ByteJunk

There really isn't.

The op comment was that gamers need to buy expensive hardware so that developers could cut on features/optimization.

The follow-up reply likened it to customizing your burger, but the better analogy (and the one I assumed) would be for McDonald's to remove all tomato and pickles (saving money), and the user had to buy it themselves to add to the burger.

You write a very short text without pointing out a single fault in the dude's reasoning.

Let's assume cutting out tomatoes and pickles saved $0.23 per hamburger.

McDonald's serves 6.5 million hamburgers a day.
That's $500 million extra yearly profit for their shareholders.

If he was a (us) football star he'd have gotten a scholarship instead.

This is based of your extensive knowledge of NOT being a business traveler?

• 1.3 million people travel for work every day in the U.S. alone.
• 40% of hotel guests are work travelers.

Random source.

Oh you're gonna love my other reply then.

Don't expect me to pander to willful ignorance. If you're going to act like an idiot, expect to be treated like one.

Also, what's with the passive aggressiveness? I understand that my confrontational approach there can make some people uncomfortable, but it's my prerogative.

Many of the things we believe about ourselves and our experiences turn out to be false. Sometimes this is due to innocent memory failures or to the lack of needed information.

Suppose that Charles believes that he failed his biology test because the professor asked obscure and ambiguous questions.
Charles believes this because he doesn’t realize that he got the lowest score out of the 100 students who took the test, and that most people did quite well.
If Charles had this information, he would realize that he failed the test because he didn’t study hard enough, or because he’s not very good at biology.

On the other hand, if Charles continues to believe that the test was unfair after seeing the grade distribution, he is either severely challenged in his capacity for rational calculation or he is the perpetrator of willful ignorance.

Which is it?

You could read 25 - 5 ÷ 5 as "25 - 5 is 20.

You could. You could also lower your pants and drop a massive turd and call that the answer. Both answers would be equally wrong.

PEMDAS isn't a suggestion that you follow when it suits you, like religion. It's how math is communicated, unambiguously.

In any case, if that's where we lost you, then I've calculated the chance of you catching the factorial as √-1.

They're getting indoctrinated by the fox news and qanon groups or sovcits or whoever gets to them first. It's not a question of if they get indoctrinated, but by whom.

Some will actually be capable of realising it and break free, but then you have the one actively opting into it.

At least the churches have discernable objectives, unlike many other groups operating in the cesspits of the internet.

I suspect building a nuclear device is easier. You have my respect.

Meh. If social media served a purpose, to me, it was to show just how many dimwits are out there who will beg for someone to tell them what to do and how to act and what to think.

You can take religion from them, but they won't stop being gullible and lost, and they'll just fall prey to the next scumbag with no scruples that comes along, be it a politician or some other con artist.

The problem isn't religion - it's an excuse, a cover.

Looks like they moved on to the fireworks business.