I applaud your dedication!

Just to make an argument that at a glance that single image looks like Minecraft?

Yup, that’s the reason. OP had said that the textures weren’t even similar iirc. Arguing against that doesn’t mean I was arguing against their overall conclusion about the DMCA being invalid. Probably should have phrased it less confrontationally.

Well, yeah. I’m not arguing that they actually copied Minecraft. I’m arguing that they ended up in a visually similar place. Which it doesn’t seem you disagree with?

My point is that it can be true that the screenshot looks like Minecraft without the game actually being an MC ripoff.

And as an aside, Terraria being a 2d game has different considerations for their visuals. You’re basically getting xray vision into each block. The sides of terraria blocks do have grass, but unlike in MC or Allumeria you can also see the dirt inside the block.

I get your point, but there are some pretty specific similarities, notably:

• Grass texture sides having exposed dirt
• Clumps of pumpkin blocks as a forest-generating feature
• Single-block tree trunks with a clump of leaves on top
• Minecraft-like terrain generation and texturing

All of which are featured prominently in the screenshot. There are differences-- taller trees, more small vegetation, different grass block color variation, colored and differently-modeled leaves-- but it’s more similar than other voxel-based games I’m familiar with. Maybe I don’t play many mc-likes, but other voxel games like Fractal Block World, Teardown, that foresty one with the tiny voxels (forgot the name), Lucid Blocks (the other voxel game by this same creator(!!) about a liminal world), and even Hypixel have more notable differences than this screenshot does. Maybe there’s more to the game that’s different, but this particular screenshot looks like lightly modded MC.

None in particular, but I don’t have experience with triple-A games enough to know about this artstyle

I’m not arguing about whether the copyright claim is legit. I’m saying that claiming the picture in the post doesn’t look like MC is a questionable opinion at best.

It looks like Minecraft bro turn off your reality distortion field

This is why Epic is losing lol

There are some good PS2 Crash Bandicoot games-- any of the platformers, or the racing ones (I had Crash Nitro Kart and can confirm it’s a good time).

You could also try Kingdom Hearts (+ the sequels, Re:Chain of Memories and KH2) if you want to be confused

The difference between “I don’t like this” and “this is bad” is too often overlooked

The explanation for the data uses evolution psychology, but that doesn’t invalidate the data itself.

Probably “A WOMAN is in the VC? AWOOOGA amirite guys?!?!”

There was that study that found that the men most aggressive towards women in gaming were those less skilled than them, I think about that one a lot

Suggestion: Walkabout Mini Golf. I was addicted to that thing for weeks

You know hes using a figure of speech right? Are you protesting the usage of narcissism as an unofficial negative descriptor?

Fucking lmao

Are you trying to roleplay as your username?

Congrats!

Undertale also has really bad code and it’s a great game

You speak on matters which you do not understand

Fury

Furi? Or is there another indie game also called Fury?

The Furi soundtrack slaps btw

Celeste is one of my favorite games period, and it qualifies. The gameplay parallels the story better than any other game I’ve ever played or seen played, and the soundtrack, art, and characters are amazing. Top tier gameplay and a great story to go with it.

Alternatively, if you’re looking for absolutely unhinged strange gameplay made by a programmer rather than a game designer, check out Fractal Block World. It’s pretty fascinating!

Fractal Block World

No two things can ever share a name

Crash Nitro Kart and some of the PS2 Crash platformers are pretty good. The Kart one has a boosting system that I like better than mario kart (and better items and vibes tbh)

I’ve played TF2 for years-- only, after Meet Your Match. (Wow this game is old…)

Casual’s fine

Yeah it was rough for a year or two there… but Valve did a massive banwave and now I’ve only seen a group of bots join my server twice in the last year, and we could kick them easily

This functionality has been ripped out of the game

Nope, see the server browser ingame

The game has been dead, riddled with bots

Not anymore!

They barely tried at all

Looking forward to the yt videos showing all of them lol

It’s also bad for other reasons, but yeah this too

Hmm, true

Right, but that still counts. Although I guess it’s kind of an “if a tree falls in the forest” question. If the world doesn’t exist unless you find it, was it really there before?

Why is trillions in quotes? Did they add them or not?

Fair!

Was this response also AI generated or do you just naturally sound like ChatGPT

What if they had to pay the relative costs of hiring a human vs asking an AI

Fair, but the website still promotes it and requires you to log in to see the link contents, thus exposing you to the other content.