cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/41402388
Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!
Fell asleep, woke up, suddenly there’s only 30k left on the EU initiative.
The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures
Submitted 20 hours ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/60b0495d-212e-4591-8e58-8384e72ffe63.png
Comments
truxnell@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Jesus what, a week or so ago this was dead in the water.
seralth@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nothing brings the internet together like hating a sexist self centered egotistical narcissist.
Seriously pirate has been an asshole for like 20 years. He’s been banned from furry communities, kicked out of second life communities, rejected from eve communities.
Now people are realizing how much of a scum bag he is in the streamer community.
The only upside his asshole self centeredness has draw crazy attention to the partition.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Who? I seriously have no idea who you’re talking about.
I honestly think that the main reason this has kicked off is that up until about a week ago it wasn’t really advertised. I didn’t even know that it started the petition up again, I knew the original one failed because parliament closed and for some reason that meant the petition had to end.
exu@feditown.com 19 hours ago
Awesome! Now let’s get the EU one as well, much closer than before now. (840’000)
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
5 minutes later and it’s 843k, almost 1k signatures per minute, not bad at all!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
This is fucking bonkers.
I ran the math a fee days ago, before this absolutely blee the fuck up, and I came to:
We’d need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.
… We’re now apparently at more than double that and climbing.
Ho Lee Shit.
illi@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I American’t sign EU petitions
sip@programming.dev 8 hours ago
no worries, if you are on any online gaming comunities with Europeans, you can share the link.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
WHAAAT LETSGOOOOO DABABY. Thank you PirateSoftware for the publicity :3
rozodru@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What’s funny about this whole thing is it’s almost like PirateSoftwares days in EVE Online when he invited everyone to Pochven space cause he thought he was hot shit and then proceeded to get his ass handed to him and he rage quit the game. He brought attention to something that ended up having the opposite effect of what he wanted.
Granted he was absolutely shit at EVE regardless of what he’s told his audience. couldn’t fit a ship to save his life, ran for CSM and no one voted for him, then rage quit when everyone and even his own corp proceeded to kick his teeth in.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Wow, I hadn’t even heard of that particular story of Thor being an egotistical asshat.
I’d been looking into the WoW debacle, then stumbled into other stuff, but nope, that one’s new to me.
intrapt@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I was in his corp (my old one merged with his, I had no idea who he was for quite a while), and this… isn’t exactly accurate. First, from what I remember, he left on okay terms with the corp.
There was a laundry list of issues with Pochven, a lot of them due to CCP just not bothering to fix issues that the players reported, and moving devs who did want to try and fix some of the issues to different areas of the game. It got to the point where it wasn’t economically viable to live in the area, which reduced how many ships we could field, and the number of people even willing to join.
CCP also took forever to decide on how wormholes interacted with the region, and changed those interactions frequently. Some of these were great, for instance there was a point where most of the wormholes linked to wormhole systems, and it was a complicated (and dangerous) dance to get people in and out of the region undetected. CCP ended up going with the worst possible interaction: many wormholes directly linked to nullsec space, where massive alliances could easily find them and send massive fleets through with little effort.
He wasn’t the only one to quit, to be honest I’m surprised he stayed for as long as he did given how he acts now.
Is Thor an egotistical narcissist? Absolutely. Was this a case of that? Not really
By the way, is a statement he put out alongside the other two main groups in Pochven. I can tell you for a fact that 90+% players who spent most of their time in Pochven felt this move was absolutely justified: Image
dustyData@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The worst part it that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it’s other people’s fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diapers.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Haha, holy shit. Somehow I had never connected that Piratesoftware was Maldavius. Yeah, that explains so, so very much of this entire SKG debacle.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I dont get it, what’s this got to do with the petition?
renrenPDX@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
He was against it, which resulted in a lot of negative opinions about the bill and netting less votes because of it. It’s gone full Streisand effect.
whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
PirateSoftware was critical of the initiative when it first started. Some people attribute its initial lack of success to his opposition.
He was later involved in some drama and his reputation fell, and the petition’s creator finally addressed his claims. Now the petition is having a second wind in its final hour
P1nkman@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Is there a clip of this somewhere?
Robin@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Don’t stop yet! They might still remove incorrectly filed entries.
chrislowles@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Peddle to the metal on all fronts!
Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Peddle to the metal
Lol, nice pun, good one.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 hours ago
The Islanders finished there’s, but the EU one still has a ways to go!
Aganim@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
946,944 currently, it’s almost there!
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Its going quite quickly now though! 934k signatures
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 hours ago
Keep going! Who knows how many signatures will be ruled as invalid.
smeg@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Didn’t it already reach the threshold last year and the government (or the civil servant in charge of rejecting every petition) closed it saying that current consumer protection laws already apply?
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
My understanding is that they misunderstood the petition, so this new one is rephrased in an attempt to avoid another misinterpretation
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Politicians seem very good at misunderstanding things when it suits them.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
It was extremely clear what the previous petition was, it was just they weren’t interested in doing anything so they intentionally misunderstood.
smeg@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Fingers crossed!
inlandempire@jlai.lu 18 hours ago
Good job UK ! Now cancel Brexit and vote for the EU one !
echodot@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
The hostility from the EU about the UK rejoining (especially from France) tells me that’s not likely to happen.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Good. States shouldn’t be able to just go out on a whim and immediately go back in again like it’s a revolving door. The consequences should be severe for leaving. Otherwise voters in other member states will pull this shit as well, because they think they can just rejoin when the next pro EU government comes around. Also many voters in the UK voted for leave as a protest vote not because they actually wanted to leave. They didn’t understand the ramifications of their vote. Let the UK be the example of what a protest vote can cause.
copd@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
not quite sure how you expect to cancel anything which already happened
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Hmmm? The UK isn’t part of the EU anymore so they won’t have much impact lol.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
That’s why it was a completely separate, smaller one
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Just threw me for a loop for a moment that it uses the same name and that this page displays links to both.
oeLLph@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Watched this, was very enlightening
Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
I knew once kliksphilip makes a video about it would be one of the best ones to communicate the intent of the initiative.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Heh yeah!
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 23 minutes ago
great stuff!!!