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EU petition to stop publishers from intentionally destroying games with kill switches.

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[-] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 16 points 47 minutes ago

Ah, another post where I get to rant about Piratesoftware. Fuck that self righteous, egotistical, fear mongering, ignorant, big headed, grifting, skript kiddy, cornball. Dude couldn't be assed even to read the Q&A, then makes up stuff about the initiative out of thin air. Dude is such a little weezel, I can't BELIEVE he still has a following after his hate campaign against the initiative. The fact that anyone outside of his immediate family cares about what he has to say boggles my mind.

TLDR: Thor, not my cup of tea personally.

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 minutes ago

lol did you see my comment and post the article I linked?

Anyway this is a dead end clearly. Part of it is so many of us can’t even sign the petition. Bummer these guys are done but i guess we just need to find a other way

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 2 hours ago

Yes please sign the petition!

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 28 points 3 hours ago

Signed it ages ago when it first came about, and it's really sad to see it still hasn't gotten enough signatures.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 hours ago

: goes to sign

: scrolls countries list

: no 'United Kingdom' option

: remembers

: sadface

[-] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Sign the UK parliament one

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 hours ago

Same for me, no Switzerland option.

So I can only encourage EU citizens to do it.

[-] RedIce25@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Same, no Norway

[-] Tyoda@lemm.ee 28 points 3 hours ago

You may consider signing the UK effort, but that isn't looking chipper either.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/countries/united_kingdom

[-] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 hours ago

Fucking piratesoftware....

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 33 points 3 hours ago

I mean that guy was a dickcheese even before he tried to torpedo this initiative. But wow did he add to his pile of stink.

[-] maam@feddit.uk 18 points 3 hours ago

He abandoned his hardcore group to die in DireMaul. I have no respect for Thor.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 points 2 hours ago

I see more people talking about this in the Stop Killing Games discourse than SKG itself, maybe that's why its failing.

[-] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 15 points 1 hour ago

A Lil bit of column A and a little bit of column B.

But spreading misinformation on it definitely did hurt it.

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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