Why?

I'm not sure about "hyper-realistic". :) Sprite characters which say a pre-recorded line when you trigger them? Whoopy. Actually, looking at the video, it resembles a lot the game Under a Killing Moon from 1994.

Despite the slightly crusty appearance, I do not want to completely stomp the idea though.

Logitech is a Swiss company. :)

How the heck did this turn into a discussion of "privilege"? Yeash. Everything is not about "privilege" and the good guys vs the bad guys isn't defined by who has more "privilege". The idea of ending anonymity online is important for everyone, not just the "less privileged". In most cases, when a website has a comments section which is based on Facebook usernames, I just don't comment at all. I really don't need anyone mining my comments 5 or 10 years from now, so I just flat-out refuse to participate on those discussions, for fear that my comments will be taken out of context or misunderstood and then used against me. That creates a chilling effect for free speech *for everyone*.

Almost any hardware component can be tampered with.

Even the single core of an i7 is 6x as fast as that P4.

Sure, pal. Except that even the ancient Pentium 4 was already available at 2.2GHz. In other words, clock speed is pretty much nothing.

If you're trying to start a business around apps, you better have a business plan in place, and that would typically include your marketing activities.

If you don't know the basics of even how to email thousands of media sites to get them to publicize and review your app, then you shouldn't be in the business.

The app store isn't broken. Your business plan is.

I'm sure the engineers have taken care of that problem. As a matter of fact, I'm just testing the product and...oh shit, my shirt is on fire...

Your trainer was an idiot, not a network admin. Oracle database and the various Oracle apps I've used have no silly issues with firewalls. They may have some apps with issues, but not the main product which uses a single consistent TCP port for connections.

Damn...I already bought a car to start a music piracy business and now you say it's that easy!

Yes ... you scammed them, except you didn't.

Since the company you're buying things from has raised its rates by 3 to 5% in order to cover the charges the credit card company charges them on transactions.

At no point does the credit card company not make extra money from your transaction, you're just not smart enough to realize you're paying for that case back yourself in the cost of the items you're buying.

Product A costs $1.00 to make a proper profit, company raises the rate to $1.05. You use a credit card to buy it and think you're awesome for getting $0.02 back from the purchase.