Looks great. The "avoid combat - embrace exploration" bit looks like an interesting departure from the metroidvania template of their previous games.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: TactikalKittyCan anyone explain what this means or does:
Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

While the Remote Play client has supported VA-API video acceleration for a good while, this is about making use of it in DRM mode (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) instead of relying on the older X11 interface. Seems like a necessary step towards better native Wayland support.

Aside from future Wayland support, does it provide any visual or performance improvements?

I don't know, but I doubt it. The video is decoded just the same, only rendering directly to a DRM device instead of going through X11. And X11 doesn't really add much overhead here.

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Quoting: TactikalKittyCan anyone explain what this means or does:
Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

While the Remote Play client has supported VA-API video acceleration for a good while, this is about making use of it in DRM mode (Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital Rights Management) instead of relying on the older X11 interface. Seems like a necessary step towards better native Wayland support.

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Quoting: redneckdrow[...] to something not Ubuntu-based for a sane out-of-the-box Firefox

Just a reminder that Ubuntu-based does not automatically mean Snaps. Mint's native Firefox package is sane and up to date.

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Quoting: elmapuli wonder if aya really planned to ship devices with linux or that was just their way of negotiating an better deal with microsoft.

The thing with megacorporations like MS is that any business negotiation with them is likely to be very one-sided. Ayaneo has no bargaining power to speak of.

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Quoting: DorritIt's on the edge folks, it must come with RGB.

A bit of R&B, but it's Mint, so it definitely comes with some G.

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Quoting: LoudTechieIt's just that Nintendo sells billions of licenses

What are you basing that on? There's limited info available publicly, but seems like the highest selling Switch games published by Nintendo, for example, have reached about 50-60 million copies sold based on Nintendo's own quarterly reports.

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Quoting: LoudTechieSomeone else(to lazy to check who) argued that, that is only a persuasive argument to the law if you treat the AI as a separate entity and the law only treats citizens and some kinds of companies as entities. The AI is neither of these things.

Yeah, this should be obvious. The AI isn't a person or a corporate entity. It's a tool, and whoever operates this tool is the one who would have to make sure they're not using copyrighted materials without license. The AI itself has no agency, which underlines the absurdity of the term as applied to these algorithms.

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Quoting: LoudTechieIn that case I'm seeing more problems with the gliders and the catching ball than with the Pals.

The catching ball mechanic has been copied by plenty of monster catching games before, and gliding wasn't invented by Nintendo either. The paraglider does look similar to the one in the Zelda game (based on screenshots), but I doubt that's enough for an infringement claim. Even if it was, all they could expect is that Palworld would have to make minor changes to the design of that particular element.

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Quoting: melkemindBeing derivative isn't copyright infringement.

Well, being derivative is actually copyright infringement. That's why unauthorized translations fall under copyright infringement; they're derivative works.

JK Rowling sued over Tanya Grotter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter#Legal_history [External Link]

In 2003, courts there prevented the distribution of a Dutch translation of the first in the series, Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, after Rowling and Time Warner's lawyers issued a cease and desist order, arguing that the Grotter books violated copyright law, specifically infringing on Rowling's right to control derivative works.

I think you're veering into straw man territory here, but I'll agree that derivative works infringe copyright. But only if they fit the definition:

Quoting: WikipediaIn copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work.

(Emphasis mine.)

Does Palworld fail that check? Some of the creatures look very similar to Pokemon monsters, but as Pengling's post showed, even more blatant examples have gone uncontested in commercial products, which works against any copyright claim on that front. The rest is no more derivative in the copyright sense than most games you can find on Steam.

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