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Radical approach, because I might miss the post with interesting comments, and people often provide alternative links or straight up embed summaries.

How dare you ignore Alec's video? 😤

But they didn't watch kittens suffer. Yuge difference.

Tekken, Lili vs. Panda.

At this point, I suppose lemmy.world account is the alt one. Haven't touched it in months.

Thank you for all the shared knowledge!

As kids we didn't realize it could be any other way, so we didn't suffer. Much... :)

Having an ergonomic keyboard is a step in the right direction, but it's still a device for entering text.

I suppose you have a point. If Hexbear wasn't defederated from other big instances, then they would be more prominent in smaller instances that federate with them too. And when there's a lot of them, everywhere becomes a circlejerk. I mean, both Reddit and Lemmy are circlejerk-y by nature, but at least the circlejerks are usually less harmful than what HB does. I personally haven't had the pleasure to deal with lemmygrad, I think, but lemmy.ml seems just slightly harder lefty Lemmy, I haven't so far seen anything extreme, so Idk if they are toxic.
And again, I think the entire nature of this up/downvote-based media is somewhat toxic. People routinely interpret comments in the worst possible way and pile on it.

The c/196 was unfortunate. It is my only ever ban (so far), as I'm an extremely reasonable person. I have to say that my initial reaction was that, indeed, that instance doesn't want to have a conversation, but have everyone automatically accept whatever they think is right. But if you're saying that the community is an outlier, I believe you.

Your listing of alternative instances was helpful as I'm too lazy to look around, and would likely not found that info on my own. So far our instance is good enough, I think, but I'll consider the alternatives. Thank you for that, too.

Btw, if you're blocking all Hexbear stuff, how did you find my comment? It's a response to a Hexbear user. So you see their comment as well?

Idk if you see @OpenStars' comment, but he provided a link to the summary from blahaj.zone's perspective. It does mention an incident with c/196, but it's not the whole picture.

In short, users from Blahaj.Zone (as well as other Lemmy instances) were complaining about Hexbear users' obnoxious behavior, "Hexbear users calling people “libs” as an insult, denying crimes of Russia and China, denying the crimes of Stalin."
Users started asking to defederate from Hexbear and admin of Blahaj.Zone opened a thread to talk about it, which Hexbear users attacked and spammed the thread with images. Then, Hexbear user complained about c/196, that their comments were being removed, "comments that called out the use of the r-word and other call-outs". At which point, Hexbear preemptively defederated from Blahaj, mostly citing the incident above.

I linked the whole thing, so you can see the details for yourself. But at the end of the day, I would say that the incident started with Hexbear users being Hexbear users.

But also, what are "chasers"?

Is that so? Then, I stand corrected and retract my complaint, it somewhat makes sense now. And in my defense, it's been more than a decade since I played and I think I finished it in one sitting, so it's a blur.

This applies tenfold if you lived in a country where the are only pirated copies of games and all consoles come pre-modchipped (especially if your game was a multi-language copy with a built-in selector/launcher). I assume the modchips had shit timing, so when the chip was having a bad day I would sometimes have to restart my PS2 for 10-15 minutes straight until it loaded. Sometimes I gave up and came back later to repeat the cycle.

Bonus memory: PS2 is supposed to play PS1 games. So when we got a PS2, on the first day I tried one of my bootleg PS1 games and it loaded fine. After that, it never loaded another PS1 game ever, showing the "please insert PS1 or PS2 disc" error.