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On this week this niche leftist forum was first launched (its was the 24th or 25th i think) Formed from the Chapotraphouse subreddit remnants that survived the reddit ban over the calls of violence against confederate slave owners, the first admins decided to use Lemmy as its base. Originally called Chapo.chat (ChaCha) Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.

In this last 5 years hexbear has survived many diffent events from numerous struggle sessions, mod clique-users conflicts, wrecker incursions from other instances and sites, this image dprk-soldier, a decent amount of fedidrama with other instances and the domain crisis, we still thrive with over 5 million comments and 375k posts.

I still continue my dictatorial rule over the general megathread for now over 4 years now, this time locked in the chapo comm so it can be more easily moderated, c/indigenous has now grown to 750 subs which im very happy plus now i take care of the empoc mega which has been pretty chill so far.

I still really enjoy the fedidrama, it fun to see all the fedilibs always thinking about hexbear despide the fact that they are on defederated instances and they can ust ignore us, we live rent free on their minds

Have all you nerds a good week, Read Absolute Batman, its good

Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2024-july 2025)?

reminders:

  • πŸ’š You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
  • πŸ’™ Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • πŸ’œ Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🐢 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):

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Happy Hexweek to all who celebrate. This weird corner has kept me sane when the events of the world have been bonkers. Keep posting, unless of course you decide to touch grass.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pokemon is a good multiplayer pvp game but bad bad singleplayer rpg game

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

adding every album with an :awooga: anime girl on it to my library as a bit

come across an artist with like fifty albums that fit the bill

they all came out this year

it's fucking AI shit

now I gotta scrub through my library checking every artist to make sure they're real

"atmospheric" music, ie stuff that by definition you're not paying super close attention to is absolutely infested with ai garbage. YouTube Music needs to have a way to block this shit because I don't want to support it.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

The british never grew out of the victorian age.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago
[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

I had a dream where I was being chased down from the top of an impossibly large building. I was trying to find routes down by jumping from sloped, shingled roofs. With me was a guy with red spiky hair who kinda looked like young Tom Cruise and Stavros Halkias was there and he was constantly doing that fake cackling laugh.

It sounds dumb, but it was a really intense dream. My teeth hurt from grinding.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

Went on a river float for my first time and I'm and idiot and only reapplied sunscreen to my shoulders once during the four hour float and the rest of me is baked. Crisp. Lobster red. I don't know if I have been this sunburnt since I was a teen, maybe even a kid. Currently slathered in coconut oil after slathering myself in aloe and I hope to Christ it calms down tomorrow because I remember peeling and that shit suuuuuuuucks ass. I also was doing the god damn backstroke for like 2 hours of it too because for whatever reason I could not keep up with the front of the pack, probably getting stuck on the eddys because I don't know how to read the river. At least my shoulders will be bulletproof after this. And at least the baby rapids were fun and I feel accomplished.

Why is it that ill look at my body and be like "oh yeah, in not red yet, I don't need sunscreen again thats for wimps!"

If anyone has any other tips for sunburns pls let me know them

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago

Your car looks pretty fast. Wanna race?

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I so desperately want chrissy-explain’s supernatural mobster slasher film to be real lmao.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

β€œCleaver”, show some respect tony-cheer

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The fifth guy was only added after the fall of Rome.

[–] iie@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

not trying to get too serious in the megathread, but,

therapy goers, is there a therapist word (that I can google) for not having a coherent identity? as in, "be yourself," "I can't, that person straight up doesn't exist." it's not depersonalization, and I don't think it's dissociation. it just feels like a huge chunk of me is inexpressible and scrambled even to myself.

*if no word immediately comes to mind, there's no need to dig for one, I'm not using hexbear as an unpaid therapist

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

It honestly just sounds like the human condition. We all spend our lives trying to discover our identity, a small handful of us find it and the rest pretend that we have.

Not knowing how you experience it, what you’re describing just sounds like most people to me. People definitely have naturally occurring personalities, but I think they outwardly exaggerate and perform them. I have absolutely nothing to base this off off, its just a vibe.

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

I hope all the computer (occupation)s who had their jobs taken by LLMs are doing okay

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago

That's it, I'm just gonna be an old pervert

me (age thirty)

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

I should go to bed but im feeling an allnighter coming up . No work on Sunday so I could do it and play games all day :3

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

mine offering for tony's upcoming trick

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

Thank you Lea from Crosscode.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

oooaaaaaaauhhh I think I missed my chance to write one, it now says the flower is closed aww maaaan.

Did you draw that dialogue sprite in yours? If so, damn it's good!

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

All the targeted ads I’m getting on Reddit are for ozempic, cialis, and an HIV medication. It’s like their ad team is workshopping a cumtown bit.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Something tragic has happened, y'all. I happened upon a sleazy Andy Sidaris movie from 1993 and the music playing in a scene that has gratuitous T&A really caught my attention but Shazam isn't picking it up and lyric searches aren't working and there's no way I can post what is basically softcore porn on "what is this song" boards

just clip it around the sex noises like that song reddit found that was from actual porn

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Chuck it through a video editor and export it as audio only?

there's also lots of websites that list songs from movies - but a lot of new ones are ai generated now, i cant find the one i used to use for this stuff

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Watching a Werner herzog documentary, of course the extremely charismatic anthropologist/paleontologist wrote a book on how to fuck.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Typical White/Folkens

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago

A small part of me actually wants to become a famous public figure just so people will make JD Vance style edits of my face.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

watching my gf play death stranding and it's like why's norman reedus gotta CARRY all that, she's loading him down like a Man Who Won't Make Multiple Trips to Get The Groceries From the Car and it's like christ can he not use a wheelbarrow or something

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago

i was under the impression that carrying a hilarious heap of shit on a bike was the point of the game

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[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

It's me. I'm the cringeler

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[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

Complaining about meaningless shit:

spoilerSkyrim "Historical" armor overhauls are anything but, and don't understand the setting. First of all, no diversity. "elven" or "orc" armor that is just recolored versions of the same shit. the fuck are you on? these are completely different cultures, not a simple swap of materials. everywhere in asia was using iron and steel in 1300, every culture did not look the same.

Second, many of these things are ancient. Dwarven armor is like bronze age kit, and they built robots. Why in the hell would it conform to 'contemporary' armor standards as recolored lamellar! Tamriel Rebuilt and Beyond Skyrim understand old things ought to look like they come from completely different material cultures and draw specific inspirations from real world ancient cultures for these objects. Even normal skyrim's archaic objects fulfill these criteria.

Third, flattening of sophistication. For some reason a lot of amateur curmudgeons believe that plate armor represents an era-defining technology that makes any other kinds obsolete and out of place. this is literally only true for 2 centuries specifically in the europeam subcontinent. It wasn't true outside that context in that time, and it wasn't before or since. The ancient Cataphract utilized full-body, partially plated technology. The Classic Muscle-Cuirass is a plate armor. When full plate garnitures roamed europe, hundreds of thousands of soldiers were equipped with brigandines in China. Mirror-Plated-Mails proliferated from Poland to Japan.

If Steel Plate Armor or that Ebony plate exist in Skyrim, it doesn't actually mean everyone else is wearing anachronistic kit. it means, like it always did, that they weren't rich warrior elites.

And don't even get me started on the dark elves!

[–] someone@hexbear.net 16 points 18 hours ago

For those of you who have just discovered that you have a praise kink, I'm so proud of you, good job!

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