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European petition to preserve video games, please sign ๐Ÿ‘พ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Signed, thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How do you leave it in a "functionable state"? Drivers disappear, hardware changes, libraries get updated, os' update or die off, etc. You'd have to expose the source code to the public at that point and if I was a developer I'd want nothing to do with that market then.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can still run Blade Runner which came out in 1997 using Wine, things don't die off that easily when they are not broken on purpose.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It's just about not intentionally breaking stuff.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

You'd have to expose the source code to the public

Good.

I'd want nothing to do with that market then

With that attitude, also good.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At some point I'm just going to start donating to the EU

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How to pay taxes to a country you don't live in

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

There's no countries in the EU? ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

You can send me money, I'll have to pay taxes on that

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Urgh. Can't even sign it. Fuck Brexit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They blow their load with the UK government as well by asking the conservatives rather than waiting for some reasonable people with functional brains to come in

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thank you! :)