Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Until last week I thought it was done, but somehow it flipped around. Things are looking pretty good, with massive youtubers and streamers taöking about it.

  I’m glad the ball is rolling again. This can change gaming and set a precedent for other things as well.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hopefully this will translate to all software. Next step: Stop killing hardware

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OMG yes, open source all hardware drivers within say 1-5 years of a particular model getting retired?

      Now there’s a dream, haha.

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      • black0ut@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Publish schematics with every piece of hardware you make. Paradise for repair technicians and retro tech enthusiasts in a few decades.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It flipped around because the founder of the movement, Ross, of AccursedFarms on youtube… released a video giving a status report…

    And spending a good deal of the video explaining how Thor, PirateSoftware on youtube… has basically been making up bullshit and spreading nonsense for about SKG for months now.

    After that video… basically every single AngloSphere Gamer Youtuber has been putting out videos spreading the SKG messsge, and dogpiling on Thor for being a confused narcissist.

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    • sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m aware of the drama. I just didn’t expected this level of stonks to turn up.

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      • Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Turns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn’t personable enough to truly hate.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To be honest, neither did I… and I may have accidentally replied to the wrong comment, could have sworn someone was asking ‘why line go up fast’.

        Oopsie!

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      midnight CET: 753k! thats +30k in the last 6 hours. it’s speeding up, i didn’t expect that tbh. 50k people in 12 hours, wow

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Signed and shared, let's go !!

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• TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You guys need to make your bots a little less obvious

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I… What?

    Botting something that like a citizens initiative, where every signature WILL get scrutinized by government would be seriously stupid. Or are you saying commenters like mine are bots?

    Is it really that hard for you to imagine the possibility… that people care?

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is zero scrutiny possible for the form which is 100% based on trust that the signer is who they say they are adults where they say they are. If you want to be John Smith in UK, Paddy Murphy in Ireland and Jurgen Schmidt in Germany, you can be. There’s a reason none of these initiatives have done anything except keep people who care about something busy with dopamine graphing instead of doing something like boycotting relevant games and publishers.

      And no, like to the EU, Youtuber noise is not relevant to me. Millions of views is literally nothing. You see the general state of the world, yes?

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Man what the fuck are you talking about, it requires an EU, country specific verification document(s) to verify you are an actual real person who lives where you say you do.

        Examples:

        Estonia

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        Portugal

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        Poland

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        … etc.

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      • sevon@lemmy.kde.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s entirely backwards. I’ve boycotted these online kill-switched games pretty well, but that means fuck all because the general public is incapable of collectively caring about anything. Regulation on the other hand does have an effect, and should the initiative pass, EU is required to properly answer it.

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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right. Because caring about A means you can’t care about B. If you support legislation, you must be boycoting nothing, because no-one in the history of existence has ever done both.

        You’re claiming mutual exclusivity where none exists.

        You sound more like you’re scared of the implications of this passing, because you’d have us voting with out wallets rather than… actually voting.

        Pre-order, micro-transactions and battle-passes are srill a thing, no matter how much we shout about “big company bad”. This type of crap isn’t something we solve by any one method alone.

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  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    found Pirate Software 's profile

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  • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I swear to God, some people these days will cry bot if someone so much as blinks unexpectedly. Chill.

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    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I get accused of being a bot all the time now because I still enjoy writing long-form posts and, y'know, contributing what I can to the state of human knowledge, or what remains of it anyway. I can't blame people for being defensive about it. It's the AIs themselves I'm offended by, they're the ones doing wrong. We're all just trying to cope with the avalanche of unverified garbage they're putting out. It's digital pollution.

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      • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. I hear you there. Problem I usually have is that the odds of an accusation tend to scale less with posting style in my experience and more with level of disagreement, or whether or not the poster has personally witnessed something. Basically, “I didn’t see this with my own two eyes/dislike you, so this is obviously bot behavior.” It’s a conspiracy theorist-like attitude, and it’s predated LLMs entirely.

        Nonetheless, I’m not happy that an entire new form of bot scrutiny has been introduced, and I absolutely cannot wait for GenAI/LLM hype to die the fuck down.

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you need an digital ID to sign, so bots wouldn’t help.

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You need to input a number matching a regex, the format for which is helpfully provided on the page.

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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh shit forreal?

        Does that mean I can pay for shit online with made-up credit cards?

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  • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heaven forbid people checks notes care about something

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