• TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Which sounds like mount selection based on if onland==True: landmountlist, else: airmountlist. ??? Can you really patent “I used an if statement to change what the mount button does based on a condition”

    Boy, better fucking patent that fucking pure genius there’s no way anyone could program that without having copied us.

    Like I fucking hope I misread that.

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      1 month ago

      All of the statements in the claim need to be fulfilled - so while that if looks correct it’s only a very small part of the actions described. Example:

      in association with selecting, based on a selection operation,[…], wherein the boarding object is selected among a plurality of types of objects that the player character owns;