1. A game machine controller for use with a game machine which displays a game character on a monitor and controls the game character, said game machine controller comprising:

Yeah, I was just answering his question on why companies may not enforce certain things substantively. If you wanted to pick that argument, it would have made more sense to pick that argument with him.

But dude, bitterness is freaking awesome.

Dude, for the third time - NOBODY is saying Nintendo invented analog joysticks. I had a CH Flightstick Pro while Nintendo was still in NES era. What they patented is a ***specific configuration of a controller*** that utilizes analog joysticks. That is very different from the Atari controller, arcade sticks and…

It's not a clever differentiation... the differentiation IS the invention. In order to infringe on a patent you have to have every element of the Claim. Just read Claim 1 and you'll understand.

I've made my way through many a crowded dance floor and never once needed to lay hands on a woman (or man) to ease my way around them. The only place I touch - really, tap, not touch - strangers is on the upper arm or shoulder.

Yeah... I hate it when people touch me. If someone wants to get my attention, they should swing around to my field of vision and wave. I also have a hilarious and slightly subjectively offensive habit of dodging end-of-night hugs from women.

Nintendo doesn't have a patent on just-a-joystick. It's a patent on a "while-holding-a-controller-finger-operated-analog-joystick," as I described above.

"She says okay" really means she tried to back out three times, but he pressured her to keep going - before he finally relents.

The main takeaway I got from this is that some rapists don't even realize they are committing rape. If a future rapist reads these testimonies, and realizes how (apparently) razor-thin that boundary is, then perhaps in the future, when he himself is in that situation, he will recognize it, and choose not to cross it.

I would say it is practical advice only, but certainly not a moral truth. But I understand why people would conflate these two disparate concepts. The blame will always rest on the rapist, period, period, period.

It is not nonsense. There will always be scenesters/posers infiltrating the next cool thing. The original community takes little umbrage at newcomers - outside of the resentment against scenesters. It is usually the early scenesters themselves who will attempt to shut the gates - they are the ones who care about…

You sound kind of totally awesome and such. Godspeed.

Actually, Nintendo has a patent for a while-holding-a-controller-finger-operated-analog-joystick. US 5984785.

They did not patent an analog stick, but rather, a while-holding-a-controller-finger-operated-joystick.

Perhaps everyone is paying Nintendo a licensing fee, and we just don't know it. After all, patents aren't only used to block other people from using it.

I agree with you, although I would personally say "obvious combination," instead of "extension."

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/nier-interview/

I am suddenly ravenously hungry. Thanks.