I think a lot of these need the caveat— Know what they use their tech for before you shop tech. I also disagree with the general premise “always get the most prominent name brand”. For gifts name brand is a good idea but know what they want it for, and also know what ecosystem it belongs to.

It’s just rude to get…

While I agree with your first 3 sentences I have to say as both an iPad owner and Amazon Fire Tablet owner the iPad is not worth the premium UNLESS it’s for a dedicated user. The Fire Tablets (the new generation 8 and 10 inch versions) are great for media, reading, and web surfing. 

And if you already know how to use one system, you might be confused when a different system doesn’t work that way or you might be upset to find that the Android feature you want simply doesn’t exist on the iPad. And “idiot proof” or not, you might have apps that are available on one but not the other.

Counter point, an amazon fire tablet is absolutely perfect for little kids. Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids. Pretty terrible list overall tbh.

I’m not arguing that the iPad isn’t great, but if someone got me (who has never owned an Apple product) an iPad rather than a quality Android tablet, I’d be irritated at having to learn an entirely new OS and invest money in new app ecosystem. And I’m pretty tech savvy, I wouldn’t want to have to explain someone…

Stop it with Apple. What’s wrong with Android? Not everyone likes Apple. The only good Android tablet is a Samsung

I’ve seen a number of news sites that use Facebook for comments that include a box at the bottom where a comments section would usually go that is simply the Facebook comments on the post for that article.

Wow, aren’t you a total fucking wanker? Good job demonstrating to the world that the complainer is far, far worse than the person being complained about.

I suspect that decision is not up to Luke

What a completely irrelevant and embarrassing rant.

If you even looked at this comment thread, or any comment thread, before being this much of an asshole to the writer, you would know that he and everyone else who writes for all the not-Gawker sites knows and agrees Kinja is doggshit. You want to be shitty about it be shitty to the indifferent venture capitalist scum…

Yep, it always ends up as GameFAQS or Reddit in my Google searches. The GameFAQS comments section goes down the shitter almost instantaneously, every time.

So much of the point is not having to ask, like I know it’s a question that’s been asked a hundred times and you can prevent it being asked a hundred and one times by letting me find out the answer on my own.

Oh my god, yes. Whenever I’m stuck in a game and do a google search, 90% of the time I find what I’m looking for in the gamefaqs forums. I can’t imagine going to Discord for help with anything. 

Reminds me when IMDB killed their entire “message boards” and “private messages” because they are too lazy, complaining about “having to moderate too much” so just scrapped the entire boards on all movies, tv shows, people. Many of their “rules” were so ass-backwards and bad, people might get posts deleted for no…

Dude with no social media here. Comment sections have been a lifeline for digital social interaction, for sure.

I know. It’s directed at the sites closing their comment sections for social media, just as the article is towards sites closing forums for Discord.

This is why I still use gamefaqs. The place is an absolute shit hole, but one of the only actual general gaming forums that still exists. I feel like traditional forums have the exact right amount of accountability, where people can see who are and learn who to steer clear of but you can’t get downvoted into oblivion…

The same goes for sites killing their comment sections and kicking everyone to social media while proclaiming how much they value communication. 1) No you don’t to add extra hoops so stop lying. 2) Not everyone has (or wants) a social media account in order to communicate with other readers. 3) Why does not a single…