Honestly if someone more physically attractive was made to be the spokesman for this initiative it would have fared better.

Ross only made SKG as a way to skirt around his poor work ethic as Game Dungeon episodes grind to a halt and he quietly shelves Freeman's Mind 2.
It was never about anything else, he needed an excuse to stop making fun videos so he chose some weird altruistic grift.
And for some reason he just completely ignored that this is a problem for Eastern games too, probably because he hates anime. More on that later.

Same vibe

>>713542208 (OP)
Honestly depending on Eurotards to do anything was the already the death knell for this entire movement.

>>713542428
Who else if not Yuropoors?
Ameritards love sucking corporate dick.

>>713542208 (OP)
The EU has bigger problems right now than making dead Live service games playable.

>>713542208 (OP)
Don't think anyone ever cared about it.

>>713542381
I'm no expert but my gut tells me Japan is in a similar state to America where there is no real path to victory for the cause.

>>713542208 (OP)
He never wanted to be the face of it

>>713542208 (OP)
*does nothing*

>>713542381
>he just completely ignored that this is a problem for Eastern games too
What? The movement is called Stop Killing Games, not Stop Killing Western Games.

>>713542552
So does the EU clearly since an American did all the work.

>>713542381
TRVKE

>>713542208 (OP)
Watching the last video really showed how short-sighted he was in trying to gain publicity.

>>713542381
hes been talking about this sort of thing since forever, and he makes no money from the movement. hes actually losing money because hes spending so much time on it and isnt putting out more videos.

if he wanted to stop making making videos hed just do that. theres no financial incentive

>>713542208 (OP)
If he would cut his hair, shave his face, his neck, his chest, then maybe it would have worked? I don’t understand why somebody would willingly look like this.

>>713543286
He's a metalhead rockstar wannabe.

>>713542208 (OP)
He should just be a gordon freeman vtuber

>>713543415
But his hairline is receding and he has zero muscle mass.

>>713542208 (OP)
Ross is very loveable so i disagree

>>713542208 (OP)
He could at least wash his fucking hair and trim that hideous goatee if he wants to make hour long videos with his face

>>713542428
There was nothing on the burger front because you literally have no rights. You're owned by corporations and they can do anything they want with your souls.

>>713544497
I'm glad my fellow Eurobros want to emulate us so much by failing this petition.

>>713542208 (OP)
Video games, faggot, VIDEO GAMES!

>>713542405
Why does this man make so many people seethe?

>>713542208 (OP)
Kill games. Behead games. Roundhouse kick a game into the concrete. Slam dunk a game baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy games. Defecate in a game's food. Launch games into the sun. Stir fry games in a wok. Toss games into active volcanoes. Urinate into a game's gas tank. Judo throw games into a wood chipper. Twist games heads off. Report games to the IRS. Karate chop games in half. Curb stomp pregnant woke games . Trap games in quicksand. Crush games in the trash compactor. Liquefy games in a vat of acid. Eat games. Dissect games. Exterminate games in the gas chamber. Stomp games skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate games in the oven. Lobotomize games . Mandatory abortions for games. Grind game developers in the garbage disposal. Drown games in fried chicken grease. Vaporize games with a ray gun. Kick old games down the stairs. Feed games to alligators. Slice games with a katana.

>>713544615
retard

>>713542208 (OP)
Buy on GoG and pirate everything else. Avoid online only games, unless maybe free to play, but you might get attached to it anyway it will suck once it gets shut down.

>the EU in Cyberpunk 2077 is less corrupt and corporate-owned than the real world EU
Fucking lmao

>>713542208 (OP)
Or maybe he could have actually done anything to get more publicity.

>>713546590
Yeah. Like be more popular.

>>713544670
same reason you do. you're trying to

>>713542750
why not hire a pr guy then?

>>713549656
with what money

>>713549792
fundraise it

>>713544670
>Why does this man make so many people seethe?

He made every demographic angry with stupid bullshit, and he's angry at everyone except H-1Bs.

>>713543461
He's going for the Devin Townsend look.

>>713542208 (OP)
he has hair in weird places

>>713545051
Nigger the first couple of posts in this thread are specifically about ecelebs and only about 5 others refer directly to the initiative. Anon's right, this isn't about video games

>>713544670
Leftist hated him since he flipped out and called a diver who rescued children from a flooded cave a pedo because the diver saved them faster than he could build a mini-submarine to do it (they always disliked him and were just looking for a reason).
Liberals hated him after he joined the Trump Campaign
The Alt-Right hated him once they learned that he supported H-1B Visas and the flooding of the country with poos.
Neocons hated him after he became a loud coked up autist smashing his way through government
Trump Loyalists hated him once Trump dropped him

The only people who still like him are tech libertarians because he is their final idealized selves.

>>713552469
It is all literally about video games and you're a retard

>>713553298
>The only people who still like him are tech libertarians because he is their final idealized selves.
oh, huh, that's why I still like him
Don't get me wrong, he's pretty retarded when it comes to his image, but I still have a high opinion of him thanks to the programs he's helped initiate.
Anyone feel free to poke holes in my view of him by pointing towards "the real heroes" behind Starlink and the brainchip thing. It'd be funny if his last fanbase got soiled, and I prioritize comedy over being right.

Mesoamerican history anon here, I will answer any question people have about Aztec, Maya etc history and archeology if (you) can prove you (or a friend you convinced) signed the EU petition!

https://www.stopkillinggames.com

Realistically I tend to answer any question I see and have time to anyways, but I'm not sure what else I can do/offer to encourage signatures, if people have ideas let me know

>>713555275
did they really play basketball with people's heads?

>>713555275
I don't live in the EU or know anyone who does but was there gay shit going on in these regions and time periods like there was in rome?

>>713542208 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sJpTCitKqw

>>713555275
You spam here all the time though, and you're a faggot that gets everything wrong

>>713542208 (OP)
He has that grifter vibe to him.

>>713555147
I think him being the genius behind starlink and branchips isn't mutually exclusive with him being mentally retarded in other fields, particularly social ones

>>713556296
That's what I currently believe, yes.
I'm simply inviting other anons to prove me wrong, which is a win/win for me.

>>713542208 (OP)
t. fag

>>713542405
this guy is living proof you can't lift or buy your way out of autism.

>>713555275
I think what I'll do is give short, halfass answers to most people to keep the thread bumped, and will go in depth as I can possibly justify spending time on for people who can prove they voted

Again, I want better ideas to incentive voting, so if anyone has any, let me know

>>713555343
Probably not. There's symbolic connections between the ballgame and combat or sacrifice, especially beheadings, which is seen in murals or reliefs around ballcourts and myths like the Popol Vuh, but as far as I have been able to research and can recall, there's no evidence of heads actually being used as balls, or even normal, career players being sacrificed via any method after winning or losing

There are records of sacrifices at ball courts via beheading for the Aztec, but who the victims were is unspecified, it being a player vs a captured soldier or someone else is speculation. That being said some ballgames may have been gladiatorial with captives being forced to play amongst the Maya, and I wouldn't be surprised if those players were sacrificed after games

>>713555396
Depends on how you interpret certain sources and it may depend on which civilization. The Spanish claimed sodomy and male prostitutes could be found around say the Gulf Coast (but that could just be them making stuff up to justify conquest), and today Muxe are a thing in Zapotec communtiies (but it's unclear if it was a prehispanic concept or not), and say the Florentine Codex states claim being gay/trans/etc was severely punished via execution by the Mexica of the Aztec capital. However, the Mexica are also kind of prudes in general, and the Nahuatl passages aren't as harsh on it as the Spanish ones, potentially suggesting that how harshly it was viewed was played up to appeal to Spanish sensibilities, though it's not like the Nahuatl text is accepting of it either, it was more just being deviant rather then something you'd get killed over.

ran out of space

>>713559094
>>713555396
cont:

There's also at least one Nahuatl poem/song where the emperor Axayacatl takes a liking to a male dancer and they bone, but if this actually represents an accepted instance of homosexuality, it being conditionally okay due to the power/class dynamics a la the Greeks/Romans, or if it's intended to make Axayacatl look bad via being lustful and committing vices is debated.

>>713555885
>You spam here all the time though

Which is why I'm wanting better ideas of how I can leverage my autistic passion to encourage people to vote

>and you're a faggot that gets everything wrong
Post an example and I'll either concede I was mistaken, or post sources and proof that what I said was right.

>>713556094
Ross is too autistic for that. You ever hear his ramblings in a game dungeon episode?

lol what a loser how dare he actualy care for state of games and try to make it better

>>713542208 (OP)
Why do they keep deleting these threads?

>>713555275
Mesoanon keeps being the most based guy on this site, keep up the good work.

>>713561363
ubisoft pays for 4chan to not be too critical of them

>>713561363
Jannies hate videogame discussion on the videogame board
a gacha coomthread died for this thread y'know

Critical and Mutahar just made videos on it. Critical's nearly has a million views and Muta's is at half. Both clown on PirateSoftware for being a retard.

>>713561363
>Why do they keep deleting these threads?
Back when it first started there was actual CP spammed in the general threads by someone attempting to have them auto shut down. A single janny kept moving the threads to /pol/ since it was 'political' but in reality it was because they didn't want to clean it up. Since then they just nuke them quickly because of that.

>>713561879
The only thing I love almost as much as Mesoamerica is advocating against absurd IP laws and for our digital civil liberties

On that note people should follow/support the EFF as well, though apparently they balked on supporting StopKillingGames, sadly (allegedly they tend to be skittish about actually supporting regulatory action to protect this sort of thing, even if they're fine advocating against bad regulation that would help megacorps)

>>713562568
>be a janny
>don't want to clean up threads
what gives?

>>713557706
>lift
What? He's a DYEL

>>713556296
>him being the genius behind starlink and branchips
he isn't
He's a salesman, his job is to hype techbros and investors with cool woah tech, it's his brand
He has 0 technical knowledge about any of his enterprises, his own engineers said they had to make up issues he could "solve" so he wouldn't feel the need to meddle with important stuff.
Cybertruck is what happenes when he has creative input

>>713552469
how can you talk about the initiative without talking about its creator?
>Hurr durr this is a thread about Bioshock, stop talking about Ken Levine

>>713562914
If that's true then fuck EFF. They should be backing this and more. There needs to be a SKG equivalent for all software licensing.

>>713564073
if the petition would've ever gotten into the EU parlament it would've been probably about all SW licensing, not vidya specifically

>>713561363
Israel is in a war so they're really banking on the corporate checks not bouncing by over committing appeasement

>>713553298
I like him because he makes normies angry with his retarded shit

>>713559094
>>713559321
fasntig
thanks anon sorry I can't actually sign

>>713542381
go to bed Thor

>>713563035
he made the rocket with the greatest lift
it still couldn't carry away his autism

Ross has a great voice. maybe its the years of machinima but he just has good pacing and delivery of his lines without feeling fake

>>713564437
It's why his rambles about a post apocalyptic future of self-driving cars on massive race tracks and Dr. Eggman being able to crash the world wide economy thanks to automated labour and his one man operation can be funny.

>>713562568
do thortrannies REALLY

>>713542208 (OP)
if jason hall hadn't been a conceited little BITCH it would have fared better too.

>>713564265
>normalfags
Say it right or go the fuck back.

>>713542208 (OP)
We’ll yeah. He’d agree. He didn’t want to be the spokesperson, only eventually stepped up because literally nobody else did.

>>713542208 (OP)
>chest hair climbing his neck
Well it wouldn't hurt to tidy up a bit.

Gamers get what they deserve.
Good thing the initiative was only a small part of the plan.

>>713542208 (OP)
>Companies have to spend millions of dollars to make their shitty slop game infinitely accessible post end of life because......
>BECAUSE THEY JUST HAVE TO, OKAY?????

>>713565287
This is the correct answer, and honestly he did a awful job but his autism is focused purely on games, he was thrust into the spotlight and he’s not good with internet drama, in fact at best I think the only times he uses the internet is to better his game knowledge and probably doesn’t interact much with social media on the whole

>>713542208 (OP)
>if
your kind favourite

>>713542208 (OP)
He was the most attractive person who was willing to put in the work.

>>713542208 (OP)
This plus also not being a racist bigot chud might have helped.
>Attacking pirate software for being a homosexual
He went out of his way to piss off normies.

>>713542405
>this image that is on the internet right now has totally been permanently removed from the internet
I like how you both believe in internet erasure magic and full frontal denial of what's right in front of you.

>>713565903
>YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

>>713565863
>gamers get what they deserve
Unironically. There are so many corporate bootlickers and brainfried normies especially on 4chin who are so complacent that they are practically castrated from even lifting a finger towards something that would ultimately benefit them. If you bite the hand that wants to feed you fresh food then you deserve the slop that gets dumped into your trough.

>>713542208 (OP)
I love Ross, but the whole "stop killing games" is a dumb idea from the get go.
99% of the time if a game dies is because there's no more interest at first place/it deserves to die. The whole idea of expecting a company to keep an online game running forever is incredibly juvenile/out of touch with our reality.

>>713542428
He tried it from multiple angles, EU was just the last big attempt on the table.

>>713542208 (OP)
Bro looks like Cyraxx

>>713566645
>expecting a company to keep an online game running forever
I assume this is bait but hearing this repeated and Ross stating that this has never been the intention over and over again must get tiring

>>713542208 (OP)
>put THAT face on your campaign
>pick the crew out of all game as your main example
>"Why no one is signing reeeee"
It is a mystery indeed

>>713566645
If you look back at his older content its because Ross values the potential for a game to inspire someone over its actual quality.
Go watch the old darkspore video, he thinks the game is garbage but the potential for something in the game to inspire someone is what he feels is a loss.

Everything else is a post-hoc justification for that urge and to make the argument more appealing to non artsy types.

>>713566951
The Crew is a good example. He doesn't like the story, the actual racing is meh, but the sheer scope and scale of the game traveling across the US is what made his brain tick.

>>713566951
i.e. people with no core values

>>713562452
Thor is a furry cuck but don't fucking put the sandnigger and the hobo on a pedestal when all they do is farm reaction videos for money.

>>713565903
>millions
just dump the code and any relevant tools, people will figure it out on their own time

>>713542208 (OP)
>Honestly if someone more physically attractive was made to be the spokesman for this initiative it would have fared better.

Ross might be the most attractive guy that cares about ancient shovelware GaaS.
Only the biggest giganerds and trannies care about videogame preservation.
Anything that has genuine worth is naturally preserved.

>>713567380
I don't get IP sitting, it would be one thing if they continue to get residuals from the game being sold but they don't even have that if the game literally cannot be played or bought anymore.

>>713565903
>it will take millions of dollars to make an offline mode

>>713567536
Lots of games rely on proprietary mini/microservices from other companies and tools to make a game even function.
It literally isn't as simple as "make an offline mode" companies would have to basically change giant chunks of the games engine and code just to get it to work on customer hardware

>>713567521
if they want to sell the company they can show their vault of IP to a potential buyer like a private equity firm

that's it, pure exec/investorbro faggotry

based moistman

>>713567494
I've lost count how many times I'm learning about some specific piece of history and hit a dead on something because old texts weren't kept, got destroyed or lost. Luckily humanity's knowledge has no worth according to anon as it was not naturally preserved.

>>713567521
Too expensive to produce
Too priceless to sell
Easiest and simplest solution is to do fuck all

>>713567626
>release server tools
>make a config file to allow game services to connect to a user defined server
ooooh ohhhh so hard of my poor fingies ohhh carpal tunnel owwie owwww

>>713567494
I care about it and I'm handsome and normal, but I only care enough to say I care, not enough to start/front a movement like this
I also almost exclusively play 20+ year old games so this would never personally effect me

>>713567796
does he even talk in detail about SKG or is it mainly eceleb drama about PirateSoftware

>>713567891
Column A and B.
Honestly makes me sad that Ross had to do drama slop bait for anyone to pay attention.

>>713566645
>The whole idea of expecting a company to keep an online game running forever is incredibly juvenile/out of touch with our reality.
This has literally never been the plan.
From Day 1, it's just been "when you plan to end the service plan please give users some way to host private servers to continue playing the game". You don't even have to do anything, just give away some truncated server code so it doesn't have to be completely reverse-engineered.

It's not unreasonable. There's been World of Warcraft and Ultima Online private servers for as long as the games themselves have been around and it's not like that stopped them being hyper-successful.

>>713567796
Moistman and Moldman linked up!

>>713568093
Now we just need Asmongold for the trailer trash man

>>713567969
no one cares about or respects videogames enough as a concept even if it makes more profit than any other form of modern media outside of a small percentage of actual nerds.
Which is a unique hell when most people don’t respect media in general anymore, not something meant to be indulged just devoured for the fresh dopamine hit of newness before being moved on.
Games just have a tastier dopamine hit from being so immersive

>>713567969
>Honestly makes me sad that Ross had to do drama slop bait for anyone to pay attention.
It's a good angle, though. "Support this movement to spite this guy who's kind of intrinsically annoying".
I heard that the pirate guy only did it because he had a business interest in a live service too, that's not going down well on the rap sheet, people are going to be dredging this up for years.

valve dev called him an idiot