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Will somebody shoot this guy to make him a martyr?


I just hope he learned from the first time and gets some people involved that can make a loud splash about this. If they just repeat what they did, it’ll die in the crib.


I’m curious about that. Democracy Internation has a course on how to fundraise for an ECI

Together with experts, we will discuss your most pressing questions around fundraising for a European citizens’ initiative:

What are the sources of funding for an ECI? How to appraoch large-donors and how to frame your campaign? How, and in what circumstances, do you have to report funding received for an initiative?



No of course not. Only what you approve as activism is activism 👌 And using official channels is certainly not activism.



Stop Killing Games should be asking for donations to get the people involved to have meetings with representatives in the EU commission. The big, shitty gaming companies that are firing devs en masse and just out to make money have their lobbyists. If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.






Even sadder is that there are no popular EU streamers throwing their weight behind the initiative. What are they waiting for? Does PewDiePie still stream games?


Would be better if citizens actually cared and didn’t dream of becoming the USA 🤷‍♂


Games are a luxury that happen to be the biggest market of the entertainment industry with more revenue than music and movies combined.


This isn’t “just a petition”. It’s a formal path to get a response from the EU commission. If it reaches the thresholds, the EU commission is forced by law to consider it. It isn’t some random petition that can be filed away and never heard of again.


Which is exactly what the EU Citizen’s Initiative is about 👌


Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet. Globally it generates more money than music and movies combined. Germany alone had an estimated 49 million players in 2022 (wikipedia), with France 45 million and Italy 36 million. Even if they were wrong by one decimal that would still make more than 12 million in those 3 countries alone.

The vast majority of European gamers are just too lazy to do anything in their own self-interest. It’s embarrassing.


I understand why he’s frustrated. EU citizens are just so damn lazy and won’t help themselves. I’ve told all my friends and family, brought it up at parties and other gatherings to anybody who plays games. But there are EU gamers (streamers and consumers alike) who are chronically online, on every proprietary platform out there and who don’t give 2 shits about the campaign.

Edit: Fuck Thor.



I know I’m not offended by a language changing. Dunno about you 🤷‍♂



Literally Cambridge University in 2004 and recently again

You will often hear less used with plural countable nouns in informal spoken situations, but traditionally it is not considered to be correct:

We’ve got less pizzas than we need. There’s ten people and only eight pizzas. (traditionally correct usage: fewer pizzas)

And a good blog post on the topic that actually fits to this situation

He goes on to point out what less/fewer purists often ignore: that even countables may, in a given context, be considered as quantities rather than numbers. “For instance: 'Not many of these buildings are fewer than thirty years old.’ The thought here is not of individual years but of a period of time; therefore, less.”

Which is precisely what’s happening here.



“I never write reviews on anything”. Well, maybe this’ll teach him to do so next time.


Do you know what you’re talking about or are you just assuming stuff? Tell me, what is a “European Citizens’ Initiative”?


Do you even know what the difference between a “European Citizens’ Initiative” and petition is?




Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)

A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word franchise as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.”[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_franchise






Oh shit, really? Do you have a source for that?


I wish they worked with opensource projects like Heroic to provide an easy and fast way to run their games on Linux like in Steam. And if they provided a donation option or something to fund that work.


So it takes up to 15 minutes to apply (if successful) and has to be done every time you start your XBox 360. It’s great that there’s no hardware changes involved so even I could make changes, but at every boot?


Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.

Also Person “why is nobody moving?”.





It’ll make calculating steam sale prices quite easy, won’t it?