the likelyhood of me ever finding anyone that would ever tolerate me may as well be 0%…

So to explain why this lawsuit is happening, we need to talk about Pocketpair’s partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and SMEJ’s subsidiary, Aniplex. And also some major context on the relationship between Nintendo and Sony (hint: they don’t like eachother at all)

Pocketpair essentially entered into a relationship with Sony, about the same kind that Gamefreak did with Nintendo way back then. At that point this is no longer the smol bean indie dev getting bullied by a big company, this is now a big company trying to take a piece out of another rival with the lawsuit being the retaliatory strike. Now as for why Sony and Nintendo don’t like eachother, this has a lot to do with the original playstation, the cd based SNES, that one. So if Nintendo never backed out of that deal (and went to go work with Philips which brought the CDi into existence), Nintendo wouldn’t be the household name it is today.

Why is this important to know? Because after that moment Sony resents Nintendo for not becoming their prize, and Nintendo resents Sony for attempting a hostile takeover action against them. Fast forward to today, and with Palworld, Sony is effectively being handed a way to get back at an old rival on a silver plater, and they’re taking the shot at knocking Nintendo down a peg. For Nintendo, they have to answer what is in organized crime terms, a blatant encroachment of their territory by Sony, and it just so happens the only avanue to do so is a patent lawsuit. Which are notoriously known for being very long, messy, and insanely risky propositions, like to the point that nobody wants to actually do them. So for Nintendo to go for a patent lawsuit against Pocketpair, they are viewing the risk of invalidating their own patent as significantly less than the damage that Sony can do to them if unanswered.

This is what the entire lawsuit is about, it’s not Nintendo vs. Pocketpair, it’s actually Nintendo vs. Sony in this lawsuit.

They lack the identity and focus of older games.

My entire thoughts on MW5:Mercs and Clans. After stumbling onto the flash in the pan that is a 9-10/10 pvp game (that happens to be stuck behindthe most meh/10 developer imo) in MWO, PGI went and spent two games trying to do everything they can to distance themselves from MWO.

You must be referring to The Clans, so this is the point that I’ll say that everyone in-universe thinks that the reason why the galaxy went to shit after the Space Roman Empire fell (the original Star League) was because the Space Roman Empire fell. And everyone (namely the 5 main houses) to some degree is fighting eachother over the “right” to be the First Lord. So the Clans think this to such an extreme degree that they think the entire problem can be solved by going in, conquering Terra, and reforming The Star League, which right now is what the current era going into right now with the ilClan era.

The Clans are kinda the descendants of the original Star League, namely the military arm of it (the SLDF).

Hey now, I enjoyed my little 30 minute drive to and from work when I was working at a factory, now granted I live in a rural area, and worked night shift so it was all just 2 lane roads, and barely anyone else on the roads (besides the long line of people going to work going opposite where I was going in the mornings)

Battletech, no not HBS BT, the actual TT wargame. It has all sorts of rules for all kinds of terrain, including stuff that is effectively impossible to keep track of outside of having a computer do it (obligatory Megamek plug here).