Thank you, Thor! 🥳
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Just remember that we still need more signatures on the EU one, to rule out bot and incorrect signatures.
EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesn't -- I'd argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
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Even Hitler out of context sounds good. Context is paramount. Never trust a good speaker with the extra time to edit himself in post with out the context of the original or their history.
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EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesn't -- I'd argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if it's truly there until at least 1.4 mil signatures. And more votes is never bad. So both need more attention. If it reaches people in the EU it will also reach those in the UK.
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Ross explained it in his last video - there are reasons to be skeptical and unsure if it's truly there until at least 1.4 mil signatures. And more votes is never bad. So both need more attention. If it reaches people in the EU it will also reach those in the UK.
gotta summary? I don't wanna watch a vid
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Apology exempted. Just please considered that the person you are correcting may not know English as their first language or by be struggling with dyslexia or some other issue you may know nothing about
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's totally fair. I'm not a native English speaker myself, but some of the English I have learned has been through corrections from friendly souls around the internet so I wanted to pay it forward. I'm not judging or attacking you as I don't expect anyone to be perfect in any language. Not even their own. Just wanted to help out
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Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.
He'll gladly tell you about how he was hacker/dev whizkid at Blizzard for 7 years. Of course, he'll leave out the fact that he was only a QA tester and a web security drone who got the job because his father is a big wig there.
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I watch this dude sometimes, he says he's a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.
Would be nice if he at least admits he's a streamer and not a game dev.
He's been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.
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To think I actually liked this guy, what an egotistical asshole he really is.
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gotta summary? I don't wanna watch a vid
There's always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.
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EU one requires an ID/passport, UK one doesn't -- I'd argue that the EU one is safe and the UK one should get more attention on the validitiy
The type of verification depends on the country and some don't have any verification at signing. I'm Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.
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To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
I'm sick of that excuse. The whole I'm dumb or I don't know or it's for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess I've just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.
It's possible it's not an excuse. I'm in software eng. Doodles and on the fly flow charts are made all the time. It's much easier to follow a complex topic if you have something to point to. Especially when trying to tie together concepts, like interplay between services, timing, DB, APIs, etc.
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He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that's been implied.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they're Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won't shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?
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Imagine using a voice changer to sound deeper and cheating in Outer Wilds of all games
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Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.
Don't you know he worked for Blizzard /s
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"Not only I'm not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass."
— Thor "PirateSoftware" Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.
Yes. That clip.
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It actually is the most hilarious of ironies that despite what very real harm Thor might have inflicted upon the early stages of the movement through misinformation/mischaracterization; The fact is, I don't think this movement would have come near to exploding the way that it has recently if not for the perfect Rube Goldberg machine of drama surrounding this man in the past 6 months.
Seriously. He could not have Barbara Streisand effected the "Stop Killing Games" movement harder if he tried. It really is such poetic justice. It's a shame that I don't live in the EU or I would gladly sign the initiate myself. Here's to hoping that another EU regulation can have sweeping effects for the US. As a reluctant and very jaded US citizen myself, I harbor no illusions about any real and meaningful consumer protection regulations to ever make it over here. Mega-corpos have simply spent far too much money buying out every level of government, legislature, and regulatory bodies that exist.
Europe really is like a strange beacon of hope for US consumers, as odd as that sounds. Fight the good fight for us as well, brothers.
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I know it's not going to happen, but I would love it if legislation could go as far as requiring companies to open-source their engines and servers after maybe a period of time, or on ending support for the game. It could be done ID-style where the company retains full rights of the content and trademarks, which would still require players to buy the game to legally play it.
I'm aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware that's licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, there's a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if what's released is in an unplayable state without the middleware. It then becomes the responsibility of any volunteers to take that code and bring it back to a usable state however they choose.
This drama highlights that there's still a great need for better computer literacy. Anyone with even a basic education in how software, source-code, and software licensing works can tell PirateSoftware is full of shit pretty much immediately. That is, anyone educated who are themselves not grifters.
The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. You're protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.
... then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palms...
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I don't know what happened in details but I really don't hate him, as a member of the video game industry he has the right to make his voice heard.
I'm still glad consumers won here
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There's always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.
The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed
Ah, makes sense - thanks for this
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I blocked this guy from my YouTube suggestions last year after getting heaps of his videos recommended to me, and in every one he comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
I wrote him off as a prick after he practically had a narcissistic meltdown during a stream with a psychiatrist when he was told that he comes off as an arrogant pedant and needs to learn to admit when he's wrong.
