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my heart, a palimpsest of every letter i've never written, by our dear friend, the medic 6 track album

out today for #bandcampfriday - "my heart, a palimpsest of every letter i've never written", an ambient/drone/electroacoustic treatise on emotional memory and its lasting effects upon us, through resampling & recontextualisation of previously unreleased works

thank you for your ears 💗

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We're giving away a little 'Boo Box' bundle... Steam keys for Blue Prince, The Séance of Blake Manor, Post Trauma and Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer!

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Giveaway ends on the 3rd of November at 1PM GMT. Make sure DM's are open! Happy Halloween!☠️

If you end up reading the the Umineko VN (the manga is also a solid alternative), then look up the 07th Mod: It adds voices and (optionally) sprites from the PS3 version to Umineko and Higurashi, and the voices in particularly *significantly* elevate the experience

If lesbian nuns didn't exist, then we'd have to invent them!

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

A Must Read.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

Localized games vary a lot in quality: You get games localized with care, and you get games that are rendered nearly unplayable by machine translated nonsense, that is often littered with unlocalized punctuation, and where the text might not even fit the UI. But I would prefer seeing *both* scores

This is a really interesting article about the feasibility (or rather, the lack thereof) of companies like itch and Valve creating their own payment processor, or using some of the processors willing to handle "high risk" transactions, as an alternative to Stripe, PayPal, etc.

Per the article, krispycat searched for their games, but did not see them in the search suggestions, and concluded that they had been removed. But nothing suggests that their games were ever listed there. Most games aren't in the search suggestions, that's easy to verify, though many yuri games are

Here's a screenshot of someone on your staff lying to the community that LGBT games weren't impacted, while you were blanket deindexing yuri games (which are lesbian, not NSFW). As a journalist, I have a responsibility to correct misinformation from corporations. Stop lying to your community!

Your colleague is publicly harassing one of our staff members on the assumption that misinformation that you published is true, despite us providing you with details descriptions of how our internal systems work in various bluesky threads over the past day.

We did not blanket deindex yuri content.

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game.

It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM

Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

Back in April, Collective Shout called on Steam and itch to remove one game, "No Mercy", and they did. That was all. Then, in July, Collective Shout launched a new campaign directly targeting payment processors, and that led to the current situation. How could itch have known about that in advance?

Your game does seem to be deindexed: I can't find it by searching, whether I am logged in or logged out of itch. And that is with "Show content marked as adult in search & browse" enabled when logged in

to turn and remove the key, by violetta oliveros 7 track album

in the seventh era, a composer named violetta fell deeply in love. she produced a suite of music for strings, piano, brass & woodwinds that yearned just as she did for the heart of the woman she cherished

available now for #bandcampfriday 💗

ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/album/to-tur...

Stuff that was "hit" mainly seems due to devs
- only using itch to link to other stores
- never having finished their store pages
- tagging stuff as "adult" despite it being sfw
- marking stuff as "sensitive" and thus hidden unless you log in
and often since long before the current brouhaha started

Steam vets games for both functionality and content, and many games have been rejected during this process, even mainstream games like CHAOS;HEAD NOAH. See partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/re... and partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettings...

Apparently Mouthwashing was delisted last year, due to the developers themselves removing it from sale on itch:
bsky.app/profile/itch...

I still have my copy in my library *and* I can download all 3 builds when I click on the "Download" button in my library. However, I started by finding the game via the "Download your purchase" link in the "Your purchase of" email that I received when I bought it, so maybe that makes a difference

Off-by-one errors truly are the worst

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Don't threaten me with a good time

Deathbulge is out now on GOG + ITCH!

It surely depends on the artist, but in my experience albums on bandcamp tend to be in the £5-10 range, excluding taxes. Though I would have to stream an artist for 115-230 hours before they got the same £5-10 (assuming 3.5 min. tracks), and that'd probably take years since I listen to many artists

No, it is a parody account. Just not intentionally

It beats not ever getting part 3, but I'm mildly disappointed that the physical trilogy in English will never completed

An entity with a horned bovine head, wings, and three arms gestures toward a small sigil that they appear to have drawn with a quill. Above them, a golden halo is surrounded by a faint labyrinth, and music from a hymnal is collaged in the background. Below the sigil is text in Wormrōte that reads 'There is no wisdom in my path'.

Sigil 13
—
There is no wisdom
in my path;
descent t'ward
frozen wings beating
against a
still colder cage
—
8" x 8"
Acrylic, Collage, Charcoal, Graphite, Gold Leaf
Wood Panel

Somehow I've been missing the author tag in the bottom left. Credit goes to x.com/Nanju_Bami/s...

That one is great! Here's an animated version that I came across on /r/grimdank, I think

Line drawing of Space Marine of the Carcharodons chapter holding a Blåhaj with the caption "Really? Right in front of my blahaj?"