@Psythik @nutsack How do they rate iggames in 1337x then? Comments seem to suggest miners exists but only on unpopular games since miners on popular games would supposedly expose them.

“GitHub initially complied but later changed course. After consulting legal experts, including those at the EFF, it restored the youtube-dl repository. GitHub also launched a million-dollar defense fund to assist developers in similar disputes.”

Why is Github protecting them? They removed bypass paywalls, no?

@liveinthisworld @gwen Does that even help bypass their firewall when the native app doesn’t work

@sqgl @Kissaki They’ll prolly get dmca’d first

@DoucheBagMcSwag @Flatworm7591 What’s the news with Discord and by home you mean Dubai?

@ultratiem @piracysails The piracy megathread site says that’s a fake clone https://rentry.co/megathread-unsafe-sites

@lvxferre Define meaningful changes to core gameplay and Gamefreak doesn’t seem to have perverse monetary incentives to power creep so I’m just guessing a more benign creative block here rather than willful. I don’t think people buy Pokemon games for the competitive esports aspects anyway even though I see a lot of changes in later gens clearly geared towards VGC gameplay.

@lvxferre I know there are perverse incentives for power creep for games with in-game monetization but even with MOBAs who produce less and have less combinatorial possibilities on moves/items can have power creep so I don’t think mass production alone does it. I’d reckon power creep is a demand side problem, people get more dopamine when something they use is overpowered. Also legendary power creep prolly started with Gen III Kyogre rain-boosted STAB Choice Specs 150 base power spread move.

@sleepybisexual Aside from what lvxferre said, there’s also Stealth Rock with very ineffective way of removing it because of ghost types, random 120 base power moves and the physical/special split essentially buffing the coverage of offensive pokemon (Gengars can actually use Ghost type moves). Essentially the gen that made dragons overpowered. I guess you can say these are all subtle. Gen 6 onwards just made it more blatant with gimmicks like mega-evolutions, z-moves and terrain.

@lvxferre @sleepybisexual Gen IV was when the real power creep started to happen.