You're comparing the cost of the PS3 at launch with the current cost of a PS5 which is 5+ years old. According to articles on Google, the PS3 was available five years into its launch for $250 for the 160GB model and $300 for the 320GB model, which would be about $360 and $433 after adjusting for inflation from 11/2011 (five years after the PS3 launch).

Well for rsilvergun, he is simply too broke to afford it anyway

Probably from all of the rent you've been charging him for living in your head.

This is very true. At the same time, what age do I put for system accounts which don't allow logins?

Everyone knows that if you don't pay for a product then you are the product. But people tend to assume that companies can't or won't make you the product for devices in which you paid, especially "premium" devices. This is a very popular sentiment among Apple users despite the fact that there's nothing stopping a company from making money from both sides. And companies today are greedy enough to not give a fuck about the negative sentiment it generates among consumers.

Early 2000's. Numerous versions of MacOS before OS X somehow had worse stability than many Windows computers.

I think you're underestimating Microsoft's ability to fuck up almost everything they touch.

I used a Macbook Pro for 14 years and I saw exactly one crash. It happened within the first hour or two of use, but after updating the OS I never saw a crash again. Now Spinning Beach Balls of Death are a very different story. They weren't extremely common, but there were a couple of situations in which I could produce them consistently. In unexpected situations, there was a small chance of recovery if I waited for the action to time out or resolve, but most of the time it persisted indefinitely.

The situation in which it would put me reminds me of something I witnessed in high school. One of my classmates had big, bushy eyebrows and he showed up one Monday with a clean brow. Nobody would tell me who did it, but they were quick to say that the culprit only shaved one eyebrow, leaving him to decide if he wanted to walk around with a big, bushy brow on only one side or shave the other one off himself for symmetry. He chose the latter. In a lesser manner, that's how I would feel when I got the Spinning Beach Ball of Death - instead of crashing, it would leave me to decide how long I should wait before giving up and rebooting (shaving my other eyebrow).

If the missiles are that cheap, they can't power a Military Industrial Complex that operates as a conveyor belt to transfer tax money paid disproportionately by the poor into the accounts of corporate oligarchs. Think, China, think!

Republicans Before MAGA: Tyranny and government overreach are bad!
MAGA Republicans Now: If it's alright for China, it's alright for us - as long as our cult leader is the one in power

Money: the more you have, the more you need.

Why was this downmodded? It's seems completely accurate and relevant to me.

Thank you, U.S. government, for liberating me from the tyranny of choice!

I never said, nor implied, that it wasn't. That doesn't mean that we can't apply some social pressure to dissuade young, impressionable people from rushing into regrettable situations.

That's a strawman argument. I never even implied this behavior should be illegal because that is not at all what I believe. Instead, I'd like society to take a broad view of how it impacts individuals' choices and act accordingly. If people who promote this behavior have a harder time making and keeping friends due to their actions, that would be enough to dissuade many people from engaging in the behavior. Society can gently shape behavior without resorting to coercion via laws.

The ruthless selfishness of many billionaires and a certain POTUS are far more deserving of the term 'moral decay' than what goes on on OF

Perhaps, but they're certainly not mutually exclusive.