So, you're not arguing if it's ok to put ads on an $80 game pause screen, but that they shouldn't be the only ones allowed to do it? Ok, we can argue the patentability aside from the utter greed.

You can argue this is an... 'innovation' 🤢. It's not something that has been done in gaming, yet. Trying to say that this is normal across media, isn't true. Movie theaters, concerts, performing arts and other in-person events outside of televised events don't pause the 'show' for ad breaks. For TV these are contracted, pre-planned breaks. This is industry standard for TV (it's the only way TV makes its money). But TV and game break/pauses are not the same thing.

So, should they be able to patent? Yeah, I think so. Should they ever employ it? Sure, if xbox wants to the the most hated gaming company on the planet.

100% agree.

I can wear a t-shirt and shorts pretty much every day without having to look at the weather to know if I need the light jacket, the jacket or the coat, ugh I picked the wrong one, now I'm freezing, or burning to death. Oh crap, I shoulda brought gloves. Where's THE BEANIE... ughhh.... THESE SOCKS ARE TOO DAMN THIN.

Uh... pretty much the entire agriculture industry works this way... Monsanto forces farmers to sign licenses that they won't use the seeds produced by their crops to grow more crops.

I believe the 'harm' here is that the USPS isn't allowed to set internal policies for how to operate. Such as the USPS being allowed to set policies on what they can/can't mail. This might mean that their rules around refusing to ship some items (e.g. explosives, hazmat, air bags, mercury, etc.) might be blocked as that's not an 'illegal' substance or whatever.

To be clear, I don't agree with this ruling, since I think this blocks a state's ability to operate their elections as they see fit. There's also no reason to block the mail as it's not dangerous or illegal. So, I think the court missed the mark here.

Fighting the classification of lootboxes as gambling. Sony is absolute garbage, but Valve isn't perfect.

https://youtu.be/13eiDhuvM6Y?is=6S3VWl4DnKcaw3LQ

I've found Faugus to just be better.

Cringe…

AI slop?

Plutonium-238's half-life is 87.7 years, Americium-241 is 432.6 years. Which... is almost 5 times longer, so... not sure why that's cringe?

With an atomic number of 241, it’s hardly small.

I believe they're referring to the fact that it's not an element of major topic. This is the first time I've ever heard of it.

I think this could be compelling given that tech continues to get more power efficient. I don't know the numbers, but if we were to launch the same tech that's on Voyager 1/2 today, would we be able to do that with 1/5 the power? If so, those probes could likely still have all their instruments running if they used Americium.

I live next to a park and saw a fire underneath some pine trees, after putting it out, it was started by one of these stupid vapes. Pretty sure some asshole littered that thing there, the impact on the ground punctured the battery and it started a fire. These disposable vapes need to be illegal.