Progress Report | The Judas Ghost - 07/28/2025 (Patreon)

I'm not going to lie, I'm not as far along as I thought I'd be. I was expecting to be closer to 25% complete with the second part of Chapter 2. Creativity is fickle and it's difficult to concentrate with the stress of censorship knocking on my back door. And by back door, I mean my anus. Ironic that these organizations claim to be against non-con while stripping away democracy and eroding creative freedom against our will.

I'm just going to rant about this for a moment. Regardless of current laws and regulations governing corporate or private entities, our society would undeniably be better off if we didn't allow private companies like MasterCard and Visa to be able to deny us legal goods and services. Higher levels of censorship in a society always coincides with higher levels of crime and sexual assaults.

Australia notoriously holds up fictional content in sexually explicit games to the same rules and regulations as real world actions. They also have a had a consistent rise in sexual crimes in their country, claiming the reason is because more women are speaking up. But marinate with this for a moment. Australia attributes rising sexual assault rates in their country as a result of women gaining the courage and strength to speak up against their assaulters. They spin rising sexual assault cases in their country... as a good thing. Can you think of something more abhorrent?

In stark contrast, America has held firm in their position of freedom of creative expression and has seen nothing but a reduction in crime across the board until the pandemic. America also had the #metoo movement and an increase in women stepping up and speaking out against their assaulters. However, America still had a declining sexual crime rate. You can point to corrilation vs causation all you want, but clearly Australia is doing something wrong over there and I will never, ever champion increased sexual assault statics as a good thing.

Here's a picture of Gemma in her birthday suit to help us all calm down after that rant.

Anyway, this is what my mind has been doing for the past two weeks. I'm amped up and waiting for what happens next. This is going to go one of two ways; Either MasterCard and Visa take a step back after the outcry about this new wave of censorship, or groups like Collective Shout get even more emboldened to go after more content and we see more flavors get the axe.

When things calm down, I fully plan on re-engaging in my work fully. This has been a terrible incident that has affected so many livelihoods. It's so warped how a company, like a rabid animal, will rip apart anything that threatens their profits with absolutely no consideration of the thousands of people they hurt in the process. We're not just talking about people's financial positions when they have their work burned to the ground. We're also talking about the moral implications of banning content that very well may have helped people keep their urges under control. This witch hunt will lead to real people getting hurt, and they don't care. Because it's all about the bottom line.

Don't let these people win. They will take and take and take until we have nothing left. You give them an inch, they will take a mile. Stand against actions like this now so we don't see it get significantly worse later. I beg you guys. Whatever you can do, write a letter to congress, put up a sign in your yard, or just buy a game from a struggling developer who got hit by this censorship.

Thanks for allowing me to vent this all out. I hope it wasn't too exhausting. Stay hydrated!