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- Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The POG Act has passed at the CA State Assembly! 2 weeks ago:
As stated in the first sentence POG stands for “Protect Our Games”. For a quick overview of the bills content I’m just going to quote Wikipedia (emphasis by me):
In February 2026, the Protect Our Games Act was introduced. Initially proposed by California State Assembly member Chris Ward in February of that year, the bill would require publishers to inform consumers 60 days in advance about a game ending support and to provide clear information about the game’s functionality after its end-of-life. The bill would also prohibit companies from selling a game two months before their discontinuation and require them to provide either a patch for the game to function independently of the publisher’s servers, a separate version of the game that operates autonomously in the same vein or a full product return.
TLDR: it’s a bill that would, if implemented, mandate the things Stop Killing Games wants.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' 1 month ago:
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on 'Star Trek': Andy Weir Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman Over Podcast Remarks 2 months ago:
Yes it is
- Comment on 'Star Trek': Andy Weir Apologizes To Alex Kurtzman Over Podcast Remarks 2 months ago:
The Critical Drinker is a notorious right wing grift YouTuber and podcaster.
Here is a video about him that explains more: youtu.be/2lgmvraCq1g
- Submitted 4 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 6 months ago:
You’ll also probably want to bookmark this: docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/…/post-install.html#ge…
The Chrultrabook project makes the distro run a bit smoother once it’s installed by providing fixes for the audio stack and custom keyboard layouts to make the top row of keys work properly among other things
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 6 months ago:
docs.mrchromebox.tech provides custom coreboot firmware for a variety of ChromeOS devices. Once you’ve flashed it on your Chromebook, you should be able to just install Linux on it
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 6 months ago:
Something something, republicans are spineless cowards, something something, the supremecourt has been captured?
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Pretty much
- Comment on 6 months ago:
They don’t choose the platform, the platforms choose them. Under EU regulation WhatsApp as a “gatekeeper” has to give access to any other platform operating in the EU if they request it. Three a, Signal and co simply aren’t interested.
- Submitted 7 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund 8 months ago:
And one of the other investors is Jared Kushner
- Submitted 9 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 23 comments
- Submitted 9 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signed 10 months ago:
I’m not defending the praxis, but I will point out that this is a slightly different problem. The initiative is fine with publishers delisting a game, after all. It’s more concerned with what happens to a game after it has been sold.
That doesn’t excuse payment providers playing cop, but again: Slightly different problem.
- Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signedec.europa.eu ↗Submitted 10 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Stop Killing Games: The EU's Digital Fairness Act, or how you can help even if you've already signedec.europa.eu ↗Submitted 10 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 11 months ago:
That part of the argument is slightly different. If I understand the press statement correctly, what they are saying is: “Some servers can’t, on a technical level, be hosted by the community”. And that’s not a straw man (arguing against something never asked for), that’s just a lie. We have access to all the same stuff as the industry (AWS etc). Hosting these kinds of servers might be very expensive, but the initiative only asks for a way to keep games alive not for a cheap way (though I would prefer a cheap way of course)
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 11 months ago:
It’s also a strawman argument. Because yes, developers have less to no control over the operation of private servers. Yes, that means they can’t moderate those servers.
But
This initiative only covers games, not supported anymore by the devs anyway. Meaning legally speaking everything happening to private servers would be literally not their concern anymore. And new legislation, should it come to that, would spell that out.
- Submitted 11 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 11 months ago:
Turns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn’t personable enough to truly hate.
- Submitted 11 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 61 comments
- 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) 11 months ago:
One thing you can do: It’s something the campaign has been really bad at. Have some fyers printed up and start handing them out. I don’t know the Italian school schedule, but if universities are still in session they might be good targets.
I did it last year, first at Gamescom and then at a local uni and I think it helped spread the word.
- 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) 11 months ago:
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