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Hey, I’ve seen this one!

I’d rather experts make decisions instead of having a big general vote. The UK fucked themselves in the worst ways possible in a referendum vote because a whole bunch of them hate immigrants. Don’t think Canadians wouldn’t do the same thing. We’d vote for 200 years of isolation over a half decent trade deal just because people don’t like Trump and are willing to harm themselves if slightly inconveniences him.

Me too. Here’s the full pic:

Penisula

I’m confused too. It lists programs aimed at helping people become productive members of society, so my best guess is it’s suggesting not paying for these programs would lead to social issues that have a larger cost.

The generic profile pic vs anime girl profile pic adds so much

In a statement on Tuesday, Nadler said that the decision to step down “has not been easy.” “But I know in my heart it is the right one and that it is the right time to pass the torch to a new generation,” he said.

He’s 78 years old.

In the book 1984, one of the characters postulates that in any system of government there are 3 groups. The unwashed masses comprising 90% of people, the elite who are better than everyone else making up 1% of people, and a middle buffer of 9% of people. The buffer is used by the elite to keep the unwashed masses from uprising. Anyone from the 90% who looks like they might be trouble for the 1% gets to be in the 9%. They get treated a bit better in exchange for defending the status quo. Perhaps if they defend it hard enough they can be given a spot among the 1%!

I believe the argument made by this character is supposed to be flawed, but it ends up being pretty believable. The “middle class” would be the buffer zone of people who defend the status quo in exchange for slightly better treatment by the 1% than the average person gets.

When you ended your last post with “it feels like I’m close to the end” I couldn’t wait to see how you’d react to the switching sides thing! Seems like you took it better than most!

SNAKE 🐍

They’re both amazing games so I don’t think there’s a wrong choice here. I’d say art, music, and story go to Clair Obscur while gameplay, replayability, and sex scenes go to Baldur’s Gate 3.

Also The Anacrusis

Right. The guy who faked clips boosted his skills to a level he couldn’t actually compete in. He was scouted to be part of a pro team and was kicked after they realized his videos were faked.

How does boosting affect other players?

How is using multiple accounts to play against yourself and boost your rank cheating in the actual game? No actual players are being robbed of wins.

There are several exposé videos on cheating in Rocket League. Here’s one by Sunless Khan on “Jimmy” who was on trick shot team but he was actually editing the data of replay files to produce his clips.

Another one by Wayton Pilkin on account boosting, DDoSing servers to cause legit players to have their connection dropped allowing the cheater to win by forfeit, and cheaters using invisible cars.

I’ve also heard it doesn’t run on Linux, ironically due to it’s kernel level anti-cheat.

Taking the community name a bit too literally

If the end goal is that games remain in a playable state regardless of publisher involvement, there are three possible paths.

The Hard Way - World governments, under pressure from their populace, modify international treaties to change the rules around licensing intellectual property rights. Almost certainly a pipe dream since this doesn’t just effect video games but every industry.

The Easy Way - Game companies, under pressure from consumers, relax their hard stance when it comes to revoking game licenses. This can range from promises to keep games in a functional state, to allowing private servers, to allowing self-regulation (similar to ESRB game ratings) which are done by third-parties on behalf of consumers to keep them happy and to stop governments from forcing regulation through law changes.

The Pivot - Push the Hard Way as far as possible until the game industry offers a deal to consumers to prevent any kind of government action, resulting in achieving the Easy Way.

The Non-existent way - Get a country to create legislation to stop killing games or a court to agree revoking access to games isn’t allowed. International treaties regarding IP licensing supersede any laws a country passes. The ability for companies to revoke your game licence comes from an international treaty (the TRIPS Agreement), so no single country can pass a law to change how it works. The video cites all the relevant laws and legal cases surrounding this and how the games industry has carefully crafted all their sales so they would be considered licensing under this international agreement. There is absolutely no way anyone can legally argue they “own” a game. Either international IP laws change or industry practices change.

The lawyer suggests the SKG movement isn’t clear on which of the three actual ways it wants to pursue and needs to fix that ASAP. Even the petition given to the EU flips back and forth between games being things you licence and things you own. This mismatched messaging is a legal weakness that would be exploited by any legal grad let alone multi-million dollar industry law firms.

For odds of success the video suggests that if the movement goes with The Easy Way, they will likely get token gestures like promises or allowing private servers for older games but not future ones. If they go with The Hard Way, they will be ripped to shreds by industry lawyers and lobbyists and the EU will handwave away the petition with vague platitudes and wrist slaps. However, there is a teeny-tiny chance the EU might actually seem like they’d be willing to reconsider international IP laws, in which case, the movement could time their Pivot and negotiate significant concessions with the games industry in exchange for telling the EU the issue has been settled and the petition withdrawn.