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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

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Why would they? Most people didn't know about the petition until a few weeks ago, and I think people are largely knee-jerk supporting their favorite streamer (in this case, PirateSoftware). I don't think there's a concerted effort here to kill it, just people coming out of the woodwork now that it got a lot of attention.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This may have killed piratesoftwares career

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate. I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about, and doubled down instead of taking a step back.

But he's not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it. The more reasonable argument is that some of his fans and other people who disagree w/ the petition are attacking it, not that he or the games industry cares enough to come here and spread FUD, I think regular people are dumb and emotional enough to do that for them.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why not? He's done that in other plataforms

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have specific examples of him making multiple accounts to amplify a message? If so, that would certainly change my opinion of him and would explain a lot of the unsubstantiated claims made here.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't consider this as evidence, but maybe you find it entertaining: https://youtu.be/1YYNAruSye4

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.

I'm not concerned with it. I've looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he's wrong.

I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about

Possibly. I'm not going to speculate on that because it's not really important.

But he's not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.

I doubt it as well. I'm more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn't too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.

Yeah, I haven't found a reason to care about PS beyond showing courtesy to people who went out of their way to provide receipts for their claims. I also haven't seen enough to warrant ruining his life. That's about as much effort as I care to spend here.

The bigger concern is what happens at the EU. Surely that's where corporations are going to focus their energy, because it's a lot easier to convince some bureaucrats than millions of gamers. Sure, some negative press helps, but the real impact is made by lobbyists.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Perhaps, which I think is really unfortunate.

I'm not concerned with it. I've looked into it a bit, and it seems like PirateSoftware ruined his own reputation. It just took his very visible cockup in that WoW raid for people to realize that he lies a lot and refuses to acknowledge when he's wrong.

I think he misread or misunderstood what the petition was about

Possibly. I'm not going to speculate on that because it's not really important.

But he's not going to be making a bunch of accounts on random message boards like Lemmy to try to kill it.

I doubt it as well. I'm more suspicious of corporate astroturfing. And Lemmy isn't too small of a target for it, since astroturfing is pretty cheap.

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