Bloodbag At The Vampire Orgy

lol yeah more the second one. it's called Love and Deepspace. quick version is the company, Infold, introduced a new love interest named Valko. Silly cute wolf boy. There was severe backlash from a group of very vocal players that often leaned into racist and homophobic territory. Threats were made to the company because they didn't like this guy. Infold promised that he's part of the long term content plan and they'd introduce him gracefully. Then three days later Infold deleted him and promised to never introduce another love interest into their otome dating game, and have now been almost completely silent on their social media pages since this began.

Many of the comments I saw from people against Valko were critical of the fact that they felt his presence would take away from their favs or the main story - but their actions have now pushed back a major main story update (has to be rewritten to remove him) and Infold has released an inferior, buggy version of the newest update.

There's been fundraising efforts for 'Bring Valko Back' billboards and a petition that reached I think over 250k signatures to bring Valko back and an active boycott to delete/not log in to the game which has destroyed it's income and ratings. There's also been a positive campaign of people who want Valko back donating to wolf conservation centers and research in his name.

I spent a few dollars per month on the game - I love gacha games. And I was willing to wait and see what they did. But their newest update was demanding 40 GB (on top of the game already being 50ish GB) for a mobile game so I deleted it. I'm not deleting every picture, video, and app for one single game lmao. I miss Sylus and Caleb but I simply can't have a phone that functions only for LaDS. So I'm trying out new kiss boy games that I can play on my breaks at work to fill that void lol.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.