• Risk@feddit.uk
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      Anyone that expected the current British government to do anything a government is meant to do… Well… Let me introduce you to the past 14 years of disappointment.

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    Yeah, well, no fucking shit, what’d you think was the point of the campaign?`

    These guys…

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    There’s no law saying that car companies can’t brick your cars software after ten years either. I bet if car companies did that there would be laws made damn quick.

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      How does that help shareholders? Democracy is when shareholders get richer! Something something pension funds and trickle down economics.

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        Helps protect the shareholders from guillotines after the proles get fed up enough

        Not that I’m advocating for that or anything

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          Don’t worry, the guillotines won’t be necessary. Sam Altman will create a universal income to keep the poor from any violent urges. Of cause that income is paid in some crypto coin and requires you to scan your eyes in some orb and happens to make Sam Altman rich, because he founded this coin.

          Who knows, maybe you can by micro transactions with worldcoins in the future.

          https://www.citationneeded.news/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of/

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    If there is no law preventing a publisher from rendering older games unplayable, then surely there’s no law against fans making them playable again, right? (Besides the obvious copyright bullshit most every developed nation has in place and stuff like that, obviously)

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    The website is literally only there to placate people from taking to the streets, and it works really well. I don’t think there has ever been a petition that hasn’t been fucked off by the government, at most it gets to a table of about 6 people who webcam themselves before chucking it in the bin and going for an expense paid lunch in Canary Wharf.

    Ultimately is comes down to us to get back to only supporting games that we can own but as a collective gamers just go with the Malibu Stacy with the new hat and then complain after rewarding the boardroom of these companies with good returns. I’m so glad Ross has kicked this issue into the light but just signing a petition and thinking you’ve done enough is only the pre-cursor.

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      After hating Ubisoft for months because of all of this, I see people fawning over the new Assassins creed that was just announced, as if that isn’t going to be the exact same, overpriced, boring sorry, empty world game. This one will be different!

      I will probably get it - in 2 years when it’s priced at 10 dollars, and I’ll know they will take it away from me. I will basically rent it for 10 dollars. How anyone is gleeful about paying full price for an Ubisoft game is beyond me.

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        It takes place in 17th century Japan? I might actually buy a used copy if it doesn’t have any fantasy elements whatsoever, and if the open world aspect isn’t just a time sink like it is in most modern games