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Problem: game comes out next week I wanna stream, but deltarune ain't done yet!
Solution: two days of stream this week? And maybe we don't stay up till 2am to kill a superboss...

I'll be live on twitch tonight with more deltarune if you're inclined to stop by!

twitch.tv/plural_j

Crucible: A Solo Roguelike World-Building RPG Crucible is a solo RPG about a character being transformed by their world, and what that tells you about both them and that world.

Oops, forgot I was launching this today!

The goal is ONE POUND so if you sprint, maybe YOU can push me over the line!

Zohran Mamdani being *more* popular among NYC Jews than among NYC voters as a whole is a wild fact, and completely belies much of the national narrative surrounding his candidacy.

The people in the national media who talk a lot about antisemitism are often not listening to actual Jews.

A chibi self portrait of Mango. He is hung on a laundry line with a clothespin, looking at a medical bill with tears in his eyes. He wears an open green button down and brown shorts. There is two bandages over his belly, and his top surgery scars are visible. The largest text reads "Help Mango Recover From His Surgery!" The medium sized text reads "PayPal, Venmo, & CashApp @ mangojohnston" In the right bottom corner is Mango's social media icon, which is the same across all his money apps. The text around this icon reads "Look For This Icon!"

The QR codes for Mango's various money apps, along with the icon he uses on these apps. Top Left: PayPal Top Right: Venmo Bottom Left: CashApp Bottom Right: Mango's social media icon.

Hey yall! My job doesn't offer PTO and I'm having major surgery next week! On top of medical bills, I will be missing an entire paycheck because I need to recover!

If you can, please donate. If not, please spread the word. I dunno the amount of my medical bills yet, but I'm down $1000 in wages.

I think Visa and Mastercard may be getting a lot of calls about their adult content policies, but I just called in to PayPal and not only was there no wait, the customer service rep I got had never had one of these calls before (they were very nice about it.)

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs "Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

“Corporate game industry lobbyists will gladly fight government regulation of violent video games & gambling, but they're strangely silent when LGBTQ indie game makers are in the crosshairs.”
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

For any Canadians who have yet to contact the FCAC wrt #VISA #mastercard, this is there response to me.

If you still wish to give them your complaints, go for it, but definitely go by this agent's suggestions and contact your MP and if possible the DFC.

#steam #itch #patreon #stripe #paypal

Fantastic article. Highly recommend people pay in to read it in full, as @therisingtithes.bsky.social has some really powerful reflections on how erotic games & fag art connect to race for them. I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while.

Trepe @trepeserafin Follow back VISA CARD REPRESENTATIVE YELLED AT ME I called 650 432 3200 and simply asked about the content guideline. I got: "We've been getting thousands of calls!" "You talked to someone? WHO DID YOU CALL!" "OTHER PEOPLE ACCEPTED WHAT I SAID! SO WHY DON'T YOU!!!" @Visa is cooked LMAO VISA

Keep calling Visa. It’s working.

Background: Personified Visa and Mastercard surrounded by a crowd of people Foreground: Monder lady looming over a personified PayPal and Strip Dialogue: Hello, dear. Do you have a minute to chat Caption: All my homies hate censorship stop-paypros.neocities.org

You didn't think we'd forget about you two, did you?
All payment processors get love! :)

While Mastercard and Visa are drowning, these two have been feeling a bit neglected. u_u

stop-paypros.neocities.org

#SaveSpeech

Stop using Substack.

A blue box to the left with four sillhouette-style humans, each notably wearing wizard-like robes from the Harry Potter universe. The box says Codenames and Back to Hogwarts on it, with Harry Potter in golden letters at the bottom. To the right, a cartoon astronaut head in a Harry Potter scarf winks, a variation of the logo of board game publisher Czech Games Edition.

Reviewers including No Pun Included and Shut Up & Sit Down are boycotting Codenames publisher CGE for releasing a new Harry Potter-themed game while ignoring JK Rowling’s anti-trans rhetoric:

boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

The idea of "We can't let people talk about difficult/'icky' things in art! Think of the kids!!" ignores the reality that people sometimes have to start dealing with difficult, "icky" things in childhood.

The way to help them/us is education—not muzzling anyone trying to speak on those experiences.

Truth about comics.

there’s like a 99% chance Sniffies PR pitched this story to the author. We need to have a discussion about how we feel about gay tech bros commodifying our community for their wealth that comes at the expense of our community safety.

But not today. I’m making homemade bagels.

Hey, I want to make something clear: I'm really unhappy with a lot of ways itch.io has handled this... And also. They are NOT WORTH ATTACKING HERE. This is not something they have control over, their options were "do this or shut down forever", and if we want this changed, GO AFTER STRIPE/MASTERCARD

People reading these and being like “ooooh okay so it’s only for REALLY bad stuff” is very eye opening to the fact that none of u actually engage with any meaningful stories, like at all

I have nothing to last me, all my money went on getting some food at my pals for us and the dog, I had to borrow £10 to get a taxi the rest of the way home. I have nothing to last me until the 10th, not a penny to my name.

Please help

Paypal: tinasmithzef51@gmail.com

it will be difficult but we're going to need a fairly radical shift in online norms over the coming years as censorship and puritan crackdowns continue to worsen. absolutely no more listing your age, mental illnesses and all your kinks on your profile. the era of shutting da fuck up is here

You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.

💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Commune with sisters to discover the forbidden truths of your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution

1000xRESIST is 30% off on Steam for the first time.

me n my buddies were about to do an EVIL curated bundle a couple days ago, but it took us a few to set this up instead. theres no payment involved now, just promoting EVIL scary sexy games

click the link for a full description and get your hands on all the deleted games

thatsvnclub.neocities.org

"prohibited themes." it is soooooo cool to have free speech parentheses constantly manipulated and obstructed by capital close parentheses

"But this is just about porn games!"

Yes, and weird religious fascists regularly mischaracterize queer people and queer art as inherently pornographic, they shouldn't be given an inch because there's no line for them, no cut-off point, they'll never be satisfied. Do you think they'll stop at porn?

An Ana Valens Daily Dot article: Itch.io is not the NSFW, LGBTQ safe haven you think it is There's a weak link. Ana Valens Ana Valens IRL Published May 13, 2021 Updated May 22, 2021, 11:22 am CDT Opinion

In 2021 I warned itchio could one day face payment processor censorship. Many people thought I was creating drama by “attacking” the company

Four years later, here we are. I was right, unfortunately

archive.is/nxbzh

The Horned Sphinx

u know what u gotta do though. download my games. download them now. i dont care if u pay or not - i always have community copies. even the ones that play in browser are downloadable. go get them

the-horned-sphinx.itch.io

Email to support@itch.io, subject line "De-indexing of NSFW and adult work." Email content is too long for alt text, so slightly edited for character limit: Given recent rumours of the delisting and deindexing of adult work across all of itch.io, I wish to ask if these rumours are true (and a binary yes/no answer would be preferred to the question 'Is concealing NSFW and adult work from search and indexes now a policy of itch.io?') and voice my strong opposition to this for a multitude of reasons if it is. 1) "Adult" and "NSFW" are often used to discuss queerness, as queerness almost inherently brushes against topics of sexuality, bodies, and human desire. There are ways to create content about queerness which ARE 'safe for work,' however-- 2) There are ongoing campaigns to cast all forms of queer life as sexualized and perverse, not fit for consumption by decent people, and so on. Itch.io risks legitimizing these attitudes by suddenly deplatforming immense amounts of queer art, and thus 3) the de-indexing of adult work will inevitably disproportionately impact already precarious queer artists and writers and game-developers who have trusted itch.io and promoted it as a safe, accepting, place for art that the mainstream may reject. This is a betrayal of thousands of members of your artistic community who have put faith in your website and organization that will inevitably crater the reputation and user base of itch.io. If this is not the new policy, then I hope whatever technical error occured is resolved. If this is the new policy, I hope you will backtrack. If you will not backtrack, then I will be joining the exodus of writers, artists, game devs, and other creatives who once trusted you as we search for a place where queer art may be, for a time, safe.

sent an email to support@itch.io, strongly suggest other writers, artists, game devs, etc. who give a shit do similarly

that one image of the person with blue eyes with superimposed text reading "it is vitally important that you be a pervert. i am not kidding. you need to be horny. don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. they are your enemy. kill them"

This isn't just affecting games hosted on itchio...

Comics, books, zones, etc with these tags are also no longer searchable. This is going to impact indie scenes across the board if not challenged!