On the other hand, large corporations life off buying smaller innovative companies, and those are being replaced and killed off by the patent trolls.
And those patent trolls on other hand aren't as nearly as useful to buy out as they don't actually invent anything.

But grittier, dark and edgy?

Indeed there's no such thing as a "do what i mean" function , but generally within the context of the application, its good when you run into a function that is "future proof" enough to not need to heavily hack it or rewrite it whole to do something slightly different.

And say "thank you, my past self for making this so easy to understand and versatile!".

On other hand, this is a football game where your powerful and athletic team is allowed to murder any rival team that steps into the same field until they're the only team left, and then they use it to just do the hell they want on the field, even if its just 60 minutes of this team relaxing on beach chairs and from time to time flipping the fingers to the audience.

Well, you need an actual harassment to press the police button in first place.

As soon you join a large enough group of humans, this group automatically morphs into an horrible monster that tries to take advantage of everyone else, and the only way to stop it is to pit it against another monster, thus forcing both to make concessions that benefit the mere mortals to thrive.

The capitalism start to fail as soon you get the right to buy yourself a monopoly, and socialism is basically "everything is a monopoly from the get go", so not good idea at all.
 

Calm down, i'm sure someone is working on a 3D printed, arduino compabitle and IOT enabled solution with brushless motors that can use a software defined radio to talk to a raspberry pi to control an quadcopter.

Yes, it can run Mad Dog McCree in several different formats.

The best games you can play on PC run at 240p/480p.

You're asking a industry that been pushed into graphics for 20+ years to do something they just can't into anymore.

They have photoshop, which is widely used worldwide by basically everyone involved with any sort of visual media.
And also they're walking on the HTML5 visual editors territory.

When posting on facebook, you're unwillingly playing a sinister version of akinator that can use your unrelated data to guess things about you, and probably you simply "gave away tips that your keyboard died" that were picked by the neural network.

First, Freebasic is truly free and runs on several platforms unlike VB that is strictly tied to windows unless you use Wine etc..
Secondly, if you're trying to teach the basics of the basics (variables, if statements etc), an clean environment like the freebasic is much preferable to the visual basic one, as there's no functions, classes and things that are only useful on the vb environment itself like the window editor itself to worry the student and take his time.
Of course, if i was going to use it to teach, would be just the basics, getting the student used into how to formulate his own code and having fun doing so and then quickly boot him into something actually decent like python or C.

There are several mods and romhacks that allow you to play as a powerful girl on the PC.