Episode 587: Stop Killing Games: The Law That Could Change Everything

The Dropshot

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Leisure, Video Games

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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California's Stop Killing Games bill just cleared its first major hurdle — and if it becomes law, publishers won't be able to just flip the switch on your games anymore. We break down what the bill actually says, why the gaming industry is quietly panicking, and whether it'll even survive long enough to matter. Then: Subnautica 2 launched in Early Access and immediately broke Steam records for the franchise — 1 million players in 2 hours, 2 million in 12. But behind the numbers is a wild story involving a studio lawsuit, a founder getting fired, and Krafton throwing its weight around. Is this a genuine comeback or a chaos success? Plus — Forza Horizon 6 finally got a proper reveal, and we have thoughts. And we go off the rails (in the best way) into zero-point energy. Someone announced a Casimir Effect chip that supposedly generates 1.5 volts. Jake's in. Raz is not. The debate goes places. 0:00 - Intro 0:57 - Stop Killing Games: What the Bill Actually Says 13:55 - CoD Made Single Player Require Internet on Purpose 17:17 - Raz: "I Don't Think These People Are Real Gamers" 26:27 - The Baseball Bat Problem (Digital vs Physical Ownership) 27:24 - Hell Let Loose Vietnam 38:47 - Subnautica 2 Early Access: 1M Players in 2 Hours 38:57 - The Krafton Lawsuit and Studio Drama 40:01 - Early Access: When Is It Okay? 41:20 - Is Subnautica 2 Actually Good? 46:55 - Forza Horizon 6 — First Look Reactions 57:35 - Pentagon Drops Declassified UFO Files 57:49 - Casimir Effect Chip: Free Energy or Complete BS? 59:15 - Raz: Does This Chip Even Make Sense? 1:02:57 - Raz: "I Don't Believe That This Chip Exists" 1:07:46 - Jake's Abiotic Oil Theory (Hear Him Out) 1:38:19 - Wrap The podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and ad-free & early access versions - as well as bonus episodes - are available to all of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot) supporters. We stream the podcast live on our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast) every Saturday morning at ~9 o'clock Pacific Time. We typically start the stream 30 minutes early to answer viewer questions, banter, and chat. Links for everything are below. Thanks for checking us out! 🔹Streaming schedule (Pacific time): 🔸Saturday ~9 AM: Gaming news and stories of the week 🔹The Dropshot: 🔸Website: https://www.thedropshot.com 🔸Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDropshotPod 🔸Discord: https://discord.gg/B4Nsarq 🔸YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thedropshotpodcast 🔸Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedropshot 🔸Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=YVR98VF4S945G 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedropshotpodcast/ 🔸TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedropshotpodcast 🔹Razinon: 🔸Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/razinon 🔸Twitter: https://twitter.com/razinon 🔸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/razinonttv 🔹Jakedown: 🔸Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jakedown_ 🔸YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jakedown #TheDropshot #GamingPodcast #PodcastClips #GamingCulture #StopKillingGames #GamePreservation #DigitalOwnership #Subnautica2 #ForzaHorizon6 #GamingNews #GamingIndustry #CallOfDuty #AB1921 #CasimirEffect #ZeroPointEnergy #UFO #ConspiracyTheory #JoeRogan #HotTake #GamingDebate #Podcast #GamingRant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.8	com.uk slash podcast to learn more. We are live, boys and girls, welcome to the drop shot a podcast.
0:51.7	Episode number 587. my name is Casey also knows
0:56.9	Razanon today as usual as is the new usual I'm joined by Jake up down
1:03.5	oh Jake so so and today we have some things to talk about.
1:11.6	Starting with big news on the gaming and culture side of things, of which we are a podcast, by the way, stop killing games.
1:23.6	The law is coming for publishers.
1:26.6	So I don't know how much you guys know about stop killing games.
1:31.4	I am, I probably know a little more than you do now since we've done these notes.
1:36.0	But basically this is an initiative over in California that has been talked about quite a bit in the last year or two.
1:48.0	If you guys know of the narcissistic, very hateable pirate software, he talked about this a lot.
1:59.2	He was an opponent of it
2:00.9	for which he got a lot of flack,
2:03.5	among many other things he's caught flack for.
2:07.6	But basically,
2:09.2	what this is,
2:11.9	is there was a game called The Crew
2:15.4	that Ubisoft put out.
2:18.0	That was a paid game, and they basically just bricked it.
2:23.7	And people got mad that they spent money on something
2:28.3	for which they could no longer play.
2:32.5	And as a result of that,
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