Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

[OttoFighter]

Looks like someone on Reddit caught the Charlie-Jason DMs!
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FagCritical will blast his ass next video

 

[BigPeanut]

I'll wish for a day when people can come into a featured thread on a supposed 'Free speech' Platform and not sperg out about the most obvious bait on earth and act like this isn't anything more than a site about having fun.

“I acted like a retard and people treated me like a retard, how could this be happening, I was merely pretending!”
Retard faggot lol.

 

[Ted's Cabin]

I'm going to play devil's advocate here and provide some counter-arguments as to why aktually digital games shouldn't be automatically preserved

You don't have to play doubles advocate for this, but I'll give you an actual response since everyone else here is just going to call you a retarded stalker child.

Archival solutions already exist: do you need the game to remain commercially available? Archiving software (e.g. emulators) may do the trick without forcing devs to maintain access. Obviously this requires some degree of freedom when it comes to emulating games etc. Within the right legal environment modders can take over preservation, avoiding commercial or legal involvement for the devs. Solution is less regulation, not more consumer laws.

Everything in this part is wrong. Devs don't have to maintain access with this initiative. There's nothing saying PSN has to stay online and provide downloads to games forever. They just have to not create systems that revoke your access whenever they feel like. And if your solution is to rebuild all of US copyright law instead, that's even more far fetched. The issue here is also that many games now can't be archived.

Structural issues with platforms: basically if you play your game on steam on another platform, you have the issue of the platform shutting down rather than the studio itself. How do you then force the studio to keep the game available? In my view, what you need here is a right to download a copy of your game on your machine rather than a right to have your game stay online on a platform. If you use the cloud, you kinda already fucked. This leads to another issue for multiplayer games

Right, the platform shutting is also an issue, and should be covered on this. It's even worse though, because steam doesn't even have to shut down for this to be an issue. Steam DRM dropped support for older operating systems, but older games often don't run on new systems. Then you have steam's DRM restricting you from accessing a game you bought for no legitimate reason, just because valve said so.

There's a difference between legitimately losing access to a game and a company taking it away. If I firebomb your house and you lose all your physical games, that has nothing to do with the company. If all your physical games require checking with a third party server or DRM to see if they should even turn on, then it's a consumer issue.

Maintenance and ongoing costs: probably the biggest problem and why this will not result in any law being passed. Keeping a game available requires maintaining servers, patching security vulnerabilities, and supporting old software environments. This would be an issue in every case and not something that you can have one size fit all solution. Different game require different type of maintenance. If you're playing multiplayer games, unless you have an active community, you're pretty much fucked without the studio behind the game. If you're talking about transferring the game management to the community, that may not be ok for the studio because then they lose control over the product they created. No matter which way you put it, having an end-of-life plan for your game means more resources spent on keeping the game online and this will impact small studios and even regular studios and divert money away from new projects.

This entire section is wrong because no one wants them to be required to maintain their games. They just have to not set them up in a way to intentionally self destruct. Nobody is "keeping the game online" and this won't have any special impact on small studios because this is overwhelmingly large studios doing the anti-consumer practices of having games self destruct. As it is, it's 99% focus targeted on big studios. Look at something like Lethal Company which can be played completely offline without an internet connection. That was made by one disgusting furry and he managed it all by himself. You have to go out of your way to fuck with people who buy your game this much, and those resources typically aren't something small studios or individual developers have.

Further legal issues and costs: Many games use licensed music, voice acting, middleware, or branded content. These licenses often expire and can’t be renewed without significant cost. Older games might not comply with, for example, new data protection laws. Game tied to a software may not function anymore once that software is retired (e.g., flash games - how do you maintain flash games online?)

Sucks to be them. If they license voice acting on the basis that they have to destroy all copies of the game after a certain point, they should have to negotiate different licenses. It's also a great bargaining chip to not make shitty deals when you can just say you're not allowed to because it's illegal. The bit about flash games doesn't make sense. At this very moment I have a 20 GB archive of flash games from armor games on my computer, You don't have to maintain them online at all, or do anything really. You also mentioned older games, but this isn't retroactive so it wouldn't have any effect on older games.

The market has changed: whether you want it or not, you're buying digital games. That's probably an argument which is going to upset a lot of console gamers who grow up with physical copies of their games (like I did and I get it). As somebody once said, "All changed, changed utterly" digital games are much cheaper to produce, easier to buy, can be played across devices and don't get scratched (how many of us can still play on our old consoles, these things broke down years ago - go ahead, try and boot up your Gamecube see what happens... nothing, because it's dead). You're not going to get the same kind of ownership you'd get with a CD or a cartridge and again, these CDs and cartridges do not work anymore. The hardware wasn't build to last forever

Again, there's a difference between games not working because they've self destructed and not working because you scratched your disk. There is more analogous to planned obsolescence (another consumer issue) where companies are designing products to fail to make more money. You can also back these games up and continue playing them in some form, especially in the legal black area we call abandonware. The games are still playable in some form for anyone who wants to. Do you think any GameCube game is going to disappear from the world permanently because of disks dying? Of course not. I know plenty of modern games that will because developers intentionally turn them off. Whether you come at this from a consumer angle (stop breaking my disks on purpose) or an art angle (stop destroying all copies of something that exist on purpose) it's the same.

I think ultimately, it goes down to how much it would cost and the logistic involved in keeping games online. If you really want a win, focus on emulation rather than forcing studios to do something they don't want to do. Or maybe don't play video games because you're 30

Even though I disagree with everything and don't understand it anyway, let me tell you how you really win.

 

[MetalGear - E-Hero Neos]

Can you post that shit? Holy shit, I am new to this faggot

Imma rewatch the entire Mati that Null first covered Mana Gem did to get that photo I don't know where the fuck it be in this thread. Will report the ferret dildo later since traveling

 

[Forklift Certified]

I swear there is a clip from him talking about how he used his magnum opus heartbound writing as a cooping mechanics about his depression... and since his strimer carrier blew out he is not so depressed anymore...

Now his turd castle made by lukewarm shallow takes on YT short falling apart, im wondering he is depressed enough for writing again...

Bucckle up BOIZ cuz we gonna hit chapter 4 as Dried Manure - the chapter when everyone abounding the MC and nobody supporting his escape cuz everyone out of manna in his team.

And chapter 5 where the MC collecting signatures to save his dog life via raising vets salary to buy new equipment... and all of a sudden a mold man called Scoss Rott [ <-actually this is sound cool DO NOT STEAL OG CHARACTER!!!!] throwing a wrench in his plan by stating, Dogs lives only 10 years, so why wasting life support equipment for a single mutt ?! The ventilators, the xrays and the IV bags for human use only anyway !

And there is a new side character, a plant based spiky one called FAGtus, who is following the MC all the time and always shouting "YOU ARE A FAAAAAGOOT AND THIS IS A FACT!" [ <- DO NOT STEAL ALSO OG CHARACTER!!!!]

 

[Slav Power]

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Give me all the but I hope it will be about SKG.

Remember lads, sign the SKG petition.

 

[I Just Can't Do It :(]

Imma rewatch the entire Mati that Null first covered Mana Gem did to get that photo I don't know where the fuck it be in this thread. Will report the ferret dildo later since traveling

Remember what episode it is? I can look for it

 

[CarlosDanger]

Update: Act Man is 100% reading this thread LMFAO
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Hi faggot!

He is definitely a fucking homo.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

The way I see it, Stop Killing Games isn't going far enough. They should force companies to publicly release the source code of the games they make, single player or multiplayer, whenever they reach a certain age. Maybe 10 years to be generous.

You're correct, but that's never going to happen. Normies are too "domesticated" at this point. Fuck, some of the Maldwalkers are in this thread right now

 

[BigPeanut]

You may wanna delete that pic, as it seems you used a pen tool that has some alpha to it. There is recoverable information in the pic. By just messing with the contrast and brightness you can recover a bit, altough, dunno if sufficient to get your PII from it. Next time, draw a full opacity black box in paint over it and screenshot that.

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Already forwarded it to master maldavius, too late to delete kiwichild. Enjoy being abducted by the discord agents and added as kibble to the ferret rape farm.

 

[MoarTard]

WORDSWORDSWORDSWORDS

I'm not reading all that retardation.

 

[Slamerella]

While it's not a game, there is a software I use for video editing called Movavi. It was cheap and it's simple enough that even *you* could understand how to edit with it! In late 2021, they delisted all old versions on Steam and made their editing application a SERVICE that you had to pay a subscription for. No one wants this. No one wants to have to pay monthly for something they will use once every odd months. The service got updated on Steam to no longer boot and would instead redirect to their page to buy their hastily pasted together version of it that requires monthly money invested into it. I had to go through several old drives to find an old install just to be able to use that again.

This is what Jason "Maldavius Figtree" Hall is defending.

 

[31. Januar]

The way I see it, Stop Killing Games isn't going far enough. They should force companies to publicly release the source code of the games they make, single player or multiplayer, whenever they reach a certain age. Maybe 10 years to be generous.

I agree with the sentiment, if only because I know that doing anything pro-consumer hurts large modern corporations on a metaphysical level. This fact, in my view, is good.

 

[Pascal's Wagie]

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Handwritten MS Paint in the style of Mald himself.

 

[Not Funny]

10,000 hours in paint. Send it to all your eurofaggot friends.

 

[MetalGear - E-Hero Neos]

Remember what episode it is? I can look for it

Shheit man. It was 5 months ago I'm going through Null archive but it's not after February 21 streams I think. He did a whole segment on the Wow drama and for like 1-2 mins he showed the tweet of Malds ex wife posted. Where she can see the giant dildo on like the bathroom counter I believe. Good luck soldier we will find the ferret cock

 

[Fat Nigga Fella]

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Give me all the but I hope it will be about SKG.

It wasn't, fuck.

 

[31. Januar]

Shheit man. It was 5 months ago I'm going through Null archive but it's not after February 21 streams I think. He did a whole segment on the Wow drama and for like 1-2 mins he showed the tweet of Malds ex wife posted. Where she can see the giant dildo on like the bathroom counter I believe. Good luck soldier we will find the ferret cock

Are you entirely sure you're not talking about the poopgnome? I remember Null making some refrence to a dildo, but if I'm not mistaken he showed the poopgnome while doing it.

 

[Billy Bong]

Man I love this slop, This dude has no self-preservation whatsoever. Between this and the roach incident alone, I bet he's personally banned over a million people and comments. What a king!

 

[BigPeanut]

Can all the fucking tourists who come to this thread to post the 23454986th version of "it's video games, who fucking cares" be threadbanned? If you don't give a shit and don't care to give a shit, why the fuck are you even here?

Reason for being thread banned: supporting the rape and genocide of ferrets and the Chinese.