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Comment by freedomben

1 year ago

It seems truly absurd what you can patent nowadays. The system seems utterly broken for its original purpose which was to encourage ingenuity and inventiveness. It now does the exact opposite.

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markus_zhang  1 year ago

One easy solution is to give such talks in primary/middle schools so children stop buying Nintendo games. Give them all bad publicity.

I wouldn't care separating Nintendo lawyers and gamedevs. If the lawyers are shady then the whole thing is shady.

  • idle_zealot  1 year ago

    Ah, yes, that's how we solve pathological institutional problems. Use public education to convince kids not to play the video games they like.

    • markus_zhang  1 year ago

      Not really, it is just to convince them that Nintendo has a huge lawyer army awaiting their ... overzealous fans, so they can decide whether it worths to buy Nintendo games or not. If they decide to buy, sure, nothing we can do.

      Also it's definitely not part of public education. Not everything happens in a public school is public education. It can stay in the form of clus or forums.

  • portaouflop  1 year ago

    You can’t solve systemic issues on an individual level — the whole system needs an overhaul, not much consumers can do here.

    • markus_zhang  1 year ago

      No I'm not trying to solve a systemic issue. To solve the systemic issue...we probably need a world revolution that won't happen in the foreseeable future.

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