selectparks - Patently Insane (was 'Patently Absurd')

It doesn't get too much better than this.

In a feat of bizarre, capricious opportunism, the flailing Nintendo filed to patent first-person representations of madness in videogames.

<sarcasm>The astute and rigorously well researched United States Patent Office scoured their case, dragging it over the proverbial coals and trawling their abundant archives for prior art. At the last minute and completely out of character for this noble, ethically grounded institution, they said </sarcasm>:

"Whateva. Cough up with the cash and we'll sort it out for ya."

That's innovation right there, in green. It's telling that madness itself has become a commodity item..