gisenberg

I played a ton of Rocket League and I think there's some non-obvious benefits to Psyonix being acquired by Epic Games that boil down to "Psyonix can be more focused on the core game".

Being acquired by Epic could reduce headaches in these areas:

- Logistics behind eSports leagues.

- Managing server scale, stability and performance.

- Managing platform cross-play.

- Managing publishing across multiple platforms.

I think that the logistical overhead of keeping the lights on is at the expense of Psyonix's ability to provide meaningful content updates and keep the core gameplay fresh.

I wonder if the same holds true for virtual reality. Does violence in VR result in an increase in violent behavior?

I think the medium and experience is different enough - is anyone aware of research in this area?

When the Chromebook Pixel is configured to run Linux through Crouton/chroot, it displays a warning on reboot and will automatically reflash the machine to stock ChromeOS without intervention. Not a great option if there's a chance someone non-technical will try to use the machine.

Insane. That page loads in 111 network requests totaling about 40MB.

This echoes the "couldn't you just replicate Dropbox with x + y + z ..." mindset of the past.

A note that using extends Component will cost you the function auto-binding that [p]react.createClass provides. In my specific case, using extends produced code that read more poorly.

FWIW, I checked out at the "go install PostGres" pre-requisite. I'd prefer either being less opinionated about pgsql or making the dependency transparent via something like Docker.