Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again

"people im about to fire and then rehire at lower rates are jumping to extreme takes!!" evergreen c-suite take

i promise that most people who know about and work in tech, art, and other impacted industries BADLY want to be effing normal about genAI but that ship sailed away on a catastrophic bubble like 11 billionaires ago

love the implication here that this middle ground was taken away by spicy online anti-genAI hot takes, as opposed to the trillion dollar investment bubble, omnipresent industrial takeover, operating system undermining, mass layoffs, leveraged data center construction, + ensuing environmental impacts

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

The guy who ran on this ad just spanked the pants off an Establishment Dem This is what the base will turn out for youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

people think being a videogame producer is about making schedules and checking in, but it's actually about getting on your hands and knees to beg the trans witches who code your games to use their mental illnesses for good and to get on a call with each other instead of 100+ slack msg threads

this fuckin rocks

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

sex and drugs are cool or whatever but have you ever won a game of magic the gathering the turn after your opponent resolves an emrakul

I painted ur dog

fuck doug ford

play stupid games (putting a heater under your bed and then connecting it to the internet) win stupid prizes (getting burned alive in the night by your bed) who's gonna be the hero to sell these to fascists so we can hack their beds to eat them alive like nightmare on elm street

Gushing reviews rolling in for Absolum. Not surprising - that demo (still available) was really damn good, and pretty replayable to boot. For those unaware: Roguelite (Hades-esque) side-scrolling brawler from the gameplay team behind Streets Of Rage 4, paired with French animation studio Supamonks.

omg i just saw this on itch and i'm so hyped! god this pixelart style is incredible. can't wait to play!!!

Also it’s 20% off right now and only 3 reviews away from 200! 94% very positive user ratings on Steam, Steam deck verified, the works! store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...

made this for a friend's zine, thought i'd share cuz im pretty proud of it

Let's respond to hate with love. Let's respond to love with big love. To those who are anti-transgender, Chiitan isn't asking you to understand transgender people. I ask that you quietly watch over us. Transgender people just want to be happy with the people they love🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

i absolutely love this clip

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

(hitman places little taxidermied squirrel with a bomb in it on the forest floor) EXCELLENT work, 47. tomorrow morning the owls of ga’hoole will have a new legend to tell

Sometimes I'm just a goat wanting a cup of coffee and a bail of hay, you know what I mean?

Smalls, the only Black flotilla member, appears to be the only one who has been treated this way

ngl if @magic.wizards.com put out a physical novella version of the edge of the eternities story i would buy it in a heartbeat. just putting that into the universe. i still think about that story weeks after reading it, will probably reread it at some point soon

Most people's imagination for "true evil" stops far short of what the US and the EU allow Israel to do to the Palestinians every day.

Whatever evil you think of when you think "supreme evil", Israel is worse. To destabilize Gaza, they armed the gangs stealing the UN-supplied aid, blamed Hamas & the UN for the theft, then installed shoot-civilians-testicles-for-points Israeli and US mass-murderers to "run the aid distribution".

(michael caine voice) some girls aren't looking for anything logical, like money. they can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. some girls just want to have fun

continuing to run the UBI experiment 14,000,605 times every decade in search of one time it ever won't produce clear positive results for everyone involved so there can finally be an example for the ultra wealthy people to point to illustrating why we can't do that like they've always been saying

If you're a Canadian dev directly affected by these changes on Itch or Steam, I want to talk to you.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

i think itch could have handled it better, but we don't know what they do behind the scenes because, and again please let me drive this point home more, *if you talk about payment negotiations in public you're instantly cut off from the ability to receive payments*

it's time to raise some hell

Maybe we could find out. 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

collective shout hiding behind feminist rhetoric while they do this fascist bullshit is infuriating. fuck these people

Itch hides almost all NSFW content following ‘scrutiny from our payment processors’ aftermath.site/itch-io-nsfw-a...

I just wanted somewhere to post my weird gay video games. Why can’t they leave us alone

ACLU petition to sign with regards to the recent itch news: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

if this payment provider cultural intervention bs doesn't end they'll come for you and every other bit of art too.

really sad to see the backlash directed towards the itch team. the power imbalance here is fuckin palpable, I simply dont think it was feasible for them not to comply without the website crumbling completely. collective shout and the payment processors are the enemy here.

I'm glad itch made a statement. at the end of the day their business would be crushed if they didn't comply with this, even if it sucks shit. depressing times! guess I gotta figure out what I can do about this at some point today

This itch.io news is a real shit show. If you've been affected, please link your ko-fi, patreon, website etc below. Please share! Let's try and support creators in the meantime!

The NSFW games ban currently hitting game platforms comes from the same kind of people that lobbied for UK bathroom bills and used to pilot police crackdowns at gay bars. It's yet another proxy to force LGBT people and sex workers out. Let's not go down quietly.

god, itch.io being silent on so many issues with the platform is such a bummer. there really isn't another platform like it :(

i just checked and my toxic yuri vn with an erotic tag is no longer searchable on itchio. i am... not happy, to say the least.

where the fuck is the statement from itch. between this and the issues with the queer games bundle the silence from this platform is getting really, really irritating. @leafo.itch.io get your shit together please