They’re also the most complicated, and the production budgets, the resources available for archival, are often higher on blockbuster movies, as well as the barrier to entry being lower, for them to participate in archival, there’s no such thing as spaghetti code in a movie

Like, why games first, unless you’re specifically trying to tamp down their profitability as compared to other forms of media? I’m suspicious that this is the kind of shit the MPAA would pull because they’re getting outcompeted.

Like, I don’t want to be misconstrued; I want to live in a world where this stuff is possible. I guess I just feel like Stop Killing Games is shortsighted in its current form, and will get caught on some technicality like this, that will ultimately sink it.

My hope is that if it comes to failure, it will be as you say, a first step towards driving this media preservation objective, and advance the conversation.

If it passed in its current form, my fear is that it would effectively be an extra tax and burden just for choosing to make games instead of some other type of media, and I’m concerned investors would see it that way too, and move their financial support to these surer bets, ultimately harming individual game developers and lessening game releases.

Setting aside piratesoftware’s concerns (that it’s economically untenable to require devs to develop a form of their game’s source that would be publicly releasable), I’m not clear on why games should have this requirement and no other media, particularly when games are so much more complicated.

If we can’t even require physical releases of any show or movie or album, because the company still owns the copyright and might choose to profit from it in the future, how can we expect active investment in the unwinding of their copyright from devs? Seems a double standard.

Trump is terrified of the truth and its triumph over his treasonous trickery.

get ready to feel old, remember the mighty boosh logo? this is him now:

The Jewish people of the world deserve apology from the government of isreal for using their suffering as a political tool in service of genocide.

In conflating politics and imperialism with lineage and race, the political movement of Zionism sows incalculable hatred into the world in the name of Judaism, so that they can reap it later, when Jewish people suffer as meat shields, as justification for expansionism, and forever-war. Down with this theocratic shell game.

The same head-in-the-sand strategy that caused so many deaths got our numbers down on covid-19

you don’t see very clear QEDs on the internet very often but it’s always nice to see the reliance on data

The core, the very inmost of David Tennants

Marcus, this is very serious, you can’t look at porn while in the office.

People like this be out there drawing or ai generating bullshit like this full steam ahead, meanwhile I have very many potentially worthwhile ideas I seem categorically unable to even attempt

“In the US, 3.5% of the population would be approximately 11.6 million people”

Ding ding ding

Say, how many was it we needed for a general strike again?

Slowing weapons production??? While there are still citizens to vaporize to manufacture consent for yet more war???

Not to ironically quibble, the sentiment is there, but I think “more important to do nothing correctly than something incorrectly” is closer to the mark

Do they… Do they know we already have txt files?

This is known as the “stop hitting yourself” dilemma

If we don’t know who did it, how do we know it was impersonation??

Goes hard

Politics of state and business, poor job market prospects, these are the things that we need to solve if we are to truly maximize beantime or beanmaxxing if you will