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Saturday, July 12, 2025
It’s likely not as freely editable as showdown but it’s got connectivity to home
And the mainline games have methods of pseudo editing your mons
It’s easier in scarlet and violet than any previous game to get a competitive ready pokemon (discounting the rampant hacking)
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
@Phijkchu_Pikachu Crusader's out
Hell yeah
Scribeknight
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
I remember as a kid, when Stronghold opens with "Greetings Sire, the desert awaits you"
always being confused why knights were in the desert
I forget what my justification in my head was exactly,
but I had some weird head-cannon for why they did it
I'll buy the gave eventually, no point in getting it since I am leaving friday
Porygon and I will practice up
so we're ready to roll you in MP when you get it
(or honestly Pika, get it now since there's a 10% launch sale and I doubt it'll go lower in the next couple months post-launch)
I don't have money on my account
Would need to go get a steam (tm) money card
Visa and Mastercard have finally begun fucking with Valve
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ Gabe will unretire and make New Project 3.
That would be based lmao
And Dialga, here my take:
There are ~30 people who control Mastercard/Visa (who are at the top of the entire financial pyramid)
They have total control and enjoy fucking with
1) Things they don't like
2) People they don't like
3) Punishing entities that have crossed them
There's really not any more to it that that
It's not about image, it's not about "high risk" processing or charge backs
It's all personal
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ Its really crazy that you can just absolutely financially cuck someone because two cards decided they dont like you at all. I dont think theres any real recourse or way out of that is there?
Nope, zero
They have begun to piss off those in power though, and are likely going to be regulated or worked around in the next ~5 years
Not related to Gamers™️ or porn
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 They have begun to piss off those in power though, and are likely going to be regulated or worked around in the next ~5 years
Silver linings, I have no clue why but thats nice to hear ig.
And remember 2-3% of the global GDP goes into their pockets directly (or one of their sub-networks)
He was the first one who tested the guardrails and figured out WTF was happening
People who had been debanked before him, were usually straight criminals or were not really trying to do anything in the first place
And yeah, a lot of Uber rich people do not even do it for the wealth, it's a game of power and control
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ I know he said he owned a buisness outside of podcasting, I wonder if it directly effected and folded his company
It was a marketing company, and while it did end up getting fucked with he just sold his share and left before he brought the whole thing down
Though wierdly, the reason he was able to keep his patreon up, is because patreon got sued to take it down, and the billionaire in charge of that wanted it kept up as a fuck you to the guy who sued them
So even when he was MATCH'd, he got to keep that
I don't even think the US will be the last to root out the monopoly of the payment networks, it's such an easy way to bump the GDP and start rolling back the unsustainable debt US citizens have
Visa/MC will still exist, don't misunderstand
But the payment networks and the credit bureaus will be nationalized
So businesses can process payments without giving Visa/MC 5% of every transaction (and as a side benefit, freedom of speech protections or w/e)
Government won't start issuing consumer debt directly, but with open networks more banks can just offer their own CCs
And debit cards 100% won't be processed by Visa/MC
Will probably also speed up ACH as a side benefit
Not that that matters too much
Do we have a list of things that are getting nuked
every image I am seeing is just the shitty 3d porn game slop
I checked the only porn game I care about that I thought might be at risk (living with sister) and its fine
Maybe? If valve is "enforcing their rules" by placating them by just nuking shitty 3d slop and keeping real games
I think thats fine
the shitty 3d slop spam being on steam added nothing anyways
the actual story is less that anything has been nuked *yet* definitively
and that Valve has updated their policy, to be that payment processors get the final say
Stronghold's super nostalgic and all