#gaming?

[ardbar]

I hate that every gaming club in college, or at least what I’ve seen, has transitioned into an E-sports club. Like I’m sorry I like playing valorant sometimes too but what I really want is to chat with people about hollow knight and celeste while playing a stupid party game. I think there’s a difference in liking video games and wanting to be competitive about them and I think there should be separate spaces for these things

[olive-garden-hoe]

My Skyrim character, an ogre double wielding bad weapons and became the arch mage of the winterhold college (despite having like 3 spells learned besides the basic) and who has done far more side quests than should be possible because I figured out how to exploit glitches to do quests way above my level

[kawadoesstuff]

heard the coyotes howl. It's overwatch time.

[broadacre]

Snoop Dogg watching the Skateboarding finals with an unidentified man

[my-random--thoughts]

[witchlinda]

Taisiia Onofriichuk from Ukraine performs her hoop routine to the sound of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson at the 2024 Paris Olympics Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Qualifiers

[leefsnakesnake]

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for. EDIT: There are also some things people outside the EU can do, as well as additional things some people in specific EU countries like Germany and France can do that aim to solve this same issue as well. You can find that here. (https://www.stopkillinggames.com/)

(Note: There was a petition for UK people but the recent politics stuff there means it's on hold and has to be resubmitted and that may take some time.)

Additionally if you want to keep up with this you can check out Ross Scott (Accursed Farms on youtube or his website) who has been posting monthly about this and deserves a lot of credit for all this work.

(I hope that's all the stuff I missed)

EDIT 2: I changed the link to go directly to the form instead, this SHOULD work!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[wolfythewitch]

jesus in the hades art style

[silvermoon424]

Another banger from the "we can always tell" crowd 💀

(for those who don't get it: the picture is of MatPat, a cis man)

[valdotpng]

an accomplice turned victim his apology, long overdue

[y2kplaysthetics]

Nintendo DS

[animentality]

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[perennimal]

nurse and intern