And that's how many AAA are failing.

Was Mary Magdelene a prostitute? Or is it possible that she was just a promiscuous (or possibly just headstrong) woman, and the book was written at a time when they was frowned upon?

Except Collective Shout is Australian (which is unsurprising, considering that AUS is also a hotbed of hate groups).

How do I go about ripping my collection? I got some NSFW games that I want to back up, just in case things get worse.

Ahh, yes

A collective against the objectification of women, which somehow has no Problem with the current system in america, pornography itself, and dosent advocate for anything except banning Video games.

It's not the first time this has happened. That first time set the precedent that the payment processors have a vast amount of power over the transactions that can occur on the internet. There wasn't a realistic way to push back on it and so they will continue to expand this for... whatever reason they are actually giving. IDK - I would have thought that legitimate adult content payments would be quite lucrative for these processors to handle, it's not like they're beholden to advertising like YouTube is and their insane content policies.

I mean, I cannot find a valid reasoning for it apart from the vague term "high risk" which explains nothing. This is the best I've found so far:

The adult industry is no stranger to regulation and stigma. But in recent years, payment processor censorship has emerged as a subtler, more insidious threat. Companies like Mastercard, Visa, and their underlying bank networks often issue sweeping mandates, particularly regarding “high-risk” content. These decisions typically happen behind closed doors, without public accountability or stakeholder input from the communities affected.

(bold emphasis mine)

To reduce perceived brand risk or avoid legal ambiguity, even when the content is legal.

TBH they are making themselves look pretty shitty as a brand by moving sex work and other adult content back to the darker deeper recesses where it becomes less accessible and harder to regulate properly in terms of safety and legality.

a reminder that collective karens bragged about doing all of this based on just 1000 phone calls.

Meanwhile known pedo and rapist Donald Trump is President of USA. Make it make sense.

confrontation by what mechanism though? aaa devs can’t be threatened in the same way with payment processors. they try review bombing and that doesn’t do anything. if these people had a similarly effective way to financially threaten AAA devs they would already be using it.

Make America Make Sense Again

The problem with leaving it in the hands of corporations...
Is that some are run by pieces of shit with very warped ideas

What they allow might be worse than what they ban

edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.

Which could cause them to no longer be indexed by search engines depending on other settings. So you'd need to find direct links from other websites.

But (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.

Nobody wants to pick up the phone

Exactly. They "crawl" category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed.

(Depending on some settings. For all I know they've set up "hidden redirects" for popular crawlers to pages that show them)

This wasn't America this time. Blame the Aussies.

I would imagine they're more concerned with Australia than America, since that's where they live.

Lol Lemmy can’t go one comment thread without mentioning the U.S.

Actually insane to say that Collective Shout is blameless

Nobody said that. Except you, I guess.

I'm gonna do 2000 calls demanding more boobies in video games