Film Review #25: Battlefield 4 cont (not really)

So, Battlefield 4 is awesome.  Runs faster than Arma 3, looks amazing, tons of customization, immersive gameplay, just intense and terrific all around.  Even an excellent stealth mechanic in the Campaign that actually lets you approach a mission as you choose, not that crap where they're like "click 1 to go loud, 2 to go stealth".  No.  Better than that.  That said, campaign is quite short, but that's understandable, as BF4 is a circa-multiplayer game and the campaign is thus a brief precursor to multiplayer, familiarizing people with the game and whatnot.  Now, MULTIPLAYER.  Multiplayer is awesome.  Insane, and awesome.  We know this.  But that's not what I'm going to talk about RIGHT NOW.

You see, I've only played maybe two matches of online BF4.  You know why?  No, it isn't because I don't have time, or it's broken (it is, but not nearly fatally, anymore).  It's because of Comcast.  I've only been able to play BF4 at a friend's house, once, because MY internet is being throttled by Comcast.  If you try to boot up internet-reliant, intensive programs, the internet cuts short and doesn't let you run them.  Now, my internet has plenty of room for usage-- the thing is, I downloaded BF4 and two other games over the course of a week.  Comcast saw this and was like, oh, HELL NO YOU DON'T.  Even though my internet covers it.  Because they're GREEDY.  LITTLE.  SHITS.  This is all entirely illegal, mind you.  The comcast thing (that's right, they don't get a capital C anymore because they don't deserve it).  This brings us back to some of the recent legislative bills giving corporations full regulation of internet functionality.  It's not OK, they don't have the right, and you're squandering the small businesses the internet has become the hub for: startups, dev blogs, small-time websites...  They all get crushed.  Fight it, people.  Jesus christ.

I know, this is coming a bit late, it only REALLY pissed me off (believe me, I was before, but now my right to shoot digital people is under IMMINENT THREAT) just in the last week.