They're presumably using an HMD with removable face gaskets.

Bo'ss, of course.

At least they got chicken.

Every word with an 's' at the end should get an apostrophe. No exception's!

If my wife says I can go without it, then the pussy DEFINITELY can.

If you're trying to get Vitamin A from oranges, you're doing it wrong.
I'm curious if fortified food is as useless as vitamin pills have turned out to be, though.

Prepaid FTW. Can't put shit on my bill if I HAVE no bill.

They could've made a single 'compare and contrast' post that offered more than two possibilities.

There's a difference between moderators being asleep/inconsistent/slow to remove stuff that violates their TOS; and a policy/tendency of moderators to welcome certain content, or to look the other way when they find it.
Google etc. not hiring enough 3rd-world mods to stare at horrible stuff all day is different from, say, 8-chan mods allowing everything and anything.

It might be most useful for the govt. to fund research into machine learning software to detect stuff that violates a given site's TOS (whatever it is), and make that open-source. Smaller sites won't be able to afford to develop that themselves, nor pay mods, because there's just too much content and not enough income (think Tumblr, Etsy, Deviantart etc.)

Video games are too ubiquitous now for there to be popular support for a general ban on them, so it's redundant to try to justify their existence. Pokemon Go, DDR, & Beat Saber are good for exercise, for some low-hanging fruit. Certain violent games (that upcoming CoD I could see getting delayed a year), perhaps might need some justification, though. Probably the best justification for violent video games is to demonstrate the fact that acting out one's desires for aggression and retribution is rewarding/fulfilling, and that even if one is peaceful in real life, that cognitive bias is still there. It's the safest way to learn that aggressive instincts can be misleading, in the sense that they enable scapegoating.

The protagonist fulfills the prophecy, gets the girl, and becomes hopelessly overpowered. How exactly do you start with that to make an interesting sequel? Your options are either to find a reason to bring him to the real world, where he has no special powers, or to find some reason why he might get gimped in the Matrix (that doesn't seem like bullshit). Or to have a nonstop beatdown with no dramatic tension because of the boring invincible hero.

Convincing people to give up something they want is unlikely to work, compared to convincing them that an alternative is better.
I'm not sure what could be offered to a group of friends that likes to drink and shoot bottles in someone's back yard, but some might be fine with meeting at a range instead. The range would then hold onto the guns, with some subsidized benefit to allowing that (free maintenance/storage/whatever.) Now next time they get into an argument with the McCoys, they won't have their guns to pull out to escalate.

Many of these spree shooters have no criminal record or known history of mental illness. As we've seen with veterans being unwilling to get PTSD treatment because that'd mean having their guns taken away, many people will refuse to get diagnosed/treated because they don't want to lose their guns. Furthermore, 'crazy' isn't a psychiatric term; attempts to only prevent 'crazy' people from getting guns will fail from every direction conceivable. Even with existing background check legislation, some people have fallen through the cracks despite having a record of criminality or mental illness, due to info entered incorrectly into databases, people being cleared as 'not a concern', having their mental health certification help up in court for years, et cetera.

The best compromise is, essentially, what many European countries do: rural people get their varmint rifles, gun club shooters keep guns at the range, sport shooters only keep them at home so long as they're registered and compete regularly, hunters rent guns, and regular gun buybacks get the vast majority of guns off the street and out of the hands of those in poverty most likely to resort to e.g. armed robbery. The buybacks almost certainly pay for themselves, and subsidies to gun ranges in exchange for guns being kept there probably would as well.

And to silence the "but the revolutions!!" arguments, have all the restrictions come off when a group they're a registered member of signs a declaration of independence and formally declares war on the government. Gun shops/clubs/etc. would be raided like the Bastille. Problem solved.

Will the latency be any better, though?

I assume he's referring to the (former) imprisonment of people who were drafted but didn't report for duty. AFAIK noone was drafted as a military engineer, though. Treason laws weren't applied, either.

Proxying your mail shipments is a little more difficult than proxying network traffic. Otherwise, it's going to be known roughly where the package was shipped from, with you probably being in subpoena-able camera footage at a e.g. UPS Store dropping it off. If you use the USPS at all, you're opening yourself up to mail fraud charges, as well.
Dropping a flash drive in a parking lot has plausible deniability, at the least, and a lower probability of encountering cameras.