Game developer Pocket Pair raised eyebrows today with its latest attempt to sidestep Nintendo's patent infringement lawsuit, announcing that all Palworld creatures will now emerge exclusively from Klein bottles - four-dimensional objects that technically have no inside or outside.
"The legal team can't touch us if they can't determine which way is up," explained lead developer Takuro Mizobe while gesturing at a whiteboard covered in incomprehensible topology diagrams. Meanwhile, Nintendo's lawyers have reportedly billed over 400 hours watching "Topology Explained!" YouTube videos at $850 per hour. Their most recent filing attempted to patent the concept of infinity but was rejected with a note stating "someone named Georg Cantor beat you to it."
Players report widespread issues with the update. Most creatures now refuse to return to their containers, citing "linear time as a construct," while others emerge with their features randomly inverted, sparking heated Discord debates about which side of a Klein bottle is technically "inside out." More concerning are reports of creatures developing existential dread and forming philosophy discussion groups instead of battling.
The game's error messages have also evolved, now simply displaying "ERROR: Your creature exists in a superposition of all possible states until mathematically observed." Pocket Pair's tech support department, now staffed entirely by theoretical physics PhDs, has resorted to asking users to "try turning causality off and on again."
QA tester Marcus Wong, who technically hasn't been born yet after testing the new system, admitted the update has had unexpected consequences. "We actually proved P=NP while coding this," Wong explained from an undefined point in spacetime. "But we lost the proof somewhere in the fourth dimension."
At press time, several Palworld players reported their creatures had become "uncomfortably aware of their own finite existence within an infinite cosmos." Pocket Pair's support team recommends not making eye contact and maintaining a healthy skepticism about the nature of reality.
