"what are the chances of the cartridge starting just by reinserting? 1 out of 5, right?"

"That's all fine and dandy *if the pins in the machine are making contact with the pins in your cart.* "

It's kind of the difference between African American and the N-word, though obviously not quite as extreme

"I'm going to have Mahoney's ASS for this!"

No, you are adding together the occurrences wrong and you're doing it backwards. At most it would be 2/5 and 2/5 OR simply 2/10 not 2/10 multiplied by 2/10. You are playing so fast and loose with maths, there is NO mathematical proof.

"are flexed to infrequently would wear out and especially wear out only for certain old cartridges and not other cartridges that aren't so worn."

Such things are normally not published for Saudi, Qatar and UAE as they aren't that big on financial transparency, I know informally from family working in the industry. But 95-99% is pretty common around the world:

" was suddenly acutely aware that you had no idea what you were talking about"

In many part of the Middle East (mainly outside The Levant) there is huge disparity in wealth. Makes the "top 1%" in America look like the cast of Annie.

You owning a NES doesn't make you an authority any more than owning a car makes you a mechanic.

"That's why games didn't work. Because the contacts weren't touching."

Moisture actually REDUCES conductivity compared to dry copper-copper contacts.

"Bull-fucking-shit. I have carts that I can take in and out of machine twenty times in a row. Blowing on them once boots them up."

Blowing didn't work because YOU WEREN'T JUST BLOWING.

Aren't courts now beginning to slap down fines for frivolous lawsuits, or at least bar associations are trying to self-regulate such matters?

(1) it's not her, it's as much about Paris Hilton or any American celebrity.

Lack of replies and recommends for which comment?

I choose Independent.

It'll get called Handegg when English stop calling Paddlebat a small insect:

Cinema has (finally) done Germans right with Dr. King Schultz: