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Etterra, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Makes me wish I was European so I could sign it too.

ArchmageAzor,
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

In that case, help spread the word.

Dreaming_Novaling,

Reposted it to Mastodon! Hope it makes a change, cause America can usually catch the waves.

Bronzie,

Am European, but not in the EU.
Wish I could do my part too

brsrklf, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I’ve been hearing about this for so long I honestly can’t remember whether I’ve already signed it.

Gonzako,

Not an issue! Just try signing in again and it won’t add it if you already signed

brsrklf,

Just tried, turns out I had already signed it.

drspawndisaster,

As an American who can’t bear to play most online games because they might go down or disallow Linux users, please please please please check. EU laws are our only hope of having usable fucking technology.

The thought of being able to mod and host my own GTA 5 online server when it goes down, without some weird custom server mod that also uses Windows-exclusive anti-cheat on most servers, sounds like a damn dream. I miss that game… but fuck Windows, nothing is worth installing Windows. I just realized I’ve been ranting about the lack of Linux compatibility of GTA 5 Online in reply to someone’s comment about how this petition has gone on for a while. I swear I wasn’t hijacking your comment, I just have strong feelings about Linux gaming and got carried away.

echodot, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I hope the wording of the petition is very clear. The last time this was brought up in the UK the government of the time basically just brushed it off by intentionally misunderstanding the petition. You can’t give them any leeway to do that this time.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

I suspect they would’ve brushed it off regardless, they didn’t want to deal with it. There’s another 100k UK petition (The one linked to at the bottom of the OP text) that would force them to re-look at it with more depth which is also ending quite soon.

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Can you link to that other UK petition too pls? :)

ProdigalFrog,

Already included at the bottom of the text body of the post (though it’s to the StopKillingGames page on it, I’ll swap it to the direct link)

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment then, I thought there was another one besides that.

ProdigalFrog,

No worries, I’ll edit it to try to make it more clear.

echodot,

Yes I’ve already signed it, and I signed the original. Although even back then I suspected that the petition was simultaneously too vague and too specific.

It was vague in that it didn’t really explain what it was asking to happen, and didn’t really make the distinction between a product being technically still functional and a product not working because the servers have shut down. While at the same time being too specifically focused on games rather than server run software in general. What happens if Adobe goes down, does everyone lose access to photoshop?

I just feel that this has a better chance of succeeding if they were to de-emphasize the games aspect, and allow politicians the wiggle run to focus on the corporate business side of things.

treasure, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)
@treasure@feddit.org avatar

Not only do I not mind you yoinking the text, I want to thank you for your contribution to the cause. If everyone who has signed could get one more person to sign, the initiative would succeed!

ProdigalFrog,

Glad to help out, and thank you for letting me use your well written words! :D

PieMePlenty, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Drama drives these things. I totally understand Ross not wanting to engage in it 10 months ago but look at what it can do.

NuXCOM_90Percent, (edited )

Yeah. It has rapidly turned an initiative that was already unnecessarily combative toward devs (fuck the publishers though) and associated it with harassment and review bombing games that are actually Doing It Right just because they worked with the wrong third party studio. Not to mention all the “Well, we don’t agree with everything asmongold says, but let’s call a truce so long as he is gonna let us play our video games”

And… honestly? I have disliked thor since LONG before all y’all realized he isn’t the world’s best WoW player or he has an opinion you don’t like because he was considering things from the perspective of the people who would be doing the work to enact these “simple requirements”.

But it feels REAL fucking everyday normal to watch people immediately go from “the harassment campaign that led to the death of Mikayla Raines was horrible” to “Let’s fucking ruin Pirate Software’s life and attack him and everything he has ever associated with because we are morally righteous”

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s be real here; arrogant twats don’t off themselves. Too much ego.

5PACEBAR, do games w My Humble Indie Game Is On Sale If You Want It

Played it last year. It was a well made and fun ride. Thanks for the laughs and experience! 😁

Road_Warrior_10,

Wow! Thank you so much! Can I ask to leave a Steam review if you haven’t it helps small games to get a bit more visibility! : ) Really grateful for playing it, while making the game, we think no one would ever care when we see someone caring, it’s the best feeling :)

Drbreen, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

I initially read this as a petition to stop games that have killing in them facepalm

Klear,

Still better reading comprehension than PirateSoftware.

paraphrand, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Well, that pirate guy didn’t do anything. (Unless he actually caused this, then… messy causality…)

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

He actively misrepresented the campaign and spread misinformation about its goals. I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake but he did a lot of damage to the momentum and perception of the whole thing.

It sucks these big creators only now pick up the mantle but it’s better than nothing. There’s still some time left.

SCmSTR,

I haven’t really been following it or him (I don’t really even know much, other than the gist of not wanting games to disappear when devs decide it’s too expensive to keep the servers). What did he do? Because normally he gives pretty good takes.

paris,

He wildly misunderstood/misrepresented the initiative two videos in a row (and continues to ten months later), and he continually discredits the entire initiative because of contrived edge cases.

I think this paragraph from this twitter reply really sums it up:

My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to keep all games in a “Functional Playable State” after sunsetting which is not possible for all games and could limit what kinds of games people make in the future.

The idea that creativity would be hampered because games would have to remain playable when the company shuts down servers one day is ridiculous. Can you imagine if we talked like this about anything else? “We can’t force every phone to use the same USB-C charging port because it would be too technically infeasible to do so and hamper creativity.” “We can’t outlaw CFCs because they’re useful chemicals and it would be technically infeasible for some products to be made without chlorofluorocarbons (the things that fucked up the ozone layer).” “My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to ‘make cars limit their emissions’ which is not possible for all cars and could limit what kinds of cars companies make in the future.” Ridiculous.

It’s absurd that I’m not exaggerating when I say his opposition to Stop Killing Games entirely boils down to “I think companies should be allowed to take games away because it would be really hard for them to leave some games playable when they’re done supporting them 🥺”

I used to passively like Thor, but when I watched those two videos he made last year about SKG I lost all of my respect for him.

MolochAlter,

I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake

Worse, he actively lied. In his edited video about the petition he actively misrepresents the initiative, then goes on to edit out the the part of Ross’ video that would have contradicted his misrepresentation.

This is not an innocent or negligent mistake on Thor’s part, it’s an active attempt at burial.

derpgon,

Even worse, he is a narcissistic lying piece of shit with high ego. He would never admit a slight mistake, and thinks of himself as all-knowing. Think ChatGPT - confidently lying all the time, but always doubling down.

chrislowles,

He’s like if ChatGPT hallucinations were kept in for the express purpose of profit.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Bopping to Los Santos Rock Radio
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

just flies to the skybox ceiling

Y’all still using cars?

Making money is so much easier and reliable, now that you can do all the shit that required being in an open public lobby in a private one now. No more dickheads destroying your shipments. No more modders turning you into Optimus Prime and fucking up your game.

You can even do a million dollar heist all by yourself (though, it’s hard as fuck and you need a nuclear submarine).

scrubbles, do gaming w Bopping to Los Santos Rock Radio
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Hm the beams and cables tell me NY subway, but no third rail, and the platform is short. No license plate but that jeep looks north American. Underground like NJT? LIRR? Anyone have any ideas?

Fleur_,

Reverse image search leads to this being in Philadelphia

cecilkorik, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

This also has big implications for consumer rights and society as a whole in other areas of digital technology and right to repair, it is a foot in the door to start actually holding manufacturers responsible for the full lifecycle of their products (digital and real) that requires them to actually relinquish their control when their product reaches end-of-commercial-life, instead of turning everything into digital garbage out of what basically amounts to apathy and compulsive rights hoarding.

gkaklas, do games w My Humble Indie Game Is On Sale If You Want It

Looks cool! Any plans to publish on GOG or other similar platform? 😁 (DRM-free, StopKillingGames, etc)

Road_Warrior_10,

Not for now, but just on the basis that I have been so focused on getting it done, I haven’t really research other platforms. The main wisdom is to put on Steam as most players are there. I will look into other platforms.

SolidShake, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Wow, so that won’t do anything.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Very insightful. Thank you for your wisdom.

SolidShake,

You are welcome good sir 😊

sp3ctr4l,

Go back to reddit

FartMaster69,

It does infinitely more than sitting around being a doomer.

SolidShake,

What’s a doomer?

MotoAsh,

Like a boomer, but even less respectable.

SolidShake,

Oh. No I’m a millennial

TheHotze,

Someone believes a cause is doomed from the start, so doesn’t even try.

SolidShake,

Because gaming companies are all greedy fucks. They aren’t going to give a fuck about people’s signatures lmao. You have to not buy the game in the millions. Not sign a website, and still buy the games anyways

RicoBerto,

This isn't a petition like change.org.
It's to get this brought in front of politicians that HAVE to make a ruling based on it.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

eu citizens initiatives are official tools of the public to help draft new laws.

Feathercrown,

You speak on matters which you do not understand

MoreZombies,

Ah, like PirateSoftware! :D

sp3ctr4l,

I do find it kind of funny that uh, seemingly this is the situation:

If gamers want to actually, truly, literally RISE UP… and do something useful and good, for once…

They will have to defeat Thor, in online combat.

(The PirateSoftware guy goes by Thor, not sure if thats his real name, a nickname, who knows)

There’s a dumb as shit Marvel knock off fanfic plot line in here somewhere.

Hadriscus,

I assume by “gaming companies” you mean game publishers. No they won’t care, in fact this initiative is not meant for them. It is meant for EU lawmakers, which after a certain signature number threshold are required to look at the issue. Once a protection is written into law, these same companies have to, of course, comply with it, or face whatever consequences were prepared for this case (fines, probably).

echodot,

Oh come on you can’t actually be that dense. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there are these things called laws and companies have to follow them.

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

This is not a change.org petition. This is a European initiative. Meaning if this gets the necessary number of signatures this could get brought forth to the European Parliament, where laws on the subject can get negotiated over.

sp3ctr4l,

Its not a meaningless web petition.

It’s a formal, direct democracy style legal process in the EU, to get the relevant legal authorities to review and revise the laws that currently allow gaming companies to be greedy fucks.

A similar concept exists in many US states amd cities:

If enough signatures can be gathered in a defined amount of time, then the proposed legal concept that has been directly endorsed by enough citizens then is automatically either pushed to the legislators and courts to review, or to be included for broader democratic voting up or down on by the next local election.

You apparently have no idea that initiatives and petitons can be more than just a legally non binding, essentially useless virtue signals on some random website.

In many, many parts of the world, something like an initiative serves as a way for the citizens of an area to bypass their own representatives and force them to directly engage with an issue.

If this initiative crosses the threshold, it stands s good chance at reforming the laws around games as a consumer product, from a consumer rights point of view.

Governments do actually have the ability to restrain and modify the actions and practices of corporations, by altering the laws that define what they are and are not allowed to do.

Further, because the EU has so many people, is such a large market for games… there is a good chance that if the EU reforms what game companies are allowed to do within the EU… well, developing an entirely different game for the EU and the US, totally different in the underlying internal design, more than just translstion/localization… from a business POV, it may end up making more financial sense to not essentially develop two games at once, and instead just develop a single, global game, that is compliant with with EU laws.

Go look into how digital privacy laws being different between the EU and US and other parts of the world are currently, right now, forcing many US based tech firms to alter their practices within the EU, and sometimes even in the US and elsewhere, due to the propagation effect of a huge market altering its laws.

Another example of something like this is firearms in the US: California, and now several other US states, have passed laws stating that for certain kinds of guns, a magazine can hold no more than 10 rounds.

Prior to this, when such laws did not exist… not many firearm companies made and sold guns with only 10 round mags. Now, many of them actually do.

This has also occured at a Federal level with barrel length restrictions: Basically, you cannot sell a civillian a short barelled rifle, something that has a barrel less than 16 inches in length, or a total butt stock to tip of barrel length less than 26 inchds.

Before those laws were passed… you could buy those, companies could sell those.

But because a compact, higher powered rifle is the easiest thing to use in a confined space, for something like a school shooting… well, now all the guns have to be at least a bit bigger, so that they’re more difficult to use in a ‘moving from room to hallway to room’ kind of scenario.

Laws passed by governments can alter industry practices, thats the entire concept of regulation.

Laws and legal review processes can be formally initiated within a government by formal, legal, citizens initiatives, that’s the entire point of them.

ijedi1234,

Someone born within the years 1992-1995. You can spot 'em easy.

loonsun,

I feel attacked, I’m doing my best 😭

voytrekk,

It is better to try and fail than to not try at all.

Klear,

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Owlboi,

you do realize this isnt some dumb online petition but rather a official citizens initiative to create new laws, right?

actually you clearly dont realize that.

cRazi_man, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)
@cRazi_man@europe.pub avatar

Don’t Give Up. You Can Cuss The Whole Time Just Don’t Give Up.

ProdigalFrog,

Hell yeah! We can do this!

NotProLemmy, do games w My Humble Indie Game Is On Sale If You Want It

just gonna put these lines from portal 2 here:

“PRESS IT! PRESS THE BUTTON!”

“DO NOT PRESS THAT BUTTON!”

“PRESS THE BUTTON!”

“I FORBID YOU TO PRESS THE BUTTON”

Road_Warrior_10,

Still one of my favorite games of all time

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