Lain
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I've never tried it. A bit too hardcore for my blood.
I'd consider trying it in Uranium, but I hear that it's much more difficult than a regular Pokemon game... so nope.
Those aren't mutually exclusive ideas... it could very easily be both.
Yes, it could be construed to be an "interference" with capitalism, but at the end of the day it stems from money. Artists need to eat so they sell their works rather than share them freely with the world, jackasses need to eat so they try to make an easy dime by copying the art of others and trying to pass it off as their own. And because of both of those, artists have a need for laws to protect their creations. But the thing is... what should constitute as a violation of "intellectual property" isn't always clear-cut, and not everybody sees eye-to-eye on the matter either. Large companies in particular want IP laws to give them as much power and protection as humanly possible even if it's far beyond what is actually fair, and will lobby for such laws.
And regardless of how you feel about capitalism relative to other economic paradigms today, someday it WILL be supplanted by something new. It might be the best system we've got for the time being, but when robotics and computers advance to the point where 99.9% of all jobs are obsolete and products can be produced in abundance (more than they already are)... capitalism will, at the very least, need some thoughtful overhauling. Or we could wind up in a future where everyone's getting basic real and virtual income allowances, and microtransactions in the name of maintaining "economic growth" will account for most of the world's GDP. You'll be able to live in a small smart apartment for your a portion of your basic real allowance, but it'll cost you 25 crystals of your basic virtual allowance every time you have Cortana/Siri flick the lights on or off.
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