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  • Op was on lemm.ee before moving, his contributions aren’t a recent thing.

    Ah, I see - do you just happen to know them or is there a way to check for this kind of thing?

    If he would be what you call a repost-bot the links would likely be from more random low-quality sources and also wouldn’t be neatly posted to the most relevant community.

    I might be wrong about the nature of the account, that’s why I’m asking after all, but I wouldn’t agree with that definition at all.
    What I see here is an account with 264 Posts (8 per day!) and a mere 3 Comments and that just doesn’t look like a person interested in engaging with other persons but like an automatism to deliberately pump content into communities - which in turn rings my alarm bells.






  • In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

    Why even bother asking industry outlets about this? Clearly they will just keep on trying to paint the picture that they’re people with rights and desires and not just replaceable entities serving at the behest of consumers, i.e. actual people.

    Unfortunately, even if the Stop Killing Games movement eventually succeeds in creating some sort of policy changes, they will only apply in the EU (and potentially the UK, as well), so publishers and developers may still be able to permanently shut down games in other parts of the world.

    Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn’t something that came about randomly.








  • Not really, it’s just logical conclusion of believing in a project but then watching it fail repeatedly, and finally questioning whether it’s worth saving. His actual proposal is for a deeper democratic federalism, but he doesn’t think that will fly, because he’s disappointed.

    Ok, there’s a big disconnect here. I’ll try to convey what I’m seeing when I read that sentence:
    “Here’s this complex and unique alliance structure, a transnational proto-pseudo-state, brought into being over the course of generations of humans, not only to keep the most wartorn region on a planet full of quarrelsome monkeys at peace - a task at which, through its multiple iterations, it has excelled at for almost 80 years - but also to slowly put its constituent nations into a mindset of cooperation instead of competition.
    … anyway, let’s apply some completely different arbitrary success criteria, determine this arguably staggering and most unlikely achievement of the human race a failure and suggest to tear it down, what could go wrong?”