• The EU Citizens petition to stop killing games is not looking good. It’s shy of halfway where it needs to be, on a very high threshold, and it’s over in a month and change.
  • paraphrasing a little more than a half hour of the video: “Man, fuck Thor/Pirate Software for either lying or misunderstanding and signal boosting his incorrect interpretation of the campaign.”
  • The past year has been quite draining on Ross, so he’s done campaigning after next month.
  • It will still take a few years for the dust to clear at various consumer protection bureaus in 5 different countries, and the UK’s seems to be run by old men who don’t understand what’s going on.
  • At least The Crew 2 and Motorfest will get offline modes as a consolation prize?
  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    622·
    1 day ago

    PirateSoftware is an enormous cunt.

    And he makes no effort to hide it.

    I genuinely don’t understand why he has such a rabid fanbase.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      112·
      5 hours ago

      I’ve seen him described elsewhere as “a poor man’s idea of a rich man” and I think it’s accurate.

      With that said, I don’t think it’s his fault the petition failed, people just don’t care usually.

      edit: To give more context, Pirategames literally does not know what the Stop Killing Games movement is about, he thinks it’s only about single-player games being always-online (yes that’s a component of it but not the whole thing) and converting multiplayer games to be offline-playable single-player games but it does NOT mention that anywhere because it is NOT about that. However, I guarantee you that Pirategames will not admit that he was mistaken about his understanding of the Stop Killing Games movement, he will instead double and triple down and insist that he had the correct understanding of it. lol

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      Youtube shorts.

      Imagine you’re a gamer, one who is interested in game Design. Your view history has games, gaming, game design, but it’s also full of algotrash talking heads, scam baiters, shit slingers. You open the YouTube app on your phone, and it immediately opens to shorts, you don’t remember settings that as the default but it’s fine, you recognize the creator and the 45 second clip was neat. Swipe up. Next video, it Nile Blue dropping a beaker of chloroauric acid. Next video, its Chris Boden yelling about some kind of electrical infrastructure you don’t understand (and that’s pretty cool). Next video, Thor, speaking softly, explaining an aspect of game design that you never thought of. This one catches your attention, its in your wheelhouse, its something you’re genuinely interested in. You click the profile, swipe through a few more shorts. Your algorithm is permanently damaged. Your a pirate software fan now, whether you like it or not.

      Or you can use freetube and never see algotrash talking heads in your feed and never enter into this cycle.

      • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Hey don’t talk shit about Chris he’s a fun dude who shares his passion and cool knowledge and that’s pretty cool.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        16 hours ago

        I really fucking hate that, too. The algorithm is so fucking vile and evil.

        I cant even watch the content i want to watch on youtube, like fishing and guns (with the exception of forgotten weapons and InRange, which the algorithm doesnt seem to view as gateways to right wing indoctrination (cause they arent) and seem to be safe… at least for now.), because if I so much as hover my mouse over one of the thumbnails of that kind of content, I immediately get blasted with 3 months of right wing extremist pseudo-intellectual diarrhea that I cant escape without completely resetting my browser.

        but if I spend an evening watching retrogaming stuff? Oh fuck, Youtube just completely ignores that and pretends it never saw me show interest in that.

      • Nikls94@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        22 hours ago

        I’ve been downvoting all of this trash for 3 months now. I still get this trash. It has nothing to do with algorithm anymore. This is Homogenisierung

        • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          22 hours ago

          Downvoting requires you: A. Click into the video
          B. Select the downvote button, thereby engaging with the video

          The algorithm is not designed to feed you content you like, only content that will generate clicks and interaction. The only way to eliminate that content from your feed is to forcibly remove it, as they have designed the feed such that it is impossible not to interact with it.

          Again, I suggest trying freetube as a frontend, as it allows you to retitle and rethumbnail clickbait videos, and remove shorts from your feeds, thereby eliminating the skinner box that is youtube from your life.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            16 hours ago

            youtube is a lot like telephone scammers.

            The only winning move is to not to play, because anything you do just confirms existence and worsens experience.

            • philipp_@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              9 hours ago

              They hide it, but they do have RSS Feeds for each channel. I follow all the channels that interest me via my feed reader and only interact with the site to watch the videos. I never click any links to anywhere and am not logged in.

          • Nikls94@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            With videos, yes, but not with shorts. It’s like TikTok where you swipe, but you have like and dislike buttons as well. I dislike all AI slob, Nile, nearly all of that shitty promoted stuff, but still get these.

            Same with Spotify, my weekly mix rarely contains more than 1 song I actually listen to (metal, punk, hardstyle, hardcore) yet it gives me hardbass and this kind of genre where all you hear is distorted over-amplified bass every third of a second and that’s it… I dislike like a tinderella

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      22 hours ago

      i don’t watch him but i hope this isn’t about what he did in wow because the sheer fact that anyone even gives a shit seems wild to me. but hey i hate MMOs so maybe that’s why.

      is there other reasons people don’t/shouldn’t like him or is it just vibes

      edit: nvm got an answer on another content

      • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        It’s not because he did anything wrong in wow that people are upset/memeing about, it’s because he’s unable to say “I’m sorry, I could have done better” without including any buts or “the others also messed up”. It has just exposed him as an incredibly self obsessed person.

        • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          on that part sorry i still don’t care. it’s a child’s game; there’s nothing to apologize for. but his comments on stop killing games and accused farms are bad.