As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

  • Mordikan@kbin.earth
    21·
    2 days ago

    Have you not read the petition? I doubt it could be anymore concise in its language while still being possible to pass.

    Require video games sold to remain in a working state when support ends.
Require no connections to the publisher after support ends.
Not interfere with any business practices while a game is still being supported.

    That’s it… 3 sentences is not concise. You want to base multi-national law off of 3 sentences. Maybe you should think that through a bit more. If the time can’t be spent to actualy write out constructive goals or at least milestones (which is supposed to help dictate multi-national law) then maybe it should wait shouldn’t it until you can.

    You’re forgetting this is the EU, it’s significantly less susceptible to industry lobbying than the US

    The VGE (the lobbying group you’re talking about) helped to write the consumer protection, digital content licensing, and age ratings for the EU. They already helped create your laws so that’s not really true is it.

    There really is no solid argument against what I’ve said.

    Sorry, it still stands.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concise

      Concise:

      marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail

      Aka, “short”.

      The petition absolutely is ‘concise’. You just have no idea what that word means.

      Using fancy words in an argument only works if you actually know what those words mean.

      Not only that, a long petition containing lots of details has its own drawbacks. For one, fewer people will read it and/or understand it, which will make it easier for detractors to confuse the general public with misinformation.

      • Mordikan@kbin.earth
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Concise is synonymous with “to the point”. In other words, you don’t have to have lots of words, but they do have to be on target which your 3 sentences are not. So, no, it was correct word use on my part. The fact that you can’t argue the VGE’s involvement or anything other than a word’s definition really doesn’t make you look like you have a strong case here lol. Again, it seems like you have strong feelings, but that doesn’t win court cases. Sorry, not sorry.