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

  • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    There’s always been criticism but until now it’s been low level insiders and nobodies like pirate software. And the reasons the publishers and big names that would be affected did SKGs didn’t say or do anything until now because they didn’t want to give it any oxygen. They were smart enough to ignore it because they knew if they said anything it’d rile up a shift storm. Which is exactly what Pirate Software did so he’s probably got a lot of people on both sides pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

    Now that it has enough signatures to be taken seriously you’re going to see the fire hoses open up and a lot of misinformation spread about how the movement would make the gaming industry unviable for the current model. Now is the point where if you are an EU citizen that you write and call your representatives who would consider this issue and help write the law if it did pass on how important it would be to you personally to not allow game companies to revoke your ability to utilize a game you paid for.

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
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      10 hours ago

      pissed at him for being too narcissistic to shut up and let the movement die.

      You’ve got a typo there. What you meant to write was “pissed at him for struggling with managing the symptoms from his narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis too much to shut up and let the movement die.”

      • Skankboot@sh.itjust.works
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        1 hour ago

        You know that someone can act like something without being that thing right? You can say someone is narcissistic without them being an actual narcissist.

        Like me saying that you’re stupid shouldn’t imply that you’ve had a traumatic brain injury or were born without a frontal lobe.

        • Genius@lemmy.zip
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          53 minutes ago

          That’s a false equivalence. “Stupid” isn’t the same as any of the words in the diagnosis “mental retardation” (recently updated to intellectual disability). Your example would work better if you did it like this:

          Like me saying that you’re retarded shouldn’t imply that you have mental retardation.

          There, that’s a much closer analogy. Do you still stand by your point if we use a proper equivalence?

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          6 hours ago

          He probably doesn’t, and Rakonat shouldn’t have assumed

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          8 hours ago

          Putting the focus on the personal struggle of managing the symptoms is more empathetic, and using the full name of the diagnosis instead of contracted nouns helps avoid using slurs and/or dehumanising the patent.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 hours ago

            Narcissists are literally destroying our planet and our way of life, but let’s make sure we don’t offend anyone when we mention them.

            • Genius@lemmy.zip
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              3 hours ago

              Your comment has a typo. You meant to write “human beings who developed narcissistic personality disorder due to childhood trauma and now struggle with identity and empathy to the detriment of their own wellbeing as described in the DSM 5 are literally destroying our planet and our way of life”