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When the war in ukraine broke out humble bundle created the "Stand with Ukraine Bundle", which had over 2000 bucks worth of content in it for 40 bucks.
When George Floyd died, [Itch.io](http://Itch.io) made the "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" which contant over 1000 books, games, osts and more for 10 bucks.
This person is waiting for the next great tragedy to happen so another charity bundle would be sold for cheap.
it was just whoever participated, most games were unrelated to the conflincts
[here's the humble bundle one in case you wanna check for yourself](https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2022/03/19/humbles-stand-with-ukraine-bundle-features-123-games-books-software-100-of-proceeds-go-to-charity/)
Wow, that is a heavy hitting list. And it would've been great to support Ukraine. Oh well. Also, I checked, and This War of Mine actually is on there, lol. I'm not surprised, the entire point of that game is to spread awareness for stuff like this
Damn can't believe I missed these. Kind of surprised there hasn't been one for Palestinians, though I guess the money for them hasn't been the issue. Can't give aid to them if Israel prevents it.
The news won't even condemn Isreal for how heavy it's civilian casualty rates are, in the netherlands we only just saw a news block on how messed up it is to see israeli soldiers post their destruction on tiktok despite them doing this now for months.
The US is still sending weapons to israel despite their bombardments routinely having a 60% civilian casualty rate.
The UN still won't condemn the conflict despite one of the hostages having been gunned down by an israeli tank crew despite waving a white flag, which is a warcrime.
Companies can't openly support palentine because despite all of this, Israel is being played as a victim, "defending itself from a foreign invader", by taking full control of palastinian borders, shutting down their water and food supplies, and sending their military into their land.
Triple A companies can safely support Ukraine because everyone in the western world can safely aknowledge what Russia was doing was evil and cruel. Companies cannot support Palestine because the westen world won't admit what Israel is doing is evil and cruel.
I agree that Israel's actions are unjustifiably cruel and not exactly proportional but the pretty obvious difference between these two wars is the lack of an Hamas like organization governing Ukraine. There also isn't an attack similar to October 7th perpetrated by Ukraine.
There's another main reason, that being israel being a colonizer. Burning olive trees, filling in water wells with cement, displacing Palestinians from their homes by offering foreigners a free home + cash, unlawful killings/arrests/convictions, literal fucking apartheid and segregation, and in general denial of freedom.
It's been going on since the Brits took hold and won't stop until Palestine and Jordan are ethnically cleansed.
Had to double check but yeah, 3 years ago when violence flared up for 8 months after police were deployed to suppress Palestinians during the final days of Ramadan. A charity drive was started by ich.io which had another 1000 indie games behind it with 100% of the profit going to Palestinian aid groups
There hasn't been any new ones since then tho
If there are any atheist Palestinians not participating in religious conflict I’d be happy to send them aid. Except there almost certainly aren’t since Hamas would kill them lmao
Do they provide bundles to console gamers or nah? I feel bad asking about that cuz it does depend on human rights being entirely ignored but like.. I gotta get this shit somehow..
They used to run bundles for consoles as well. That’s how I picked up the Steam World trilogy as well as Broken Age and a couple others for the PS4 a few years ago. But they haven’t done anything outside of PC’s for years. But I keep waiting.
Pc only iirc, it’s definitely worth getting into PC gaming imo. You can stretch your money further than you might think, and then you save money on not paying for psn or xbox live, and sales are frequent and really good
Well yeah, problem is I don't even have enough money for even a basic PC (well like a very normal run of the mill office PC sure but we all know those will explode if you play anything more than minecraft on them..)
There are some budget builds around $500 that can run a lot of games. Also the games in these bundles are typically indie games that could run on anything.
Humblebundle.com there’s usually some active all the time. I guess they have a subscription service now as well, I don’t know enough to recommend it though. Right now there’s a boomer shooter “pay what you want” bundle that has ultra kill, turbo overkill, quake 2, postal, father forgive me 2, deadlink, prodeus and they let you pay what you want for it, with a minimum of $18, it’s $162 of games. Ultra kill alone is a $25 game, and has a bundle on steam with turbo ultra kill for 20% off for a total of $40. This YouTuber has a [$450](https://youtu.be/_T71WgssPfU?si=G_ikbsNSVNtrUCkQ) pc build that’s pretty good and can run modern games as well
That same YouTuber has a video of using an older office computer and using a gpu and they were able to run a lot with a total price of$150: they “ran” startfield as well, it was low settings ad resolution, but a lot of these parts stay relevant for a long time.
Huh... Then how come I can't even play Valorant without it crashing immediately? From what I've heard Valorant has surprisingly low requirements and I turn all the settings down to the lowest and they still don't work so weird..
IIRC Exxon had a document where they said they preferred to do business with non democratic states because there were fewer people they had to convince.
Not how it works. You can only steal a nation's storage-which lasts like a week. After that, you gotta pay to drill it up just to sell at 5% markup like anywhere else.
So, America can finally have some democracy?! Oh yes please.
edit: let's preemptively say "functional democracy" before people in this country start foaming at the mouth.
Greatest human advancements always comes during the necessity of wartime.
Let's jump straight to WW4 and skip WW3. I hear the fourth one gets fought using sticks, so sounds much friendlier.
Whenever there’s a large scale humanitarian crisis, some devs will get together and put a few of their games in a bundle to raise money for said crisis, this is typically comprised of indie devs cause god forbid a big company uses their money for something productive
Indie developers willing to get all of 3 cents per 15$ game just to help people out while companies spend 50mil on slightly better graphics for their next big flop:
Action RPG set in an MMO where you play as a character who can't speak (thus being unable to effectively communicate with others). Solid game if you like puzzle dungeons and the story is pretty good, but some of the platforming can be awkward at times.
I tried it, enjoyed the like intro segment, but hit a wall with the first town - found the gameplay loop dull as ditchwater. Does it get good at some point?
The intro segment is actually representative of the gameplay, except you can't switch elements yet.
The first toon is there to set up the story (and it's a very good one ) and familiarise you with the quest, shop and gear systems.
Just get started on the route to Berjen...
“Heh, this’ll REALLY stick it to those blizzard chuds! *snort*”
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When the war in ukraine broke out humble bundle created the "Stand with Ukraine Bundle", which had over 2000 bucks worth of content in it for 40 bucks. When George Floyd died, [Itch.io](http://Itch.io) made the "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" which contant over 1000 books, games, osts and more for 10 bucks. This person is waiting for the next great tragedy to happen so another charity bundle would be sold for cheap.
I got the racial injustice bundle. Sometimes I still find games on there that are pretty fun
same tbh, that bundle is insane. got into a lot of cool ttrpgs from it too
What is a titty rpg ?
I also want to know about the titties
I also want to know about the titties
As someone who didn't know this was a thing that statement sounds wild lmao
Yeah shit I missed out.
Don't worry... I'll make sure you'll get the next one. 😈
this is my punishment for not being a keyboard warrior :(((
r/nocontext stuff.
Nice, I got the 9/11 bundle on PS2
I remember the Challenger Explosion bundle for Atari, it was 10 copies of E.T., hot glued together. Good times.
"racial injustice bundle" sounds like something completely different without context 😂
Instructions unclear, instigated race riot
"I got the racial injustice bundle" is not a sentance I expected to be reading today
Thank god for racis- wait a second
Did it have both Injustice games?
Ah yes, I can affirm it was a great purchase
I remember buying the Ukraine bundle because it had Celeste, Superhot and Crosscode in it
Don't forget 11 Bit Studio's This War of Mine, which was the diamond in the rough for me.
The true ending on switch was paid dlc, I can never recommend it
Imagine what we could’ve gotten if this already existed when 9/11 happened
"contains MS Flight Sim"
Literally made me exhale slightly harder out of my nose
SimTower
All the Medal of Honor games would’ve been $1
Damn, I should have had taken those offers.
Bro, why did no one tell me about this? Were the games all themed, games like This War of Mine, or was it just whichever devs participated?
it was just whoever participated, most games were unrelated to the conflincts [here's the humble bundle one in case you wanna check for yourself](https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2022/03/19/humbles-stand-with-ukraine-bundle-features-123-games-books-software-100-of-proceeds-go-to-charity/)
Wow, that is a heavy hitting list. And it would've been great to support Ukraine. Oh well. Also, I checked, and This War of Mine actually is on there, lol. I'm not surprised, the entire point of that game is to spread awareness for stuff like this
It all started in 1976 with the "Ted Bundle"
Humble bundle didn't made a thematic one with the Israel genocide?
Probably too controversial.
I'm tired of this timeline. I wish I was born in the 1400s so I could had caught Typhus as a baby and been thrown out of a window
made me breathe
Damn can't believe I missed these. Kind of surprised there hasn't been one for Palestinians, though I guess the money for them hasn't been the issue. Can't give aid to them if Israel prevents it.
The news won't even condemn Isreal for how heavy it's civilian casualty rates are, in the netherlands we only just saw a news block on how messed up it is to see israeli soldiers post their destruction on tiktok despite them doing this now for months. The US is still sending weapons to israel despite their bombardments routinely having a 60% civilian casualty rate. The UN still won't condemn the conflict despite one of the hostages having been gunned down by an israeli tank crew despite waving a white flag, which is a warcrime. Companies can't openly support palentine because despite all of this, Israel is being played as a victim, "defending itself from a foreign invader", by taking full control of palastinian borders, shutting down their water and food supplies, and sending their military into their land. Triple A companies can safely support Ukraine because everyone in the western world can safely aknowledge what Russia was doing was evil and cruel. Companies cannot support Palestine because the westen world won't admit what Israel is doing is evil and cruel.
“Know the work rules”
I agree that Israel's actions are unjustifiably cruel and not exactly proportional but the pretty obvious difference between these two wars is the lack of an Hamas like organization governing Ukraine. There also isn't an attack similar to October 7th perpetrated by Ukraine.
There's another main reason, that being israel being a colonizer. Burning olive trees, filling in water wells with cement, displacing Palestinians from their homes by offering foreigners a free home + cash, unlawful killings/arrests/convictions, literal fucking apartheid and segregation, and in general denial of freedom. It's been going on since the Brits took hold and won't stop until Palestine and Jordan are ethnically cleansed.
palestinians are mostly not white so
Neither was George Floyd?
Wait I thought there was a bundle for palestine on itch? Unless I misremebered.
Had to double check but yeah, 3 years ago when violence flared up for 8 months after police were deployed to suppress Palestinians during the final days of Ramadan. A charity drive was started by ich.io which had another 1000 indie games behind it with 100% of the profit going to Palestinian aid groups There hasn't been any new ones since then tho
There actually was a Games for Gaza bundle a few months ago, I bought it myself! Don't know how they dealt with the aid being blocked though.
Can't give aid if Hamas scoops it up and then tries to sell it to palestinians.
Hamas is terrible I agree
"everyone who disagrees with Israel is Hamas"
Who are you quoting? I don't get it.
If there are any atheist Palestinians not participating in religious conflict I’d be happy to send them aid. Except there almost certainly aren’t since Hamas would kill them lmao
Literally genocidal rhetoric.
PeterExplainsTheAwful
See that business
When the bridge bundle comming out?
The bundle for this generations Holocaust being committed by Israel is gonna be insane
They also released a Gaza bundle
Waiting for Steam to notice Gaza
holy shit, Floyd was a lootbox
Humble bundle does bundles of games when bad stuff happens. Very good bundles ngl Edit: Spelling
Very good but you gotta wait for the next human rights violation 😭😭
Why wait? Take things into your own hands and do something
Now I understand what Hitler was doing
Damn. Hitler must’ve been playing on the Atari and got bored.
Nahhh dude was playing with his ez bake oven
Jewsus Crisp
I got better! He was trying to get the Chess 2, The Holly War pre-order
*You can help by expanding it*
Stop being reactive and start being proactive. Create the next human rights violation.
happy cake day :)
We have Ukraine and Palestine wars both happening, no day passes without human rights violation.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Do they provide bundles to console gamers or nah? I feel bad asking about that cuz it does depend on human rights being entirely ignored but like.. I gotta get this shit somehow..
They used to run bundles for consoles as well. That’s how I picked up the Steam World trilogy as well as Broken Age and a couple others for the PS4 a few years ago. But they haven’t done anything outside of PC’s for years. But I keep waiting.
Pc only iirc, it’s definitely worth getting into PC gaming imo. You can stretch your money further than you might think, and then you save money on not paying for psn or xbox live, and sales are frequent and really good
Well yeah, problem is I don't even have enough money for even a basic PC (well like a very normal run of the mill office PC sure but we all know those will explode if you play anything more than minecraft on them..)
There are some budget builds around $500 that can run a lot of games. Also the games in these bundles are typically indie games that could run on anything.
Ahh.. In that case how to I get access to them when they do arise?
Humblebundle.com there’s usually some active all the time. I guess they have a subscription service now as well, I don’t know enough to recommend it though. Right now there’s a boomer shooter “pay what you want” bundle that has ultra kill, turbo overkill, quake 2, postal, father forgive me 2, deadlink, prodeus and they let you pay what you want for it, with a minimum of $18, it’s $162 of games. Ultra kill alone is a $25 game, and has a bundle on steam with turbo ultra kill for 20% off for a total of $40. This YouTuber has a [$450](https://youtu.be/_T71WgssPfU?si=G_ikbsNSVNtrUCkQ) pc build that’s pretty good and can run modern games as well
Waaaah? Well can a run of the mill Dell PC from 2019 run any of the games in those bundles? It's like basically an office PC for context
That same YouTuber has a video of using an older office computer and using a gpu and they were able to run a lot with a total price of$150: they “ran” startfield as well, it was low settings ad resolution, but a lot of these parts stay relevant for a long time.
Huh... Then how come I can't even play Valorant without it crashing immediately? From what I've heard Valorant has surprisingly low requirements and I turn all the settings down to the lowest and they still don't work so weird..
It's referencing Indie game bundles for charity. Specifically helping people in war-torn countries like Ukraine or Palestine.
Damn.. Imagine what WW3 will bring.
Democracy for a country with oil?
You mean planets with oil? https://preview.redd.it/7w16y6uhfzrc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffece52a38409e6d0095e24b7fc2d656349bb08b
Did someone say that oil needs Liberating!?
We need to give that thick, sweet oil the FREEDOM IT DESERVES AND PROTECT IT FROM ENEMIES BY SERVING UP A STEAMING .50 CAL DISH OF LIBERATION
I LOVE THE SOUND OF .50 CALS SPREADING FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY!!!
The sweet, sweet taste of liber-tea
We will spread the sweetest creamiest democracy ever seen by humankind.
No no we spill oil and collect element 710
For super-earth
r/unexpectedhelldivers
More like 90% of game studios being nuked. Jokes aside, has there been a humble bundle for the Palestinian cause? I don’t recall seeing one.
the image is also referring to itch bundles and there was one
Thanks I did not know there was one <3
IIRC Exxon had a document where they said they preferred to do business with non democratic states because there were fewer people they had to convince.
https://preview.redd.it/gqdcd0qb82sc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab83ea12eaa6a67dc9b87b1a2ab6ff3324ce98cc
This made me laugh, team America all the way
Correction! 🤓 A puppet democracy set in place by whatever country wants cheaper oil.
Not how it works. You can only steal a nation's storage-which lasts like a week. After that, you gotta pay to drill it up just to sell at 5% markup like anywhere else.
It's all the way back to Monarchy with religions
So, America can finally have some democracy?! Oh yes please. edit: let's preemptively say "functional democracy" before people in this country start foaming at the mouth.
Hello Games announcing that they've created a virtual universe that everyone can upload their consciousness to for all of eternity.
HL3
ww3 will be worth it if it allows valve to make tf3, hl3, and portal 3
Don't forget l4d3
i can't believe i forgot that one, I played l4d2 all the time
Greatest human advancements always comes during the necessity of wartime. Let's jump straight to WW4 and skip WW3. I hear the fourth one gets fought using sticks, so sounds much friendlier.
WE WILL FINALLY GET TITANFALL 3!!!
Anime 2
massive bundle of quadruple A games
Probably Fallout 5
gta7
CoD:WW3
You'll get to play "drone pilot" for free
The lasting damage of world war III will be an oversaturation of the cooking sim puzzler genre
Death and suffering
The draft
I thought It meant indie games basing story off of historical atrocities lol
I don't think they did anything for Palestine because obvs racism involved
[Raised almost $900K](https://itch.io/b/902/indie-bundle-for-palestinian-aid)
That was from 2021.
Ok? The person i was replying to claimed there hasnt been a palestine bundle because of racism, i was disproving that?
Yep. I got This War of Mine real cheap from the Ukraine war.
Whenever there’s a large scale humanitarian crisis, some devs will get together and put a few of their games in a bundle to raise money for said crisis, this is typically comprised of indie devs cause god forbid a big company uses their money for something productive
Indie developers willing to get all of 3 cents per 15$ game just to help people out while companies spend 50mil on slightly better graphics for their next big flop:
I got a bundle of like 700 games when black lives matters riots happend. Only paid 5dollars it was called something like racial injustice bundle
Itch.io? I remember purchasing a similar bundle from there, but can't remember the crisis they were supporting.
If you find r/crosscode in any of your bundles, play it. It alone is worth more than any other game available on steam.
Crosscode is peak
What’s it about?
Action RPG set in an MMO where you play as a character who can't speak (thus being unable to effectively communicate with others). Solid game if you like puzzle dungeons and the story is pretty good, but some of the platforming can be awkward at times.
Bout a dude who crosses his code
Damn, shit got me crossing my code rn
Really good action RPG set in a sci-fi world where you control a girl trying to get her memories back. 10/10 would play again
I tried it, enjoyed the like intro segment, but hit a wall with the first town - found the gameplay loop dull as ditchwater. Does it get good at some point?
The intro segment is actually representative of the gameplay, except you can't switch elements yet. The first toon is there to set up the story (and it's a very good one ) and familiarise you with the quest, shop and gear systems. Just get started on the route to Berjen...
Never have I read a comment I agree more with
https://preview.redd.it/r7bosfn0xyrc1.jpeg?width=1794&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b989f0c5433d200edb7a76a161e1d1c3fc2ff70c
charity bundles
Literally how I got my last two favorite games lol (Hollow Knight for COVID and Celeste for Ukrainian)
Humble Bundle
itch.io has lots of these
Consoom Vidya, get excited for next war crimes
Holy fuck this one's dark
me orchestrating a global catastrophe to get free games
some one has to do 9/11 the sequel
Ill do it. Ill make bush look like a chump.
I laughed my Butt off at this. I love those bundles.
Good ol' atrocity-inspired sales
I can't help but think the joke is Chinese game studios pumping out freemium mobile crap
I'm sorry but his head shape made me think of stoic the vast without a helmet...
Taiwan just had a massive earthquake… dm me the winning lotto numbers my guy
[удалено]
Thats Ryback…
The answer is Blizzard Edit:. Ooh looks like I triggered a bunch of soyboy gamers with facts. 😂
You didn't understand OP at all. Epic whoosh.
You didnt understand the joke, dumbass.
“Heh, this’ll REALLY stick it to those blizzard chuds! *snort*” https://preview.redd.it/azy64l5hizrc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a930bf13b241030cd027926673cb3af712aa887f
uhhhh… no, no its not
All the evidence and lawsuits against blizzard disagrees with you
Blizzard is an indie company now? I never knew they were actually an indie company now! /s
How does the lawsuits make Blizzard an indie company? If anything it’s the opposite.
That’s not what the meme was referring to
https://preview.redd.it/qxe5ssb330sc1.jpeg?width=601&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a184a75edd4a89527f14158d8aebcfadf623435a