There was some game where a girl went to an abandoned house and it turns out her sister was a lesbian. It was like reading a young adult novel.
Kastle Krashers was OK for 10 minutes but the gameplay didn't have much depth.
Papers Please was an interesting gimmick where the gameplay got old fast.
Ilomilo (actually, on the XBox store) is a fun puzzle game, but something I just pick up every once in a while.
And probably a few others I can't think of right now.

Just in general, what I've seen hasn't convinced me there's a whole new world of great games I'm missing out on. Also, it seems like a lot of them can be played on even a really old non-gaming PC.

No interest in mods, really.

No, THE PROBLEM hasn't been solved. THE PROBLEM was "avoid climate change associated catastrophe". That's was their retrospective pointed out. Even had they come up with a 'free' solar panel, it would not have decreased CO2 output enough to avoid the forcings found in current climate models (whether or not you believe in that model is irrelevant for the sake of this discussion).

That is an important distinction. They basically ran the numbers and figured out they could not 'win' this one. But you have to look carefully at the rules of the game they decided to play. It is possible that Google could have developed something that made a bunch of money but in the end, would not save us from the Dante-inspired future envisioned.

We're doomed....

It might sound surprising, but there are people who eat both turkey and ham on Thanksgiving. Or even meatballs, salmon and roast beef.

Shocking, I know, that people can eat more than one thing on any given day.

So it will be like launching passengers into space by private companies who completely ignore the 'basic research' governments have funded for the last fifty years.

Let me know how that works out.

I am curious about your upcoming plans. Are you going to write a sternly worded letter to ESA? Have a hissy fit? Take out a full page ad in The New York Times?

I don't have the numbers to prove it but using the Amazon service to find video to watch is horrific. I can only imagine Amazon is paying them for inclusion, because otherwise the numbers cannot be worth recording...

To get a CS degree, he would have had to do a fair degree of programming - but even better is that he understands concepts like O(N) difficulty... it's important to have an understanding that sometimes things are not very possible because of sheep computational needs.

Pay him no mind. He apparently left his critical thinking processes on Azure.

Gaming PCs already exist. Everybody knows about them. A lot of people choose not to buy them. What's to be gained by taking away options from consumers?

Personally I enjoy my XBox very much, and have about zero interest in getting a gaming PC. If I was into MMORPGs or was a hard-core FPS player that would probably be different.

We, the taxpayers, have already paid hundreds of billions to private companies to give us the astoundingly fast broadband speed of 10 Mbps (on average) in this country, two DECADES after these same companies assured us they would get us 45 Mbps by 2010.

There are already enough fees levied on users, for numerous such issues, that money can be moved from area to another if necessary.

Instead of adding more costs to consumers, how about having the companies do this work for free since they failed so miserably the last time we gave them taxpayer money? Considering the sorry state of affairs of broadband in this country, this is the absolute least these folks could do to justify their existence.

If y'all don't mind, 4Chan is downstairs.

Electric vehicles need less recharging stations because most people can recharge at home.

You all are not thinking about what happens if EVERY car is electric. Suddenly all apartment dwellers, or people that travel a lot each day need just as many "filling" stations, and because they take so much longer to fill it easily balances out the number of traditional gas stations needed because of terrible charging throughput.

It's not so easy to just convert some old tanks to storing hydrogen.

I don't think you can - I'm talking about tanks that replace the old ones. Basically they have the space for them to exist.