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Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by kulahan »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #155
wat10000 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

China has cleverly replaced the Mastercard/Visa duopoly with an AliPay/WeChat Pay duopoly.

They'd like to. Vending machines will no longer sell to you unless you can pay that way. For more significant things, you can still use cash. I'd go down to my landlord's bank every three months to pay the rent.

Was that like, enforced? Or did your landlord potentially just prefer cash? I know very little about how land-ownership works in China, except that nobody really ever owns their land.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by kulahan »

wincy wrote: post #144
gambiting wrote: post #18

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Many countries have alternatives already. In Poland Blik is ubiquitous and very very easy to use. And I love how it's implemented, Visa and MasterCard could learn from it. Tldr - you open the app on your phone and it gives you a 6 digit BLIK code, you give that code to the seller, then a notification comes up on the app saying "seller X is trying to debit your account by amount Y, agree?". It's brilliant because then…

I misread blik as “bilk” which is… probably the last word you’d want associated with your credit card or payment processor in English.

There used to be a beer designed to be mixed with milk called bilk. Last I heard, it was terrible. Maybe it's still around - I think it's Japanese, so it's unlikely I'd happen across it.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by __s »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #70
numpad0 wrote: post #60

It's a relatively old game, so I'll put up here a spoiler so to remove potential confusion: DDLC is a __horror__ game that contains some gore, death, and self harm content, as well as small fourth wall breaking, disguised as a Japanese Visual Novel style soft/hard porn game. The entire game is a figurative jumpscare. Which makes it technically true to call it a "disturbing and shocking" game, but not as in """disturb…

I'm intentionally not reading your post, but the "it's old so I can spoil it" is never an acceptable stance in a world where they keep making more people. The world doesn't begin and end with your experience.

snape kills dumbledore

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by ArekDymalski »

gambiting wrote: post #18
oceansky wrote: post #10

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Brazil and India have created alternatives to Mastercard/Visa duopoly. EU is seeking to do the same.

Many countries have alternatives already. In Poland Blik is ubiquitous and very very easy to use. And I love how it's implemented, Visa and MasterCard could learn from it. Tldr - you open the app on your phone and it gives you a 6 digit BLIK code, you give that code to the seller, then a notification comes up on the app saying "seller X is trying to debit your account by amount Y, agree?". It's brilliant because then…

BLIK rocks. In addition to being a payment system for goods and services it can be used for instant private money transfers between individuals.

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

wincy wrote: post #142
crashabr wrote: post #49

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Any examples of other impressive Ren'py showcases?

I really enjoyed Roadwarden. Interesting take on an old fantasy genre and gave me “this is ancient history” vibes. I’m not usually into visual novels but beat this game. It’s available for under $3 right now, I am showing 20 hours played, totally worth it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155970/Roadwarden/

Wait a minute, Roadwarden was made in RenPy? That's awesome, I never would have guessed.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by thaumasiotes »

kulahan wrote: post #161
thaumasiotes wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They'd like to. Vending machines will no longer sell to you unless you can pay that way. For more significant things, you can still use cash. I'd go down to my landlord's bank every three months to pay the rent.

Was that like, enforced? Or did your landlord potentially just prefer cash? I know very little about how land-ownership works in China, except that nobody really ever owns their land.

My landlord preferred to be paid through Alipay. I had to pay in cash because Alipay wouldn't let me make payments that large. (Because my Alipay account was backed by a foreign credit card as opposed to a Chinese bank account, I assume. If you're curious, the rent was about US$700 / month, so the payment would have been about US$2100.)

I don't see that landownership is really relevant. Mostly it's done on the basis of notional 70-year leases from the government. Since the government dates to 1949, the first round of those recently expired. There was a lot of curiosity beforehand as to what would happen, but it doesn't seem to have made enough of a splash that anyone commented about it (where I could see) afterwards. So I don't know how it turned out.

I understand that rural peasants may sometimes own their land outright. In this case, I was renting one apartment in a building with 5-6 floors and I think 4 apartments per floor.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by wincy »

Binding of Isaac is a game that takes hundreds of hours to beat, and worked well on iPad. It cost $15. It was removed and so Edmund McMillen the creator resolved to never publish on Apple platforms again. Disappointing for me because his new game is Windows only, but I can’t blame him.

I could have sworn there was a discussion about this years ago but I went looking for it on HN and just found a comment I made years ago, funny how that shakes out.

Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play

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Post by snicky »

iknowstuff wrote: post #111
gambiting wrote: post #18

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Many countries have alternatives already. In Poland Blik is ubiquitous and very very easy to use. And I love how it's implemented, Visa and MasterCard could learn from it. Tldr - you open the app on your phone and it gives you a 6 digit BLIK code, you give that code to the seller, then a notification comes up on the app saying "seller X is trying to debit your account by amount Y, agree?". It's brilliant because then…

Yeah but approving every purchase from a merchant I trust, like Amazon, would be annoying. Gotta allow for one tap to purchase, like eg apple pay does

IIRC BLIK asks you if you want to skip the verification next time you buy from the same merchant.
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