Counterpoint: Summoning characters by throwing an item and having the character appear at the position of the item has been patented by Nintendo, as has using a summoned character as a hang glider.
Japanese patent law is pretty terrible.
And it's not even a rare occurrence. It's so common that being cheaper is one of the most common arguments in favor of schemes like UBI or universal single-payer healthcare.
Of course the most common (but unspoken) counterargument is that distressingly many people would prefer to make everyone worse off to make sure people who "don't deserve it" don't get paid.
Steam in Germany is a bit of a special case. Basically, they got criticized for years for offering adult-only games to minors on account of not having any kind of legally accepted age check.
Steam finally reacted to this but not by implementing PostIdent or some other age verification scheme. No, they just blocked German users from even seeing the store pages of anything that doesn't have an age rating in Germany. That mostly means porn games.
Hence my comment that "sexual content" and "unavailable in Germany" are pretty much the same thing as far as Steam is concerned.
Nothing new; they just renamed "unavailable in Germany" to "sexual content".
Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.
The second move is for target acquisition and often precedes a pounce. The wide pupils let in more light, enabling a more precise pounce.
Why the cat's body is preparing to pounce is entirely situational. Maybe it's a hunt, maybe it's play, maybe it's just because the cat is being a little overenergetic derp. When you spend time living with a cat you usually learn to identify them pretty reliably. Especially the last one.
Ich würd' ja so gern bei dir bleiben
Doch der Wind ruft mich mit Macht hinaus
Wenn die Zeit reicht, dann werd ich dir schreiben
Doch ein Seemann, der hat kein Zuhaus
Ja ein Seemann, der hat kein Zuhaus ♫
Agreed. Ultra-processed wannabe meat isn't the best option and there are some genuinely good plant-based alternatives that aren't held back by trying to be meat.
That said, most dairy replacements are markedly sad with the exception of cashew milk and plant-based cream replacement (where flavor and shelf life are so obviously superior that I stopped buying the real stuff).
It's quite popular in North German cuisine. As someone from North Germany I can confidently say this counts against kale as a food.
Not necessarily. hCaptcha is not very reliable in my experience. Sometimes it wants you to select multiple pictures but only shows one that matches the prompt. Or or gives you multiple matching images but still says you're wrong. Sometimes it tells you you passed but then doesn't bother setting the token correctly so you have to do it again. Of course all of these can combine until you solve variations of the same damn captcha thirty times in a row.
hCaptcha is such a horrible buggy mess that my base assumption is that I'll get trapped in an infinite loop anytime I see it.
I'd also support it if I thought it might affect me at some point. 5% isn't much and I'd still have well more than enough money for a lavish lifestyle.
Good to hear, although the mere presence of a bullshit lawsuit can do a lot of damage to a smaller company.
The problem remains, however, that the patents in question were granted in the first place, as were the retroactive addenda (which is a terrible "feature" of Japanese patent law).
Game mechanics are patentable both in principle and in practice. And that's a problem.