It's neither of those things. Words have meanings, and legal terms have very specific meanings.

The law covers that also. All visible religious garments are forbidden.

It can't be that people are organically wanting to talk about a recently released triple A game by an old and relatively beloved game studio. They must be paid actors.

I'm not sure that using the entire QA staff of the world's largest agglomeration of Dev studios on a single game only qualifies as "not cutting corners". That's surely going above and beyond.

They are optional you know?

You have done that yourself

The cost is just money in this case. It doesn't use rare or unethically sourced materials (at least if you're not a vegan), it advances the biological sciences as a whole and it's something to do for bio grads that might generate a lot of value for society in the future.

Qualification in alternative medicine?

Yes

Trenches work very well against those things. There's a reason that the western front was relatively immobile for almost all of WWI

Who did the economy recover for?

This aid is not charitable. America needs to maintain its hegemony to continue benefiting from it and Taiwan is a critical strategic asset.