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Lincoln Carpenter

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News Writer at @pcgamer. Old stuff at @waypoint, @fanbytemedia, @polygon. I was @hmouthsunbeams. Views/opinions are my own and bad. he/him

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Even Japan's patent officials seem exhausted with Nintendo's antics as they refuse its 'absurd' defense of a rejected Pokémon patent

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By Lincoln Carpenter
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While Nintendo has a long and infamous history of petty litigiousness, its recent efforts to secure a series of Pokémon-related patents have been particularly obnoxious—obnoxious enough that even the Japan Patent Office seems like its patience for the publisher's quibbling is wearing thin. Earlier this month, Japanese patent examiners issued a rebuke of Nintendo's objections to a Patent Office's prior rejections of one of the publisher's Pokémon patent applications.
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I regret to report that the AIs are weebs, too

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By Lincoln Carpenter
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Naruto characters with their faces replaced by AI logos. As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who's going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and media? Well, there's no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs, too.
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Indie game gets last minute Steam delay while Valve reviews its 'dozens of untextured polygons depicting ass and boobs'

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By Lincoln Carpenter
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Player character Harvey Huffstone refills a gas canister in Future? No Thanks!. Earlier this month, indie political satirist game dev Molleindustria—pseudonym of Paolo Pedercini, who created games like Democratic Socialism Simulator and New York Times Simulator—announced that he was moving up the release of his latest game.
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