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Rakonat, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

I thought it was strange on steam that it was so hard to get across when I was sure when I played it on Xbox that I basically did it first try no sweat.

hal_5700X, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

Payment processors and financial institutions sure do seem to hold disproportionate amounts of power.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.

I don’t understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don’t.

DeathsEmbrace,

Welcome to capitalism. 1 person and their company can influence an entire country while being top 10 retards.

rozodru,

talk to anyone that works in the porn industry. Mastercard and Visa have ALWAYS been like this ever since the late 90s/early 00s. they set the rules for what the adult entertainment industry can produce and sell and only now are people discovering because of video games that they’ve been this way for decades.

cashsky,

And they don’t care when it’s actual sex trafficking of minors (JP Morgan in relation to Epstein).

liuther9,

This is just a distraction

ShaggySnacks,

When governments allowed payment processors to dominate the market to the point of duopoly/oligopoly.

Cyberflunk, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

<span style="color:#323232;">Collective shout finacials
</span><span style="color:#323232;">year: 2024
</span><span style="color:#323232;">revenue: 458043
</span><span style="color:#323232;">employee_expenses: 107000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">other_expenses: 215488
</span><span style="color:#323232;">net_surplus: 135555
</span><span style="color:#323232;">employees: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  total_fte: 2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  full_time: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  part_time: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  casual: 4
</span><span style="color:#323232;">volunteers: 15
</span><span style="color:#323232;">donations_and_bequests: 389800
</span><span style="color:#323232;">government_grants: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">commercial_income: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">expense_to_revenue_ratio: "70.4%"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">average_expense_per_employee: 39400
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Leadership
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- name: Melinda Tankard Reist
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  role: Founder, Movement Director
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_socials:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Twitter: @MelTankardReist
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Instagram: @collective.shout
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  salary: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- name: Caitlin Roper
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  role: Campaigns Manager
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_socials:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Instagram: @collective.shout
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  salary: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- name: Renee Chopping
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  role: Campaigns Strategy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_socials:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - LinkedIn
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_email_address: r******@collectiveshout.org
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  salary: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- name: Lyn Swanson Kennedy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  role: Campaigns Strategy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_socials:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Instagram: @collective.shout
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  salary: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">- name: Coralie Alison
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  role: Movement Operations Manager
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_socials:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Twitter: @CoralieAlison
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    - Instagram: @collective.shout
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  salary: Not publicly listed
</span>

Fuck.

These.

Fucking.

Shitsucking

Subhuman

Leeches

Bubbey,

Lot of college-educated white women in these nonprofits lol

AnAbsurdlyAgitatedAnaconda, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

My biggest problem is, they banned with this method, all the games that are targeted for adults but not porn, or gore. Like they hate spicy food and banned all things that are not white rice and unseasoned chicken breast.

It was really hard to find deep philosophical games which are good and are not containing porn or gore, but targeted to adults. Now its imposaible. They have literraly no platform. Unlike the porn games, they have many aside from steam and itch.

RedStrider, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects
@RedStrider@lemmy.world avatar

Damn guess we’ll need to move to the alternative- ah wait- no- itch was the alternative.


I wonder if a federated game platform would work as an idea or if that’s just an inherently bad idea due to the nature of trusting strangers with your money.

rickrolled767,

Still wouldn’t address the root problem here: payment processing companies have the power to just deny payment from even happening.

Unless you’re referring to making a federated platform that instead allows devs to connect with buyers and make transactions off channel.

Would limit widespread issues like this but now you’re opening a whole new can of worms with trust

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,

Crypto payments is one solution.

Turret3857,

This but unironically. I was going to try and use monero recently just to dip my toes in the proverbial crypto water, until I found out that I can’t buy anything with monero other than drugs.

Croquette,

Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.

Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.

Mubelotix,
@Mubelotix@jlai.lu avatar

Just use an intermediary and payment processors will be powerless

Croquette,

Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.

carotte,

the problem is the payment processors, not itch

unless you’re fine with crypto, sending cheques by mail or having everything be free, your new platform is gonna get the same problems once it’s big enough to be noticed

emmy67, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

Ah fuck their board head is Australian. FFS

NocturnalMorning, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

Wow, I might actually have to stop using itch.io, is nowhere safe from the craziest anymore? I dont even make NSFW games, but bending the knee to dickheads over some overtly religious bullshit isnt gonna work for me.

thermal_shock,

Agreed. Game and movie ratings already exist, who the fuck are they to say what we can/can’t access with MY credit card.

I don’t play those games nor use itch.io, but fuck this nonsense.

PalmTreeIsBestTree,

The credit card companies have a word. They shouldn’t exist.

Croquette,

Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.

thermal_shock,

I understand. And my point still stands. Fuck them (cc processors)

Croquette,

Absolutely. Fuck payment processors

AnAbsurdlyAgitatedAnaconda,

I don’t think they had much option, they forced by the payment providers…

And thats beyod me, why they have the power to enforce anything like this???

And what is absolutely beyond me, why a group of alt-right femminist from the other side of the globe has power to enforce the payment providers?

BlameTheAntifa,

It wasn’t Itch.io’s fault, but the fact that payment processing has been globally monopolized and can force it’s own arbitrary will on anyone without recourse.

Blame Visa and MasterCard and the christofascist scum from Collective Shout, who is responsible for pressuring the processors into harming the stores and artists.

HaveMeOnYourPodcast,

Why anybody takes a “think of the children” organization seriously when their logo is a butthole is beyond me.

It just proves satire is dead and we live in a world full of idiots.

rustyfish, do games w Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects
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  • AnAbsurdlyAgitatedAnaconda,

    Everone talks about porn and loser males. Its more than that. Its way more. The banned all adult targeted games, even the ones which are not porn or gore. Many-many gamers are affected, way more than sexually fustrated nerds. They now start to see, that they poked the bear, and it came with the wolf and tiger to take justice.

    burgerpocalyse, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    gordon no longer has to wait at the rail crossing

    atomicbocks, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.

    Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.

    magic_lobster_party,

    HL2: Episode 2: Part 2

    They can’t count to 3

    atomicbocks,

    You’re right! But that means it will be HL2: Episode 2: Episode 1, just to bring things full circle.

    tigeruppercut,
    Contramuffin,

    My speculation? They’ll call it HL4 and then just say that HL:A was technically HL3

    BenevolentOne,

    Technically?

    moobythegoldensock,

    Nah, it’ll be Half Life Alyx: Epsiode 1.

    peoplebeproblems, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    Look, I don’t care if it’s fake or not, but beating trains is uncalled for violence.

    FilthyShrooms,
    @FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world avatar

    for all!

    Omega, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    Wait, they didn’t fix that with the anniversary update?! What the fuck?!

    magic_lobster_party, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    That explains a lot. I remember it not requiring that strict timing.

    markz, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17

    I thought I had done it, but I have only played it since after it was made impossible. I guess I didn’t

    magic_lobster_party,

    It was possible after the update. Just way more difficult.

    Pirky, do games w After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17
    @Pirky@lemmy.world avatar

    Ugh finally. I thought I was having a fever dream about beating it on the bridge back in the day. I never realized the bug was that old.

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