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  • Picture this: it’s early 1900’ and you’re a opera singer or an actor for a Shakespeare’s play and you’re asked to give your opinion on Cinema… and someone theorize even TV to you.

    I know what you’re going to say: these talentless people is coming to steal your job.

    Cinema is not a recognized art form: is a gimmick, a trick made with a huge number of photos.

    Those who want to call themselves “actors” are just talentless people who need “one right shot” and being patched in a sequence of “right shots” to complete a wanna-be play. But that not how you make are: every night, every play, you need to walk on stage, in front of the public and deliver “true” art.

    Advice? If you were an actor for live theater in the beginning of the 1900… just shut up for a a pair of decades to make sure is not actually art: or you’re going to record in the history how much of a… uhm… short sighted person you were.

    Humans make arts, humans decide what’s art… Usually this happen in the switch of the next generation of humans: everything can be a tool for art, future generations of humans decide if they want to call it art or not.













  • As some muslims in a muslim theocracy don’t think they are the only worthy to be saved: they go around saying they know they are.

    Which is the universal annoying self-centered people who have no real nation, religion or actual belongship: they give a fuck about their flag/religion/social group only in the measure it serve their damaged, narcissistic, ego.






  • One year ago, right at the beginning of the petition, PirateSoftware came out misreading the initiative by suggesting the idea the petition was about forcing indie developer to host their server, at their expense, forever and other stupid idea on this line. A fabricated these narrative to act as the typical popular youtubers that say endlessly: “this is st0pid, they are st0pid”. The fabricated narrative confused other popular YouTubers with mixed feelings; and there was very little support. This assured PirateSoftware the first place on the youtube rankings when you search for “stop killing games”, plus had lot of kids brainwashed into thinking " this is st0pid". This kind of criticism never went away completely, the were partially silenced by the very recent roaring as people understood correctly what it was actually about. As SKG keep hitting its milestone the angered roar did lowered, so now you can ear again the “this is st0pid” team



  • Copy of the claims

    clams: False “No Funding” Declaration

    evidences:

    Multiple media interviews identifying Scott as handling “the standard day-to-day work of running the Stop Killing Games initiative”

    Scott described as the primary strategic decision-maker and public spokesperson throughout the campaignConservative Professional Value Assessment:•Intensive Periods: “Many weeks” of 12-14 hours/day during critical campaign phases

    Conservative Estimate: 15-20 weeks at high intensity (12-14 hours/day) = 1,260-1,960 hours

    Regular Campaign Work: Additional ongoing daily campaign management throughout 12+ month period

    Professional Rate: €50-75/hour for campaign management/advocacy services (market rate)•Minimum Estimated Value: €63,000-147,000 in professional contribution

    **Additional Considerations: **

    This represents only documented intensive periods, not total campaign involvement

    Scott has managed strategic decisions, media relations, and operational leadership throughout

    Even conservative calculations show contribution exceeding €500 threshold by 125-295 times



  • What’s the difference between ARM and x86 other than proprietary?

    Both ARM and x86 are proprietary, innovation is made differently tho.

    Arm holding set new standard for the broader concept of innovation, trying to gather as many companies possible to further innovate in their own way and as many companies possible.

    X86 is mostly ruled by Intel and the way Intel manufacture things; AMD is thrown in the mix both both need to be cautions around their business: it’s in their hope no third party interfere with what and how X86 are manufactured.

    RiscV is the ultimate goal: a platform not owned by anyone, which anyone is free to innovate for their propose (like Linux’s kernel which power big Super Computers mainframes, desktop pc or table clock: there’s a root capability, then everything extend from there by its purpose.).

    How is steam an ARM store? (Genuine question not a disagreement)

    It’s not an ARM store in the sense they sell ARM hardware; but the store itself (also) runs on ARM CPU: to have a piece of software (such as Steam, as the steam client you download and install) run on different platform, you need some work to be done: CDProjekt did the job for CyberPunk 2077 (for the Nintendo Switch 2) as Valve did the job for Steam (for the MACs)

    What specific brands/companies/developers do you see becoming relevant in this context within the next year?

    Intel could come in to play, the reason they are not “seriously” in the RISC business is because the conflict of interest with “their” X86.

    Both Nvidia and AMD are already in both ARM and RiscV business.

    Any company in the smartphone business can join in: they just need ARM binaries (CPU) and full Vulkan support (GPU)

    Will this translate to more budget friendly pc-gaming options?

    You can buy a ARM Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (and alike) for about ~15$, add this a MicroSD, a K/M and a screen to attach to hdmi, and you have a fully fledged Linux PC with basic office capabilities.

    I am a former pc-gamer. Built my last PC in 2009. Even then it was a budget build (AMD gfx).

    A Raspberry Pi 4 B 2GB would cost about ~40€ (there are cheaper chinese variant) would match a 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB ram and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330. You can power it with a powerbank.


  • They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.

    You’re wrong, your presumption assume one single person to download a single file he/she never ear about.

    What’s most likely, people download ROMs for nostalgia, ie: something they, or their parents, bought them when they were children. So, if we assume someone download their “childhood library” which was already paid, of about ~30 cartridge (admitted the download is the right one, and didn’t required multiple download attempt); in the view of the FBI, that single person “stole” 3180 USD he/she paid ~20 years ago.

    You’re not just supposed to lose the things you bought, you’re supposed to be fined (for attempt to play the product you already paid) with price updated to current industry standard.