Pyksies

Shoulda dodged! 💅

The Maverick Manor 1.1 has entered beta-testing!
To cap off this game, the series name is being changed to 'H•ERO'. Hazard Heroines was something I hastily plucked to get the game out on time, and I like this punchier name more! Plus, it's punnier. :3c

Cool gamedev life hack! If you don't look at your project, the bugs don't exist!

Christ. 'Useless' doesn't begin to cover it.

Helldivers 2 informs me that 'STEAM NOT DETECTED', while I am clearly online in Steam.

oh ok, if you say so

Weighing in at 130k~ words, the Codex is done and I'm steaming ahead to the 1.1 of Maverick Manor.

Don't get complacent just because Canada, Australia, and the UK has petitions going around right now (look at my feed for the link) we in the US need to do our part and keep the pressure on them and our own reps both to kill the bills currently in Congress we can do it! #SaveSpeech

I am nearly done with my Codex for this setting! It's. An amount of words! A lot of them. Help me.

gum commercials for giants be like "how it fo's to fee fii gum"

Seriously, I'm gunna be smiling about this for days, heheheh!

It's an honour 💜

I can't emphasize enough how much your direct action, calling these processors every day, has forced these statements and the news coverage to happen. It's so important that we keep going. We have been shown they can bleed so be like sharks. Keep up the pressure and more things will start cracking.

HHtMM is now 'Free'! Nothing new in-game (yet!), but apparently me setting the game to Free has been alerting people as if there's an update, so I'd like to explain my rationale. When Maverick Manor launched, I decided to...

HHtMM is now 'Free'! - Hazard Heroines - the Maverick Manor
pyksies.itch.io/maverick-man...

Aye, this has since been established. Fear and Hunger still stands as an example, to my knowledge.

Well, doom and gloom aside, shook off the rust to get some writing done. 3k words before I knew it. I recently got a new keyboard, finally in a position to spend a decent amount on a -good- one, and by god! How silly I was not to do this sooner. Seriously, writers, get yourself a nice keyboard!!

Outside of this, Itchio make a somewhat unclear commitment that people won't have their pending payouts restricted if they're hit by these suspensions given the circumstances, and claim to be working on securing new payment processors.

Keep it up. And thank you, oh so much!

itch.io/updates/upda...

Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe are all still targets in this campaign, but Stripe should be major priority now. You can no longer purchase adult content on itch.io with Stripe as of today: this, in combination with early commentary, implies they're the prime culprit.

Mouthwashing, Fear and Hunger, and other horror games that deal with dark subject matter - in condemnation of it - are now also deindexed from Itchio. Where's the buck stop? How famous and well-received does a game have to be to immunize itself from this censorship? You gotta be GTA, now? Unless...

Regarding the Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal (etc) situation: There's a post going around that Visa have requested people email them regarding this matter instead of calling them. By all means, do that as well: but don't do that -instead-. Emails are easier to ignore! Calls tie up resources.

Other games absolutely work, such as the latest WWE! Plenty of meaty faces to choose from. But, there's something extra funny to me if the database-that-definitely-doesn't-exist-for-AI-training is full of nothing but Norman Reedus gurn shots.

Be sneaky. Be silly. But most of all, be useless to them. Because if you believe a company when it says it isn't storing the data you're giving them - like a nice, crisp photo of your bloody passport - then I have a bridge to sell you, and if you act now I'll even throw in a tower!

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

So you know what? If you absolutely can't get past these blocks in any typical way - a VPN, filtering via extensions such as UBlock - go for the cheekiest option possible. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/bri...

Warned again and again about the risk of security breaches, the Act activated 2 days ago. Within the same day, the app known as 'Tea' was revealed to be storing all of its verification data in an unsecured Google bucket. 100,000's of women's ID's and licenses leaked in full online.

Far from merely blocking adult websites, it's seen restriction of mental health resources, LGBTQ resources, addiction resources, but even beyond these sadly expected ''''adult'''' topics, you've got things like fan forums for football clubs of 'the concept of hamsters' having to shut down.

The Online Safety Act in the UK is as disruptive as anyone with half a braincell could have told you, but politicians don't like listening to experts, they like making them state their expert opinions before going 'well we disagree with your expert opinions'. Wankery at the highest levels. (cont)

WHY? On July 2025, Steam, a popular storefront to purchase games on PC, and itch.io, a storefront that sells games, comics, tools, resources and much more, have recently delisted several NSFW games, after the group Collective Shout published an open letter to payment processors such as Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and more. As a result of this letter, payment processors have strongarmed Valve and itch.io into enforcing restrictive new TOS policies on what kind of content their platforms can host and sell. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for TOO LONG. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and MORE for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platiorms and their users can host and sell. If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard. HOW? BOMBARD THEM WITH PHONE CALLS Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyians to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended perlou, over a mont at the absolute least, will almost gudrantee that these compantes will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. this list is not exhaustive. but some contact points for the 4 targets are: 1. VISA: (US + Can): +1 [8001-847-2911 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3 2. MASTERCARD: (US): +1 (8001-307-7309 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111 3. STRIPE: (Headquarters): +118881 963-8955 (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Stripe: complaints@stripe.com 4. PAYPAL: (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

Other such highlights include 'barely legal'. What the fuck is 'barely legal', in definition? Is it specifically using that phrase, or is it the vibe? When does the vibe end? 19? 20? 21? 25? 30? 'Barely Legal' does not affect me, but it perhaps pisses me off the most. The keyword is still legal!!!

The rules are incredibly vague and open-ended, and they do not give specifics to the platforms they come knocking on. Fansly just interpreted 'animal-featured' in these rules to the point of banning Furry Vtubers from their platformk entirely, because they decided not to take that risk.

Visa and Stripe, in particular, are now at the point where their support numbers will go 'is this about steam/itchio?...' when called. So, it's working. Keep going. And don't fall for the trap of 'well, it's kinks -I- don't like for now, so it's not so bad!'

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP

Angered by the wave of online censorship this week? Go yell at the money. yellat.money

#nsfw #adultgames #censorship #mastercard #visa