Jiro

While the Wii didn't have modern microtransactions, its surprise popularity led to a lot of poorly produced cash grab games. I'd count those as slop, even if they aren't AI-produced slop.

"Droning an American citizen" is usually a problem with birthright citizenship, not with drones.

My "MP3 player" is a phone with Musicolet. If you really distrust phones, you can buy a cheap phone and use it only for that and nothing else. There are probably other offline MP3 players but this one seems pretty good. (It is hard to find a phone with an SD card slot and a headphone jack but that's a separate issue.)

To state the obvious, this needs a (1969).

50% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 2x normal. Likewise, 90% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 10 times normal.

If something costs $10 "normally" and is $1 with a "discount of 90%" you can just as easily say it costs $1 "normally" with the $10 being 10 times "normal". It's purely arbitrary which one you label as the normal price.

Prices on Steam are set arbitrarily. Getting things at "50-90% off" could just as well be described as sometimes getting them at normal price and otherwise getting them at 2-10 times normal price.

It's not a used game market unless you can transfer it to other people an unlimited number of times without the original company getting a say.

This is probably the case for 80% of all jobs. People having fulfilling jobs is the exception, not the rule.

High willingness to pay is not "best use" because money is worth more to some people than to other people.

It's implied by the article that there wouldn't be much opposition to immigration without big tech. That isn't true if there is widespread opposition to immigration anyway and the government broke its promise about dealing with it.

Illegal voting is "rare" because the system is set up so that it is in most cases impossible to detect.

The quip about some being more equal than others is literally from a book written specifically to criticize a leftist state.

They're a private company, they can ban whoever they want.

Or at least that's what I heard a few years ago when it was politically incorrect people complaining about being banned with no accountability. They're a private company, it's their servers. You may not even be paying anything. So they can do anything they want to you and you have no cause for complaint.

Which is true here, except "do anything you want" is "be displeasing to Kuwait".

It's all "they're a private company, they can ban anyone they want" right up until they ban someone who promoters of that idea don't like. Then they're suddenly horrible people for being a private company that bans anyone they want.

I would have gotten a Vita. It runs PSP games (especially when jailbroken), is faster, has a better screen, and also runs Vita games.