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If you look into the history of Chris Roberts you’ll know it’s not a scam. Roberts is one of the few creatives I’d say actually needs an executive board to hold him back, because he’ll never stop and actually finish something.
I don’t think there’s a single project Roberts has finished on his own accord. He has always been made to finish.
But the people on the right are also pushing for censorship. You’re just choosing what flavour of censorship.
In America you don’t have any other parties with more moderate idealogies either. It’s either the one or the other.
So before you go voting for a literal criminal as the opposition, why not first burn down your shitty system and rebuild something better.
Hmm… Good question… They’ll have to be the kind of videogame that was the first to do something, or set the standard for something, or has had a huge, long lasting cultural impact that can still be felt today.
So in that hypothetical museum I’d nominate:
- Pong.
- Tetris.
- Donkey Kong arcade game.
- Super Mario.
- Super Mario 64.
- Crash Bandicoot
- Metroid (the first one).
- Castlevania (the original one).
- Hollow Knight.
- Mario Kart.
- The Legend of Zelda (the first one).
- TES III Morrowind.
- TES V Skyrim.
- Doom (the original one).
- Half Life.
- Counter Strike (the original one).
- Ultima.
- Ultima Online.
- Dune (the RTS game).
- Warcraft.
- World of Warcraft.
- Age of Empires II, perhaps alongside the Definitive Edition.
- Sid Meier’s Civilisation (the first one).
- Final Fantasy (the first one).
- Chrono Trigger.
- Minecraft (as much as I hate it).
- Elite (the first one).
- Wing Commander Privateer Gold.
- 3D Space Cadet Pinball.
It’s all nice and dandy, you coming in here talking all this nonsense, but then you completely lack any historical knowledge on tech or how we got here today, so I’m far more informed than you are.
Yes, so go out of this conversation, and stay out of this conversation until you’ve at least bothered to educate yourself.
… Many more people saw the video because they want to watch (a) video. It will have a bigger impact.
This is the only part that matters.
NONE of that answers any of the concerns that video as a format of record is shortsighted and transient.
Nobody cares. Convenience matters.
It does address the issue of LANGUAGE.
There is no issue with language. The movement achieved 1.4 million signatures as intended despite Ross’ videos being in English.
Writing an essay doesn’t change this either… Unless… You’re somehow suggesting that Google Translate does a good job? That would be laughable. I really hope you’re not.
It doesn’t address the issue of ACCESSIBILITY.
YouTube has the most accessibility.
It doesn’t address the issue of ARCHIVAL (archiving?).
Only if Ross has deleted the video and the video project files from his computer.
But… Um… You do understand this initiative is more than a few videos on YouTube, right? So there’s a lot of “paper”-work surrounding it, including both written and recorded reactions to this initiative from muitiple parties.
If history preservation is such a BIG concern for you, you should know this is more than enough evidence for some far future archaeologist to piece together what this is all about.
Many countries in the EU already tax the rich. I mean, it could be better. It could be a lot better, and we still have right-wing types that try to destroy that positive element within the EU.
But of all the countries that would benefit the most from heavily taxing the rich, it would be the US. And since the US has made itself the centre of all the world’s attention, and the whole world still uses the USD as the primary exchange currency, anything that would shake up the economy of the US would shake up the economy of the world.
In other words:
“We don’t want to put resources towards optimising our product. We don’t care if the methods we built our product with make it more difficult to use, while regressing in several key visual aspects. The burdon of our shortcomings will be placed on the end user, who will have to spend their resources to out-power them.”