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Old 01-23-2026, 10:00 AM
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TO NOT TO SHIT ON THE EMU COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FOR PROFIT.
"The real shit is the mountains of cash we made along the way" - Aporia
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Old 01-23-2026, 01:13 PM
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Fuck that.

There is a fucking donation button on the front fucking page of this website.
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Old 01-23-2026, 02:24 PM
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Fuck that.

There is a fucking donation button on the front fucking page of this website.
do you get in-game "thank you gifts" for donating here that further incentivize people to hit that donate button? No!!! so fuck off then with that noise
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Old 01-23-2026, 02:53 PM
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First of all a thank you is not enough to predatorially incentivize people. And to suggest that's what they were doing is conspiratorial and based on imaginary trauma not reality.

There’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral about donating to a game and receiving something in return. There’s no rule, legal or ethical, that says a donation stops being a donation the moment a trivial in game digital reward is involved.

Disliking that model doesn’t make it invalid, and it doesn’t prove anything beyond personal preference.

A lot of this reaction feels less like principle and more like leftover frustration from pay-to-win mobile games being projected onto a completely different situation.

What’s stranger is how quick people are to shut down transparent indie developers who are openly trying to fund their work and build something sustainable.
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Old 01-23-2026, 03:33 PM
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First of all a thank you is not enough to predatorially incentivize people. And to suggest that's what they were doing is conspiratorial and based on imaginary trauma not reality.

There’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral about donating to a game and receiving something in return. There’s no rule, legal or ethical, that says a donation stops being a donation the moment a trivial in game digital reward is involved.

Disliking that model doesn’t make it invalid, and it doesn’t prove anything beyond personal preference.

A lot of this reaction feels less like principle and more like leftover frustration from pay-to-win mobile games being projected onto a completely different situation.

What’s stranger is how quick people are to shut down transparent indie developers who are openly trying to fund their work and build something sustainable.
Honorariums are the way of things in much of the world. There's a good deal of western chauvinism at play in the THJ controversy.

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Old 01-23-2026, 08:16 PM
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People just forgot that the EMU and especially P99 was

C: TO NOT TO SHIT ON THE EMU COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FOR PROFIT.
Exactly, Aporia and team ruined it for everybody. I don't know a word in the english language that accurately represents how selfish and disrespectful you have to be to do what they've done. This doesn't even have anything to do with muh corporatocracy bullshit, they destroyed a niche gaming community with the prior intention of using us as a shield because they knew what they were doing was overtly illegal.

They aren't fighting some big megalithic corporation that negatively impacts society, they're fighting a small business that allow(ed)s us to use their product how we wanted for free.

It is a small consolation that them and every moron who helped them is fucked.
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Old 01-23-2026, 08:18 PM
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First of all a thank you is not enough to predatorially incentivize people. And to suggest that's what they were doing is conspiratorial and based on imaginary trauma not reality.

There’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral about donating to a game and receiving something in return. There’s no rule, legal or ethical, that says a donation stops being a donation the moment a trivial in game digital reward is involved.

Disliking that model doesn’t make it invalid, and it doesn’t prove anything beyond personal preference.

A lot of this reaction feels less like principle and more like leftover frustration from pay-to-win mobile games being projected onto a completely different situation.

What’s stranger is how quick people are to shut down transparent indie developers who are openly trying to fund their work and build something sustainable.
Lmao, you're so lost. Life must be really confusing for you.
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Old 01-23-2026, 08:26 PM
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do you get in-game "thank you gifts" for donating here that further incentivize people to hit that donate button? No!!! so fuck off then with that noise
There's a joke here but I kinda like having never been permabanned, somehow.
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Old 01-23-2026, 09:46 PM
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Lmao, you're so lost. Life must be really confusing for you.
The only thing confusing is why are you here?
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Old 01-23-2026, 09:58 PM
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Exactly, Aporia and team ruined it for everybody. I don't know a word in the english language that accurately represents how selfish and disrespectful you have to be to do what they've done. This doesn't even have anything to do with muh corporatocracy bullshit, they destroyed a niche gaming community with the prior intention of using us as a shield because they knew what they were doing was overtly illegal.

They aren't fighting some big megalithic corporation that negatively impacts society, they're fighting a small business that allow(ed)s us to use their product how we wanted for free.

It is a small consolation that them and every moron who helped them is fucked.
They didn't ruin anything for anyone quit with your victimization.
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