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Stop Killing Games update says EU petition advances

https://videocardz.com/newz/stop-killing-games-update-says-eu-petition-advances
48•LorenDB•1h ago

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cadamsdotcom•1h ago
Is democracy working?

Don’t want to get my hopes up, but I think this might be.

joe_mamba•1h ago
>Is democracy working?

If only it would actually work that easy for democracy(people's will) to control the actual important things of society that fuck us, like housing, money printing, immigration, tax % and where that money goes to, healthcare, foreign aid, jailing epstein clients, etc.

Imagine if democracy actually worked.

jacinabox•25m ago
Could be, if you can set up a millions of dollars regulatory apparatus to keep online some really old MMOs for the 100 people worldwide who want to play them, there's really nothing you can't regulate.
lyu07282•5m ago
As long as people are sufficiently misinformed and politically uneducated, they believe in democracy working. So it's possible yeah!
krige•35m ago
Thanks, "Thor".
intothemild•10m ago
I would hope that he has either changed his tune (unlikely) or is fuming (likely)
preommr•33m ago
Advances to round 2/7 to be able to do a powerpoint presentation so that companies will, at best, be forced to put some pointless label as a legal loophole, that consumers will promptly ignore because everyone will have it and it'll be meaningless.
HiPhish•28m ago
I think Stop Killing Games is more important than just "oh noes, they took my toys away". Looking back, video games have been the gateway to computing in more than one one way. Before home computers people had game consoles (which were cheaper than computers) or arcades. Before iTunes and app stores there was Steam. Before the modern smartphone apps there were Wii channels. Maybe in some cases the games came technically later, but they were the initial contact for the broad masses.

What I'm getting at is that it has usually been through games that practices in general computing have been established. If Stop Killing Games is successful it will have much bigger effects on general computing. And I believe that this is why you keep the same false accusations getting repeated over and over again (e.g. saying that SKG would require publishers to keep supporting a game forever). I know it's said not to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but at some point the pattern becomes too clear not to notice. All of big tech stands to lose eventually if SKG succeeds.

gchamonlive•7m ago
Have you played The Talos Principle 2? Yep, games are toys! It's nothing more than that. What we fail to realise in our industrial society is that toys are a fundamental piece of our culture, they enable learning lots of different skills that wouldn't be possible in the "real world", they foster creativity, problem solving, bonding and cooperation...

Toys are just toys, and yet they are the most important things we have. I honestly think the technological progress catalyzed by games is a byproduct, a huge one, but not central to the industry. We only think technology is the most important thing because we live in a world in which overvalues technical prowess in lieu of culture.

AuthAuth•13m ago
This really is the white pill young people need to not hate democracy and its probably the worst most unlikely one to pass through.
petcat•10m ago
Gamer Rage has always been the worst political hill to die on.

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