Some of us have been on the web since 1994. It’s not much older than that. The World-Wide Web, I mean. HTTP. Of course you had Usenet and such before the WWW.
2008 would be 14 years later. Sure, it was 17 years ago, but in 2008, people were on MySpace. Pretty sure 4chan was around then, wanna-be hackers and pedophiles posting anonymously. So yeah, I think people were aware the Internet could be a dark place by then.
4chan was definitely around in 2008 but it was a lot more crazy random eclectic message board and a lot less nazi pedo bar. There were still shitty people there but it wasn't the norm.
I went on 4chan back in 2004. I was 14 and I remember thinking I found some super cool secret website full of badasses.
I got bored after a few weeks. I returned when I was 18 and realised it was full of socially mal-adjusted teens pretending to be super cool badasses, with a few pedophiles mixed in for good measure.
I don’t really even recall the “web” being one of the rougher places. It was Usenet and IRC, aka places where you could actually deal with other people directly, that were the livelier area. They were also more fun for that exact reason.
Doing nefarious things on the Internet is probably not much younger than the Internet. That take sounds like something someone who wasn't around in the 90s would say. I still remember the Ping of Death, people abusing netsplits on IRC, scams, identity theft, fraud, etc. - this is not exactly a new thing and even predates the web, but it has continued to evolve throughout the years.
When Facebook was just starting to be popular I was telling my uncle how people will get exposure to more of the world and be more open to it. He told me he was afraid the wrong people would find each other too. Fast forward 15 years he gets red pilled and dies of Covid.
Science Fiction authors from the 40s, 50s and 60s toyed with many scenarios and theories about where technology would wind up. Half of them were right, half of them were wrong. I think it'd be a dumb thing to say what you quoted.
It seems more it comes in waves, and not all at once but over time. Through my life things like the internet and smartphones becoming ubiquitous and becoming staples of life, likely AI is another one of those.
I think you get access to mobile games through your Netflix subscription. I know they released some games that were only playable on android through them.
This is like one of those parody commercials. "Coming soon for the Microsoft Xbox, the Sony Playstation, the Nintendo Switch, the App and Play store, the Nokia N-gage, the Samsung fridge, Netflix, Nintendo Famicom, your toaster, Kindle, as a shadow puppet theater, "
I own RDR2 already and would sooner die than play multiplayer or pay for it again if you know what I mean. I honestly don’t have much interest in GTA6 unless it’s the gaming equivalent of a black swan event. Rockstar has little to offer me at this point and the will get no more of my money
Only for the small percentage of people who follow news about gaming companies. Vast majority of people haven’t heard anything negative, let alone do they give a shit. They might have ruined their reputation for you, personally; but they’re going to do just fine. Nintendo has shown that it doesn’t really matter what your company culture is or what practices you engage in; if you make fun games that are fun, people will buy them.
There is an alternate universe out there where the N-gage was a smash hit, Nokia is reigning supreme in the handheld market and we’re all rocking gull-wing phones.
PS5 still has no games. It’s an anomonly. Even after 5 years and dozens of games, the console still has no games. Wow. Truly one for the history books. I can see why Sony is already talking about releasing the PS6.
Yeah, I’m surprised the original commentor is getting downvoted. This console generation has been terrible, PC is doing better, but really only due to smaller indie games.
Oh, this video by Digital Foundry is also relevant:
Hands-On With Steam Machine: Valve’s Beautiful PC/Console - Specs, Impressions And More www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rv83LgXiN0
I’m looking forward to the Frame. I have no interest in giving any money to Meta and Valve has been great with Linux support. I’ve seen people complain about the specs, but if it’s a reasonable price it looks pretty good to me!
Also curious about the Frame. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my HTC Vive Pro 2 but it was $$$$$. The inside out camera based tracking is the way to go as long as they did it well. Also hoping they have some upper-tier audio hardware so you can use your own wired headphones.
I’m afraid of the price… this looks much more capable and powerful than the Index, which was quite expensive, I suspect it might end up in a similar price range, if not higher. But let’s hope.
Interestingly, it seems to be using a snapdragon ARM-based unit. Which means it requires another layer of emulation/translation for running Steam games standalone. It’s said it uses FEX (fex-emu.com), probably combined/integrated with Proton.
For a long time, there were $1200 rumors.
Now we have the “less than index”, which I believe spawned the “under $1000” rumors.
but since index has a huge range, depending on the accessories you buy with it “less than index”, can mean anything from <$600 to <$1100.
But in reality this has to compete with Quest 3, and preferably also with Quest 4 when that releases.
So I think it really should be on the lower side. <$600 would be good, <$500 would be great, <$700 would be okay
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