This reminds of a Robot Chicken bit about working with Darth Vader.

“Anyway, here’s another Mario Kart”

Just because a random Internet stranger doesn’t know a better solution off the top of their head, doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem to be clearly seen.

Epstein.didnotkillhim.self

Thank you!

I’m confused by that last sentence. Does mean that the bug stems from patching a 23-year old vulnerability, or that the bug is because of a patch made to fix the vulnerability 23 years ago?

The fact that it launched and didn’t have a shopping cart for 3 years is all it takes to know that it was never intended to be a serious competitor. A simple shopping cart is trivial to implement with modern programming tools, and even if it wasn’t, it should be part of the minimum viable product for any digital store front.

You’d make that bet, but I wouldn’t. And only one of us is guaranteed to have money walking out of the casino

Monopoly is definitely the word, but they also don’t appear to be overly abusive about their market position.