If you’re actually interested in motivating action you should start by considering that maybe it’s possible people are trying and that there are entrenched systems of oppression that dull their impact, or its visibility to you. And that you don’t know everything about what someone is doing based on what you’ve personally seen online.
If all you’re interested in is browbeating strangers to vent your frustrations in the guise of productive discourse, by all means, carry on.
Ok buddy very insightful
I’m American born and raised and here’s the truth: whether by incompetence or malice, the United States’ politicians handed over governance duties to corporations and, for my entire life, have made choices in direct opposition to its stated values.
My government is not your friend, or friend to me or anyone I have ever met. Since at least Reagan, and indisputably since “”“Citizens United”“” it is a vessel for the primarily the military industrial complex.
The world would be in a better place if the US held to its espoused values of democracy and liberty, but although I’ve known many citizens who take these to heart in their daily lives, and are honorable and loving people, and imagine themselves members of the global community, in practice our government stands on these principles only so far as they are profitable for the military industrial complex, and for billionaires.
They have stripped hollow our education system and trampled consumer protection at every turn. They have at multiple times operated illegal concentration camps, and served as inspiration to the nazis themselves. They have waged death for oil and resources, in our name. When we stand against them, they imprison and kill us.
The world is deeply ill-served by a globally influential United States until massive systemic change occurs. They must give us ranked choice voting. Curb the supreme court. Enshrine systemic balance in policy, not gentlemen’s agreements. Until then, ice us the fuck out and save yourselves from our lunatic leadership.
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.
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
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?
I switched to Tidal for music and Pocket Casts for podcasts when they donated to trump’s inauguration fund and haven’t looked back.
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
Wow, you actually took a position but it’s not the one I expected!