The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures

Pirate Software too.

They're both such idiot trolls.

Hold on there buddy! There's no reason to be derogatory towards hobos like that. I don't think I've ever been quite so offended on the internet as to have someone associate my good (user)name with the likes of Asmongold. If you don't bring that down a notch I'm gonna send the ghost of Woody Guthrie to haunt you until your dying days.

Asmongold is a megaphone for shitty opinions. Like I posted elsewhere he'll change his opinion if he gets called out, but the damage was done when he put it on the megaphone in the first place. His take on the "never play defense" is to not have any actual opinions when confronted then just go right back to saying other right wing bullshit.

Yep they actively campaigned against the petition and fundamentally misrepresented it.

10 months ago PirateSoftware started a campaign against it starting here-ish: https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y

Also 10 months Asmongold did a react video that supported PirateSoftware: https://youtu.be/AhVsyhjcndw

PirateSoftware refused to acknowledge that he got several things wrong, and even refused to acknowledge it when confronted. He actively bans people with dissenting opinions in his stream so it wasn't surprising that he refused to acknowledge that he was wrong. About a week ago Charlie (aka Penguinz0) confronted him about it and he still refused respond to basic factual inaccuracies: https://youtu.be/6sJpTCitKqw

Ross did a video talking about the whole thing last week as well: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo

There's a lot more to it, but that's the broad strokes. I hope PirateSoftware's stream keeps declining until he is relegated to complete obscurity. Also, PirateSoftware can eat my entire ass.

Asmongold does that. Like the dude doesn't have any real opinions other than what gets views. If he sees the winds changing he'll pull a 180 in order to take the heat off himself. He also has hoards of followers and youtube minions to make him seem far more centerist than he is. He's like the personification of the alt-right playbook for dummies.

I mean watch/listen to The Alt-Right Playbook series and tell me this is not what he does on a daily basis: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

I am a little worried that some of the surge in signatures has been botting, but I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

Only 4K!

I'm glad I'm not online enough to know of this guy!

Wait what's this story about him being banned from furry communities? That sounds like a really fun story to read lol

Who? I seriously have no idea who you're talking about.

I honestly think that the main reason this has kicked off is that up until about a week ago it wasn't really advertised. I didn't even know that it started the petition up again, I knew the original one failed because parliament closed and for some reason that meant the petition had to end.

Don't forget measles

no worries, you can help as this will benefit you too. if you are on any online gaming comunities with Europeans, you can share the link.

This is fucking bonkers.

I ran the math a few days ago, before this absolutely blew the fuck up, and I came to:

We'd need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.

... We're now apparently at more than double that and climbing exponentially.

Ho Lee Shit.

God DAMN has it been a while since I've seen something go actually, truly, organically viral.

844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?

2 hours later and it's 860k.

I was in his corp (my old one merged with his, I had no idea who he was for quite a while), and this... isn't exactly accurate. First, from what I remember, he left on okay terms with the corp.

There was a laundry list of issues with Pochven, a lot of them due to CCP just not bothering to fix issues that the players reported, and moving devs who did want to try and fix some of the issues to different areas of the game. It got to the point where it wasn't economically viable to live in the area, which reduced how many ships we could field, and the number of people even willing to join.

CCP also took forever to decide on how wormholes interacted with the region, and changed those interactions frequently. Some of these were great, for instance there was a point where most of the wormholes linked to wormhole systems, and it was a complicated (and dangerous) dance to get people in and out of the region undetected. CCP ended up going with the worst possible interaction: many wormholes directly linked to nullsec space, where massive alliances could easily find them and send massive fleets through with little effort.

He wasn't the only one to quit, to be honest I'm surprised he stayed for as long as he did given how he acts now.

Is Thor an egotistical narcissist? Absolutely. Was this a case of that? Not really

By the way, this is a statement he put out alongside the other two main groups in Pochven. I can tell you for a fact that 90+% of the players who spent most of their time in Pochven felt this move was absolutely justified*:

Edit* And the other ~10% disagreed with the destruction of the citadels, not the sentiment of the statement

The worst part is that this are far from the only two events. He has been kicked from several other guilds, for exactly the same narcissistic and egoistic behavior. If everywhere you go it smells like shit, at some point you have to start checking your own shoes. He is just always adamant that it's other people's fault that it smells like shit, when he has full diaper.

He was against it, which resulted in a lot of negative opinions about the bill and netting less votes because of it. It’s gone full Streisand effect.

PirateSoftware was critical of the initiative when it first started. Some people attribute its initial lack of success to his opposition.

He was later involved in some drama and his reputation fell, and the petition's creator finally addressed his claims. Now the petition is having a second wind in its final hour

Is this about the WoW incident? Or dit something else happen?

Whats wrong with PirateSoftware? He runs a ferret rescue which doesn't claim any tax incentives and he teaches people about security and ethics, I've never heard of him having beef with anyone.

Peddle to the metal

Lol, nice pun, good one.

It was extremely clear what the previous petition was, it was just they weren't interested in doing anything so they intentionally misunderstood.

Is that why they left “from” out of the title?

Politicians seem very good at misunderstanding things when it suits them.

Fingers crossed!

I don't think you're wrong, and I think the EU petition will go the same way, but it's still worth signing regardless.

If the EU petition makes it, then it will provide the UK petition support too as part of whatever debate goes on about it.

Good. States shouldn’t be able to just go out on a whim and immediately go back in again like it’s a revolving door. The consequences should be severe for leaving. Otherwise voters in other member states will pull this shit as well, because they think they can just rejoin when the next pro EU government comes around. Also many voters in the UK voted for leave as a protest vote not because they actually wanted to leave. They didn’t understand the ramifications of their vote. Let the UK be the example of what a protest vote can cause.

I didn't say they were. They are particularly useful for "hiding our heads" and forget about the shitty world. They play a big roll keeping me sane and I respect the art very much. I would just like to see the same kind of effort put into to it.

Just threw me for a loop for a moment that it uses the same name and that this page displays links to both.