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It really feels like everything is going backwards and it just sucks man 🫤

Im not from the US or Europe but isn't it amazing how everything just fucking sucks now.

Like what the fuck do you mean Youtube is setting up an AI that """detects""" if people are under 18 based on what they watch, that means anyone who watches stuff like lego videos or minecraft lets plays the AI will think theyre a minor and ban them. What do you mean the UK is forcing people to show their faces to access Spotify, or ANYTHING for that matter. What do you mean a bunch of Karens from Australia is forcing payment processors to censor videogames they deem "innapropiate".

Like i know in my heart these stupid fucking laws will all be removed as quickly as they were implemented because people are protesting and raising their voices and saying "hey fuck this and fuck you", but is still fucking terrifying how every goverment ever is pushing so so so SO hard for censorship under the guise of "pRoTeCt ThE cHiLdReN!!!" THAT IS THE FUCKING PARENTS JOB, NOT THE GOVERMENT. GOD FUCK THIS.

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my contribution to the selfshipping community 🫡

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I can't remain consistent and Im sorry to my moots but it will happen again

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Kith for both of em :]

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your 20s are all about being stuck in the time loop

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I like how jerma has a new object on his table every time I see him like a virtual pet with a customizable bedroom

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So the new itch.io guidelines are out and they are both predictably bad and also quite unpredictably bad. There's so much to go over here but here are some of the highlights:

First we have the broadly worded content restrictions. So much of this is just strictly bad for several reasons (for example, you cannot have a NSFW game that doesn't even fetishize rape but has rape be an important thematic element under these new rules) but my personal favorite is that these are so broad that huge swaths of content are just banned from itch.io. You like VNs of monster girls having sex? Sorry, but your favorite spider girl VN is animal-related, we cannot prove that you don't want to fuck spiders so its gone.

(a real problem anyone thinks about??????)

Game where you can transformed by magical artifacts and sometimes fucked? Sorry, that's non-consensual content. Banned. You cannot be transformed into a maid against your will. You also cannot have your protagonist call an older woman "mommy" because likeeeee that's incestual right?

"Minor-presenting" what the fuck does this mean. Genuinely. If a grown woman wears a fetish uniform is that minor presenting??? What the fuck are you talking about.

Also by the way if they feel your content is "too bad" for their platform, which includes a list of conditions incredibly broad to contain things like "a woman who likes being gagged during sex", they will just steal your revenue. No no no not just the revenue from the work in question. All of it. This makes any NSFW work a ticking timebomb, especially since itch.io doesn't have the fucking staff to deal with all of this! There's no second chances. You are not protected against fraudulent report or our dumb as fuck employees.

itch.io right now is just not a safe platform for NSFW content, and honestly, it really should be said, a fair swath of SFW content too. Don't use it, find alternative ways to survive in the market right now.

It's not going to be easy, but it's necessary. Here's a link to an article going over some solutions. I cannot personally vouch for any of these in particular but you need to do what you gotta.

Also, harass VISA and Mastercard. Phone calls over emails. Ruin their workflow. Do it for weeks, don't give up.

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🎵🎶A single dad who works two jobs🎶🎵

based off of this pic

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These are so cool omg

lots of love for higgs

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Higgs Monaghan + text posts 1/?

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another loss.

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Heads up, UK friends.

Discord has implemented the age verification requirement system per the upcoming law going into affect later this week early, so prepare yourself for other sites, which may include Tumblr given the intent is to target adult content which may affect here because of how it still does get posted here, even if the intended targets are the actual site for it.

As of writing, the official petition to have the Online Safety Act repealed is close to 30,000 signatures, but it's barely enough to garner much attention to where it may be dismissed by Parliament, or may get discussed but not getting to where it'll be repealed to actually figure a system that doesn't carry the risk of private information getting leaked.

So again, please help spread and sign the official petition here.