A feature, not a bug. If you never find it you spend more time trying to find it and therefore see more of what they want you to see.

Extra mistakes in blue states I’m sure.

There will be parents that give a shit about how their kids learn to learn, and there will be others that dgaf, or at least bot enough of one, to keep their kids from just mashing the easy button and using “cheats” like AI. Unfortunately plenty of the latter will get management positions.

He’s not going to bite the hands that come to his expensive speaking event dinners.

You’re asking a lot of an already uncaring system. 10% can do plenty of damage.

I’m sure there’s ways around that. Different cards, PO boxes, email addresses, names. Even if they had only 4 ways of buying that’s still almost 30 buys a week times however many scalpers there are.

old

Entrenched

Serving their corporate masters

Playing power games to keep their jobs

Losing so the republicans win

“Old” is a symptom of being good at the above, not the actual problem.

Strongly worded words and slightly raised voices that won’t even rustle the leaves in a potted plant.

Then scalpers would buy them and jack the price up.

This. If someone’s been here tor years and been a contributer I don’t think the 2-post limit should apply.

How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?

Terminator said AI would destroy humanity. We just didn‘t know it would be with hoarding of natural and manufactured resources to fuel an idiocracy. No pitched and desperate war for the survival of humanity, just a necrosis eating us alive for the quarterly report.

They‘ll just make it with secret phone-home spying and backdoors.

E: what‘s this? All these folks either saying the US does it or skipping past all the phone-home spyware China includes in devices? Guess that means cheaper spying hardware is ok then?

Probably killing climate change effects research.

Because printers generally just worked and buying OEM expensive refills was a temporary discomfort that, if it bothered you enough, you could work around by getting third party refills and save some money.

But since they’ve started locking down printers to reject refilled cartridges and third party cartridges it’s come to a head and people are looking for alternatives.

3D and CNC are entirely different animals, for multiple reasons. There were pretty much zero hobbyist devices and the available ones were so far out of reach that nobody could afford them except prototyping labs or manufacturers. The hobbyists did most of the legwork making 3D printers and home CNC work before manufacturers decided it was worth getting into the technology. Nobody needed really needed them like paper printers were needed for everything from school work to everyday business.

You shall own nothing.

Far easier to rehash a known moneymaker than to take a risk come up with something original. Some people might point at the multiple tens of thousands of games on Steam as evidence there are people making new games that are original, but if you compare the relaitive few that take off vs the popular franchises’ success it’s pretty obvious that rehashing works. Plenty of new games languish and never really get anywhere.

My friend, let me tell you about this thing called “Pre-order.”

There are plenty of “gotta have it first” people out there. Doesn’t matter if it’s a new phone, game, see a movie on opening day, whatever. Plenty of gamers want to be in Alpha and Beta tests (which FML they do nothing but bitch about as being unplayable) and shell out money for skins and early upgrades or level up packs. Vloggers and tiktokkers too or whatever who want to pull in the views as they play the new games.

These are the people the studios cater to. Not the patient gamers who wait for the product to go on sale 90 days down the road after the initial rush is over.

So as long as the people in the first paragraph exist that’s what the studios will charge.

So who is getting the money as a kickback?

Just use a joystick.