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There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

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🌷My merch shop is now open via Ko-fi 🌷

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STORE ANNOUNCEMENT

I'm happy to announce that I'll be selling some merch on my Ko-Fi shop starting, and will be open starting June 15th 10:00am AEST.

I'll have a small selection of stickers, acrylic charms and small prints available. Stock is limited since they are leftover from my recent artist stall, but I am open to restocks and new items in the future.

Hope you are all looking forward to the release of my first line of merch!

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hey folks i've been meaning to boost Ross Scott's Stop Killing Games initiative but i don't trust myself to write something exhaustively informed about it, has someone already made a good post on the subject that i could reblog?

time-sensitive note: if you're located in Australia you have until May 20th to sign the petition!

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Tears of the Kingdom is a golfing game, actually

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Hey everyone! Quick little update:

I just got back from my first ever event as a merch vendor! It was a lot of work but I had a wonderful time. :)

I mentioned previously that I'll be selling the rest of my merch online via my Ko-Fi store. But first I'm going to be trialling online orders with some overseas friends just so I can get some practice in before my store opens.

The current plan is to have my store open to everybody sometime in mid-June. I'll hopefully be able to give specific dates soon.

Also! If you're unsure what merch will be available, here's a list of things I'll have on my store:

A set of 6 Holographic Acrylic Sword Charms (+ matching stickers)

A Smash Ball/Battlefield holographic sticker

Various small art prints (including this one)

I'll make a proper announcement close to and when the store opens.

Thanks! ☆

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GET PRETENDO NETWORK !!!

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For those of you who haven't heard the news :>

Link to my Ko-Fi if you'd like to be notified when it opens.

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When I played the first global testfire, I never would have imagine myself to love this multiplayer shooter so much. Goodbye Splatoon 1 and thanks for all the irreplaceable memories.

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animatic featuring me and @shlubbyart 's idol ocs :)

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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Manifesting this

I think more of us should share what our aging goals look like

And I don't mean aged 50 looking 25. Fuck anti-aging. I want to be 80 looking like a wrinkled prune with white hair and moles. I want the same aged beauty my grandmothers have at their age. I want to be the personification of old book smell.

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Thank you so much again! She is so pretty :)

A flushed Rosalina commission for @thekleesh

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A couple of months ago I made a video about this Silver the Hedgehog game I used to play a bunch of, I think you should check it out it's very cool :)

And yes I said a "couple of months ago" I am very bad at regularly using Tumblr but that may change in the near future

In the meantime feel free to follow my alt where I reblog a bunch of stuff @maritabator

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I made a video about the wonders of emulation, why it’s not illegal, how you can do it legally, and why you should do it.

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My half of an art collab I did with the wonderful @skyeroxy

It’s Marie :)

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Hey what’s up Tumblr it’s been a little while

I haven’t made an actual post besides reblogging my girlfriend’s art on here in a good few years and I figured with seeing how Twitter is doing these days, now might be a good time to post a big-ass update.

NUMBER ONE:

My YouTube channel is doing well! I just posted this big huge sexy video about emulation and why you should do it and why it isn’t illegal (if you do it the right way). I’m super proud of it. Check it out!

In addition, I have uploaded a few other videos since my last post that I think (most of) are pretty cool, so if you enjoy this one I implore you to give the rest of my channel a shot.

Here’s one of my favorites.

Here’s another one for good measure.

NUMBER TWO:

Since my last post, I have also made a significant change to the way my streams are broadcasted. Up until last month, I used Twitch for all of my streaming endeavors. I did decently well for myself, met some great people, made some amazing friends, and even received a handful of payouts. I already made a big announcement video going into greater detail about this, but the short version is I am no longer on Twitch. I decided I didn’t like splitting my attention between Twitch and YouTube, so I have fully moved over to streaming on YouTube. It was a big change considering how long I’ve been on Twitch, but I am confident in my decision.

If you would like to see the farewell stream I did announcing all of this and going into greater detail as well as answering some questions, that’s right here.

NUMBER THREE:

I have been doing art still! I don’t do it particularly often, but I have a couple pieces I’m willing to share with you today. I’ll likely make separate posts for these later on, but I’ll stick them here in the meantime to make my post look longer than it actually is.

The first one is Marie from Splatoon! This is part of a collab I did with @skyeroxy where she sketched both Squid Sisters, and we each painted one. I am incredibly happy with how the collab turned out and I think I did a good job with Marie. I would hope so, because she’s my favorite.

Earlier in the year I also took a crack at drawing Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet. I rewatched the movie on a whim one day and each time I do it only solidifies the fact that it’s my favorite animated Disney movie, it just doesn’t get old.

Once again, these (and a few others) will get their own posts probably later in the week.

NUMBER FOUR:

Just kidding there isn’t a fourth point. I would just like to reiterate that yes, I will likely be more active on here than I have been. Even if Twitter doesn’t fizzle out in the next few days I really enjoy the much more relaxed atmosphere that exists on this site, so I’ll probably spend less time on Twitter and more time here regardless of what happens.

I have two blogs, there’s this one and my side blog.

I will reserve this blog for serious announcements like videos and maybe stream alerts (which will be deleted after the corresponding streams have concluded). My side blog is for frequent reblogging of things I enjoy like video games, memes, cool art, you get the idea. Basically retweeting on cocaine. If Twitter really truly does go down in a pit of flames, I’ll use my main account (this one) to post random bullshit thoughts and opinions and jokes and whatever else I do on my Twitter currently.

Aaaand for good measure, some links:

YouTube (Main Channel) // (Live)

YouTube (Stream Archive)

TikTok (FUCK this website I just post clips from my streams on it)

Twitter (A bit redundant to put this here but hey, it’s here)

I am technically available on other sites, like my Twitch account is still around, but these are the ONLY ones where you’ll find me active in any capacity. I still use Twitch but only as a viewer these days.

I’m working on a new public Discord server as well, I’ll post the invite to that when I feel it is ready. It’s coming along.

Alright, that’s it. Thank you for reading.

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