And what is your argument against the petition? All it says is that developers need to leave their game in some playable state for those who laid for it, with several options offered as examples

This is exactly my point for the post, though your take is better worded

OP’s argument for being broke is that they live with their parents and thus can’t get a job. I’m pointing out that that doesn’t hold up, because living with their parents doesn’t exclude anyone from getting a job.

I never said that there weren’t valid reasons to not have a job or be broke. I’m saying the specific reasons they gave don’t make sense.

Now that we’ve established that, I’d appreciate you not putting words in my mouth

Nothing, but that doesn’t stop people with Americabrain from making terrible comments here.

The EU has a record of actually passing pro-consumer legislation such as the GDPR and forcing companies to use standardized cables. Claiming that nothing is going to happen because of lobbying doesn’t hold up nearly as well as it does in the US

You literally couldn’t be more wrong

im young enough to live with family so i cant really get a job.

This doesn’t really track, or it’s just worded weird. You can start working part-time at age 14 in most states in the US. Now, you could be a student who’s too busy with school/sports to get a job, but if you have time to pirate I doubt that’s a liting factor.

Now, I don’t personally care what your actual case is. I’m just pointing out that your claims don’t add up.

This is an EU petition, not the US.

Doomers coming out in force today

Yes

Worker protections and their enforcement have improved in recent years, but things still aren’t fully there yet.

You’d think they’d have fixed it faster, since it’s the primary factor in why so few Japanese people are having kids

Never buy The Longest Dark. The Devs for that game helped spearhead that block solely because they wanted people to pay twice.

Let’s also not forget how they started selling DLC before the game was out of early access

And better yet, he’s simply an asshole.

The epitome of lolcows, Chris-chan, is significantly affected by their messed up upbringing, adding a layer of societal guilt to the whole ordeal. We don’t have that problem with PirateSoftware

This. Personally, I’m scrambling to get all my shit sorted out on my desktop before switching over

Pardon?

That’s still not how progressive tax systems work. In your example, it’s the first 20k is taxed 23%, then the next 32k is taxed 25%, then the next 50k is taxed 35%.

So if you made 52k in a year, the first 20k yields 4.6k in taxes, then the remaining 32k yields 8k in taxes. Leading to a total of 12.6k in taxes, or an effective rate of ~24.2%

There’s literally multiple filters to block adult and NSFW games from being shown in the store. If you’re seeing porn games, then you haven’t turned them on

I wonder if you could eventually get it built into Bazzite

Only when someone is talking in good faith, which you clearly aren’t. Begone, troll.

Someone needs to develop an open source replacement for android auto and really stick it to Alphabet

Here’s what bugs me: Why didn’t channels like GamerNexus and LTT cover the petition until after Louis declared it dead?

And by doing so you’re normalizing your kids to surveillance, which is a big part of why privacy is being eroded