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please unfollow. i have no public activity you could follow, so it creeps me out.

going full circle, are we.

you made a 2d volume-pixel game by name. and now want to make it 3d.

making your 2d minecraft clone into a 3d game, makes your game a regular minecraft clone.

is this a good idea? depends. if you included stuff to make it fun in 2d, will those things work in 3d? my guess is, that some people like your game because it is not another 3d clone of minecraft.

that is not the bundle. it is the jam collecting items for a future bundle.

those charity bundles are not handled like regular bundles.

there is one happening right now. i can see promotion for it on the front page itch.io, but not on the bundles page nor the extension of the bundles page, the on-sale browse filter.

if you have an arm binary, you might be able to get it to run on that device. but i am sure there are dedicated message boards somewhere in the internet for this hardware that will have guides and discussions about such things. maybe even a compatibility list for some games.

the itch projects are not filterable by architecture. or at least i do not know how. so most linux games will be for x86 architecture.

i doubt there will be private replies any time soon. i remember reading in a thread that they would not want to moderate private messages. maybe if there would be an option to make reviews public, so people could at least read why a game was rated high or low. but if you scroll the public rating feed, most people do not write anything.

in the meantime, you could post a comment in your own game, asking for feedback and bug reports there, so that you can fix it, instead of negative ratings, just because a button did not work.

how are retro game consoles supported in the itch app? what is a pico8 browser? are you maybe talking about the tag pico-8? the rg35 has no native files, so you would not search for rg35 files, but for pico-8 files. and that rg35 does not even have wlan, so how would the itch app install files on the sd card. 

if you want to make similar games, that is a good start. so you would know how or where the audience would find such games.

lol. i did not help you. i just wanted to point out that a company abandoning a thing does not protect against getting sued.

the warning on their website seemed rather specific, so it might just be allowed if you do not do those things in your app.

i mean, a lot of the old game consoles also have new things being made for them, and you can find those on itch. you can download new roms for gameboy and others. 

i am not sure if you understood my points. you do not phrase them, as i did.

interactions are not limited because they are public. i said, that interactions are limited. what i meant is, that there are a limited amount of communication channels.

the current "block" feature of itch is an incomplete ignore function. a block prevents an action. an ignore does not prevent an action, but makes it invisble to the one that ignores. i argue for a better ignore function. and i consider a block function for the publisher side of using itch to be pointless. you do not even need an account to buy.

if you can legally do your own app using the device, you can do so regardless of abandonment of the original app. if you cannot do so, abandonment of the manufactorerers app has no impact on this. just make sure they cannot not sue you. because on their website they talk about taking down third party things.

if youre laptop can run the browser you used to write this comment, you should be fine for most games and the itch app.

using the itch app to manage installation will feel rather close to what you did on console.

you have nine games. gratulations on having two streamers play your marketed game. this is probably two more than the other eight games. so your marketing already did something.

how many indie games did you play last week, and how did you know about them. maybe that gives you new inspiration.

Games and items I don't own in my collections go on sale

is the feature in the settings not working? it is under Email notifications. is is not checking for a specific discount, but neither is steam doing that. or does it?

well. no one hinders you to go to the payment dialog a second time. but i think you talk about some kind of reminder. itch does remind you to rate played games, but fortunately it does not nag you to donate, with a yes no later button or something like that.

i guess in theory the recommendations should fill that demand. they might be expanded to a feed, not unlike that discovery queue thingy on steam.

browsing recent for favorite tags it is, till a better solution comes along.

they should work on those hidden communication channels, like the follow and unfollow nuisance. can't they be deactivated in email notifications at least? and i would wish for more granularity for which activites would be shared. like, releases, collections and reviews separately.

but a developer just does not block users. users block other users. a developer is the admin of the published projects and can ban people. what good would additional blocking do. a customer does not even need an itch account to purchase an item.

now, from a user's perspective, an ignore function might be nice. blocking is for social networks. itch is not such a network in my opinion without a private message system. there is very limited interaction and practically all of it is public, where real admins could intervene, and where other people could use the report button.

now that would be helpful. on steam you always see that a game is in your library, if you browse games. and you can checkbox away your libray and wishlist. itch only tells you taht a game is in your collection if you try to add it to a collection. 

as i said, this is not how these things work. this is directly from the bandai website. 

https://toy.bandai.co.jp/special/vb/digitalmonster/

Currently, we have found some websites and SNS contents that illegally duplicate and upload the character images and programming from the Digimon Vital Bracelet Series.

Bandai and Toei Animation have never given any license or permission to duplicate, upload and sell the images and programming.

There are several intellectual property rights such as copyrights and trademarks regarding characters, programming, character names of the Digimon Vital Bracelet Series, Dim Cards and any other Digimon series.

Intellectual property law in Japan, the European Union, the United States, China, and other countries protects these rights.

now that's closed, it's possible to make our own fanmade

that is not how those things work. unless the creators put the ip into public domain or something similar.

also, what exactly are you even talking about? i see no such thing as bandai pulling their app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandai.vitalbraceletarena&hl=e...

you sure there wasn't a "fan app" that was shut down by bandai... ?

that this game is not for children is out of the question. but it was so before the recent adding of explicit sexual content. your mentioning of how the character model could lose clothing by taking damage - and was therefore nsfw and should not be played with children present - was just so laughable in face of the splatter gore.

please do not play splatter gore in front of children. it is nightmare stuff. regardless of any clothing malfunctions.

this is not how credit cards work. you probably just have a pending charge on your account and your money is not gone.

also, if the card was declined, you actually did not pay for anything.

if there was no typo anywhere, ask the bank that gave you the card what the problem is.

so, playing splatter gore zombie genre is fine to play in the presence of children.

patreon bans incest and this is an incest game.

and no, it is not a serious issue. it is made up characters that are depicted with made up pictures. i am far more disgusted by the thought of incest than by a newborn being present. real life parents do that a lot, just google it.

gratulations, you successfully promoted the game. i had a look. i fast forwarded to that scene. and no, the baby viewing and reacting to the deed is not the sexual focus. compare to any cuck or voyeur scene. you do see a camera view that is positioned where the baby is. but you do not see the baby reacting to that scene. for all you know the baby could be looking at her own toes or be fallen asleep.

if the baby does look, she would be distracted by the hand of the guy, that he dangled right in front of her. you might have missed the hand, because of the background action and the dirty talk, that you, as a non-infant, could comprehend.

somehow i have doubts that what you say happens in such a way that the sexual focus is about the newborn seeing the deed.

i would assume patreon has some of their dubious guidelines about minors being in the same room or some such. but patreon also prohibits relations between step siblings and that is an incest game and also abandoned for two years now.

so i would say, if the newborn was not part of the act and the guy just made some stupid noises to calm the baby and dirty talk the mother, it would not qualify for anything. 

you do realize that currently it is you that is promoting a game you proclaimed to consider about certain things.

after a look, you make it seem as people would praise that scene. they are not. they are lamenting that the game was abandoned and discussing certain other kinks.

since i have not played that game, i would have to take your word on it. now, is that what you describe, the thing you say it is? nope. it is not. also you switch between newborn and kid. a newborn cannot understand you. they cannot even see you further away then an arm's reach.

i sure hope you do not consider real life parents of a newborn to engange in that activity you complain about. because many of them will do it with their baby in the room. 

since that game has a lot of ratings and comments, i think it more likely that your definition of that thing you complain about is not the same definition that most other people use. and since you say you tried to remove other games but they were not removed, i think it is a sufficient explanation. please let us not discuss specifics here.

two things. do not overdo it with the fetishes. if you put every kink in the game you will not attract everyone, you will deter everyone. of course voting them in by privileged users is a good idea.

you need to remove that step business. patreon does not allow incest in any way. not even between adopted or step-family.

i was not burned by crypto, the earth is, from all the hot air.  "crypto" is not the things you advertised. if your project does what you now elaborated, it is not crypto in my opinion.

and no, your system does not need a blockchain. a distributed ledger need not be a blockchain, it is just so prevalent to use that thing for that application. those byzantine generals sure would not have used a blockchain to agree on strategy. smarter people than me phrased it very good: a blockchain is a solution seeking a problem and not the solution for an existing problem.

if new nodes come into the system by installing the app and if worth comes into system by using the app, and worth comes out of the system by a real money exchange, your system will be abused and crippled, once it has enough worth for anyone to care to do so.

if worth only comes into the system by buying in, it goes the way of all the other crypto scams you lament about. it is a pyramid. first buyers make profit, late buyers have worthless bits when the exchange rate drops to nil. or many first buyers also are left with nothing as seen so often. 

you need an authority to regulate money. if your authority is decentralized, that costs effort. a lot of it. if it would not cost effort, it could be easily exploited. for example by the so called 51% attack. or just by "mining" a lot of "worth" and cashing out with real money. "mining" in your system consists of agreeing on the transactions or something like that. so what hinders bad agents to just do random transactions they approve in their subset of owned nodes to create "worth" and cash out later? they would just make sure somehow that other nodes would be unreachable, so their running in circles gives them profit and not the other nodes of real people. and how would you battle such exploits? you either cannot do so because it is decentralized or you can fight it, proving the system is actually not dezentralized and making the blockchain a farce.

when it comes to money, the scammers and exploiters know no boundaries and their imagination and creativity will baffle anyone designing a "fool proof" system. money in any form is something you need to have trust in. and there is absolutely no "crypto" currency that has trust. it just is too volatile. your 1 coin might be worth half or double the next day. it is useless for paying. but it is usefull for doing trades on exchanges and making money from investors hoping to increase their money.

then it should not be called "mining". it implies figuratively hard work and in practical terms that is difficult calculations. 

if it can be achieved on cheap hardware it begs the question if it really is "crypto". crypto is another word with implied meaning. you do not do crypto on a mobile device. if the thing you do is easy to calculate it ain't crypto. (not talking about actual cryptography here, but the buzz word crypto)

that fba has nothing to do with blockchains nor crypto. it is a means of reaching agreement with a subset of authorities in a scenario where some of those authorities are not reachable or could be lying. you can use it to decentralize authorative decisions: like, has that payment be made or not.

but just because you use some fba algorithm does not create worth. you could try to manage existing worth with it. let us call it a coin for lack of a better word. but who has coins to begin with? who has authority to mint new coins? or authority to "mint" new nodes? in olden and the new days that was and is the ruling goverment. in the crypto world that is done by hard work of extra difficult mining, so you can prove you did it. and not just claim you did it and spam the system with more generals to make your fake coins legit.

the existing crypto "currencies" are parasites. they only have worth because someone bought them with real money and there is a lingering promise that the coins can be traded back for real money. and that promise was broken often enough. buying real goods is usually not really possible. the currency is too volatile and the cost of authorizing a transaction is too costly, even with all that optimisation. you do not pay for a 5 dollar game if paying for that game costs additional 5 dollar in transaction energy costs distributed to a large network of nodes. (or 500 dollars in case of bitcoin).

you need to have a primal mover. an inherent worth. for gold it was the rulers that liked jewelery (and now the computer industry) and the fact that gold is hard to literally mine. for money it is the promise of a government to accept it for paying your taxes.

the primal mover for "crypto currency" was once that decentralized money thing. but this evaporated for lack of real life application. it now is only the pyramid scam promise. and this insanity can go on for decades.

summary: who mints new coins, how could you transfer real money into the system, who creates new nodes. in "crypto", this is done by caluclations that prove you put did hard work. if your system does this by magic and majority agreements, it is not crypto, even if you use a blockchain to store your agreements. you sure you even need the blockchain for your system... ;-)

sustainability

nothing to do with crypto is in any way sustainable in a large scale. and a large scale is needed for a real world application like money.

mining on mobile phones

if it can be done on mobile phones, it is worthless. literally. crypto is essentially telling people with a proof how much energy you wasted. and exactly that. nothing more. you proove that you have calculated something difficult. and that means energy costs. you do not have that power on mobile.

Cryptos have the potential to bring financial liberation to all of humanity

no, it makes us dependent on specific hardware and whoever has the most calculating power. and it does waste a huge lot of energy. not in potential. in the real world. crypto does not scale up and is essentially a huge pyramid scam. the first ones to "mine" have the most out of it, breaking the system down when they leave the system and cash out.

you might want to look up the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley it is a good explanation for many things you will see happening in this topic.

you used the term cognitive dissonance and that is what is happening in the valley of the graph and why it is uncanny. mixed signals. it makes people uneasy. the graph in the explanation is between living people and unliving puppets. but you can draw similar graphs for gender and anything else that can give mixed signals.

so i would see the desire to upgrade "the mask" by using and presenting girly things as trying to overcome the valley of mixed signals and be on the other side. we are not puppets after all and realize that we give off signals.

So if I'm hearing this right, if say a hand is given a masculine reference, then even if you say "her hand" it would be masculine.

i am not sure if i understand. an article is not a pronoun. a pronoun is a word that it used instead of the noun. for the noun. pro noun. you could use the noun instead, like you might hear it in japanese anime, when children or odd characters speak of themselves "in the third person".

the article is part of the bare form of the noun in gendered languages. it is inflected accordingly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection and stays with the word in many situations and in that bare form, article+noun, you will know the gender of that noun.

in german hand (die hand) is feminine, so i shall use foot (der fuss), which is male. the foot of a woman is always male, but you will only see the gender of the word for a body part by the inflection of the person's pronoun. in other words: you do not say "her the foot" "ihr der fuss". you inflect the pronoun. ihre hand. ihr fuss. her (female) hand, her (male) foot. 

so the article of the noun foot/hand is telling the gender of the owner* and the gender of the body part. but sadly not in an unambiguous way.

* the owner being the noun -  which can have a different gender than the person it is used to refer to.

regarding chosen pronouns:

i disagree that a person can or should chose pronouns. a person might "switch" genders and assume the role of the other gender and thus use that gender's pronouns.

i regard inventing or appropriating pronouns as on the same level as inventing or using a formal title. like king, lord, count, professor, doctor, sir, lady, queen, supreme ruler of the galaxy, president, village idiot. and i consider it socially unacceptable to use a title that was not given by society.

one should not get "identity" by the usage of pronouns. that is not identity. it is grammar. and grammar is supposed to convey meaning. and meaning in language is needed to be understandable by more than one person. what is the meaning of using the pronoun "it" or "they" or "xe"?

in german, selfusing "it" has no meaning, beside being an insult or telling people you have a big ego and want special treatment. even for babies you use gendered terms, once you know the name/sex of the baby. by using "it" one would not convey the meaning of not belonging to either gender. and there are only two, even in german. the third gender is lack of a gender by being unspecified, by having that gender in the bare form, or by being not applicable - which would sound like "it" would be the perfect choice, but unfortunately this is not so. the dehumanizing insult meaning of using "it" for a person is too strong a hurdle to use it. pity. would have been handy as there exists grammar for "it".

the usage of "they" in english for a single person sounds stupid and very wrong in my non native speaker ears. but the hurdle is lower, because there are some long established cases where it would be correct and of course it is not perceived as an insult. but those cases are scenarios where you typically would not even know the number of persons. it does not convey the meaning of unknown gender, it is conveying the meaning of an unknown person. using they for a known person makes no sense. also, if you use it as such, you can easily have a sentence where the reader will not know if you are talking about several persons or someone that approprated that pronoun.

i get why pronouns are important for people, but so are names and meanings of words and grammar. if it is important to someone to tell their chosen gender, they should just do so. and then use established pronouns that are fitting to their name. pronouns are supposed to be shorthand. if you overload them with gender re-affirmation, that shorthand-ness is gone and the meaning changes from simply being a substitute for a noun to a reminder of that person's chosen gender identity. (i was talking about non standard pronouns here)

i would prefer to not focus on gender/sex all the time in texts that have nothing to do with that topic. this is awful in german as well. there are people forcing the topic by using forced/constructed gender terms that are grammatically wrong and misleading. but this is the wrong way! we need to give gender less importance, not more. and citing it all the time, be it by using chosen pronouns or by using arbitrary constructed gender terms does give it a weight it should not have.

we (western free culture) live in a society where all people can do and like all things/persons. be they girly or manly, regardless of gender/sex. focussing on gender all the time is a step backward, not forward.

if things and activities were not "gendered", why bother using them as gender defining attributes.

there is a social feedback loop i guess.

are you female because you like pink stuff or do you like pink stuff because you are female. and what about females that do not like pink very much.

and is pink stuff for females, because they like it, or do they like it because it is for them.

i wish there were an internal gender sense. but there is none and not even brain scans can distinguish between male and female brains. so hopping on that giant social feedback loop is what we have. gender does not exist if you are alone in a vacuum.

yeah, that game is practially what native speakers of many languages do every day unconsiously and learners of that language curse about when learning it. and it gets worse if your look at other languages or even your own for some words.

french and german. la luna, der mond. (female) the moon, (male) the moon.

oh and there are some languages that use two and some that use three genders for nouns. and it is not about any attributes that will tell the gender. it is just the base form of the noun. it includes the article. like you would call "to talk" as the base form of the verb talking. german "die frau" is base form of (the) woman and the article carries the case of the noun. so you will encounter "der frau" as well. (der is male article, but also a flexed version of die). "die tasche der frau" is the bag of the woman or better that woman's bag.

grammatical gender is just that. grammar. it is a way of delivering the information about the case the noun has. english does not use an infleced case system. in german you need those, since you can order words around in a sentence without changing meaning. you usually cannot do that in english.

and because it is just grammar, you can also have words for persons that have a non grammatical gender and that word will not have the same gender as that person. it is just the grammatical gender of the word

fun fact, while speaking, if you accidentally used the wrong article you sometimes can save it during speech, by switching to a synonym for the word, that has the matching gender. 

I had no idea about a girl being a neutral gender in German

it sometimes is called neutral or neuter, but also it can be called literally "used for things" or "thing-like". it is not male,female, neutral. it is male-ish, female-ish, thing-ish.

so you cannot simply use "it" for nonbinary people in german. it would be an insult.

there are some neutral nouns for persons which just shows that grammar gender is just grammar. das genie for example. the genius. and of course das kind. the child. or das mädchen. the girl. das baby. the baby.

so if you refer to a person by a noun that has neuter gender, it is not an insult, if you use the "it" pronoun. which gets complicated, if there are several nouns with different genders you can use and did use in a longer text. trival example is a kid and it's name. (which would be a kid and his name in formal english. there are remnants of grammar gender in english after all). so if you talk about a kid named angela (a female name), but also refer to her as a kid you would refer to her as "it", till you introduce her name in the text.

and if you are not confused enough, some words have more than one correct gender. it depens on dialect or meaning. butter is encountered as female and male. ketchup as neuter and male.

https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines#avoid-uploading-excessive-amoun...

If your project involves automatic or AI generation, make sure it’s clearly stated in your project description

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 there are people that can draw these things.

pity, this one is not one of them.

this is most likely not ai. there are people that can draw these things. obviously. otherwise you could not train an ai with such images.

where do you think ai get their training data...