I assume a lot of these patents wouldn’t actually hold up if challenged in court - but I guess you can file them anyway? I’m not familiar with patent law at all, but seeing as there’s literally millions filed, I would assume there really isn’t that much oversight done at the moment of filing… which seems like a great system to have: just let those with the resources to go through the filing process throw shit at the wall, and leave it to anyone brave enough to get dragged into long legal proceedings to challenge them if they’re bullshit.

this (for European patents) says:

grant of patents does not guarantee validity, and revocation is not uncommon. In fact, a large number of patent litigations result in revocation of patents by national courts. Moreover, according to EPO statistics, 70% of opposed patents are revoked or limited during opposition proceedings

And this is for patents that are actually challenged - who knows how many there are for more obscure areas, just sitting around with no-one (wealthy enough) to challenge them? (and I would assume this is even worse for the US)

I wonder if there’s some kind of legal norm thing of “you can’t have references to common swears in an official document!” , or if whoever was writing this just wasn’t paying attention (although maybe it’s some kind of deliberate accent thing, since there’s also dere instead of there? I honestly have no idea where they were going with that particular dialogue, like why pick this specifically to illustrate the concept?)

I assume so. There might be more information on the Chinese side of the internet, what I was able to find from a cursory search is that there isn’t a date announced yet (https://www.163.com/dy/article/JC71EEQ10511B8LM.html)

Not sure, the demos I’ve played are pretty vague about the lore. I think the devs are Polish, so who knows.

the cool thing about this one is it was apparently recorded live - not for any particularly good reason, but just because the sole programmer (and later co-founder of Interplay, Rebecca Heineman) had to make the entire port in 10 weeks and didn’t have the time to write the appropriate music driver for the 3DO, but luckily the 3DO happens to have a CD drive

democracy is when the government does stuff that people hate, and the more they hate what the government does, the more democratic it is

not bows by themselves, but I’ve got guys with bows (although I think “compound bow” specifically refers to those fancy modern bows, I don’t have anything with those - did you mean recurve bows?):

from the author’s twitter bio:

history/yuri artist

all my characters are very gay