sometimes i wish people were more comfortable with ambivalence
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Seems like Paprium has been figured out for the Mega Everdrive Pro (with a little bit of work). too tired now, but will give it a spin tomorrow
https://x.com/krikzz/status/1947442118680842496
edit: ok well i tried anyway, but i failed. feel like i followed the instructions pretty well, but i guess iâll have to wait for some kind soul to arrange these files properly
edit 2: apparently the secret instruction is to change .bin to .md and yeah, it works. will play it in earnest tomorrow
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This is the best and perhaps only chance we all have of preventing GTA 6 from taking over the world next year. This is it. This is the game.
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Oh boy, is this in the same series as Clive Barkerâs Undying?
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No, Clive Barkerâs Jericho
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Something wild about this is that someone is still manufacturing 8GB SD cards.
I snagged a used mirrorless camera recently that tops out with 16gb cards to Iâm all for this
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i used a camera on the cruise that used floppy disks for memory cards
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The baller move with those is to treat them like a Polaroid camera and hand someone the floppy after you shoot their pictures on it
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I was thinking: âhow could someone get their photo off of a floppy nowadaysâ and then immediately remembered this LGR video:
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Yes, it is indeed the entirety of those tags that is now search-excluded.
EDIT: Official Statement
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Oh look, itâs because of the TERF evangelicals, shocking.
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iâd love to say stuff about this but iâm way too fuckin mad to have a coherent thought at the moment other than everyone involved in this situation can die in hell
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also real fucking funny how only hours before this announcement was made the one writer reporting on all of this suddenly got a wave of harassment sent her way while other game journalists were throwing her under the bus and diminishing her work by pointing out how little she was getting paid for it
iâm sure thereâs no correlation there
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congrats to all the virtual women no longer being trafficked through the itchio servers. our placement agency has found them new work at the Meta platform content moderation farms, where their job is sorting through 20,000 videos of apes being disemboweled in search of moments that are âreact worthyâ for 2c/hr
i like the formulation Women And Girls that all these creepy ngos use. it makes me think of some schrodingerian wave/particle entity which is simultaneously a small child and an adult, and so permanently cancels any distinctions we might situationally apply between âsmall childâ and âadultâ. do Women And Girls get to go to a bar, or participate in anything but the most supervised-playdate versions of public life, competition, art? i guess whatâs left is âhomeschoolingâ.
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i donât remember clearly but i donât think this one even breaks any particular credit card rules on adult content but it is about transgirls living together and supporting each other and having difficult feelings. still, if i forgot something, it doesnât matter
it was one of my favourite vnâs from last year
still have the files and so do many others but it really does demonstrate that is important to make local copies of queer media. i mean, i paid for this iâm pretty sure and itâs removed from the service so i can no longer access it through itch. no guarantee steam wonât do that too.
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Meanwhile the strip club still takes Visa and MasterCard.
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Yeah somehow the Waypoint article neglected to explicitly mention that Steam had added a new rule explicitly handing censorship powers to Payment Processors, making me think Steam had basically acted on a whim. It was more important to argue that itâs physically impossible for lolislop to exist on Steam I suppose.
Gross.
more thoughts on itch stuff, hidden 4 length
i think itchio is a twitter era site, from back when it was a positive to have a stripped down page with minimal âcommunity featuresâ (newsground badges and what have you) that you could just link to from a socmed profile. guest checkout, fast payment, no fuss no muss. the expectation has been that finding and talking about a game happens somewhere else, and this maybe needs to be reconsidered now that every social site is doing its best to stop people ever leaving a curated feed.
itch was also built around access to payment processors. i remember this being relatively unusual by the standards of freeware-focused game hosting sites at the time. and i think many people, myself included, are guilty of the indiscriminately peppy charge 
for your work rhetoric that was in vogue at that time. the advantage of charging for your work is you get money (sometimes, extremely unpredictably); a disadvantage is that your work ends up built around the extremely narrow sufferances of a credit card company; and i think another disadvantage is that many of the people you have most in common with will never play your stuff, because everyoneâs broke. the people who most need to charge money for their games are also people who donât have a lot of money to spend on other peopleâs games. i do think itâs kind of led to people being alienated from their own peers a bit - to a landscape where students, broke people, people excluded from the official economy end up all trying to hock games to the same nonexistent middle class consumer, while having their own time and shared terrain eaten up by f2p, fortnite, roblox, gacha and anything else without that upfront cost.
and i know, i know, âhow many peers can i exchange for a cup of coffeeâ. the answer is none; itâs not an economic relationship. it MIGHT, fitfully, unreliably, overlap with the economic: mutual aid, knowing someone with a spare room or a gig. this stuff is halfassed and indirect, but the indirectness also means itâs a little less exposed to a storefrontâs ability to wipe your entire body of work with a single policy change. it also seems to me that the precondition to collectively working out something less fitful is trying to build these networks with each other, rather than everyone being in the one relationship of tenant-to-storefront.
the wonderful power of friendship doesnât replace money, and i donât actually want to discourage anyone from charging for their work. but i do feel like itâs increasingly important to be specific in the ways we engage with the official economy, and to wind back the kind of indiscriminate blurring of personal, artistic, financial that was the twitter-era mode, the idea that you should expose as much of your life as possible to payment mechanisms to maximise the chance that you might get the golden ticket. every part of your work that touches a storefront is one that storefront can fuck up. i think itâs good to start thinking about spaces-without-markets that could interface with spaces-with-markets in limited and deniable ways, so that we at least retain SOME infrastructure when the latter inevitably go under; i think itâs good to distinguish work-for-peers from work-for-a-consumer-audience and give both their place. a peer can potentially be a friend, a storefront will only ever be a fitfully inattentive enemy.
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