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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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[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days 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!

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

Typical White/Folkens

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day 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

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tanning might increase the risk of skin cancer but it's also direct action against whiteness

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to get all technical but if you're white and tanning, increasing the risk of skin canver is also direct action against whiteness

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah also happy tenth anniversary to undertale, hard to believe we’ve already been around for the majority of its existence

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (5 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

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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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

honestly if someone can have all these takes at the expense of hating "tankies" honestly I'll take it

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Gay fish yo

I like how my tomato plants can just be minding their own business and then all of a sudden they're covered in fucking spider mites

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Smoking on some temple ball hash last night and slept for no joke 19 hours, apart from apparently when I got up for a midnight snack which was an entire jar of olives and a whole thing of red pepper hummus

Going to have to stick to bud when its a work night

[–] Buptendo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Man, I am at a rich kid musician festival in rich people world.

I just want to say all of these kids lives are built upon a lie and have truly never done anything by themselves.

I have come from nothing, I have suffered so much and I still continue to make art. Everything I do is truly my own. Their art doesnt exist, it's all built on a lie, privilege and theft in most cases. Whereas my shit has integrity, its the real deal, you cannot approach me.

I'm not as polished as some of these freaks but I'm infinitely more interested in the art I'm creating and building towards opposed to the foundationally empty, hollow, shallow skindeep bullshit they got.

Eat the rich fuck this place

[–] makotech222@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

bitterness is a path through which Reaction may reach your soul

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[–] rafflesia@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

every time i get a spare minute i start thinking about the state of things and get so mad i have to go sit in another room

[–] qcop@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Same here...

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Really cool and good my entire teenage and 20s are going to be spent first during the rich getting away with fucking up the economy after occupy and now I can’t afford to ever start my life, but now I have to see the new golden age of conservatism where anything I enjoy will either be banned or will be subject to constant ridicule and all the stupid douchebags get to keep living in a perpetual high school where being a douche is seen as cool.

Fuck, I hate it here.

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[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do my hexbears think about an "intentionality onion" similar to the "survivability onion"

The layers would be something like:
Ignorance grillman grill

Willful Ignorance not-listening

Negligence le-monke

Knowingly committing harm to someone(s) with indifference settlers

Knowingly committing harm to someone(s) with malicious intent holden-bloodfeast

Ultimately I'm hoping to cut through the needless debating about what specific quantity of intentional malice was being employed in a given scenario. It would be nice to be able to just broadly wave at the general idea that their actions (or inactions) exist somewhere on the spectrum without having to get into which specific level I'm accusing them of (because it often doesn't matter)

What changes would you make?

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

One of the most insidious things under capitalism is how even though technology allows for ever quicker and quicker lives, to do more and more in less time, and requires its subjects to be ever faster in whatever they do, the poorer you are, the more time of your time it is willing to waste

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

whoever was the first anime director to OK using atrociously bad CGI to cut costs should have been laughed out of a job and then taken out back and shot, but now it's too late, it's normalized, they'll really just have extended scenes of just laughably bad CGI monsters or horses or whatever looking like a damn child drew them in 3D and the people doing it will somehow still have jobs and KEEP DOING IT

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A guy who is at least 35 is pretty openly trying to fuck two girls one of whom just talked about her experience last year at uhhhh i think the best translation would be late middle school. I want to throw things at this guy, do I say something?

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. If you don't want to be confrontational, you could pretend to be on a phone call next to them and say something along the lines of "Sorry there's a guy with his daughters here and they're being super loud, can you repeat that?"

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