Truth is that most people don’t really care about this. Game preservation is niche. This petition failed because there isn’t enough interest.

The type of people that would watch videos about this are also the type of people that are already invested in this topic. People that didn’t sign the petition are people that don’t even know, or care, about this.

That said, piratesoftware did misrepresent the movement, and I’ll take that into account if someday one of his videos pops up in my feed

I’ve been reading the other comments and you’re not the type of person I would enjoy talking with. Thus why I deleted my comment.

Peace

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It would also mean a huge hit on their own tech sector, if not near wipeout.

It’s one of those situations that, sure, they could, just like a monkey could purposely snap the branch where he and his friend are sitting on and both fall.

As for Europe, yes, it would be a painful transition, but eventually it could build its own infrastructure anyway

Sell it for cheap to barbecue houses

Uh?

Or - bear with me here - it’s just a funny detail and people are laughing about it. Because any sea is obviously going to be north of it

Uh, if that was drawn today, people would accuse it of being AI made.

No point or anything here, just a random thought that came to me

this feels like the bear situation but on a smaller scale lol

This feels like it was drawn in one of those $200 drawing tablets

I get the joke but I never understood the idea that gaming nowadays is “bad”. Just as there are many games that have shitty practices or are just bad, there are just as many that are good. Indie gaming is booming for a reason.

Sometimes I wonder that if the people that keep parroting this idea are just… Getting old? Getting fed up with gaming? Or maybe it’s just a nostalgia thing? All of these combined?

Anyway, Clair Obscure just came out and it’s a great JRPG, highly recommend it

It’s incredible seeing this shit over and over, specially in a place like Lemmy, where the people are supposed to be thinking outside the box, and being used to stuff which is less mainstream, like Linux, or, well, the fucking fediverse.

Lemmy is just an opensource reddit, with all the pros and cons

No, just cringe. The pope died of cringe.

Based Francis

nah, people are talking about what he said years ago. He didn’t say anything recently (or at least, not that I know of)

I feel that the original quote “better a pig than a fascist” is more relevant and important these days than this take

This is wrong. Google will now share Android code after each new Android release, instead of releasing over time in real time. This is not uncommon in open source projects.

I’m not defending, or claiming that they won’t try to make Android closed source eventually in the future, but right now what you said isn’t correct

A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.

Amazon’s executives aren’t sweating over losing a week of your business. They’re a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They’ll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.

The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you’ve surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you’ll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.

Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.

Emphasis on >habits<, because we’re not talking about political parties, it’s a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.

If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it’s just performative.

That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back

I’m under the impression that the idea of an unified EU army is that they would be able to act independently in case of an attack, no need for votes or bureaucracy.

If that’s not the case, then yeah that’s a problem

A situation where Russia invades EU and US immediately after invades greenland, no longer looks so impossible to me