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Valaska TDD

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Lead Writer and co-founder of Team Dead Deer Wishlist our game on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2528410/Price_for_Freedom_Gold_and_Sand/ Or visit our site at: https://www.priceforfreedom.net/avarice

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · Oct 24

I am working on an erotic CRPG, Gold and Sand, set in the Price For Freedom universe!

It stars a greenhorn but talented huntress Aya, and the alluring courtesan Nailah in an adventure that wildly escalates from a humble beginning to a life and death struggle!

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AUTOMATON WEST @automatonwest.bsky.social · 2d

Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions

The service will not be available outside of Japan

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Japanese game and comic platform DLsite launches its own payment alternative following Visa and Mastercard suspensions - AUTOMATON WEST

Following suspensions of transactions via Visa and Mastercard, DLsite has launched a semi-in-house payment alternative.

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MalberryBush @malberrybush.bsky.social · 13d

Special thanks to:

@arbuzbudesh.bsky.social
@soapyduck.bsky.social
@badplace.bsky.social
For the amazing guest drawings they generously contributed to the comic. Give them a follow!

Additional thanks to Arbuz and Sinn4u for their help in drawing and writing the comic!

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MalberryBush @malberrybush.bsky.social · 13d

It's done! At last! CHEST DEEP is now officially finished and published.

A 11-page Full-Colour Kinky Comic about a touchy Rogue and a touchier chest.

Also including a trio of guest drawings!

malberrybush.itch.io/chest-deep

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · 14d

Desire to know more.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 16d

This one goes out to everyone who said Itchio should "just" switch to a special high-risk payment processor for adult content 🙃

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 16d

really interesting and probably pretty bad that they're going after high-risk payment processors directly now www.404media.co/florida-laws...

Florida Sues Hentai Site and High-Risk Payment Processor for Not Verifying Ages

Florida's attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the state's age verification law.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Announcements Only @acvalens.net · 20d

Don’t stop calling

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Announcements Only @acvalens.net · 20d

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · 21d

Very awesome that you are keeping up with it!

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 28d

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

e-6695 (Consumer protection)

Keywords
Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography

E-petition
Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario

Original language of petition: English
Petition details
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content;
In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites;
As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”;
As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and
This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services;
2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and
3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know almost no one who could meet the standards set above. It feels like a deliberate attempt to hurt us.

So again, please, contact your local reps about this, contact new sources, and send in complaints to paypros!

stop-paypros.neocities.org#contactinfo
yellat.money

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · Sep 9

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

An image taken from an e-mail from Payment Cloud to me. They list prohibited adult work, one of which just includes "Fantasy" which is as wide as cat ears and fairies. We are so cooked.

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hello to all the people who follow us at Team Dead Deer, and particularly any other Canadians.

Currently there is a Canadian petition which could protect all creators of Erotica and directly attacked Payment Processor Censorship in ALL forms

Please sign!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Signed! Reached out to some conservative party of Canada MPs and even they are receptive to this too, especially for debunking reasons after the trucker protests.

If we can get more agreement across the aisles, even if this doesn't make debate, it's a good sign.

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ArbuzBudesh @arbuzbudesh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Bao can take 5 werewolves #baojob

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Announcements Only @acvalens.net · Sep 3

ICYMI: This is one petition Canadians do NOT want to miss. This is not your average Change-dot-org petition. This is the kind that could lead to serious changes against paypro censorship

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition details
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content;
In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites;
As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”;
As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and
This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services;
2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and
3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yesterday was a preview of this! Our spear fishing minigame, we'll be debuting in Gold and Sand, programmed by the amazingly talented Deck!

Any ideas, suggestions, or questions? Throw them our way!

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#indiedev #indiegame #fishing

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Valaska TDD @valaskatdd.bsky.social · Aug 30

I. Am the spawn. Anglers will be shattered. Rivers will wriggle.

For she is the queen, of fish.

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#indiegames #indiegame #fihsing_game #gamedev #rpggames