Some of that dough you ate probably had some lead in it, eh?

There are a shitload of complex social and economic factors that drive gang membership. I think it’s charitable to say that framing it as a “mental health” issue is problematic.

So here’s the thing. You said,

Nah, they’re much more suited to delusional bravery while they pretend fight against imagined threats. This is actual bravery in a high-stakes fight against real threats.

Interesting take on the analog sticks. I’ve heard very different perspectives from different outlets - some saying that they have absolutely nailed button placement, and others echoing your take. I can’t help but wonder about the degree of hand variability they accounted for in designing the thing. I’m sure they…

And miss gems like this? I mean, there’s so much to unpack here.

I realize that there’s no point to responding, but here we go.

Replying to my own post here to just point out that this, what you’re seeing here in real time, has been a part of Russian geopolitical disinformation strategies for *checks watch* over 70 years.

Holy crap, can you please not feed into the whataboutism? At least not yet?

Exactly. Especially since conceptually very similar elements have existed in MMOs - unique digital “tokens” that you might remember seeing instantiated as a rare drop - from the start.

Given the source of the problem, a more accurate headline might be, “PlayStation Makes Upgrading to Next-Gen Cyberpunk a Pain.” I mean, it looks as though Cyberpunk 2077 has handled the upgrade as best they can - better than most, even. Making “Cyberpunk’s Next-Gen Update” the subject implies fault.

That “man trades EV in for V8" is considered newsworthy says more about the state of things than that some rando got fake internet points posting about his used car trade on Reddit.

My condolences.

It takes four mouse clicks to determine that it’s the same game code today as it was last week. All that the NYT added was a couple functions to transfer the local storage that tracks player statistics to their domain.

Rich People: Ruining Things for the Rest of Us Since Ever.

I am confused because I don’t know where you’re getting any of this from.

Honestly, I have no idea what you’re arguing about.

They don’t have the worst business model, they have a different business model. It’s a streaming service, and was always billed as such, so of course you can’t play games locally. That’s the whole point, and if that’s a criticism of Stadia then that’s a criticism regardless of who operates the service. XBox has a…

I completely agree that it was a marketing failure. I wouldn’t say that it was a business failure - prices, deals, et al - because the value proposition is pretty good in many ways.

Those are great reasons to sub or not sub to a service like that, but they’re issues with streaming in general, and not with Stadia in particular. The criticisms of the service for being a streaming service are criticisms of streaming as a gaming platform, not Stadia specifically. That plenty of other game streaming…