#Gaming nowadays feels consumerist: buying expensive games for the same content (or with slight variations on it), potential AI slop, and companies know kids are getting worse attention spans, so I'm pretty sure games will be engaging not for their content, but for their flashy stuff.

Also, initiatives like #StopKillingGames shows that as gaming is getting modern we're loosing control over games; nowadays you don't buy your games, you rent them.

#PirateAAA, buy #indie and #retro.

#RetroGaming

Ross Scott's campaign on ownership of games: my high respect for the man & RUDE, UNSOLICITED ADVICE!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/rK4cBsD9mUUQZDq2cEt9mT

Response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/hHZSiVuu1F25L6QcsyMv8o

Nelle ultime settimane, si è ricominciato a parlare di #StopKillingGames dopo l'avvenuta verifica delle firme e - non essendo più così tanto giovine - ho ricordato i "bei-cari-vecchi-tempi" con un amico pressoché coetaneo...

Tempi in cui - per i #LiveService a pagamento - proliferavano progetti #OpenSource (distribuiti tramite #SVN) di server privati che era possibile hostare sulla propria macchina, così da giocare con BEN 16 amici alla volta, usando servizi (allora gratuiti) come #Hamachi.

Techdirt: Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU. “In order to compel the EU Parliament to take up the issue in session, the petition needed to achieve 1 million signatures. That happened last summer. Step 2 in the process is a review by the EU to validate those signatures, to be sure there is no shady [beeeeep-TJC] in them. And that just happened, with the […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115989870475908904

Perfect Stop killing Games, made it #stopkillinggames

📢 Big week for European Citizens’ Initiatives:

🔹 “Stop Destroying Videogames” has reached the required threshold and is now under Commission examination.

🔹 Explore all officially registered initiatives, including the newest one from this week.

Read more here: https://link.europa.eu/PC8mbQ

#StopKillingGames #gaming

Stop Destroying Videogames initiative to get a public hearing organised by the European Parliament https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/stop-destroying-videogames-initiative-to-get-a-public-hearing-organised-by-the-european-parliament/

#EU #Gaming #StopDestroyingVideogames #StopKillingGames

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/stop-killing-games-gets-over-1-million-petition-signatures-verified-by-eu/