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a while back kian was working on a server that added guns to minecraft (a thing that various servers have done previously)

mojang sent. i think a cease & desist? or just a threat? telling them to immediately stop and that theyre not allowed to because guns arent allowed under the eula (a eula that had been changed WITHOUT NOTIFYING ANYONE, which is illegal in the EU)

mojang was actually lying and making shit the frick up because nothing explicitly stated guns weren't allowed

kian set up a fundraiser for a lawsuit (and it reached ~147

k usd within a few days)

a while back again x2 salc1 did an experiment to see what would happen if you didnt migrate your mojang account. turns out, theyre deleted and you have to Rebuy The Game if you didnt migrate you account

a lot of people lost their 8-10+ year old accounts BECAUSE of this

turns out mojang has changed the eula a BUNCH without notifying anyone! and hasn't given anyone the option to agree or disagree with the new eula guidelines which is illegal! (they changed them 47 times, majority without notifying anyone. a few were notified, but majority weren't)

this can be taken as causing damaged to people with QUANTIFIABLE LOSSES because of people losing PAID ACCOUNTS which can be used to fight a legal case, among other things

If people start saying shit to me im going to throw the external hard drive with all my projects on it into the microwave and walk into the ocean

So let's talk about this for a minute.

First of all, how do you think Pride events fund themselves and stay free for attendees? O.o Vendor fees aren't all of it - a lot of money comes from sponsors - but like... we paid $1300 to vend at Seattle Pride this year. That's the money that pays the people who work to make Pride happen. That is not free. Pride as an event does not just magically happen. A lot of people work really hard to make Pride happen and to clean up after it.

We're a small trans-owned company and 100% of our employees are trans & queer. We jokingly refer to Pride as "Gay Christmas". The money we make during Pride means we stay open, Pride events get vendor fees, and our employees get paid for the rest of the year. This company does not exist without Pride events. The only reason we survived as a company during COVID is because my wife has a stable, good IT job.

This shit isn't free to do. It does not just magically happen. Performers need to get paid. Tech crew needs to get paid. Equipment needs to be rented for performers. Stages need to be rented. Electrical services need to be paid for so food can happen. Ice and water cost money. Trash pickup costs money.

A lot of people volunteer and donate, but festivals and big community events? They cost money, and the money we pay to be able to vend is part of how Pride events happen. Without that, small queer businesses like @nerdykeppie don't survive and the only people putting their money in to make this happen, AND MONEY NEEDS TO CHANGE HANDS FOR EVENTS TO HAPPEN, are Smirnoff and fucking Wells Fargo.

Rainbow capitalism is when uncaring corporations blast rainbow things on their products to get queers to buy them, while not actually doing anything to help queer people. Rich cishets getting millions of off a minority group.

Yo for real on Sunday night when I was guarding our stuff during load out so Evie and Emet could go get the van and all, I sat on one of the benches at Seattle Center & watched a flock of seagulls and a murder of crows flutter down and start picking through the drifts of trash left behind for stray French fries and bits of bread and other food. There was so much trash scattered across the ground.

And that's not... like... an indictment of queers in specific (though, truly, clean up after yourself) but that's just what happens when there are thousands of people in one place. People drop things and don't realize it, drop a piece of paper or food and then go "ew, it's gross now, I don't want to pick it up" or just don't give a fuck.

Someone has to clean that up. That costs money, because the someones cleaning that up deserve to be paid.

We're planning on going to a smallish Pride event in September in coastal WA. We'll pay $30 in vendor fees but we'll probably also drop a couple hundred bucks on sponsorship, bc that's us giving back to the community that supports us.

The Sims 1 didn't allow formal same-sex marriage. However, the game was so simple that it couldn't really recognize a difference between a household of two same-sex sims and two opposite-sex sims. It just knew there was a household with two sims who had a romantic relationship. Basically, there were two options in the first game: "Get Married" which was available for opposite-sex sims, and "Move In" which was available for same-sex Sims. Both options did the exact same thing, and once the sims were moved into the same household, the game could no longer tell them apart.

The Sims 1 released in 2000. Lawrence v. Texas (the Supreme Court Decision that struck down Texas's anti-sodomy laws and finally gave legal protection to same-sex couples to have sex in the privacy of their own homes) was decided in 2003. It was legal to have gay sex in The Sims franchise three years before it was in all American States.

The Sims 2 (2004) took things a step further. Once again, all actions were the same and the game couldn't tell them apart. The game, however, did not feature gay "marriage." It was purely a UI thing, but The Sims 2 allowed opposite-sex couples to marry, and same-sex couples to enter "Joined Unions."