Are you telling me that it is excusable for a company engaging over 400 people over many many years in a production of a videogame to not playtest their game and make players pay for testing it?
Dude, Early Access is okay if you are an indie games company with limited resources, NOT an AAA producer with infinite budget.
Because by supporting China you are letting in a Trojan Horse. Chinese investors are parasites that will overflow the market with extremely cheap products, make the market dependent on them by estabilishing monopolies and then control the market.
All that made possible because the Chinese entrepreneurs sell all their products with significant loss, but they are generously funded by their government.
This is not even unfair trade, at this point this is a economical invasion. It has been going for quite some time with aliexpress, alibaba and temu. Now it's happening in the automotive.
That's another thing, yes - games are more pricy, cannot be pirated and there's no third party websites for buying keys for cheap.
That being said, you can still buy games on discs and later resell them. That way you basically play for free if you buy used and resell for the same price.
Every fascist needs an enemy. The threat is required to rally around their flag and blame someone else for their failures. When there's no obvious threat in sight, it has to be produced - else there's no other way to maintain popularity among subordinates while also sanctioning them.
Even if you build your PC with PS5 equivalents, you are most likely to pay at least a bit more for the whole package, and - most importantly - games still won't run as smooth as they do on PS5.
Console games are optimized to work best specifically with their hardware
I don't understand why it is irrelevant and how voters choosing greater evil proved this.
What are you even trying to say - that there's no such thing as lesser evil because voters chose greater evil? Or that Kamala is no lesser evil, because voters chose greater evil?