Orblivion

To each his own. I've loved the Battlefield series since 1942, and BF1 was the first one to really click with me since 2142. Nothing about the Bad Company games ever drew my attention.

Why?

You both misunderstood what I meant by physical achievement. Video games being physically demanding doesn't mean the players are athletes. Lumberjack competitions are incredibly demanding as well, but neither they nor esports represent any achievements of the human body.

There's a reason that chess isn't already in the Olympics, that reason being that there is no level of physical achievement involved in the playing of chess. The same is true for any esport, they shouldn't be included.

The alternative in this situation though is to delay the launch of the entire platform for the sake of bootable NVME RAID. What they're doing is most definitely the lesser of two evils.

List of compatible coolers for Threadripper: https://www.amd.com/en/thermal-solutions-threadripper

CO detectors have expiration dates. The one I have in my apartment mentions that it will give the intermittent alarm chirp when this occurs, meaning it is time to replace the entire unit.

Tom Wheeler was a lobbyist for Comcast before he became chairman, so this really isn't any worse.

What exactly is the point of this conversation? You keep saying that they can't, or shouldn't be able to, patent that. But I've shown you two valid and current patents on "that".

Not sure. GPS satellites are actually still owned and maintained by the US Air Force, so I'm not sure how patent law applies to that stuff.

Again, they haven't patented the formula, they've patented specific uses of the formula. Apparently, that is something you can do. These patents do mention the use of the formula in the creation of models and animation for 2D and 3D graphical software, if Genicap decides to sue it will be up to the courts to decide whether or not the patent applies in this specific case.

Both the EU and US have approved the patent, so...you're wrong. Whether or not the patent applies in this situation is still in question, but it is undeniable that they own patents on these intended uses of that formula.

Here are the EU and US patents that Genicap owns in regards to the formula for anyone who wants to look deeper.

It isn't the code that is patented. It is the specific use of the formula, in this case "for the creation of 2D/3D models and animation". If Hello Games did use Johan Gielis', ie Genicap's, formula, there is a very good chance that it was for the creation of 2D/3D models and animation.

It isn't regardless, Genicap isn't certain that Hello Games is using their patent but they think they are. Especially since the founder of Hello Games is quoted as saying they were having trouble with the procedural code until he found something online from Johan Gielis. Johan Gielis happens to the be the guy who created the patented work at Genicap. That quote tipped them off that he may have used their code without a license. They say they have tried to contact Hello Games several times but have been ignored thus far.