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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 13h

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

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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

The people who wished Max Headroom were real instead of recognizing it as dystopian satire and the people who want us to feed at a cultural trough of recycled crap from the slop you ate yesterday make a perfect circle.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

The solvent answer to the Prisoners' Dilemma is to work together against the force pitting you against one another. It's really only a dilemma if all participants accept their role as mandated by the oppressor.

The crime was coming from the attic THE WHOLE TIME!

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

"Hey 'Season One' Eleven. Wow, you're really far from home. Is there anything I can help with? Anywhere I can drive you?"

Eleven:

A publicity shot of Trip Hawkins, founder of current Saudi money laundering corporation Electronic Arts. He leans against a white wall wearing a black blazer and blue shirt. He smiles the soulless smile of a person with so little empathy they could amass a billion dollars, but due to unimaginable excess, blew it all and missed becoming an honorary Saudi royal <ironic consequences trombone>

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

She had watched it happen in news and all around her. In real time. She knew technology would improve. Black people aren't speculating when they tell us white people that it's going to get worse. They are not guessing or downing any Debbie, Mr. Gandalf Sir. THEY HAVE LIVED IT FOR CENTURIES.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

Do yourself a favor and go read negative reviews for Waiting for Godot. Media literacy is in a sad state, but that's just as much a work of art as the play itself. Like watching a Zane Gray fan pick apart House of Leaves. Also, watch Waiting for Guffman. The reviews say it's a rousing sequel.

Lance Ulanoff @lanceulanoff.com · 16h

Waiting for Godot gets a timely update, signifying the essentialness of nothing medium.com/p/waiting-fo...

Waiting for Godot gets a timely update, signifying the essentialness of nothing

The last time I saw or read Samuel Beckett’s ground-breaking, 1954 play, Waiting for Godot, I was probably a teenager, a person who…

medium.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 12h

One woman in 1977 feared with such perfect precision that Black culture would, through a method she did not yet know, be erased by white culture and began taping everything, subscribing to print, and archiving reality. @archive.org received her collection in 2013. Digitizing continues to this day.

Marion Stokes c. late 2000s, a few years before her death. She is wearing a black top and sits with her chin on the back of her hand in a restaurant booth. Thank you, Marion.

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Jamie Chambers @jamiechambers.bsky.social · 13h

Any questions?

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James Youngman @jyoungman.bsky.social · 1d

16 player Halo CTF was some of the best gaming of my college years.

Online gaming is great, but it isn't the same as being in the room with the people you're playing with.

KupoBeat @kupobeat.bsky.social · 2d

halo time

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Ah, the Roman Catholic special. Sin, sin, repent.

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

Just drink the chicken juice that comes with the chicken breasts you buy at Safeway like the rest of us

AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1d

i just saw something called protein water?

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Voyager has a '7 of 9 has fake memories and it's a stand it for you know and a man's life is so ruined by the false accusations he KILLS HIMSELF (that's...a guilty act, ngl) and 7 of 9 learns it's better to question your memories than go to the cops' episode and ... wooooof.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says space !

Alt: Tim Curry in Wing Commander ... who gives a shit...you're not playing the game for the game...just rip the video from Archive... sits on a badly green-screened throne that's just a chair and with EVERY ounce of his entire being, says 'SPACE!' because he's never half-assed anything in his life and is even speed running being awesome after a stroke for fun.

media.tenor.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

There are a lot of r**e-heavy episodes for some reason. Every shape shifter is a sex pest. The Cher episode, which should be great, is marred by being 'silly SA.' But echoing everyone else, apart from a few outliers, it isn't too bad and is good autopilot TV. Especially bottle MotW eps.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Hank Green's favorite VlogBrother is Hank Green, and it's not even close.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 1d

Me when a white youtuber calls a James Hong character's accent 'problematic.'

a black and white photo of a man wearing a striped shirt and an apron

Alt: Curly Joe of the Three Stooges beats his chest and squints his eye in pinstriped overalls and a bow tie. Nyuk nyuk ruff! RUFF!

media.tenor.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

If the AMA and the DNC ran the same, your doctor would be telling you that you need to meet the tumor in the middle.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 3d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

My Dinner with AI is just Nate Silver yelling at a fork for 90 minutes then punching the waitress because the water was wet.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 2d

ok so as a Brisco County, Jr super fan I need to be clear: John Carpenter wanted Bruce Campbell and the fact that he had to settle for cosplaying a lesser Baldwin doomed Vampires from the start.

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

Guy Gardener is about to get banned from whatever outdated brick and mortar analogy goes here. Toys R Us I guess.

Earl Grey: 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 @earlgreymemes.club · 2d

the accessories are gonna be lit

a headline from TrekMovie.com

Upcoming Waves Of Nacelle Star Trek Figures Include TOS Crew And "Sub Rosa" Beverly Crusher

with a Nacelle image of an Uhura figure and Beverly enveloped by green smoke

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

...
Could have BEEN immortal. Could have been the person who ended homelessness. The person who brought back science. But instead he chose high score and pissed it all away. At the end, desperately trying to trade blood for time.

🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

If reality was a hack writer (it is), the low hanging fruit arc for "Dr." Mr. Grimes' Ex would be:
Double down on betting on the singularity.
Burn the world for 20 years.
Grief process hits Bargaining.
Full 180. Save the earth, philanthropy, just PLEASE MAKE ME IMMORTAL!

Cont...

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🦇Stale Andy Corn 🎃 @yourlamentablefriends.com · 2d

ELECT BRUNDLEFLY 2028

VOMIT TO EAT

VOMIT TO LEAD