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The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41402388

Please support the initiative of Stop Killing Games!

EU Petition

UK Petition

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[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I can't wait for this to effectively do nothing oe alternatively kill games that have an online only capability that refuse to devote work to force a single player model/release their netcode.

This is the stupidest, well intentioned movement I've seen in awhile and the fervor behind it is a waste. You know what you want but refuse to understand why it can't happen. You chase the past not realizing you can never go back.

This is most republican shit I've ever seen. "Make games great again!" Jesus.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Both are past 100k now! I want to issue a special "fuck you" to all the idiot streamers that tried to kill SKG. And of course a special "go fuck yourself" to PirateSoftware and Asmongold for being fuckwit right wing tools for corporations. You have a special place in my heart as illiterate lapdogs to shitty corporations and right wing shills.

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Asmonpoop is a moronic bum and people went from "this weirdo is strangely entertaining" to " let me hear what my moronic hobo-idol has to say about this".

It is a little bit like how people supported Drumpf as a joke first.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pirate Software too.

They're both such idiot trolls.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Still in disbelief people think SKG is going to work. The premise fucking genocides the MMORPG genre. You kill games by implementing this horrible understanding of how games work.

I have never seen more people support games who have no fucking idea how games work and it's the most frustrating shit ever. Pirate Software is right. It's not even a debate.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

PirateSoftware is what dumb people thinks a smart person acts like. His audience can't even pay attention unless he draws boxes in paint. I do understand how he can seem initially likeable, but if you watch him for more than a couple of hours you'll see his knowledge is shallower than a spilled glass of water.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Hold on there buddy! There's no reason to be derogatory towards hobos like that. I don't think I've ever been quite so offended on the internet as to have someone associate my good (user)name with the likes of Asmongold. If you don't bring that down a notch I'm gonna send the ghost of Woody Guthrie to haunt you until your dying days.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They tried to kill it? Really? Like, “we must stop this from going forward!” In that way? Why would anyone attempt to stop it?

I still think this is going to fail. But I’m not trying to stop it. I hope it succeeds.

I also find the debate bros involved to be annoying.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yep they actively campaigned against the petition and fundamentally misrepresented it.

10 months ago PirateSoftware started a campaign against it starting here-ish: https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y

Also 10 months Asmongold did a react video that supported PirateSoftware: https://youtu.be/AhVsyhjcndw

PirateSoftware refused to acknowledge that he got several things wrong, and even refused to acknowledge it when confronted. He actively bans people with dissenting opinions in his stream so it wasn't surprising that he refused to acknowledge that he was wrong. About a week ago Charlie (aka Penguinz0) confronted him about it and he still refused respond to basic factual inaccuracies: https://youtu.be/6sJpTCitKqw

Ross did a video talking about the whole thing last week as well: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

There's a lot more to it, but that's the broad strokes. I hope PirateSoftware's stream keeps declining until he is relegated to complete obscurity. Also, PirateSoftware can eat my entire ass.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Keep pushing. There are probably people using VPNs to sign the petition and those will get purged. Either from idiots who don't know better or AAA studios trying to get people to stop now that it's reached the goal. This is true for both the UK and EU petitions.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The EU page started 404ing for me right when it should have hit 1 mil; are we being trolled?

Edit: nvm worked from desktop. Maybe just hug of death.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It is still getting hugged, I guess people are rushing to add their names now that it is a won battle.
Edit: managed to load at 999,614.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am a little worried that some of the surge in signatures has been botting, but I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You need to identify yourself with a state issued form of identification so I doubt botting happened.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not in every country. In about half of them, you only need to provide a name, address and date of birth.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sheesh. Was jot aware of that. Still hope people were not dumb enough to bot it.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some definitely were, but hopefully not too many. There's still almost a whole month left to build up a solid buffer.

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[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fell asleep, woke up, suddenly there's only 30k left on the EU initiative.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now it's just 20k

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[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 72 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Jesus what, a week or so ago this was dead in the water.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I'm glad I'm not online enough to know of this guy!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

PirateSoftware (Thor) is a streamer and a game developer who is a narcissistic asshole. He's been very against the SKG petition since I think the start since if it passed he would be forced to keep supporting his games once they fail (it's happened before) and made a video trying to torpedo the petition some months ago by spreading disinformation that's easily disproven with a halfway decent level of reading comprehension. Recently the guy who runs the SKG petition announced that Piratesoftware was successful, which caused a lot of big streamers and Youtubers to catch on and call PirateSofware out while endorsing SKG, including MoistCritikal. Since then the number of signings have skyrocketed.

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Wait what's this story about him being banned from furry communities? That sounds like a really fun story to read lol

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Like the McRib and chlamydia, we're back baby!

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

SIGN THE PETITION DAMMIT

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I American't sign European petitions

[–] sip@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

no worries, you can help as this will benefit you too. if you are on any online gaming comunities with Europeans, you can share the link.

[–] exu@feditown.com 106 points 2 days ago

Awesome! Now let's get the EU one as well, much closer than before now. (840'000)

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 98 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WHAAAT LETSGOOOOO DABABY. Thank you PirateSoftware for the publicity :3

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 71 points 2 days ago (12 children)

And fuck you too btw PirateSoftware :)

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[–] Robin@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Don't stop yet! They might still remove incorrectly filed entries.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 46 points 2 days ago

Keep going! Who knows how many signatures will be ruled as invalid.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Islanders finished there's, but the EU one still has a ways to go!

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

946,944 currently, it's almost there!

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[–] DNU@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

99.09%🙏🙏

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