"If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance t

Full headline, due to the inexorable fact that the Dreamwith subject field size is inadequate: "If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe"

"A European initiative is now underway for videogame preservation and consumer protections against publishers 'killing games.'"

As a bonus, I'll embed the Ross Scott (remember him?) video they mention in the article:

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Europeans can save videogames from being destroyed! The European Citizens' Initiative has just launched and represents the biggest and most ambitious chance to create new law against publishers destroying games they have already sold to you. Get EU citizens to sign it!

Link to sign EU initiative:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu...

Guides on how to sign EU initiative:
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/eci

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(EDIT) See also: this, to which all of this is a follow-up. (/EDIT)

I'll just say it again. Companies have been gravitating toward online-only games (multiplayer-only or otherwise) not because they believe that's what people actually want to play. They've been during it purely for DRM reasons. That's also a big reason why games are split up into DLC now, rather than being released whole. Well, that and all the extra money they get from selling the game piecemeal at inflated prices, but also because of DRM reasons (i.e. the game having to phone home all the time to "verify" the DLC and all that shit).

As for me, I'm in the US and can't sign the petition, and thus this doesn't directly apply to me, and I don't personally know anyone who lives in the EU, but if my posting this here helps even the tiniest bit, then... *shrug* ...great! That said, I'm not going to be holding my breath until this thing succeeds, that's for sure.

Just for the hell of it, I signed up for the newsletter on the Stop Killing Games base-level site, too (or, at least, tried to, as I haven't gotten any kind of confirmation yet or any other indication that it actually went through [EDIT I tried it again later and actually got an email verification almost immediately, so I guess the first one just got eaten by my aggressive spam filters or something /EDIT]). And I also added the Accursed Farms Youtube channel to my Feedly, which I hadn't already done, for whatever reason.

The comments under the PC Gamer article are about half and half between people saying this is a bad idea (i.e. reputation management drones, utter fucking morons, etc.) and people who can't believe that there would exist anyone who would say this is a bad idea. I think my favorite interaction was the one between one guy (one of the "this is a bad idea" guys) saying something like "But this could have a chilling effect and just end up with them not making multiplayer games at all anymore. They'd go back to making single player games." (Despite the fact that that's not even what was being discussed here.) And a few of the replies were something like "Yes, and? That would be great, actually." (Personally speaking, I don't care if multiplayer-only games exist, I just also wouldn't care if they didn't exist, either, especially if they're being made instead of/at the expense of offline singleplayer games. But again, that's mostly irrelevant to the actual discussion at hand.)

"Robert Downey DOOM: At least He's Not Playing Kang | Castle Super Beast 279 Clip"

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As someone who hasn't seen a Marvel movie since the first Avengers movie (and the five or so movies leading up to that), and as someone who doesn't really read comics (Marvel or otherwise) much at all, yet nevertheless still probably knows more than the average person about them simply via the Internet and via mere cultural osmosis, I have to admit that I don't really have the first clue about who the fuck Kang the Conquerer is, nor do I really have any interest in finding out more, aside from what very little I've already bothered to read about him online or whatever. To me, Kang is either a Klingon, one of those two aliens on The Simpsons, or a character in Mortal Kombat. As such, yeah, I pretty much agree with Pat and Woolie that the whole MCU Kang thing was pretty much a non-starter, at least as far as I gave a shit about it.

Robert Downey Jr. coming back as Doctor Doom could be cool, though, regardless of whether they tie it in with RDJ previously having been Iron Man or whatever, and it is (relatively speaking) far more interesting to me than anything (MCU) Kang-related. Maybe I'll even watch his movie(s) at some point after the decade or two it would take me to get caught up on the rest of the MCU movies (at the usual rate I watch movies at all, these days, which is seldom, unless I go nuts).

"CHICKEN"

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"Lani and Jesse compare the various kinds of chicken a person could get around our neighborhood. Which chicken do you think should come out on top?!"

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It's to the point now where a Team Four Star food video is basically an insta-watch for me. I mean, what other food comparison video is going to have multiple random references to the The Blair Witch Project, for example (which itself was due to a semi-unrelated tangent from Nick about Denny's and IHOP)? This is another video that Scott/Kaiser probably wisely decided to avoid.

So, yeah, anyway, this is my own experience with chicken nuggets/tenders. The last time I personally bought fast food chicken nuggets, which I'm pretty sure I've mentioned in this blog before but I don't feel like looking it up now, was when I bought a 30-piece McNugget thing from McDonald's in something like 2010 or so (let's go with 2010, sure), and that was my entire lunch for that day. It took me pretty much the rest of the day to finish that shit. And I have never again wanted to eat McDonald's Chicken McNuggets after that.

Beyond that, and only slightly more recently (i.e. these were pretty much the last meals I ever ate in my old condo back in Redmond, WA, prior to moving out and returning to NC for good in like Feb 2014 or whenever), the only nuggets/tenders I've had were some microwave meal shit, like Banquet shit. Banquet chicken nuggets are probably better than McDonald's McNuggets, but only just barely. Banquet nuggets are way better than Banquet chicken fingers, though. (Banquet fish sticks are fucking god-tier compared to their chicken nuggets/fingers, though that... isn't saying much, really, but still.)

As for the rest of the stuff they sampled, I don't have an opinion on it because I've never tried any of it.

Only thing I ever got from Jack in the Box (and I got it a lot considering that I used to live almost directly across the street from a Jack in the Box, back when I lived in Redmond, WA, circa 2004-2013) was the Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger. Basically Jack's equivalent to the Wendy's Baconator. I think the BUC was a bit better than the Baconator, though. Closest Jack in the Box to me now is apparently in Concord, NC, about 80 miles away. I'm not driving 80 miles for a Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger when I can go about 10 miles to Wendy's for a Baconator (which even that is a bit far, unless I'm already going to Food Lion or something anyway, since the Wendy's is only 3 miles farther than the Food Lion is). As for actual chicken stuff, the Wendy's Classic Chicken Sandwich is actually pretty good. It's no Chick-fil-A or anything (but then, what is?), but I'd still say it's fairly high-tier for fast food shit.

Never heard of Raising Cane's prior to this video. Closest one to me is around 75 miles away, down in Chapel Hill, so that's pretty much out, too, same as Jack now.

Same with Whataburger, though I think I had vaguely heard of that before now, at least, maybe? In any case, the closest one to me is apparently 170 miles away, in Boiling Springs, SC, so yeah, shit on that.

I've had KFC and Popeye's and Burger King chicken sandwiches, but not their nuggets/tenders. They were all passable, I guess. Though I stopped going to KFC altogether when they got rid of their Doublicious and replaced it with the Zinger or whatever the fuck. I'd have to drive like 30-40 miles to Greensboro or to Eden to get to the closest Popeye's and it's really not worth it. And Burger King's Original Chicken Sandwich is about the most basic-ass chicken sandwich you can get at a fast food place. That said, of the three, I'd probably choose the BK OCS over the other two.

In conclusion, I think they need to do something like this again, but with french fries instead of chicken nuggets/tenders.