ImplyingImplications
joined 2 years ago
Oh it's out?
PlayStation 5 exclusive
Ah. Thanks Sony.
Saw people talking in comments at several places now, expressing animosity towards them to say the least, always presented as something that everyone seems to know about.
tl;dr It's YouTuber drama. Consider yourself lucky you're not so terminally online that you understand it.
Piratesoftware is a Twitch steamer/YouTuber who speaks his mind quite bluntly and doesn't back down after doing so. Because of that, he's often involved in streamer drama and has a lot of people who dislike him. Haters love to reference these past dramas whenever his name is brought up.
10 months ago, he was involved in drama when he was asked his opinion on the Stop Killing Games EU citizens initiative. His opinion was that he didnt like it and expressed himself in a crass and crude way as he normally does. Supporters of the initiative didn't like that and it spawned a lot of back and forth arguments before dying down.
Currently, the citizens initiative is short on having the required signatures to move forward and the deadline is in a few weeks. The lead guy behind the movement put out a video saying the initiative will likely fail, he will be ending his organization efforts when it does, and blamed it on Piratesoftware's video from 10 months ago. That has restarted the drama.
Is that a Boarder Collie?
[Canada] has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said.
Taxing Meta, Apple, and Amazon for business they do in Canada is an attack on the United States?
- Take a 4 way intersection
- Draw a shape in the middle of it
- Remove all signs and signals
- ???
- Roundabout
The government is almost entirely in control of education and pay for doctors. Canada ranks 75 in the world in doctors per capita in-between Qatar and Colombia. The United States ranks 40 and is probably the most capitalistic country in the world.
US law allows companies to enforce essentially any terms of service or end user licence agreement they want when selling products or services and rewriting laws to add an exception for video games is never going to happen.
Stop Killing Games believe existing EU laws don't allow this and are alleging some TOS and EULA of game companies are in violation. They want the EU parliament to review that and hopefully clarify the laws to ensure game companies aren't "depriving citizens of property".
From the petition:
We wish to invoke Article 17 §1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [EUR-Lex - 12012P/TXT - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)] – “No one may be deprived of his or her possessions, except in the public interest and in the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, subject to fair compensation being paid in good time for their loss.” – This practice deprives European citizens of their property by making it so that they lose access to their product an indeterminate/arbitrary amount of time after the point of sale. We wish to see this remedied, at the core of this Initiative.
The hope is that companies won't make two versions of their games. One that complies with EU law and one that doesn't. No idea where that comes from. GDPR is EU law and many companies created two versions of their service to avoid needing to follow it for everyone. Some companies, including game studios, even dropped their EU customers entirely instead of complying.
It's also become YouTuber drama bait at this point and is an easy way smaller channels can get extra views.
It's unfortunate because it seems like a self-made problem. There's report after report of how there aren't enough residency positions for new doctors. It seems like Canada wants doctors, they just don't want to train them.
Wow. Lots to unpack there. Skipping over the part where you believe the government shouldn't need to honour the contracts they've signed with First Nations if they don't feel like it, unchecked resource extraction is also terrible.
The island nation of Nauru discovered huge deposits of phosphate under their land. The government began large scale mining operations in the 80s which saw the country sky rocket to highest GDP per capita in the entire world. The mining industry brought in huge sums of money for the country and it's people. Mining became the biggest industry in the entire nation, with most people leaving their old job and getting a new high paying one in the ever expanding mining industry. An economic phenomena known as "Dutch Disease". If that name doesn't sound like a good thing, it's because it's not.
The market price of phosphate eventually dropped. The mining industry faced massive downturn and layoffs. The country had tore up their farmlands to build mines and farmers had left agriculture to become miners. They were importing most of their food with the money they made in mining. Money they no longer had. They also had a large tourism industry that no longer exists because they no longer have a single beach. All of them were turned into mining operations. Today the country struggles with poverty and is unable to rebuild any of the industries that mining killed. Their main source of income today is holding prisoners from Australia.
Ah 2024, great year!
Why have lot company when few company do trick?