There are some things we don't have to imagine, because everybody has experienced licking it. One such example is OP's mom.

Instead of making live action remakes of animated movies, we should make more Muppets remakes of live action movies.

I have never gotten a reliable answer from a quora result. I avoid them like the plague now.

Every day, my work computers force a shutdown-update, take 20 minites, fail the update, recover from the failed update, and then force a 24-hour timer to do it again that I can't turn off. IT doesn't care.

Is it ham? No, it's beef. Is it steamed? No, it's grilled. So then, what do you call it? Steamed ham.

This is exactly what mega-corporations want. If we save money, they don't get it.

IIRC, the original cartridge had an extra chip in it that emulation hasn't been able to use. I'm not sure if any progress has been made on this and a few other games that used these.

I think it's a form of ADHD over-clarifying.

Nobody ~earns~ a billion dollars. It can only be stolen and exploited from other peoples' labor.

I feel like a large number of the people pirating wouldn't have bought the game even if it was their only option. Then there's people who pirated and bought the game both. Unrealized profit is not the same as losing money.

Had a group that would play DnD 3.5, where you need to roll to confirm crits (20 auto hits, roll again against AC to crit). We ended up rolling to confirm fumbles as well because catastrophic failure doesn't just happen 5% of the time. Imagine 5% of your army accidentally chopping their foot off or beheading their nearest kinsman every few seconds.

If you stay away from sketchy sites and don't click every link that says "DOWNLOAD NOW", Windows Defender and a web browser with ad-blockers should do their job well enough.