Motherfucker Just Showed Up While I Was Peacefully Sleeping In A Trailer In Good Springs

Motherfucker just showed up while I was peacefully sleeping in a trailer in good springs

Last play through, I spent half an hour trying to outrun him!

Get ready for the swaths of techbros and defenders of this game to brigade this post with goalpost moving statements and word games like “but was there ANY AI stuff in the game????huuuuhhhh??no? Then you’re wrong! Aren’t we so smart!”.

Seriously, everyone, I get some of us don’t like the current state of Pokémon, but you don’t need to support the ONE BAD OPTION out of several good alternatives to Pokémon! Try TemTem or Nexomon or ANYTHING! And if it’s not because of Pokémon, then why do y’all bring up Gamefreak in the first place?!?

In short? PLAY CASSETTE BEASTS OR SOMETHING! RANT OVER, WHERES THE TYLENOL!

Gonna say this as someone who has been critical of Game Freak both as a fan and as someone with a Pokémon SPIN for a while now:

Do not support Palworld.

The CEO of Pocket Pair, the game’s studio, openly supports AI and even made a game where making AI-generated art is its main mechanic.

Palworld is not Pocket Pair’s first instance of plagiarism, either. Their previous game, Craftopia, plagiarizes Breath of the Wild, whereas as its upcoming game, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, plagiarizes from independent developer Team Cherry’s game, Hollow Knight.

On top of stolen character models and concepts from fakemon artists, it’s already known that you can put Pals through what is basically slave labor BUT what’s been recently discovered is that the game allows you to capture and sell humans. This has been raising some red flags for black gamers looking into these mechanics, me included, considering this factors into the established slave labor system of Palworld.

TL;DR: I completely understand being tired of Game Freak and the Pokémon Company’s lack of polish over the years, but supporting something that is just as devoid of polish and even more devoid of ingenuity is not the way to make those criticisms clearer. This will only encourage more soullessness in the industry.

I implore you to support other creature collectors with some real passion behind them; I will reblog this post with recommendations shortly!

Gonna be real I don’t know what I’m doing, I got this so I could follow some amazing artists and creators out there who deserve more love than I can express. I made this tumblr blog because it’s a bit fun and therapeutic to me, dealing with mental health/anxiety issues, and I don’t expect (or even want) people to find this blog.

If you’ve found your way here, I both appreciate you and apologize for what you might find.

I enjoy the idea of paladin characters who, instead of adhering to their oath or faith like your bog-standard religious dogma that is law to them, decide to look at their oath and devotion as a more introspective set of ideals, not to be treated as the means of zealotry but as metaphor and allegory for a path of self improvement and realization of one’s belonging in the big picture.

As you’ve probably seen in a recent reblog, I have a tendency to feel intense anger. I apologize if it’s put you off from this blog, but once again if you support the latest techbro shiny toy, you are not welcome here or on my goddamn planet, so kindly fuck off. Reasonable folk who don’t support the latest set of jingling keys, you are welcome here.

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