I was gonna post these in this thread but it's locked for some reason. Awright, here goes...

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"It's just gooner games, why do you care?" they said. "You're defending porn!", "It’s just about stopping kids from looking at violent porn! If you oppose this, you hate children!"

Jokes on them, I bet that the slippery slope fallacy was a lie and that it's an oiled-up cliff rather than a slope. I won big. The naysayers kept claiming that I was "screeching against usual imagined strawmen", but I'm glad I'm the sort to laugh at those wannabe regulators and continued documenting the overreach of governments and payment processors when it comes to legal content being blocked.

And just as I had expected, for the last few days - the 'payment processor guidelines' continued to expand, even spreading to non-sexual content such as horror games, I shit you not.

What next on their shit list? Cawadoody? GTA? Or is it a concerted effort to hyperregulate out the indie gaming industry because the big-name megacorps are stuck hawking overpriced garbage that would get blammed for sure on the newgrounds portal?

I wasn't exaggerating when I said "the real war begins now" last year.

These supposed 'payment processors' have a LOT of perfectly legal things on their shitlist. It's not just 'incest/rape games' as their activists will often claim, but things like dating services for anime fans...

to transactions carried out between adults.

https://x.com/yamadataro43/status/1888879653827596648

Hell, not even a service to deliver ebooks of out of print manga, passing the income to the authors is safe!

https://x.com/KenAkamatsu/status/1853771600828809490

Funny how they brag about judging what's illegal or not, claim to have a 'brand to protect'... when these same dumbasses are caught with this kind of baggage.

Wew.

Note the response used by Visa HQ - which comically breaks the latest boilerplate response they had to initiatives like yellat.money and other citizen responses.

First, they declare themselves the 'arbiters of morality' and pressure sites to comply or else. Then they claim that they don't moderate anything.

As you can guess, no one bought that lie.

In fact, the backlash against itch.io for their disrespect to the community's so great that they've started to slowly backpedal. Re-indexing itch.io nsfw items is a start - but to be 're-indexed', payments have to be switched off.

He's even switched off replies because he probably knows just how bad things have gotten huehuehue. "Salute" emote right back at ya. Should have thought of that before throwing your userbase under the bus.

Me? I will not trust them again. Hell, I've already cut visa and paypal off completely out of my financial system well ahead of time, and I'll take things two steps further now that I've seen that these so-called payment processors are willing to go after legal content.

You know what, have a look at this too. Oh and there's a list of numbers right here.

Sure, visa reps might call you a rapist...

...but even if they scream at you, what you do is ask them politely, yet firmly to leave their hands off your right to purchase legal goods (Hank Hill voice). Do not lose your cool, do not yell at them. Do not threaten them (this is illegal, you know). Explain that if visa and mastercard keeps changing the rules and engaging in theft, you cannot continue being their customer.

So, what's the latest word on Collective Shart?

This reminds me of that one time some overbearing mop-brain proudly admitted that they ran an extortion racket targeting small games studios.

So I gotta say this: "HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN!?"

So, on top of everything else done so far, I've decided to make another quick Sex Kitten game: NUKE'EM!

The story is simple: "Slutty McSlut's favourite cooking show has been demonetized by Wuss-a because Collective Shart says a show where anime catgirls cook horrifyingly eldritch and spicy dishes is 'my soggy knees' or something! To calm her down, you take some enriched uranium from the garage, tell her to buy a plane ticket to Australia and drive to the Mall to buy the rest of the nukuler warhead components!"

"... you forgot your wallet at home and it's too much of a drive back home. So to save on time, gas and avoiding the possibility of admitting the fact you forgot your wallet to Slutty McSlut, you decide to do things the classic way..."

Also, I've got something else in the works, but I'll be dropping that later because what I have now is just one test html page lol.

PS: Personally, I think the whole concept of 'gooner' is pushed by snot-nosed manchildren on a power trip, seeking to police others to compensate for just how little control they have over their own lives because they stupidly put all their personal details on failbook, poopstagram or tocktik or something.

...I'd totally get the Gooner badge for the lulz, though.