Interesting and multifaceted article. I love that the stream became a space of comfort and information about mental disorders. There is one thing that I don’t understand, though. And please, I don’t mean this to sound demeaning at all, you know how text can’t convey subtext.

I’ve been to about four funerals and memorial services in my life.

Beautiful article. Sad and yet also strangely uplifting in places.

As if the whole thing weren’t depressing enough as it is, I hadn’t even thought about the ramifications of the current DMCA jihad on a ‘memorial’ channel. Christ that’s even more grim and depressing. Ugh.  😑

Glad to see that the DMCA issue was brought up. Frankly, it’s offending that memories and the beings of a streamer and their recordings (whom some viewers rely on) are purged in an instant. Even with the persistent grip of corporations and person, in EULA and other contracts, there shouldn’t be a tighter grip on…

*Sigh* You are an informed adult with real, researched concerns. Therefore, this, the Animal Crossing thing, these are not geared towards you. They’re geared to kid, teens, yoots, young adults who have not thought about politics before, or maybe don’t feel like that stuff outreaches to them. The people who can’t yet…

Because, video games? We do this with single player campaigns. We beat it then play New Game+.

So this has always been one of my beefs with these expansions. Moving everyone to 1050 is great for the players who haven’t been keeping up, but it also in way invalidates the grind. Because it’s sort of like, why bother grinding to max level if I know I’ll just get boosted to it next time around. just a stupid…

Lol how am I being a drama queen? My first comment was just a little joke... 

In a sane society both companies would be broken up.

There is no reasonable discourse anymore. There is nothing to debate. I am tired of pointing out to others the disparates, the false logic, and lies that come from Trump, his supporters, etc. They will continue to believe whatever they want and there is a large swath of the media that will continue to support their…

Yeah, I know how to Google. In fact, I did some more Googling and found that the store you just linked relies on hacked developer certificates and constantly has revocation issues, which is exactly what I said in the first place.

Show me.

Since when are there third party appstores on Apple devices that don’t rely on either jailbreaking or complicated hacks involving Apple’s MDM APIs (which are also against Apple's TOS, and constantly get their certificates revoked for that reason)?

Regarding the legality? The argument by Epic is that this is more about antitrust laws, that Apple has such a large portion of the market and absolute control over everything that happens on their devices that it’s allowed them to use one monopoly (that iOS is the only operating system allowed on iPhones and iPads) to…

As someone who works in the gaming industry, a 30% cut does suck. It only gets harder the smaller you are too. So part of me is like “Yeah, lower that amount!” But Epic isn’t small and I feel like this is going to get pretty ugly. I don’t really like the approach Epic is taking. They were definitely ready for this to…

The whole 1984 angle and having all of this response prepared in advance really put a sour taste in my mouth. Trying to create this weird public discourse and use your arguably easily-influenced fan base to try and get what you want is...I mean, it’s on brand but it’s really gross. The extremely public and…

So, there’s this scene in The Two Towers where the orcs begin murdering each other over whether to eat the Hobbits alive or bring them to Saruman, who will torture them to death.

They’d probably have worked better in places where that “last mile” really is a mile: Suburban street corners in areas with shit public transit.

Agreed. I backpacked through Europe last year and they were a godsend in many places. Scooters allow you to hit many more sites in a day than public transit and they’re much cheaper than cabs. I wish there weren’t accidents or buffoons, but I don’t think we should throw out, or in this case, burn down, the baby with…