But in desktops, everyone seems to complain about Nvidia pricing, yet no one is touching Battlemage or the 9000 series? Why?

Its always been this way: they want AMD and Intel to compete so Nvidia gets cheaper, not that they will ever buy AMD or Intel. Gamers seem to be the laziest, most easily influenced consumer sector ever.

The country started life as a prison with prison rules, seems they forgot to get rid of those rules when they became a real country

Gamers will then continue to ignore AMD and Intel and bitch about no Ngidia stock and inflated prices, just as they always have

There’s gotta be something else.

That something else is that they don’t need the gamer market. Providing consumer cards is literally an inconvenience for them at this point, they make 2 billion a quarter from gaming cards but 18 billion on datacenter compute, with some insane 76% gross margins on those products they sell (to continue funding R&D).

It really does seem like Nvidia is intentionally trying to confuse their own customers for some reason.

Its moreso for OEM system integrators, who can buy up thousands of these 5060ti’s and sell them in systems as 5060Ti’s, and the average Joe who buys prebuilts won’t know to go looking at the bottom half of the tech sheet to see if its an 8 or 16.
As well as yes, direct scamming consumers, because Jensen needs more leather jackets off the AI craze and couldn’t give a rats ass about gamers.

One of the gates to getting a patent approved is proving that you are attempting to patent it in a timely manner. You’re supposed to file a patent within one year of first public disclosure to prove that you’re actively protecting your IP and plan to develop it, and if you don’t it’s grounds for denial.

Palworld alone has been out over a year now, let alone how long most of the Pokemon stuff Nintendo has been patenting. Nintendo has zero grounds for applying these patents, and the fact that they are able to obtain them just because they have more lawyer money means the patent system is completely pointless and laws don’t matter.

Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.

So, if you have enough money, you can just fire off a shitload of ex-post-facto patents after a competitor releases a prior-art product, sue them, and win using patents that didn’t exist when the competitor’s product was created???

Might as well just close the whole patent system and leave, there’s quite literally no point to obeying it if you can so blatantly steal anything and everything.