Wait until you find out the ai rage is coming from inside the ai companies themselves. They’ve got a whole creator thing happening right now in Berkeley for this exact thing.

Yall are being played in every way.

The old lessons. The value of a dollar (or local equivalent, obviously). Don't "buy" unless you're getting something that can't be taken away, that's called renting. That you, even as a individual, have power of the 'contract', you want the product, but they want your money, so don't let them convince you your money is worth less. One important one from the Noah post: Make sure you have a way of getting at least some of your money back. Cockstar are doing everything they can to ensure they have full control of the market. Increased prices, no second-hand options. That spells a world where games stop going on sale too. The idiot who buys this con makes that potential one step closer to reality.

Oh, and one of the most important lessons; don't shill for an entity that wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. These people who're making up excuses for Rockstar making these anti-consumer decisions are only fighting against their own interests and clearly never received the much-needed slap up side the head they should have had long ago. What they chucklefucks are doing is a direct equivalent to a bit in Scrubs where the joke is a character is so nice he'd likely show you how to strangle him if you were doing it poorly and the cut-away shows him mentoring on how best to strangle him and cheering on the wannabe killer. Corpo loyalists, this is you, you're the idiots telling them how to best strangle you.

I agree. People are nowhere near mad enough about companies doing everything they can to screw over the customer. At least have the backbone to demand lube, damnit.