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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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;