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Can you give me any more details? That's a little vague in and of itself. Mage: The Accension, a TTRPG, is what first comes up when I google it, but really, there's a number of things it could be.

While it's cool the major online retailers have delisted the items, somewhere out there, the group that is the actual third party shop that makes the items is still out there. These major online retailers are just distributors. It's possible the producers may just give up and pack up, but they also may just seek other, less seen avenues of sale through websites that aren't so pulicly at large.

I'm not, but a friend is. With a couple, actually. He'd inevitably wind up sleeping with them now and again, and at this point one has just become a fuck buddy with no real relationship attached. But really, it's your own dynamics that matter here, and that's between you and that person. So how anything winds up going, well, the one's most qualified to make best guesses are you and them.

I can't help but think of how the original Deus Ex existed in a world where crackpot conspiracy theories like this were just the reality. And this sounds like it would make a great setting itself as some agent works their way through a conspiracy, going on a small world tour of levels in various major powers of the world before finally ending in a boss battle in some hidden hi-tech but occultish basement of the Vatican where we find the Anti-Christ is preparing to unleash whatever high-tech equivalent is for the Mark of the Beast, and it's our final big job to take him down to stall his coming to power for the next millenia or some nonsense.

Sorry if you take your theories seriously, I just can't. But I'd bet they'd make a cool story.

The news on this keeps popping up. Couple other articles that were tossed up yesterday from here: https://lemmy.world/post/38217297

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjjyvg1nqo

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/child-sex-dolls-sold-on-temu-and-shein/105636720?future=true

Setting aside whatever morals about this, it seems rather unwise to just up and publicly declare. Like, "Ayo, yo, cartels! We'll be coming to get you! Eventually! But definitely! So you better be ready for us!"

"I'm free! I'm freeeee!" Cries the bottomost crab, high on a dab.

I like you, too. Cheers, mate! 🍻

Why, however gateful do you need to be? Tis a tease, a tease! Be as gateful as you please! Meander round it 'nd walk about, or walk right through it, in and out!

What's a teacher to do when the lock to the gate is in the student's mind?

Yep, sorry, that was my bad and a holdover from having that actual scenario play out earlier on a different topic and still being annoyed with it. Then I second guessed myself, checked your post history, which showed you're most likely legit, then deleted my comment. So nevermind, I was in the wrong.