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Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' (www.pcgamer.com)
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It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

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[–] 66 points 4 months ago (3 children)

what is that weird fake blizzard grifter with the hair doing now is he alive still

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m not totally sure, but I watched one vid about him a year ago and now yt slams me with recs for vid about him. If titles are to be believed he’s completely crashed out and not doing well at all which makes me very happy, but I’m not cursing my algo for another year by clicking.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Tl;Dr is that the SKG drama made drama farmers on YouTube look closer at him and discover that he's an egotistical piece of shit that lies to make himself look better, and he's basically the new yandere dev with his game heartbound (making little to no progress over 10ish years while blaming the community for not being grateful/recognizing his genius/etc.).

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I saw some vid thumbnails a day or two ago that were talking about his mods eating him alive or something, so I’m not sure what all that more recent drama is about. I am current on his shitty dev abilities and his stupid self insert game unfortunately.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    I have another account that I used to search for things that I don't want affecting my feed but actually I don't look at my feed because it sucks now anyways and everything is boring on that website and I would rather read a book because then I get laid

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Sort of but it's also because these things take forever. If you want to put something forward to the European parliament you best submit the petition while you're still in the womb.

    I still think the petition was a bit hamstrung by being sort of vaguely defined. I think it initially got rejected because it did sort of sound like it was trying to force developers to continue support for servers indefinitely. Now that the clarification has been made that they were simply need to open source project I think the politicians more open to the idea.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The initiative was very clear that there is no expectation of support from the developers after support has ended. There was nothing vague about it except for the disinformation PirateSoftware was putting out.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hamstrung by being vague? Vague is EXACTLY what you want for these types of things, theres less specificity to get hung up on and reject, while the general idea can be expanded upon and legislated in detail once they agree with the core concept. Please dont listen to that pirate guy, he's terminally brain damaged.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    did sort of sound like it was trying to force developers to continue support for servers indefinitely.

    Y'know, except the part where he very explicitly said that wasn't what SKG was asking for.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes that was the second time it was raised the first time they just dismissed it with some generic response saying to refer to the current protection laws.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    i'm in tumblr and the posts about that vote was circulating there from day one, screencaps steadily increasing in vote number while i never saw it on reddit/lemmy or other places with some kind of algorithm as opposed to the simple reverse chronological feed that is tumblr's current default. i read the notes - people were reposting it elsewhere and it just disappear into the void. it was around 70% but was also very fast approaching the deadline when it exploded in popularity because of that guy.

    in a way algorithms both almost killed and saved that petition - but there was a concerted, months long active action by uncountable number of people, a tremendous effort to save the petition and keep it going.

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