It can’t be explained directly, by itself. They’re part of a bigger picture.

Straight men are attracted to women on the whole - legs, arms, waist, face, chest, back, it’s all good. Whatever force it is that makes us attracted to women, it’s not something that we chose or decided. We just do.

Since boobs are a sign of femininity, they’re attractive to us on exactly that level! They fit into our idea of what women look like.

I block meme communities and AI art. I’ll unblock AI art once the machines figure out how fingers work. I don’t block porn except when it’s outside of my interests (I’m not into men or furries, for example).

You might consider unblocking the meta communities - it can sometimes be illuminating to see how other places are run, and give you ideas to improve your own instance.

We don’t have downvotes on my instance, and it’s an amazing difference. I recommend it!

I generally just upvote everything I like, no real thought process involved.

Thank you! I hadn’t heard of Qanba before - they definitely have some interesting joysticks.

As someone who routinely watches YT through Invidious and NewPipe, I haven’t changed my habits.

The Electoral College.

It sure is. And “stop giving your money” is excellent advice for free-to-play software.

I love Signal, and I have persuaded people to use it a lot. That said, it is definitely not the gold standard for privacy. It’s a good-enough compromise between actual unbreakable encryption and trivial for anyone to use. It’s always been valuable for that reason, and still is.

Don’t worry about Molly - it uses a variation of the same code that Signal does, so they don’t need “help” to get critical fixes that Signal receives. Use it if you like it!

The actual gold standard for privacy would be logging in through TOR and sending GPG-encrypted messages that way. And there’s an app which does this, too - it’s called Briar. (No phone number needed, either!) It’s not as seamless to set up as Signal is, though.

No mod capability, or at least not that I’m aware of. But it does run on Android! https://f-droid.org/packages/me.thanel.dank/

I use Dawn. It still works!

Breakups suck, and there’s no shortcut to getting through them.

Time will help you heal. You will go through the morning cycle - look it up, if you need a refresher - and the end of the cycle is “acceptance”. Look forward to it!

Nice! I will admit to not having played many Survival Rogues so they’re not prominent in my thinking, so I’m glad you mentioned them.

The fact that you can say “rougelike card games”, and we all know exactly what you mean, is precisely why we should name that genre. There are plenty of folks who want to seek out roguelikes and not be inundated with Slay The Spire clones. (I like them just fine, personally.)

FTL is what I’d call an Action Rogue, even though it’s pausable (and actually a lot, maybe all, Action Rogues are pausable).

I haven’t played The PIT - I need to look it up.

The idea of classifying based on progression is one of the most important ideas here, you’re right about that. But I also want to capture the idea that the core gameplay itself - grid combat, real-time, cards, JRPG-style battle screens, whatever - is important.

I still haven’t signed up for ProtonMail. Doesn’t sound like a good idea with this going on!

Dragon Quest IV has all the ingredients of a fine 16-bit RPG: multiple playable story characters with unique personalities, a plot with twists and turns, minigames, and a fairly unique villain with human motives.

Somehow, they made it work on the original NES, before 16-bit RPGs were even a thing.

There’s also the risk of users saving and distributing confidential data. You don’t need admin rights for that! I’m not actually sure this applies to OP, but if he’s giving everyone a web browser, it certainly seems like a risk.

Destructoid was so good for so long. Between this and the fact that they started to bug me about my ad blocker, it’s time for me to stop giving them views.

One of my favorite games of all time, despite being relatively recent. The exploration and movement are just so much fun!

I use Aegis Authenticator on Android. It can do encrypted backups (or unencrypted, but it sufficiently warns you to be careful). I periodically make an offsite backup just in case my phone gets destroyed.

Thanks for linking to this extension!