The difference is that Stop Signs have a legal basis and if you fail to stop at them, you can be fined.
Yes, the notion of a stop sign is enshrined into law. This proposed law would do the same for vaccines. That's not what I call a difference.
You want the license to drive, then you agree to play by the rules that keeps everyone safer.
Yep. And if you want your children to go to school, you agree to play by the rules that keep everyone safer.
it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine.
It's not questionable at all. When devs actually use in-game footage, they'll rub it in your face in every way possible. In-engine footage is marketing speak for "We wish we could do something like that, but right now it's running at 2 fps on SLI Titan Xs and all the animations are static".
4) can't understand why anyone would write software for free (i.e. donate their time) 5) somehow equate it to socialism/communism
Would you perchance be American? I don't think there's any other developed country where (4) would be that strange and where (5) would even be brought up, let alone brought up in a negative light. That peculiarity of the US has always fascinated me.
"When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest." -- Bullwinkle Moose