https://www.stopkillinggames.com/
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Those national thresholds have been thresholds have been reached. Now it's all about getting to 1 million signatures total.
Even if you are from a country that already reached the threshold you can still sign. Your signature counts to the 1 million goal.
Until last week I thought it was done, but somehow it flipped around. Things are looking pretty good, with massive youtubers and streamers taöking about it.
I'm glad the ball is rolling again. This can change gaming and set a precedent for other things as well.
It flipped around because the founder of the movement, Ross, of AccursedFarms on youtube... released a video giving a status report...
And spending a good deal of the video explaining how Thor, PirateSoftware on youtube... has basically been making up bullshit and spreading nonsense about SKG for months now, actively campaigning against SKG, again, based almost entirely on him jumping to hysterical, catastrophic conclusions without factual basis
After that video... basically every single AngloSphere Gamer Youtuber has been putting out videos spreading the SKG messsge, and dogpiling on Thor for being a confused, overconfident narcissist... and Thor is now double triple quadrupling down with 'im the real victim' and other such tactics often employed by manipulative narcissists facing the revelation of their public persona as essentially entirely hypocritical.
EDIT: Also, as of right now, I'm seeing 723k...
Which is roughly +20k in only 6 hours from the time this OP was made.
EDIT 2:
If you've ever heard of, or seen the Freeman's Mind series... yeah, that's Ross, basically being Freeman's internal monologue, and turning the entirety of Half Life into an action comedy bonanza.
He had more recently been attempting to get through all of HL2 this way as well, in addition to doing esoteric game reviews... untill he got so pissed about Ubisoft being able to just murder The Crew, and what is going on with all games in terms of consumer rights... that he started the SKG movement, and hasn't had much time to work on his other stuff as much.
Yeah, I'm aware of the drama. I just didn't expected this level of stonks to turn up.
Turns out people need villains with faces. And the gaming industry wasn't personable enough to truly hate.
As a data analyst with an Econ Degree and specialization in Econometrics:
Data and graphs and tables and lists mean nothing to anyone other than nerds, people need a narrative.
As a person who also has a Poli Sci degree:
Uh, the same, but with much more evidence.
A data analyst with an econ degree specialising in econometrics and a political science degree. That's awesome.
Are you the cousin that my mother foretold about?
Probably not, I'm the one that's hated and shunned and gaslit by the entire family because of how easily and often I point out that they are both hypocrites and objectively wrong about nearly every single political, economic or sociological idea they have.
But I do appreciate your validation, lol!
Yeah, got two bachelors degree's simultaneously.
Managed to do it in 4 years + 1 summer quarter.
But uh yeah, I'm basically too knowledgeable for my own good, and the autism doesn't help with dealing with abusive narcissist family members.
Oh well!
I ghosted them to the point they probably think I am actually dead.
The world is tough out there cousin brother.
I send hugs and vibes.
<3