This is why I hate this community right here. I answered the person’s question and gave him what pirates view point was while calling out these gaming corporations and explained what they will probably do if a bill like this passes and your take away is I am “felationing” (not a word) game companies.

Just droves of window lickers like you infest this space and any nuanced conversations get lost.

He did say that in his first video, but came out with a more reflective video which you probably saw.

Regardless, the fact he’s dealing with such fall out over an opinion in an industry he’s active in and getting ousted is dumb. Everyone is losing their minds over this but like everything people will move on to something else in a month.

Basically he is not happy with the wording of the initiative. He had a 10 minute follow up video after he had a knee jerk reaction and went to into personal attacks against the guy that thought of the movement.

I’m going to get to roasted for this but watching his video I see what he’s worried about. I agree that this industry has scummy practices but this bill is going to be a monkeys paw scenario.

I would love for this bill to go through in a perfect world but as of now companies are doing layoffs and closing and adding in more red tap and financial burden will mean more projects will be cancelled or won’t be released in certain areas because it’s not going to be financially viable.

I’m open to have my mind changed as I don’t have any insight on what happens behind the scenes in these operations but I think people looked at a PowerPoint that said “gamers are getting fucked over” (which is true when live service games close) and signed something that COULD make studios rally around their legal team and financial departments to make things worse.

Pirate also didn’t do himself favors by being not media trained and careful with his words but now he’s dealing with SWATing, death threats, harassment, and losing his job over an opinion that’s honestly from a perspective of someone that has worked in that industry for a long while vs a community know for being miserable and ready with pitchforks over stupid shit.

This reeks of a honey pot scheme for some reason.

You caught me 🙄

It’s not a democracy it’s a representative democracy so basically we have a giant suggestion box that our elected leaders can look at and say “I’ll consider that in my vote in Congress”.

Not what I said. If you think the Democratic party is going to save you than go ahead and keep voting for Chuck Schumer’s fetal position strategy because it’s your vote and you shouldn’t be shamed in voting one way or another same as this guy doing whatever he wants with his vote. That’s it.

Don’t let people shame you into the lesser of two evils argument because it’s your vote at the end of the day. I heard all sides for the past 10 years now and honestly we got to Trump because of Hillary and not having a party that stood for anything.

Not an expert on this at all but I feel like it’s less of “the human race is going to die out” vs the owner class needs cheap labor and bodies for war to continue infinite growth.

My running theory is in the United States, Republican’s obsession with abortion is tied to the fact they need poor and broken families to pump out kids for future cheap labor and the prison industrial complex to make a nation function moving forward. That and the gray sunami of a upside down pyramid with not enough young to take care of the older generations (I think Japan and China are experiencing this currently).