This article has a talk page!As it turns out, most developers and publishers tend to not want people pirating their games or poking around their innards. As a result, they often implement strange and interesting measures to annoy pirates. These are some of the most interesting, annoying, or amusing.
The occasionally-unusual nature of these measures (along with the boom of emulation and DRM systems like Denuvo) have since spawned various internet jokes, creepypastas and memes riffing on them, especially starting in the early 2020s.