There is literally one post from a guy canceling his GOG. Keep trying to hurl insults; you’re just proving your own lack of reading comprehension.

Ctrl-F “cancel”: 2 results, and one is yours. Ctrl-F “boycott”: 1 result, just you.

It’s pretty clear who’s deluding themselves. You’re reacting to a phenomenon that isn’t actually happening.

What, do you expect someone to list out literally every store that uses AI?

GOG is the topic. We’re allowed to express disappointment that GOG is giving in to an awful trend.

That doesn’t make anyone a “cultist”.

I agree about avoiding the sites entirely. That is the best approach.

I disagree about running Qubes and Whonix. It’s actually so easy - there’s no reason not to try it.

(Unless you’re in a country where using Tor is penalized.)

Icky corporate social media.

If you must use them, get Qubes running on a cheap laptop and dedicate a Whonix VM to each “service”. They won’t know where you are or what sites you visit. Stay off of the “feed”. Even then, assume they are acting against your interests.

The safest cheap option is to buy a used old laptop, and run it on a VM there. Using a VPN over someone else’s wifi.

You literally don’t even know what Adnauseam is. Keep on owning yourself, it’s funny!

It sounds like your Signal is running fine, but your friend’s Signal has some sort of error or network block. Is your friend able to add other contacts?

Useless observation. Adnauseam and uBlock serve two different purposes. A user should only run one of the two at once.

You want Absolum. It’s made by the same people who made SoR4, and it is excellent.

Is there a way to buy or sample this outside of Amazon?

It’s very unclear what you’re reacting to - the existence of Metroid Prime 4, the content of the reviews, something else?

I’ve been happy not using Amazon since 2010!

For paper books, find a good local bookstore first. Then for online ordering, bookshop is good. B&N is iffy ethically - they helped crush a lot of smaller stores in the 90’s, but they aren’t part of the current tech giant oligarchy either. Target will usually have a section of best-sellers. If you have to buy from a big store, maybe offset it ethically by donating to a library.

For ebooks, Bookshop is good! They point out which of their ebooks have DRM and which don’t. For some cases, you can also buy books directly from the publisher - these basically never have DRM in my experience. I mainly experience this with technical books and tabletop RPG books.

ProtonMail, or the Steam game compatibility layer?

It is available on F-Droid, if you add its repository. QR code here: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Steam Deck owner here. The default browser is (or was?) FireFox on my Deck, no Chrome.

Code Vein is a Soulslike with an excellent animé-style character creator.

Morrowind has mods that make characters prettier (this is an understatement). I highly recommend them.

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.