3/22 Deals Thread
8There hasn’t been one for a while.
I saw this in the Wired deals email:
https://www.wired.com/story/itch-bundle-for-ukraine-charity/
Edit for direct link:
https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine
{VMod: added direct link to the itch.io bundle.}
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Direct link (See note about Wired below):
https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine
Its not exactly 992 games. More like 600 windows games. All mostly indy games. Some games have LBGT+ themed concepts, and are from LGBT+ developers.
All with no DRM. All are downloaded directly from itch.io. No steam, origin, GOG, epic, or other storefront DRM keys.
The other 300 or so in the bundle are physical game instructions, graphic novels/comics, gaming ebooks, and other gaming sundries.
Worth it for $10. You can contribute more. The money (100%) is split 50/50 with two charities below:
Please link directly to sources.
Wired is owned by Condé Nast.
So how does Wired and Condé Nast make money?
So who owns Wired and Condé Nast?
In short, a company run by the founder’s descendents (his sin, Sam Jr) that inherited immense intergenerational wealth from a businesses meant “as a birthday present” to his trophy wife. Corporate values.
How did Samuel Newhouse Sr create this wealth?
Ruthless capitalism and monopoly-building. Corporate values, remember.
Meaning he was a jobs destroyer and laid off the workers of the businesses he acquired - a corporate raider like Carl Icahn and Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap.
/image the more you know

@mike808
tl;dr
I find many of the Conde Nast magazines interesting and worthwhile, despite their corporate hegemony. I also buy from Amazon and many other politically objectionable/questionable
mega-corporations.
@Kyeh @mike808 and just to add I was never presented with a “rule book” for posts. @narfcake can you post the link to the tule book so we can all be on the same page. Thanks
@Kyeh @narfcake @tinamarie1974
Maybe you should post a link to the wired article about the rule book instead of the actual link directly to the source. Just to fit in. Maybe a post on Twitter to your Instagram with the link to Wired. Because, yeah, that’s so much easier and less likely to mess up.
@Kyeh Just saying Wired deserves zero credit for the noble cause and the effort created entirely by the folks at itch.io. Wired is just interested in your clicks, nothing more.
@mike808
Fine, but I wouldn’t have known anything about this if I hasn’t seen it in the WIRED newsletter. I’ve never heard of itch.io
@Kyeh @mike808 @tinamarie1974 As it doesn’t really fall into the No BULLSHIT rules, editing in the direct link into the opening post is about the furthest I’m doing.
@Kyeh @mike808 personally I found the article interesting and it gave some validity to the product as I’ve never heard of itch.io
@Kyeh @mike808 @narfcake @tinamarie1974 I’m certainly glad that bullshit has been banned from these forums.