Right. Hell, if its such a ridiculous ‘infrastructure issue’ like they claim (a BS cop-out excuse, if I’ve ever heard one) — they can do it like Steam... keep your shitty, originally chosen PSN name as your log-in, your ‘ID’, whatever — but give you the opportunity to keep it ‘under the radar’, and have everyone else…

Awesome! I swear I had read at one point that 4.50 wasn’t going to support direct off-the-drive playing and that had just stuck in my head. That’s going to be a hell of a lot easier than what I was thinking.

Why? You don’t have to on XBL. You don’t have to on Steam. You don’t have to on virtually every other gaming platform. This is a silly non-argument, and why even try to give it weight? Why would you be *against* people being able to change their names? It’s utterly silly that the PSN doesn’t allow you to change your…

PSN is pushing a decade old at this point, and a lot of people first set theirs up as children. By the time you realize “BUTTZ_R_FUNEE” is a terrible name, you’ve probably spent a few years buying digital stuff, building a friends list, racking up trophies if that’s your thing, etc

Because not everyone wants games that are highly level dependent. That shit just ruins your ability to co-op if you and your friends get make than a few levels apart.

My fight would be like this: [other people]: It’s pronounced PRIMER, like CLIMBER.

[as opposed to “primer” like “skimmer”]

I read a thing once that said something like don’t make fun of how people pronounce a word because it usually means they learned it from reading it.

Makes sense really. You have to guess how to pronounce it when you read it. I know for years I said synapse wrong without knowing because, come on, how often do you say…

Close enough. It’s more like aw -tom- uh-tuh, not “o-tah”.
Check it out: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/automata

*lolz* You are sweet! Totally OT, but I had no idea that Harlan Ellison wrote an intro to a Shmoo compendium. Dying of the giggles over here. Now I have to go find a copy.

I’d say that, were it not for the stress that he was feeling and probably contributed to his death, it’d not be a bad way to go, dying while doing something you enjoy. It’s a shame that the realities of streaming are so negative.

Nobody claimed that? Let’s stop trying to lessen the tragedy of the loss. Leave your ego somewhere else.

That’s true, but he was a streamer by career. So while you could say video games were not the cause, they were definitely involved as a byproduct of his career. Whenever you’re doing anything in excessive quantities, whether it’s long hours at the office or long hours in front of a monitor, it’s important to use…

Not really. If a death has unusual circumstances around it, police investigate. Any time a 35 year old drops dead without obvious trauma, that’s unusual and it makes perfect sense that they’d investigate to some degree. Even when homicide is not suspected, unknown cause deaths are generally still investigated to…

Police “investigate” any death, no matter the cause.

The article I believe sums up the risks pretty well. The sad truth is that A LOT of streamers will give advice that in order to grow as a streamer you need to stream long hours (at least 5) as you are trying to basically outlast your competition so when they go offline, their viewers move to you.

So basically it’s a…

I walk to my local park on weekends to circle a few times - I’m not only not the only person doing so (I’d say about half the people I pass are clearly playing) but at 30-ish I’m usually the youngest person there.

Went to the Cincinnati Zoo yesterday, which is a hot spot for the game because there are Stops all over. I heard the game’s sound effects non stop everywhere I went, the few Gyms were constantly being fought over, and most stops had lures (maybe 15 out of 25). So yea, people of all ages still play, not like when it…

Part of my job requirements is to constantly make sure there’s a lure on the spot outside. The street outside my work has seven spots going down a three block period so when you stroll the area you’re constantly in a spot. Those spots are constantly lured.

You don’t see as many places anymore but there are DEFINITELY…

I opened it up for the first time in months today. There were definitely more Pokemon around. I think they realized that the lack of Pokemon in the suburbs made the game suck. One or two of my friends still play, but most quit.