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This guy is an r/stadia mod and Google employee so he's a little biased.quote:Gerolux Moderator 4 points 4 months ago
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"When it makes sense" being literally never.
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Dec 27, 2019 21:55
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Zaodai posted:"When it makes sense" being literally never. So he’s technically correct.
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Dec 27, 2019 21:56
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univbee posted:So he’s technically correct. The best kind of correct.
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Dec 27, 2019 22:59
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which exclusive features would those be again?
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Dec 27, 2019 23:03
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r/Stadia is now talking about how actually it’s good that Google’s phone holder scratches the controller and you’d be an idiot to think otherwise.
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Dec 27, 2019 23:05
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leftist heap posted:which exclusive features would those be again? Variable input lag and compression artifacting.
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Dec 27, 2019 23:14
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leftist heap posted:r/Stadia is now talking about how actually it’s good that Google’s phone holder scratches the controller and you’d be an idiot to think otherwise. I thought you were kidding but quote:Dude, the finish on top of the controller is so easy to damage that your fingernail with a bit of pressure can take off the coating. This is not a big deal, especially since they warned it. quote:Wait a second... You're telling me that the claw that google sells that they say WILL scratch your controller actually scratched your controller!? How dare it!
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Dec 27, 2019 23:16
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The varnish on the Stadia controller is so thin a fingernail can scratch it off? That sure sounds like a quality product to me.
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Dec 27, 2019 23:25
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If you want quality and reliability definitely go with Google products.
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Dec 27, 2019 23:28
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Cardiovorax posted:The varnish on the Stadia controller is so thin a fingernail can scratch it off? That sure sounds like a quality product to me. Holy poo poo look at this Sony+MS paid FUDster.
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Dec 27, 2019 23:39
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tater_salad posted:Apparently if you don't have an Android you can't add gift cards to your balance. Someone on Reddit bought 120 in cards from Amazon because they had Amazon gift cards and is now hosed.. If that's Google Play gift cards, they are not even available in most countries to begin with. According to the Google's Play support pages they are not sold in Scandinavia, for example. Cardiovorax posted:The varnish on the Stadia controller is so thin a fingernail can scratch it off? That sure sounds like a quality product to me. So, if someone has an old NES controller from 1987 and a brand new Stadia controller with that phone holder claw, the NES controller might look newer within a week or so? 
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Dec 27, 2019 23:58
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Bofast posted:So, if someone has an old NES controller from 1987 and a brand new Stadia controller with that phone holder claw, the NES controller might look newer within a week or so?
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Dec 28, 2019 00:21
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Someone's a paid shill for nentindo
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Dec 28, 2019 00:32
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quote:What's up with the Stadia hate train (self.Stadia)
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Dec 28, 2019 02:52
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quote:Not worried at all. They have set up their own studio and I can't imagine the people they have managed to get for that would have signed up on a whim. The service is less than a month old. Why are people so quick to hate? Is this what society has become? Throw your toys out of the pram because you aren't getting everything you want right this instant? Give it a chance. The service works brilliantly. Streaming is the future. The next generation of consoles will be the last.
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Dec 28, 2019 02:55
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quote:I'm an old man who barely gets time to game anymore. If it's not for two kids headbutting me in the unmentionables repeatedly until I pay them attention, it's my massive toothed wife demanding I 'do' things;
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Dec 28, 2019 03:04
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It strikes me as odd that it seems to be so many older people who are Stadia cultists. I generally don't think of boomers (OK, not actually boomers) as being in the "Embraces new technology, no matter how questionable, with gusto" demographics. E: All though "paid shills" doesn't seem unlikely
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Dec 28, 2019 03:07
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Man that is some shiny rear end astroturfing there. Keep posting more.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:08
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That one certainly sounds like a real person taking about his wife
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Dec 28, 2019 03:34
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My sweet Tom Cruise? I feel like this is a computer's attempt at being funny.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:42
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I'm still confused who the target market is meant to be here. Is this meant to be a console for people who aren't heavy gamers and who don't want to deal with consoles? Is this meant to be a competitor to consoles? Is it meant to be a replacement for consoles? The answer to this question changes from astroturfed post to astroturfed post. All of these posts have to be astroturfed, because I refuse to believe people can get legitimately super excited over the ability to stream loving Destiny 2 - a free to play game available on every loving console except Switch - and Tomb Raider 2013. Kanos fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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Dec 28, 2019 03:42
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leftist heap posted:r/Stadia is now talking about how actually it’s good that Google’s phone holder scratches the controller and you’d be an idiot to think otherwise. quote:Funny how no one reads anything then blames Google. This is the whole "Up to" fake drama all over again. quote:Except it originally was just something they did internally and everyone rage posted online for it and they wanted it asap. They go ahead and release it asap with a warning it will scratch the controller. People buy this first rev and then complain that the controller is scratched even with full warning. quote:Zero cares from me. Its a controller. It's meant to be used. It'll probably get scuffed with daily use. quote:I would agree except the Founder's Controller is Limited Edition and I'd like to not purposefully put it in something that damages it... quote:OK, that is a fair point, then you should just buy a second controller and keep the FE controller in the box it came in. quote:If you want it to be a collectible, treat it that way. They sell regular controllers. quote:Seriously... Since when have people cared about keeping a game controller pristine? quote:Exactly. Not a huge deal. Not to mention the scuffs are barely noticeable. quote:I have yet to see a controller phone mount that hasn't scratched whatever controller it attaches to. quote:Unpopular opinion: scars are really pretty, and eventually having a battle-worn scratched up controller will become an aesthetic showing the dedication and length of use of the controller, rather than being the single few marks marring the normally really pretty controller design. quote:Google: let's make our products with recycled plastics to keep plastic waste to a minimum for the sake of the planet. quote:Marred... is it really that big of a deal? The claw has to be tight. It’s physics. quote:While I agree some people are a hot zealous we also have to be honest here. Google did tell us that it could scratch the controller, so the people saying "OMG it scratched my controller" are equally rediculous. quote:Your controller won't stay pretty forever just deal with it quote:Ah please...it's a f***ing controller. Use it.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:43
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FrostyPox posted:It strikes me as odd that it seems to be so many older people who are Stadia cultists. I generally don't think of boomers (OK, not actually boomers) as being in the "Embraces new technology, no matter how questionable, with gusto" demographics. part of being able to quickly embrace new technology with no real concern on whether it's worth your time/money is being financially well-off, it's not a big surprise to me that the kind of people getting sucked into the nonsense of stadia are gen-x computer toucher dads
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Dec 28, 2019 03:47
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...! posted:Unpopular opinion: scars are really pretty, and eventually having a battle-worn scratched up controller will become an aesthetic showing the dedication and length of use of the controller, rather than being the single few marks marring the normally really pretty controller design. I hate all of these but I hate this one the most. "Battle-worn", get the gently caress out of here with that poo poo.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:49
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I love Stadian's reverse sour grapes. Their world is a horrible place. . Everything you could enjoy is actually terrible. Everything gets horrible damaged by simple use cases. All their old consoles were always awful and they are glad to be rid of them. Only the absence of a thing makes it good. Sure the laggy jaggy gaming is terrible, but its interpreted as sweet and succulent by their brains because they don't have a physical machine.
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Dec 28, 2019 03:51
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Is that subreddit more astroturfers than legitimate posters now? Are they just talking at each other like Twitter bots?
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Dec 28, 2019 04:15
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Zaodai posted:My favorite part of that post is actually the bit comparing it to making music digital. That wasn't a physical limitation to start with, that was just a math problem that eventually someone solved to prove that if you were fine with setting hard limits on the frequencies you were trying to translate from analog to digital, you could convert any analog stream within those confines to a digital one with zero loss because it could only ever represent one thing within those confines. The problem is, aside from willful ignorance/fanboyism/astroturfing, that people don't realize there's more to their internet connection than the jack in the wall the router plugs into. Internet's gotten faster since the mid 90's, so that means it'll CLEARLY just keep getting faster magically like before. Kanos posted:I'm still confused who the target market is meant to be here. Is this meant to be a console for people who aren't heavy gamers and who don't want to deal with consoles? Is this meant to be a competitor to consoles? Is it meant to be a replacement for consoles? The answer to this question changes from astroturfed post to astroturfed post. I reckon the initial astro-turfing reviews targeting 1337 gAm4r d00dz fell through, so now they're trying to hit the older market in the ~30-year-old median-of-people-who-play-games range.
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Dec 28, 2019 04:35
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Regarding the Boomers thing, it suddenly makes their entire ad campaign make sense to me. That dude they have screaming and knocking poo poo around is way to old to seem like a "Cool Older Dude" the kids can look up to. But he is certainly about the right age for a "Dude Who Knows He Is Still Cool". Which is I guess the Male Boomer headspace. Think about it. He knows much better than everyone else and is willing to share his opinions and expertise unasked. He flicks that poor Millenial Couples XBox out of their well appointed spacious apartment because he thinks it takes up too much room. No one can tell him otherwise, because he has the power. I have no idea what the gently caress "Electric Air You Can Play With" means and have no real comment on it. Maybe like some kind of power word or sutra? Or one of those The Secret style affirmations thing? Edit: 
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Dec 28, 2019 05:39
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Kanos posted:I'm still confused who the target market is meant to be here. Is this meant to be a console for people who aren't heavy gamers and who don't want to deal with consoles? Is this meant to be a competitor to consoles? Is it meant to be a replacement for consoles? The answer to this question changes from astroturfed post to astroturfed post. There's an article which does touch on that. The last two paragraphs seem to be the relevant ones, so I'll just paste those here: That article posted:Who is this service for? It’s supposedly for people who want to play AAA games but don’t have access to AAA hardware. It’s for people who are into hardcore games but don’t mind an unavoidable baseline of input lag. It’s for people who can’t afford a $400 console but can afford to buy games at full price and pay an additional $120 every single year. It’s for people who have lots of devices who somehow don’t own any dedicated gaming hardware. Most of all, it’s for people who have no memory of OnLive’s failure or who are happy to buy games that will vanish into the ether if the exact same idea fails again. This is on top of the whole "almost everything Stadia's boasting about is old news" thing. I could see use cases for this for strategy games or other turn-based stuff where having input lag doesn't much matter, but that's not what Stadia wants to do. And that is, of course, overlooking the whole "streaming games is a boondoggle because your access to the things you bought is contingent on Google not getting bored and giving up" angle.
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Dec 28, 2019 06:24
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The modern high-tech homeless person. For real though, Poor People with Lots of Disposable Income is a good description of a significant part if the town I live in due to several factors best left to another thread.
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Dec 28, 2019 06:46
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iajanus posted:That one certainly sounds like a real person taking about his wife I sure hope they're playing on the unfunny except to boomers trope of "haha my wife is terrible I'm a DUDE who would be PARTYING and GAMING if it wasn't for THE WIFE" trope. Otherwise that guys marriage is on the rocks and those kids will probably need therapy.
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UnknownTarget posted:I sure hope they're playing on the unfunny except to boomers trope of "haha my wife is terrible I'm a DUDE who would be PARTYING and GAMING if it wasn't for THE WIFE" trope. Otherwise that guys marriage is on the rocks and those kids will probably need therapy. That was exactly my hope.
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Dec 28, 2019 08:50
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...! posted:The next generation of consoles will be the last. Just keep saying this and eventually you will be right
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Dec 28, 2019 09:42
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iajanus posted:That one certainly sounds like a real person taking about his wife Ah, John. You've met my massive-toothed wife?
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Dec 28, 2019 11:22
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...! posted:Google: let's make our products with recycled plastics to keep plastic waste to a minimum for the sake of the planet. the controller is non-servicable and if it breaks has to be thrown out and replaced entirely
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Dec 28, 2019 14:27
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Stux posted:the controller is non-servicable and if it breaks has to be thrown out and replaced entirely But then they'll just recycle it again. Checkmate, idiot. 
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Dec 28, 2019 21:13
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quote:My girlfriend wasn't as impressed with Stadia as I was because she doesn't care, but my constant "Wooow, whaaaat, I can't believe this is actually happening over airport WiFi" had her saying "Ok, that thing is good, I believe you"
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Dec 29, 2019 03:49
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LMAO literally like a little kid raving about his toys, while his mom pats him on the head and says "That's nice, honey"
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Good to see people out there correctly identifying the stadia community as a band of persecuted-feeling weirdos and trying to gift them for money like one does with flat earthers, colloidal silver cults and bigole fans of JC himself. emphasis mine. quote:r/Stadia Posted by u/joevoss 46 minutes ago
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