Good enough? For what? Different accomplishments require different levels of skill.

www.boxlunch.com/theme?q=pikmin Here too.

"Before woke"??? So, over a hundred years ago, when that word was coined as African American slang to be watchful of racism and social injustice?

Or just before you people started using it as a stand-in for the n-word you wish you could still say in public without consequence?

- if payment processors' current policies had always existed, huge swaths of culture, from the prestigious to the pulpy, simply wouldn't exist. Today's disturbing indie work might be tomorrow's essential text. And even if it isn't, the freedom to create and access challenging content is valuable.

To be clear, works shouldn't need to meet some arbitrary standard of 'literary merit' or follow specific aesthetic conventions to exist. Genre fiction, pulp novels, underground comics, indie games, and yes, even erotica ought to have the right to explore upsetting themes. But note that -

Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (obviously)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Chinatown (1974)
Deliverance (1972)

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Measure for Measure by fucking Shakespeare

It's not perfect but its better than turning around to lose my shit every 20 seconds.

Realize every bit helps, understand there's always something wrong, come to terms with not everything requires your action. Cry, breath, find something to do, talk to friends, sleep knowing something is on fire somewhere.

Equating "AI" (LLMs) with "AI" (NPC behavior algorithms) genuinely upsets me.

This is escaping containment. 🫡 Make your calls today, be polite yet firm. I had luck approaching it as a concerned customer.

He tried to hit me with the "Well if the platform's primary service is for explicit material then it would be blocked."

So I asked why Steam, itch and Patreon were targeted when that's not their primary service.

Amazingly, a more productive call than visa

Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material."

So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?"

I think it clicked for him then.

The gaslighting is real, btw. Person on the phone was insisting that this wasn't happening at all.

Because modern fake-leftists adopted their language. This is how conservatives spoke in the 90s.

Right wingers figured out decades ago that they could dress up their bullshit with vaguely lefty-sounding language and people would buy into it. As far back as the moral panics of the 2000s they were pulling this shit! They said the same things about Rapelay at the time