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they/them has actually been in use in English when describing a single individual in a way that keeps their gender neutral or anonymous for a very long time.

this is not correct. "they" was not used to describe a single known individual to just keep their gender neutral or anonymous. it was used when talking about an unknown person or to keep the person unknown.

when talking about a person in a way to keep their gender anonymous, authors used phrasings that avoided pronouns or other things like the actually established gender neutral "he". there was no concept of simply using "they" to convey the meaning of an unknown gender. there was no need, as there was the gender neutral "he".

In English, when you deliberately use pronouns for someone that are not the pronouns they’ve requested, you are being intentionally harmful. You are pushing your view of the world onto them and likely implying that you either don’t care about or dislike their existence.

the person that requests the pronouns is also pushing their view onto others. if that is a bad thing, you should also condem the pronoun-requests. 

pronouns do not exist to reaffirm one's gender identity. they are used to stand in for nouns. if you request special grammar rules for yourself, what does that make you? it is entitled thinking. i am special, treat me special.

it is just grammar. and here is the problem. pronoun requesters put value on grammar and try to get reaffirmation from that. grammar does not define your gender, it's the other way round. and i object the abuse of grammar for that. grammar need to be neural and not be seen as "disliking existence" when not using special requested grammar.

mind you, i am not talking about transsexuals using their new gender's pronouns. i am talking about made up pronouns and the usage of "they" - which is a made up pronoun in it's usage. i also object the new usage of "they" to convey unknown gender. you cannot even tell if the gender is unknown, the person is unknown, or if the person requested that pronoun or if the speaker is talking about a group.

a person with fluid or undecided gender could just as well request or rather default to the gender neutral usage of "he". having a gender is not special. so why should having a non binary gender be special.

To use a person’s chosen pronouns is to say “you are absolutely the man/woman/enby/etc. you say you are, and I care about you”.

this is literally not what is happening. you do not say pronouns to the person that requested them. you use them in conversation with other people. you do not get reaffirmation (i care about you) from the people you talk to. you just make them think about your gender, when they talk about you. which brings me to this again:

focussing on gender all the time is a step backward, not forward. 

if i would block people, i would block you too. you even made a jam to talk trash about another user. w. t. f. that's borderline stalking and slander.

get over it. people can block whomever they like for whatever reason or no reason at all. and on this platform that means, you cannot respond directly to them anymore. deal with it. grow up. act like an adult. i have doubts you are one. and if you are, seek medical help for your mental disorder that leaves you unable to cope when someone hits the block button to no longer read whatever you were slinging at them.

blocking is not about you, but about the person blocking. they do not want to read you anymore. so what.

oh, nevermind. you are a kid, i just checked your profile where you say so. barely old enough to even be allowed on this platform. your behaviour is exactly why kids have no business posting on a platform were adults talk. creating a jam to trashtalk about another user. you should be ashamed of yourself. 13 years or not. that's not how social media features are to be used.

take a guess. maybe first scroll the projects on the account. see how many assets and titles you can recognise...

ever wonder why other people do not write in all uppercase letters.

your topics are like that of a hyperactive child that discovered that there is a place on the internet where one can write things, so other people can read it. amazing, is it not.

on second thought, i think you really are underage. it sure would explain a lot.

someone stole the game and uses it to distribute a virus https://brokentorpedo1.itch.io/agent-to-the-stars

you got it backwards. ntr requires more plot than non-ntr. you need one more character for cheating to occur.

for real ntr you need to create the humiliation fetish. if this is missing, you might have such netorase as here. or things that are not actually ntr, but called so by people hating ntr and that other stuff, so they call that other stuff by the worst term they know, which is ntr.

but plot complexity is not the deciding factor. sloppy developers create for a perceived audience. creating for mainstream smut audience means competing with mainstream smut. and ai is not good for that. creating for nieche smut audience means an audience that has less games to chose from and even mediocre ai games can shine there.

ai is enabling people to make smut games. ntr is popular. so the answer to your question is: a lot.

the funny thing is, that ntr "haters" go out of their way to search those games and give them even more popularity.

i see a lot more incest games and incest is a far more extreme fetish. ntr is vanilla. cheating is a standard porn plot. bored housewive doing the poolboy. a classic. but then again, doing your "step" mom and thereby cucking your father is also quite popular.

if you installed by the itch app, that will not work. it is hosted on external file hoster. you need to use the website.

if you do not make such a thing abundantly clear in your description, your customers will be eglible for refunds.

naming the game with a version number is not enough. the default expectation is buying in early access. so the finished project is expected to be released on this page. if you do not intend to do so, you need to tell this.

also, your itch is not linked by your other socials like patreon.

maybe where you live https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_content_rating_system

esrb rating for l4d2 is m for mature, and that is 17+. pegi rating is 18+.

you will not get a t for teen rating with graphical explicit splatter gore. and that would be closest to "basically" 14+.

that is not the bundle. it is the jam collecting items for a future bundle.

those charity bundles are not handled like regular bundles.

there is one happening right now. i can see promotion for it on the front page itch.io, but not on the bundles page nor the extension of the bundles page, the on-sale browse filter.

if you have an arm binary, you might be able to get it to run on that device. but i am sure there are dedicated message boards somewhere in the internet for this hardware that will have guides and discussions about such things. maybe even a compatibility list for some games.

the itch projects are not filterable by architecture. or at least i do not know how. so most linux games will be for x86 architecture.

i doubt there will be private replies any time soon. i remember reading in a thread that they would not want to moderate private messages. maybe if there would be an option to make reviews public, so people could at least read why a game was rated high or low. but if you scroll the public rating feed, most people do not write anything.

in the meantime, you could post a comment in your own game, asking for feedback and bug reports there, so that you can fix it, instead of negative ratings, just because a button did not work.

how are retro game consoles supported in the itch app? what is a pico8 browser? are you maybe talking about the tag pico-8? the rg35 has no native files, so you would not search for rg35 files, but for pico-8 files. and that rg35 does not even have wlan, so how would the itch app install files on the sd card. 

if you want to make similar games, that is a good start. so you would know how or where the audience would find such games.

lol. i did not help you. i just wanted to point out that a company abandoning a thing does not protect against getting sued.

the warning on their website seemed rather specific, so it might just be allowed if you do not do those things in your app.

i mean, a lot of the old game consoles also have new things being made for them, and you can find those on itch. you can download new roms for gameboy and others. 

i am not sure if you understood my points. you do not phrase them, as i did.

interactions are not limited because they are public. i said, that interactions are limited. what i meant is, that there are a limited amount of communication channels.

the current "block" feature of itch is an incomplete ignore function. a block prevents an action. an ignore does not prevent an action, but makes it invisble to the one that ignores. i argue for a better ignore function. and i consider a block function for the publisher side of using itch to be pointless. you do not even need an account to buy.