Take “cute”.
But the word originally evolved from “acute”, which very broadly means sharp or intense.
The satire begins and ends with turning the above cute/exploitable disconnect into an openly macabre sales pitch.
I like Palworld’s willingness to belittle Nintendo, one of gaming’s greatest sacred cows.
Selective breeding in modern industrial agriculture is to large degree about stopping other people borrowing your homework.
Take US chicken-farming in the early 20th century.
Hybrid chicks “would reflect an almost random expression of all traits,” Bugos points out.
“From the farmers' perspective, the pedigrees would genetically self-destruct.
Bred directly into the hybrid chick was the means to keep them from being illegally reproduced.”
There have been attempts to patent genetically engineered breeds ofsalmon,pigs,beagles,mice,sheepandoysters.
I find all this fucking diabolical.
It’s a budding cottage industry, the kind most sandbox survival games can only dream of.
Pokemon first released in 1996, almost 30 years ago.
Palworld is but a couple of weeks old as a publicly playable experience.
They are the Pikachu trademark incarnate.
But the Pals are evenmorebountiful than Pikachu, in practice, because they are both resource and workforce.
Are these creatures cute?
Yes indeed, in every sense of the word.
