A poor person is not to be seen as a victim of unjust society or even a fellow human being down on his luck. If you are poor it must be somehow, however indirectly or even ontologically your fault and you are automatically in morally questionable state by being poor. While a rich man must be by his earthly wealth blessed and among the god's elect. Rich man can and should be left to do what he wants because he is inherently virtuous/capable, while with the poor the attitude should be at least that of scrutiny or be that of educating them to be better or at the worst end make sure they suffer more because they deserve it.
This is pretty much the philosophical/theological underpinning of the thinking of these people.
You are still rolling the dice whenever you really need some specific specialized proprietary software. Especially if you need to get it running ASAP and without major issues. It might work out of the box with wine, or it might not. You just don't know and that
Gaming is better, but it's still gaming, just toys.
All the big adult sites will probably just die or at least shrivel in popularity. Most Europeans simply will not use whatever "tell Brussels or London where or what what you are watching" option is. In the place of the big sites there will be a billion shady and likely virus-lottery proxy sites whose only selling point is that they do not do age checking or require registration. Those then get occasionally smacked down by Brussels, just to be replaced with 10 more clones the by the next week. On the side piracy and vpns will thrive. Kids will not be protected nor will people's privacy, quality will be worse.
I would also bet that when the landscape decentralizes there will be a lot more cp, revenge and peep-videos and other illegal shit in the mix that will get through through the cracks since massive established sites had to actually fear shutdown and losing all revenue unless they had robust gatekeeping mechanisms. If Brussels wants your 2 month life-expectancy site dead anyway, because of it's only selling point of having to show id, then why really bother with the quality control of the material. Especially if site holder has no personal qualms about that stuff.
The rule of thumb is that every person that considers themselves to be non political is just a person that absorbs the ruling ideology aka. what is normal an apolitical to them from their environment, other people, media, movies, TV.
If the sentence starts with "this might be offensive, but..." then it's a different matter
It's kinda same when you hear people starting their sentences with "I'm not political, but..." and you can then be sure that for a next few seconds you will hear the most feverish liberal take possible.
Does anyone else find it suspicious there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?
Nobody here disagrees with any point of the petition. I signed it. Even if gaming companies were rushing to send shills to raid discussions they would have done it months ago and last places they would go astroturff for is this Kazakhstani anti-whaling forum. Especially when their target now is the Eu bureaucracy and MEPs. Where I might say they have not a bad chance of succeeding.
Iran really should just get the nukes. US and Israel won't treat them any worse if they do. The problem isn't Iran having nukes or even having a nuclear program, It's Iran having a non US and Israel boot licking goverment in power. Nukes are a problem because they would make overthrowing Tehran prohibitively complicated and dangerous.
Something like LÖVE would be much better for beginners. It's much more important for first projects to get results that keep you motivated than to jump on the deep end with features.
donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them
It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn't even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea's far away from actual power as possible.
I'll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.
It's just the basic logic of maturing market. They couldn't really increase the game prices that much more without affecting demands, nor could they improve efficiency of making games (the capital costs and team sizes have only gotten up) so they did the thing they could. Try to turn games from a product that the sell into a service they provide and can therefore lock people into their walled gardens and keep continuously charging fees and subscriptions. Too bad games are more of an art form than a news paper or a some tool maintenance contract is.
Are being a puppet and getting tricked mutually exclusive to you? Intelligence assets rarely have the full picture of what their handlers plans for them or their target are. Most of them think or are made to think that they are indispensable to the their masters.
Really hard to think that al-Julani consciously accepted to shake hands with western high level politicians and made the new free Syrian leader one day and the next Israeli media is making him the next Osama bin laden, while he has to flee Damascus because Israeli bombs.
many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.
A poor person is not to be seen as a victim of unjust society or even a fellow human being down on his luck. If you are poor it must be somehow, however indirectly or even ontologically your fault and you are automatically in morally questionable state by being poor. While a rich man must be by his earthly wealth blessed and among the god's elect. Rich man can and should be left to do what he wants because he is inherently virtuous/capable, while with the poor the attitude should be at least that of scrutiny or be that of educating them to be better or at the worst end make sure they suffer more because they deserve it.
This is pretty much the philosophical/theological underpinning of the thinking of these people.