Teaching myself stuff

M.B. | He/Him | 30+ | Sideblog for when I get hyperfixated on learning something | main: mbcorvo-author

[mbtriestolearnstuff]

Intro? Sort of?

Hello, I thought that maybe I should make a better intro post for this blog now that I'm less sleep deprived than when I made it lmao

About me

M.B.

He/him (🏳️‍⚧️)

30+ (so i don't have to update my age lmao)

university dropout [1yr Lit&Lang (ENG+JP) + 1yr Cinema]

café owner

Italian

not new to tumblr but new to the studyblr/langblr setting

Languages

🇮🇹 native

🇬🇧 around C1

🇨🇵 B1 (but it’s been ages, I'm rusty)

🇯🇵 rusty basics so I'd say beginner level

🇩🇪 beginner

🇰🇷 starting out

Latin very rusty

About the blog

Started following my impulse to use my time off work for studying stuff by myself (going back to university is not an option atm)

sideblog of my main writeblr blog: follows will come from "mbcorvo-author"

might not post consistently (idk how study blogs work)

i like reading and learning stuff but I do it in a messy way (and I never had a study method)

Probably this blog won't be a language learning only blog but a bit of everything I decide to try teaching to myself.

Some things I'm interested in and might post about:

Astrophysics & space in general (special interest)

Languages

Reading

Writing

Other random topics that I won't list to avoid a looong post.

Aaand I think that's all.

See ya!

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[beemovieerotica]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I drink two cups of coffee per day not because I have an addiction, but because my body has adapted to the presence of caffeine enough that its absence causes mild but unpleasant side effects.

[liquidpaperfoundation1]

I dusted the TV stand not because it was dusty but because it was covered in fine particulate matter that settled from the air.

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

I reblogged this post not because I liked it and wanted to share it, but because reading it elicited a pleasant sensation that I felt would be appreciated by others

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[tieflingkisser]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

[miss-wizard]

DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

[coleblackblood]

As an American: Seriously, please don’t

[miss-wizard]

ok well i don't

[alatismeni-theitsa]

"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

[kingwren]

Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.

It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.

In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.

And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.

If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.

(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)

Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.

And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

[onedivinemisfit]

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

[pompadourpink]

100 animals in French

Ant – fourmi (la fourmi porte une feuille)

Auk - pingouin (le pingouin court sur la banquise)

Badger – blaireau (le blaireau creuse un terrier)

Bat – chauve-souris (la chauve-souris dort dans une cave)

Bear – ours/ourse (l'ourse protège ses petits)

Beaver – castor (le castor construit un barrage)

Bee – abeille (l'abeille butine les fleurs)

Boar – sanglier (le sanglier fouille la forêt)

Bull – taureau (le taureau est dans le pré)

Butterfly – papillon (le papillon vole dans le jardin)

Canary – canari (le canari chante dans sa cage)

Cat – chat/chatte (le chat est dans la maison)

Chicken – poule (la poule pond des œufs)

Cow – vache (la vache broute dans le champ)

Crow – corneille (la corneille croasse sur le toit)

Cuckoo – coucou (le coucou chante au printemps)

Deer – cerf (le cerf brame dans les bois)

Doe - biche (la biche s'élance dans les buissons)

Dog – chien/chienne (le chien aboie dans le jardin)

Dolphin – dauphin (le dauphin saute hors de l'eau)

Donkey – âne/ânesse (l'âne brait dans l'écurie)

Dove – colombe (la colombe est un symbole de paix)

Duck – canard/cane (le canard nage dans l'étang)

Eagle – aigle (l'aigle plane dans le ciel)

Ewe - brebis (la brebis est endormie dans l'herbe)

Falcon – faucon (le faucon chasse en plein vol)

Ferret – furet/furette (le furet est un animal curieux)

Finch – pinson (le pinson chante dans les arbres)

Firefly - luciole (la luciole fait de la lumière)

Fish - poisson (le poisson a des écailles rouges)

Fly - mouche (la mouche tourne en rond)

Fox – renard/renarde (le renard est rusé)

Frog – grenouille (la grenouille saute dans l'étang)

Goat – chèvre (la chèvre grimpe sur la colline)

Goose – oie (l'oie glousse dans la cour)

Grasshopper – sauterelle (la sauterelle saute dans le champ)

Guinea pig - cochon d'Inde (le cochon d'Inde fait du bruit)

Hamster – hamster (le hamster court dans sa roue)

Hare – lièvre (le lièvre court dans les champs)

Hedgehog – hérisson (le hérisson se roule en boule)

Heron – héron (le héron pêche dans l'eau peu profonde)

Horse – cheval/jument (le cheval galope dans le pré)

Hummingbird - colibri (le colibri a de jolies couleurs)

Jay – geai (le geai imite les sons des autres oiseaux)

Kestrel – crécerelle (la crécerelle plane au-dessus des champs)

Kingfisher – martin-pêcheur (le martin-pêcheur plonge dans l'eau)

Lark – alouette (l'alouette chante au lever du soleil)

Lizard – lézard (le lézard se prélasse au soleil)

Lynx – lynx (le lynx guette sa proie)

Magpie – pie (la pie vole des objets brillants)

Mallard – canard colvert (le canard colvert nage sur l'étang)

Mole – taupe (la taupe creuse des tunnels sous le jardin)

Moth – papillon de nuit (le papillon de nuit vole la nuit)

Mouse – souris (la souris grignote du fromage)

Mule – mulet (le mulet porte la charge)

Nightingale – rossignol (le rossignol chante la nuit)

Octopus – poulpe (le poulpe change de couleur)

Owl – hibou, chouette (le hibou hulule dans la forêt)

Parrot – perroquet (le perroquet répète les mots)

Partridge – perdrix (la perdrix se cache dans les sous-bois)

Peacock – paon (le paon déploie ses plumes)

Pelican – pélican (le pélican a un grand bec)

Penguin – manchot (le manchot glisse sur la glace)

Pheasant – faisan (le faisan court dans les champs)

Pig – cochon (le cochon se roule dans la boue)

Pigeon – pigeon (le pigeon se pose à la fenêtre)

Pike – brochet (le brochet chasse les petits poissons)

Porcupine – porc-épic (le porc-épic fait la sieste)

Quail – caille (la caille se cache dans les bois)

Rabbit – lapin, lapine (le lapin mange des carottes)

Raccoon – raton laveur (le raton laveur fouille les poubelles)

Rat – rat (le rat court dans les égouts)

Raven – corbeau (le corbeau est intelligent)

Red deer – cerf (le cerf se bat avec ses bois)

Robin – rouge-gorge (le rouge-gorge chante sur la clôture)

Roe deer – chevreuil (le chevreuil saute dans les bois)

Rooster – coq (le coq chante au lever du jour)

Salmon – saumon (le saumon remonte la rivière)

Scorpion – scorpion (le scorpion se cache sous les rochers)

Seal – phoque (le phoque se repose sur les rochers)

Shark – requin (le requin nage dans l'océan)

Sheep – mouton (le mouton broute l'herbe)

Snail - escargot (l'escargot bave sur le parquet)

Snake – serpent (le serpent glisse dans le sable)

Sparrow – moineau (le moineau picore les miettes)

Spider – araignée (l'araignée tisse sa toile)

Squirrel – écureuil (l'écureuil grignote des noisettes)

Stork – cigogne (la cigogne construit son nid sur le toit)

Swallow – hirondelle (l'hirondelle revient chaque printemps)

Swan – cygne (le cygne glisse sur le lac)

Toad – crapaud (le crapaud se cache sous les pierres)

Trout – truite (la truite nage dans la rivière)

Turkey – dinde (la dinde est souvent servie à Noël)

Turtle – tortue (la tortue se déplace lentement)

Vulture – vautour (le vautour est un charognard)

Weasel – belette (la belette est un petit prédateur)

Whale – baleine (la baleine est le plus grand animal du monde)

Wolf – loup/louve (le loup hurle au clair de lune)

Woodpecker – pic-vert (le pic-vert tape sur l'arbre)

Worm – ver (le ver de terre est bon pour le sol)

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[kleefkruid]

The 'hyperspecific situations' polls are really once again highlighting that native English speakers tend to forget that 'foreign' doesn't mean 'non-English' or 'non-American'

"Did you watch a foreign language movie in the past three days?" Yeah I watched the foreign movie "The Martian" with foreign actor Matt Damon

[eastern-lights]

Op why would you hide this is the tags

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: 'Do you speak a foreign language?' Yeah yours /End ID]

[sphinxofgrease]

the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”

[futzingbarton]

what

[sphinxofgrease]

fucking shit up with a wooden shoe

[futzingbarton]

oh my god

[genderhasnobearingonability-blog]

well wooden shoe look at that

[nerdismyhobby]

I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE 

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[jenroses]

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

[sniperct]

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

[spyndylle]

The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's Al features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy tooling that home users do not generally have, or to uninstall Chrome entirely

...

Adding the file took zero clicks. Removing it requires (a) discovering the file exists, (b) understanding what it is, (c) navigating into a hidden user profile path, (d) deleting it (and on Windows, also clearing the read-only attribute first), and (e) accepting that Chrome will silently re-download it on next eligible window unless the user also navigates chrome://flags, enterprise policy, or platform-specific configuration tooling to disable the underlying Chrome Al feature. None of those steps is documented in the place a normal user looks - none of them is even hinted at in default Chrome.

[emwheezie]

"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife

[icelandictextposts]

„Tíminn læknar öll sár“ RANGT. Tíminn eltir mig með hníf.

[translatingpostsintolatin]

"omnia vulnera tempus curat" FALSUM. tempus cum cultro me insequitur

[german-enthusiast]

"Die Zeit heilt alle Wunden" INKORREKT. die Zeit verfolgt mich mit einem Messer

[mbtriestolearnstuff]

"il tempo cura tutte le ferite" SBAGLIATO. il tempo mi sta inseguendo con un coltello.

[safije]

Katie Harris is photographed with her Appaloosa. Harris made most of the horse trappings as well as her own traditional outfits herself, including the bead work. Some of the trappings are passed down from older generations but the girls like to make their own to continue the tradition.

By Erika Larsen

[mymotherthemountain]

Katie is Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla and Karuk

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[translatingpoststonynorsk]

ikkjebrarobert

"eg sløste vekk dei åri" kven bryr seg. du levde det einaste livet du kunne ha levt i dei stundene

[icelandictextposts]

ekkifrábærtbob

„Ég sóaði þessum árum“ hverjum er ekki drull. Þú lifðir eina lífinu sem þú hefðir getað lifað á þessum stundum.

[translatingpostsintolatin]

nonmagnusrobertus

"illos annos perdidi" quis curat. solam in illis temporibus vitam vixisti quam vivere poteras

[translatingpoststoyiddish]

נישטגוטבאב

״איך האב ארויסגעווארפֿן יענע יארן״ וועמען ארט עס. דו האסט געלעבט דאס איינציקע לעבן וואס דו האסט געקענט לעבן אין די רגעלעך

[mundart-ch]

"ech ha di joor ferschwändet" schiiss druuf. du hesch s'äinzige läbe gläbt wo deet hesch chönne läbe

[translatingpostsinfrench]

pasunbonbob

"j'ai gâché ces années" on s'en fiche. tu as vécu la seule vie que tu aurais pu vivre à ce moment là

[german-enthusiast]

„Ich habe die Jahre verschwendet” scheiß egal. du hast das einzige Leben gelebt, dass du damals hättest leben können.

[mbtriestolearnstuff]

nongrandebob

"ho sprecato quegli anni" che importa. hai vissuto l'unica vita che tu avresti potuto vivere in quegli anni.

[beemovieerotica]

ok time to pirate ubisoft games even harder

[the-sera]

This is why everyone must support Stop Killing Games. Look it up, sign the petitions everyone.

[shi1498912]

hmmm... consumer protection laws within some ofthe the EU member states and on EU level are pretty strong. So, what if every gamer in the EU were to go make a complain about Ubisofts EULA to their respective country's Consumer Protection Agency en masse, even if it's already been a year in effect?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

As sera said, check out Stop Killing Games. If you want to do as shi14 says, you're better off joining the coordinated effort that's already done half the job than just randomly complaining on your own without looking in at what everyone else is doing. Timing and coordination matters.

[fallenstarworkshop]

Tangentially related question. And this is going to sound whiny or "some kinda way" but it's not meant that way I promise. I'm just sort of... curious.

There's this Stop Killing Games movement in the European Union (which is GOOD and SHOULD HAPPEN and I hope they SUCCEED WITH PREJUDICE) but. That's the European Union. That's not Australia. Or the USA. Or any number of other places. Will a win there actually affect any of us outside the EU?

Again, I support the movement in the EU and I hope they get their needs and/or demands met. But like... the EU ruling that you can't pull this shit doesn't mean they can't pull this shit here, right? Don't we need a movement here too?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Stop Killing Games is a global movement. It was created and is headed by an American. You're thinking of Stop Destroying Videogames, the EU petition inspired, backed and supported by the Stop Killing Games movement, but not run by them (again, Ross is American and, since he doesn't have EU citizenship, can't do anything with the EU except make encouraging youtube videos and get invited as a foreign guest to speak at Parliament.) Parliament is seeing this issue now as the result of the Stop Destroying Videogames petition; EU Parliament is not, and never has been, the single only focus of the global Stop Killing Games movement.

The reason that most of the momentum related to this issue is in the EU right now is because that's the most important and influential target; EU consumer protections are better and easier to influence than other Western major markets like the USA. Frankly, it doesn't matter where these protections happen so long as it's a market big enough that the developers can't afford to lose it. If Ubisoft can't sell games in any EU country unless they give them an end of life plan and aren't allowed to destroy them, then they have to obey those rules or they lose one of the biggest non-China markets in the world. There are several petitions and soforth targeting the EU directly and various European countries right now, some directly related to the global movement of Stop Killing Games and some completely independent but with similar goals. You can of course start a petition or whatever equivalent exists in other countries, but unless you think we can get regulations in China, they're not going to be nearly as influential as going for the EU. But I'm sure that if someone got one off the ground intheir own non-EU coutnry, the Stop Killing Games supporters in the relevant country would back it.

For anyone interested, Ross talks a lot about the Stop Killing Games movement on his youtube channel:

Accursed Farms

Official channel of Accursed Farms, videos created by Ross Scott. Includes Freeman's Mind, Ross's Game Dungeon, Civil Protection, and more.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#hey the guy behind freeman's mind!#the first in-progress playthrough of any game that i ever saved

Yeah the funny half-life machinima guy is leading one of the biggest consumer rights movements of our age now. I think he might be more surprised than we are.

[thethirdnippleseesall]

Adding to why the EU regulation passing matters:

When GDPR appeared and was first approved big companies (like spotify, meta, sony, microsoft) had to instantly adhere to the new regulation. Now keep in mind GDPR is also an EU set of laws and regulations. HOWEVER because of it regulating one of the biggest ticket markets it was immediately added as company policy that it should follow GDPR protocol to every single user that requested it. It became standard practice now worldwide for any company that operates in the EU because its cheaper to operate the entire world under one blanket policy than to pick and choose and risk a big fine.

Stop Killing Games (USA) and Stop Destroying Videogames (EU) are localized efforts that will force the hand of big companies that want to operate in those big ticket regions to adhere to policy and given how hard it would be to have to separate and condition which countries get which policy it is highly likely to become a worldwide protection.

Local efforts are still important, but do not discount EU (and US) consumer policies. They affect you too.