Nobody should be required to buy into loss leaders or other pricing schemes like this.

It should maybe be pointed out that if Linux gaming actually manages to take off, it opens up new possibilities due to being able to compile your own kernel.

The added difficulty of cheating on a console is often offset by the fact that most console game developers get lazy and start trusting the client.

It won't do anything because people would just program macros and such into the hardware. As it currently stands, basically every keyboard/mouse with "macro" support is doing it entirely in software. However, keyboards and keyboard converters are easily available which can do macros in the hardware. You can even DIY with a $20 microcontroller.

It's not just that. Having paid X often times drastically reduces the quality of X, because then you get people just trying to make a quick buck instead of people who were actually passionate about it.

Well, Nexus manages to survive off completely optional paid subscriptions/donations/whatever you want to call it yet still manages to provide better mod distribution. Both Valve and Bethesda both got paid for their game when the game was bought in the first place. And unless a modder is distributing the game or at least a part of it with their mod, then it's not a derivative work.

The way I see it is that the game plus mod combined would comprise a derivative work. However, the mod alone is not. Unless someone is distributing the game (or at least some component of the game) along with the mod, the mod alone would not violate anyone's copyright nor be a derivative work.

It wouldn't do much. DRM circumvention is generally done by someone who actually knows what they're doing, and then the DRM-free version is posted for all to easily enjoy.

That being said the DRM will probably still be a joke.

Oh, just you wait. As has been the case with pretty much every hardware advancement in the history of computing, software bloat will offset it. Give it time, and a SATA SSD will feel as old and clunky as a hard drive does today.

If I'm not mistaken, it used to be like this years ago, where users without a game in their account would have certain features such as adding friends restricted.

Yes, Valve, a company that makes a closed-source program to sell (mostly) closed-source games, would force someone else to open source their stuff. Valve doesn't need to push some open source nvidia driver, because anyone trying to sell steam machines would just install nvidia's proprietary driver and be done with it.

It depends on the type of troll. If someone is just issuing personal attacks, then it's easy to ignore them. But if someone is spreading false information, then while someone more informed may be able to easily identify them as a troll, others might take it as truth. However, if someone who knows it is false wants to point out the fact that it is false, then they're feeding the troll.

People don't need coding per se, they need a basic understanding of how computers work first. General computing classes would go a long ways in helping people become more technologically proficient.

So then they simply won't use cell phones, they'll use one of the many other ways of detonating a bomb remotely.

Well, comcast used to give you "unlimited" and then instead of throttling you they just gave you the boot. Not sure which is worse.