NeilBrü

Can’t waste the day when the night brings a hearse. So make a move and plead the 5th 'cause you can’t plead the 1st.

The typeface must be 16pt, bold, and the copy itself should be on the front page and be required on the cover description(s).

My beef isn’t even with a games-as-a-service premise at all. It’s the corporatist trend in arguing that single-player experiences need perpetual online connectivity, or that releasing self-hosted PvP server functionality is prima fascia “unrealistic in every scenario”. Some games, like WoW, no way. I get the depth of the server stack for MMOs. Other games that are PvP-competitive could easily be self-hosted. These companies could still make money off of these old competitive online games, even though they’ve deprecated their own server stack.

“Stop Killing Games” needs more refined language about what it’s asking for, no doubt. There are many scenarios where blanket statements about demanding source code are just not feasible.

However, let’s not pretend that the industry is not pushing enshittification tactics used by almost every business that’s publicly traded. That’s the spirit in which this movement is fighting against.

I have read the premise phrased as follows:

“No amount of meaningful change will occur until the wealthy fear for their lives.”

A good book that documents this is The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer.

An arduous read, but vital for thinking minds nonetheless.

Good.

Require it; if I buy something I require every feature of my own product, if I purchased it.

Too hard? Fine.

Then the law should require the fact that you the seller must say I’m renting a game or product, or purchased a limited license. They can’t say I “bought it and own it” if they can prevent me from using it however I want whenever they want. Force them to be explicitly clear about what I’m getting for my money.

The Dutch allow me to vote for the Water Management Board of my town. Other than that, no, I can’t vote in the other elections. 😢

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“It’s not to make sure that I have a lot; it’s to make sure that I have a lot more than everyone else. Forever.”

Unless someone corrects me, I think his argument boils down to, “we shouldn’t allow the release of server binaries for online-enabled games because it’s too hard for the developers”.

Well, if that’s the case, then Thor, that’s a “you” (the company) problem. Not a “me” (the consumer) problem. And if you’re not going to release a server binary but we’re “buying” the game, purchasers have legitimate moral and legal grounds to demand that they be informed that they are buying a license, or renting, the game; they are not owning a functional copy of the game outright.

Addendum, for clarity:

My beef isn’t even with a games-as-a-service premise at all. It’s the corporatist trend in arguing that single-player experiences need perpetual online connectivity, or that releasing self-hosted PvP server functionality is prima fascia “unrealistic in every scenario”.

Some games, like WoW, no way. I understand the depth of the server stack for MMOs. Other games that are PvP-competitive could easily be self-hosted.

The irony is that these companies could still make a boatload of money off of these old competitive online games with more maps and skins, even though they’ve deprecated their own server stack and cloud-back-end. Essentially, they’d pass the burden of hosting to the players, but still sell content sporadically.

“Stop Killing Games” needs more refined language about what it’s asking for, no doubt. There are many scenarios where blanket statements about demanding source code are just not feasible.

I’m turning 42 this summer. I’ve been a software developer for 15 years now. I’d like to even say that a few of those years I even came across like I knew what I was talking about. But this basic issue is not about software development. This is about consumer advocacy, and it was a huge turn off to watch him perform the mental gymnastics on why people should be screwed over why false/deceptive advertising by the industry is acceptable.

I’m an American citizen living in the Netherlands; I have a renewed 5-year residency permit. Am I allowed to sign? I’m guessing no, but maybe there’s an allowance for EU residents, not just citizens?

Sorry, I got a little butt-hurt, being Indian myself. I always hated the “East/West” prefix about my people and the First Nation folks.

“They’re not Indians! They’re a completely different group of people! They and we don’t need a cardinal direction!”

I’ve been spouting this shit since grade-school, but I think it’s safe to say that people here on Lemmy get it, for the most part.

East Indians, not First Nations.

To be clear, you are asking me to list the crimes of the Shi-ah Islamist regime in Iran since their revolution in the '70s?

If so, I can try, but I must work first. I can compile it after the day is finished.

As plainly I can put it:

The nation-states of Iran and Israel have a “right to exist”, inasmuch as they actually serve the interests of the people they claim to govern within internationally recognized territorial borders.

The regimes that hold power in those nation-states must be tried for crimes against humanity and executed as war-criminals.

They will reap what they’ve sown in this messianic decades-long tit-for-tat, and I will drink to their demise, assuming they don’t drag the world into nuclear armageddon.

We fundamentally see geopolitical culpability in that region completely differently.

You: Zionists are worse than Islamists.

Me: They’re equally horrific, and I hope they both die.

We’re at an impasse.

I disagree completely.

The crimes of both abovementioned parties against other countries and their own people have been thoroughly documented ad nauseum throughout contemporary history. It’s a pity their isn’t an actual hell for either “party of god” to burn in as they create living hells in their respective countries and region.

I propose that it’s morally sound to oppose both because, in my view, the Islamists and the Zionists are both child rapists, if we use your analogy. In context, the Islamists haven’t raped as many children yesterday, but they’ve done the deed before with just as much gusto.

Ultimately, I would hope they strangle each other to death. To quote a dying Mercutio from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, “A plague o’ both your houses!”

Christian American values. There are plenty of us who have never and will not ever drink the Kool-Aid.

I think the more morally sound position is to not support either of them (Zionists and Islamists).

“A plague o’ both your houses!”

Fundamentally, the brain still receives “bite-size-chocolate” dopamine hits from Lemmy by receiving positive affirmations from upvotes, cortisol from downvotes, and lends to dark behavior patterns like any forum. Adrenaline dumps when engaged in “online arguments”.

The nature of both anonymous or personally identifiable online forums’ neurochemical stimulation of our over-sized and over-active (but evolutionarily necessary for our ancestors’ survival) amygdala fosters social media addiction.

People like Lemmy for many reasons. Some of them are good. However, let’s not pretend that it’s “all of the good with none of the bad.” It’s healthy to be skeptical of Lemmy instances too. Screen time is the enemy.

realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug

Lemmy included.