be, without any pixels or simulated gore or anything kewl?
• Passions (as in “Follow your passions”) – Creative or constructive endeavors or activities that you enjoy doing. For instance, creating fan art based on your favorite manga character, or writing game ideas, or writing original stories. If you’re really into karate, mountain-climbing, or MBX riding, those also count as passions. Even stamp collecting counts as a passion. The following do NOT count as “passions”… (1) an unhealthy addiction to playing video games; (2) the inability to get your lard-filled behind off the TV couch; (3) going on and on about how unfairly the game industry is ignoring you, in countless chat rooms and blogs. • Patent – A form of legal protection for intellectual property that is useful and novel. A software routine that performs a useful and novel function is patentable, as is a hardware device that also does so. Patent law is not to be confused with copyright law and trademark law (legal protection for two different forms of intellectual property). • Pati
