https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

https://yellat.money/

https://cartoonist.coop/censorship-pay-discrimination/

https://www.congress.gov/state-legislature-websites

https://www.usa.gov/state-governor

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321850/HyperCoven/

Yet another /agdg/ game on Steam.

Also make sure to check other games I mentioned here: https://eyeballtank.tumblr.com/tagged/agdg

Something I was thinking about is how when we were young, we looked up stuff not for us even if our parents told us not to do it otherwise.

But even then, we were aware that stuff wasn't for us yet it didn't stop our morbid curousity and the fact that even as kids, we were into some things clearly not for our age.

But we were aware at least.

I feel that's different with Zoomers and Gen Alpha: Instead, they look up stuff just to complain about it, even when a site/app has options to filter it out or artists put "MINOR DNI" on their profiles.

It's like if later generations were weaponized/programmed to be like this, so all of these laws and policies feel justified.

Basically, useful idiots used to be useful for companies and politicians.

Chances are they'll try to cheat the 18+ pass systems JUST to still be mad at what they don't like, even if these laws exist because of them.

Honestly, there's a lot that should've been thought to them, even specific things like "don't feed the troll", "not your personal army" etc.

Also, the news around Valve are annoying.

Not only is PayPal useage unavailable in some countries, but in some article (RockPaperShotgun, though I saw a similar one in IGN) confirms something about PayPal's "acquiring banks".

I actually wonder if these payment processors want to own actual banks and control them, specially as a response to people saying "they shouldn't control what I use my money on, because they don't really own/make the money".

It's like if these companies want to own money in the same way Nestle wants to own water in general.

Meaning we might as well ditch credit cards in general and go back to money in coins and paper.

Horde it in our basements and make sure nobody robs our houses or some rats eat and shit on them (The second one being what happened to Pablo Escobar).

Another thing came to mind: Newgrounds will make it where 2015 made accounts don't need age restriction.

So you'd think these other websites would at least make a guess of how old someone is and "count" the age for when they're allowed to use it.

But I heard that TikTok in general just deletes your account forever, even if logically, you'll be old enough to use it.

Anyway, if anyone reading this is from the EU you may want to care about this:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

This is a site that could be helpful for EU citizens concerned about privacy.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Dungeon Drops

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3625870/Dungeon_Drops/

Guns and Nuns: Storming Hell

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818000/Guns_and_Nuns_Storming_Hell/

Also on my Tumblr I have a tag for /agdg/ related games so you see some more of them.

https://eyeballtank.tumblr.com/tagged/agdg

Some of you are aware that I haven't done work with my new game and I've got some reasons for it.

Plans for projects:

A big reason why I got into game making was because of a project from 2018, where I came up with different kinds of characters and ideas over the years.

At some point, I decided to stop updating a large text file so I could focus on making a game, that used ideas from the file.

But even during Nortubel's development, I still did some edits to the file and then made a second text file with more ideas and even "corrections" of ideas from the previous file.

As of now and since July, the second text is much larger than the first.

All those new characters I drew like Belshazzar, Sola, the princes of darkness etc were planned characters that have yet to be drawn, unlike other characters that showed up in the first game.

(And some like Vahlrossa are newer).

Most of these characters are ideas I needed to get out of my head, even if they may not have proper appearences in the Hirdrih game.

And even then, some ended up being redesigned and changed from their original concepts, as if a lot of these ideas could've used some tweaking even after the years of already changing ideas before being used.

Belshazzar for example would've had a much different design and his name could've been Desmond.

But I like to think I got enough ideas for the future that could just be the way they are, until the right moment.

(Even if I kept telling myself something like this, before I then get yet another set of new ideas and went back to editing the second text file).

The art gallery in Mega with image references and stuff also relates to this, like the art styles I'd like to see my characters in and so on.

In general, the Mega art gallery and the texts are so I have material for various projects, even if there's a lot to learn still and specially when a project actually starts, since can still change.

They're the closest I have to a "bible" that holds everything together, besides maybe the fact that I put my games on Github and want to have enough of my games as accessable and documented as possible.

Real life stuff:

Lot of stuff got in the way: Helping people with stuff like moving objects, a trip where I was off from home for a day and even health related stuff.

The health stuff does come from my paranoid side and part of why I'm obsessed with planning projects that have yet to start.

Let's just say in the next months, some events will keep me busy but hopefully, they can contribute to my gamedev activities some way.

The internet news:

You heard it: Visa/Mastercard, UK/EU ID check laws, etc.

This worries me because it'll affect my interests and those of others, specially if I want my gamedev stuff to grow and be able to pay other people to improve my projects.

I don't want all the years I spent imagining/planning stuff to go to waste because of terrible laws by tech illiterate politicians.

I even end up mentioning it/sharing related stuff on Tumblr, Twitter, Bluesky and Newgrounds.

Other stuff:

I guess there's also the blog posts I made on Tumblr/Newgrounds and seeing other people's art.

And maybe some of my art and Doom mapping.

On the Hirdrih game:

I should mention that Project Nortubel started in mid 2022 but nothing happened until the end of the year, where development got stronger and that's why the game appears to have taken 2 years to make.

Even then, I still had help from other people by posting on different sites for help and even tutorials.

Hirdrih Technologic may follow a similar pattern, specially since much like Nortubel, it's another "Hobby" type game.

But if I get a proper budget and Hirdrih is finished, my third game could be much better because I have some ideas that could work.

Because I want to base my life on these projects and justify it.

Even if I have to do real life changes to enforce basing my life on these projects.

When I focus more on the Hirdrih game, you may see me posting progress posts and maybe ask for help over specific things.

2022:

My computer is set up in my room (Which was originally a kitchen).

Note the wooden garden table, old lady chair and maybe the lamp.

Project Nortubel technically started on this before the pieces started to change over time and the game's development barely went anywhere at that point.

Also the drawing tablet before I gave up and went with the method I used for the game's assets.

2025:

My computer changed over time (New "case", monitor, mouse, keyboard etc).

Got a new table and chair (Not pictured).

Though I still put books under some objects for the sake of an ideal layout.

And the Bart Simpson lunch box is there to "push" the monitor cable because it has to be position right so it's on.

I tend to switch around mouse type because the verticle can't scroll properly and the regular mouse has problems with dragging.

I still have a black cable that's connected to the internet router thing (Which is placed behind a big door for some reason) and a golf ball themed thing that's also internet related.

BTW, might as well make some censorship related rants.

1:

Most people do a terrible job at defending “problematic” stuff they like, in a way that somewhat still aligns with the opposition.

Particularly the “yes, but” part.

Specially when someone else goes “I LOOOOOOVE Made in Abyss but the icky stuff should go” and someone’s response is “yes that’s bad but” as opposed to “it’s not an immoral thing plus the creator wants it that way, maybe it’s not for you”.

Even with Berserk, this happens at time.

Because I was also thinking of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley and how some people even label it as “shock value” when the “shocking” elements are there because the creator wants it and not just to shock people.

Specially since there’s audiences for that stuff, so the goal of such artworks isn’t really “trigger the normies” as people think it is.

There are people whose standards are essentially “anything edgier than Bluey is the devil”, they got no maturity to handle serioues art to begin with.

You do not want people like these as fans of things you like, if the attitude if “I’m a fan but this has to go” makes someone go “I guess you’re right” and ruin something interesting because of these unevolved cavemen.

Also shout outs to guys on /a/ who call others “ironic weebs” and still have a mindset of “I gotta be constantly aware that the stuff I like is gross and hide my power level”.

2:

There are cases where it seems silly to complain about censorship but even then, making fun of people complaining can still set a precedent for how anti-censorship people can be mocked.

An example being Elmer Fudd and how some later Looney Tunes stuff replaced his shotgun with a scythe.

Because the mere idea of the character is that he’s a hunter and who would actually see the basic idea, in a cartoon series about slapstick violence, as some sort of pro gun propaganda anyway?

There’s a reason why this character still had a shotgun for so long, while the actual offensive caricatures are what set up the warning screens like “attention, this cartoon is a product of its time and that’s why some characters look this way”.

If it’s silly to complain that he has a scythe, it’s even sillier to complain he had a shotgun in the first place, anyway.

(Why do people even make guns a pro right/anti left thing to begin with when Karl Marx was pro gun and Reagan wanted to push gun control anyway? How can you fight against evil white cops if you can’t even let yourself use the most basic “click to delete” shit to begin with?).

But anyway, where were some of you during Skullgirls’ censorship?

Also shout out to people who supported remake culture: Really cool that Destroy All Humans has a “campy” warning thing for its content even though it still cut shit to begin with.

3:

Lot of people don’t want to admit that a specific kind of “4chan weeb” nerd was there first to complain about censorship.

You can say what you want about Anita or the rightwing grifters etc but note how the “Christian Conservates” narrative started at least during Pixiv fanbox being hit by payment processors and none of that was around, let’s say, a Dead or Alive game not being sold to the West and someone like Jimquisition mocking people for it, even mocking some exec during a quotation in that video.

Feels like people want to memoryhole shit that we could otherwise learn from because it probably never left.

4:

Furries shoot themselves in the foot when they criticize a certain other fetish.

Partially because the same people genuinely disgusted at that fetish would feel the same about furry stuff.

Because even within furry artworks, let’s say there’s a spectrum about how realistic an anthro character can look to real animals and how many furries are like “no it has to look like a realistic dog, have realistic animal parts and even drawn pissing in a fire hydrant with a raised leg”.

Between that and liking a stylized character like Carmelita Fox, it’s no different from the likes of Shadman going “no dude I gotta draw Keemstar’s daughter lmao” and someone just prefering a stylized character like Roll from Megaman.

I might as well bring up how SomethingAwful goons picked both furries and weebs as targets, but now due to troll’s remorse, they decided that furries are no longer cringe if they pretend they’re some brave inherent LGBT movement (Otherwise, the narrative would be “these racist nerds would rather fuck a dog than admit a black woman can be beautiful”).

(And with weebs, the narrative shifts from “yuri is inherently trans and male weebs don’t get that” and “guys we gotta talk about Junko Furuta and how mysognist Japan is”).

You can be a weeb without liking that fetish, but people seem to forget it always had a place in anime/manga history.

Even some popular anime/manga artists like it, from Miyazaki being “the father” of it, to Toriyama once drawing fanart of To Love-Ru, to even Miura drawing a manifesto defending the fetish and even writing how it could combat actual abuse cases.

(There was an image someone made comparing the statistics of Japan’s abuse cases vs the UK, which bans that kind of art).

And like I once said: A lot of weebs in the 2000’s were old enough to simply say “this stuff is icky” but didn’t.

Nobody said anything about the Ken social link in Persona 3 Portable when it came out.

This sentiment people have is clearly recent and due to a “what would the normies think of me” mindset.

Only people in 2000’s saying it was gross were already goons doing “2 NUKES NOT ENOUGH” jokes, anyway.

The same zoomers that go “this is some diddy ahh blud shi” (They can’t even use basic swear words) would probably go after your stuff as well.

5:

Genuinely wonder if some people refuse to say parents are doing a terrible job raising their kids, because they think any argument in the vein of “most people are dumb” is bad.

Because you’d think with how everyone loves George Carlin, they’d come to conclusions that there are problems with society in general.

But I guess when one worries too much about approval from “the normal ones”, they can’t say something about a specific flaw or attitude in the masses.

The mere concept of parents not monitoring their kids’ use of technology is part of why (Or at least a bullshit excuse) these shitty laws exist now.

I noticed that Gelbooru put up a banner about the payment processor situation.

I feel like NewGrounds should do the same (And also make it about the ID check laws as well).

Like a banner that mentions the situations and even how to contact certain people/entities or how to do some action.

In fact, if you know anyone that runs a website, tell them to do the same.

Try to get Youtubers to talk about this and even bring it up to IRL people you know.

Because these are important subjects that affect everyone.

Even people that want to avoid politics will have their escapism taken away.

Censorship is a black hole that eats anything that gets in the way.

Around Net Neutrality and Article 13, there was always that pattern of the number of people talking about it only significantly growing months after some other people talked about it.

Like "wow a Youtuber is talking about something I already talked about 5 months ago".

That moment of a topic suddenly being more widespread needs to happen sooner.

There's no "right time" to wait for to talk about it because time is money: The more you let it run, the more you waste it.

It's not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when".

Let's not forget:

• People under 18 would still find a way to cheat the system.
• Legal adults that do submit photos may have the system deny them because of faulty AI that will continue to be faulty.
• Payment can be required, which will hurt economics of most people who probably already have shit paying jobs and have to work extra hours.
• The payment requirement may also affect every website that isn't part of the Youtube/TikTok/Instagram/Twitter/FaceBook circle, meaning even NewGrounds can suffer from this, further centralizing the internet even more.
• Wikipedia of all things is being restricted in the UK.
• VPN ban.
• High chances that these laws are anything but "protecting kids" like controlling what people can say or see (Pretty sure a UK politician even said "yes" about controlling what people talk about).
• Visa and MasterCard know full well the games they're banning have nothing illegal on them and even Valve confirmed they didn't really communicate well.
• Said payment processors were also OK with groups behind human trafficking.
• Collective Shout being OK with Cuties.
• An actual solution for kids safety should be parents monitoring their internet activities and not give them access to internet until they're old enough.

Also, one website I haven't seen about this topic is Reddit.

If there's any subreddits where people are talking about this and even ways to warn others or pushback, let me now.

I hope the age verification thing gets as much attention and pushback as the credit card thing.

A fear of mine is that it could push the centralized web since major websites will adopt it but other websites, even something like Newgrounds could refuse it and no longer exist to some people.

So the generalized idea of the net (Youtube, Instagram, Twitter) will be all that's left.

And if anything, age check stuff only further helps kids being attached to devices and the internet, it doesn't prevent it.

They'll still spend hours watching Youtube's literal factory of "slop" (Specially the kind of brainless junk before AI was a thing) and someone will say "at least it's not porn".

Because the true solution really is "be a good parent and don't give your kid a smartphone until he's 16".

And there's also no point in "trying both solutions": Because a scenario where kids are not at all present online is one where the internet becomes recognized as an adult only space, making age check useless.

Most people that do adult art do it with adult audiences in mind and some already put "minors do not interact" on profiles for a reason.

Again, parents do your job.

Back to pointing out irony: Rightwingers spent years saying porn will "rot your soul" and call other people "NPC sheeple cattle" only to help the internet become a more brainless, demoralizing entity than it already became years ago.

Only possible when your goal is "own my enemy".

Years of calling others "degenerate" as if their beliefs and personality aren't a product from spending hours on niche websites that would make their conservative and religious normie parents panic.

Maybe Twitter will be the one website left for them to act edgy but only because of Elon pandering to them and even they hate him.

Like with the US' Kids Online Safety Act, even anonymity online could end: How do you browse imageboards and cheer for this stuff at the same time?

4chan ruined the right in the same way Tumblr and SomethingAwful ruined the left.

Also, even the US has the Kids Safety Act or whatever is called.

I guess Moldova, who saved sadpanda, could be the one country safe.

Since even Japan has to add pixels here and there.

Anyway, reposting this https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Please share it around.