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Valve’s Steam is back in the news again after banning yet another adult video game. Itch.io, one of its smaller, oft-praised competitors, is in the same boat. Featured Video Hide
Despite claims to the contrary, the two marketplaces have more in common than they do not. I know this as a queer adult creator. Instead of championing one company to spite another, the games industry must take a collective step back and look at the facts. Advertisement Hide
Itch.io is just a temporary accommodation that LGBTQ creators and adult developers may need to leave out of necessity in the near future.
they looked at the bois caiman ceremony and they said hmm, gathering of people, possession by spirits, ie demons, sacrifice of a pig. they say this is a blood pact with satan. so that s why haiti has been in this downward economic spiral and political spiral. evangelicals surmise that in this founding moment of the nation, the leaders of that ceremony dedicated the nation to satan. they succeeded because satan helped them succeed. right. it s part of the devil s work. many of haiti s evangelical missionaries blame this blood pact with the devil for everything that is wrong with the country. haiti is wracked by poverty. disease is rampant. corruption is endemic. unemployment is through the roof. and infant mortality rates are the highest in the western hemisphere.
phone. we are starting to get some details. not a lot. one man we approached through a local just signed a deal with a german television station for $10,000. all the money is supposed to go into one account and eventually split up equally amongst the miners. the first 17 days even with the blood pact they made to keep the stories basically for only those who paid for them. we learned a few details. the fact that after it happened they were concerned that they wouldn t make it out ever. they all went looking for any kind of hope for maybe a small opening. there were no openings at all. two of the men actually got into a truck down there and drove and it was so cloudy from the actual cavein they drove into the rocks that caved in part of their area. and then as the days wore on they were drinking water that tasted like oil and only a little capful each. they had to share basically a half spoon of tuna fish.
phone. we are starting to get some details. not a lot. one man we approached through a local just signed a deal with a german television station for $10,000. all the money is supposed to go into one account and eventually split up equally amongst the miners. the first 17 days even with the blood pact they made to keep the stories basically for only those who paid for them. we learned a few details. the fact that after it happened they were concerned that they wouldn t make it out ever. they all went looking for any kind of hope for maybe a small opening. there were no openings at all. two of the men actually got into a truck down there and drove and it was so cloudy from the actual cavein they drove into the rocks that caved in part of their area. and then as the days wore on they were drinking water that tasted like oil and only a little capful each. they had to share basically a half spoon of tuna fish.
yesterday, as you can see walking through a sea of media cameras and reporters, all hoping to get the first to get the amazing story of survival firsthand. so far the miners have been kind of keeping hush hush about rumors of book and movie deals. adam housley streaming live from copiapo, chile with the latest. do we know when we can read their own words this a book or see the movie? yeah. it s going to be quite interesting to see how this plays out. there is people trying to get those first interviews. it s not going to be from hard work or making connections. it s going to be by who opens up their pocketbook. one miner we were talking to through a contact has told us he signed on with a german television station to give an interview. and that miners have had this blood pact they made 2,000 feet underground that they would only give interviews to those who paid and all the money would be put into a pool and they hired