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James Gunn’s thesis statement for his Superman is simple and effective: "Be good. Do good. Be human despite the bad things. That is the most punk rock thing in a world so stoic and cynical."

And that’s how it should be. That’s beautiful, the new Superman movie is beautiful.

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Guys do you think she’s excited

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clark shouting "people were going to DIE" in the face of the "think of the consequences of your actions" argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can't look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you're a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you

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smack a collective shout affiliate today!

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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Unfortunately, it speaks volumes of a platform the way they respond to reactionary policy changes. Yes, mastercard and visa are pressuring itch, and they were likely forced to make changes. However they chose to delist games overnight without warning, and follow it up by creating a series of strict guidelines with no chance for appeal.

There are people who will say itch *has* to comply with the standards set by these credit card companies, and yeah, they almost certainly had to do something. But you can only pass the buck so far. They capitulated immediately, and there's been no indication that they'll reverse their new policies if things change. At what point do we recognize that platforms have a responsibility to their userbase?

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Unfortunately, it speaks volumes of a platform the way they respond to reactionary policy changes. Yes, mastercard and visa are pressuring itch, and they were likely forced to make changes. However they chose to delist games overnight without warning, and follow it up by creating a series of strict guidelines with no chance for appeal.

There are people who will say itch *has* to comply with the standards set by these credit card companies, and yeah, they almost certainly had to do something. But you can only pass the buck so far. They capitulated immediately, and there's been no indication that they'll reverse their new policies if things change. At what point do we recognize that platforms have a responsibility to their userbase?

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Unfortunately, it speaks volumes of a platform the way they respond to reactionary policy changes. Yes, mastercard and visa are pressuring itch, and they were likely forced to make changes. However they chose to delist games overnight without warning, and follow it up by creating a series of strict guidelines with no chance for appeal.

There are people who will say itch *has* to comply with the standards set by these credit card companies, and yeah, they almost certainly had to do something. But you can only pass the buck so far. They capitulated immediately, and there's been no indication that they'll reverse their new policies if things change. At what point do we recognize that platforms have a responsibility to their userbase?

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me: So then we take the liquified wood pulp, and dry it again, into these thin sheets. caveman: [confused, but trying to keep up] uh huh. me: And we take the graphite stick - it doesn't need to be wrapped in wood like this, but we like making them this way so you don't get graphite on your hands. And that's what we draw with. caveman: [eyes lighting up] Oohhh so you use the wood pulp sheets to paint on them, like hides? me: Exactly! And now, you could use this method to draw anything you can visualise with your mind's eye, but for the sake of this demonstration, let's draw a vision of a woman with features of an animal whose powers and traits she represents, and a figure that is stylised and exaggerated beyond what nature really allows. caveman: As wide as she is tall, with tits to match? me: Exactly. caveman: This is the only sensible use of this technology.

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Yeah I love manipulating my friends for my own gain, the gain is called "hanging out", obtained via such cruel tactics as "showing interest in stuff they like" and "being generally complimentary and charming"

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actually this is exactly what woke was supposed to MEAN??? capable of empathy, uses it to learn, and uses that to act for good?????

Superman isn't woke. You're just so evil that you see a man doing acts of kindness and you think it's a targeted political agenda

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whenever i buy coke when coca cola is doing the named bottles shtick, i like to just grab one and pretend it's my name for the day. anyways the chinese store was inexplicably stocking ukrainian coke so my name today is Ярослава.

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So I was on my way home from a little adventure when the national railway system had a little fucky-wucky with the rails, and for a good while it looked like the whole train's worth of people would be stranded at this little station in the middle of nowhere for hours, either to wait for the train company to arrange alternative transport or to somehow get a ride out of there on their own. Most of the passengers had gotten out of the train, taxis were showing up to pick up the people who had become sick of waiting and just called a cab.

They'd all been regular taxi cars, so when one of those big-ass minivan cabs showed up, I already thought for a second that a bunch of those would be the train company's arranged ride - which would be odd, since they usually move people with their own buses with the national railways logos on them. But then the first person who had started approaching the big car cab turned to call to the crowd of stranded passengers, going

"IF ANYONE NEEDS A RIDE TO [destination] THERE'S FREE SEATS HERE. We'll figure out splitting the bill on the way." And a handful of people joined her.

She was travelling by herself and only needed a ride for one, but evidently had come to the conclusion that since everyone there was just as stranded, all going to the same direction, she might as well take as many people with her as she could.

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some of you aren’t even perverts you just have normal sexual desires that you are ashamed of

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A porcelain and plush doll sit together in a little corner of their witches house, painting their nails. The plush doll helps paint simple patterns where the porcelains dolls nails would be, and the porcelain doll tries to replicate the patterns with embroidery to resemble where the nails would be on the plush doll.

It's quiet, for two dolls don't need to speak too loud to each other. It's calm, for two dolls don't need to have energy when not doing a task for their witch. It's peaceful, for the two dolls don't need much to convey the love they share.

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According to old finnish folklore, having a wild animal wander into your house is an omen of death. The bigger the animal, the more imminent the death. A small bird, like a sparrow or a finch, is a sign that someone who lives in the house will die within the year. If the animal that has somehow made its way inside the house is a small mammal like a hedgehog, or a larger bird like an owl or raven, would mean that death is coming to visit in the next few months.

Massive megafauna, like a fully-grown moose or a bear, is a sign that someone will probably die within the next 20 minutes.

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Being hypnotized to internalize code or pseudocode as valid training / conditioning, so your 'tist can literally program you like a robot 😳👉👈