Joanna Nelius - Writing

Hardware + Laptops

This Thin and Light Asus Laptop Checks Every Box and Then Some (Gizmodo)

Microsoft's Surface Laptop 4 Is Nearly Perfect (Gizmodo)

Apple's Fantastic M1 Processor Is Held Back by Software Compatibility (Gizmodo)

Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, (Gizmodo)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: Meet the New Best Desktop Processor (Gizmodo)

AMD Finally Does Ray Tracing (Gizmodo)

Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti Is The Mid-Range GPU Champion (Gizmodo)

Internet

It's Time to Redefine Broadband Speeds (Gizmodo)

Invest in the Internet, You Cowards (Gizmodo)

Frontier's Bankruptcy Shows Why ISPs Shouldn't Be in Charge of the Internet (Gizmodo)

House Republicans Wasted No Time Introducing the Dumbest Internet Bill of 2021 (Gizmodo)

Regional ISPs Are Skeptical That SpaceX's Starlink Can Deliver On Its Internet Promises (Gizmodo)

Community Broadband Will Make the Internet Cheaper for Us All (Gizmodo)

Features

Satellite Internet Will Not Solve the Digital Divide (Gizmodo)

The Pandemic Exposed a Massive Digital Divide in Our Schools They Can't Fix on Their Own (Gizmodo)

The Nvidia RTX 3080 eBay Debacle Exposed a Scalper Bot Civil War (Gizmodo)

What Does Epic Games Hope to Gain From Its Lawsuit Against Apple and Google? (Gizmodo)

Spectrum Workers Inevitably Got Covid-19 After Being Barred From Working at Home (Gizmodo)

Gaming

Cloud Gaming's Missing Piece Is 5G (Gizmodo)

Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Already a Super Solid Experience on PC and iOS (Gizmodo)

Cyberpunk 2077 is Best Played in the Cloud (Gizmodo)

Thanks to Horror Video Games, Horror Movies Aren't Scary to Me Anymore (io9)

GeForce Now beats Stadia in our input latency testing (PC Gamer)

What it's like to go to college on an esports scholarship (PC Gamer)

Why I loved playing Duke Nukem 3D with my dad (PC Gamer)

Managing patrons and puke in classic management game SimCoaster (PC Gamer)

The Diablo 4 cinematic trailer's lore and biblical references explained (PC Gamer)

Laundry was the best and worst thing to happen to The Sims (PC Gamer)

This game destroys real books to help players cope with grief (PC Gamer)

Exploring the Grieving Process in 'What Remains of Edith Finch' (Goomba Stomp)

Games That Changed Our Lives: ‘The Matrix Online’ (Goomba Stomp)

Fun

The Tech My Dad Banned From Our House (Gizmodo)

I Miss My First PC (Gizmodo)

I'm Packing My Bags to Visit the Real-Life Inspiration for Windows XP's Wallpaper (Gizmodo)

Is That Gadget Haunted, or Just Broken? (Gizmodo)

It Pains Me to Report This Hot Dog Toaster Is a Piece of Shit (Gizmodo)

This Ugly Cyberpunk Clubbing Suit, as Analyzed by a Former Cybergoth (Gizmodo)

Poetry

Safety Labels on Hospice Beds, HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 5, September 2018

The Young Sailor, HelloHorror, October 2015 (as S. J. Paige)

Academic Citations

“A Game So Psychologically Disturbing It Comes With A Warning” from UGDB.com (now defunct) was cited in “Representation of the Serial Killer in United States Popular Culture: Evolution of the Hunter-Hero Narrative,” by Liane de Jong

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