America is dead, our neighbors quietly suffocated it with a pillow.

Canada and Mexico?

“Wherever means necessary” should not be available to corporations. I guess we agree as much.

In this case, yes.

Game developers employing psychologists to design systems to suck out money out of kids are a real problem, regardless of the context. Similar to advertisement targeted at children, but squared.

Have you ever seen a movie or read a book?

It’s not the bonding part with fake characters that makes this weird. It’s pretending they are in any sense real.