• The EU Citizens petition to stop killing games is not looking good. It’s shy of halfway where it needs to be, on a very high threshold, and it’s over in a month and change.
  • paraphrasing a little more than a half hour of the video: “Man, fuck Thor/Pirate Software for either lying or misunderstanding and signal boosting his incorrect interpretation of the campaign.”
  • The past year has been quite draining on Ross, so he’s done campaigning after next month.
  • It will still take a few years for the dust to clear at various consumer protection bureaus in 5 different countries, and the UK’s seems to be run by old men who don’t understand what’s going on.
  • At least The Crew 2 and Motorfest will get offline modes as a consolation prize?
  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    592·
    23 hours ago

    Ah you know, not the outcome I hoped for but it’s exactly what I expected from humans.

    paraphrasing a little more than a half hour of the video: “Man, fuck Thor/Pirate Software for either lying or misunderstanding and signal boosting his incorrect interpretation of the campaign.”

    I agreed with Ross previously that Thor taking a really dumb fuck position helped get more attention on the issue that was, IMO, as hopeless as trying to get the masses to care about or understand Net Neutrality. That was what I saw repeated and upvoted at the time even before Thor revealed himself to be a gigantic narcissistic nepo baby bullshitter more recently.

    If you watched the vid OP, what changed his opinion? I’ll check it out once I’m home from work regardless.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      23 hours ago

      what changed his opinion?

      The metrics on signatures for the citizens’ initiative. If it helped, it would have boosted those too, but it didn’t. He also got word that at least one very large YouTuber/streamer that he did not name decided to stay quiet about SKG because it would have contradicted Thor.

      I’ll also reiterate that 1M signatures out of a population of 450M is an absurdly high threshold to have to reach, so getting 1/10th of that is still impressive, even if it’s unsuccessful.

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        13 hours ago

        He also got word that at least one very large YouTuber/streamer that he did not name decided to stay quiet about SKG because it would have contradicted Thor.

        So, Asmongold. Got it!

      • Stamau123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        23 hours ago

        Fuck whoever stayed quiet then

        “Oh no, I might contradict the annoying moron who is wrong! I can’t be seen as being on the opposite of that!”

        • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          7 hours ago

          Man, so many influencers do this. It’s really a shame what kind of world we are building. People who actually have reach - influencers, staying quiet about real issues in fear of cutting the hand that feeds them. Off topic but damn if it doesn’t hold true.

      • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        281·
        23 hours ago

        It’s all incredibly online, but searching the keywords “piratesoftware WoW drama onlyfangs” will get the ball rolling if you want to see a prime example of how a narcissist acts when getting caught out very publicly. He also embellished his past a lot and that got parroted in every thread mentioning him for months, so that shouldn’t be hard to stumble upon.

        • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
          162·
          18 hours ago

          Don’t forget throwing his LGBT fans under the bus to have a happy conversation with asmongold and basically inviting the cunts fanbase to harass his LGBT viewers.

          Then when said viewers tell him that he was wrong for that and now they are being harassed, he said people were trying to cancel him for having a normal conversation with asmongold about a video game.

          That shit pissed me off so much. Pretentious cunt…

          • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            16 hours ago

            I hadn’t heard about that since I quit reddit. That might be the new best of the worst examples of his incapability of admitting fault ever.