i think the worry about games disappearing isnt really a concern, yes stuff from the earlier days of gaming has been lost but its no longer a cottage industry its a monolith and one that takes great pleasure in reselling old games again and again

Sooo... the backlash is a bunch of boilerplate fabricated FUD questions?

I can’t justify dropping $700+ on a new console or computer but I would like to play some modern games.  A monthly service like this would be ideal for me.  But, i’m probably an asshole for not complaining. 

I feel like that not many people see the true good and bad changes this might bring.

The prices will reflect people’s willingness to pay for something, as is the case with all things in a free market. If you don’t like the price, don’t buy it.

This kind of appeals to me as I haven’t been able to afford a new console in close to 10 years. As long as games don’t have to be purchased individually then I would try it. If I can access the service like Google Play Music, and pick from any of the available choices at any time. Kind of bummed I would need a…

So do you hate Netflix and Spotify because you don’t own the content?

Even if it’s not Stadia, I think it’s an inevitability that this is direction gaming is heading in. The massive amounts of capital involved much prefer the service over product model and it’s concurrent with trends in how we consume every other piece of media. But gaming will certainly be worse for it, and as long as…

Should Stadia prove stable and successful, developers may bring exclusive titles to it in part because those titles would be exceedingly difficult to pirate. 

I have been busy re-writing my old website to be “clean” meaning no JS and no cookies. As a result, I’ve been testing it against the most common browsers: IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Tor, and Edge. The first five of these render properly and virtually identically. One, Edge, breaks even simple things like inserting a…

Microsoft sends me emails promising me “points” just to Bing things. They even give me suggestions. It’s saaaaad.

I bought a Windows PC for writing my dissertation a few years ago, after using Chromebooks exclusively for about four years. Windows 10 is so annoying it’s driving me to distraction. So many useless pop up messages, so much counter-intuitive design. Once I’m done writing this damn thing, I doubt I’ll ever use that PC…

All the Windows 10 installs I’ve used have IE on them as well, I’ve always used that to download/install other browsers. I thankfully haven’t had to touch Edge in over a year.

Windows 10 is giving me reasons not to install it everyday. It’s pretty incredible.

The problems with Edge:
- It’s not compatible with a lot of corporate websites because Microsoft believes all websites should be designed around Edge, not the other way around.
- The bookmark interface is horrible
- Extension support is horrible
- People love syncing their browser with phones. Chrome syncs natively to…

Why would Microsoft bull ahead with these outrageous monopolistic practices? Somebody call the Justice Department!

The spirit of the 2000 antitrust ruling against Microsoft for unfair competition has been pretty well exorcised in Redmond, hasn’t it?

This mindset is all well and good for someone has a Mac and uses the entire suite of Apple services, but it not particularly helpful to people who don’t. You and Apple can tell me all you want that I need to “change my mindset” but I’m telling you, that their design makes it much less useful as a backup service. …

I honestly cannot stand the way that iPhones handle pictures. While I do pay for more iCloud storage just in case, I have DropBox backup my pictures to there then I take them off DropBox and store them on my NAS.

Thanks for explaining this. It’s still pretty confusing though. Not your fault. I’ve got my Pixel and Google Photos so everything works as expected which makes me happy.