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  • If Palworld devs were as petty as I am they’d probably make a Pal that looks like an obese and hostile Pikachu with a Mario hat.

    • Name: Renjiyu / レンヂユ; after a really shitty Mandarin joke with Nintendo’s name (basically calling it hell’s company).
    • It would make a noise that sounds a lot like uttaeru / 訴える “to sue, to complain” with an incredibly whiny voice
    • Drop: meat and sulphur (the in-game sulphur looks a lot like fool’s gold)
    • “Utility”: when it’s running around your base, Renjiyu makes your pals drop whatever they are doing to listen to its ramblings. As in, negative utility.

    Bonus points if the logo in the hat resembles a pokeball from a distance.





  • The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

    Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

    In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.








  • [Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

    As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.


  • As of now the site is already back.

    The core of the problem is that there’s absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

    At least you’d expect claims to be automatically dropped when coming from an assumptive/disingenuous party. Something like “you issued 100 wrong claims so we won’t listen to your 101st one, sod off”. But nah.

    As such, “your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you’re conrent now!!!” has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they’d abuse it.

    The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.



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    Temperatures here rarely go below 0°C, and when it does it’s often just for the night, so huddling isn’t a concern. What could be a concern would be summer overheating, but they actually put some thought on where to install those bee houses, they’re mostly shadowed by trees.

    Pic related. Mind you, this is urban perimeter, around a gov building.


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    At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I did notice them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).

    I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.