The big thing I takeaway is that if it’s running Breath of the Wild, that suggests backwards compatibility, which is *massive* for the Switch given how much they’ve gone into the digital space.

Blasphemous 2 is definitely much more Metroid leaning in the metroidvania formula than it’s predecessor. That is, there’s a lot more reason to revisit old areas as you acquire new abilities/tools (moreso than Blasph 1). If that’s your thing, you got it.

Overall, it’s an incredible game. The bosses I’ve seen are top…

No, but if someone admitted to cheating in, say, baseball, it would result in things like suspensions, etc.

Which is exactly what happened.

Except Magnus *has* lost games, and he only accused Niemann of cheating. He hasn’t accused other players of cheating when losing or drawing to them.

Insiders have been rumbling about this for a while.

It’s so strange that people who obviously want to play No Man’s Sky can’t just go play No Man’s Sky

Geoff Keighley handle that extremely well.

Also see Halliburton vs Walker 1946, where the Supreme Court take the stance that “functional patents” violate the intent of the patent clause in the US Constitution. This ruling has been repeated multiple times, including in Amgen vs. Sanofi earlier this year.

As to law:

35 U.S. Code S. 103:

“A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been…

“Your argument was that you can’t patent the disease?”

No, it was that you can’t patent the idea of treating a disease (functionality), only a particular treatment (implementation).

The first car maker couldn’t patent “The idea of going faster than a horse.” They could patent “putting a diesel powered internal…

Imagine getting this mad at an obvious facetious statement.

Uh...can someone explain how “DPS” is a useful measure in a turned based game? Damage per turn, sure. But DPS?

I can speed up my DPS just by playing the game faster.

I never played the original, but I heard that on XBOX 360 there was a 0 point achievement for looking up the main characters skirt, which if true is just an hilarious scarlet letter on your profile.

Also, help me out here:

“a hilarious” vs. “an hilarious”

Both sound wrong to me.

My current weekend plan (in no particular order)

Baldur’s Gate 3 - Only just starting to get into it. It’s a game that, to me, lends itself to longer focused play sessions, which as a working dad I don’t get a ton of (I’m a professor, and we’re well into the semester ramp up with classes start next week). I don’t know…

You can only be found guilty of perjury if you say something *you know* is untrue. For instance, if you put an idiot on the stand, and ask them “Is the world round”, and they say “No, the world is flat”, that is only perjury if the prosecution can demonstrate that you actually *do* believe the world is round, but are…

ATTN Save Scummers:

So a prosecutor can get press and run for State Senate

The “what” I’m referring to is “the thing the drug treats”. When I was talking about the synthesis of the drug, I just mean to molecule/molecules in question. I am filing the molecule under the “how”, since the drug is a means to a *function* (the what). You can’t patent “treating cancer.” You *can* patent a…

On Steam, Jedi Survivor peaked at 67K players. on April 30.

On May 30, it was south of 10K.

So you’re just factually wrong. Zelda likely has had a longer tail, but I bet every single dollar I own that active players fell off by more than 67% by the end of the first month. Because that’s how single player games work.