They’ll just use the opportunity to buy back stock.

Don’t put too much thought into it, ist an empty threat to scare idiots, there’s no logic

Most of these people take/haven taken part in the IDF

Most likely? I mean Israel has a draft for women and men with the only exception being Orthodox Jews - which, ironically, might be the ones most in favor of the current government. How does that make their point irrelevant?

have been actively participating in Apartheid.

Dude, that word has a different meaning from what you’re implying. Call the atrocities in Gaza a genocide, that’s fair. But it’s not apartheid and neither is Israel an apartheid state, nor an ethnostate. Source: been to Israel, talked to people, there are no Jewish / non-Jewish toilets or fountains or anything, non-Jewish stores next to Jewish ones etc.

The rest of your blathering is just generalization. The same applied to people living in Gaza would make a lot of unjust actions look much better - after all, most of the people in Gaza have kidnapped and slaughtered civilians, no? Yeah, probably not.

BitTorrent is a pretty big part of the Internet though.

In addition to what was already said - use Firefox instead of anything chromium-based - I think it’s equally important to stop using the services offered by big tech companies and not just try to keep using them on our terms. Google wants me to watch a ton of ads on YouTube? Fine, I’ll stop watching it. In fairness, on my smart TV, YouTube ads have been what I consider adequate, while Twitch can be a disaster. The alternatives already exist with Peertube and Owncast. Are they perfect yet? Far from it probably but there won’t be big improvements if nobody uses it.

And honestly the example you gave is rather a good example of a remake. The PS2 is 20 years old at this point. If the game was well made and the remake/ remaster is well-executed? Why would anyone object to this?

New and exciting games exist. This isn’t an issue. In most cases I’d even say that while money surely is important, in most cases it’s not a lack of money preventing a good game, but rather another issue that might lead to funds running out. If that makes sense.

The current situation is way better than say 25-30 years ago, and those games weren’t exactly trash.

Fastmail is a great provider, very happy customers, but with them being in a five eyes country, I don’t trust them. But it’s only email which is a nightmare protocol regarding privacy anyways so I don’t really care.

This old trope

In fact tech has always been a very deflationary sector (as in the longer you wait, the more you get for your money) yet it’s pretty profitable. Nobody would ever get a phone by that logic

The indie game market will crash and countless of investors will sit on their virtual mountain of now worthless indie games

This is China’s final warning.

Or remember when they promised members of their military alliance help in case they get attacked? And when Azerbaijan attacked Armenia and Moscow did fuck all? And then these two countries had their diplomatic talks in the US?

I understand Africa trying to emancipate from the west (though sometimes this someone’s seems to be personal interest of the leaders of these countries) but if you believe anything Putin says you’re in for a bad time.

In fact I’m pretty sure Russia doesn’t have African colonies because the country was too unstable during the time the European countries got some.