chacharoni
kalina-c

Clarifying recent headlines on gaming content Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations. Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.ALT
‪Ana Valens | 🔞‬ / ‪@acvalens.net‬ response to that half-assed MasterCard statement: "This is a pathetic statement and I’m begging every journalist to rip it to shreds." Quote repost response by Suzanne ✨🌑 / ‪@tendermiasma.com‬: "So when you guys do you daily calls today you should ask mastercard what illegal adult content they found on these content creation platforms. Tell them to make names. When they give you the runaround say "but what have you found that's illegal". They won't because there was never an investigation."ALT
Goose angrily chasing a fleeing man meme comic, with the man representing MasterCard (as per the company logo edited over him). "What illegal games?" "What's the names of the illegal games you found?"ALT

fuck em up gang

mark-legroom

an addition, here's a PC Gamer article w/ Valve's commentary that they REALLY wanted to contact and discuss the matters w/ MC directly but they didn't respond, and the situation is basically "we didn't make them delete games, we made PayPal etc make them delete games (w/ our "brand safety" rule)"

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about da
Steam and Itch.io are worried about trouble with their payment processors, and Mastercard is not a payment processor.
PC Gamer
euniexenoblade
circusheart

sometimes men are obsessed with other men not because theyre secretly gay but because theyre so misogynistic that they literally dont view women as people worthy of any degree of attention or value

blacktoothcomics

OR they're aro/ace who probably got abused by the first few women in their life (parent, teacher, church person, sibling or cousin, et c). the women who uphold patriarchy abuses are a GODDAMN MESS, and the worst kind of ladyhaters come from environments and systems that encourage women reinforce their own oppression and take their anxiety and rage out on kids.

euniexenoblade

I find it incredible you found a way to blame misogyny on women

witnotwitchcraft

they werent they were providing another example of how women raised in misogynyst heavy spaces are themselves misogynyst.

euniexenoblade

That's not all that got said, but sure thing misogynists.

witnotwitchcraft

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euniexenoblade

I think it's funny you think me saying "misogyny is bad" is starting a feud, but I guess misogynists aren't known for their self awareness.

striehart
Anonymous asked:

good lord WHAT is your job?

phantomrose96 answered:

I’m a software engineer for Microsoft. Which is a job I DID honestly enjoy quite a lot until whatever the hell’s been going on lately.

Like imagine you’re an architect and you get pulled in to help build a house. And it’s a pretty well-engineered house! You can recognize and appreciate this and contribute the same standard of quality.

Until the guy who controls all the money shows up one day and says houses are NO good anymore. People want a BOX for the AI to live in. And actually start tearing down walls and ripping out the electrical and plumbing because the AI doesn’t work with all that. Just make it a BOX for the AI.

So you do what they say and rip out things you’re proud of and smash holes to drag all the AI through. But the AI is constantly changing and no one knows who you should ask to understand the shape the house needs to be to fit the AI. And the people who do know are probably too busy getting their necks breathed down by members of leadership who are paid millions a year to tell you to just do whatever ChatGPT does. So your team gets dicked around with unclear instructions given with absolute urgency. Also every 6 months they lay off 3% of the company so you walk in one day and Bob who’s worked here for 25 years is just gone.

Also the AI is supposed to get good enough at building houses to replace your job. Maybe. It doesn’t actually do that but the guy who controls all the money is hinging all that money on convincing other people that’s true.

I miss house.