My wife and I are planning to see the movie this weekend, and I play a lot of games. This is the first I’ve heard that it’s based on a game.

All of the exploits against Intel processors didn’t help either. Not only is it a bad look, but the fixes reduced the speed of the those processors, making them quite a bit worse deal for the money after all.

I was playing Destiny 2 and the lag was only noticeable to me when I compared it to not using Stadia. While I was playing, I didn’t feel like there was anything to complain about.

I think I saw less lag when connected to my house over Parsec, and definitely had less lag when playing locally at my house. I actually considered continuing to use Stadia, but by that point they had pretty much proven that they were not going to bother improving things further, and it didn’t make sense to pay for a service that didn’t provide an advantage over what I could do for free.

I think it really depends on circumstances. I tried GFN and Stadia, and found them to be adequate, and used Stadia for a few months. After comparing input latency with streaming from myself (across town) and playing locally, I decided it wasn’t worth it and left Stadia. I’m still mad at their ridiculous promises that they broke, and killing the service without ever really trying to hit its potential.

IIRC, there’s still a free tier with a limit of 1 hour playtime at a time, and you can’t play during peak hours because there won’t be a slot for you.

The pay tier is still a 6 hour limit, but of course you can just come right back in.

That’s the problem with edgy, experimental projects. You can’t really tell if they’ll succeed until a lot of work has been put into them.

It sounds like Microsoft is being notified by its Minecraft players that toxic interactions are happening on MinecraftOnline’s server, and they’re taking action to reduce toxicity associated with their IP.

It’s really hard for me to fault them for that. Especially since MinecraftOnline is using the the Minecraft trademark in a way that sounds official in the name. I’m surprised they didn’t put a stop to that as it is.

Yup. Though I’ve been pausing more and more lately. The months where I already own the games because I loved them are ones that I can’t blame them for. But there’s been plenty that I just wasn’t interested in.

Parsec? It has virtual monitors.