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Someone should tell him, he'd love that

It is just less important to me in light of all the weirdness that comes from that line of thinking.

And I'm not pointing a finger either. I'd say my point is that if the core framework is "anything that impedes the ability to access this is bad" then naturally it's incompatible with BDS. And perhaps in an unconscious way. I don't really have a dog in the "right/privilege" fight.

And maybe in a few weeks people will move on to the next thing. But it's just like, weird? Discomforting? Idk it's telling of who one is really on community with versus in industry with.

And some of that is just bad fan culture stuff. I think to love anything is to see from all angles in many different lights. I also think a lot of people don't agree or don't practice that.

Yeah I mean I agree with the aims and recognize the head turning quality of the name. I think it's goofy but I also think abandonware should be considered public domain which others would say is perhaps even more extreme than "if you stop support please remove the DRM"

All of that to say, I think complex feelings are really good and people should work to develop them! We're healthier when the thing our thoughts can be reduced to is nuanced and well considered (even if still disagreeable)

I don't think the discs is a zero issue, I think the volume and tone of the talk amongst peers is eyebrow raising relative to all other issues.

Like the ability to view the Mona Lisa is gated by cost to travel to Paris, border control, cost to enter the Louvre, availability of timed tickets and that last one functions basically as a license to look for 30ish seconds. We should grapple with the propriety of all that.

Yeah I don't fundamentally disagree here. I think people should grapple with what it means for the ability to access to be at the mercy of licensing.

Yeah I think there's a difference between "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and wearing blinders that are very well calibrated to perform that capitalism! Even if behavior can't be perfect people should grapple with stuff. It's good for people to develop complex feelings.

Personally, I think if a company ceases to provide support there should be some kind of offramp that balances IP rights and allows end users to establish their own servers or use offline features.

Stop Killing Games is a specific effort focusing on enacting legislation around what happens to software after central servers are deactivated: www.stopkillinggames.com/en I think it's actually an interesting effort but do agree that the name is unfortunate.

This headline and framing is so incredibly infantilizing and demeaning to the point of art form www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

Also worth thinking about in terms of Sony not making discs or drives. Mat has the current data but last I recall this behavior describes 60% of people buying games?? And when you expand it to 4ish games a year it's 85%. Most people playing games are unlike people talking about games.

No one look at the mineral supply chains!!

That property being high in cholesterol

I'd even expand and say just most people actively talking about games online are super divorced from the most common gaming experience. There's a type of person who loves videogames and if you ask them what games they play they'll say "NCAA" or Forza. Not even a genre.

And without context of like, I don't really care about anyone's financials? Playing those games makes me feel icky, that's my decision and when I see peers enthusiastically doing so it makes me feel icky. That's what matters to me. (As much as I LOVE digging into the financials.)