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Hey friends,

If you're in to Dieselpunk 1921, you'd probably like this!

ATTENTION, PILOTS.

We, the Bureau of Astronautical Affairs, find ourselves in dire need of canaries for the coal mine. Higher ups would call you play testers.

Attached, you will find an incomplete draft of the Pilot’s Handbook. Your handler has been tasked with supervising your sorties using the handbook as guidance,and reporting back to the Bureau.

The costs of any resurrections, ammunition or repairs are, as always, yours to cover.

Mae here, in all seriousness, anyone who checks this out has my absolute adoration. This unfinished PDF will hopefully become more impressive in time, but for now, your feedback and your advice would mean the world to me.

If you enjoyed playing the game, I’d love to hear about it. If you hated the game, by all means yell at me in messages. Most importantly, though, if you think this has the bones of something good but just needs an extra push- and you know what that push could be- I really want to hear from you.

Stay steampunk, stay weird and stay kind always,

Shakyfoundations <3

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Dieselpunk 1921 - Republic of Ireland

War has fled Ireland, but the chaos remains.

This zine is a 32 page expansion zine presenting an alternate history world, where the streets are dominated by towering machines and complicated characters fighting for their survival. This Zine contains information for players and narrators, including:

Expanded Setting information

Notable locations in Ireland

5 new Factions

3 new NPCs

& a short scenario seed to help you run a game of Dieselpunk 1921 in Ireland.

In addition, a map of Ireland is included in the Zine!

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I wrote a piece of interactive fiction for @brandonwritesgames's DieselJam on Itch! Consider playing it if you like alternative history, dieselpunk, medical horror, or queer girls having A Bad Time.

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466 people were arrested today in London for peacefully carrying signs expressing support for Palestine Action. As usual, the British state devotes itself to the most buffoonish tyranny. It is actively complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people, and now its people are recognising it as such. No amount of police abuse will stop them from challenging the state's criminality. The dam has burst.

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Dieselpunk 1921 Free Version

Like Dieselpunk? Like alt-history? Want to play an easily approachable ttrpg with a complex world?

Check out Dieselpunk 1921 on DriveThruRPG!

ttrpg

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DieselJam 25

Good News! The page for #DieselJam25 is live on Itch! The DieselJam will run from the 8th to the 22nd of August! Want to meet other people interested in Dieselpunk? Want to make neat ttrpg things about fighting imperialism and capitalism? check it out!

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Check out my Ko-Fi!

Want access to tons of free, downloadable collages and art? want free copies of my Zines AND Duellists? Check out my Ko-Fi! Monthly supporters get access to my Dieselpunk 1921 zines and Duellists! I also am in the process of posting all of my collages there!

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Dieselpunk 1921 - The Principality of Monaco

Good news everyone! to accompany the launch of the Free Edition of Dieselpunk 1921, I have launched the Zine for the Principality of Monaco! It is available on both Itch and DriveThruRPG now, and I am waiting to get the print on demand approved from DTRPG as well! The Zine is 24 pages long, and contains a map of Monte Carlo, information about 4 factions, and 3 Major NPCs in Monaco! The Zine is $7.50 CAD or free if you're a monthly supporter on Ko-Fi! Check it out on Itch, DriveThruRPG, or Ko-Fi!

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Apparently it's a SWERF group that's responsible for the takedowns on itch.

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Dieselpunk 1921 Free Edition is live on DriveThruRPG!

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Plan of Action and Complaint Template Regarding Adult Content Being Delisted from Itchio

Alright so as y’all may or may not know, credit card companies and other payment facilitators have put pressure on digital storefronts such as Steam and Itch.io to remove “adult content” recently largely due to lobbying by fringe radical organizations. It would be bad enough if it just affected actual porn, but you know to these people “porn” means “anything that even mentions a homosexual.” Several of my team’s projects including mini-expansions to Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy “The Fanservice Files” and “The XXX-Files,” as well as team artist @chaospyromancy’s personal side project “A Squad of Drow” have been delisted from itch.io as of last night though they are still available by direct link or from our main account page and you can still pay us for them for now but there is no telling how long they'll actually stay up. Many others have had their projects completely delisted or outright removed, and are having payments withheld from them. If you don't want to see us and other creators pushed under by this crap, you need to do something about it.

People affected by this far outnumber the people who lobbied to make it happen. These organizations are very vocal but also relatively small and very fringe, and since it is a policy decision that was created by complaints it may be able to be destroyed by complaints.

Here are the phone numbers of these companies and an email address I was able to find. We need to blow their phones off the wall and fill their inboxes with customer complaints.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Visa Email Address: askvisa@visa.com

Mastercard Contact Form: https://b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/

Saying stuff like “sex work is real work” and “this affects black trans women,” while true, is not the kind of thing that is going to tug at the heartstrings of lib-conservative CEOs and board members and their PR teams. They’re mercenary. You need to tell them how this is going to hurt their wallets and make their customers very unhappy.

If feasible, you need to get your moms and dads on this too, and get them to get their friends on it, etc.

40-60-year old middle class white people high credit scores and stuff will have more sway with these corporations than any young adult trans person.

My team has put together a template for your phone calls and emails. Take the template and delete the [bracketed parts] that don’t apply to you.

“My name is [_____], and I’m contacting you about your recent decision to alter your user policies regarding adult content and thereby putting pressure on digital storefronts like itch.io and Steam to hide and remove adult content. By doing so, you're cutting off a significant revenue stream, [and as someone with financial investment in your company, this has me extremely concerned]

[I both buy and sell that blocked content, so this is directly interfering in my finances, and I will seek compensation.]

Products I paid for are no longer available to me, [and people are buying my products without the money going to me because of your interference with the payment processing.]

If you don’t want to lose customers and face potential legal trouble, these policies which pressure itch.io, Steam, and other digital storefronts need to be reversed.

You have changed these policies because of Collective Shout, a radical group from Australia that sent only a mere 1000 calls to destroy a significant revenue stream on your part and to interfere with my finances. This decision literally affects millions of people and millions of dollars, and so I expect a prompt response on reversing these policy changes and removing the pressure on itch.io and Steam to ban adult content on their sites. [As a cardholder, I worry that these new policies are responding to a vocal minority of customers, and I’m left doubting the reliability, versatility, and integrity of your services. I use these services to securely and conveniently make the transactions I see fit, and it’s disappointing to see legitimate, legal transactions be excluded.]

[I am furious that an American company would bend so easily to a lobbying group from a foreign country.]”

I have less faith in these other two methods of taking action, but there is also a bill currently posited that would make it illegal for a credit card company to say what you can and can’t spent money on.

Louisiana senators never listen to my emails or calls but if you’re from a state with a chance to get through, do so.

There is also a petition you can sign here.

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Now that I'm awake and marginally more well rested:

I have noticed that Dieselpunk 1921 and Duellists no longer appear as search recommendations. They do still appear when you search for them though. Both games remain on my itch, Ko-Fi, and will soon both be on DriveThuRPG.

I would highly encourage everyone to use my Ko-Fi rather than itch. I have read the statement @itchio released *after* taking actions that will destroy the livelihoods of thousands of artists, and I'm extremely dissatisfied with it. If Itch wanted to support artists on their platform, they could have openly said they do not support the policies being forced on them by Collective Shout, Visa, and MasterCard.

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If you're not on Bluesky, you may have missed the fact that itch has de-indexed adult and nsfw content en mass, with no warning or statement. This is likely a part of a wider movement by fascists to dictate what art people are, and are not allowed to consume.

If you would like to voice your displeasure, I'd suggest emailing support@itch.io as well as calling your local MasterCard customer service line to complain about them censoring art.

While I do not make adult, nsfw, or porn games, I know people who do, and I am aware of a few people looking at options for legal action against itch and MasterCard.

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Buy Duellists, it has nearly naked men in it

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Dieselpunk 1921 - The Free Edition is now Posted!

Check it out on Itch!

Dieselpunk 1921 is an 125 page all-in-one book presenting an alternate history world, where the streets are dominated by towering machines and complicated characters fighting for their survival.

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Exciting Dieselpunk 1921 news!

The free version of Dieselpunk 1921 is now complete. Inside the free version includes all rules needed to play Dieselpunk 1921, a condensed version of character creation, a condensed version of Chapter 1: Setting (which includes 34 country description pages), and a condensed list of items.

This version of Dieselpunk 1921 will replace version 0.5, and is part of the process of moving towards the full release. Dieselpunk 1921 is nearly complete, there are just a few things to be finished which I hope to be able to share soon! Those who have playtested Dieselpunk 1921 will receive access to the "Private, near complete" version on Itch io this week