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Japan Patent Office rejects Nintendo application relevant to Palworld dispute, cites games like ARK as prior art after third-party submission (gamesfray.com)
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[–] stray@pawb.social -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Abstaining from entertainment to no actual end drains valuable mental energy that could be going into constructive solutions.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

That might be true if there weren’t literally a million other games to play instead.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How does not playing a game drain more valuable mental energy than downloading, installing, and playing it?

[–] stray@pawb.social -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you really want to do something, and you're watching everyone else enjoy it on social media, that takes willpower. You only have so much willpower, so why not use it on something that actually helps someone, like not eating meat or child shave chocolate or whatever?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you realise you could swap the Nintendo games with child slave chocolate and this discussion would have played out just the same. What makes one boycott more likely to succeed than another? That's setting aside the fact that you're assuming everybody will have the same set of social values as you.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're taking about pirating the games, not buying them. Not buying them is still voting with your wallet.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t you want to skip Nintendo games so that they stop being culturally relevant? I often hear that piracy is good for media creators in the long run.

This is the message we were replying to

[–] stray@pawb.social 1 points 21 hours ago

Yes, the one responding to a suggestion to pirate their games, which directly references piracy in the quote you pasted.