me, when I see my favorite video game that’s a couple years old in the store priced at $10.99: it’s ok baby I know you’re worth more than that don’t let them tell you otherwise you’ll always be $60 in my heart ily stay outta trouble now
me, when i see a 15-year-old nintendo game in the store still priced at $60: why
corrective action
be the change you want to see in the world
His name is Onur Albayrak! Here’s the story.
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
[Source] – go read the rest!
this guy is a hero.
btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.
child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.
your husband seems like a dick kill him. also does ghosts still exist?
he is a dick and killing him is on my list, but he’s attractive so i’m going to get one more kid out of him
i’m not sure on the ghost front, i guess we’ll find out after i kill my husband and put his gravestone in my backyard
YOU NEED TO MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS ABOUT THE SIMS
the terrifying part is that, 30 years ago you’d have to wait to get the film developed to see what was out there…
You walk out in the pink one, listen to the police, gasp demurely, then say “excuse me for a moment” and come back out in the black one. Sounds reasonable and completely unsuspicious.
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So The Arcana’s pricing scheme is exploitative and terrible and I’m astonished nobody is talking about it.
The standard response from the developers is that all of the paid content is ‘optional’, but you know what I want out of my romance game? Romance. 90% of which is paid content.
Also, this assumes I don’t want to pay for the game. Except I do! I backed it on kickstarter! I want to give these people my money. But I also don’t want to be bled dry.
This isn’t even getting into how the kickstarter promised backers the game itself as a reward, then reneged on their promise, offering a paltry $10 refund to make up for it (which will buy you a grant total of 1 chapter for 1 character’s route).
This kind of business practice hurts other kickstarter projects down the road, because it erodes people’s trust in the platform. A lot of indie otome game devs rely on kickstarter. But my experience with The Arcana has sure made me think twice about supporting any other projects.
The worst thing is I like the Arcana. The art is gorgeous, the characters are fun. I supported it on Kickstarter. I told my friends to support it on Kickstarter. But I can no longer turn a blind eye to how Nyx Hydra seems to be willfully exploiting their fans.
Not to mention, the Wheel of Fortune feature, which they keep pointing to as a means of earning coins, is still bugged, and has been for the last 3 updates, without any transparency on the progress of solving that bug. $10 per chapter is just too high. Even assuming there’s only 10 chapters that are paid (though it looks like it’d be more if they plan on doing the full arcana), that’s still $10 a chapter, for 10 chapters = $100. For one route, $300 for all three of the current routes available. I’ve pledged $100 or more to kickstarter games before, and that gets me: the FULL game, alpha access, bonus content, free downloads, and other bonuses. With just the game itself being maybe $30
Extra content is the story unlocked by the trinkets. That doesn’t have any influence on how the story unfolds for a player. The paid options in a route do effect how the story reads to a player. I play other games with paid content in routes, and I am ok paying 5-$10 for that extra content, provided that 1) that content remains unlocked, permanently, and 2) I know that the normal route’s story is just as in depth, and frankly, the unpaid content in Arcana isn’t. And you can’t deny that it’s not as in depth as the paid content; the scenes are shorter, and there is less growth of a relationship between the player character and the love interest. And this is an otome game- the focus is on the relationship, or should be.
Instead of the focus being on getting the content out ASAP, the focus should be on answering costumers’ concerns, and if it means they need to take longer to get content out, but we get lower prices or a definite answer about a PC version (preferably both), then I, at least, would be perfectly happy to continue to support the game. But as things stand, I’m not sure I want to continue giving my support to company that isn’t really listening to our concerns and taking action to rectify them and continues to charge exorbitant prices to do so.
I for one don’t like making accusations until I have the numbers to back it up.
So, who likes math?
Disclaimer: These are all very rough calculations as I don’t have accurate data on the Wheel of Fortune to work with, but I’m giving the devs the benefit of the doubt whenever in makes sense, so I think these are accurate enough for the purpose of making a point.
Another disclaimer: No, I am not a poor high school/college student. I have a stable, well-paying job and frankly, could afford to spend the amount of money the devs are currently asking for and gladly would if I didn’t feel like I was getting scammed. Because yes, even willing and paying players have their limits.
Whoops made a slight typo on one of the percentages (this is what I get for number crunching before bed) Has been fixed, but it shouldn’t affect the original calculations since I was punching fractions into my calculator
the chantry: have you heard about our holy savior, the Lady Andraste, Bride of the Maker?
non-andrastians:
great stuff happening in the city i see
It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-
Hermione ghost wrote this
I’m tired of girls trying to invalidate their own feelings during times of pain, especially to their friends. Your break up meant something. That friendship you lost was a hard blow. I understand why you feel tired this semester. Sometimes this “modern woman” stereotype is patriarchy’s last attempt; patriarchy disguised as feminism. You don’t have to be “wise beyond your years”; your pain and crying does not mean you are not intelligent. If you feel your friends demand justification for your pain and ordeals, they’re not friends. You’re strong but human. Remind yourself emotional space is part of liberation.
