You should check out "The Magicians". I won't spoil it (though I guess even recommending it in this thread kind of does) but it does NOT follow this trope. At least mostly...

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

I'm doing my best to not let my life be like the song, but that's tough...

I believe the actual reasoning is that that amendment only applies to "officers of the us government", which the president is not... which is a stupid technicality...

If energy drinks and tea weren't a thing then yeah... but they are so I'm guessing not really. Then again if coffee were the only caffeine option I probably wouldn't have a caffeine addiction...

My thought was more that one side of the mini laptop has a keyboard and the other a track pad. You kind of need to be able to use both at once and the screen is typically at one end, not in the center. It sitting on a keyboard is weird but also works for showing the scale so looks cool.

This looks so cool, but the ai was so very confused about how laptops work...

Yes. They're called proxies. Some people are fine with it, some aren't. It's not legal in tournaments obviously but some communities/syles like CEDH are fine with it.

Oh, weird, when I first looked at it I swear it said 1 day old but now it says over 1 week.

She's already been in-game for days. Why are you posting a game play reveal?