Oh its definitely a case of “correlation is not causation”. The study appears to ignore the sociological and economic factors of who drinks a ton of soda, and that effects the statistics. While they might be able to factor out overall diet and lifestyle, its all too easy for them to ignore that poor and working class…

To be fair, MatPat has done recent videos criticizing the entire business model of MCNs as predatory after an MCN and its bank stole millions from him and about 50 other youtubers, and while the videos are primarily about the MCNs themselves he makes it clear that MCNs only exist because Youtube makes life hard on…

Don’t forget the additional problem that streaming games has the same essential problem as Always Online and Games as a Service: you don’t actually own the 60$ game you payed for. It exists on the cloud server, and as soon as that goes down you can’t play your game— possibly ever again. Its a gaming preservationist’s…

Ergonomics are determined by the shape of the pad and the handles, not by the position of the buttons and the sticks. Where your thumb rests depends on the angle your hands hold the controller by, and in my experience with dualshock controllers VS XBox controllers they have the handles at different angles precisely so…

Or for the EU to fine them into oblivion outside the US.

And you won’t actually own your games because you won’t own the physical media its stored on. So when the servers inevitably shut down because no platform lasts forever (and I would bet money on this flopping) you won’t be able to play your library of games anymore. Streaming is not the future of gaming— its the death…

“Imagine, if you will, a gaming platform that has no need for a system or physical media of any kind, completely streaming and dependent on a solid online connection.” is the kind of statement that should always be read as “you will need us more than we need you to turn a profit.”

That argument depends entirely on the shape of the controller as a whole, not just the layout of the buttons. The XBox controller never fit my hand because its too damn big (yes, even after they shrunk it), so the control stick generally forces my thumb to stretch further in order to play, and that is in no way…

3) you don’t actually own the games, so when the service inevitably dies and the servers are shut down, your library of games vanishes in a puff of smoke. The entire idea of cloud gaming is predicated on the notion that gamers are too dumb to know the difference between ownership and rental. For anyone who does know…

Um........ why?

Its also entirely possible that regulators (particularly those outside the US) will flat out tell Google that they cannot enter the gaming business on account of their monopoly status. This goes double if the hardware requires compatibility with Chrome, since Google’s shenanigans with the Chrome browser has already…

Worse—at least after the OUYA flopped you could still plug the thing in and play games on your OUYA. When this goes, all of your collection on the console goes with it. This is a case where the mantra “stop killing games!” becomes “’always online’ is a cancer, and the only solution is to keep your money in our wallets.…

I know, right? This is why I use DuckDuckGo over Google. Its nothing to do with privacy, and everything to do with the company having actual integrity and objectivity in their search results. Its never about what they think I am interested in, and its certainly not effected by any kind of politics. They show what is…

I think it happens whenever a film or someone associated with the film tries to make a point of highlighting the strength of its female characters or talking about Feminist aspects of the film. They might have good intentions when they say it, but its possibly counterproductive because it does not allow the film to…

That was the story the Kinja websites wanted you to believe, but it wasn’t the actual story. What got taken down was the “I want to see/Don’t want to see” poll for Captain Marvel (and every other film, I guess), which is NOT actually a review nor meant to be. It was never about the quality of the film for anyone…

You have to be wary of taking dementia and delusion as an all-or-nothing proposition. It isn’t. When she concludes that her air conditioner falling is due to someone tampering with it, its possible she’s just being paranoid. When she and her neighbor find a fucking tripwire trap in her yard, you can bet she’s not…

At only 63? I highly doubt that, and remember, just because someone is losing their faculties does not mean people aren’t in fact out to get them. Indeed, the article gives plenty of evidence that Gail has been paranoid about Gary’s former associates for a long time now, due to some very well documented history of him…

In several Asian countries dust masks and surgical masks have become popular because of a combination of population density and public transit (the trains can be so packed in Tokyo that a mask is a legitimate way to protect your health) as well as air pollution, especially in China.

You automatically have a right to your likeness. This is common knowledge in the film industry. You don’t need to do anything to copyright it, companies have to come to you if they want the rights to use your face in marketing or merchandise. That is why, famously, Lucasfilm could use the faces of all the main cast to…

Sadly, the era of monopoly busting definitively ended in the Reagan era, when the government decided for moronic reasons that somehow monopolies are a good thing. Read: when the government got bought out by corporate interests.