Love it when Context-Free Patent Art followers point out context/references/interpretations I had not considered. Today's was a good one.

The thing I love most about K-dramas is how they let me escape to exotic foreign lands with unfamiliar problems.

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I just described a game as "Very Problematic, but a part of my childhood" and realized that applied equally well to various music, movies, books, TV shows, DJs, and condiments.

This is a bummer. NCSX was my introduction to the world pf gaming beyond my local Best Buy or GameStop. Their daily stock updates were the kind of discoverability tool game devs are begging for these days.

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Saw Zootopia 2. It gets a few bonus points for having the narrative revolve around a subject kids absolutely know, love, and care deeply about: patents.

Yesterday I went looking for some Christmas-themed game-related patent art. The patent database fates decided that no, I would only find this instead. www.tumblr.com/contextfreep...

Today's Context-free patent art is a whole thing.

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown.

When I wrote up the endearingly goofy Study Group for the annual staff picks article at The Logic, I didn't think they'd actually run it. They wound up making it the headline image on the round-up. Read up on it and a bunch of other great stuff. No paywall on this one! thelogic.co/commentary/b...

Really great thread which heightened my appreciation of a really great movie.

Big fan of this album. Highly recommend anyone not allergic to the phrase "indie rock" give it a listen.

This is a really good list of amazing games that came out this year. Reminded me of a few I had been meaning to play, and introduced me to a couple more. Definitely worth a look.

The writing in Hades is remarkable from either a quality perspective or a quantity perspective. That it excels at both while also being a phenomenally deep-yet-approachable action game is something close to a miracle.

Sony envisions a future where "my controller's running out of juice" has nothing to do with battery power.

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If my dog ever gets lost, please don't bother sending me condolences if you're just going to outsource it to an AI that won't even get the dog's name right. www.tumblr.com/contextfreep...

We need more fact-checkers for a post-truth era.

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Guitar Hero was released 20 years ago this week, so it's now about as old as Super Mario Bros. was when Guitar Hero came out.

Everybody in games was laying off people over the past few years, but Microsoft's cuts still stood out for how seemingly arbitrary and optional they were at a time when the company was consistently posting record profits.

I'll just note that the first Assassin's Creed game was set during the Crusades and made in the years after 9/11 during a couple U.S.-led wars in the Middle East.

Sony already applied for a patent on a literal banana controller, and now it's looking for one on a motion-sensing orb. I love this kind of stuff.

Kind of stunning how a foundational part of the modern video game industry is being banned for kids in major markets and it's getting minimal attention internationally.

Am I the only one who initially read this as referring to an artificial intelligence bot trained on Michaels' work?

Nintendo seems to have a renewed interest in light guns as well, although this one seems to be for location-based entertainment like the Nintendo areas at Universal theme parks.

Here's a patent applicant who imagines using the M-rated game where you torture a guy with a nail gun and blowtorch as a way to teach basic colours to children in the age group of 0-4.

Interesting, Sony just applied for a patent on a haptic feedback system for a gun accessory. Sounds a bit like the old Time Crisis arcade guns that would give a kick of recoil when you pulled the trigger.

Grateful to my follows that nobody has posted gruesome video footage into my feed today. Basically a 0% chance that happens with an algorithmic feed.

I did not expect @writnelson.bsky.social would get to market Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator with a "ripped from today's headlines" angle. www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2...

Weird how the movie is the one doing this. Does the movie have agency here? When did the movie decide to do this?

This story of one coder's 16-year effort to make an emulator for a largely forgotten laser disc video game system is a fun reminder of the mountains people will climb simply "because it's there." www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-...

it doesn't matter how much you deny our existence, we exist and we will continue to exist.

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Lot of people talking about smaller games as a silver bullet solution to AAA problems, but Microsoft did a ton of this after 2018's acquisition spree, had a bunch of successes, and still felt it had to abandon exclusivity to make the business viable.

This week the USPTO issued a patent for a "female-themed video game system."🤷‍♂️ www.tumblr.com/contextfreep...

Seeing a bunch of people remind my timeline about Rod Fergusson's reputation as a "closer," but fewer reminding about the Diablo 4 team's experience, as described in a Washington Post feature. www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/...

Virtual Boy turns 30 tomorrow. Here's some patent art to celebrate.

10 years ago yesterday was the first of the 10 Years Ago This Month columns, maybe the thing I miss most from the old gig. No shortage of concern for game journalism's future these days, but I hope some people will keep looking at its past.

Restaurant I ate at tonight had this on the wall, which is definitely a Choice.

Frankly, I'm amazed nobody tried to patent this sooner. www.tumblr.com/contextfreep...

Anyone know how to get my Samsung phone to stop taking pictures of dreary clouds and making them look like the Windows Bliss wallpaper?

Very divisive Context-Free Patent Art today. www.tumblr.com/contextfreep...

Happy that people will get to check out a really cool twist on RTS games with this, and also hopeful it will introduce people to itch.io, a PC game store alternative to Steam that has always (to my knowledge) been exceedingly developer-friendly.

One thing about the "big name journalist does their own newsletter" era is that these writers will be less likely to afford legal help, either in editing stories or disputes that arise after publishing. It will be easy for wealthy subjects of investigations to sue them into oblivion.