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Lol they were told this was going to happen a few months ago and they debunked it. Oh no!

We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store.

Ok so it looks like stadia strags will have gotten to play their games for a few years for free. Id chalk this up as a win for r-slurs that buy destined to fail products.

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I think they had to pay a subscription and then buy the games on top of it. So not a complete refund

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They were told this was going to happen before it launched lmao

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Yea I could have sworn this was old news

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Google announced they'd shut down their internal games studios ages ago, but the console itself was still supported until today

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Yea you're right, it turns out the news that broke a couple months ago was a leak from an unreliable source which stadia denied. Whether it was true or just luck, who knows

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It is in that there were leaks. It's new in that Google has officially announced it instead of giving a soft denial.

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lol i thought everyone predicted this

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Literally from its inception

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I also like to game with heavy delay!

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brb gonna play on stadia over starlink

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:marsoy:

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I played a ton of games on both Stadia and others and lag is basically a solved problem. Of course there’s the rare times when your ISP gets overwhelmed but not enough to be a real issue.

If you have a modern internet connection (gigabit and Wifi 6 is common these days) then you have nothing to worry about.

Cloud gaming is the future and it’s only getting better. Xbox cloud is amazing.

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It's clearly the future, that's why it's being abandoned like a used whore :marseywholesome:


Give me your money and I'll annoy people with it :space: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16965516366194396.webp

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Xbox cloud has dominated stadia and they already have all the relationships and studios.

The PC side already has Boosteroid, NVidia, Shadow, Paperspace, Liquidsky, Amazon luna, and PlayStation now (which I think is limited to consoles only unlike Xbox cloud).

There’s no sign the industry is slowing down. Google drops businesses on a weekly basis.

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Shadow, the shadow thats going bankrupt for being unsustainable?

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weird, I don't care about any of those, which is telling about how relevant it is. I only care about relevant things.


Give me your money and I'll annoy people with it :space: https://i.rdrama.net/images/16965516366194396.webp

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That’s fair, if you’re a gaymer then buy a PC or Xbox.

This is for casuals anyway.

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You will own nothing, you will play zhe cloud!

:#marsey1984:

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lag is basically a solved problem

I’m not sure how that’s possible. Even pinging Google on a high speed consumer ISP plan, I’m getting roughly 30ms RTT. For some games, an extra 20-30 (or higher!) additional lag on top of the game’s native frame delay would break the experience, particularly in FPS games, which are very popular.

There’s a reason any of these cloud gaming services are looked at by g*mers as supplementary rather than primary.

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Really? I don’t even live in the US and I’ve never had any serious lag on Xbox cloud or Paperspace. I even played a VR game using Paperspace which is very demanding as it has to transfer over USB-C as well.

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Maybe you're just a bit slow.

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Yeah I’m not sure what to say. I’m sure there are many neat tricks these services call pull with aggressive QoS, high priority packets, separating the input stream from the AV traffic entirely so it’s on its own port, whatever, but at the end of the day, they simply cannot account for the hops from their closest data center to your home. And with each hop is added delay beyond their or your control and worse, variance of the delay for each and every hop.

Not sure even just making input data flat UDP to avoid ACKs would be a wise choice to minimize delay because you NEED precision and even with tiny packet sizes, TCP still adds that delay for packet ordering but UDP runs the risk of inputs being dropped or reordered. Dunno.

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Tried steam link on a LAN, theres still delay which you can easily notice. Basically anything that is not a turn based game is a bad experience. And anything fast paced is unplayable. Rocket League, CSGO and such

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Precisely. I use steam link sometimes in my own home, because I wanna stay in the living room. My PC AND my tv are hard wired, 1Gb connected locally. I’m using a 2080Ti, with all the enhanced encoding on and even limiting to 1080p on the client (tv), it’s only ever been β€œtolerable” for FPS games like bioshock, but I’d never play pvp destiny in that configuration

Edit- I mention destiny specifically because Stadia LAUNCHED with Destiny 2 as a β€œmarquee title”

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Essentially google was in the BEST position to create their own protocol, but probably wisely decided not to

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30ms to Google is shit lag. I get closer to 5ms over Ethernet and 8ms over Wi-Fi.

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I doubt you get 8ms over Wi-Fi. But hey, just shows there’s an awful lot of variance.

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I doubt you get 8ms over Wi-Fi.

Are you kidding? This is what I'm seeing right now from hotel Wi-Fi in NYC pinging google.com:

64 bytes from lga34s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.80.78): icmp_seq=1 ttl=115 time=3.89 ms
64 bytes from lga34s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.80.78): icmp_seq=2 ttl=115 time=5.10 ms
64 bytes from lga34s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.80.78): icmp_seq=3 ttl=115 time=5.01 ms
64 bytes from lga34s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.80.78): icmp_seq=4 ttl=115 time=5.56 ms
64 bytes from lga34s35-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.80.78): icmp_seq=5 ttl=115 time=4.92 ms

I have fiber at home. Sometimes it pays off to be a hustle-and-bustle-cel.

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Oh you know what? I completely forgot I’m using Apple’s β€œrelay” service on my iPad. Disabling that brings me down into the same range. Fair enough!

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I really don't want games to be a subscription service too, digital ownership is shaky enough as is.

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No, I wouldn’t be able to do this in cloud gaming:

And this is on ps5

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I thought they'd done it yeara sgo

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Genuinely thought it had already been shut down. Goodbye Stadia, you will mostly be remembered for memes about your input lag. Gazillion dollar company btw

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Jesus frickin Christ. Yeah haters were just livid at the billions and billions of people playing stadia and enjoying it

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All the people making fun of make users while they have a $2k top of the line laptop and access to a ton of games on the 5 different cloud services. Stadia was the most expensive and least trust worthy.

If you really needed every single Steam game you could just use Shadow or Paperspace and just stream a high end Windows PC with a top of the line GPU for $15/m.

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I wouldn’t give google 15 cents a lifetime

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Stadia always sucked so why would you

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>four people playing Stadia at oncw

Wow, Google sure was optimistic!

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>Company that has shut down every project it started other than Gmail, announces to a shocked crowd that it will be shutting down another project

Anyone smart saw this on day 1, but it's nice that Google is refunding basically all of your purchases, they could've just taken the money and ran and probably gotten away with it.

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I cant wait for the day google shuts down google

:#marseysalat:

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I believe in Brave Browser supremacy

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Keep yourself safe

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Company that has shut down every project it started other than Gmail, announces to a shocked crowd that it will be shutting down another project

Google Drive and Maps are still useful tbf

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Remember when google was going to bring fiberoptic internet access to every major city in America? How did that pan out?

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The subscription fee isn't being refunded

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Who takes Google product launches seriously at this point? Most end up in the Google Graveyard

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>be a young engineer, get hired by google

>managers say you're going to work on a world changing product

>rent a closet and commute 2 hours a day

>become codependent on google as they give you food, laundry, entertainment, and all your friends are googlers

>work tirelessly 10 hours a day for years optimizing a single low level latency problem

>manager calls you into his office and says your product has been end of lifed

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dont they still earn like a million dollariones a year? who the frick cares

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Probably a good salary but considering how many high-earner-millenials are paycheck to paycheck I'd say it doesn't matter much cuz millenials are tards and lifestyle creep kills their savings

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tfw spending my hard earned Google bonus points on avocado tendies :marseysadgun:

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I know a techcel that makes more than $300k, his card gets declined at wendys when ordering tendies

He's a patreon & Ko fi whale who also feels the need to fly to furry conventions of his bank account reaches five digits

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He need a gold digger, hook him up with fds member

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He's already increasingly mentally unstable, either him or the fds member would an hero... probably after taking the other out :marseysweating:

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That’s crazy, I knew dudes that work construction or as welders that eat ham sandwiches and bring a flask to bars and have solid bank accounts even though people think they’re poorcels.

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That whole second paragraph shouldn't exist.

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Imagine being in the top 2% of wealth by income and begging for money from internet people. That guy has some kind of disease that makes him immune to feeling shame.

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nah he doesn't beg for money (usually), he's a patreon and ko fi whale because he sends money to anyone who begs for it with any kind of sob story and provides any kind of service in the furry or brony space.

:marseycry: "me starving artist get beat every day 😭 have uwu furry drawings subsrib to my pay-me-monthy $15 service pls pls"

:marseyclueless: "hmm yes i want big titty anthro wolf drawings and for u not to starve or get beat" [subscribes and clicks PayPal button]

dude probably funds at least 3 different cocaine habits because he also commissions overpriced art over and over but I've heard getting him to quit paying people is like pulling teeth and requires in person intervention involving both his family and religious leaders

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Every friend of mine that's gone to be a silicon valley codecel makes bank but the cost of living eats it up

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that makes absolutely no sense to me. Surely silicon valley has like school teachers, nurses, jannies, etc. policemen, they cannot all be making that much

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It is their lifestyle. The sad truth is simply that. I have friends that makes millions each year but somehow they still call and ask me for money.

I had a boss that scored 3 valued above 10 million project deals. Still fricking called me to borrow money.

Coke is a expensive habit lol

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are you scandi?

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nope

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They’re not cool enough to be railing coke.

It’s funko pops and onlyfans

Edit: Most techcels I mean, I don’t know your old boss, maybe he’s cool lmao. If you’re going to burn all your money, better be having the time of your life

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Gotta draw a line before writing a line

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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/silicon-valley-housing-tough-on-teachers/399071/

They live with roommates, marry someone in tech, or commute from out of town every day.


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They aint living in San Fran

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wtf are there no kids there or?

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Absolutely zero, yes

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I very briefly worked for a place in San Jose. The full timers that worked with me, despite making a very good salary ($200K +) lived more than an hour from the office. I was driving one of the guys around town at lunch and he pointed out some little tiny shitty looking house that was worth 1.2 million. Nobody who has normal people jobs (even in tech) can afford any of that shit. You gotta be a lawyer or a doctor or something.

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They probably own their place and don’t pay 100k a year for a 2m^2 all included room. Like in my city to rent decent 2 room appartament you’ll need to pay like 1500 euro and average salary is like 2k neet a month.

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I haven't heard about 99% of those things lmao

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Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we're always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions.

https://twitter.com/GoogleStadia/status/1552989433590214656

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I CANT STREAM

:#marseyfloyd:

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STREAMINGCELS ON SUICIDE WATCH.

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Xbox gamepass has a decent collection of streamable games nowadays


https://media.giphy.com/media/dUBBB9zSig7c7dc4x4/giphy.webp

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What does Google produce nowadays? It seems like zero novel products really come out from them anymore.

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They produce ad revenue

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They're an ad company through Gmail, Youtube, and Google Maps. Angular and Android come to mind but yeah not much else in terms of consumer software

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Once they perfected the Google Maps tech like 10 years ago, they could go full DIE and get sued by literally everyone.

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Whatever happened with Google Glass?

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glassholes were relentlessly bullied

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facaebook had their own version that just looked like raybans, what happened to that?

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Its the meta (oculus) quest

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No, they also have some Ray-Ban glasses with a camera to record. It's not VR/AR.

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Oh like those snapchat glasses years ago? I always thought those were so stupid.

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how could the google ouya fail?

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>your pfp

:#marseyxd:

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#ripbozo

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:#ripbozo::#ripbozo::#ripbozo::#ripbozo:

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As if you're not lame enough being a gaymer, being a streaming gaymer is an all-time low

So many people warned me about Google doing this and I naively bought games anyway.

The face eating leopards strike again

This is gonna blow up big

Maybe, but not because most will be outraged. Mainly because people will be laughing and say "duh it was so obvious"

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Streaming games is like the ultimate form of not owning anything and you will be happy

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Good. You will own your games and you will be really happy. :marseyexcited:

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:#ripbozo:

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I bet for the people that used it stadia was awesome but it's just not usefully enough to be profitable. also you will own nothing eat bug.

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Stadia was never meant to succeed, it was an experiment to see how well thin-clients-as-a-service work in the consumer market. In about 4-8 years Google will start pushing their mobile devices towards that model.

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I don't know if I'll have the time today but I suggest keeping an eye on twitter, the unpaid-but-coordinated stadia shills might do something funny

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Some other company will try this again in a few years and twinks again will say it’s the inevitable future of gaming because they are too dumb to understand that you either have to overcome the speed of light or have a server in everyone’s backyard (aka a local gaming pc or console) to make it work.

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Good. Cloud gaming shouldn't exist

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This was inevitable on release and was obviously imminent when they closed their internal development studio.

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Okay, do you hate disabled people? Do you hate people who are not neurodivergent? You know, the world is full of neurotypicals who love to use computers. I'm not sure what world you're living in but i mean, at red hat we support all sorts of customers with all sorts of needs What if you're playing openttd from an airplane and don't have our software override installed? The towns are going to get mad at you and you're going to cause a giant scene on the plane! Listen to me you little neckbeard, system V unix people and suckless people are a bunch of libertarian holier-than-thou nerds who have no grasp on reality. They don't talk to people outside of IRC. They still use mailing lists as their main form of communication! I mean, what world are you living in people?! At red hat we make Linux for the desktop. We support user interfaces, graceful fallbacks, we develop advanced software solutions that the unix standards people call ugly. Well, if you think Red Hat's kernel patches are ugly, god knows what they'd say about Microsoft Windows! How about Apple?! You know you people say you want progress, but what do you really want? If you have a better solution for the mean towns in openTTD i mean, it's free software, people! You can make your own changes! You get it for free! Send me a patch, I love patches. I'd love to discuss the issue in a github thread, so I can say No, and then lock and limit conversation in the thread, and put it on github-drama. I love getting downboated! I'm Lennart Poettering and I love getting downboated!!!one!1! I'm not done. We make software for real people. Do you know that I've never used fluxbox? That's right. I've never honestly used fluxbox by myself. If you alternate window manager people want to come up to me, and say fluxbox is more convenient, i mean, i'm all ears people. I'm listening. Why does fluxbox exist? Why do we have afterstep? Dear god... people still use stacking window managers? I'm sorry but, I use computers to get work done. My workstation is just a tool I use to implement the abstractions I've architected on whiteboards and IRC. I don't have time for making sure all tasks can be properly backgrounded and foregrounded without altering their program state, or reading the latest garbage that the X window people of vomited up on their way out of their latest homoerotic circlejerk. There are so much more important things to be done in computing like reaching more users, reaching the world, and opening up our ideas to people who don't use alternative window managers. Do you know what? I don't even know what window manager I use, and I don't care. And I'm not telling you what text editor I use because it doesn't matter. You people need to seriously focus on the real problems in our community, which is the discrimination that my software receives just because of who i am. Why do you hate systemd? why do you hate the convenience i've provided? My amazing contributions? Did you know that every other CVE that's released is related to systemd? Like, it's just software, people. And because my name is on it you need to hyperventilate and open up urgent security reports that have been there all along? It's not my fault that my software was the one to expose the problem. The problem is in the standard, we just implement the broken standard, and then break our contract with the standard when necessary. I don't give a flying deutschmark about about what's written in the standard, what I care about is what's in the Linux kernel. Real-world scenarios. It doesn't stop there. You people target me and incriminate me. You want to read how much 4chan-level trash is in my email inbox every day? Get a life. Move out of the basement. Start contributing if you really care that much. But jesus, just stop.... whatever this is.

Snapshots:

Google announcement:

Stadia store closing?:

Google is shutting down Stadia:

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Why the seethe? This is what google does. Did these r-slurs really think it was going to get more support?

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Lot of people saw this on launch day but anyone who was still optimistic should've realized where things are headed after they completely stopped talking about the service, stopped updating hardware and didn't make any big game announcements two months after launch.

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They did an UI update yesterday

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β€œWe will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store.” Man I now feel bad I didn’t got it

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Volvo once again adds a skull to its throne of challengers who tried to kill steam.

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I thought this already happened

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lol what the frick is Stadia?

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wow who would have guessed (not me)

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kill ALL gaymers

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