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You don't have to worry if there will be a battery available in 20 years because AAs are standardized and will always be made. Or at least far more likely than whatever proprietary crap they're putting in these controllers. Devices that take AAs will last until the hardware wears out. You don't have to worry about the battery being the weak link. Which has been the case for every rechargeable device I've ever owned. The battery is always the first to go.

If AAs are also an option then I have not complaints about the system.

So make disposable AAs illegal or tax them like cigarettes, or charge a core fee like they do car batteries. Those same people you're talking about will throw the controller in the trash when the battery craps out. We're making disposable junk either way at this point.

Only for so long as the manufacturer makes them. AAs don't have that problem.

Rechargeable AA work just fine and are easy to acquire. What exactly makes them "not worth it".

Rechargeable AA take forever to recharge.

So have some extra ones ready to go. They're cheap.

.......what?

Nah, our thing is already in progress. We're not just hoarding shit for a hypothetical future scenario.

A few minutes pain vs. a week of itching. Violence is still the answer.

I used to work with a morbidly obese lady that kept a 2 litre of mountain dew at her desk at all times. She'd come in every Monday with 2 of them. It was wild to me.

I was lucky to be out of school before the zero tolerance shit got fully entrenched. Punching the people who were fucking with me was the only thing that ever got it to stop.

When I worked on the help desk I used to suggest to my boss that we should get one free "go off on a caller" per month and that it would do wonders for morale. He did not agree with me.