You're welcome! This has been one of my favorite series, and Can't Spell Treason Without Tea was actually my first pick for the book club I'm in.

You got all that feedback and didn’t read any of it. More censorship is never the answer, especially in creative spaces. This is conservative fear mongering under a different name. Not too late to walk your censorship efforts back.

This mindset is psychotic. You have the money and power to help people, but you actively choose not to. Good people don’t need incentives to do the right thing.

Violet Evergarden is by far one of my favorite animes! I would recommend not watching the finale movie though since it really undercuts huge parts of the show. The first film, Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll, is great though

We are. We’ve been going after visa and Mastercard since the news came out. However, Itch and companies that capitulate aren’t innocent in this. They had months to tell us what was happening, to take the lead. If they had tried and lost, that is far better than not trying at all.

Correct, Itch is a company which makes money when creators sell games to their customers. I expect such a company to enable said creators to sell their product to customers, rather than actively work to prevent that from happening because of a handful of bigots.

If that's your takeaway, you really need to work on your reading comprehension.

If they de-list their games, nobody gets paid because you can no longer buy the games. This will affect creators as they can no longer sell their games on the platform. They may be a small company, but they have an active customer base with experience in direct action.

This is a disingenuous take and you know it. The options for Itch were to do something and risk failing, or do nothing and definitely fail. They chose to do nothing. At this rate, they will still go out of business as their customer base and creators abandon the platform.

Exactly what people have taken the initiative to do now: go after Visa and MC directly. We're calling, we're emailing, we're not letting them know peace. Itch had the opportunity to take the lead on this, to rally support. Instead, they chose to do nothing and capitulate without warning.

You are free to your opinion. However, you continue to be disingenuous in attacking everyone else without any alternatives of your own. What is your realistic plan for Itch to push back and resist the payment processors? Doing nothing is not an acceptable answer.

Again, you are intentionally missing the point in order to demand others explain basic concepts to you and defend capitulation to fascism. The ways in which Itch could have pushed back and mobilized their user base over the last several months have been explained to you multiple times.

You are intentionally missing the point. The pressure against Itch began in April. They have had months to try and resist, to tell us what's happening. Instead, they did nothing, then betrayed their users at the last second without warning. Trying and failing is better than doing nothing at all.

Nobody is letting the company die. Itch decided to kill their company in order to appease fascists.

They've already admitted the pressure began back in April. The correct course of action would have been to mobilize their audience and user base, many of whom have extensive experience with direct action, to apply pressure against the payment processors. Instead, itch.io chose inaction.