391 - This is all so tiresome...
HELLO THERE, dear bros. This Monday, your omnipotent leader feels exhausted — not so much physically as mentally. So many foolish things happen in the world from day today... Usually I have the energy to just ignore it, but today I feel like after finishing writing this post I will be shutting down both my PC and my phone and will try reading a book or something. The modern world is just too much sometimes...
-Aka-
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itch.io/profile/akabur
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As someone in the uk right now hopefully I’ll at least see the release of reporter trainer, all jokes aside and all things considered, I hope you have a good week regardless akabro.
Thank man. Where is a will there is a way. If it comes to that I will burn the game on a CD, write "family photos" on the cover and sent to you via regular mail. Xd
ll I can say is, call your payment processors and banks and take as much time as possible (this is the solution). I've been calling everyday. The reason phone call complaints are effective with these payment processor companies is because it takes up valuable time that the company could be otherwise dealing with other issues. Phone support is expensive and slow, which makes it an ideal pressure point A large public outcry is what causes companies to pay attention and consider backtracking. Make a script about why this is bad (payment processor companies shouldn't be censoring legal material because they personally think it's immoral and it's an attack on free speech - you can ask AI to create a script for you if you don't have to time to write a long message) then call VISA/MasterCard/STRIPE/Paypal, you'll be on hold for a while because everyone is calling, and say you'd like to lodge a complaint. Then when they ask what this is in regards to, just start reading your script. Sometimes the rep will try to cut you off once they find out what the complaint is about, but just ask whether or not phone call complaints are reported, if they say yes, then say you want your call to be reported and heard and then read your script. If they say no, that's really weird and just keep insisting and eventually they will try to transfer you to a supervisor or something. The longer the message the better since that's the point. We essentially have to keep this up for the next few weeks if we want something to happen. We don’t need to be aggressive - just persistent. Keep the pressure on and call every few days, or every day if you care about this issue. The following link has all the contact information you need to call them: https://10kphonecalls.com/
That a surprising elaborate plan of action. Thank you for this.
I feel you, processors doing this again, hopefully this time we will be able to fight back, there's petition with over 170k signs at the moment https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play
Can't say I have to much faith in petitions like that, but it definitely won't hurt. Additional point of pressure is a good thing.
Didn't work in the thirties and fifties and seventies, won't work now.
That's the spirit :)
As a UK resident, I'm not sure how long I'll be able to continue supporting people over Patreon. I still have access to Patreon at the moment but who knows how long that will last? I'm not giving the Prime Minister a picture of my wanking face every time I log in, so I will have to explore other options (using my imagination? Learning to draw? Prostitutes dressed as Princess Jasmine? Anarchy?) I am writing this on the understanding that there's a good chance someone will be reading it out in court one day when I forget to scan my retinas to prove I'm not an underage breather, so listen to this, your honour: I refuse to feel ashamed of liking tits or financially supporting the people who draw them. And yes, I am definitely imagining the most attractive woman in the jury giving me a blowjob. What are you gonna do about it? Oh right. I will be here until I can't be (there's talk of banning VPNs, so even that cannot be counted on). In the meantime, it's been a privilege, thanks for the art and the games and helping us all get through the night!
Thank you for your speech fellow brother of culture. I imagine things will change for all of us one way or another. I am sure there will be new opportunities, will just have to work harder to find them. Even in china they still use VPN, it's harder to set up because as far as I know their internet was built in the future restrictions in mind. I would assume European internet infrastructure is less sophisticated and it will be hard to limit the access entirely. This is just my assumptions of course -_-
It *is tiresome. These people who are supposed *process* payments and *host* content (i.e. one step above parasites) deem themselves to be the arbiters of what is acceptable outside the bounds of even what is legal? It is absolutely atrocious and no matter what side of any political spectrum you fall on, or what your views are on any particular topic, this should obviously be abhorrent to you if you live in a country that calls itself a democracy. People who think this way are seriously the deviants. I'm sure we can all here, on this page, agree on that. Anyway, idk if you can send a one-time thanks here on Patreon, but buying you a few "coffees" AK. Keep your head up and keep going.
Just checked my Coffee account, your donation is there. Thank you. I will make sure to withdraw it as quickly as possible, things are changing way too fast these days, you never know what could happen. Again, thank you. As for the rest of what you said I think what is going on in UK right now is universally disliked. I don't know how low your IQ should be think that the government has your best interests in mind when they apply restrictions like that. And same goes for payment processor overstepping their bounds.
Most the stuff on itch that has been delisted is still there. There's a guy that has an itch page full of delisted content.
I see. Well that's good news for sure. I did hear differently from another person though. But I really hope what I heard was incorrect. That being said, the whole situation is still depressing.
i hope you feel better soon cus i getchu
Yeah, I am all good now. It was just one of those days. :)
Indeed, and all this situation shows that Visa/Mastercard is a monopoly on payment methods, and I hope this somehow breaks, because I don't need a third party to tell me where to spend my money. Hope we can find a way out of this
Yeah. I remember in the UNI they taught us about antimonopoly laws. I that that was a really good idea, but never see those laws in action. Monopoly is everywhere T_T
Totally feel ya, bruh... Like if tons of other sh*t was not enough, now there's this crazy censorship crap as well (>_<)
Yeah... :(
Sweden illegalized buying custom content online under the banner of protecting children 1st of July, means major sites shut down the possibility of commenting or sending DMs for Swedish IP adresses. Culture under legislation is always censorship...
That sounds crazy, but at the same time somehow I am not surprised. It will only get worse in time, I'm sure. T_T
Besides all these dark news - I know it's been a while since Queen Trainer release, and you're working on another project... But I just wanted to say - it took me time to TRULY appreciate Queen Trainer. I'm almost 100% the game, and whoa! There's so much content and easy-to-miss details in this game. Moments like Dahr's thug commenting on your night exercises on the market square, or New Year party dialogues after the second year are different and refer to what happened at the previous New Year party. Also I just realized that EVERY single "advice" for Jasmine has at least 3 different CG - depending on your choice - I can see why the game took you 3 years. I think that was part of my problem - because seems like initially you planned Jasmine to be central to the game, so she got million CGs, but in the end Jasmine was moved to the background a bit - there's not much story with her, dialogues are short, but she got more CGs than anyone else. Just wanted you to know that someone notices your efforts, man XD
Yeah. Queen Trainer took insane amount of planning. And looking back now I think I was trying to do too many things at once: I was trying to do the Breath of The Wild thing with ability to go after the girls in any order and making the game react to that and a whole tone of other little things that I thought would liven up the gameplay. Well, whatever, I got it out my system. Next game will be much more straightforward. P.S. Thank you for the feedback and kinds words.
There's a petition on Change.org about these credit card company policy. Please sign!
Of course. Honestly it's nice to see so much pushback. Hopefully it lead to a positive result!
UK is fascist, full stop. The law was passed under the guise of "protecting children," but it's actually being used to persecute political dissidents. NSFW content is the collateral damage.
I think the words we are using are doing more harm than good. Rushing to call something Fascist just lets things get caught in the mud of whataboutism and technicalities. There are people, regardless of political leaning, that want to control us. To force us to adhere to their beliefs and to give them power over us. No matter what they believe, whether it's left or right, this is ALWAYS wrong. No matter the content, as long as no one was actually harmed in the creation of it, we should never let someone else decide for us what we have access to. The choice should always be ours to decide for ourselves.
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." -John Lubboc Bart. Stay safe out there, O glorious leader
Beautiful words. Sometimes it's just hard to relax and enjoy the scenery when I need to be working on another new hot outfit for April :)
Glad to hear the game’s shaping up though, even if the internet isn’t... Stay safe out there, General Aka.
Thanks. No matter what happens I will continue to do my thing till the bitter end, I can promise you that.