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Pantsless Tables Presents 'That's What She Aid,' a mutual aid charity event benefitting @asouzagm.bsky.social! For the month of September, all our scheduled (and surprise) games will fundraise for his gofundme, ending in a 12-hour stream and raid train!
Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/keep-us-ho...

I know what it is to put a lot of work into an awards ceremony and receive pushback about it and I know your position isn't easy, but I would ask you to reconsider the tone of this response and consider the deeper dimensions of why Steve's video is relatable to people.

Moreover, this is already encouraging a trend of several white people having a dismissive or defensive reaction to a very well-reasoned good faith critique by a person of color. If you want to be for the community, this ain't how you respond when someone brings up something like this.

I completely understand how terrible it is to be harassed in the wake of opposing Zionism and this isn't meant to dismiss the very real impact of that, but this response is wildly defensive and really disappointing.

As one of my partners said to me re: the CRIT awards this year, ‘Damn, this category really is wall to wall white dudes, huh?’ That’s a big problem, and the fact that there’s limited transparency around how the CRITs work only contributes to the issue.

The thing that annoys me about the Crit Awards being a popularity contest is that everyone nominated DESERVES recognition, but because there's no real analysis, critique, or intention beyond winning votes, the actual art, work, and services are not ACTUALLY being talked about in a meaningful way

YouTube video by Pantsless Tables Paid Promos, AI Art, and Zero Transparency: AKA The CRIT Awards Problem

Stuff has been bothering me for a while, and the list kept getting longer so here's baby's first video essay featuring the CRiT awards. This includes my thoughts on the recent paid promotions, resharing of AI art and the lack of transparency from the team.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dfs...

We raised $1451 for PFLAG as part of Pantsless PRIDE 2025!

Thank you to everyone who donated, to all our sponsors and cross promo collabs and ad buys, but most importantly thank you so much to my team. You're all incredible and I wouldn't be here without you. I love you all so much.

Done!

So much incredible talent in this starter pack including folks who have visited and joined us here to collab and create at the Haus of Dreams!

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

The list of contributors is very uhhh telling

Done! Glad to have you!

Thank you Chirag appreciate it!

NEW GAME ALERT!

Nesting rituals is a small duet game where you play two birds building a nest! Let us know what you think!
illicitpeanuts.itch.io/nesting-ritu...

Doctors, teachers, journalists, athletes, chefs...

🇮🇱 Israel targets anyone doing good for the people of 🇵🇸 Palestine, especially if their work is visible to the world.

The 🇬🇧 UK, 🇺🇸 US, 🇩🇪 Germany and other Western govts are complicit in this genocide via money, weapons and political protection. STOP.

It's finally tonight! I got absorbed by job search and forgot to post this but here's a free game to celebrate 1k. This is the game I wrote in my friends dms lmao hope y'all have fun! #ttrpg #sarpg

illicitpeanuts.itch.io/nesting-ritu...

It's finally tonight! I got absorbed by job search and forgot to post this but here's a free game to celebrate 1k. This is the game I wrote in my friends dms lmao hope y'all have fun! #ttrpg #sarpg

illicitpeanuts.itch.io/nesting-ritu...

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

This game can use your support, if you're a publisher, too! I get that this game might be too risky a subject to publish, but I believe many of you do understand & appreciate the value of a Palestinian-made game. There's an anonymous donation option, if needed for your job.

www.launchgood.com/1948

Hello can I be added to this list please!

Friday is Creators Day at Itch.io and creators will get 100% of the money from sales on that day, so please support your favorite small press and indie publishers by buying things on Friday that you might have been thinking about buying.

Side note to this: if you block someone you follow without unfollowing them, you're still registered as following, and show up as such for anyone who follows you and is looking at the page of the person you blocked.

(Which may be the case for some of those 50+, but I mention so everyone knows)

Same tbh every time I think about it I just realise how much I love my buddies and players and get really emo about it

Made a note of your name like three days ago then forgot then tried to remember for ages and now added! Thanks for the reminder I was dying

Lots of new people have been added since I last shared this if you followed me through this starter pack click on follow all again!

Added!

I've started a starter pack of South Asian Kidlit Creators (authors and/or illustrators)! Please spread the word and DM or comment on this post to be added or removed.

go.bsky.app/E2AUDvR

Hey here's a free two pager game I made if you get sad around holidays. You can get even more sad now.