Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • chrislowles@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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 all cars limit their emissions’ which is not possible for some 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 🥺”

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