Chinese gamers are probably the most prolific, yes. But, it’s not a Chinese-cultural characteristic.

I think it’s a characteristic you can find in any culture that where outcomes don’t seem to be distributed in a fair manner.

It’s like a society-wide version of oppositional-defiance disorder.

Well, in some cultures, if you’re not cheating to get ahead you’re considered a sucker.

Carls Jr Microsoft Windows. Fuck you, I’m eating!

Plenty of independent coffee shops sell Lotus energy drinks for this exact reason.

To add to all this, if most of your customers are seriously there to taste their flavored syrups and milk of their favorite drink, you wouldn’t want to alter or even ruin that with unexpected, unique coffee flavors.

He just means “feature phone”

Dark Roasted coffee is the only way Starbucks can be Starbucks.

Lighter-roasted coffee emphasizes origin flavors and i agree with you --generally tastes better and is more interesting.

But you can’t sell coffee like that in tens of thousands of coffee shops and have it remotely consistent.

Coffee growing from the same plot but on one side of a hill will taste different from the other side due to getting different quantities of sunlight. Complex origin flavors will always be the domain of small specialty coffee shops.

Starbucks has McDonalds-like consistency serving millions of customers a day and that’s only because they emphasize the flavors they can get consistently–roast flavors.

TL;DR The bigger the chain, the darker you have to roast. That’s just how coffee works.

Sounds like an inheritance problem.

Is this a boilerplate comment?

A Donnie Darko deep cut