AsimovIV@discuss.tchncs.de to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoStop Killing Games: EU Parliament Hearing on the ‘Stop Destroying Videogames’ ECIwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up1226
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minus-squareMatty_r@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoWhy the change to “Destroying Videogames” from “Killing Games”?
minus-squarePieMePlenty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-22 days ago‘Killing’ is the movement, ‘destroying’ is the EU initiative. There is no rename, they both exist. Why different? They take you more seriously in law making settings if you don’t use euphemisms and are coincise with your wording.
minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoOne is the American movement started by Accursed Farms. The other is the movement here in the EU.
minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoYou can‘t accuse corporations of murder!!! That‘s mean!!! Or something like that I suppose…
minus-squareHolytimes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoBecause in the legal world words have meaning. Saying killing games makes good headlines but on a legal and professional level. It makes you sound like a fucking child. You don’t win if you don’t play the game correctly. Professional wording matters.
minus-squareRubanski@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThe also thought about using “Slamming Vdeogames”
Why the change to “Destroying Videogames” from “Killing Games”?
‘Killing’ is the movement, ‘destroying’ is the EU initiative. There is no rename, they both exist. Why different? They take you more seriously in law making settings if you don’t use euphemisms and are coincise with your wording.
One is the American movement started by Accursed Farms. The other is the movement here in the EU.
You can‘t accuse corporations of murder!!! That‘s mean!!! Or something like that I suppose…
Because in the legal world words have meaning. Saying killing games makes good headlines but on a legal and professional level.
It makes you sound like a fucking child.
You don’t win if you don’t play the game correctly. Professional wording matters.
The also thought about using “Slamming Vdeogames”