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· Jul 25
A lot of NSFW content has been removed from places like Steam and itchio recently, but you might not know this is actually the result of a campaign that has been going on for decades.
Here's how anti-porn groups got the power to censor the internet.
youtu.be/SmHHnPLllUk
Here's how anti-porn groups got the power to censor the internet.
youtu.be/SmHHnPLllUk
#JustFinished Hollow Knight: Silksong
Managing to take a very good first game and upgrade it in nearly every way is an achievement for anyone, let alone a small studio
It has balance and pacing issues, but the story, world, and gameplay are all so good I just couldn't put it down
Must Play*
Managing to take a very good first game and upgrade it in nearly every way is an achievement for anyone, let alone a small studio
It has balance and pacing issues, but the story, world, and gameplay are all so good I just couldn't put it down
Must Play*
September 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#JustFinished Hollow Knight: Silksong
Managing to take a very good first game and upgrade it in nearly every way is an achievement for anyone, let alone a small studio
It has balance and pacing issues, but the story, world, and gameplay are all so good I just couldn't put it down
Must Play*
Managing to take a very good first game and upgrade it in nearly every way is an achievement for anyone, let alone a small studio
It has balance and pacing issues, but the story, world, and gameplay are all so good I just couldn't put it down
Must Play*
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how I feel trying to explain to normies why nsfw ban and censorship is bad and why they should care
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
how I feel trying to explain to normies why nsfw ban and censorship is bad and why they should care
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boy howdy am i tired of the daily "man who sells Thing says Thing very important" tech story
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
boy howdy am i tired of the daily "man who sells Thing says Thing very important" tech story
I… kinda agree with this?
I’ve talked about difficulty and praised hard games a ton, but a lot of design decisions in Silksong seem made purely to fuck with the player
I just couldn’t stop imagining how much fun I’d be having if the game didn’t have a grudge against me
I’ve talked about difficulty and praised hard games a ton, but a lot of design decisions in Silksong seem made purely to fuck with the player
I just couldn’t stop imagining how much fun I’d be having if the game didn’t have a grudge against me
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I… kinda agree with this?
I’ve talked about difficulty and praised hard games a ton, but a lot of design decisions in Silksong seem made purely to fuck with the player
I just couldn’t stop imagining how much fun I’d be having if the game didn’t have a grudge against me
I’ve talked about difficulty and praised hard games a ton, but a lot of design decisions in Silksong seem made purely to fuck with the player
I just couldn’t stop imagining how much fun I’d be having if the game didn’t have a grudge against me
ngl the difference in response on these two apps is very telling
September 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
ngl the difference in response on these two apps is very telling
the budget is actually just for all the cocaine the producers will be doing. 70s cinema is back, baby!
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models
(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
the budget is actually just for all the cocaine the producers will be doing. 70s cinema is back, baby!
Comms (like most transactions) are oppositional
Commissioners want to pay as little as they can get away with. Artists want to get paid as much as they can get away with. The final price is just where those two overlap
Arguing about how much artists deserve is just rationalizing your price range
Commissioners want to pay as little as they can get away with. Artists want to get paid as much as they can get away with. The final price is just where those two overlap
Arguing about how much artists deserve is just rationalizing your price range
i dont think the price of commissions has anything to do with how much an artist "deserves", or even how much work goes into a piece -- isn't it supply and demand? if you charge $100 a sketch and your slots fill immediately, maybe you should be charging more. the luis vuitton of sketches
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Comms (like most transactions) are oppositional
Commissioners want to pay as little as they can get away with. Artists want to get paid as much as they can get away with. The final price is just where those two overlap
Arguing about how much artists deserve is just rationalizing your price range
Commissioners want to pay as little as they can get away with. Artists want to get paid as much as they can get away with. The final price is just where those two overlap
Arguing about how much artists deserve is just rationalizing your price range
I’m not playing Silksong, but I just want everyone to know I could beat it really easily if I wanted to. I can tell everyone complaining about the difficulty is a worse Gamer than me
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’m not playing Silksong, but I just want everyone to know I could beat it really easily if I wanted to. I can tell everyone complaining about the difficulty is a worse Gamer than me
game developers when something good happens in the industry: here’s why this thing is bad and will ruin my life, actually
silksong honestly should cost 40 bucks and i'm not even joking
i won't go so far as to say it's bad it doesn't, but! it will have Effects, and not all of those effects are Good
i won't go so far as to say it's bad it doesn't, but! it will have Effects, and not all of those effects are Good
September 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
game developers when something good happens in the industry: here’s why this thing is bad and will ruin my life, actually
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"the real game starts after the credits" well too bad, my adhd put a little tick mark next to it with "task completed" written in crayon so I'm never gonna touch it again
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"the real game starts after the credits" well too bad, my adhd put a little tick mark next to it with "task completed" written in crayon so I'm never gonna touch it again
TL;DR: Restricted Mode has existed since 2010. YouTube said only 1.5% of views are using it. However, their teen content filters seem to be identical, and it’s only after they started forcing age verification that views went down for everyone
Did a bit of bored phone research into Restricted Mode, YouTube’s recent AI age-verification censorship, and any reason why they might be causing views to go down across the platform
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
TL;DR: Restricted Mode has existed since 2010. YouTube said only 1.5% of views are using it. However, their teen content filters seem to be identical, and it’s only after they started forcing age verification that views went down for everyone
Did a bit of bored phone research into Restricted Mode, YouTube’s recent AI age-verification censorship, and any reason why they might be causing views to go down across the platform
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
September 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Did a bit of bored phone research into Restricted Mode, YouTube’s recent AI age-verification censorship, and any reason why they might be causing views to go down across the platform
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
For anyone who’s interested, here’s a thread 🧵
inflation is really hitting hard, huh?
GTA 6 Is The First "AAAAA Game," Industry Veteran Says
"It's just bigger than anything else both in the scope and scale of the game and the kind of cultural impact that it has."
dlvr.it
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
inflation is really hitting hard, huh?
#JustFinished Max Payne 3
The quintessential action movie reboot, complete with a protagonist who’s clearly too old to still be doing this, and a bold attempt to change direction into something flashy and modern
Thank god it’s the last one
Should Play
The quintessential action movie reboot, complete with a protagonist who’s clearly too old to still be doing this, and a bold attempt to change direction into something flashy and modern
Thank god it’s the last one
Should Play
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#JustFinished Max Payne 3
The quintessential action movie reboot, complete with a protagonist who’s clearly too old to still be doing this, and a bold attempt to change direction into something flashy and modern
Thank god it’s the last one
Should Play
The quintessential action movie reboot, complete with a protagonist who’s clearly too old to still be doing this, and a bold attempt to change direction into something flashy and modern
Thank god it’s the last one
Should Play
Reminder that Collective Shout is backed by Christian fundamentalist groups who want to ban all pornography, and have used vague trafficking laws to pressure Visa and Mastercard to drop online platforms under threat of lawsuit
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Reminder that Collective Shout is backed by Christian fundamentalist groups who want to ban all pornography, and have used vague trafficking laws to pressure Visa and Mastercard to drop online platforms under threat of lawsuit
#JustFinished Max Payne 2
If the first game was a fresh new action movie, this is the late sequel that’s more technically impressive, but loses the charm and struggles to do something new
They sure do put Max in some wacky situations as an excuse for fun action scenes though
Must Play
If the first game was a fresh new action movie, this is the late sequel that’s more technically impressive, but loses the charm and struggles to do something new
They sure do put Max in some wacky situations as an excuse for fun action scenes though
Must Play
September 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
#JustFinished Max Payne 2
If the first game was a fresh new action movie, this is the late sequel that’s more technically impressive, but loses the charm and struggles to do something new
They sure do put Max in some wacky situations as an excuse for fun action scenes though
Must Play
If the first game was a fresh new action movie, this is the late sequel that’s more technically impressive, but loses the charm and struggles to do something new
They sure do put Max in some wacky situations as an excuse for fun action scenes though
Must Play
Reposted by lextorias
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
#JustFinished Max Payne
It’s just so fun. Goofy melodramatic story. Unbeatable high adrenaline gunplay. A metric ton of B-grade charm
That being said, while I love Remedy’s future endeavors into surrealism, the dream sequence levels were kind of the worst part
Must Play
It’s just so fun. Goofy melodramatic story. Unbeatable high adrenaline gunplay. A metric ton of B-grade charm
That being said, while I love Remedy’s future endeavors into surrealism, the dream sequence levels were kind of the worst part
Must Play
August 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#JustFinished Max Payne
It’s just so fun. Goofy melodramatic story. Unbeatable high adrenaline gunplay. A metric ton of B-grade charm
That being said, while I love Remedy’s future endeavors into surrealism, the dream sequence levels were kind of the worst part
Must Play
It’s just so fun. Goofy melodramatic story. Unbeatable high adrenaline gunplay. A metric ton of B-grade charm
That being said, while I love Remedy’s future endeavors into surrealism, the dream sequence levels were kind of the worst part
Must Play
Reposted by lextorias
Good morning~☀️🫠今日のらくがきで〜す
August 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Good morning~☀️🫠今日のらくがきで〜す
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Getting a kind of brain damage from doing the NYT crossword where I now parse every sentence as having a different, dumber meaning
August 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Getting a kind of brain damage from doing the NYT crossword where I now parse every sentence as having a different, dumber meaning
every day I fight the urge to start developing a video game
August 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
every day I fight the urge to start developing a video game
It is kinda funny that there’s an entire grifter discourse online that’s driven by people being too stupid to understand that Japanese is different from English
JP>ENG localization gets criticism from people when it's not a direct 1:1 translation but if you are directing JP as literally into ENG as possible, you are making a bad translation. don't listen to people on forums bitching about how sentences seem "completely made up" from the original
August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is kinda funny that there’s an entire grifter discourse online that’s driven by people being too stupid to understand that Japanese is different from English
sometimes I spend too much time online and start overestimating people’s knowledge of anime, but then I’m forced to remember how many people think it just means “animation that’s weird and maybe Asian”
August 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
sometimes I spend too much time online and start overestimating people’s knowledge of anime, but then I’m forced to remember how many people think it just means “animation that’s weird and maybe Asian”
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Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld
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Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld - AUTOMATON WEST
PayPal froze £80,000 of a Steam programmer's earnings because of their involvement in developing adult games.
automaton-media.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.