It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

What about the lonely milfs in my area? You can’t tell me they don’t actually want my body…

So you agree with my entire point, but don’t want to admit as such?

That was literally my entire point. That corporations effectively have carte blanche to do what they want, then the tools they use are the ones to take the blame.

Video games are an escape, which can be a problem in and of itself even without exploitative tactics meant to squeeze them of profit… but again, that is a societal problem. The danger of escapism is not so great without something to escape from.

This is blaming the tool for the actions of the person using them.

This is not a video game problem, this is a societal motivation problem. The motivation of corporations is to make money, so they employ whatever means they can to achieve that.

In this case it’s targeting kids playing video games.

The tool is not the problem, the wielder is. Saying otherwise is extremely disingenuous.

Ah yes, the games are the problem, not the system in which they are created.

It’s the video games that are the problem. Clearly.

So… three monkeys?

Well, as that was a restaurant not managed by Disney, but through an independent pub owner in their public market area… I kind of doubt it.

They’ve always been on the menu

The problem is if we give major companies a way out, on the off chance that it might have a benefit for the little guy… those major companies end up stepping on the little guy anyway.

So why let them shield themselves from the consequences of their action?

Every article would end up being the philosophy page.

It’s been a while since I’ve had supplementary procedures, so that’s good to know.

Now I just have to wait for all nine (and a half) bills after emergency services.

Considering how fractured medical billing is these days, often the techs contracted by your in-network doctors office are actually out-of-network.

Isn’t medical billing fun?

Corrupt governments like capitalistic shitbags.

And inventing a bunch of people who do nothing but sing the praises of amazon isn’t?

People have been shitting on Amazon for years, you haven’t exactly stumbled on a revelation. You’re not some outsider who’s the only one who sees the truth.

Oh no…

Shows you how much of a dent they’re putting in the bottom line.

Or how desperate google execs are to get even the tiniest bump in revenue.

Then that’s why.

Do you have Google history turned off?

Meh. If life weren’t so focused on material gains and losses, I wouldn’t need to.

It would also mean potential losses for the distributors, as people are (supposedly) less likely to buy directly for them.

So, again, the problem isn’t the media, it’s the distributors.

I mean, I can actually own a bunch of stuff as long as it doesn’t have some sort of proprietary DRM bullshit attached to it.

The problem isn’t that there’s no way to obtain media in a non-bullshit way. The problem is that distributors don’t want to provide media in a non-bullshit way.