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The kobold and the goblin
2 years ago
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Once there was a goblin. He constantly worked on mining deep into his cave, pulling out shiny rocks, and offering the rocks in trade with nearby orcs for food. He worked hard to get where he was, but realized he could hire more goblins with food to work for him.
Several goblins now work in the cave, mining shiny stones, for food. When one is injured, it is merely replaced. When one is tired, it is merely replaced. All to earn the food to survive with shiny rocks. They don't even know what the orcs do with the rocks, but the food is good.
A thousand goblins now work in the cave, mining shiny stones, for food. They work together to mine the best of the best rocks for the orcs, to the point where the orcs actually really like them and appreciate them. The original goblin no longer works in the mine, but manages those that manage those that work in the mine.
Once there was a kobold who saw a goblin. The kobold was still young and watched as the goblin hired more goblins with food to work in the cave. The kobold thought about it, and decided to get some friends to mine in his own cave.
Several kobolds are working together to mine something else from the cave. Shiny rocks are merely an inspiration to their work, so they decided to mine metal in the cave.
Some orcs saw these kobolds trying to trade this metal for food and claimed they were copying the goblins, and don't deserve food. These orcs tried to turn the other orcs against them.
But the real question is... Why can't they just enjoy both the shiny rocks and metal? They have plenty of food to feed both the goblins and kobolds, and they still get way more shiny rocks than they do metal for the goblins are much more numerous than the small group of kobolds. Some orcs even complain that the metal is poor quality, comparing it to the shiny rocks, when the two are very different things. Some orcs even start spreading lies, because they would rather get shiny rocks than metal, even though no one is forcing them to get metal. They say the kobolds use complex robots to mine, which is unfair to the goblins. They say the kobolds go into the goblin mine to steal shiny stones to turn into metal... Some even say the kobolds should be hurt for this.
The goblins feel they are still making enough food to mine in the cave. They do not feel threatened by the metal mining kobolds. The few angry orcs approached the goblins and told them they should be mad... The goblins were confused... But said they would try to be madder, because they don't want to upset the orcs which give them food... They don't want to be mad, they feel it's unrelated to their shiny rocks...
Once there were kobolds and goblins. Both mine. Both earn food. Both trade with the orcs. But the similarities end there.
>w>... Lets see who can figure out the moral of the story... And who are angry...
Several goblins now work in the cave, mining shiny stones, for food. When one is injured, it is merely replaced. When one is tired, it is merely replaced. All to earn the food to survive with shiny rocks. They don't even know what the orcs do with the rocks, but the food is good.
A thousand goblins now work in the cave, mining shiny stones, for food. They work together to mine the best of the best rocks for the orcs, to the point where the orcs actually really like them and appreciate them. The original goblin no longer works in the mine, but manages those that manage those that work in the mine.
Once there was a kobold who saw a goblin. The kobold was still young and watched as the goblin hired more goblins with food to work in the cave. The kobold thought about it, and decided to get some friends to mine in his own cave.
Several kobolds are working together to mine something else from the cave. Shiny rocks are merely an inspiration to their work, so they decided to mine metal in the cave.
Some orcs saw these kobolds trying to trade this metal for food and claimed they were copying the goblins, and don't deserve food. These orcs tried to turn the other orcs against them.
But the real question is... Why can't they just enjoy both the shiny rocks and metal? They have plenty of food to feed both the goblins and kobolds, and they still get way more shiny rocks than they do metal for the goblins are much more numerous than the small group of kobolds. Some orcs even complain that the metal is poor quality, comparing it to the shiny rocks, when the two are very different things. Some orcs even start spreading lies, because they would rather get shiny rocks than metal, even though no one is forcing them to get metal. They say the kobolds use complex robots to mine, which is unfair to the goblins. They say the kobolds go into the goblin mine to steal shiny stones to turn into metal... Some even say the kobolds should be hurt for this.
The goblins feel they are still making enough food to mine in the cave. They do not feel threatened by the metal mining kobolds. The few angry orcs approached the goblins and told them they should be mad... The goblins were confused... But said they would try to be madder, because they don't want to upset the orcs which give them food... They don't want to be mad, they feel it's unrelated to their shiny rocks...
Once there were kobolds and goblins. Both mine. Both earn food. Both trade with the orcs. But the similarities end there.
>w>... Lets see who can figure out the moral of the story... And who are angry...
Also many are conditioned by capitalism to hate something because it's similar to another. Imagine the vitriol that would come from the Pepsi vs. Coca Cola event that occurred in the past happening today...
"You can choose to not like something without ruining it for everyone else. And also not lying about said thing. And also not being a total asshole..." >w>... Huhuhu...
In the case of Palworld, it seems clear to me that it's not a ripoff of Pokemon anyway. The basic idea of fantasy creatures belongs to no one. It may not exist without Pokemon having preceeded it, but I don't think that that's enough to validate the idea of it being IP theft.
The place I've dealt with this most is with music. Even when you use parts of what someone else created, you're building on it and creating a new thing. It's similar with "AI" art.
I'd say it's generally good to give credit where practical, but it isn't always necessary.
Nintendo does not have the sole rights to the concepts behind their IP, merely the individual expression thereof: The concept of a monster capture and collection game is not novel and not exclusive to Nintendo. The substantial differences in expression lead me to feel that Palworld is different enough from Pokemon to be its own unique thing, not even being similar enough to qualify as a Fair Use exception to copyright. Even if Palworld uses some similar imagery in a handful of cases, these are likely to be coincidental due to the nature and style of individual Pal and Pokemon designs and the desire of both to represent some kind of classical elemental affinity in a visual manner.
"This thing does a thing that is even remotely within the realm of enabling me to complain about it, therefore it is in fact the worst thing, and is not allowed to exist." - Cancel Culture
"Wow this is unimaginative." "Wow this is over-designed." "This isn't the way I like it so it's bad." - Insatiable Critics
People with nothing better to do with their lives will always find a reason to complain, even if that reason is stretched so thin, you'd need an electron microscope to perceive what's holding it together.
Palworld has many designs that could be perceived as combinations of original pokemon designs, or designs that have been elaborated on or altered slightly. But they are, nevertheless, unique. And heck, some of them are really cool lookin' anyway.
-w-... People frustrate me...