Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The butchering thing always bugged me. Where tf do you think your chicken nuggies come from? The only difference is that we don't let real animals have friends before we kill em

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Real animals have friends. Beef cows are slaughtered at about 1 yr old, and they don't keep them in isolation for a year

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I guess I should have said we don't make friends with them. I could have also drawn attention to the awful living conditions, but getting all Dominion-y wouldn't have the pizzazzy oomph that I was going for