@mrbojangles25: For all their faults, Valve is really good at what they do. Steam's definitely got some problems here and there, but they've built up a really user-friendly ecosystem with an amazing selection and good support features. A big part of the reason why they're still on top is because no one's done anything that would dethrone them.

@jeezers: The kids give me hope for the future. Honestly, when I get really depressed from fighting with Boomers I usually think to myself: at least the next generation is turning out alright.

I think you need to learn to count. 1959-1946=13 years; 1964-1960=4 years; 1976-1965=11 years.

I think most people realize that not every person born in a given year will exactly fit into that generation. In fact, most people realize that at the years closest to a generational border people are less likely to fit into one generation or the other. Most people say that President Obama is Gen X in spirit, even though he's technically a Boomer. That doesn't mean that we can invent these nonsensical and inconsistent categories to try to shoehorn people into, it doesn't solve the problem.

In fact, there are plenty of people who don't fit into your categories. I was born in 86, but I grew up with mostly analog technology. And as for the emergence of the PC, Wozniak was born in 1950, Jobs and Gates in 55. You weren't the vanguard of anything, you just happened to be around when companies started selling PCs as consumer products.

And by your "idiot logic" one generation lasts thirteen years, the next one four, and the next one eleven, how does that make sense? Generations as officially classified last an average of 25 years, with subsequent ones usually not varying from the next by more than a couple of years. Boomers are, in fact, one of the smallest recent generations. If anything, Gen X and the pre-silent Generation should be made smaller and the Boomer generation should be made larger. Twenty years is enough time for the people born at the beginning of a generation to experience roughly the same events as the people born at the end of a generation, albeit at different stages in their respective lives.

I'd be cautiously interested in this. I know latency is always going to be an issue until they fix our country's wireless network (read: never), but it does solve some issues. For one, it gets rid of the need to buy a high-end system to play high-end games, and the need to buy a lot of storage to install all those games. It also (theoretically) gets rid of exclusivity as the whole thing seems to be an app that runs on compatible phones, which also gets rid of the need to constantly upgrade to a new system. It could also free developers to do bigger things with their games, as they don't need to worry about making the game fit on a certain size game card or within a certain standard for a reasonably sized file. I'd be most worried about what happens to my game data if I ever needed to pause my subscription, but other than that I welcome the day when I don't have to carry around cartridges or worry about filling a hard drive.

I don't care that much about having all my games on one client, but I do worry about having them spread out among too many clients. I really hated all the dev-specific platforms like EA origin, especially when there didn't seem to be any benefit to using them. GOG and Humble Bundle offer enough that's different from Steam to keep them going and keep Valve on their heels. I don't see what Epic Store does in that regard, and I especially hated the exclusivity aspect. It's like most of what I hated about Origin combined with nothing of what I liked from GOG/Humble.

Do you not understand context or something? She was remarking on poor conditions with the implication that she wanted to do something to fix it. Trump was using the poor conditions to insult an entire city and discredit their opinions.

Trump supporters: Lock her up!

Liberals: Boo!

Trump supporters: You guys lack class!

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@theone86: The bigger hits come from the large scale counterfeiting operations. Criminals will exploit the system in any way they can, regardless of the legality/regulation that's imposed. To be honest, I'm not even sure what your argument even entails at this point. Very bizarre.

My argument is that I have a front row seat to the dirtiest, sleaziest, most corrupt police department in the country, so I know why badges want to keep weed criminalized. They regularly raid illegal drug operations in order to keep the dirty money for themselves, and if cannabis is legalized then they lose a potential revenue stream. No wonder, then, that they were able to literally dictate terms to the state legislature when they didn't like the first draft of the legislation that would legalize it.

"Cops will exploit the system in any way they can, regardless of the legality/regulation that's imposed."

Fixed.

Oh, you're arguing there's an underlying conspiracy.

Yeah, there's no conspiracy dude, it's fact. Two cops just got sentenced for this exact thing this last month, and there is a long and documented history of cops in my area raiding drug warehouses without making a single arrest. That's on top of the fact that they got caught red-handed trying to cover up evidence that eventually led to the conviction of a cop for murder and battery, that a high-ranking police officer ran a legitimate torture ring out of our police department, and an on-going investigation into a cop who ran his own drug ring and framed project residents in order to cover it up. The fact that you would try to paint police corruption as a conspiracy just solidifies in my mind that you're dirty yourself.

Ah, so might makes right? Jawohl, dude.

He is not a second or third string quarterback, he was a STARTING QUARTERBACK on a PLAYOFF TEAM. This is a league where second string quarterbacks are often given large contracts just based on the fact that they don't completely suck. Just this past week the Jaguars benched their starter, who used to be the quarterback of the future for a whole different team. Teams will grasp at any straw to get a good quarterback, except, like I said, one who kneels.

What happens if it starts becoming bad for business to point to the sky? Are you going to advocate for the league to shut down players' freedom of expression in the name of profits, or are you going to throw a shit fit over freedom of religion?

2010 Republicans: We are going to launch investigations into every single aspect of Obama's presidency and you can't stop us!

2019 Republicans: It is an abomination that you are investigating our president and it amounts to a coup, do something useful with congressional power! Also, we're launching counter-investigations into Democratic figures to further our own political narratives.