Well, I’m glad to see that this particular unhinged man-child Gamer™ managed to find the limits of his chosen platform’s patience. Perhaps there are one or two other candidates for some kind of disciplinary action?

For all the talk over the last year or so about VPNs (and all the exaggerated claims), the reality is that there are many people just like you who aren’t really going to see much if any benefit. If you’re not concerned about keeping your browsing private from your ISP and you don’t do any sensitive browsing on public…

Yeah, I’d agree that the pool of people who can afford such expensive toys is shrinking as the generation that saw Easy Rider in theaters and earned a comfortable salary at their union job until the day they retired as planned is getting too old to ride and/or just plain dying.

It’s certainly not unreasonable to expect regular readers of a tech site to understand this. But it’s not like Sports Illustrated and Cosmopolitan are running 1000 words a month about digital privacy for everyone else out there.

Last of Us II was announced in 2016. FF VII Remake was announced back in 2015. Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in Two Thousand and Fucking Twelve. The first teaser was released the following January. Assuming they hit the September launch, there will be children entering the 3rd grade who have never lived in a world…

If only there were any games featuring a white man in his mid to late 30s with dark hair and facial stubble who shoots/stabs things/people. Then maybe the Gamers™ would have something they could play too!

There’s a lot of incredibly shitty people that identify as capital G Gamers and we (devs/publishers, journos, regular game playing folk) keep allowing them and their terrible opinions a prominent place in just about every discourse.

This story has no good guy.

This kid found success in the notoriously fickle and uncaring entertainment industry. The fact the he managed to get his 15 minutes at all should be considered an extraordinary privilege. But he isn’t “owed” a career in entertaining people by PLAYING FUCKING VIDEO GAMES any more than Milli Vanilli were owed a career…

Aside from the obvious personal privacy issues which seem to be covered pretty thoroughly at this point in these comments, there is a major privacy issue for my contacts as well. I have friends and family who text/message me things that they expect will stay between the two of us. Not only would snooping on these…

I mean, storage is insanely cheap. A TB HDD can be had for <$50. If you must play your games off of SSD, just move games you’re currently playing to the SSD and store the rest (as well as your haul of pics/vids/songs) on the HDD.

I’m imagining that, in maybe 70 or 80 more years, once we’re past this one way or the other, some head of government agency for a major world power will say “Look, we’re not ICE” in response to some atrocity his agency is committing and then Future Twitter can play this quote for him on repeat until he goes mad.

I’m really digging these new Warren ‘20 campaign ads

Pretty sure this is the quote you’re looking for. There’s a short thread, it’s great!

Should’ve gone for the balls

I feel ya. I also know that most of the gas stations I frequent have minimal non-pump parking. One of the places on my way to work only has two marked parking spots. The employees have to park behind the dumpster and hope nobody throws trash on their cars.

Have they said which licenses they have the rights to? Because I seem to remember Telltale having a ton of titles that nobody really cared about. And if those are the licenses they have, it won’t much matter either way.

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This list could be significantly shortened by just saying “dating apps.”

I’d rather my kid start learning best practices with digital devices early. Get your FB/Insta/Snap account hacked a few times when you’re still in high school and maybe Mom and Dad won’t sound so paranoid about basic infosec when you’re an adult with online access to a bank account.