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The 0aymemt processors are testing their power. Spread the word: fuck paypal. It's still thiel's baby.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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And of course its fucking Paypal. Of course it is.
First they started freezing random peoples accounts, then they added fees for everyone, and now they are deciding what you can do with your money.
And you know why? Because data saying that you like such themes dosent pay as much. Its all about your Data. The advertisers dont advertise according to what you want. They advertise what pays most, and if your data contradicts what they wan to hear, they will make you generate that data.
Im not saying Visa or Mastercard are better, but most people already have a debit/creditcard, and if you dont have something like Wero, they are the least bad
Capitalism and freedom cannot coexist. While money is in play, those who control money control what you can spend it on.
While I think it is ridiculous that a payment processor is the one making the demands, I do think that porn games should be put in a completely separate part of the store.
Gog is far worse than steam on the issue, just looking at the list of new games, there are games like "Lust Academy Final" and "Succubers!" right on the first page of the list, and this is when I am not even logged in.
It cheapens the store's brand, just set up a separate category and don't show the games in the main lists of the store
This doesnt fix that. Not even a little. This is just one niche. Most of the bad, jone of the good.
Not happy with the reason to remove them but good riddance nonetheless. Lately, these low-effort ai slop crap games were flooding the store and the only way to remove them from my sight was using filters that caught lots of innocent games.
Steam should make a different section for adult games so, if I want to look for one, I go there.
Did you seriously link writing by cryptofascist Scott Siskind? Dude needs a disclaimer.
Would you be willing to say more? I read a bunch of his stuff years ago and didn't come away with that feeling, but I also acknowledge I was in a kind of "fun new ideas I stumbled onto" naive phase at that time and wasn't thinking all that critically. And then just moved on outta boredom eventually.
I do, FWIW, vaguely understand his connection to the "rationalist" (fuckin turbo eye roll) community and the kinds of...creatures that comprise the major figures there (a Harry Potter fanfic taken as this illuminating, brilliant piece of discourse? holy shit this is S-tier own-fart-sniffing).
But Scott in particular struck me as compassionate and thoughtful, I didn't get gross vibes. But hey, bro is quite verbose and intelligent and maybe he just hid it ~well and I missed it.
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill-people-with-bad-writing-the-scott-alexander-method I remember this being a pretty reasonable critique.
Anything he writes on feminism also.
I'm only some of the way through and this essay is excellent, again, thank you, I have a feeling I'll be reading more of this author. The article is actually giving me some closure I didn't realize I wanted - I could never put together why I could find some of his (Scott's) writing thought-provoking, yet fail to really come away with any concrete points of view from his long ass posts much of the time. I actually assumed I just wasn't quite sharp enough to fully get it, or just not paying enough attention at any rate.
Nope, dude just writes that way (probably on purpose, "mealy-mouthed") and a razor-sharp reader like Elizabeth Sandifer here can slice through the fluff and see that there is piteously little substance in a lot of his writing.
What's interesting is Scott's essay "Moloch!" did kinda feel to me like a revelation at the time, helped me connect the dots on why everything is getting shittier constantly - I'll have to eventually give that one (the only one I actually remember) a reread someday after this and see what I think.
Cheers!
Glad you find it meaningful!
I think one or two of his writings are ok. The one about the war on pain patients is basically correct, that is within his realm of expertise so that is unsurprisingly. As someone who recently experienced several years of chronic pain so bad I could only cope by sitting next to a suicide machine knowing I could end it at any moment I had the misfortune of finding its assessment correct from the inside too.
Moloch is interesting, because I feel he misses the main issue. His flat out refusal to engage in any sort of leftist analysis chalks it up to nebulous difficulties and innate human behaviours rather than deliberate choices by oppressing classes.
!sneerclub@awful.systems is a place on lemmy where people shit on this sort of galaxy brained tech racism if you want more. Although they're their own sort of faux intellectual smugness half the time.
Oh I do remember that one too, found it eye-opening, and yep probably because it's right in his wheelhouse so to speak.
So very sorry about the pain - I've been adjacent to it, which of course is not even a sliver of what it's like to experience it. Someone close to me once had to wean themselves off Methadone, unexpectedly, and without help, which he had been (eventually) prescribed cuz nothing else would touch the pain. I don't really understand how he's still alive TBH (not just from that), but he's the kind of old-school stubborn that defies logic of any kind.
Chronic pain and chronic isolation (esp. of the elderly) are two titans of misery just hiding in plain sight, stomping on life. I hate it.
I didn't understand quite what you meant about a "suicide machine" unless that's just a euphemism for something obvious. If you want to elaborate I'd be curious, but I fully understand if not.
I am doing much better now, between learning new limits and some other things that are unwise to write down. My sympathies to you friend, even when opiates are needing to be discontinued — i.e. someone is actively being harmed by addiction — the correct response is /always/ a controlled taper.
Re suicide machine. I built a device what for apply to self to extinguish self quickly, reliably (assuming no emergency medical intervention within about 10 minutes), and with minimal discomfort. I didn't want to die, but knowing I could always take that option quickly made it possible to take it minute by minute and not kill myself out of fear that it would later be unbearable.
I don't really want to describe the device as there are ethical and (regrettably) legal reasons why being frank about suicide is something to handle carefully.
Totally understand, almost didn't ask for that reason. Glad things are going better for you.
Thank you, I'll give it a read!
I'm really surprised that payment processors care at all.
Always have. Idr which ones but there are totally legal kinks that no porn site will leave up, because even just dns registration requires a payment processor.
Christians got money, own the money changers, don't like freedom. Wonder what they ban next.
it's maybe just me, but removing incest themed games doesn't sound like a bad idea?
It's not about the incest porn.
It's about payment processors having this leverage; the precedent of caving.
Like how the deportations started with 'criminal gang members' going back to where they came from, and now it's truck loads of kids going to florida to be raped and starved and thrown in the swamp for disposal.
Payment processors are heavily influenced by rich christofsscists who own stock. It seems innocuous now, but these are the same bastards. Steam is done.
Capitalism cannot coexist woth either freedom or, ifonically enough, ownership of your own shit.
this i totally agree with you, it always has been a serious problem for the adult industry. I am only reacting to the first screenshot that says that incest porn games are being censored, not about the rest of the subject.
The incest porn games are our shitty canaries. When the canary stops chirping, no matter how much you hste that little shit, it's not a happy moment.
okay that's one of the better analogies i have seen :D
First they came for the lolishota hentai, but I cheered on it, because they told me it normalizes pedophilia.
Then they came after the incest hentai, but I cheered on it, because they told me it normalizes birth defects and its domestic abuse.
Then they came after the furries, but I cheered on it, because they told me it normalizes bestiality.
Then they came after futanari, amputees, etc., but I cheered on it, because they told me it fetishizes trans women, the disabled, etc..
Then they came after BDSM, large insertions, etc., but I cheered on it, becaue they told me it is self harm and domestic abuse.
Then they came after all remaining porn, but I cheered on it, because they told me "porn is a public health crisis of addiction" and children might have access to it.
Then they came after public homosexual affection and being trans, and suddenly I was thinking they might have used me as a fool.
I never got why people want games as a medium for porn, but in the end it's just porn. And let's not pretend that there isn't a big market for incest-themed porn. The amount of "step-"something porn is huge.
As long as it's marked 18+ I don't really care. It's not for me but I also don't have to interact with it.
The amount of "step-"something porn is huge.
I was never really into that genre; but now that I'm a step-parent, it's just straight-up weird.
..... starts googling furiously for step stool porn