neighborinooo

I do sympathize with a lot of this article (as a person who decided to stop having big desktops years ago, and as a Christmas-and-Easter free software advocate). I'd love to see more free software games, and if I ever develop any I would likely release them under a free license (possibly with the assets restricted, so I could still reasonably charge for the game).

However, I think by focusing on Steam and Windows the author misses a bigger threat.

> Most commercial computer games require very powerful computers. This means that a less-wealthy person cannot play online games with their more-wealthy friends. This is especially a problem for young people, for whom gaming is an important social activity. Also it's a problem for people who don't earn massive 1st-world salaries.

Most of the young people I know don't play PC games (exception: the ones who like Minecraft). They play on consoles or mobile devices. A PS4 or an iOS/Android device are way more restrictive. On top of that, the mobile games are particularly pernicious in their design. Many of them may not even consider children, as the goal of the game is to trap a handful of whales, but they still lock children in the skinner box.

> Also I don't know how you can say iphone is more free than symbian. You could put what you wanted into your phone.

It's been like a decade since I had a Symbian phone (the only one I ever used), so maybe my memory is fuzzy, but didn't all applications have to be signed at great expense?

Sure, Apple does the same kind of thing with the App Store, but it's substantially cheaper and despite the known App Store woes probably a smoother process.

I know that we have embryonic stem cells (controversial) and adult stem cells that can be harvested from skin tissue (not controversial, possibly difficult/expensive?). I'm not particularly well versed in this field, but it could possibly be more expedient than other methods of getting adult stem cells. It could also be even more difficult/expensive, and that's assuming that they're pluripotent and not spleen-specific in the first place, though.

And on this note, I use the Vimium browser extension (vim-like keybindings for a lot of things) and scrolling all the way to the bottom doesn't cause more results to appear.

I do expect some breakage when using a niche extension like this, but it seems like it would be fixed for my use case if something like plainOldText's idea were implemented.

edit: Or if the scroll button thing were an a tag, I suppose I could "click" it like any other link from the keyboard. It does load more (somewhat reluctantly) if I scroll down with the arrow keys.