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Beck [they/them]
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I like games and social justice. Producer & Office Manager at Jumpy Bit - formerly Mixtvision Games and Games/Bavaria. Nonbinary. They / them.
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Company that financially benefits from selling overpriced tickets for an event tries to guilt-trip people into buying overpriced tickets for said event.

How original.
Good advice in thread for all protests.
Tl;dr:
Don’t register for a protest.
Cover identifiable features (hair, face, tattoos, piercings)
Leave your phone at home (get a burner)
You don't know anyone there!
No SM posts!
Look up a lawyer beforehand and write down their number in sharpie on your arm
WAIT

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS REGARDING NO KINGS PROTESTS RIGHT NOW

For real, this is not a joke

In keeping with my earlier post, IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE that immediately after the government makes a bunch of official bsky accounts we suddenly have a huge influx of new --
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If you show up with a friend who you know

YOU DO NOT KNOW THEM AND THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU

Cover your tattoos, remove your piercings, show as little skin as possible

you are just a medical mask, sunglasses, hoodie, hat, and jeans

you have no name, you have no affiliation other than "fuck monarchs"
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You do not register for a protest!

You show up unannounced, unidentified, and physically put your body into the midst of the protest as one impossible to track and impossible to surveil (via human eye OR AI-assisted camera) cell in the greater organism that is a mass protest.
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This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop
Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...
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JUST LAUNCHED!

TheGameClub.com - like a book club but for games!

Join or host group gatherings all over the world to discuss our your shared experience. The game is just the icebreaker, the goal is to forge friendships.

Use promo code HEYLOOKLISTEN for 50% off today!
Welcome to The Game Club
It's like a book club, but for games.
TheGameClub.com
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Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...
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I eternally insist: image AI as we see even is DIRECTLY a response to them flipping the fuck up to artists rejecting to fuel their digital auction gallery daydream.
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Procgen AI peddlers and NFT peddlers are the exact same planet-destroying, capitalist, amoral grifters. We can't keep saying we didn't know. "You're standing in the way of progress", "you're against small artists making a bag", all the same unserious arguments.
This tweet aged gracefully. In 2021 I was asked to do NFTs. 4 weeks of work for $1 million. I got harassed for months by cryptobros for saying no. The project went ahead without me and the offer was legit.

NFTs were and are a grift, peddled by the same techbros as AI
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i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.

we CAN do this.

there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
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cannot emphasize enough that thinking that the pro-censorship side has already won is how the pro-censorship side wins
i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship.

we CAN do this.

there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.
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incidentally adobe is now trying to convince people that acrobat's llm can read a legal contract for you and give you insights.

please don't trust a computer with a contract. imagine what the worst thing related to that contract could be, then ask if you want to spend less on a lawyer to avoid it.
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Der Artikel dröselt es gut auf: Chatbots sind so trainiert, dass sie den Nutzenden zustimmen und "nach dem Mund reden", das reduziert die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Disengagements.

Das eigentlich Nötige, u.a. Ermunterung zum Perspektivwechsel, Betrachten eigener blinder Flecken etc., passiert nicht.
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.
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steam has been phenomenally worst in the past toward this stuff, but doesn’t at all get challenged in this.
it just seems like itch is easier to tear down, even though they are trying their hardest to fix this, and have a history of supporting this space.
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#PressStart ist auch auf der gamescom‬ mit acht Spielen vertreten. Sechs Titel werden an unterschiedlichen Ständen in Halle 10.2 spielbar sein, darunter drei am eigenen Press Start Stand in der @indiearenabooth, drei Titel können in Business-Bereich gespielt werden.
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Am 18. August feiert #PressStart “Halbzeit” auf der devcom mit einem eigenen Bühnenprogramm. Passend dazu findet ihr auf unserer Website eine neue Übersicht mit Spielen und Studios und einen Trailer mit über 50 Titeln auf YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ohd...
"Press Start"-Games – Overview-Trailer
YouTube video by Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur
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Youbers and Tubers!
The place to control what ads are on your channel has moved, you can now find it under the settings of Studio, as pictured below. I heartily recommend taking the time to block ads from companies you find disreputable. It's not always easy, you need a URL, but you *can* control it
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Regarding the adult themed games crackdown:

The Dutch Game Association has flagged this issue with the European Games Developer Federation as we believe we can have a bigger impact on a European level.

However, I still strongly recommend you also bring up the issue with your local association.
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Ty @tys.work · Jul 24
But yes I agree, please focus energy on Mastercard and Collective Shout. I am just saying with experience that without collective worker power this will always happen.
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📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁