Stadia is... just okay
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·2020-05-05
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oh my gosh thank you for clicking this
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video i was just about to spout tech news into
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the ether this is much better reviews have been
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published for google's stadia game streaming service ahead of its launch
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tomorrow and well the excitement has been dampened
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somewhat we already knew that it's going to be missing a bunch of its supposedly
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killer features like stream connect state share and crowd play and the
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launch lineup was looking pretty meager at a mere dozen or so games but after
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microsoft boasted last week that xcloud would have over 50 games when it
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launches next year it seems like google scrambled to pop some more in there real
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quick 10 more games have been added in time for launch including final fantasy xv
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football manager 2020 nba 2k 2020 20 20
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2020 and wolfenstein youngblood but how
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do they play the experience seems to wildly differ depending on whether
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you're playing on a tv a pc or a phone the washington post published a video
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demonstrating the variable input lag they got on pc and it was
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horrifying so we'll have to see if stadia founders can get in a few good
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months of acceptable gameplay before google shuffles stadia into the same
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shallow grave as allo google plus and the others
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i'm just kidding i'm excited to play it although we aren't supposed to get our
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pack for a couple weeks instagram has long offered a private
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mode to protect your photos from prying eyes but the social media giant has
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recently become aware of a widely used app that can allow unauthorized users to
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view these private feeds it's called ghosty and not only has it caught fire
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for enabling voyeuristic behavior but it also asks users to invite others to
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download the app and also connects with the user's own instagram account so
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whoever decides to use the app is also sacrificing their own privacy
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what goes around comes around am i right isn't instagram for showing off anyway
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it appears that the app has just been pulled off the google play store and
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instagram has already sent a cease and desist warning but seeing as the app has
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been around since april hopefully there wasn't anything too damning on your ig
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page because they've got it all food shots basic girls wrapped in blankets
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no my kittens meanwhile here in canada a
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federal court has ordered isps to block an illegal streaming service the site
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called gold tv finds itself in the wrong end of the ruling after major canadian
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internet providers have tried to get a similar ruling handed down for quite
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some time now with the industry also asking the canadian government to
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blacklist other unauthorized streaming services the court decided that such an
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order wouldn't harm free speech or net neutrality interests though critics say
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cases like these can be the first steps on the path to government censorship and
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getting around such a block with a vpn would be a trivial matter anyway so then
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the government said oh dang oh that's true okay we'll leave it
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at all poor perkaman perkerman sword and shield have
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proven to be quite popular already with reasonable people but a weird bug is
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affecting roku devices of all things and i'm not talking about beedrill i would
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have said butterfree but when a switch playing one of the new games is on the
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same network as a roku the roku can end up in a boot loop fortunately roku has
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already patched the problem which is caused by roku not realizing the pokemon
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data isn't meant for it like it just got hit with a
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confused ray or something
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although microsoft's surface pro 7 has only been on the market for about a
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month users are still waiting around for a fix for Intel's broken iris pro
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graphics drivers although the fixes have been out for a while they aren't yet
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three-month-old drivers for a while now on a machine that isn't exactly cheap
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man this is just like the time i bought supermarket sushi that was already
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expired it's not i don't see how it's like that star wars jedi fallen order
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has gotten good reviews so far but it's selling at a far lower clip than ea's
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tire fire from a couple years ago star wars battlefront 2 which became
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notorious for a loot box controversy that ultimately resulted in the most
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downvoted reddit comment in history it seems like the lower sales numbers were
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partly due to some lingering bad feelings towards ea for that particular
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failure and the gaming community tends to be even less forgiving of failure
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than vader was with those admirals he force choked they weren't all admirals
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let's be serious there was a lieutenant in there
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you know about star wars moving on not a star wars fan maybe
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you're a mass effect one if you are you'll be excited to know that the next
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installment in the series is in the early stages of development after the
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series was put on hold in 2017 according to a report from kotaku however given
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the amount of time it takes to develop a triple a title don't expect to see it
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for another few years plenty of time for you to blow more money on upgrading your
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rig so it'll be ready it's not really a joke that's just true
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and ford has unveiled a new electric crossover suv
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with mustang branding of all things it's
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called the mustang mach e and it resembles the original mustang coupe
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about as much as i resemble liza minnelli which has unsurprisingly
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ruffled the feathers of a few long time mustang enthusiasts
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but regardless of anyone's feelings it'll be available late next year with
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prices starting around 44 000 us dollars
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i really think they could have named it after an animal that resembles a bulbous
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crossover a little more like the ford
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hippo maybe next time
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that's true that's our show guys come back on wednesday what day is it today
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monday come back on wednesday for more tech news where we'll have even more
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references to african mammals
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see you later