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After a bit of a hiccup in the official launch of Stadia, I was up and running with my Founders Edition setup by about 5pm and spent a good portion of the next 24 hours testing Stadia in all its forms. From using the Chromecast on a big TV to using Stadia in a Chrome browser to playing on my Pixel 4 XL, the whole experience was in some ways better than I'd imagined. In other ways, however, Google still has some real work to do.
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I've spent just under a day with stadia
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and I have some thoughts from the way it
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works on a chromecast the way it works
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on a Chromebook - the way it works on my
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phone and I'd like to share some of
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those with you but before we get into
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today so yeah we had to run home because
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for the I think what third time in a row
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I've had stuff shipped to my house
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instead of remembering to ship it to the
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office so we're gonna take it back to
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the office and get it unpacked and
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hopefully play some video games
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when it comes to actually using stadia
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for me it was less about on day one all
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the bells and whistles and things that
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we might get to do down the road and it
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really became more about whether or not
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this was going to work and like I said
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in the open it was a bit of a mixed bag
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so the first thing I did and the way
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that this setup works is I hooked in the
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the chromecast ultra setup the stadia
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controller and got all that stuff up and
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running and when we talk about
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performance here there's kind of two
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camps there's there's the part of it
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that is just straight-up latency from
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stadia so kin stadia react fast enough
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in a streaming environment to my button
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pushes and the answer for that yeah is
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yes I mean it does that it does that
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pretty well and we're gonna talk about
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that a little bit more but as I got the
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whole thing set up we got the chromecast
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in we got the controller you know all
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hooked up and it steps you through that
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whole process very neatly very cleanly I
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didn't have to go consult a manual or
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look anything up we got set up and going
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I noticed right off the bat there was
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some input lag and that's kind of the
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other half of this thing so is the stuff
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coming from the server fast enough for
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you to react to and then when you react
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to it is it going to actually send that
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command back to the server fast enough
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for it to not feel like there's latency
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and on the chromecast with the
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controller and the chromecast ultra
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unfortunately every game we've tried so
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far there's probably like a quarter
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second to a half second of lag so you
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push the controller in one way there's a
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slight pause and then the thing happens
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on-screen and it's enough between racing
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games fighting games and first-person
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type shooter games that it made me not
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really want to play them with that set
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up and that's kind of unfortunate
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because that's the way the box comes and
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that's how you set it up the first time
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and so a lot of people for right now at
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least day one day two are probably
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getting that exact same experience we've
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got gigabit internet here so you know a
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gig up gig down so connection issues
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aren't the thing here it really just is
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a latency problem between the way the
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controller hooks up to the network and
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the way the chromecast ultra responds to
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that however when we moved on to the
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Chromebook which is where I really want
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to leverage stadia things got a ton
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better but not perfect so the latency
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problem basically just went away I was
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using a keyboard and mouse at first no
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issues whatsoever the minute
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move the mouse everything moves on
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screen if I push forward back left right
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or fire buttons or anything like that on
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the keypad everything just works as soon
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as it's supposed to but with this I had
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a little bit of visual fidelity issues
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so sometimes things would get a little
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bit grainy or it would just stutter and
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stop for a second and then catch back up
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to where it was kind of if you had bad
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bandwidth and we're trying to watch a
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YouTube video for instance you know you
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see something kind of like glitch and
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stutter and then it goes right back it
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wasn't enough that it caused me not to
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be able to finish the level I was
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working on in destiny but you could
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definitely tell there were issues with
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the streaming and in understanding the
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stream and reacting to my movements
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versus playing on the chromecast on the
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chromecast there was a delay on
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everything I did but the stream stayed
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constant and nice and everything looked
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beautiful in the Chrome browser so this
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is gonna apply to you if you use Windows
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or Mac or a Chromebook in the Chrome
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browser it looks great half the time
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sixty percent of the time but there's
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gonna be a lot of framerate drops and
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sometimes where the visuals just don't
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quite match up and it was playable that
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I'll say that I got through a whole
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level and it was it was great to play it
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just wasn't exactly perfect then I moved
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on to the phone so right now you can't
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pair up the controller without the
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chromecast so you have to actually plug
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it straight into the phone launch the
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stadia app started the game got
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everything up and going and input lag
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was not there so there's no issues
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whatsoever with the controller and input
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everything happened exactly as I touch
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the the controller and visually it
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looked kind of like it did on the
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chromecast where there weren't artifacts
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and there weren't issues and there were
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no glitches or stutters in the stream
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itself and so what ended up happening
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was overall the the way it felt to play
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games on stadia felt most native when I
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was using my phone in the controller I
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just didn't really expect that to be
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honest with you but that is the case as
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we stand right now what that tells me is
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that the servers with stadia are fast
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enough and responsive enough to do what
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they need to do when they're provided
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with plugged in control so a keyboard
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mouse or the controller actually plugged
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in I plugged it into the Chromebook -
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and didn't have any latency issues the
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issues not really with the controller
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the issue isn't with the stadia servers
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being able to respond quick enough when
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the commands get to them the latency
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input that I was getting on the
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controller the
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chromecast has to do something with the
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way it connects to Wi-Fi and then it
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talks to the chromecast or talks to the
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server whatever however they've got to
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fix that I believe 100% that they will
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be able to fix that and the other
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problem with the Chrome browser you know
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we're talking about streaming massive
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games in real time in a web browser so
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there's gonna be some hiccups there and
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I kind of expected that to be the case
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it was a little bit better than I
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actually really expected it to be but
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I'm hoping it gets much better to the
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point where we don't see artifacting we
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don't have skips we don't have jerkiness
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because honestly my favorite part of
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playing stadia was playing on the
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Chromebook so that's really stadia in a
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box and 24 hours as I've experienced it
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it's not perfect it doesn't have all the
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features that we thought maybe we would
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get at launch but I'm kind of ok with it
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I'm not ready to dismiss stadia as not
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being a thing that's going to work or
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just being a waste of everyone's time I
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think it's going to take a little bit of
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time for us to get to the point where
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it's exactly what Google envisioned and
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whether again whether we like to admit
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it or not honestly those of us who
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bought in already we're kind of paying
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pay to testers at this point and I'm
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kind of okay with that I do wish Google
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would have just said that I wish they
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would have said this is like an open
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beta you got to pay to play or something
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like that and I think our expectations
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might have been lowered I really feel
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like they are aiming towards getting all
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the features ready and everything in
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place by the time February rolls around
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in stadia base which is the free-to-play
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version of stadia when it rolls out I
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think they'll have a lot of this stuff
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ready to go but right now there are some
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you know rough edges and there's some
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things that need to be worked on but
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that's not to say it's not fun and it's
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not to say it's not amazing to be
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playing something on a chromecast and go
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pick up my Chromebook hit that stadia
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button and hit play and it just jumped
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me into the spot in the game where I was
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just on the TV a second ago it feels a
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little bit like magic and I think as
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Google fixes some of these things and
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they clean up some of the rough edges
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we're gonna have something really really
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