MiraculousMM

(reposting a modified version of @Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net's post here from several months back when the comm was initially reopened)

Please chime in with the type of content and discussion you would like to see here.

If you’re interested in helping out with posting or moderating, please actively report posts that even remotely seem rule-breaking, and/or send one of the admins a mod application if you're interested in modding. While there is value in calling out comments and trying to teach people, leaving anything egregious up for too long could promote people blocking the comm even if they might otherwise want to see the “good” posts and/or learning opportunities.

Another question is whether this should become a local-only comm, let us know your thoughts below.

In the coming days we'll formally announce a book club reading The Will to Change by bell hooks, and we expect that masc users will participate and engage with the material, just like with cis users in the battle against transphobia early in our history. As socialists we have a responsibility to read theory and actively work to remove our to be better comrades.

Please comment with any suggestions or concerns you have. Cheers

edit: please read The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto as a primer for the tone we're going for in this comm

Link cuz thank god I'm not a lib

edit: one of these heroes is Stanislav Petrov, idk who the other one is unfortunately

As a huge fan of Vampire Survivors and having played a LOT of the copycat games that spawned in its wake, I'm confident in saying that Halls of Torment is the best of the lot by far and even better than VS. Sick ass retro Diablo-like aesthetic that absolutely DRIPS with atmosphere and texture and personality, quest-based meta progression that's way more interesting than just "spend 1000 gold for +5% permanent damage!", 500+ challenges/achievements to complete, characters that are actually distinct and require very different playstyles, there's GEAR you can collect and equip like an ARPG, and one of the characters has a who goes around biting the dicks off of demons.

If you have any interest in the Survivors genre or roguelikes in general I'd strongly recommend at least playing the demo or dropping $5 on the full game (god I love that VS set the trend of making these games dirt ass cheap). I started playing back when it first launched in EA and was immediately hooked and its only gotten way better since.

From one of the only good star wars channels Corey's Datapad

Wanna browse some dope creative art with a specific theme? Nah enjoy this unnaturally smooth looking zero effort fucking garbage made by a guy named ChillmasterArtgod69 who calls himself an "AI artist" in his profile

Incredible stuff, how can you read this and even remotely believe it instead of pissing yourself laughing? "in bad country, criticism from the head of state towards the former head of state forces people to off themselves" gimme a fuckin break dude. On top of that the broken citation is a random BBC Radio report from 2009

Check out this dork shit lol

I absolutely love the first 2 movies and have been routinely disappointed by everything after them, Zero seems to be getting good reviews but I'm curious what the hexfolk think

I figure I'll vote PSL again like I did last time since they seem to be among the most principled leftist parties we have in this hellscape. I've seen a lot of support for Jill Stein but iirc she has some very weird reactionary conspiracy-brained views. How we feeling? Is running this time around?

edit: to be clear I assume most of the based parties will not be on the ballot in most states, I've written in my picks before and I'll do it again KKKopmala

Comment below or DM me if you're interested in any of the below. Anything not crossed out is still available. Only 1 key available per game

~~See-Arr-Pee-Gees~~

~~Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition~~

~~Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition~~

~~Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Season Pass~~

~~Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition~~

~~-dai Namco~~

~~Code Vein~~

~~GOD EATER 3~~

~~.HACK/G.U. LAST RECODE~~

~~Tales of Vesperia™: Definitive Edition~~

~~TEKKEN 7~~

Other SLOP

~~Dear Esther: Landmark Edition~~

~~Expeditions: Rome~~

~~Souldiers~~

The Legend of Tianding

~~The Pale Beyond~~

~~Unpacking~~

~~WWE 2K23~~

Everyone knows how rabidly reactionary and shitheaded the SW fandom became after the Disney acquisition but I'm finally at my breaking point with this latest wave of chud whining. The Acolyte got review bombed before it even aired because the showrunner is a lesbian and the leading actress is a gay enby. Also a clip of Stenberg from like 6 years ago made the rounds where she says the goal of a completely different project she was working on was to make white men cry and chuds who get all their news from youtubers thought she was talking about the Acolyte.

Fast forward to the show's release, the chuds continue to whine about woke Star Wars despite the show's first several episodes being pretty bland and mid in every regard. To disguise their actual reasons for hating the show (diverse cast and queer showrunner) they pull out the absolute most ridiculous reasons to bash it, including but not limited to:

• "The writing is awful and the story sucks!" (the dialogue is genuinely quite bad at times but no worse than 95% of star wars projects. The general story is a mystery-thriller that's compelling enough. Also these same people turn around and say the prequels are incredible so )

• "The show contracts and ruins the prequels!" alright time to put on my nerd cap because the media literacy of these fucking shitbags is nonexistent. "Dark side user" =/= Sith, Red-lightsaber-user =/= Sith, there are tons of darkside users in the galaxy but the Sith area very specific order that the jedi warred with for thousands of years before they were almost completely wiped out. Also half the point of the prequels was to show the Jedi are blinded by their hubris and waning connection to the force, the Sith were right under their nose the entire time and they were just too arrogant to see it, silly Darth Teeth man doesn't ruin shit in your dog ass shit fuck childrens movies.

• "The show RETCONS CANON in an UNACCEPTABLE WAY" this is because a prequel side character's DOB was retconned and he's a lot older now and appears in the show. These worthless fucks are sending death threats to Wookiepedia editors who change the character's DOB and screaming that it's vile yes that's right it's VILE to change a fictional background character's birthday. Just take a look at the replies on that post, yes I know it's the bird hellsite filled with ragebait but the responses like "oh well I thought that GATEKEEPING was a BAD THING " are just so bleak. Art and media mean nothing to these people, their hobby is not watching Star Wars, its watching ragebait youtubers and getting violently angry about mundane things in shows they've never watched and aren't interested in Also these screaming manbabies keep referencing non-canon books and shit as "proof" of the show retconning things

The discourse around TLJ was bad but I think I'm finally done engaging with the SW fandom in any way shape or form. My brain has finally been broken by the chuds. I don't think I'll even tell people I like SW anymore because these shitbrains have just ruined it. And yes I know I need to but if you don't spend a decent amount of time in these SW fandom circles I promise you don't know how bad it actually is

/rant