Another commenter already posted about steam saving card info, but I’ll make a nod to a password manager if you’re not already using one.

First of all, if you aren’t you should be, there’s plenty of awesome free ones. I like keepass or keepassXC. They’re cross platform and you can sync them across devices or use some form of cloud sync (not recommended by me but plenty of people do it).

Anyways. Within a password manager you can save card info (anything actually) and so you don’t have to pull out your physical wallet, just input your manager password and copy/paste over the card details. For me it’s just about as fast as using PayPal anyways with all the extra windows, redirects, loading times, and me using a 2fa token etc.

Yeah man my first sentence was about game devs, not itch.

Like, seriously, read what you fucking posted.

You first? Bye

I empathize with the developers because unannounced interruptions to their revenue streams are not good. I don’t know why itch made the initial decision to implement their changes the way they did, but my guess is they got a series of strongly worded letters out of the blue from payment processors and were given a timeline of “IMMEDIATELY OR ELSE” and had to shut off the tap and adjust or risk their own ability to receive ANY payments.

Even if they handled it badly, which maybe they did, it’s a better measure of a company/person in how they address mistakes or bad moves. They aren’t perfect but they seem to be trying to address concerns and be transparent, at least as transparent as they feel they can be in an uncertain situation where they have to protect themselves legally and operate from a position where every official statement they make will be blown up by media. So they need to be very, very careful how they communicate to risk further damage.

Remember, itch IS NOT the bad guy here, it’s the payment processors. Do not lose sight of that.

I can absolutely understand why people who have had their livelihoods disrupted are unhappy but I empathize with the position that itch is in and I care a lot more about how they course correct and manage fallout, even if they make bad decisions when faced with requirement to take immediate action (and I can’t even say whether they did or not, nobody can, because nobody but them has the facts), than I care about whether they made a bad decision in the moment.

People, good people, fuck up all the time. How they manage the mistake matters more than the mistake itself.

If they keep doing the same shit over and over it’s a different story.

PS: I have no dog in this fight except I think what the payment processors are doing is wrong, but it doesn’t explicitly affect me at all. I’m also not particularly educated on this except for what I read in the news, I’ve never used itch at all. I just don’t think payment processors should be in the business of casting moral judgments on legal transactions. IMO it should be ILLEGAL for them to deny services for LEGAL goods and services.

If they did it about teeth it would still be a nod to the trans culture war. Again, that’s the point - it’s current event satire. The show is two guys mocking everyone in the context of a current moment in time. Early show didn’t necessarily start that way but it’s developed into that because they got tired of coming up with episode ideas about random things and just started taking inspiration from current events.

You don’t have to like it, it’s not for everyone. But if you know people who take any of the “messaging” seriously and don’t agree with their views that reflects a lot more on those people just being dumb than it does the content of the show.

Anyone can get whatever they want out of any piece of media, but the POINT of South Park is satire. Offensive, outrageous satire. If people get offended or take anything seriously then they’re part of the show’s zeitgeist. This isn’t just my interpretation, it’s communicated clearly from the creators over decades of their own speech on the subject.

Also it came out right at the time when 3D movies were at their (very short lived) peak.

And it did a GREAT job using that tech. I’ve never seen better.

The movie is a visual masterpiece and a king of theater-watching cinema.

Sure the story is bland but ain’t nobody watching that movie for the story.

They’re outrage satire.

Anyone taking them seriously is literally part of the satire.

Enjoy the nonsense and don’t get caught up being offended, that’s literally the point of the show.