Meta. But perhaps an additional and entirely petty reason: It's a terrible pun.

Okay, the photography in that one is just :: chef's kiss :: perfect.

There are plenty of examples of the tobacco industry telling on itself, but the mere existence of "automated cigarette QA" has to be one of the wildest.

Oh, so just smoke more? Ok, doc!

Some may be wondering how this scheme worked. Well, it didn't. As someone who waited tables during those times, this really only mattered for seating and where you could light up. In reality, every section was the smoking section since the second-hand smoking experience was practically everywhere, including the kitchen.

There's a special level of hell where your hair and clothes smell permanently of old cigarette smoke and fry grease, and it never washes out.

Well, what are the latest results?

Everything tastes like shit now and I can't smell anything. Also, my lungs hurt a little.

Excellent. Ship it!

I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver's seat and just... go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It's so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn't wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase 'after a long day' made it click. So thanks, OP.

Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(

I misread "mystery over" as "mystery solved" instead of "mystery about".

Holy cow is this messed up.

Always has been.

"Might makes right" authoritarianism has no use for it. Why bother with getting people to like you when you have all the guns? Besides, these troglodytes are a pretty unlikable bunch in the first place - it's simply not how they navigate the world.

This could literally cause the collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry.

Wouldn't be the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

TL;DR: A much smaller gaming industry was enshitified at an alarming pace, barely after it got started. There were too many competing options, many of which were sub-par experiences, and there was no way to tell until after purchase.

Perhaps that's not directly comparable, but to my eye, the biggest similarity is not enough value for the liquidity (disposable capital) people are willing to put forward on a product. At some point, people will just spend less or spend on something else entirely.

Meanwhile, you have older gamers like myself that are more than happy to take a trip down memory lane, since a few decades can make those old games fun again. I'm in this 14%. That said, I tend to buy new indie titles, mostly due to the lower pricepoint, lower expectations, reliably better art, lower system specs, smaller time commitment, and so on. Games like Assasin's Creed Odyssey showed me that big studios aren't necessarily pushing more and interesting narrative into monster-sized titles, opting for cut/paste easter-egg hunts and aftermarket content purchases instead. Less really can be more.