They’re also the most complicated, and the production budgets, the resources available for archival, are often higher on blockbuster movies, as well as the barrier to entry being lower, for them to participate in archival, there’s no such thing as spaghetti code in a movie

Like, why games first, unless you’re specifically trying to tamp down their profitability as compared to other forms of media? I’m suspicious that this is the kind of shit the MPAA would pull because they’re getting outcompeted.

Like, I don’t want to be misconstrued; I want to live in a world where this stuff is possible. I guess I just feel like Stop Killing Games is shortsighted in its current form, and will get caught on some technicality like this, that will ultimately sink it.

My hope is that if it comes to failure, it will be as you say, a first step towards driving this media preservation objective, and advance the conversation.

If it passed in its current form, my fear is that it would effectively be an extra tax and burden just for choosing to make games instead of some other type of media, and I’m concerned investors would see it that way too, and move their financial support to these surer bets, ultimately harming individual game developers and lessening game releases.

Setting aside piratesoftware’s concerns (that it’s economically untenable to require devs to develop a form of their game’s source that would be publicly releasable), I’m not clear on why games should have this requirement and no other media, particularly when games are so much more complicated.

If we can’t even require physical releases of any show or movie or album, because the company still owns the copyright and might choose to profit from it in the future, how can we expect active investment in the unwinding of their copyright from devs? Seems a double standard.

Trump is terrified of the truth and its triumph over his treasonous trickery.

The same head-in-the-sand strategy that caused so many deaths got our numbers down on covid-19

Marcus, this is very serious, you can’t look at porn while in the office.

Do they… Do they know we already have txt files?

This is known as the “stop hitting yourself” dilemma

Goes hard

This is like the tee-up to an infomercial targeted at Jesus

Oh, we’re allowed to talk about it outside of Israeli Signal, now?

How quickly the goalposts move, very convenient

But yeah, I generally agree, I’m not the one that framed the discussion that way.

The only meaningful lines of division are along class groups, as the upper class continually consolidates wealth and decision-making power. It’s just that most rich people are also old.

You’re tone policing a shitposting sub but I’m the one who needs to chill okay sure

If the average age is above any millennial, they couldn’t be the majority group. It makes no sense to pin blame on a younger generation when the reins of power are being clung to by the elder generation across all imaginable contexts, not just game development.

The average age of a manager in gaming is 45 and the oldest millennial is 44 lol get mathed idiot

This meme is mfw this meme because I saw it as the message of Russian propaganda last week

It’s weird that nobody even considers systemic change as a possibility anymore

I mean obviously we’ll need to hold another election before we can get somebody else in there and even see an opportunity, but if actual accountability were implemented that targets this, if citizens united would stop leaking billionaire influence into our groundwater, you COULD restore faith in America.

I guess the issue is, how possible is any kind of anti-oligarchism policy, when they hold the whole government? And once, IF, we get the chance, is there anyone with the competency to get it implemented? Or will we blow it like we have every time since the reconstruction?

What I hope happens is we oust him and do some serious work on our systems that prevents stuff like this.

Though the track record of our leaders is pretty depressing, maybe they’re starting to wake up now that we get to see Endgame Capitalism

All he has succeeded in doing is violently ripping the US away from its place at the center of the global hegemony.

Which is not great for those of us in the US, but honestly had to happen, the rest of the world clearly cannot depend on us. Our entire political system is built on honor systems and pinky promises, the rich can do whatever they please and never see accountability.

All our elevators are garbage because the children refuse to mine straight up or down

Had you fooled for a while though, didn’t we? 👉😉👉