"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because people want it"

Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by LukeShu on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:38PM (#21580013)

> I read a book, ... or enjoy a movie.

Right there. For lots and lots of people, gaming is in the same class of activity as reading a book or watching a movie.

It genuinely feels really weird for me to write that, it feels so obvious.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by corodra on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:53PM (#21580108)

Yea, like eating a salad and a Big Mac are the same class of food as well. Feels so weird since it's so obvious. A salad and a Big Mac. They're both food, thus they are both equally nutritious.

Go out and get some sun.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by delecti on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:57PM (#21580127)

Maybe you don't view video games as being "as nutritious" as your personal preferred forms of entertainment, but that doesn't make those preferences universal. I've brought handheld gaming devices on virtually every trip I've made in the past decade, whether for work or pleasure, and I doubt I'm an outlier.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by corodra on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:04PM (#21580168)

I know people that bring cigarettes to every trip they've had in more than 10 years. Doesn't make it right either.

Always having to rely on video games and the internet is a problem. You seriously can't mature through being alone in your own thoughts? People gladly, even smugly, say I'm a bad guy because on the weekends I treat myself to a cigar. Yea, I know it's bad and I don't push that habit off as some glorious thing to be protected. I have my vices. But I don't let my vice control me or become my identity. Everyone is on the kick the last 10 years like "video games define me". Y'all need to stop and go outside to hug a tree.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by magashna on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:55PM (#21580721)

"You watch any good movies, read any good books, or play any good games lately?"

"No, child, I was honing my mind as one does a blade."

Someone might smugly say that indeed.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by rowanG077 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:27PM (#21580292)

Why do you bring books and movies then? "You seriously can't mature through being alone in your own thoughts?"

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by corodra on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:45PM (#21580393)

Yea, but I'm not dependent on them. Everyone here is just, "I need my games wherever I am at all times!" Learn to diversify. Learn to not need technology. Hug a fucking tree.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by rowanG077 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:53PM (#21580435)

Ah yes the classic close minded fool. My hobbies are fine and great but those video games and the internet are bad mmmkay. I don't even play video games and find your opinion so backwards that I get tingles on my back.

No one said anything about needing to play video games all the time.

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Re:"Google Stadia is not a product that exists because peopl... by LukeShu on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:28AM (#21584724)

Hey, you're the one who put "read a book" and "enjoy a movie" in the same breath.

If I had just quoted "or enjoy a movie" and left of the "read a book" part of what I quoted, would your "nutritious" argument still hold weight?

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