#beelzerog

[beelzerog]

Finished the 2nd LSL Wet Dreams game.

*sniff*

I gotta commend Crazy Bunch, they put a lot of heart into what's supposed to be a raunchy sex comedy series. Not that they didn't put the jokes in, but... A nice capstone to Jan Rabson's career voicing the character.

[therealgchu]

song tag game

fun tag game: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people.

The Four Horsemen - Metallica

Notorious - Duran Duran

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Under the Cherry Moon - Prince

If I Didn't Believe in You - The Last 5 Years OOBC

Favorite Toy - Jazmin Bean

Run to the Hills, Live at Dortmund - Iron Maiden

Englishmen in New York - Sting

Making Things up Again - Book of Mormon

Another Day, Live in Rome - Sting

tagging @sailor-kaiju, @fangbangerghoul, @aro-pancake, @beelzerog, @atonalginger, and whoever else would like to play

[beelzerog]

Finally finished the first LSL Wet Dreams game and heard this little ditty over the credits. Thought it was cute & needed to share.

[therealgchu]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

@beelzerog

grapes

stephen sondheim musicals

my bed

vidya

[beelzerog]

Currently at Daku Con at the Crowne Plaza DIA in Denver. Stop by the NaniWear booth to pick up some flyers or merch. Also doing an Adult Games 101 panel at 9:15 pm tonight!

[therealgchu]

it's funny, i had originally started this tumblr to pimp out my twitch channel and my business, and i do neither lately. (on the other hand, if you wanna see me play old AAA titles for the first time, i'm therealgchu on twitch, or if you wanna buy our stuff, naniwear.com). then, starfield, and a certain space cowboy entered my life and took it over.

but! i am putting up this piece the husband just finished for me. i can't remember what i was playing, but i was bitching that every game would be made better with a jet pack. i also have an inveterate love of penguins. we have a whole line of science penguins, in fact. so, he made me this:

also, i have the best husband in the world @beelzerog

[beelzerog]

I've been working on an adult texture mod for Saints Row 2 after figuring out most of the tools. It's slow, but I'm getting there. Here's some images. Some are alterations of existing game art, others are actual erotic art, or art I put together. Maybe someday I'll have a finished mod to upload.

[beelzerog]

[therealgchu]

you hurt my @beelzerog, i will fuck your shit up so hard, your next 3 generations will have bruises.

not a lot fucking scarier than a middle aged korean woman who knows how to actually fight.

battle couples has gotta be one of my favorite tropes though. The “you got me?” “Yeah, I got you.” The kiss for good luck. Fighting alongside each other for so long they know every strength and weakness. The dichotomy of being fucking terrifying to their enemies, but so soft with each other. When one is in danger and the other goes feral, protects them at any cost. When everything is over and done, it’s all “let me see where you’re hurt,” and washing off the dirt and blood.

[beelzerog]

Duke Nuke 3D Penthouse Paradise

[beelzerog]

[therealgchu]

hey @beelzerog an idea?

[beelzerog]

[beelzerog]

Finally finished my music video project. Had this idea in my head for years and felt I had enough footage and enough time on Final Cut to make it now. Enjoy!

[therealgchu]

@beelzerog bought me a bag of my favorite potato chips and put a big heart on it for valentines day (we don't really celebrate holidays). this was the best valentines present.

The New York Times did a piece titled 100 Small Acts of Love and these are some of my favorites 💕

[beelzerog]

The Vimeo Saga aka the dangers of adult game & mods reviewing.

So, I thought I'd put this all in one place. I thought about making a short video, but, nah, not worth it. That would make it seem like I was more butthurt than I actually am. Because I have a mostly happy ending, so I guess the point is just to put information out there in case someone else decides to do something adult-adjacent like I'm doing.

To start off, I need to explain why I was on Vimeo in the first place. "Why not YouTube?" you might ask. Larger audience, better promotional tools, all of that. Yeah, well, but I'd have to censor my videos. There are other mod & adult game reviewers who place censored videos on YT. And they still have to worry about demonitization (which also buries your videos so unless someone subscribed or is specifically looking for them, they won't be found) and videos being spontaneously removed. Even losing their accounts with little-to-no warning. I personally didn't mind having to age-restrict my videos (even though that also buries them), but they could still get taken down, along with my account, with little-to-no warning.

And I felt the need to show as much as tell my potential audience about what I was reviewing. Not much fun talking about a nude mod or an adult game without showing it. While the censored reviews can give you some idea about the game, I personally found the uncensored versions on reviewers' Patreons or on a site like Spicygaming.net to be much more informative.

I even tried Pornhub, believe it or not, figuring that I might as well go where a nipple wouldn't get me in trouble. I created an account and uploaded my first episode. It was taken down very quickly because, according to the message "It wasn't original content". This happened right before the big Amatuer Video Purge of December 2020, so I guess it's all in the timing.

Vimeo was looking like my best video hosting choice. There were a lot of nudist videos, a lot of artsy photography videos, quite a bit of T&A when you looked for it. So I created my account and started uploading. I got some traction, so I decided to actually pay for the lowest level account, which would give me the ability to upload HD versions of my videos. And things went pretty well.

The first offense

Fast-forward to 2023. I upload my 25th video, reviewing "Real Life Sunbay City". It was probably the most explicit video I'd made to that point, just because of the amount of sex in the game. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, outside of getting probably the fastest I ever got likes on a video.

While checking the video stats a few days later, I suddenly to an error, saying my video had been deleted. OK, strange. After some run around, I emailed the company asking what was up. The e-mail response gave the reasoning.

"Specifically you may not upload videos promoting products and services of an erotic nature"

OK, I saw that in the TOS before and all of the examples they gave related to sex work. I wasn't promoting sex work, as no living people were involved with these videos, so I figured I got dinged because of all of the explicit sex in the video, even though, again, all CG, no living people in the video. I uploaded it to Spicygaming.net, where I was already mirroring my videos at their request, albeit uploading them slowly as to not overwhelm their website with 25 videos of content.

Six days later, the second video gets dinged. Now "Roshutsu" is an exhibitionism simulator, though there is the ability to have the character mastrubate in the game. This time the reason given was the same: "Reason: We do not permit content designed to advertise goods and services of an erotic nature."

I was also told my account was now in trouble. I was looking at the terms and, honestly, I couldn't think of a way to argue my way out of it. Adult video games are essentially "goods.. of an erotic nature" and they even included this little bit at the end of the e-mail.

"(Please be aware that Vimeo moderators take action as violations come to our attention. “I see other people do it” is not a valid explanation.)"

Well, ya got me. I saw all the other nudity & adult content in other Vimeo videos and thought I was gonna be OK.

Realizing the writing was on the wall, I contacted Spicygaming if it was OK to place the rest of my videos up there all at once rather than the once-a-week I'd been doing for the last month or so. I was told "no problem" and just uploaded all the remaining videos.

Nine days later, the final straw.

This one surprised me. Unlike the previous videos, "Mass Effect: Andromeda" has only nude mods, no explicit sex mods (though the nude mod does make the love scenes better, though I didn't show those). I figured I was going to get dinged for the Fallout 4 video, maybe "Space Rescue: Code Pink" or "Bonetown: The Second Coming". In the e-mail announcing the removal, this was included: "Reason: We do not permit content that is primarily focused on sexual stimulation, even if it is not explicit."

Someone inform the videographers making bikini or fashion videos, 'cause I think they're going to be in trouble, too. Or to quote Bill Hicks:

"Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.."

So that was that. My account was deleted. I spent a couple hours changing the embedded videos on beelzerog.com to point over to spicygaming.net, for which I am thankful. It does mean I'm no longer having to pay for my Vimeo account anymore. Seems that little factor never entered in the equation.

Why did Vimeo do this? I mean, other than the obvious. Well, in May 2021, Vimeo became a publicly-traded company. It has also been shifting its focus to being a business and videographer-focused platform, rather than simply a video hosting platform. Given anti-porn's focus on going after companies rather than trying to enact laws, I could see where hosting videos about nudie video games would make shareholders nervous. I disagree with it, but I can make that logical leap.

So that's where The BeelzeRog Show stands now. I am grateful to SpicyGaming for providing their platform, though I do get nervous about having all my eggs in one basket. If my SubscribeStar account actually had subscribers and not followers, I might be able to afford hosting my own videos. Meantime I'm looking around. I recently uploaded my "Date My Nude Mod Music Video" to Veoh as a test and they only gave me some flack because apparently I didn't hit the right buttons to show it had nudity in it (I thought I did, but the interface is a bit flaky. My account avatar keeps disappearing, too).

If anyone else has some suggestions about where to host uncensored videos, I'd like to hear them so we can share them around.