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- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
As part of their ongoing lawsuit, Nintendo is claiming PalWorld has violated those... now invalid patents, so Nintendo's overall case against PalWorld is now significantly more weak.
That directly contradicts your quote:
Since the application isn't cited in the Palworld patent lawsuit directly, its rejection won't have a direct impact on the ongoing case. However, as explained by Games Fray's analyst Florian Mueller, the newly rejected application is a "key building block" in Nintendo's strategy to capture a wide range of creature-capture system implementations. It is the child of patent JP7493117 and the parent of JP7545191, both of which are cited in Nintendo's complaint.
IANAL, but IIRC atl in US law "child patent" just means it adds new claims to the parent patents' technology, so this just invalidates the parts that Nintendo did not use in its lawsuit.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 weeks ago:
You're right.
In Western regions (North America and Europe) around 2009, the video game industry saw the success of Zynga and other large publishers of social-network games that offered the games for free on sites like Facebook but included microtransactions to accelerate one's progress in the game, providing that publishers could depend on revenue from post-sale transactions rather than initial sale.[23] One of the first games to introduce loot box-like mechanics was FIFA 09, made by Electronic Arts (EA), in March 2009 which allowed players to create a team of association football players from in-game card packs they opened using in-game currency earned through regular playing of the game or via microtransactions.[26] Another early game with loot box mechanics was Team Fortress 2 in September 2010, when Valve added the ability to earn random "crates" to be opened with purchased keys.[13] Valve's Robin Walker stated that the intent was to create "network effects" that would draw more players to the game, so that there would be more players to obtain revenue from the keys to unlock crates.[23] Valve later transitioned to a free-to-play model, reporting an increase in player count of over 12 times after the transition,[25] and hired Yanis Varoufakis to research virtual economies.[27] Over the next few years many MMOs and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBAs) also transitioned to a free-to-play business model to help grow out their player base, many adding loot-box monetisation in the process,[25][28] with the first two being both Star Trek Online[29] and The Lord of the Rings Online[citation needed] in December 2011.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 weeks ago:
I think it's more bad because they were the first one to introduce all those predatory mechanics
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 weeks ago:
The subscription is €5 a month
- Comment on The State of Switch Emulation right now is objectively hilarious 2 weeks ago:
There's some good bits about Belarus.
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- Comment on Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 2 weeks ago:
In the memo, ahead of the campaign’s launch, executives grappled with whether to include public disclosures about “secondary” use – water used in generating the electricity to power its datacentres.
They warned that full transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping AWS’s projections confidential, even as they feared that their advice could invite accusations of a cover-up. “Amazon hides its water consumption” was one negative headline the authors anticipated.
Callaghan said efficiency savings have already been achieved and pointed out that other companies also don’t count secondary water use.
Scientists balked at the selective disclosure and the choice not to include secondary use of water in the total.
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- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 4 weeks ago:
I don't think this was a suggestion, just a showerthought based on existing mobile app behavior
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 4 weeks ago:
I don't think he was that rich... surely there's richer Americans who opposed even richer Americans and got knocked down, like at least Aaron Swartz.
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- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
Haunting Ground
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
Kingdom Hearts
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
No Final Fantasy because I'm not even sure where to start!
Final Fantasy is somewhat of an anthology: each major installment (just "Final Fantasy" plus a roman numeral, nothing else) takes place in an entirely different world and thus includes its own tutorial. You don't need to know anything before going into one of them. You can start anywhere, like Final Fantasy X, which was one of the most acclaimed FF releases and happened to be on the PS2.
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- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 5 weeks ago:
as a chinese speaker nobody uses "合眾國". well maybe they still formally use it and used to before it got abbreviated to just "美国" but nobody says that now.
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- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
YouTube Music has only been raising prices as much as Tidal (and everything except Spotify and Deezer), too; I'm not sure what OP is on about.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
Where are you seeing prices trending towards $30?
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- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 month ago:
to be fair, save for the length of time in dev (feature creep?) that is how early access was supposed tow ork
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 1 month ago:
I just read a Canadian CBC article that quoted this:
"In between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving," said Kimmel.
"On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level you can see how hard the president is taking this," he said, before cutting to a clip where Trump responded to reporters asking about how he was doing by pointing to construction going on at the White House. "This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish."
which is marginally worse, but again, marginally.
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- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 1 month ago:
on one hand that's all he said. on the other hand kimmel's the host.
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- Comment on Perdón, ¿"español" de dónde? 1 month ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designating_English_as_the_Official_Language_of_the_United_States (March Executive Order)