Emotional support brick their CEO's face

you come across headlines nowadays and have no clue this was even a thing people were grifting children about, man..

Sorry Sally, Geoffrey has to die because a company wanted to make their products utterly dependent on their servers. We'll bury him in the yard next to Gertrude.

I already experienced this with that one small robot a few years ago. It was resurrected a few years later but required a subscription.

That was the beginning of me not caring for subscription based products and being weary of products that relied on servers instead of being locally hosted.