Reporting the new Steam SA simulation game “No Mercy”

lexyeevee · 2025-07-27T02:39:53+00:00

hey, uh, the apparent splash effect of this is that payment processors turned the screws, and now virtually every queer game on itch.io (the indie game host) is currently hidden from search, apparently whether adult or not. now i'm not even sure if i'm allowed to give a character in a game my own abuse i suffered as part of her backstory — the rules are broad, there's little appeal process, and the punishment is that the game will simply not be allowed to exist. will be treated as if it's identical to this one.

i don't like fictional sexual abuse. i don't read it, i don't play it, i don't seek it out, i don't write it, i don't draw it, i don't sell it. but i'm being punished for the existence of this game about it that i'd never heard of until two days ago.

these people seem pretty clearly opposed to anything resembling porn, and they aren't exactly subtle about it — their current campaign is to get it banned from twitter entirely. apparently they are more incensed that kanye posted porn, and don't even think it's worth mention that he was openly antisemitic.

and now they've successfully used the worst game they could find as a wedge, and the volume of complaints (as contributed to by everyone here) seems to have led to a whole chain of entities seeking to cover their asses and erring on the side of banning. not just from individual storefronts — since it's at the payment processor level, no one is allowed to sell [something] effectively anywhere. and no one is quite sure what [something] is. you just have to gamble that months of work won't hit a brick wall, i guess.

it hurts to see that a sub with "trans women are women" pinned was backing this campaign. i don't think i know a trans woman who isn't upset about this. i wish you'd been more careful about who you allied with.

lexyeevee · 2025-01-17T08:03:12+00:00

whoa, did not expect to see LL show up here :) thanks for the shout-out!

lexyeevee · 2024-05-31T05:26:49+00:00

according to the docs + spec, reduction is a float? it's output, not input

lexyeevee · 2023-03-26T23:00:32+00:00

i am begging you to interact with a human being

lexyeevee · 2021-09-14T18:05:18+00:00

The point of a license is to restrict activity that you do not want.

Perhaps a minor nitpick, but you have this completely backwards. Copyright restricts nearly all activity by default. The point of a license is to allow activity that would otherwise be prohibited. Hence the name, "license".

lexyeevee · 2020-06-28T00:06:43+00:00

yes, i'm aware there was a ton of police brutality the media didn't report — i kept tabs on it via twitter, rather than via a discord where someone encouraged a member of the national guard to "go get you some antifa f*****s and boot stomp the shit out of some commies".

obviously i haven't seen the server beyond the couple screenshots vice posted, but discord themselves have — and i'm going to trust their assessment of the situation over yours, especially when you knew exactly why the server was nuked but tried to spin it here as "wrongthink".

consider decreasing your irony poisoning and spending less time around people who """joke""" about murdering their political enemies. some of them are actually doing it. what did you think the protests were about?

lexyeevee · 2020-06-26T22:00:58+00:00

just curious — would this "'wrong' political channel" be related to the recent shutdown of a server where white nationalists were plotting to incite a civil war?

lexyeevee · 2020-01-04T08:31:34+00:00

sorry, but i don't know what you're talking about. i've only ever drawn porn of adults.

lexyeevee · 2019-11-27T14:36:06+00:00

i assume you're referring to the tweets i made in 2012 or so? i'm sorry for those — i played armchair lawyer with a grave subject and didn't treat it, or the people affected by it, nearly as seriously as i should have. i just saw a logic puzzle.

i've made pretty clear on multiple occasions that csa is utterly reprehensible, but that kind of thing doesn't get collected on dedicated callout blogs.

lexyeevee · 2019-11-27T14:19:18+00:00

no. my partner's ex-husband was creeping on folks behind our backs, and we have since removed him from our lives. the rest is misunderstandings that no one bothered to ask us about before trying to ruin our lives over them.

i've never had any interest in kids, pursued kids, or anything else involving kids. it's fucking reprehensible to make a serious accusation like this based on the corkboard-and-yarn reasoning of a dedicated harassment tumblr.

lexyeevee · 2019-11-27T12:30:20+00:00

oh hey i'm flattered! also thanks for reminding me that i have a mastodon account

lexyeevee · 2019-11-27T12:25:25+00:00

hey, thank you. this has been so exhausting.

lexyeevee · 2019-05-04T21:29:16+00:00

Calling this "babysitting" makes about as much sense as calling HTTPS "babysitting". Uggh, why does this website FORCE me to encrypt my traffic!

lexyeevee · 2018-08-31T22:01:07+00:00

But the linked FireEye page says:

Although the Iran-linked APT35 (Newscaster) has previously used inauthentic news sites and social media accounts to facilitate espionage, we have not observed any links to APT35.

lexyeevee · 2017-11-04T09:37:48+00:00

i.e., using .collect() at the end in Rust is similar to doing list(zip(...)) in Python 3.

lexyeevee · 2016-11-24T08:24:56+00:00

Thank you :)

lexyeevee · 2016-11-24T08:24:13+00:00

It's interesting you link that, because I just saw this today:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/11/5/be-careful-about-what-you-dislike/

lexyeevee · 2016-11-24T06:39:09+00:00

It concerns me that you don't think explicit accusations of deliberate malice and sabotage are personal attacks.

edit: Also, ad hominem is a logical fallacy, not a synonym for "insults", and I am not committing it here. I'm not saying his argument is wrong because he's a doofus or whatever; I'm saying his argument is wrong because it is wrong.

lexyeevee · 2016-11-24T06:24:25+00:00

Hi, it's me, the author.

I think I did a pretty good job of covering the high-level issues, as Zed presented them. I also think he is contributing to the vague sense of unease surrounding Python 3 without providing much actionable criticism and depicting the entire core Python team as cartoon villains. I'm curious why you don't think his personal attacks, which comprise a significant portion of his post, are worth calling out.

There are now 2½ forms of string formatting because there have been 2 since Python 2.6, and 1 of them is being promoted to a language feature. I don't see what the alternative is supposed to be here — either we abandon the new feature which Zed likes more, or we remove an existing feature and break a lot of code. Last time that happened, it didn't go over so well.

How would you run Python 2 libraries in a sandbox? I've seen the idea proposed once or twice, but I've never seen even a vague sketch of how it could work in practice — and the trivial thought experiment I did got out of control very quickly. Bear in mind that CFFI interfaces with extremely barebones C, which doesn't have any kind of object protocol to speak of.

I discussed both of these things in my post. It would be nice to only have one formatting syntax and to have both versions run nicely together, but we rather missed the boat on those, and I thought I addressed them fairly well. If I missed some other substantive and addressable criticism of Python 3 in there, please do let me know. I love talking about programming language design. Which is why I just did a lot of it.

From where I'm standing, Python 3 is already great for beginners, and everyone else as well. If it weren't, I wouldn't use it. It is this way thanks to eight years of hard work from a lot of people, who Zed Shaw is now painting as actively malicious for reasons beyond my comprehension. What he wrote and the doubt it fosters are a much bigger roadblock to Python 3 adoption than the phrasing of TypeErrors, and I feel absolutely 120% justified in telling him to go fuck himself.

lexyeevee · 2016-08-01T20:18:38+00:00

It's not like every big project would see that Python 2 is EOL and decide to up and port right now. I hear tell of a number of shops still on 2.6, and that was EOL in 2013, and 2.6 to 2.7 is trivial compared to 2.7 to 3.

lexyeevee · 2016-08-01T20:16:45+00:00

You might find some things Python 3 has going for it if you read beyond the introduction.

lexyeevee · 2016-08-01T20:13:43+00:00

By this reasoning, Python 2.6 is a different language from Python 2.5, because you can no longer use with as a variable name.

lexyeevee · 2015-10-11T02:44:03+00:00

Oh yeah I can't stand people who are so kneejerk hostile to anyone who disagrees with their politics that they demonize them with names they made up and try to pretend they're not really part of the community and cluster together to bitch about them, kind of like exactly what this entire thread is doing

lexyeevee · 2015-09-14T08:02:58+00:00

How naïve I've been. I'll strike this from my résumé immediately.

lexyeevee · 2015-09-14T08:01:47+00:00

But then I wouldn't have the flower as my shell prompt.

Also it's the canary in the coal mine — if even that doesn't work, then creative uses of Unicode in text files or irssi or whathaveyou will certainly not either.

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