Gonna give one single thought on the palworld lawsuit. Ready? Patents on game mechanics shouldn't exist. What if "A dialogue based system that stores incremental variables based on user choice to determine later events in the game using the totalled score crom those variables" was a patent? cont

agreed agreed agreed

Well, that covers the entire VN genre. There goes all the Bioware dialogue systems, etc etc. You can't set up patents in a way that goes "Unless later we realize it was stupidly obvious" because that would just turn patent law into "Who gets better lawyers to call the other person stupid." cont