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   💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:03:26 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

   If you live in the EU please for the sake of all of us who cant - if not for yourself - please sign the Stop Killing Games Petition.

   Allow future generations be able to play the games we all enjoy and make sure that when you buy something you actually OWN something.

   https://www.stopkillinggames.com/?ref=upstract.com

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     Paradox (paradox@raru.re)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:28:19 JST Paradox

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     @Rasp I've learned that there's two different kinds of games. Those that you have stored entirely on your computer, and those that are on a server. Now I know that some games give you the option to host a private server. Pubg does this, last I checked. I watched both of Thor's videos and I wondered why more companies don't sell the ability to do that. A live service game with two products. You can buy the client, which allows you to play the game on the company's servers, with friends around the world; or buy the server, which allows you to play it with people you know, even if the company's server is down or dead.

     He said a bunch of other stuff that I partly agreed with, others seemed meh to me, and I don't wanna have an opinion on whether the wording of the proposal is useful.

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     💜 Dr. Blight ❤️ (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:48:21 JST 💜 Dr. Blight ❤️

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     • Paradox

     @Paradox the wording is the way it is because it's the easiest way to get it through the EU parliament. That's it.

     Because the team was focused on... you know... winning.

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     Paradox (paradox@raru.re)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 11:05:51 JST Paradox

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     @Rasp Oh yeah he did mention that. He said it was icky and skeevy to go about it that way. Especially since it was purported as an easy pass about something politicians didn't understand with no consequence (I'm sorry but games are a huge industry, I find it hard to believe none would care about legislation regarding them).
     And I can kinda sympathize with that. Like I think we can do better. That's like how political parties here like to sneak in stuff into super important bills just so their fellow congress members will vote yay just to get a move on.