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Waco wrote:

6 Gaming Industry Trends That Will Shape the 2020s

Ugh. So basically the exact same things everyone has been saying for almost 2 decades? I don't understand this site any more.

Hold out just a bit longer. As we all know from Paul Serene, the world will end in 2021.

Guitar accessories? For real?

Igor_Kavinski wrote:

TR is my hobby, among others.

And yet you haven't spent a single minute discussing technology or computing, recently at least.

Don't get me wrong, Igor my friend, you're a bottomless well of neverending entertainment, but it pains me to see you yearn for being taken seriously in the midst of it.

derFunkenstein wrote:

now he's graduated into metacontent, where he's paid to live vicariously through his past self

I am now reminded of Trump for some reason.

Or is this the "American dream" in general?

I notice Renee seems to have completely given up her 'informative' posts. I'm not sure whether to take that as a positive sign that they've realized the new direction isn't working out, or a negative sign that they've just about given up on the entire site. I mean Mr Rampton is free to throw his in...

Igor_Kavinski wrote:

No one is asking you to become a believer. The whole point of this thread is to let people know that there is something fishy about 8.

This is a straight contradiction. You are asking people to believe that the concept of "8" does anything beyond being a concept.

I don't understand the title of this thread. Are you looking for real stories or supernatural stories?

Must really irk the techie types who only believe in well-crafted algorithms and researched-to-death natural phenomena. Irk me? Hardly. But what really intrigues me is how one (you, in this case) can be completely oblivious to one's own confirmation bias. You cling to the occasional odd case that s...

Igor_Kavinski wrote:

Or maybe you could point me to a forum that would be more receptive to my ideas.

Imagine a world where search engines exist. Would be brilliant, wouldn't it.

What about people born, or projects started or ended, in: 1961, 1970, 1979, 1988, 1997, 2006, 2015...? Years fall into Chinese Animal sign territory. Those are for the mentioned years, in order, Ox, Dog, Goat, Dragon, Ox, Dog and Goat. All of these tend to be hard working people. The 8 I am referri...

Don't ask me, man. I didn't make the rules! Months don't "exist", days don't "exist", and the number 33 certainly "does exist" in nature. Making stuff up doesn't make a "rule" any more real than taking placebo will alleviate pain. Ergo, it may feel that way t...

The fun's only beginning.

After Blizzard backtracked partway, they are now being firmly asked - by none other than actual senators - to reverse it all the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndxsivgNPs

Nothing that's 10 years old is usable today unless all you do is browse the internet. I remember what my PC was like 10 years ago. I mean, even my PC from just 8 years ago would be unusable today, and a few of the games wouldn't even start up due to not meeting the bare minimum requirements. Edit: T...

It's okay, since then everything else has been written by Eric Frederiksen.

Rand wrote:

readership was likely in precipitous decline due to lack of new articles for a long time before the site re-design

Maybe so, but the entire graph is post-redesign and it obviously shows that nothing of substance has been done to reverse the trend.

The second one was written by someone significantly older, judging by the picture.

I simply must trust the more experienced entrepreneur on this one. What a shame. Even the opinions of the new TR owner are wrong.

To be honest, TR hasn't influenced a tech purchase for me for years. Most of the stuff reviewed was out of the price range of what am willing to pay for. Most of the hardware reviewed on the bleeding edge has far more capability than I would ever use. Similar sentiments here. TR used to influence m...

So the "About" page has been updated and the "staff" segment contains a grand total of 1 person. Doesn't bode too well. Eric Frederiksen seems to be responsible for 90% of the output nowadays, none of it being first-hand reporting, but I wouldn't blame him if he started seriously...

In fact, I quite like seeing articles that I never click or that only vaguely interest me. The same old "content bubble" gets exhausting after a while and regularly seeing things I care less about helps in my opinion.

For what it's worth, ever since the rise of channels such as VSauce, Corridor Crew, minutephysics, Kurzgesagt, or even the hyperactive Linus Tech Tips, I've warmed up to video content more and more. Sans VSauce I guess, since that channel has been dead for a long time now. It is unsuitable for consu...

Edit: In the article Contribute to TechReport , the section "HOW TO ANNOY US" is a disaster. It should never have been posted. I wish you hadn't alerted me to that section. At first it looked like some novel brand of humour, but if you make the mistake of reading on, then by the end it st...

No I'm not. You know me meadows. I CRAVE attention like a 3 year old. I love getting a top comment. I just wanted to be clear that it wasn't done on purpose if it occurred. After a few more rounds of thought, I had an epiphany. What if the site is so bad that your author handle was somehow linked t...

I don't even know if it's possible to reset the comment thumbs. If it is, I have no idea how to do it, and I highly doubt anyone else has the time or energy. A couple possible explanations: 1. The website is bad (this is known) 2. Malicious astroturfing 3. Someone was spamming votes and so they dev...

his byline has reverted to, er, sweatshopking after previously having shown his full name. Thats my fault. I made the change back as I'm trying to figure out if I can use sweatshopking when I comment and Josh as my authorship name but I don't think i can. Been farting around with it and don't think...

conlusio wrote:

Boot note - It’s irony that for years I couldn’t stand Meadows posts but now at the end I find myself nodding in agreement with them.

I would like to think that, like cheese, I simply got better with age. Failing that, you could say that even an opinionated, sarcastic clock is right twice a day.

Speaking of caching, the comments under sweatshopking's last article are again missing the thumb counters and his byline has reverted to, er, sweatshopking after previously having shown his full name.

She deserved better than she got Did she, though? I don't think she did. She's an adult. She can put 2 plus 2 together. The feedback has been explicit and difficult to misinterpret. If she wants readers to look up to her, she's going to have to finally act like she's responsible for both the place ...

tanker27 wrote:

regurgitation of a bunch of other articles on OTHER tech sites

The title said as much, it was a "review roundup", so that's what I expected when I didn't click.

Update: as if on cue, shortly after I posted the above my frontpage comment regained the counter and the "1 min ago" turned into "1 hour ago". Still no rhyme or reason.

The comment system is incredibly weird though, or at least disturbingly opaque. I left a comment close to 1 hour ago, it started getting upvotes and showed having been posted up to "16 mins ago". Then, suddenly, all the votes became hidden and the comment has now been showing "1 min a...