What if big machines... but tiny?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

"Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" … says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America. Listen to or read the translated radio interview 🔊

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/08/any-user-who-has-a-3d-printer-would-have-this-software-installed-printgos-plan-to-become-the-drm-of-3d-printing/

So if you're just waking up, itchio took down NSFW and a lot of queer content overnight. They did this with no warning or announcement, no emails, nothing. Their statement blames Collective Shout, the same people who went after Steam, for pressuring the payment processors.

Well. Let's pressure the bastards back.

List of starting points:

This person is filing a complaint with the Australian Consumer Commission:

Phone numbers:

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372

Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111

Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911

Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440

PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Alternative Mastercard numbers:

Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113

Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309

Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

Websites:

Mastercard:

https://www.mastercard.com/global/en/vision/who-we-are/global-locations.html

https://www.mastercard.com/us/en/personal/get-support.html

Visa:

https://investor.visa.com/corporate-governance/contact-the-board/default.aspx

https://usa.visa.com/Forms/contact-us-form.html

Remember: don't be an asshole to rank and file employees. Don't yell, swear, or threaten. You're mad at the corporate heads, not the normies. Be firm but polite in all messages you leave, no matter where they are.

mastercard website

"Hi, I'm calling to tell you that the reports you received of sexually abusive content on Steam and itch.io are fraudulent and were made by religious extremist groups.

I've been turning over that argument—particularly the assertion that it's ahistorical—and I think that while there is truth to it, there is a rigidity inherent to the argument that doesn't meet the reality of the modern scene. Sure, trpg comes from d&d, a series of games that put no emphasis on character development, interpersonal relationships, or storytelling in their early iterations. However, I think that insisting that any definition of roleplaying must then be based on its earliest ancestors lets slide the fact that there is a significant and muddy gap where the wargames of yore slowly became the trpgs of today.

Wargaming and skirmish games that have characters with tightly defined combat roles with choose your flavor progression still exist today alongside modern trpgs. We wouldn't confuse one for another, because part of the promise of a roleplaying game has evolved over time to mean "a story about my oc".

That doesn't mean that OD&D isn't a roleplaying game. It also doesn't mean that it isn't a wargame. It's both, a messy, hybrid ancestor of something that has become more tightly defined in the decades since its conception.

Any definition for roleplaying and its games, therefore, must be something that can meet the modern expectations of trpgs culturally while still being identifiable in earlier iterations. In most cultural artifacts concerning themselves with these games and their play, we see an emphasis not on the way that rules text produces a mechanically unique character, but how the players craft the legend of their game thru their heroic avatars. A game of narrative tennis and choice is what is culturally promised to players, and if that can be achieved without using rules defining what a character can do mechanically, then insisting that all contact with rules *is* roleplay is as acontemporary as the insistence that roleplay must always center scene work is ahistorical.