CENSORSHIP
IS QUIETLY DECIDING
WHICH GAMES YOU CAN BUY.

GOG is fighting back.

https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

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[–] 81 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I did not give a shit about NSFW games but I fucking hate cebsorship.

Go GoG, I'm going to buy one from them now!

... for the protest of course.

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  • [–] 137 points 1 year ago

    "Some games vanish. Not because they broke the law but because someone decided they shouldn’t exist."

    Fuckin' ay, man. Fuckin' ay.

    I love being able to help protest by playing... (checks notes) Helping the Hotties... 😉

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm not really interested in these games but this is pretty freaking awesome.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Postal 2 is actually a really good shitpost of a game. It looks like shit, it is unironically edgy and full of 14 year old levels of sexist, toilet humor. But god damn is it actually a good game. Like, a truly solid immersive sim shooter. And one of the only FPS games I know of that has guns and killing where you don't have to actually get involved and can beat the whole game as a casual observer of the chaos.

    Plus you can piss on cops and make cops eat doughnuts filled with dogshit. 11/10.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Fuck yeah! free porn. And Postal 2 lol.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    If I can buy a game on Gog I do - their lack of DRM, Linux ports, and prices just make me happy.

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  • [+] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Isn't it basically just bejewelled but with boobs?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Treasure of Nadia is legit a good game

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it doesn't work from Germany use a VPN

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They have a list of countries where games are not legal and cannot be bought/redeemed. Two stand out with almost all games: One is China. The second is Germany. I hate this shitty conservative self-righteous government and its prude regulations.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    I can't get past the captcha. Tried like 10 times

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah what's up with those lately? I've noticed them taking longer and longer to solve as well as being more difficult.

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  • Supposedly they are more likely to give you captchas if there is high traffic, like every week when people try to claim their prime free games at the same time. If I get a captcha I just close out and try again later because you never know how many you are going to get.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Legit took me 20 minutes to just get this;

    • click redeem -> 5 captchas
    • click login, reset password -> 5 captchas
    • click reset password link -> 5 captchas
    • login -> 5 captchas
    • click redeem -> 5 captchas

    Lmao and people say AI could ruin the web more

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't even get a captcha, just a straight up error, when I try to redeem the code (with adblock disabled).

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For anyone having issues with the site, the giveaway code is freedomtobuygames which you might have better luck redeeming via Galaxy.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Nice, but too many tiddies and not enough dicks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Strange. I’m getting invalid code error

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nice gesture, but keep in mind that this is the same GOG that was poised to release Devotion by RedCandleGames, only to renege on it because CCP imbeciles told them to. They are brave against censorship except when it involves actual conflict with censors. As soon as that happens, it's bootlick city.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And doing this with just 13 games? F95 catalogues 13 games... a day. I feel like GOG needs to up their game here.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah but... A lot of games on F95Zone aren't on any storefront. Can't blame a storefront for only giving those things the storefront can.

    Oh... Uh... A lot of what's on F95Zone is also either trash, abandoned, or abandoned trash.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gonna check them out for a friend

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    suddenly buying all this weird interactive porn that I didn't realize i wanted

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Awesome but I'm not really into those games. I might try one or two just to support the cause.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    That's nice, but I'm not going to do so, because I'd rather support the developers of pornographic games financially. They already deal with enough flak without needing to give up sales revenue over this.

    It also sounds like at least some of the stores are aiming to make the games available later with different payment processors, so I expect that they're likely to come back.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't know the logistics behind some of these giveaways, but it doesn't have to mean that the devs are giving up their revenue. It could be gog just fronting the "cost", no?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Could be. They don't say so on the page, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Most are older games with sequels or newer games by the developer. So they are probably hoping you like them and buy the sequel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, they're called Good Old Games, after all.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Thank you kind stranger. I vehemently oppose censorship, especially by uninvolved 3rd parties, so this is precicely what I needed with all of this. Good list of games too.

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    [+] -19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    i mean yeah... sure.

    they could have decided to throw some lgbtq stuff in there, to shine a light on every queer person who just got thrown off of itch. but no, no risk of gog going woke.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I don't know if it's a slight against them. There's a whole shit load of stuff not included. Just because something wasn't doesn't mean it was a choice. It would have been nice, but we can't really know why there's none here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Almost nobody did anything in response to the recent censorship, especially not if it could hurt them politically or financially. But GOG did something. Stop complaining, you should congratulate and support them on taking the risk for a good fight. I wish it wasn't, but they currently are a one of very few rays of light.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    because it's only been like three days. itch is actively hunting for a new payment provider, there's a huge phone campaign ongoing, and collective shout is being slammed in the media. so people are doing something.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Finally something good about GOG.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GOG about to make me look like a grade-A gooner

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For anyone wondering, yes, it's a bundle, yes they're free. It will add everything to your account, so keep in that in mind if you're worried about what other people think of your games library.

    However, GOG does also have the option to hide games from your library, so do with that information what you will.

    I am personally very strongly of the opinion that porn is morally neutral. Porn can express bad themes or spread bad ideas in the same way that any other media can and porn can be manufactured in ways that exploit workers, just like any other media can. But porn simply being porn doesn't make it bad or embarrassing. We don't have to justify porn by defending its artistic merits; porn can have amazing themes and ideas and powerful messages, and porn can be nothing but a bunch of sex that's there to get you horny and neither has more or less inherent value than the other. There's nothing wrong with movies that exist primarily for action and spectacle (see The Raid, one of the greatest movies ever made) and there's nothing wrong with games that exist primarily to be a bunch of insane over the top violence driven by nothing but rule of cool. If you think those things are OK, but draw the line at sex, maybe sit down and have a think about why that is, and where you learned those values. No judgement, just an encouragement to always test your own thinking for consistency.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    There's nothing wrong with movies that exist primarily for action and spectacle (see The Raid, one of the greatest movies ever made)

    How dare you leave out The Raid 2: Redemption, which is so much better! Also, for even purer spectacle, try Hardcore Henry, the FPS movie that finally arrived on Prime Video.

    By the way, what about porn being morally bad on the basis that the overwhelmingly vast majority of it is severely unrealistic and ruins people's perceptions about sex?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The Raid 2 is most definitely the superior movie, I just didn't think it served as well as an example of a film that rests almost entirely on action and spectacle. While the action and spectacle in Raid 2 are superior to the first movie in every way, it's also a more complex, more richly plotted movie with much deeper character work.

    Edit to add: I got so wrapped up my thoughts on Raid 2 (a movie that permanently occupies at least ten percent of my brain power at any time) that I missed your other point.

    Yes, porn can teach people unrealistic standards about sex and beauty. But so can anything. Again, the point is not that "Porn is incapable of doing moral harm", it's that "Porn, as a medium, is morally neutral." Like all mediums it can do harm, but we don't talk about banning the entire concept of TV shows because they can teach people unrealistic standards, do we?

    Let's be honest here, you're actually more likely to see realistic human bodies in porn than you are in most mass consumption television and movies. Marvel has more unrealistic depictions of the human body in their movies than your average low budget fuck-fest. And you're more likely to see a guy going down on a girl, or actual foreplay in a porn movie than you are in most movie sex scenes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    " An error occurred. Please try again later or contact support if the issue persists. "

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    yeah you probably need a VPN in your country

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    House party is there. It's hilarious.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Says you need a code to redeem them?

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