I really hope this goes through for obvious reasons. But it would be a 2 fer because it exposed the Pirate Games A hole as a neoi baby narcissist.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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Just found out about Stop Killing Games from Path of Titans releasing a skin where proceeds go to this cause! I of course am now a proud owner of the skin.
what is that weird fake blizzard grifter with the hair doing now is he alive still
I think his mod team quit/got fired yesterday so I'm guessing not to well.
damn what happened yesterday
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.
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.
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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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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It might have also have incredible timing. The EU is all digital sovereignty, and suggesting opening up something as a solution might actually been seen as a positive.
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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To think that the guy that wrote Freeman's Mind would go on to such heights. Proud of you, Ross.
Started watching since Ross started the Game Dungeon series and watching him develop hate for game killing real time to talking at EU Parliament - what a journey! Now if the rest of gaming community had this much care and spine.
He says in his videos "I'm just some guy who wants to play video games, I don't know how to lead a movement. But uh, here we are I guess!" He's spent a massive amount of time and effort on it, when he just happened to end up the spokesperson. Incredibly cool guy.
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Freeman's Mind is such a comfort to return to every now and then. Ross has one of those Homer Simpson voices that make me feel warm and at peace just listening to.
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