blargerer

Never doubt the impact bad incentives can have on a large group of individual actors.

There was absolutely a sweet period around when indy games were taking off and after game guides had fallen out of favour, where secrets like this in medium sized games (or huge indy hits) could remain for years.

Also, only having to stock one type reduces inventory, which has a bunch of cost saving, even if they got a slightly more expensive base product.

In many places there is a big legal distinction between consuming and distributing copyrighted content, when torrenting you are doing both.

If I’m reading things correctly, this issue isn’t the latch failing, it’s that it’s not properly closed after being opened, something that should be detected by software but isn’t because of a deformation in the latch. Of course I have no idea if they are just lying.

Real cringe is adult quasi strangers teasing someone for what they did as a teenager.