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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46809135

The stop killing games campaign is about preventing game publishers from intentionally destroying their games after official support ends.

Sign here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Finland over here in the lead. Northern Europe pulling the weight for Southern Europe, ~~except Norway and Iceland.~~

Edit: TIL Norway and Iceland are not EU members.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

except Norway and Iceland.

I mean, hardly seems fair to blame them for that. This is an EU initiative thing, and they're not in the EU.

This is like me saying "lots of US states turned out to vote for Harris, but the Canadian provinces and territories have not been pulling their weight at all".

EDIT:

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

European Union

European Citizens' Initiative

Stop Destroying Videogames

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I did not realize that both were not in the EU.

[–] Benign@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Norway and Iceland are not proper EU members, only EEA members, so they are not allowed to petition.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

They can advocate their European neighbours to sign.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile, in Southern Europe: "What's a video game?"

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How is it above 100% in some places?

[–] DeviantOvary@reddthat.com 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For a European citizens' initiative to be valid, it must obtain at least one million valid signatures and meet the minimum thresholds in at least seven countries.

Countries over 100% have overpassed their thresholds.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Oh lol, I thought it was the percentage of the population. Looked like a North Korean election lmao

[–] bluespin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I assume more people signed than the target count

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait, why does Europe look like a horse on this map?

EDIT

I drew the horse that I'm seeing

https://ibb.co/DPhCd8dw

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Beacon@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks, feel free to post it over there if you like

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I mean some pople see a horse but i always just get reminded of the colossal cock and balls that finland and and sweden form ever since i moved to sweden.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just see a frostbitten dick and balls

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I added an image of the horse, i really can't seem to find a frostbitten dick and balls in there

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

sweden and finland

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Hides euro coins with Finland and Sweden.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Luxembourg is really embarrassing the Benelux countries 🤭

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 6 points 1 month ago

Hold on imma smack some cypriot

[–] MrWildBunnycat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Woah, it was under 480k just 2 days ago and it shot past 530k in such a short time. Looks like the renewed attention has put some wind back in the sails! Not expecting it to succeed, but still nice to see nonetheless

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Still sends a message hopefully and makes it into some news and makes people aware of the issue :)

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do countries have more than 100%?

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because people can (and should) sign the initiative even if the threshold for their country has already been reached.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

Oh thanks, the chart is labeled poorly. Calling it "percent of support" with a number written on each country very clearly is (mis)stating that the numbers are the percent of the population that support the bill in each country. The chart should be labeled something like "percent of required signatures needed to demonstrate support of the bill"

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

You need 7 countries and 1m for the thresholds. So people who signed in a 100% country can still add their signature to the total.