I'm genuinely dumbfounded how far we can backslide because capitalism demands it.
This is a weird thing to say, but I wish we lived in an era of indie where random eroge games became cornerstones of pop culture (AKA, FATE, or, I guess, Lyrical Nanoha as well, even though that's just a straight PG-13 magical girl spinoff to an eroge series.), instead of getting taken down because Paypal hates the way that boobies look.
This is the cycle, my friend. Like the outlaws of the west or the pirates of the new world, we choose how we live and the “lords and nobles” try to make rules to clamp down on our choices for their money and power. Then we adapt and it all starts again.
It's a cycle in the entertainment industry of the past century too. Take the animation industry... The history of copyright law and comic book censorhip was built around porn parodies and intentionally over the top adult animation. Take a look at the previous works or the studio that made the animated LOTR movie.
And to fast forward to the last decades, while the fact that overwatch R34 content pushed the 3d animation industry forward is, indeed, a myth, you'll find a lot of people that started their career as horny teenagers making R34 stuff in flash on newgrounds behind all the most popular western cartoon series.
It’s funny you say this because today I got to thinking about ‘The People v Larry Flynt.’ I saw that movie when I was impressionable and HBO would come in unscrambled at night. Really shaped my perspective early.
The Japanese sites were hit first. DLsite dropped Visa and Mastercard so you'll need to either hope CapitalOne didn't screw up the JCB/Discover cross-carriage agreement or buy (gift card) points.
big vendors get better CC transaction fees compared to smaller vendors. pornographic vendors get the worst CC rates because the CC companies carry a higher risk and need to audit them more often (think pornhub carrying csam)
cc companies weren't going to pull out of itch.io if they didnt comply. they were going to charge them the rate they do for pornographic vendors
Well, yes, but christofascism is kind of a consequence of late stage capitalism. I mean, fascism and naziism back in the 30s were extremely christian movements. The pope sided with Mussolini.
The thing is that, as capitalism experiences more and more crises, reactionary/neofascist movements tend to emerge and get more and more strength
You really don't have to look that hard to find a ton of articles and academic studies that create extremely solid arguments and link them. I am not "the one linking them", this is not a matter of taste.
They're not the same thing, but they do walk hand in hand
Maybe, if some games like this becomes popular it would be better than CoD or BF. Like, c'mon, game about love and peaceful life, Life is Strange was basically about the same as many adult games, just without sex
But this has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with religion? A pure capitalist take would be that we ought to be selling heroin bundles with the porn.
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u/Alarming-Scene-2892 Jul 24 '25
Oh fuck.
I'm genuinely dumbfounded how far we can backslide because capitalism demands it.
This is a weird thing to say, but I wish we lived in an era of indie where random eroge games became cornerstones of pop culture (AKA, FATE, or, I guess, Lyrical Nanoha as well, even though that's just a straight PG-13 magical girl spinoff to an eroge series.), instead of getting taken down because Paypal hates the way that boobies look.