Cecilia D'Anastasio's saved articles

At least they are being honest about waiting until the bulk of their sales are completed before telling you how they plan to nickel and dime you. Don’t want to spend 50 hours grinding for an attachment? Purchase this time saver! Read more

My company is in the same space - the phones provide us with incredibly rich data. We can estimate which floor of an office building just through the ambient wifi data Read more

For almost ten years now, I’ve had a term - a metaphor - for the kinds of data collection that were becoming possible: a media shadow.
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I’m not sure why this would be a surprise to anyone, especially given Adventure Sync, which incentivizes allowing the game to track you when the app is closed. The entire point is incentivizing you to let them track you more.
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Its not just Pokemon Go or Niantic games its pretty much everything with a GPS in it that connects to the internet. Discovering my Google Travel log for the first time was kind of frightening. I’m used to being tracked everywhere I go now and get its a cost of modernity but damn if it doesn’t feel weird sometimes. Read more

As someone who Switches on commutes (read: no Internet connection), definitely hard to see an upside for this version beyond being the only way one could play it. Read more

D.va controller: Activating self-destruct sequence! Read more

I uninstalled overwatch, the only Blizzard game I own, yesterday. Granted, it’s fairly easy for me to do as I haven’t been playing the game much in a while, as it’s getting old, and I’m a bit sick of playing the game when, as a “normal” player, I don’t exist in the eyes of Blizzard, who seems to only care about… Read more

I’d still play if I was a fan of the game. Blizzard as a whole maybe in the wrong for their stance, but don’t forget that the people who work for them may have a completely different take on the issue. So if everyone was to quit all blizzard games, then some people would be out of a job. Read more

I was struggling with this as well. “Voting with my wallet” doesn’t do much when the last Blizzard product I bought was Overwatch at launch, but I can vote with my bandwidth, so to speak. If player population and lootbox sales are low for the Halloween event, maybe that will at least give them pause.  Read more

God, Killer Queen is so fun. I wish I lived closer to my gaming friends, I’d recruit them to go with me to arcades and throw down in Killer Queen at least once a week. Read more

The first time I played this was in a bar in SF and there was an extremely attractive man playing against me.... for the rest of the night I couldn’t tell if we were going to fight or make out. 10/10 would recommend. Read more

A weakness with MTG is that one of the optimal play strategies for blue has always been to structure their deck in such a way that they win by disallowing you from participating in the game. Read more

Mill decks are awful in any card game. Read more

Just make a deck with 150 cards.Thatll show em Read more

There’s no more sadistic a pleasure then milling the crap out of some stranger you’ve never met before at a MTG game night at a nerd store.  Read more

Now this is a real fucking innovation. I havn’t booted up Steam in weeks, but this might actually get me to do it. I think I have a few games that could be played like this.

This is really ideal because I have a friend who is currently travelling but only with a laptop, so now he would be able to join in.

Well done… Read more

As a developer, this genuinely excites me!  Read more

That is awesome! Read more

“I will not be a smiling face on camera that tacitly endorses this decision.”

I really like the way he put this.  Read more