with everyone talking about stopkillinggames my mind constantly goes back to the postal dude asking to sign his petition

btw since some people are (understandably) unaware of this: the stop killing games petition is not a change dot org or anything useless/boring, it's a formal request that would force the eu commission to give a formal answer about the topic and eventually act on it

and we kinda have a good track record on consumer rights so yeah this could drastically change things for the better

we are pretty good at forcing consumer protection even on huge megacorps (see usb-c on iphones) since we can regulate whether you can get access to 449 million consumers or not lol and usually (like for iphones) the consequences of these laws spread worldwide so if you don't live in the eu and are still helping out by spreading info about this online: thank you!

my youtube suggestions just decided to go full dark woke insano style

this didn’t age well

but that's just a theory,

what kills me is the text saying APPEARANCE OF HIGH ACCURACY COLOR

you are not actually getting it, you only get the appearance of that

i would say that having to explain to zoomers how game server browsers used to work and how most multiplayer games would let you self host a server pretty easily if you had the resources would make me feel old if the zoomers in question weren't ironically older than me

MANDATORY source engine games server hosting classes for everyone, we need to show people how good shit used to be frfr

kinda connected to Stop Killing Games I guess? since some people say it is unrealistic to expect any meaningful legislation coming from it and i totally get the skepticism

in case you didn't know, EU law already asks developers to offer full refunds in case their game's servers shut down permanently within 24 months from a customer purchasing a copy of it (Directive 2019/770 - Art 11 S 2 + 14-16)

we also have already set precedents that would allow you to resale used copies of digital games (UsedSoft (C-128/11, 2012) + BGH 17-7-2013)

same law that allows us to resell our used windows or office keys if we don't need or use them and basically tell microsoft to stick their EULA up their ass btw

Steam managed to be an outlier thanks to a loophole (French courts accepted Valve’s argument that a Steam noscript is an “online service”) BUT that loophole could be shut down by a future CJEU reference or by an amendment to Directive 2019

so yeah i can understand the skepticism but we do have a pretty good track record on all of this

by your mid 20s on average you are going to find out that at least two of your GOATs are washed or somehow even way worse than washed to the point where you challenge why you liked them at all

it's a rite of passage

something that i have noticed lately is that after mamdani's success in NYC some video campaigns from politicians started copying his warm color grading style but some of them overdo it and go full "altman yellow"

in other words i don't care what your politics are but please learn how to color correct your footage first, then grade it properly, I know it’s hard at first but it’s worth it, trust me, you don’t want to export piss shots

"porsche unleashed" is both an insanely funny and hard name for a need for speed game

becoming an analog nomad (you just travel around the world sneaking into countries without any visa to sell old CRT TVs being paid in cash and monero)

just realized my future kids are probably gonna see this image in history books

when i was in middle school it felt like we had a hacktivist attack happen every 2 days and we kinda did lol

opened aliexpress for a second and my recommendations seem quite interesting