My wife is on Google Fi. She got a good deal on a phone that she liked, so we went with it. But I need to figure out how to end the contract gracefully any transfer to another carrier.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
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Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#222A lot of critiques here of how this individual chooses to spend his free time by people who choose to spend _their_ free time looking down on others on a web forum.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#223I remember when I spent a couple hundred dollars buying albums on Google Music only to have the service "migrated" to YouTube music. Except now my music is only available with ads whereas before it was ad free. That's not what I paid for. After that, it became clear to me Google could not be trusted. Any service I use with them today, I do so with the expectation of them pulling the rug at any time.
100%
Google is an ad company. Nothing more. Nothing less. They aren't very good at that one either, they just have a monopoly.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had the same with Factorio, only I actually did get divorced. I went through many attempts to quit - including deleting my Steam account. Eventually I set up the household to Mac & Linux only to help increase the friction. Along with a lifestyle overhaul - new hobbies, and actual sport played outside, non-gaming seems to stick. Gaming addiction is real and it can truly destroy a life.
Funny enough, this is why I switched to Linux. In 2006 I was playing too many games (MMOs..) and not doing enough study at my course (was 16 at the time enrolled in an education you can go to after year 10 called TAFE here in Australia). Haven't looked back since, barely play games anymore (I did go through a stint of WoW). Amused Linux is super supportive of games now. :-)
One of the reasons I bought a Linux box as well, but can confirm Steam works well on linux now..
I "game" about a 2-3 hour per week gamer though I'll go a few months not playing at all. Board games with friends works well on steam (tabletop sim/teraforming mars/wingspan and lords of water deep.. ).. with video chat back channel which is the best part. Black Mesa/Portal/Alien Isolation which work well on my intel/Nvidia based laptop from 4 years ago (PopOS).
With the steam deck being linux based, I suspect using linux will be better and better for gaming.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#225You're going to have a bad time if your business model depends on Google services or APIs.
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Google's biggest flaw in this regard is their own denial of the pattern of shutting things down. If they just acknowledge that's how things go, they can prepare better off-ramps for people who adopted their product. Doing this to your users is a slap in the face because it shows no gratitude for the fact that those people took a chance on your product. They believed in it, and it's not their fault your projec…
> I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me. Ditto. Im literally considering phasing my personal gmail out to a domain that I own...
Using your own domain name for your emails is probably the most important thing you can do, and everyone should do it. I settled on iCloud+ because I already pay $.99 a month to get more storage. For this price I get support for custom domain names and wildcard fallbacks. It's also configurable natively in the iPhone settings.
At this price it's a pretty good deal + I know I can switch provider anytime.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't measure an addiction just by total hours invested in something. That equals 2.4hrs/day, 16hrs/week since the game was released, which might be more indicative but still depends on the reset of their life obligations and what else they seek value from.
RDR2 was released on Stadia on November 19, 2019, which was 1046 days ago. 5,907 hours over 1046 days is around 5.65hrs/day, 39.55hrs/week.
Minimum. That's assuming the player started the day it was released on Stadia.
Wild.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who are we to say how much is the right amount for this person? To play 6,000 hours of this game he must have a reason. Perhaps he's particularly passionate about it, perhaps there is someone in his life he loves to play it with.
I think that argument works a lot better if we're talking about a consumption level in the 10-100s of hours, along the lines of average for this title and most others like it: https://howlongtobeat.com/game/27100 6000 hours is multiple orders of magnitude beyond that point, so it feels like a point where it's a lot safer to reach for an absolute judgment that it really is "too much".
It's a multiplayer game
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#229I'm honestly very surprised Rockstar doesn't provide a way to migrate your story/online character between platforms. At least when I upgraded Xbox versions of GTAV, there was a process to save to Rockstar's servers and then re-load from them, and it worked like a charm. Migrating consoles/platforms is such a common thing to do -- so this is really a Rockstar problem, not a Google one. (I mean purely financially it se…
Rockstar apparently removed cross-platform save migrations due to people cheating on PC and selling accounts for consoles.
> Seems like they'd want to run it locally on an Xbox/PS/PC simply for performance
Having played RDR2 extensively on Stadia, i assure you there were no performance issues and the visuals were good (not the same as a 4090 RTX gaming PC of course, but still good).
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you say the same about a 6k hour investment coding a game? This "if it isn't productive it isn't worthwhile" attitude is toxic.
Why is it toxic? Throwing all your time into frivolous activity like video games is what I would say is toxic. This individual has been averaging 40 hours a week on this game since it was released. In fact, building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity. Rather, it improves and adds value to your life.
I guess that depends on exactly what it is that you value.
I would ask: are you happy? If you are, then you are doing it right. If you aren't, then do something different.