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[–] omniman@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I want my wifu game back

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kind of like how Republicans wamt to police your sexual partners. Pretty sad in this day of age. Who cares how people spend money and what they spend it on.

If you're so concerned about kids, launch a parental education campaign. Or age verify with the card.

If you're a parent, you shouldn't be attaching your payment methods to kids' accounts anyway. That's financial suicide.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You don't understand, I'm very concerned about the future for my child who I want to put no effort into raising. Why would I parent my kid when I can just have everything I don't want them exposed to banned? I'm a responsible parent who's definitely not just trying to enforce draconian puritanical standards I don't follow on everyone else.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Hands crying kid iPad so they can watch weirdly sexual AI videos of Elsa without stopping for 6 hours straight, because interacting with her is interrupting me binge watching “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” which reminds me how puritanical I am

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Hmmm... That's a pretty valid argument. Now, normally, I'm not a big fan of hitting kids. So that's why I'm gonna hit you instead. Get over here, you little shit!

[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Won't somebody please think of the children?!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not like that!

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago

According to Knitting Cult Lady, cults always demand purity from its disciples, including those forced in (e.g. people raised in cults as kids), and there's an exception for the godhead-dude (who is often a lech).

It's not about children. It's about forcing obedience and virtue signalling. It's a nazi salute that shows to fellow party members you're one of them.

Real children's issues are about pulling kids out of precarity: food, housing, contact with family, education, healthcare, quality of life. Anyone who is saying their cause is to protect children who hasn't prioritized these specific things is engaging in a bad-faith argument.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hate it. Especially itch.io nuking everything. Adult games is basically the only reason I even had an account on there

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well thanks for letting me know I don't need to bother with that site /s

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they're working on bringing a lot of it back and stuff, but ya know :3

Last I checked you couldn't search for anything with the "nsfw" tag

[–] chrislowles@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Not gonna lie their tag system sucks eggs, no way to exclude tags when searching on their site/app, I thought the site was nothing but horror when I first got into it.

[–] Booboofinget@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Funny part is that one of Jesus's favorite disciplines was a prostitute. I don't think Jesus was has as prudish as his followers are.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

I get that it was a typo, and you meant to say "disciples", but I like it better this way.

Like Jesus was studying for a career in sex work.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..."

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago

Jesus always said the ones that needed him the most were the crooked ones. He say Magdalena and though "I can fix her"

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The time is now if you're looking to start your own payment system

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would be greatly entertained if valve went into payment processing and out-competed these absolute shitshows of companies.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 1 week ago

The Valve Strategy of "letting the competition shoot itself" spreads

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Oh, cool. A pity that it won't be adopted

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Does not work around the necessity to get all major retail banks or the central bank on board, as they outline in their FAQ.

There's no magic bullet, if you want to act as a payment processor you only have a handful of options:

  • Do a bank wire (but it's not pre-authorized so you're just providing a deposit account for your customers, like PayPal)
  • Use Visa/MC (which PayPal falls back to if you have no money in your deposit account)
  • Use regional payment processors where they exist (e.g. Bancontact/iDEAL in the Benelux, which Stripe conveniently abstracts for the retailers; however most countries don't have such a widespread alternative to American payment processors)
  • Use physical cash
  • Agree on a protocol to pre-authorize transfers on behalf of your customer with all banks your customers are likely to be using (in the EU you can do that with SEPA mandates, which PayPal does support as well)

In practice the EU is doing that last thing with Wero (which already has partnered with all major retail banks in Benelux+France+Germany) and Brazil successfully did the same with Pix. It's not that the technical part is particularly hard, it's that convincing the banking sector to adhere to and commercially promote a new standard is a long, expensive, arduous process that requires strong political connections.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Fuck you dollar jesus.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To the people who are pushing this:

Do you want everyone to start using crypto where all transactions are not controllable by you at all? Because this is how you get people to do that.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

That's the best case outcome no matter what, that's what crypto should be, not some brain rot hype scam fest. Also for private transactions, that's why Monero Is the only good crypto, its actually private and secure.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Society has never been able to keep NSFW content out of the hands of viewers / end users, and have tried multiple times. Singles (a The Sims -like with actual sex -- if kinda clinical; it was a German game) was pressured off shelves in Target, Gamestop and Electronics Boutique. It came back with underwear stapled on, which was quickly hacked off.

This is how we ended up with official / unofficial patches that re-unlock all the naked bits in games like Huniepop, Nude keys, nude codes and nude patches became the convention which ushered video games into the same perversity level of cinema. (We've already had countless fan-made nude patches for non-romantic games).

And of course they're going too far, pressuring distribution services to cut LGBT+ content whether it's porn or not. Before they were emboldened by Trump, there was already pressure to de-list specific themes (an incomplete list: rape/NC; fictional child sex abuse/child experimentation; incest; and depending on the assessment, furry content within a certain threshold.¹ ). Anyhow we know the white Christian nationalist movement (from which the Heritage Society's Project 2025 and the Seven Mountain Mandate come) is looking to criminalize porn and make it difficult to access.

1: This is still weird to me, enough to geek out about it here. Furry hate gets strangely specific. It breaks down like this:

  • Those who disapprove of all furry content that is adult-themed (contrast the 1983 movie Rock and Rule vs. 1973 Disney's Robin Hood ) this group probably only exists because there's a significant fanbase for furry porn / erotica.
  • Of those that remain, those who disapprove of furry content featuring explicit sex (e.g. "Omaha" the Cat Dancer first published in 1976, by Reed Waller and Kate Worley.)
  • Of those that remain, those who disapprove of furry content that is exclusively erotic (I can't find the specific ones I've read, which isn't many.)
  • Of those that remain, those who disapprove of erotic furry content that features species-accurate genitals, which is the threshold VISA was in, and is too spicy for some lemmings. I don't fully understand why this is a subcategory.

The thing is most porn games and most LGBT+ centric games are labors of love, first, and a revenue source second. They will get made and get out, more so, when entire demographics and communities are stripped of a voice or of acknowledgement. It also puts less spicy porn in the same category as unethically spicy porn (e.g. CSAM). If the public has to use the same methods as terrorists and child predators to get their fix, it makes those groups less illegitimate. In for a lamb, in for a sheep.

Anyhow useful websites are here:

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just read about brazilian PIX system and I am baffled. Their gov bypassed payment companies all together and trump is really angry about it Lol. Epic

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like good shit.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Couldn't people just by steam cards with cash, load load it to their accounts and then make their porn purchases? What's to stop other retailers from selling gift cards that can be purchased with cash to use on the pornographic stuff being sold? Edit: I just learned this issue stems from the major CC companies refusing to let companies like steam use their platform to process payments if they kept NSFW games up. My question still stands, what's keeping steam or the player base from telling these companies to f-off and switch to a cash based gift card method?

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and then make their porn purchases

The issue goes far beyond "porn games on Steam". These same groups tried to ben other games with no sex at all, but "disturbing" themes (to them). They failed, because, big game, big pushback. But their agenda is not "no porn", it's "no anything we dislike". They're just starting with the thing they hoped would get little to no pushback for now.

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Its really odd, cause you'd think they'd just want to make money no matter where it comes from.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

the only thing worth more than money to these kinds of people is making other people suffer.

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The biggest reason is Steam would likely lose more money from doing that compared with removing the games the card companies are being assholes about.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What does Jesus need with my credit card information?

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

jim you dont ask the Almighty for his security numbers

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See, I'm no fan of Bitcoin. It's pure speculation and hardly serves a purpose while burning down a rainforest for every transaction. Also the ledger makes things traceable, so it's also a worse concept than cash.

This, however, is a good example of why the concept exists. We need a financial tool outside of the control of banks.

(Yada yada Ethereum and proof of stake.)

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

It's also why American global hegemony is bad; they all tend to move in lock step with each other. If there were a few more European and Asian payment providers out there we'd be a bit more diversity of policy and true consumer choice.

[–] sundaymidnight@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

People believing in their fake arguments... What they want is to empower the power (a dictatorial State)

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[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

If you can find his bones, I’ll ask them, but you should know that doing so says a lot more about you than it does me.

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