Spoken like somebody who hasn’t experience racism or bigotry.

“racism and bigotry must be protected at any cost”

Microslop definitely asked told him to use AI.

This ain’t it!

Chief

Fuck Google. Can’t we fork their shit? Let them close their platform while we keep it open.

If any group complaining about something makes it “controversial”, then everything is controversial and the word loses all meaning.

They do have an “Owners” forum (the default is the Non-Owners for those who don’t own the game). I imagine the non-owners forum is there to provide an opportunity for non-owners to ask genuine questions about the game, but that obviously isn’t happening. Maybe you’re right and they should just make it owners only. I don’t know if it would be visible to others though.

The forums are just full of bigotted trolls who want to see the game fail.

It “controversial” because racists and bigots made it that way. There was no controversy about other heist games, there’s no “controversy” about games with all-white characters. But put in a diverse group of character, that steal back what was stolen and suddenly that’s “controversial”.

Sure, I won’t travel to Gaza and say “wow, so many dead people here” and act surprised, but if I stumble upon a dead body on a playground, you betcha it’s at least a little surprising.

Or it becomes a popular trolling target with a cry of “they can’t take us all down” and it gets worse.

For anybody saying “it’s not a problem, just moderate it yourself”, look at Relooted’s steam forum. There are more than 700 threads there and most of them are really not kind. Tell me how you’re going to moderate that.

Just put yourself in the shoes of game publishers or studios that make a game which goes against the grind and gets attacked like Relooted is being attacked. Would you want to employ somebody just to moderate the forums? Should the onus be on the forum owners or should it be on the forum providers (Valve)? Do you think this has no effect on the types of games being released?

I mean, look at this game Tyrone vs Cops 2. Is this OK? What do you think the forum discussions look like. Are they OK? If it’s only devs that should moderate their forums, that means the KKK could make game about water lillies and then have their forums be the meeting ground for white power discussions. They won’t be offended after-all. That’s OK?

It would make Europeans happy that are trying to reduce their US tech consumption.

Are you going to release it on GoG?

Oh boy… I see lots of crunch in the future of those poor devs.

I think it’s really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don’t give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven’t since the beginning and won’t start now.

As if it’d be better run by private interests in the US 😂

The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.

“incentive”

Also, isn’t this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don’t seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have “record-breaking fourth quarter” and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious

They are doing you a favour. Thank them.

Thank you!

Requires a login. Is it available anywhere without a google account?

I mean, if you sign a letter, you’re on the shitlist already. Might as well join the union if you’re going to get canned anyway.

Why don’t they join the union?

Sure, the FTC will tell Saudi Arabia of all countries to not dump billions into the US economy elite’s pockets.

I just watched the playthrough and there’s already a film adaptation in the works.

We should all be reporting these racist fucks and their reviews too.

I don’t know how to make Valve aware of the blatant racism going on. Maybe they only look at twitter and reddit and there needs to be a “shitstorm” about the harassment the devs are facing. It’s despicable how it just continues to happen and there doesn’t seem to be a “account banned for improper conduct” on most of those fasches.

It better be. They stole saved so many artifacts!

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?

TIL voting is lobbying

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.

Gib sauce!

Keep signing it! Don’t stop!

Oh that’s good. I like that.

And fuck you too btw PirateSoftware :)

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 🤷‍♂